1. -26 degrees F (-32.2 degrees C) in Bismarck, North Dakota - 1995
2. Costis Stephanopoulos becomes president of Greece - 1995
3. Dutch Liberal Party wins Provincial-National elections - 1995
4. 20th People's Choice Awards - 1994
5. B737 collides with Ilyushin-86 in New Dehli, at least 8 killed - 1994
6. Defense Department announces smoking ban in workplaces - 1994
7. Train accident at Pinetown, Natal kills 47 - 1994
8. Katharine Hepburn released from the hospital after exhaustion - 1993
9. Nigerian singer Fela Kuti arrested again on suspicion of murder - 1993
10. 22nd Easter Seal Telethon - 1992
11. Judy Dickinson wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic - 1992
12. 17th People's Choice Awards: Julia Roberts, Bill Cosby, Pretty Woman - 1991
13. Harry Hamlin and Nicollette Sheridan wed - 1991
14. Planeloads of U.S. troops arrive home from the Persian Gulf, Iraq hands over 40 foreign journalists and 2 American soldiers it captured - 1991
15. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1991
16. "Heidi Chronicles" opens at Plymouth Theater New York City for 621 performances - 1989
17. Roger Kingdom runs indoor world record 60m hurdles (7.37 secs) - 1989
18. 17th Easter Seal Telethon raises $35,184,425 - 1987
19. David Hookes (306*) Wayne Phillips make 462 stand for S Aust - 1987
20. FBI apprehends most wanted Claude L Dallas, Jr. in California - 1987
21. Jane Geddes wins LPGA GNA/Glendale Federal Golf Classic - 1987
22. Nelli Cooman becomes world champion 60m indoor - 1987
23. 4 French TV crew members are abducted in Beirut Lebanon - 1986
24. Japanese probe Suisei passes Halley's Comet at 109,800 km - 1986
25. Martina Navratilova is 1st tennis player to earn $10 million - 1986
26. Ice Dance Championship at Tokyo won by Bestemianova and Bukin (URS) - 1985
27. House Foreign Affairs Committee endorses nuclear weapons freeze with U.S.S.R. - 1983
28. IBM releases PC DOS version 2.0 - 1983
29. President Reagan calls the U.S.S.R. an "Evil Empire" - 1983
30. Dennis Lillee ct by Qld 12th man Dennis Lillie in Shield game - 1981
31. Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Arizona Copper Golf Classic - 1981
32. "Shakespeare's Cabaret" closes at Bijou Theater New York City after 54 performances - 1981
33. Greg Chappell 235 and Yallop 172, for 217 stand at Faisalabad - 1980
34. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1980
35. 1st extraterrestrial volcano discovered on Io, a satellite of Jupiter - 1979
36. 5th People's Choice Awards - 1979
37. China withdraws invasion troops from Vietnam - 1979
38. Shuttle Columbia (OV-102) transported 38 miles overland from Palmdale - 1979
39. Henry L. Marsh III elected mayor of Richmond - 1977
40. Princess Anne announces she's expecting her 1st child (Peter) - 1977
41. 1,774 kg (largest observed) stony meteorite falls in Jilin, China - 1976
42. Royal Canadian Mint announces branch opening in Winnipeg Manitoba - 1975
43. Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris - 1974
44. Eisenhower Tunnel, world's highest/U.S. longest, opens - 1973
45. Paul and Linda McCartney are fined 100 pounds for growing cannabis - 1973
46. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1973
47. 1st airship flown over Britain in 20 years (Europa) - 1972
48. 1st flight of the Goodyear blimp - 1972
49. Joe Frazier beats Muhammad Ali in 15, retains heavyweight boxing title - 1971
50. Milwaukee Bucks win their 20th straight NBA game (team record) - 1971
51. Radio Hanoi broadcasts Jimi Hendrix's "Star Spangled Banner" - 1971
52. WTCI TV channel 45 in Chattanooga, Tennessee (PBS) begins broadcasting - 1970
53. Marriage of 12 year old Marcella Rosciglione in Palermo - 1969
54. 6 year old Tommy Moore scores hole-in-one in golf (Hagerstown, Maryland) - 1968
55. Fillmore East opens - 1968
56. Students demonstrate in Warsaw - 1968
57. New Orleans Saints begin selling season tickets (20,000 sold 1st day) - 1967
58. An IRA bomb destroyed Nelson's Column in Dublin - 1966
59. Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame - 1966
60. "Golden Boy" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 569 performances - 1966
61. 1st U.S. combat forces arrive in Vietnam (3,500 Marines) - 1965
62. Malcolm X leaves Black Muslim Movement - 1964
63. Syrian Arab Rep Revolution Day - Military coup in Syria - 1963
64. Beatles, with Pete Best, TV debut (perform "Dream Baby" on BBC) - 1962
65. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1962
66. Jean Kerr's "Mary, Mary," premieres in New York City - 1961
67. U.S. nuclear submarine Patrick Henry arrives at Scottish naval base of Holy Loch from South Carolina in a record underseas journey of 66 days 22 hrs - 1961
68. "Greenwillow" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 95 performances - 1960
69. Groucho, Chico and Harpo's final TV appearance together - 1959
70. KUAT TV channel 6 in Tucson, Arizona (PBS) begins broadcasting - 1959
71. Mickey Wright wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open - 1959
72. Pro-Egyptian coup fails in Mosul Iraq - 1959
73. Silky Sullivan comes from 40 lengths back to win by 3 at Santa Anita - 1958
74. William Faulkner says U.S. school degenerated to become babysitters - 1958
75. 1st performance of David Diamond's 6th Symphony in Boston - 1957
