1. Japan Golf Classic - 1998
2. Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Countess Diana, Elmhurst, Ajina, Spinning World, Favorite Trick, Chief Bearhart, Skip Away - 1997
3. Tampa Bay Devil Rays name their 1st manager Larry Rothschild - 1997
4. Cleve Cavaliers 1st game at Gund Arena, lose to Hous Rockets, 100-98 - 1994
5. Haitian government of Smarck Michel forms - 1994
6. 300,000 demonstrators against racism in Berlin - 1992
7. Betsy King wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic - 1992
8. "Solitary Confinement" opens at Nederlander Theater New York City for 25 performances - 1992
9. Carol Burnette Show premieres on CBS-TV - 1991
10. Paul Coffey sets NHL defensman soring mark with 311th goal - 1991
11. 100,000 additional U.S. troops are sent to Persian gulf - 1990
12. "6 Degrees of Separation" opens at Vivian Beaumont New York City for 496 performances - 1990
13. Darryl Strawberry signs 5-year contract with Los Angeles Dodgers - 1990
14. Gina Marie Tolleson of USA, 21, crowned 40th Miss World - 1990
15. Saddam fires his army chief and threatens to destroy Arabian peninsula - 1990
16. Cubs Jerome Walton wins the NL Rookie of Year - 1989
17. David Dinkins elected 1st black mayor of New York City - 1989
18. Douglas Wilder elected 1st U.S. black governor (Virginia) - 1989
19. 900 die as earthquake hits China - 1988
20. Arco Arena in Sacramento, California opens, Sac Kings lose to Seattle, 97-75 - 1988
21. George Bush beats Mike Dukakis for presidency - 1988
22. Rafael Fernandez Colon elected if President of Puerto Rico - 1988
23. 11 die as a bomb planted by Irish Republican Army explodes - 1987
24. Australia beat England by 7 runs to win cricket World Cup - 1987
25. IRA-bomb attack in Enniskillen North Ireland, 11 killed - 1987
26. Yuko Moriguchi wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic - 1987
27. "Song and Dance" closes at Royale Theater New York City after 474 performances - 1986
28. Atlantis moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 61-B mission - 1985
29. 1st-class cricket debut of Wasim Akram, 2 months before his 1st Test - 1984
30. Anna Fisher becomes 1st "mom" to go into orbit - 1984
31. STS 51-A mission; launch - 1984
32. Martha Layne Collins (D) elected 1st female governor of Kentucky - 1983
33. STS-9 vehicle again moves to launch pad - 1983
34. W Wilson Goode (D) elected 1st black mayor of Philadelphia - 1983
35. Christian Democrats looses Belgium parliamentary election - 1981
36. Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic - 1981
37. Voyager 1 space probe discovers 15th moon of Saturn - 1980
38. ABC broadcasts "Iran Crisis: American Held Hostage" with Frank Reynolds (forerunner to "Nightline") - 1979
39. Bernard Slade's "Romantic Comedy," premieres in New York City - 1979
40. Tom Stoppard's "Night and Day," premieres in London - 1978
41. Nick Bockwinkle beats Verne Gagne in St. Paul, to become NWA champ - 1975
42. British Lord Lucan disappears - 1974
43. Nevada approves pari-mutuel betting on Jai Alai - 1973
44. Tom Dempsey of New Orleans Saints kicks NFL record 63 yard field goal - 1970
45. Cynthia Lennon is granted a divorce from John - 1968
46. 1st local British radio station begins broadcasting (Radio Leicester) - 1967
47. Silver hits record $1.951 an ounce in London - 1967
48. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1967
49. Actor Ronald Reagan elected governor of California - 1966
50. Edward W Brooke (Rep-R-Mass) becomes 1st black elected to Senate - 1966
51. Frank Robinson selected AL MVP - 1966
52. President Johnson signs anti-trust immunity to AFL-NFL merger - 1966
53. British Indian Ocean Territory formed - 1965
54. "Days of Our Lives" premieres on TV - 1965
55. IMF grants Great Britain credit of $1 billion - 1964
56. KUPK TV channel 13 in Garden City, KS (ABC) begins broadcasting - 1964
57. Mickey Wright wins LPGA Tall City Golf Open - 1964
58. Orioles Frank Robinson unanimous choice as AL MVP - 1964
59. Canada government orders changing nickel back to round shape - 1962
60. Whitey Ford is voted Cy Young Award winner over Warren Spahn - 1961
61. John F. Kennedy (Sen-D-Mass) beats VP Richard Nixon (R) for 35th U.S. president - 1960
62. KJTV (now KGET) TV channel 17 in Bakersfield, California (NBC) 1st broadcast - 1959
63. Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba's Nes Destour party wins every chair - 1959
64. "Maria Golovin" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 5 performances - 1958
65. Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island - 1957
66. U.N. demands U.S.S.R. leave Hungary - 1956
67. AL approves Philadelphia A's move to Kansas City - 1954
68. Salazars party wins all parliament seats in Portugal - 1953
