1. Anatoly Karpov defeats Viswanathan Anand to retain chess title - 1998
2. Anatoly Solovyov and Pavel Vinogradov spacewalk record 3 hours 8 mins - 1998
3. Decapitated head of Danish Little Mermaid is returned - 1998
4. Hockey News selects Wayne Gretzky best NHL player ever - 1998
5. Heart attacks sends Frank Sinatra back to hospital - 1997
6. Ecuador and Peru involve in boundary fight - 1995
7. Worker accidentally cuts electrial wires at Newark Airport - 1995
8. 14th United Negro College Fund raises $11,000,000 - 1994
9. Gunda Niemann skates world record (167.282 pts) - 1994
10. Rintje Ritsma skates world record (156.201 points) - 1994
11. Franziska van Almsick swims world record 100 m free style (53.33) - 1993
12. Baker and Aziz meet in Geneva; talks fail to defuse gulf crisis - 1991
13. Baseball officially bans Pete Rose from being elected to Hall of Fame - 1991
14. Dean Smith of North Carolina is 6th to win 700 career coaching basketball games - 1991
15. 64th U.S. manned space mission STS 32 (Columbia 10) launches into orbit - 1990
16. Boston Celtics worst ever (6 pts in 2nd vs New Jersey Nets) and lose 87-78 - 1990
17. Jim Palmer and Joe Morgan elected to Baseball Hall of Fame - 1990
18. Supreme Court strikes down Dallas' ordinance imposing strict zoning on sexually oriented businesses - 1990
19. Johnny Bench and Carl Yastrzemski elected to Baseball Hall of Fame - 1989
20. "Pat Sajak Show" premieres on CBS - 1989
21. August Wilson's "Piano Lesson," premieres in Boston - 1988
22. English earl of St. Andrews marries Sylvana Tomaselli - 1988
23. U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano - 1988
24. Chinese/Vietnamese border fights, 1500 killed - 1987
25. New Nicaraguan constitution takes effect - 1987
26. Sir Rudolph Bing (of New York Met Opera) marries Lady Carroll Douglass - 1987
27. New York Islanders greatest shutout margin (9-0) vs Pittsburgh Penguins - 1986
28. Flames set NHL record 264th regular season game without being shut-out - 1985
29. Braves pitcher Pascual Perez is arrested for cocaine possession - 1984
30. EAA moves operations to Oshkosh - 1984
31. John Lennon releases "Nobody Told Me" - 1984
32. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher visits Falkland Islands - 1983
33. 5.9 earthquake in New England and Canada; 1st since 1855 - 1982
34. Steve D'Innocenzo scores 3 hockey goals in 12 sec in Mass HS game - 1982
35. Francisco Balsamao elected President of Portugal - 1981
36. 63 beheaded in Mecca, Saudi Arabia - 1980
37. Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to WS Merwin - 1979
38. High-school player Daryl Moreau makes 126th consecutive free throws - 1979
39. K-Mart pulls Steve Martin's "Let's Get Small" for being in "bad taste" - 1979
40. Supreme Court strikes down (6-3) Pennsylvania law requiring doctors performing an abortion to try to preserve lives of potentially viable fetuses - 1979
41. Commonwealth of Northern Marianas established - 1978
42. "Porgy and Bess" closes at Uris Theater New York City after 122 performances - 1977
43. Superbowl XI: Oakland Raiders beat Minnesota Vikings, 32-14 in Pasadena Superbowl MVP: Fred Biletnikoff, Oakland, WR - 1977
44. Bryan Trottier failed in 4th Islander penalty shot - 1976
45. CW McCall CB song "Convoy" hit #1 on the country music charts - 1976
46. Ringo releases "Oh My My" in UK - 1976
47. 600 employees of Royal Canadian Mint go on strike - 1975
48. Australia beat England by 171 runs in 4th Test to regain Ashes - 1975
49. Luna 21 launched, to Moon - 1973
50. Billionaire Howard Hughes says Clifford Irving's bio is a fake - 1972
51. Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational - 1972
52. Passenger ship Queen Elizabeth destroyed by fire - 1972
