1. New York Giant GM George Young resigns to accept NFL position - 1998
2. Roseanne files for divorce from 3rd husband Ben Thomas - 1998
3. Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski asks to act as his own lawyer - 1998
4. World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Ahmed Yousef sentenced to life - 1998
5. Blizzard buries eastern U.S. causing at least 50 deaths - 1996
6. For 1st time in 25 years no one is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame - 1996
7. 15th United Negro College Fund raises $12,200,000 - 1995
8. "Guys and Dolls" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 1143 performances - 1995
9. Mike Schmidt is elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame - 1995
10. Rintje Ritsma skates world record 1500m (1:51.60) - 1994
11. Russian manned space craft TM-18, launches into orbit - 1994
12. U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Davis - 1994
13. Chicago Bull Michael Jordan scores his 20,000th career point - 1993
14. Elvis Presley Commemorative Postage Stamp goes on sale - 1993
15. NBC offers "Tonight Show" to David Letterman - 1993
16. George Bush gets ill and vomits on Japanese prime minister's lap - 1992
17. "Davis Rules," with Jonathan Winters and Randy Quaid premieres on ABC-TV - 1991
18. Gaylord Perry, Ferguson Jenkins and Rod Carew elected to Hall of Fame - 1991
19. Rod Carew is 22nd player elected to Hall of Fame on 1st try - 1991
20. Tamas Darnyi swims world record 400m medley (4:12.36) - 1991
21. "42nd Street" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 3,486 performances - 1989
22. Boeing 737-400 crashes in England, 46 die - 1989
23. Soviet Union promises to eliminate stockpiles of chemical weapons - 1989
24. "Starlight Express" closes at Gershwin Theater New York City after 761 performances - 1989
25. 9th largest NBA crowd 38,873-Chicago at Detroit - 1988
26. Dow Jones down 140.58 points - 1988
27. Hewlett-Packard introduces HP-28S Advanced Scientific Calculator - 1988
28. U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Debi Thomas - 1988
29. Dow Jones closes above 2,000 for 1st time (2,002.25) - 1987
30. Jack Sikma (Milwaukee) begins NBA free throw streak of 51 games - 1987
31. Willie McCovey is 16th elected to Hall of Fame in his 1st year - 1986
32. Japan launches Sakigake space probe to Halley's Comet - 1985
33. NCAA announces that basketball tournament will have 64 teams - 1984
34. Washington Caps Bengt Gustafsson scores 5 goals to beat Philadelphia 7-1 - 1984
35. AT&T agrees to divest itself of 22 Bell System companies - 1982
36. Johnny Cash Parkway opens in Hendersonville Tennessee - 1982
37. Justice Department withdraws antitrust suit against IBM - 1982
38. India all out 63 in one-day international vs. Australia - 1981
39. "Pirates of Penzance" opens at Uris Theater New York City for 772 performances - 1981
40. Reds become last team to sign a free agent (Larry Biitner) - 1981
41. Islander Glenn Resch's 20th shut-out opponent-Canucks 3-0 - 1980
42. NCAA decides to sponsor women's championships in 5 sports - 1980
43. 512 die as oil tanker Bantry Bay blows up - 1979
44. Argentina and Chile sign Beagle Canal accord - 1979
45. Today Show gets a new theme song - 1979
46. Vietnamese troops overtook Khmer Rouge and occupy Phnom Penh - 1979
47. Israeli government votes to 'strengthen' settlements in occupied Sinai - 1978
48. Franklin Mint strikes 1st gold coins for Netherlands Antilles - 1976
49. Judge Sirica orders release of Watergate's John W Dean III, Herbert W Kalmbach and Jeb Stuart Magruder from prison - 1975
50. E Wilson Jr's musical "Let My People Come," premieres in New York City - 1974
51. Gold hits record $126.50 an ounce in London - 1974
52. Loch Ness Monster photographed - 1974
