1. 68th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 3-1 at Jacobs Field, Cleveland - 1997
2. NATO invites Poland, Hungary and Czech Republic to join - 1997
3. 102nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Graf beats Arantxa S Vicario (46 61 75) - 1995
4. 1st CFL game between 2 U.S. teams, Las Vegas Posse vs. Sacramento Gold - 1995
5. Preliminary trial rules there is enough evidence to try O. J. Simpson - 1994
6. Sonia O'Sullivan runs female 2K world record (5:25.36) - 1994
7. Space shuttle STS-65 (Columbia 17), launches - 1994
8. St. Maarten "Godfather" Claude Wathey sentenced to 1 years - 1994
9. Florida Marlins unveil their uniform - 1992
10. Thomas Klestil installed as president of Austria - 1992
11. Major league umpire Steve Palermo and former NFL defensive lineman Terence Mann were shot trying to help 2 waitresses from being robbed - 1991
12. Pittsburgh Pirate President Carl Barger becomes 1st President of Florida Marlins - 1991
13. 12:34:56 on 7/8/90 (1234567890) - 1990
14. Brewers beat Angels 20-7, including 13 in 5th inning - 1990
15. Germany beats Argentina 1-0 for soccer's 14th World Cup at Rome - 1990
16. Greg Lemond wins his 3rd Tour de France (90:43:20 avg 23.3 mph) - 1990
17. Italy beats England in soccer's World Cup consolation game - 1990
18. Tina Purtzer wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic - 1990
19. Trailing 7-0, Brewers tie Angels and then score 13 in 5th to win 20-7 - 1990
20. Carlos Saul Menum becomes President of Argentina - 1989
21. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. - 1989
22. Indians' Bud Black sets club record for most batters hit in inning (3) - 1988
23. Miami Arena opens - 1988
24. Rockers Jonathan "Chico" and Robert DeBarge indicted on drug trafficking - 1988
25. Stevie Wonder announces he will run for mayor of Detroit in 1992 - 1988
26. Kitty Dukakis, revealed addiction to amphetamines for 26 years - 1987
27. Farthest thrown object-an "Aerobie" flying ring, 383 m (1,257') - 1986
28. NASA establishes Safety, Reliability Maintain and Quality Assurance - 1986
29. Zimbabwe beats Netherlands by 25 runs to win ICC Trophy - 1986
30. 99th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Boris Becker beats K Curren (63 67 76 64) - 1985
31. Marge Schott becomes CEO of Cincinnati Red - 1985
32. 98th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats J Connors (61 61 62) - 1984
33. Lauri Peterson wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic - 1984
34. Rudi Koopmans retains European middleweight title - 1983
35. "7 Brides for 7 Brothers" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 5 performances - 1982
36. Billy Martin records his 1,000th career win as a manager - 1982
37. France performs nuclear test - 1981
38. PM Maurois nationalizes banks/plane/steel industry in France - 1981
39. Senate confirms Sandra Day O'Conner to Supreme Court (99-0) - 1981
40. 51st All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-2 at Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles - 1980
41. All star MVP: Ken Griffey (Cin Reds) - 1980
42. Congo adopts constitution - 1979
43. Don Martina's MAN party wins election in Dutch Antilles - 1979
44. Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic - 1979
45. Voyager 2 takes 1st ever photo of Jupiter's satellite Adrastea (J14) - 1979
46. 92nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats Jimmy Connors (62 62 63) - 1978
47. Alessandro Pertini elected President of Italy - 1978
48. Pioneer-Venus 2 Multi-probe launched to Venus - 1978
49. Sabra Starr finishes longest recorded belly dance (100 hrs) - 1977
50. Randy Jones wins NL record 16 games before All Star break - 1976
51. Israeli premier Yitzhak Rabin visits West-Germany - 1975
52. President Ford announced he'll seek Republican nomination for president - 1975
53. Quake damages over 2,000 temples in Pagan Burma, 20-foot-high seated Buddha of Thandawgya decapitated - 1975
54. U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test - 1974