53. "Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen" closes at Majestic New York City after 19 perf - 1971
54. Constitution of Singapore enacted - 1970
55. Concorde jetliner's 1st test flight from Bristol England - 1969
56. 1st ABA All-Star Game: East 126 beats West 120 at Indiana - 1968
57. Surveyor 7 space probe soft lands on Moon - 1968
58. Georgia legislature seats Rep. Julian Bond - 1967
59. NFL New Orleans' franchise takes name "Saints" - 1967
60. Polish government denies exit visa to Cardinal Wyszynski revisionism - 1966
61. "Beatles' '65" album goes #1 and stays #1 for 9 weeks - 1965
62. Anti-US rioting broke out in Panama Canal Zone - 1964
63. Mao Tse-tung writes his poem "Reply to Comrade Kuo Mo-jo" - 1963
64. Mister M (Dr. X) beats Verne Gagne in Minn, to become NWA champ - 1962
65. NFL prohibits grabbing of face masks - 1962
66. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1962
67. Twins agree on $500,000 payment to AA for Minn/St. Paul territory - 1961
68. Building of Aswan dam in Egypt, begins - 1960
69. Dam across Tera River collapses after heavy winter rains, 135 die - 1959
70. Pat O'Connor beats Dick Hutton in St. Louis, to become NWA champ - 1959
71. "Rawhide" with Clint Eastwood premieres on CBS TV - 1959
72. In basketball Oscar Robertson (Cin) scores 56, Seton Hall team 54 - 1958
73. British premier Anthony Eden resigns - 1957
74. Checheno-Ingush ASSR reformed in RSFSR - 1957
75. Dutch Newspaper Society expels communist daily paper "Truth" - 1957
76. Kalmyk Autonomous Region reformed in RSFSR - 1957
77. Karachayevo-Cherkess Autonomous Region reestablished in RSFSR - 1957
78. Abigail Van Buren's "Dear Abby" column 1st appears in newspapers - 1956
79. Samir el-Rifai forms government in Jordan - 1956
80. -87 degrees F (-66 degrees C), Northice Station, Greenland (Greenland record) - 1954
81. Bert Olmstead, Mont Canadiens, ties NHL record of 8 points in game - 1954
82. Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Louise Bogan and Leonie Adams - 1954
83. Bevo Francis, Rio Grande College, scores 116 pts in basketball game - 1953
84. Korean ferryboat "Chang Tyong-Ho" sank off Pusan killing 249 - 1953
85. Belgian Pholien government resigns - 1952
86. Karel Sys wins European heavyweight boxing title - 1952
87. Marines give notice that they will recall Ted Williams to active duty - 1952
88. Life After Tomorrow, 1st film to receive an "X" rating, premieres - 1951
89. Washington Capitals NBA club folds - 1951
90. Walter Piston's 3rd Symphony in E, premieres in Boston - 1948
91. Roger Sessions' 2nd Symphony, premieres in SF - 1947
92. "Street Scene" opens at Adelphi Theater New York City for 148 performances - 1947
93. "Would-Be Gentleman" opens at Booth Theater New York City for 77 performances - 1946
94. US soldiers led by Gen Douglas MacArthur invades Philippines - 1945
95. Japanese government in Java limits sale and use of motorcars - 1943
96. Joe Louis KOs Buddy Baer in 1 for heavyweight boxing title - 1942
97. US Joint Chiefs of Staff created - 1942
98. 6,000 Jews exterminated in pogrom in Bucharest Romania - 1941
99. Maiden flight by Canada's Avro Lancaster military plane - 1941
100. 2 German officers make emergency landing in Belgium - 1940
101. J Thurber and E Nugent's "Male Animal," premieres in New York City - 1940
102. Italian regime bans marriages between Italians and Abyssinians - 1937
103. Maxwell Anderson's "High Tor" premieres in New York City - 1937
104. Noel Coward's "Astonished Heart," premieres in London - 1936
105. Semi-automatic rifles adopted by U.S. army - 1936
106. Amsterdam confectionery worker go on strike against wage reduction - 1933
107. Boston Bruins wins then NHL record 14th straight game - 1930
