1. 67th French Mens Tennis: Gustavo Kuerten beats S Bruguera (63 64 62) - 1997
2. BellSouth Senior Golf Classic at Opryland - 1997
3. Justin Leonard wins golf's Kemper Open at TPC at Avenel - 1997
4. Pat Hurst wins LPGA Oldsmobile Classic - 1997
5. "Young Man From Atlanta" closes at Longacre Theater New York City after 85 performances - 1997
6. 128th Belmont: Rene Douglas aboard Editor's Note wins in 2:28.96 - 1996
7. 66th French Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats A S Vicario (63, 67, 108) - 1996
8. China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC - 1996
9. Dean Jones takes career-best 5-112 for Derbyshire vs. Hampshire - 1996
10. Lloyd and Titchard complete 358 stand for 4th wkt Lancs vs. Essex - 1996
11. PBA National Championship Won by Butch Soper - 1996
12. "Buttons on Broadway" opens at Ambassador Theater New York City for 40 performances - 1995
13. 7.8 earthquake strikes North Bolivia - 1994
14. Premier Marc Bazin of Haiti resigns - 1993
15. 26th Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson and Garth Brooks - 1992
16. New York Yankee pitcher Steve Howe is banned from baseball for 7th time - 1992
17. Thomas Klestil succeeds Waldheim as president of Austria - 1992
18. 123rd Belmont: Jerry Bailey aboard Hansel wins in 2:28 - 1991
19. 61st French Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats A S Vicario (63 64) - 1991
20. College World Series: Louisiana State defeats Wichita State 6-3 - 1991
21. Former New York Jet Mark Gastineau wins 1st pro boxing fight in 12 seconds - 1991
22. "Our Country's Good" closes at Nederlander Theater New York City after 48 performances - 1991
23. Victory parade held in Washington D.C., Persian Gulf War - 1991
24. Warren Schutte, is 1st non American to win NCAA Div 1 golf title - 1991
25. "It's Garry Shandling's Show," last airs on Fox-TV - 1990
26. Phil Bradley hits 18th inside-the-park HR in Oriole history - 1990
27. Pirates score 10 in 1st (their best inning since 1942), prompts Pirate Jim Rooker to say he would walk from Pitts to Philadelphia if Pirates lost, Phillies beat them 15-11, Rooker walks at end of season broadcaster - 1989
28. Nippon Airways announces that painting eyeballs on Jets cut bird collisions by 20% - 1988
29. 21st Music City News Country Awards: Randy Travis - 1987
30. Oliver North's secretary Fawn Hall tesifies at Iran-Contra hearing - 1987
31. 40th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Hous Rockets, 4 games to 2 - 1986
32. 56th French Mens Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats Mikael Pernfors (63 62 64) - 1986
33. Alleged Nazi Kurt Waldheim elected President of Austria - 1986
34. "Big Deal" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 70 performances - 1986
35. Juli Inkster wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship - 1986
36. Longest 9 inning AL game (4h16m), Baltimore Orioles beat Yankees 18-9 - 1986
37. 117th Belmont: Eddie Maple aboard Creme Fraiche wins in 2:27 - 1985
38. Pirates score 10 in top of 1st, but lose 15-11 to Phillies, as Steve becomes 1st Phillie to switch hit home runs in same game - 1985
39. Charlos Vieira begins 191 hr "nonstop" cycling in Leiria, Portugal - 1983
40. Marlies Gohr runs female European record 100m (10.81) - 1983
41. "Trading Places," "Ghostbusters," and "Gremlins," premieres - 1983
42. 36th NBA Championship: Los Angeles Lakers beat Philadelphia 76ers, 4 games to 2 - 1982
43. Brazilian B-727 flight crashes into mountain; 135 die - 1982
44. Emmy 9th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 3rd time - 1982
45. Reagan addresses joint session of British Parliament - 1982
46. 15th Music City News Country Awards: Mandrell Sisters - 1981
47. Seattle Mariners draft Mike Moore #1 - 1981
48. 26th LPGA Championship won by Sally Little - 1980
49. 34th Tony Awards: Children of a Lesser God and Evita win - 1980
50. 50th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats Virginia Ruzici (60 63) - 1980
51. "It's So Nice to Be Civilized" closes at Martin Beck New York City after 8 performances - 1980
52. Mariners draft Al Chambers #1 - 1979
53. "The Source," 1st computer public information service, goes on-line - 1979
54. Wings release "Back to the Egg" album - 1979
55. 51st National Spelling Bee: Peg McCarthy wins spelling deification - 1978
