1. 61st Heisman Trophy Award: Eddie George, Ohio State (RB) - 1995
2. 5m meteor 1994 XM1 passes within 100,000 km of Earth - 1994
3. Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders resigns after masturbation comments - 1994
4. Ivory Coast Premier Ouattara resigns - 1993
5. "My Fair Lady" opens at Virginia Theater New York City for 165 performances - 1993
6. 3rd Billboard Music Awards - 1992
7. Cincinnati Red owner Marge Schott apologizes for racist remarks - 1992
8. New Jersey Devils organization announces that it will change its colors to black, red, and white for the 1992-93 season - 1992
9. Operation Restore Hope - U.S. Marines land in Somalia - 1992
10. Sri Lanka's third-ever Test Cricket victory (v NZ by 9 wkts) - 1992
11. 2nd Billboard Music Awards - 1991
12. Betsy King wins Itoman LPGA World Match Play Golf Championship - 1990
13. Gunda Niemann skates ladies world record 3k ladies (4:10.80) - 1990
14. Houston scores most points against Cleveland, Oilers 58, Browns 14 - 1990
15. Lech Walesa wins presidental election in Poland - 1990
16. NFL New York Giant Otis Anderson becomes 8th to rush for 10,000th yard - 1990
17. "Les Miserables" opens at Princess Theatre, Melbourne - 1989
18. New York Yankees sign 12-year television contract with MSG for $500M - 1988
19. Larry Bird, ends streak of 59 consecutive free throws - 1987
20. Palestine uprising begin in Israeli-occupied West Bank - 1987
21. 74th Australian Mens Tennis: S Edberg beats Mats Wilander (64 63 63) - 1985
22. Jerry Rice begins NFL streak of 100+ consecutive game receptions - 1985
23. Phoenix Arizona, gets 3 inches of snow - 1985
24. 59th Australian Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats H Sukova (67 61 63) - 1984
25. 6 day hijack of Kuwaiti jet ends - 1984
26. Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1984
27. Iranian commandos end capture of Kuwaiti plane - 1984
28. LA Ram Eric Dickerson rushes 215 yards for season record 2,003 yards - 1984
29. Vicki Alvarez/Mike McDonald wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic - 1984
30. Att Gen Edwin Meese says people go to soup kitchens "...because food is free and that's easier than paying for it" - 1983
31. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1983
32. Mary-Beth and William Hurt divorce - 1982
33. 61 degrees F in Boston at 1 AM - 1980
34. Murle Breer/Dave Eichelberger wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic - 1979
35. 1st game of Women's Pro Basketball League (WBL), Chicago Hustle vs Milwaukee Does - 1978
36. Pioneer Venus 2 drops 5 probes into atmosphere of Venus - 1978
37. Jelena Bonner receives Andrei Sacharov's Nobel Prize - 1975
38. President Gerald Ford signs $2.3 B loan-authorization for New York City - 1975
39. Dow Jones index hits 570.01 - 1974
40. Jack Brisco beats Giant Baba in Tokyo, to become NWA wrestling champ - 1974
41. Johnson Grigsby freed after 66 years in jail - 1974
42. Bruno Sammartino beats Stan Stasiak in NY, to become WWF champ - 1973
43. "Pajama Game" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City for 65 performances - 1973
44. St. Louis Cardinal Jim Bakken kicks 6 field goals vs Atlanta Falcons - 1973
45. Sunningdale Agreement in Northern Ireland - 1973
46. Lewis F Powell, Jr. appointed to Supreme Court - 1971
47. Dutch Antilles: government of Petronia falls - 1970
48. KRNE TV channel 12 in Merriman, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting - 1968
49. Jim Morrison, arrested on stage for disturbing the peace - 1967
50. Lyndon Johnson's daughter Lynda marries in White House - 1967
51. Nicolea Ceausescu becomes president (dictator) of Romania - 1967
52. "A Charlie Brown Christmas," premieres - 1965
53. Frank Robinson is traded from Cincinnati to the Orioles - 1965
54. Nikolai Podgorny replaces Anastas Mikoyan as president of Presidium - 1965
55. Frank Sinatra Jr. is kidnapped - 1963
56. Zanzibar gains independence from Britain - 1963
57. "I Can Get It For You Wholesale" closes on Broadway - 1962
58. Tanganyika becomes a republic within British Commonwealth - 1962
59. "From the Second City" closes at Royale Theater New York City after 87 performances - 1961
60. "Let It Ride" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City after 68 performances - 1961
61. SS Col Adolf Eichmann found guilty of war crimes in Israel - 1961
62. Tanganyika gains independence from Britain takes name Tanzania - 1961
63. Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Philadelphia Warriors scores 67 points vs NY - 1961
64. 1st broadcast of "Coronation Street" on British ITV - 1960
65. Robert H W Welch, Jr. and 11 other men meet in Indianapolis to form anti-Communist John Birch Society - 1958
66. 1st Japanese ambassador to Israel - 1957
67. Dmitri Sjostakovitsj appointed honored guest of Swed Royal Music Acad - 1954
68. General Electric announces all Communist employees will be fired - 1953
69. Mont Canadiens (106) and Toronto Maple Leafs (98) get 204 penalty mins - 1953