69. New York Yankee Catcher Yogi Berra wins 1st of his 3 MVP awards - 1951
70. 1st jet-plane battle ever, in Korean War - 1950
71. Boston Red Sox 1B Walt Dropo wins AL Rookie of Year - 1950
72. In the Korean War, 1st jet battle takes place - 1950
73. Walt Dropo of Boston Red Sox selected AL Rookie of Year - 1950
74. Bradman scores his 99th 1st-class cricket century, 100 SA vs. Victoria - 1947
75. Jean-Paul Sartre's "La Putain Respecteuse," premieres in Paris - 1946
76. "Girl from Nantucket" opens at Adelphi Theater New York City for 12 performances - 1945
77. Riverboat sinks off Hong Kong; kills 1,550 - 1945
78. 25,000 Hungarian Jews are loaned to Nazis for forced labor - 1944
79. Last German troops at Walcheren surrenders - 1944
80. Allies under Eisenhower land in N-Africa (Casablanca) - 1942
81. Hitler proclaims fall of Stalingrad from Munich beer hall - 1942
82. Operation "Torch" began as U.S. and British forces land in French N Afr - 1942
83. Vichy-France drops diplomatic relations with US - 1942
84. RAF bombs Munich - 1940
85. Failed assassination attempt on Hitler in Burgerbraukeller, Munich - 1939
86. H Lindsay and R Crouse' "Life with Father," premieres in New York City - 1939
87. 1st black woman legislator, Crystal Bird Fauset of Phila - 1938
88. Ford Frick, NL publicity director, is named league president - 1934
89. Franklin D. Roosevelt creates Civil Works Administration - 1933
90. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (D) elected 32nd president for 1st time - 1932
91. "Make Mine Music," debuts - 1932
92. Friedrich Wolf's "Die Matrosen von Cattaro," premieres in Berlin - 1930
93. Jean Giraudoux' "Amphitryon '38," premieres in Paris - 1929
94. New York City Museum of Modern Art opens in Hecksher Building - 1929
95. George and Ira Gershwin's musical "Treasure Girl," premieres in New York City - 1928
96. George Gershwin's musical "Oh, Kay," premieres in New York City - 1926
97. Austria chancellor Ignaz Seipel, resigns after assassination attempt - 1924
98. Fortune Theatre opens in London - 1924
99. Hitler stages unsuccessful "Beer Hall Putsch" in Munchen (Munich) - 1923
100. Actress Edna Lewis Thomas debuts at Putnam Theatre Brooklyn - 1920
101. Baseball meeting to depose Ban Johnson is set for Nov 12th - 1920
102. Pro-German supreme commander general Cutters lay-offs - 1918
103. Telephone Co runs 1st ad for Army operators, gets 7,000 applicants - 1917
104. 1st Washington State election in which women could vote - 1910
105. President Theodore Roosevelt (R) defeats Alton B Parker (D) - 1904
106. Theodore Dreiser's novel "Sister Carrie" is published - 1900
107. Wilhelm Roentgen (Germany) discovers X-rays - 1895
108. Grover Cleveland (D) elected president - 1892
109. Montana admitted as 41st state - 1889
110. German government recognizes King Leopold II's Congo Free State - 1884
111. English freighter Nisero stranded at Atjeh (crew taken hostage) - 1883
112. Sarah Bernhardt, French actress, made U.S. debut at New York's Booth Theater - 1880
113. Democratic governor elected in Tennessee - 1870
114. Abraham Lincoln (R) elected to his 2nd term as president - 1864
115. Battle of Mount Ivy, KY - 1861
116. US removes Confederate officials from British steamer Trent - 1861
117. Belgium King Leopold I proclaims child labor laws (for 1889) - 1842
118. Victor Hugo's "Ruy Blas," premieres in Paris - 1838
119. Mount Holyoke Seminary in Mass-1st U.S. college founded for women - 1837
120. Train derails at Hightstown NJ; 2 die - 1833
121. Lewis and Clark reach Pacific Ocean - 1805
122. Louvre in Paris, opens - 1793
123. Bourbon Whiskey, 1st distilled from corn (by Elijah Craig, Bourbon Ky) - 1789
124. Cook Vincent la Chapelle forms Free Masons Lodge - 1734
125. In Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin opens 1st U.S. library - 1731
126. William Penn presents Charter of Priviliges - 1701
127. Battle of Sont: Swedish fleet beats Dutch - 1658
128. Anne Hutchinson banished from Massachusetts - 1638
129. English fleet under George Villiers leaves Rhe - 1627
130. Battle of White Mountain, Prague - 1620
131. Spanish troops under of Bernardino de Mendoza conquer Doetinchem - 1598
132. Pacificatie of Gent: 17 Dutch provinces signs anti-Spanish covenant - 1576
133. French Roman Catholics and Huguenots signs treaty - 1575
134. 1st meeting of Montezuma and Hernando Cortes in Mexico - 1519
135. Uprising against Piero de' Medici in Florence Italy - 1494
136. Pope John XXII names John van Diest, bishop of Utrecht - 1322
137. Duke Koenraad I chosen German king - 0911
138. St. Deusdedit I ends his reign as Catholic Pope - 0618
139. Emperor Theodosius declares christian religion, state religion - 0392
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