56. Braves draft Bob Horner #1 - 1978
57. Nevada jury rules Howard Hughes "Mormon Will" is a forgery - 1978
58. Nolan Ryan notches his 4th career 19-strikeout game - 1977
59. Houston Astros draft Floyd Bannister #1 - 1976
60. 2 passenger trains collided near Munich Germany killing 35 - 1975
61. Joanne Carner wins LPGA Girl Talk Golf Classic - 1975
62. U.S.S.R. launches Venera 9 for Venus landing - 1975
63. 106th Belmont: Miguel Rivera aboard Little Current wins in 2:29.2 - 1974
64. Keyboardist Rick Wakeman quits rock group "Yes" - 1974
65. U.S. and Saudi Arabia sign military-economic contract - 1974
66. Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco appointed premier of Spain - 1973
67. Padres draft Dave Roberts #1, Indians draft Rick Manning #2 - 1972
68. Test Cricket debut of Tony Greig, vs. Australia at Old Trafford (57/62) - 1972
69. North Vietnam demands U.S. end aid to South Vietnam - 1971
70. White Sox draft Danny Goodwin #1, he refuses to sign - 1971
71. Players and management end labor dispute up min salary to $12,000 - 1970
72. 21st Emmy Awards: Get Smart, Don Adams and Susan St. James - 1969
73. Brian Jones leaves The Rolling Stones - 1969
74. General Franco closes Spain's frontier with Gibraltar - 1969
75. KDNL TV channel 30 in Saint Louis, MO (IND) begins broadcasting - 1969
76. Mickey Mantle Day, 60,096 saw #7 retired (I was there-BTG) - 1969
77. Nixon says 25,000 U.S. troops would leave Vietnam by end of August - 1969
78. Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor replaces Brian Jones - 1969
79. "Smothers Brothers comedy Hour," last airs on CBS-TV - 1969
80. Susie Berning wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open - 1969
81. 1st reduced-gravity golf game is played on the Moon - 1968
82. Bermuda adopts its constitution - 1968
83. Don Drysdale pitches a record 58th consecutive scoreless inning - 1968
84. Gary Puckett and Union Gap release "Lady Will Power" - 1968
85. James Earl Ray, alleged assassin of Martin Luther King Jr, captured - 1968
86. New colonial constitution for Bermuda adopted - 1968
87. Rolling Stones release "Jumpin' Jack Flash" - 1968
88. Israel attacks USS Liberty in Mediterranean, killing 34 U.S. crewmen - 1967
89. NFL and AFL announce plans to become NFC and AFC in 1970 - 1966
90. A's draft Rick Monday #1 - 1965
91. U.S. troops ordered to fight offensively in Vietnam - 1965
92. U.S.S.R. launches Luna 6; missed Moon - 1965
93. 95th Belmont: Braulio Baeza aboard Chateaugay wins in 2:30.2 - 1963
94. American Heart Association is 1st agency to campaign against cigarettes - 1963
95. "Mr. President" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 265 performances - 1963
96. Jim Beatty runs world record 2 mile (8:29.8) - 1962
97. English prince Edward, Duke of Kent, weds Katharine Worsley - 1961
98. Milwaukee sets record of 4 consecutive home runs (Eddie Mathews, Hank Aaron Joe Adcock and Frank Thomas) - 1961
99. Test Cricket debut of William Morris Lawry, vs. Eng at Edgbaston, 57 - 1961
100. 1st date in James Clavell's novel "Nobel House" - 1960
101. Argentine government demands release of Adolf Eichmann - 1960
102. 1st official "missile mail" lands, Jacksonville, Florida - 1959
103. X-15 makes 1st unpowered flight, from a B-52 at 11,500 m - 1959
104. 4th LPGA Championship won by Mickey Wright - 1958
105. Lim Yem Hock forms Singapore government - 1956
106. WDAM TV channel 7 in Laurel-Hattiesburg, MS (NBC) begins broadcasting - 1956
107. Dodgers option Tommy Lasorda to make room on roster for Sandy Koufax - 1955
108. Cluster of 6 tornadoes touch down in Flint Michigan killing 113 - 1953
109. Segregated lunch counters in DC forbidden by Supreme Court - 1953
110. Tornadoes kill 110 in Mich and Ohio - 1953
111. Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Eastern Women's Golf Open - 1952
112. Boston Red Sox beat St. Louis Browns 29-4 (win by record 25 runs) - 1950
113. Jean Duvieusart becomes Belgian premier - 1950
114. Test Cricket debut of Ramadhin and Valentine (8-104 1st inn) vs. England - 1950
115. Siam changes name to Thailand - 1949
116. "Milton Berle Show" premieres on NBC TV - 1948
117. "Sally" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 36 performances - 1948