108. BG DeSylva and Lew Brown's musical "Follow Thru," premieres in New York City - 1929
109. KDB-AM in Santa Barbara, California begins radio transmissions - 1929
110. Eugene O'Neill's "Marco Millions," premieres in New York City - 1928
111. Dmitri Shostakovitch' Octet opus 11, premieres in Moscow - 1927
112. Fire in Laurier Palace cinema in Montreal, 78 children died - 1927
113. German Postal Minister A Hofle resigns due to corruption - 1925
114. Juan de la Cierva makes 1st autogiro (helicopter) flight, Spain - 1923
115. KQV-AM in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania begins radio transmissions - 1922
116. Rotterdam metal strike ends - 1922
117. Exposition (now Civic) Auditorium dedicated, SF - 1915
118. U.S. Marines invade Honduras - 1912
119. Ernest Shackleton reaches 88 degrees 23' south - 1909
120. Frans Schollaert succeeds De Trooz as premier of Belgium - 1908
121. Muir Woods National Monument, California established - 1908
122. Bloody Sunday-demonstrators fired on by tsarist troops - 1905
123. 2 NYers buy Baltimore baseball franchise for $18,000 and moved it to NY - 1903
124. Baseball's National and American Leagues make peace - 1903
125. Frank Farrell and Bill Devery purchase AL Balt franchise for $18,000 and move it to New York City (Yankees) - 1903
126. Wind Cave National Park, SD established - 1903
127. NSW (918) defeat S Australia (157 and 156) by innings and 605 - 1901
128. "Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze" released in movie theaters - 1894
129. Georges Feydeau's "Un la Patte," premieres in Paris - 1894
130. 6' (1.8 meters) of snow falls in Seattle in 5 days - 1880
131. Cheyenne prisoners led by Dull Knife revolt at Fort Robinson - 1879
132. Kirland Warbler discovered on Andros Island in Bahamas - 1879
133. Fisk University establishes - 1866
134. 1st hostile act of Civil War; Star of West fired on, Sumter, SC - 1861
135. Mississippi becomes 2nd state to secede - 1861
136. 7.9 earthquake shakes Fort Tejon California - 1857
137. Clipper Guiding Star disappears in Atlantic, 480 dies - 1855
138. Astor Library opens in New York City - 1854
139. 1st commercial bank in San Francisco established - 1848
140. People's uprising in Palermo Sicily - 1848
141. 1st San Francisco newspaper published (California Star) - 1847
142. Daguerrotype photo process announced at French Academy of Science - 1839
143. Thomas Henderson measures 1st stellar parallax (Alpha Centauri) - 1839
144. HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin arrives in Port San Julian, Patagonia - 1834
145. Swedish Pomerania (Germany) seized by Napoleon - 1812
146. 1st Women's Golf Tournament held - 1811
147. Income Tax introduced in UK - 1799
148. 1st hot-air balloon flight in the U.S. lifts off in Phila - 1793
149. Dutch Prince Willem V establishes 2 brigades Drive Artillery - 1793
150. Jean Pierre Blanchard makes 1st balloon flight in North America - 1793
151. Russia and Turkey sign Peace of Jassy - 1792
152. Connecticut becomes 5th state - 1788
153. Afghans defeat Marathas in battle of Barari Ghat - 1760
154. France declares war on Spain - 1718
155. Tsar Ivan the terrible kills 1000-2000 residents of Novgorod - 1570
156. Geneva becomes independent from Berne canton, Switzerland - 1558
157. Adriaan F Boeyens elected only Dutch pope (Adrian VI) - 1522
158. 1st sight of manatees (by Christopher Columbus) - 1493
159. 1st meeting of States-General of Netherlands - 1464
160. Pope Martinus V declares Jacoba van Beierens marriage invalid - 1428
161. 700 Jews of Basel Switzerland, burned alive in their houses - 1349
162. Phillips V, the Tall, crowned king of France - 1317
163. Earl Floris V signs accord with French king - 1296
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