1. Senior Golf Slam - 1997
2. Steve Elkington wins Doral-Ryder Golf Open - 1997
3. Javed Miandad's last international in Pak's WC QF loss to India - 1996
4. Jayasuriya hammers 82 off 44 balls (13x4 3x6) vs. England in WC QF - 1996
5. STS 75 (Columbia 19), lands - 1996
6. Baseball awards a franchise to Tampa Bay Devil Rays - 1995
7. Mexican peso worth 7.55 pesos to a dollar (record) - 1995
8. President Konstantine Karamanlis (88) of Greece, resigns - 1995
9. IRA launch 1st of 3 mortar attacks on London's Heathrow Airport - 1994
10. 19th People's Choice Awards - 1993
11. 7th Soul Train Music Awards - 1993
12. Pittsburgh Penguins begin NHL record 17 game winning streak - 1993
13. Rodney King in court says he thinks he heard cops yell racial slurs - 1993
14. 5th American Comedy Award: Dennis Wolfberg - 1991
15. Joe Dumaars (Detroit) begins NBA free throw streak of 62 games - 1991
16. "Les Miserables," opens at Lyric Theatre, Brisbane - 1991
17. U.S. 70th manned space mission STS 39 (Discovery 12) launches into orbit - 1991
18. Dr. Antonia Novello sworn-in as 1st hispanic/female U.S. surgeon general - 1990
19. Eastern Airlines files for bankruptcy - 1989
20. Roger Kingdom runs world record 60m hurdles indoor (7.36 sec) - 1989
21. Senate rejects Bush's nomination of John Tower as Defense Secretary - 1989
22. Soviet Union officially submits to jurisdiction of the World Court - 1989
23. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1989
24. President Reagan presides at unveiling of Knute Rockne stamp - 1988
25. Chrysler Corp offered to buy American Motors Corp for $1 billion - 1987
26. 16th Easter Seal Telethon raises $30,100,000 - 1986
27. Juli Inkster wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open - 1986
28. NASA announces searchers found remains of Challenger astronauts - 1986
29. Soviet probe Vega 2 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,030 km - 1986
30. Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Tokyo won by Katarina Witt (GDR) - 1985
31. Laura Johnson (Falcon Crest) and Harry Hamlin (LA Law) wed - 1985
32. Emile Gumbs' Anguilla National Alliance wins elections - 1984
33. John Lennon releases "Borrowed Time" - 1984
34. Philadelphia 76'ers block 20 Seattle shots tying NBA regulation game record - 1984
35. Tim Witherspoon beats Greg Page in 12 for heavyweight boxing title - 1984
36. Caryl Churchill's "Fen," premieres in London - 1983
37. Zimbabwe opposition leader Joshua Nkomo flees to Botswana - 1983
38. Dan Rather becomes primary anchorman of CBS-TV News - 1981
39. Flemish/Walloon battles in Belgium, 40 injured - 1980
40. Joanne Carner wins LPGA Sunstar '80 Golf Tournament - 1980
41. Bowie Kuhn orders baseball to give equal access to female reporters - 1979
42. France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island - 1979
43. Ice Dance Championship at Ottawa Canada won by Linichuk and Karponosov - 1978
44. Ice Pairs Championship at Ottawa won by Rodnina and Zaitsev (URS) - 1978
45. Ladies Figure Skating Champions in Ottawa won by Anett Potzsch (GDR) - 1978
46. Men's Figure Skating Champions in Ottawa won by Charles Tickner (USA) - 1978
47. Adm Stansfield Turner, USN (Ret), becomes 12th director of CIA replacing acting director Knoche - 1977
48. Hanafi Moslems invade 3 buildings in Washington D.C., siege ended Mar 11th - 1977
49. 1st female cadets accepted to West Point Military Academy - 1976
50. Islander Glenn Resch's 10th shut-out opponent-Blues 4-0 - 1976
51. "Lieutenant" opens at Lyceum Theater New York City for 9 performances - 1975
52. Last Japanese soldier, a guerrilla operating in Philippines, surrenders, 29 years after World War II ended - 1974