70. Voters approve merger of 3 states to form Baden-Wurttemberg, W Germ - 1951
71. Dutch 2nd Chamber accept Indonesian sovereignty - 1949
72. NFL merges Cleveland Browns, San Francisco '49ers and Baltimore Colts from AAFC - 1949
73. U.N. General Assembly unanimously approves Convention on Genocide - 1948
74. 1st U.S. WW II bombing mission in Far East, Luzon, Philippines - 1941
75. 300 Montgomery, San Francisco opens as new Bank of America HQ - 1941
76. 7th Heisman Trophy Award: Bruce Smith, Minnesota (HB) - 1941
77. China declares war on Japan, Germany and Italy - 1941
78. Citizen Register reports "Hostile planes reported nearing Westchester" - 1941
79. Hitler orders U.S. ships torpedoed - 1941
80. British assault on Banghazi Libya - 1940
81. British troops 1st major offensive in No Africa (Libya) during WW II - 1940
82. Illeagal Jewish immigrants to Haifa are deported to Mauritius - 1940
83. South Australia all out for 47 vs. NSW, O'Reilly 5-11 - 1940
84. 27th Grey Cup: Winnipeg Blue Bombers defeats Ottawa Rough Riders, 8-7 - 1939
85. Russian air raid on Helsinki - 1939
86. AL OKs night baseball for St. Louis - 1936
87. Australia all out 58 vs. Eng Bradman out for a duck - 1936
88. New York Giants defeat Chicago Bears 30-13 for NFL championship - 1934
89. 21st CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Sarnia Imperials, 4-3 - 1933
90. Romania disallows fascist Iron Guard - 1933
91. Baseball cuts squad from 25 to 23 players and NL continues to prohibit uniform numbers - 1931
92. Benn W Levy's "Springtime for Henry," premieres in New York City - 1931
93. Japanese army attacks Chinese province of Jehol - 1931
94. Spain becomes a republic - 1931
95. USGA leagalizes steel shaft golf clubs - 1926
96. AL extends Ban Johnson's contract to 1935 and raise to $40,000 - 1925
97. Pro football a hit in New York City; Grange and Bears beat Giants before 73,000 - 1925
98. Dutch and Hungary trade treaty signed - 1924
99. Michael Hainisch re-elected Austrian president - 1924
100. Gabriel Narutowicz elected Polish president - 1922
101. French troops occupies Mainz - 1918
102. British forces under General Allenby capture Jerusalem - 1917
103. Heavyweight Jack Johnson-Jim Johnson fight to no decision in Paris - 1913
104. John K Tener becomes president of baseball's National League - 1913
105. French troops occupy Morrocan harbor city Agadir - 1910
106. 1st U.S. monoplane flown (Henry W Walden, Long Island, New York) - 1909
107. 1st Christmas Seals sold (Wilmington Del post office) - 1907
108. Gustav Mahler departs Vienna - 1907
109. NY American reports Belgian King Leopold II bribed U.S. Senate commission on the Congo - 1906
110. French Assembly National votes for separation of church and state - 1905
111. Richard Strauss' opera "Salome," premiers in Dresden - 1905
112. Norwegian parliament vote unanimiously for female suffrage - 1903
113. AL announces purchase of grounds for a stadium in NY - 1902
114. Dutch President Paul Kruger and Queen Wilhelmina have a triumphant procession - 1900
115. Roman Catholics win Parliamentary election in Belgium - 1894
116. President Harrison visits opening of Chicago Auditorium - 1889
117. Levant Richardson patents ball-bearing skate - 1884
118. New Brunswick adopts Eastern Standard Time (until 1902) - 1883
119. Joseph Pulitzer buys St. Louis Dispatch for $2,500 - 1878
120. Noble Order of Knights of Labor founded, Philadelphia - 1869
121. 1st British government of Gladstone forms - 1868
122. Battle of Bird Creek, Indian Terr (High Shoal, Chusto-Talasah) - 1861
123. Lord Tennyson's poem, "Charge of the Light Brigade," published - 1854
124. 1st Young Men's Christian Association in North America (Montreal) - 1851
125. St. M Glinka's opera "Russlan Ludmilla," premieres in Petersburg - 1842
126. Battle of Ayacucho (Candorcangui), Peru defeats Spain - 1824
127. Comet 3D/1805 V1 (Biela) approaches within 0.0366 AUs of Earth - 1805
128. Noah Webster establishes New York's 1st daily newspaper, American Minerva - 1793
129. 1st execution at English Newgate-jail - 1783
130. British parliament accept Treaty of Paris - 1762
131. England and Netherlands sign military treaty - 1747
132. Jews are expelled from Breslau Silesia - 1738
133. Colley Cibber's "Caesar in Aegypt," premieres in London - 1724
134. King James II's wife and son flee England for France - 1688
135. Dutch troops occupy harbor city Quilon (Coilan) India - 1658
136. Settler Hugh Bewitt banished from Mass colony when he declares himself to be free of original sin - 1640
137. Netherlands and England sign military treaty - 1625
138. Geuzen under Herman de Ruyter occupies Loevestein - 1570
139. Pope Martinus V forms University of Leuven - 1425
140. Swiss Woudsteden renews Eternal Covenant (Oath Society) - 1315
141. Frederik II crowns himself Roman Catholic king - 1212
142. Battle of Kameel: Kalief Al ibn Abu Talib beats rebellion - 0656
143. Byzantines Libya occupies Rome on Ostrogoten - 0536
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