76. Israeli troops leave Egypt; Suez Canal re-opened for minor ships - 1957
77. U.S.S.R. performs atmospheric nuclear test - 1957
78. Census indicates 239,000 farmers gave up farming in last 2 years - 1953
79. KSWO TV channel 7 in Lawton, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting - 1953
80. Patty Berg wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open - 1953
81. "Two's Company" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 90 performances - 1953
82. WFMJ TV channel 21 in Youngstown, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting - 1953
83. Antoine Pinay forms French government - 1952
84. Ronald Reagan marries Nancy Davis - 1952
85. International Table Tennis Federation bans Egypt (for refusing to play Israel) - 1951
86. 1st woman medical officer assigned to naval vessel (BR Walters) - 1950
87. Marshall Voroshilov of U.S.S.R. announces they developed atomic bomb - 1950
88. WAGeorgia TV channel 5 in Atlanta, Georgia (CBS) begins broadcasting - 1949
89. WBAP-FM, Fort Worth Texas, begins broadcasting - 1949
90. Supreme Court rules relg instructions in pub schools unconstitutional - 1948
91. 1st helicopter licensed for commercial use (New York City) - 1946
92. 53 Amsterdammers executed by nazi occupiers - 1945
93. International Women's Day is 1st observed - 1945
94. "Kiss Me Kate" opens in Britain - 1945
95. Phyllis M. Daley is 1st black nurse sworn-in as U.S. Navy ensign - 1945
96. U.S. resumes bombing Berlin - 1944
97. 335 allied bombers attack Neurenberg - 1943
98. Limited gambling legalized in Mexico - 1943
99. U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill - 1943
100. U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Arthur Vaughn - 1943
101. Japanese forces captures Rangoon Burma - 1942
102. KNIL, Dutch colonial army on Java, surrenders to Japanese armies - 1942
103. 1st baseball player drafted into WW II (Hugh Mulcahy, Phillies) - 1941
104. Lenore Coffee and William Joyce Cowan's "Family Portrait," premieres - 1939
105. Edwin Hubble photo shows as many galaxies as Milky Way has stars - 1934
106. Babe Ruth signs 2-year contract for $160,000 with New York Yankee GM Ed Barrow, wrongly predicts "No one will ever be paid more than Ruth" - 1930
107. Mahatma Gandhi starts civil disobedience in India - 1930
108. U.S. worker union commission reports of slavery in Liberia - 1929
109. Pan American Airlines incorporates - 1927
110. Coal mine explosion kills 171 at Castle Gate Utah - 1924
111. Denmark and Cuba join the League of Nations - 1920
112. Russian revolution breaks out in Petrograd - 1917
113. U.S. invades Cuba for 3rd time, this to end corrupt Menocal regime - 1916
114. 1st U.S. Navy minelayer, Baltimore, commissioned - 1915
115. Federal League organizes with 6 teams - 1913
116. Internal Revenue Service begins to levy and collect income taxes - 1913
117. 1st International Woman's Day - 1911
118. Baroness Raymonde de Laroche of Paris is 1st licensed female pilot - 1910
119. Collingwood Elementary (Cleve) burns, kills 173 kids and 2 teachers - 1908
120. Dutch utopist Frederick of Eden speaks in Carnegie Hall, New York - 1908
121. Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Smiths Falls (Ont) in 2 games - 1906
122. Hugh Trumble takes a hat-trick in his final Test Cricket match - 1904
123. 1st performance of Jean Sibelius' 2nd Symphony - 1902
124. NL decides to go with 8 teams They exclude Baltimore, Cleveland, Louisville and Washington (in 1953 Boston Braves move to Milwaukee) - 1900
125. Richard Straus' "Don Quixote," premieres in Keulen - 1898
126. Volunteers of America forms (New York City) - 1896
127. New York passes 1st state dog license law - 1894
128. Everett Horton, Connecticut, patents fishing rod of telescoping steel tubes - 1887
129. 1st performance of Edward MacDowell's 2nd Piano suite - 1884
130. Battle of Kingston, North Carolina (Wilcox's ridge, Wise's Forks) - 1865
131. Battle of Elkhorn Tavern ends with Confederate withdrawal - 1862
132. Confederate ironclad "Merrimack" launched - 1862
133. Naval Engagement at Hampton Roads, Virginia CSS Virginia, Jamestown and Yorktown vs USS Cumberland, Congress and Monitor - 1862
134. St. Augustine Florida surrenders to Union armies - 1861
135. Opera "I Pagliacci" is produced (Naples) - 1858
136. 1st train crosses 1st U.S. railway suspension bridge, Niagara Falls - 1855
137. U.S. Commodore Matthew C. Perry's 2nd trip to Japan - 1854
138. U.S. Mint in New Orleans begins operation (producing dimes) - 1838
139. 1st concerto of Royal Philharmonic - 1813
140. British drive French forces from Abukir, Egypt - 1801
141. Gnadenhutten Massacre - Ohio militia kills 90 indians - 1782
142. Willem V (18) becomes governor of United Provinces - 1766
143. Marquis of Ensenada becomes premier of Spain - 1754
144. Cumberland's troops occupy Aberdeen - 1746
145. Afghan monarch Mir Mahmud occupies Persia - 1722
146. Antoin de Guiscard tries English premier Haley for murder - 1711
147. Vienna's Wiener Stadtbank established - 1706
148. England Queen Anne ascends throne upon death of King William III - 1702
149. Peace of Roskilde between Sweden and Denmark - 1658
150. Johan van Oldenbarnevelt becomes Dutch chief legal advisor - 1586
151. Jacoba van Bayern marries her cousin John IV van Brabant - 1418
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