53. Players on White Sox vote 31-0 in favor of a strike, if necessary - 1972
54. J M Noreiga takes 9-95 WI vs. India at Port-of-Spain - 1971
55. 10th Grammy Awards: Up Up and Away, Sgt Pepper's wins 4 - 1968
56. Svetlana Allilueva, Stalin's daughter, defected to the West - 1967
57. Andrew Brimmer becomes 1st black governor of Federal Reserve Board - 1966
58. 1st Ford Mustang produced - 1964
59. Creighton's Paul Silas grabs Midwest record 27 rebounds against Okla - 1964
60. Supreme Court issues New York Times vs. Sullivan decision, public officials must prove malice to claim libel and recover damages - 1964
61. Beatles began 1st British tour, supporting Tommy Roe and Chris Montez - 1963
62. Egyptian President Nasser declares Gaza belongs to Palestinians - 1962
63. U.S. advisors in South-Vietnam join the fight - 1962
64. 1st animal returned from space, dog named Blackie aboard Sputnik 9 - 1961
65. Mine cave-in in Japan, kills 72 - 1961
66. Sputnik 9 carries Chernushka, a dog, into orbit - 1961
67. Supremes release "I Want A Guy" and "Never Again" - 1961
68. 1st known radar contact is made with Venus - 1959
69. Barbie, the popular girls' doll, debuted, over 800 million sold - 1959
70. "Juno" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 16 performances - 1959
71. George Yardley (Pistons) is 1st NBAer to score 2,000 points in season - 1958
72. 8.1 earthquake shakes Andreanof Islands, Alaska - 1957
73. Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus arrested and exiled to Seychelles - 1956
74. Weather forecasting phone line set up in London England - 1956
75. 1st local color TV coml WNBT-TV (WNBC-TV) New York City (Castro Decorators) - 1954
76. Edward R. Murrow criticizes Sen Joseph McCarthy (See it Now) - 1954
77. WMUR TV channel 9 in Manchester, NH (ABC) begins broadcasting - 1954
78. Josef Stalin buried in Moscow - 1953
79. Heinz Neuhaus wins Europe Heavyweight Boxing title - 1952
80. Willie Sutton robs Manufacturers Bank of $64,000 in New York City - 1950
81. Brigadier Gen Edwin K. Wright, USA, ends term as deputy director of CIA - 1949
82. England beat South Africa by scoring 174 runs in 94 minutes - 1949
83. Provisionary Indonesian government installed in Batavia - 1948
84. U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill - 1947
85. U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button - 1947
86. Dutch troops land at Batavia/Semarang - 1946
87. Ted Williams is offered $500,000 to play in Mexican League, he refuses - 1946
88. 334 U.S. B-29 Superfortresses attack Tokyo with 120,000 fire bomb - 1945
89. Japanese proclaim "independence" of Indo-China - 1945
90. Delft opposition group-Pahud de Mortanges overthrown - 1943
91. Greek Jews of Salonika are transported to Nazi extermination camps - 1943
92. Construction of the Alaska Highway began - 1942
93. Babe Ruth turns down Reds to make a comeback as a player - 1936
94. Bulgarian communists Dimitrov, Popov and Vassili arrested in Berlin - 1933
95. Congress is called into special session by FDR, and began its "100 days" - 1933
96. Eamon De Valera becomes president of Ireland - 1932
97. Former Chinese emperor Henry Pu-Yi installed as head of Manchuria - 1932
98. Marcel Pagnol's "Marius," premieres in Paris - 1929
99. Bertha Landes elected 1st woman mayor of Seattle - 1926
100. South Slavia aproves Italy's annexation of Fiume (Rijeka) - 1924
101. Amsterdam taxi strike ended - 1923
102. Elmer Rice's "Adding Machine," premieres in New York City - 1923
103. NHL Championship: Mont Canadiens outscore Ottawa Senators, 3-2, in 2 - 1923
104. Eugene O'Neill's "Hairy Ape," premieres in New York City - 1922