53. Silver hits record $3.40 an ounce in New York - 1974
54. Greg Chappell's best Test bowling, 5-61 vs. Pakistan at SCG - 1973
55. Secret peace talks between U.S. and North Vietnam resumed near Paris - 1973
56. "Tricks" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 8 performances - 1973
57. U.S.S.R. launches Luna 21 for Moon landing - 1973
58. Dmitri Shostakovitch' 15th Symphony, premieres in Moscow - 1972
59. NCAA announces freshman can play on teams starting in fall - 1972
60. 29 pilot whales beach themselves and die at San Clemente Island, California - 1971
61. Voyageurs National Park, Minnesota established - 1971
62. Jacques Cousteau's 1st undersea special on U.S. network TV - 1968
63. Beatles' "Rubber Soul," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 6 weeks - 1966
64. Beatles' "We Can Work It Out," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 3 weeks - 1966
65. Georges Pompidou appointed French premier - 1966
66. Who and the Kinks perform on the last "Shindig" TV show on ABC - 1966
67. Sen Dirksen proposes marigold as national flower (didn't pass) - 1965
68. Star of India returned to American Museum of Natural History - 1965
69. European Parliament accept Mansholt Plan - 1964
70. President Lyndon B Johnson declares "War on Poverty" - 1964
71. Dmitri Shostakovitch' Katharina Ismailova, premieres in Riga - 1963
72. "Mona Lisa," on loan, unveiled in America's National Gallery of Art - 1963
73. Dutch express train crashes into slow commuter train, 93 die (Neth) - 1962
74. Golfer Jack Nicklaus, 21, 1st pro appearance, he came in 50th - 1962
75. Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Yvor Winters - 1961
76. Charles de Gaulle inaugurated as President of France's 5th Republic - 1959
77. Cuban revolutionary forces capture Havana - 1958
78. Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Conrad Aiken - 1956
79. Elvis Presley's "Don't Be Cruel/Hound Dog," single goes to #1 and stays #1 for a record 11 weeks (for a single) - 1956
80. Furman sets NCAA basketball single-game scoring record with 154 pt - 1955
81. Georgia Tech ends Kentucky's 130-game home basketball win streak - 1955
82. Louise Sugg wins LPGA LA Golf Open - 1955
83. WUNorth Carolina TV channel 4 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting - 1955
84. Elvis Presley pays $4 to a Memphis studio and records his 1st two songs, "Casual Love" and "I'll Never Stand in Your Way" - 1954
85. Indians bar night games with Browns (who refuse to share TV receipts) - 1953
86. Rene Mayer forms French government - 1953
87. Jordan adopts constitution - 1952
88. Thought extinct since 1615, a Cahow is rediscovered in Bermuda - 1951
89. "Make Mine Manhattan" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 429 performances - 1949
90. "My Romance" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 95 performances - 1949
91. "Small Wonder" closes at Coronet Theater New York City after 134 performances - 1949
92. Queen Wilhelmina signs death sentence against Ans van Dijk for treason - 1948
93. Gen George Marshall becomes Secretary of State - 1947
94. Toronto Maple Leaf rookie Howie Meeker scores 5 goals in a game - 1947
95. "Youth for Christ" organizes - 1945
96. British Air Marshal Richard Peirse resigns - 1941
97. Britain's 1st WW II rationing (bacon, butter and sugar) - 1940
98. Bradman scores 107 for South Australia vs. Qld (1st innings) - 1938
99. -50 degrees F (-45.6 degrees C), San Jacinto, Nevada (state record) - 1937
100. Spectrophotometer patented, AC Hardy - 1935
101. Jaap Speyers "Bluejackets" premieres in Amsterdam - 1934
102. Ratification of present San Francisco City Charter - 1932
103. Philadelphia Quakers set then NHL record of 15 straight loses - 1931