55. Yank shortstop Jim Mason ties record with 4 doubles in 9 inn game - 1974
56. Mary Lou Crocker wins LPGA MARC Equity Golf Classic Crocker - 1973
57. New York Mets are 12 games back in NL, and go on to win pennant - 1973
58. English prince Richard marries Birgitte of Deurs (Henriksen) - 1972
59. U.S. sells grain to U.S.S.R. for $750 million - 1972
60. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1971
61. San Francisco Giant Jim Ray Hart is 8th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (5th) - 1970
62. Thor Heyerdahl and reed raft Ra II land in Barbados 57 days from Morocco - 1969
63. U.S. troop withdrawal begins in Vietnam - 1969
64. Israeli-Egyptian artillery duel along Suez Canal - 1968
65. 74th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats A Jones (63 64) - 1967
66. Helen Weston of Detroit rolls a record 4,585 in 24 games - 1967
67. U.S. airline strike, until Aug 19th - 1966
68. Joe Morgan is 1st Houston player with 6 hits in a game - 1965
69. Reports of Charlie Finley's intention to move Kansas City A's to Oakland - 1963
70. U.S. bans all monetary transactions with Cuba - 1963
71. Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Kelly Girls Golf Open - 1962
72. Fred Trueman takes 5-0 in 24 balls to rip through Aussies - 1961
73. Portuguese steamer "Save" breaks up off Mozambique, 227 die - 1961
74. Fidel Castro ends Havana's International League team, Sugar Kings move to NJ - 1960
75. 25th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 4-3 at Memorial Stadium, Balt - 1958
76. Baeball Owners re-elect Commissioner Ford Frick - 1957
77. CDC incorporates - 1957
78. Irish premier Eamon de Valera arrests Sinn-Fein leaders - 1957
79. Joyce Ziske wins LPGA Syracuse Golf Open - 1956
80. U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak - 1956
81. KMOX (now KMOV) TV channel 4 in Saint Louis, MO (CBS) 1st broadcast - 1954
82. Military junta selects colonel Armas president of Guatemala - 1954
83. U.S. stops aid to Persia - 1953
84. 19th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 3-2 in 5 at Shibe Park, Phila - 1952
85. Yankee Joe DiMaggio and mgr Casey Stengel feud - 1951
86. 33.4 cm rain fall at York, Nebraska (state record) - 1950
87. 57th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Louise Brough beats M duPont (61 36 61) - 1950
88. Gen Douglas MacArthur named commander-in-chief, United Nations forces in Korea - 1950
89. Leroy Deans awarded 1st Order of Purple Heart in Korea - 1950
90. Monte Irvin and Hank Thompson are 1st blacks to play for New York Giants - 1949
91. 500th anniversary Russian orthodox church celebrated in Moscow - 1948
92. 14th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 2-1 at Wrigley Field, Chicago - 1947
93. Demolition begins for United Nations HQ in New York City - 1947
94. Baseball grants $5,000 minimum salary - 1946
95. "Tidbits of 1946" opens at Plymouth Theater New York City for 8 performances - 1946
96. British troops march into Caen - 1944
97. Japanese kamakize attacks on U.S. lines at Saipan - 1944
98. 4th day of battle at Kursk: Gen Model uses last tank reserve - 1943
99. British air raid sinks U-232 - 1943
100. NSB-leader A Mussert meets with Heinrich Himmler - 1943
101. U.S. invasion fleet passes Bizerta, Tunisia - 1943
102. 9th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 7-5 at Briggs Stadium, Detroit - 1941
103. All Jews living in Baltic States are obligated to wear a Jewish Star - 1941
104. 59th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bobby Riggs beats E Cooke (26 86 36 63 62) - 1939
105. Would be start of Eng/Aust Test Cricket at Old Trafford Washout - 1938
106. 3rd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 4-1 at Municipal Stadium, Cleve - 1935
107. 46th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats D Round (64 68 63) - 1933
108. Public Works Administration becomes effective - 1933
109. Depression low point of Dow Jones Industrial Average, 41.22 - 1932