105. KJR-AM in Seattle Washington begins radio transmissions - 1922
106. Russian Bolshevik Party becomes the Communist Party - 1918
107. Ukrainian mobs massacre Jews of Seredino Buda - 1918
108. Wageningen Agricultural College Netherlands opens - 1918
109. General Fransisco "Poncho" Villa invades U.S. (17 killed) - 1916
110. Germany declares war against Portugal - 1916
111. Pancho Villa leads Mexican band raid on Columbus NM, killing 12 - 1916
112. Henry Colijn appointed as director of Bataafsche Petroleum Co - 1914
113. U.S. Sen Albert Fall (Teapot Dome) demands "Cubanisation of Mexico" - 1914
114. 1st involuntary sterilization law enacted, Indiana - 1907
115. Lady Gregory's "Rising of the Moon," premieres in Dublin - 1907
116. Brandon's Lester Patrick becomes 1st hockey defenseman to score a goal - 1904
117. Composer Gustav Mahler marries Alma Schindler in Vienna - 1902
118. Cleveland Spiders sign Louis Sockalexis, full-blooded Penobscot - 1897
119. Indian, fans start calling the team Indians (in 1915 becomes official) - 1897
120. Premiere of (parts of) Gustav Mahler's 3rd Symphony (Berlin) - 1897
121. Stanley Cup: Montreal Victorias awarded cup, as Queens University (Kingston Ont) loses to Montreal AAA, 5-1 - 1895
122. Congo cannibals killed 1000s of Arabs - 1893
123. Battle at Gallabat (Metema): Mahdi's beat Abyssinian emperor John IV - 1889
124. Kansas passes 1st general antitrust law in U.S. - 1889
125. False teeth patented - 1882
126. Royal Canadian Mounted Police founded - 1873
127. The opera "Hamlet" premieres in Paris - 1868
128. Ulysses S. Grant is appointed commander of Union Army - 1864
129. "Monitor" (Union) and "Merrimack" (Rebel) battle in Hampton Roads - 1862
130. Confederate currency authorized-$50, $100, $500, $1,000 - 1861
131. 1st Japanese ambassador arrives in San Francisco en route to Washington - 1860
132. Albert Potts of Philadelphia patents the street mailbox - 1858
133. Carl Nikolais opera "Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor," premieres - 1849
134. Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Hernani," premieres in Venice - 1844
135. Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Nabucco," premieres in Milan - 1842
136. U.S. Supreme Court rules Negroes are free (Amistad Incident) - 1841
137. Prussian government limits work week for children to 51 hours - 1839
138. Charles Graham of New York patents artificial teeth - 1822
139. James Monroe's daughter Maria marries in the White House - 1820
140. Philippines chases out foreigners; about 125 die - 1820
141. Dr. George Balfour becomes 1st naval surgeon in the U.S. navy - 1798
142. Napoleon Bonaparte marries Josephine de Beauharnais - 1796
143. Bells for 1st American carillon shipped from England to Boston - 1745
144. English fleet under Admiral Ogle begins assault on Cartagena - 1741
145. English Chancellor Exchequer John Aislabie confined in London Tower - 1721
146. France, Cologne and Bavaria sign alliance - 1701
147. Czar Peter the Great begins tour of West-Europe - 1697
148. English Queen Henriette Mary arrives in Hellevoetsluis Neth - 1642
149. Pierre Corneilles "Horace," premieres in Paris - 1640
150. Sweden and Russia sign Peace of Stolbowa - 1617
151. Kissing in public banned in Naples (punishable by death) - 1562
152. Emperor Karel appoints son Philip as heir to the throne - 1551
153. Marten Luther preaches his Invocavit - 1522
154. Pedro Cabral departs with 13 ships to India - 1500
155. Nicolaus Copernicus 1st recorded astronomical observation, - 1497
156. Jews are expelled from Carintha Austria - 1496
157. Pope Nicolaas I crowns Frederik III RC-German emperor - 1452
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