104. Belgium Princess Marie-Jose marries Italian's crown prince Umberto - 1930
105. 1st telephone connection between Netherlands and West-Indies - 1929
106. CBS radio network buys WABC in New York City - 1929
107. Abdul-Aziz ibn Sa'ud becomes king of Hejaz; renames it Saudi Arabia - 1926
108. 1st all-female U.S. state supreme court appointed, Texas - 1925
109. Typography strike in Amsterdam - 1923
110. Mississippi becomes 1st state to ratify 18th amendment (prohibition) - 1918
111. President Wilson outlines his 14 points for peace after WW I - 1918
112. Austria-Hungarian troops conquer Forlani Italy - 1917
113. Frank Chance becomes Yankee manager - 1913
114. Pope Pius X banned low cut dresses in the presence of churchmen - 1904
115. 1st National Bowling Championship held (Chicago, Ill) - 1902
116. NSW score 918 all out vs South Australia in 560 minutes - 1901
117. Michael Eagan wins 1st U.S. national amateur handball championship - 1897
118. Columbus World's fair in Chicago destroyed by fire - 1894
119. 1st Computer patented - 1889
120. Dr. Herman Hollerith receives 1st U.S. patent for a tabulating machine - 1889
121. Chrome tanning process for leather patented by Augustus Schultz - 1884
122. Secret meeting of King Leopold II's agent and Henry Morton Stanley - 1878
123. U.S. mint at Carson City, Nevada begins issuing coins - 1870
124. Legislation gives suffrage to DC blacks, despite President Johnson's veto - 1867
125. Sen Everett Dirksen introduces a bill to make marigold the national flower - 1865
126. Dion Boucicauly's "Poor of NY," premieres in New York City - 1857
127. Dr. John A Veatch discovers borax, Tuscan Springs, California - 1856
128. 1st U.S. bronze equestrian statue (of Andrew Jackson) unveiled, Wash - 1853
129. Austrian soldiers kill 10 students, Pavia - 1848
130. Dutch King Willem II charters Technical College Delft - 1842
131. 1st telegraph message sent using dots and dashes (NJ) - 1838
132. Rebellion at Amherstburg, Ontario breaks out - 1838
133. Boston Academy of Music, 1st U.S. music school, established - 1833
134. Dutch King Willem I fires him displeasing parliament members - 1830
135. Battle of New Orleans-War of 1812 ended 12/24/1814 but nobody knew - 1815
136. Louisiana slave revolt by Charles Deslondes at German Coast - 1811
137. Cape colony becomes English colony - 1806
138. Lewis and Clark find skeleton of 105' blue whale in Oregon - 1806
139. Austrians defeat French in 2nd battle of Novi - 1800
140. Wild Boy of Aveyron discovered in southern France - 1800
141. 11th Amendment ratified, judicial powers construed - 1798
142. George Washington delivers 1st state of union address (or Jan 4) - 1790
143. Comet C/1760 A1 (Great comet) approaches within 0.0682 AUs of Earth - 1760
144. Bonnie Prince Charlie's troops occupy Stirling - 1746
145. England, Austria, Netherlands and Saxon sign anti-Prussian Quadruple Alliance - 1745
146. Dutch gang leader "Sjako" arrested - 1716
147. Georg F Handels 1st opera "Almira," premieres in Hamburg - 1705
148. 1st American commercial corporation chartered (New York Fishing Co) - 1675
149. Oldest surviving commercial newspaper begins (Haarlem, Netherlands) - 1656
150. Genoa Italy expels Jews - 1598
151. Jews are expelled from Genoa Italy - 1598
152. French troops under duke de Guise occupy Calais - 1558
153. Louis XII of France after papal divorce marries Anne, Duchess of Brittany to keep duchy for the crown - 1499
154. Earl Ferrand of Flanders drops ties with France - 1214
155. Lotario di Segni elected Pope Innocentius III - 1198
156. Battle at Ashdown: Ethelred of Wessex beats Danish invasion army - 0871
157. Vikings attacked Lindisfarne Island - 0794
158. Moslem army occupies Kurashitische Caravan - 0624
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