110. Herbert Sutcliffe scores his 100th 100, Yorkshire vs. Gloucs - 1932
111. Phillies set record of errorless 25 inning doubleheader - 1928
112. Harding becomes 1st sitting president to visit Alaska (Metlakahtla) - 1923
113. Walter Mittelholzer flies Junkers F-13 to Spitsbergen/Oostland - 1923
114. 35th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats M Mallory (62 60) - 1922
115. President Wilson returns to New York City from Versailles Peace Conference - 1919
116. Babe Ruth's blast over the fence in Fenway scores Amos Strunk, the Red Sox win 1-0 over Cleve, prevailing rules reduce Babe's HR to a triple - 1918
117. G E V Crutchley (Oxford) 99 retired measles vs. Cambridge - 1912
118. Giants Rube Marquard loses after winning 21 straight - 1912
119. Nan Aspinwall is 1st woman to make solo transcont trip by horse - 1911
120. 1st pro baseball game, minor league, played under lights - 1909
121. Florenz Ziegfeld staged 1st 'Follies' on New York Theater roof - 1907
122. Part of Angel Island allocated for Immigration Detention Center - 1905
123. John McGraw, accused by Ban Johnson of trying to wreck Baltimore and Washington clubs, negotiates his release from the Orioles - 1902
124. 1st night baseball, league game (Zanesville at Grand Rapids) - 1900
125. Phillies Red Donahue no-hits Boston Braves, 5-0 - 1898
126. U.S. battle fleet under adm Dewey occupies Isla Grande at Manila - 1898
127. Harbor Hospital formally opens - 1897
128. William Jennings Bryan "cross of gold" speech at Dem convention - 1896
129. Delagoa Bay Railway opens in South-Africa - 1895
130. American Psychological Association organized, Worcester, Massacgysetts - 1892
131. 61 degrees F, highest temp for July 1891, in Baltimore and Phila - 1891
132. Future president Harding marries Florence K DeWolfe in Marion Ohio - 1891
133. John L. Sullivan KOs Jake Kilrain in 75 rounds (last bare-knuckle bout) - 1889
134. Wall Street Journal begins publishing - 1889
135. White terrorists attack Black Republicans in Hamburg, South Carolina, killing 5 - 1876
136. Congress authorizes registration of trademarks - 1870
137. Gov Holden of North Carolina declares Casswell County in a state of insurrection - 1870
138. Odore R Timby patents revolving gun turret - 1862
139. CS Gen Sibley is given command of rebel troops in New Mexico territory - 1861
140. Commodore Matthew Perry sails his frigate Susquehanna into Tokyo Bay - 1853
141. St. Paul's Place in the Bronx named - 1849
142. Arabs attack Jewish community of Safed - 1838
143. HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Saint-Helena - 1836
144. Liberty Bell cracks, again - 1835
145. Russia and Turkey sign defense treaty - 1833
146. Frost in Waltham, Massachusetts - 1816
147. American Bill Richmond knocks out Jack Holmes, Kilburn Wells, England - 1805
148. Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse gives 1st cowpox vaccination to his son to prevent smallpox - 1800
149. 1st U.S. senator, William Blount of Tennessee, expelled by impeachment - 1797
150. U.S. State Department issues 1st American passport - 1796
151. France declares war on Prussia - 1792
152. George Washington headquarters at West Point for his Continental Army - 1778
153. Vermont becomes 1st state abolishing slavery, adopts male suffrage - 1777
154. Col John Nixon gave 1st public reading of Dec of Independence (Phila) - 1776
155. English and Colonial assault on France at Ticonderoga, New York - 1758
156. Battle of Poltava; Russians defeat Swedes - 1709
157. New York City authorizes 1st police uniforms in American colonies - 1693
158. Willem II becomes captain-/admiral-general - 1672
159. King Charles II of England grants a charter to Rhode Island - 1663
160. 1st Jewish colonist arrive in U.S. (Jacob Barsimson in Manhattan) - 1654
161. Willem of Orange weds countess Anna van Egmond and Buren - 1551
162. Vasco da Gama departs for trip to India - 1497
163. Paris is founded - 0951
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