118. "Lute Song" closes at Plymouth Theater New York City after 142 performances - 1946
119. Sukarno calls for anti colonial defiance in Indonesia - 1946
120. 1st SS-Pantser corps counter attacks at Normandy - 1944
121. Allies occupy Port-and-Bessin Normandy - 1944
122. Dutch Resistance fighter Frans Duwaer arrested - 1944
123. Gen Montgomery lands in Normandy, forms HQ in Chateau de Creully - 1944
124. Bing Cosby records "Silent Night" - 1942
125. English and French troop overthrow pro-German Syria - 1941
126. 72nd Belmont: Fred A Smith aboard Bimelech wins in 2:29.6 - 1940
127. Discovery of element 93, neptunium, announced - 1940
128. Last British troops leave Narvik, Norway - 1940
129. British king George VI visits U.S. - 1939
130. World's largest flower blooms in New York Botanical Garden, 12' calla lily - 1937
131. 1st parking meters are invented - 1936
132. 39th U.S. Golf Open: Sam Parks, Jr. shoots a 299 at Oakmont CC PA - 1935
133. 67th Belmont: Willie Saunders aboard Omaha wins in 2:30.6 - 1935
134. Lou Gehrig collides with Carl Reynolds and leaves the game - 1935
135. A's Jimmie Foxx homers his 1st 3 at bats for 4 consecutive HRs - 1933
136. Duke and Duchess of Kent wed - 1931
137. Suriname Work Committee under Louis Doedel forms in Paramaribo - 1931
138. 61st Belmont: Mack Garner aboard Blue Larkspur wins in 2:32.8 - 1929
139. Venezuelan rebel Rafael Urbina overthrows Fort Amsterdam, Curaeao kidnap governor Fruytier - 1929
140. 1st U.S. to Australia flight lands (Sir Charles Kingford) - 1928
141. Tony Lazzeri hits 3 home runs Yanks beat White Sox 12-11 - 1927
142. Babe Ruth arrested for speeding, fined $100, and held in jail until 4 PM - 1921
143. Reds' Edd Roush falls asleep in center during long infield argument Heinie Groh goes to wake him, but ump ejects Roush for delay of game - 1920
144. Nova Aquila, brightest nova since Kepler's nova of 1604, discovered - 1918
145. Walt Disney graduates from Benton High School - 1917
146. 92 degrees F (33.3 degrees C) in De Bilt, Netherlands - 1915
147. William Jennings Bryan quits as Secretary of State - 1915
148. 34.7 degrees F (1.5 degrees C) in De Bilt, Netherlands - 1914
149. Belgium government of Schollaert falls - 1911
150. Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of 6 Napoleons" - 1900
151. Homer A. Plessy refuses to go to segregated RR car (Plessy vs. Ferguson) - 1892
152. Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure "Boscombe Valley Mystery" - 1889
153. 1st Civil Rights Act passes - 1886
154. 16th Belmont: Jim McLaughlin aboard Forester wins in 2:43 - 1882
155. 12th Belmont: L Hughes aboard Duke of Magenta wins in 2:43 - 1878
156. Congress endorses penny post card - 1872
157. Ives W. McGaffey of Chicago patents 1st vacuum cleaner - 1869
158. Tristanderl und Zusholde, premieres - 1865
159. Valley Campaign-Battle of Cross Keys, Virginia - 1862
160. People of Tennessee vote to succeed from Union - 1861
161. U.S. Sanitary Commission is given executive approval - 1861
162. Pitcairn Islanders arrive on Norfolk Island - 1856
163. Battle at Gwanga: British troops beat Bantu - 1846
164. HMS Beagle sails from Port Famine to Cape Turn - 1834
165. 1st U.K. municipal swimming pool outside of London, opens in Liverpool - 1829
166. Washing machine patented by Noah Cushing of Quebec - 1824
167. 39 German states unite under Act of Confederation - 1815
168. Commercially made ice cream 1st advertised, Mr Hall, New York City - 1786
169. Laki Volcano in southern Iceland begins 8-month eruption - 1783
170. British fleet occupies Belle Britain - 1761
171. English troop landing at Brest attack, 300 killed - 1694
172. Battle at Amegical: English and Portugese fleet beats Spanish - 1663
173. Prince Frederik Henry conquerors Sittard - 1632
174. Earthquake strikes Peru - 1624
175. Pope Julius III excommunicates Duke Ottario Farnese of Parma - 1551
176. Louis V de Luie, crowned King of France - 0979
177. Vikings plunder St. Cuthbert convent Lindisfarne - 0793
178. Religion of Islam (submission) founded in Mecca - 0570
179. St. Silverius begins his reign as Catholic Pope - 0536
180. Italy invaded by Attila the Hun - 0452
181. Rome Senate accepts emperor Galba - 0068
182. Jews revolt against Rome, capturing fortress of Antonia in Jerusalem - 0065
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