1. Baseball's triple A Anerican Association (formed in 1902) votes to disband - 1997
2. Mike Tyson is banned from boxing, for biting Holyfield's ear - 1997
3. 67th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-0 at Veterans Stadium, Phila - 1996
4. All star MVP: Mike Piazza, Los Angeles Dodgers - 1996
5. U.S. Senate approves 90 cents raise to $4.25 minimum wage - 1996
6. 109th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats B Becker (67 62 64 62) - 1995
7. Jack Nicklaus wins Golf's British Open, 4th to win all 4 majors - 1995
8. Kathryn Marshall wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic - 1995
9. "Play's the Thing" opens at Criterion Theater New York City for 75 performances - 1995
10. U.S. international postage rates rise to 60 cents per ounce - 1995
11. 11,000th HR in New York Yankees history, Matt Nokes - 1994
12. Sonia O'Sullivan runs world record 2k (5:25.36) - 1994
13. Soyuz TM-19 lands - 1994
14. Kim Basinger gets 1,959th star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame - 1992
15. Space Shuttle STS 50 (Columbia 13) lands - 1992
16. 62nd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 4-2 at SkyDome, Toronto - 1991
17. All star MVP: Cal Ripken, Jr. for the Baltimore Orioles - 1991
18. "Little Night Music" opens at New York State Theater New York City for 7 performances - 1991
19. South Africa readmitted to Olympics - 1991
20. 104th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: S Edberg beats B Becker (62 62 36 36 64) - 1990
21. Richard Hadlee takes 5-53 to end his Test Cricket career with 431 wkts - 1990
22. 103rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: B Becker beats Stefan Edberg (60 76 64) - 1989
23. 96th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: S Graf beats M Navratilova (62 67 61) - 1989
24. Penny Hammel wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic - 1989
25. Chris Speier hits for the cycle and Ernest Riles hits 10,000th Giant HR - 1988
26. "Facts of Life," Lisa Whelchel weds Steve Cauble - 1988
27. Jessye Norman begins recording Bizets "Carmen" - 1988
28. Nolan Ryan is 7th to win 100 game on 2 teams, as Astro beat Mets 6-3 - 1988
29. 1 million South Koreans demonstrate against Chun Doo Hwan regime - 1987
30. Oliver North admits to shredding Iran-Contra evidence - 1987
31. Atlanta's Dale Murphy doesn't play ending consecutive streak at 740 - 1986
32. Padres trade pitcher Tim Stoddard to Yankees for pitcher Ed Whitson - 1986
33. South Africa police arrested Dutch ANC'er Klaas de Jong - 1985
34. 12th minster of York destroyed in lightening storm - 1984
35. Yvonne Ryding, of Sweden, crowned 33rd Miss Universe - 1984
36. Botham scores 208 in 225 balls, England vs. India at The Oval - 1982
37. Margaret Thatcher begins her 2nd term as British prime minster - 1982
38. Pan Am Boeing 727 crashes in Kenner, Louisiana, killing 153 - 1982
39. Jacksons begin a 36-city tour - 1981
40. 7 die in a stampede to see Pope in Brazil - 1980
41. Dutch war criminal Pieter Menten sentenced to 10 years - 1980
42. Walt Disney's "Fox and The Hound," released - 1980
43. Dr. Walter Massey named director of Argonne national Lab - 1979
44. Voyager 2 flies past Jupiter - 1979
45. "Hello, Dolly!" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City after 152 performances - 1978
46. Jane Blalock wins LPGA Wheeling Golf Classic - 1978
47. Nearly 100,000 demonstrators march on Washington D.C. for ERA - 1978
48. 106th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 268 at Turnberry Scotland - 1977
49. England all out for 71 vs. WI at Old Trafford, Holding 14 5-7-17-5 - 1976
50. Houston Astro Larry Dierker no-hits Montreal Expos, 6-0 - 1976
51. Uganda asks United Nations to condemn Israeli hostage rescue raid on Entebbe - 1976
52. Trudeau's Liberal Party wins Canadian parliamentary election - 1974
53. 9th Maccabiah games opens in Tel Aviv, Israel - 1973
54. 1st tour of Paul McCartney and Wings, France - 1972
55. 86th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: S Smith beats I Nastase (46 63 63 46 75) - 1972
56. Kathy Ahern wins LPGA George Washington Golf Classic - 1972
57. U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test - 1972
58. Henry Kissinger visits China PR - 1971
59. In Atlanta, Chief-No-ka-homa is joined by cousin Chief Round-the-Horn - 1970
60. Tom Seaver's no-hit bid against Cubs ends with 1 out in 9th - 1969
61. 15.68" (39.83 cm) of rainfall, Columbus, Miss (state 24-hour record) - 1968
62. 39th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 1-0 at Astrodome, Houston - 1968
63. All star MVP: Willie Mays for the San Francisco Giants - 1968
64. 13th LPGA Championship won by Kathy Whitworth - 1967
65. WRET TV channel 36 in Charlotte, North Carolina (NBC/CBS) begins broadcasting - 1967
66. 95th British Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots 282 at Muirfield Gullane - 1966
67. 94th British Golf Open: Peter Thomson shoots a 285 at Royal Birkdale - 1965
68. John Edrich completes 310* vs. NZ in 532 minutes, 52 fours 5 sixes - 1965
69. Senators Frank Howard ties record with 7 strikeouts in DH - 1965
70. 34th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-3 at Municipal Stadium, Cleveland - 1963
71. All star MVP: Willie Mays for the San Francisco Giants - 1963
72. Crusher Lisowski beats Verne Gagne in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ - 1963
73. Federation of Malaysia forms - 1963
74. U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island - 1962
75. Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Hoosier Golf Open - 1959
76. Mickey Wright wins LPGA Hoosier Celebrity Golf Tournament - 1959
77. Giant splash caused by fall of 90 million tons of rock and ice into Lituya Bay, Alaska washes 1,800 feet up the mountain - 1958
78. 24th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 6-6 at Sportsman's Park, St. Louis - 1957
79. Discovery of element 102 (Nobelium) announced - 1957
80. Dick Clark's 1st appearance as host of American Bandstand - 1956
81. 1st black executive on White House staff, E. Frederic Morrow - 1955
82. Bill Haley and Comets' "Rock Around the Clock" tops billboards chart - 1955
83. "Rock Around Clock" hits #1 on Top 100 chart - 1955
84. Strike in Belgium for 5 day work week - 1955
85. 1st helicopter passenger service, New York City - 1953
86. Phillies Robin Roberts ends streak of 28 consecutive complete games - 1953
87. President Truman asked Congress to formally end state of war with Germany - 1951
88. 13.15" (33.40 cm) of rainfall, York, Nebraska (state 24-hour record) - 1950
89. Benjamin Britten's Jump Symphony, premieres - 1949
90. Satchel Paige, 42, debuts in majors pitching 2 scoreless inn for Cleveland - 1948
91. Britain's Princess Elizabeth and Lt Philip Mountbatten's engagement - 1947
92. Spain votes for Franco monarchy - 1947
93. 13th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 12-0 at Fenway Park, Boston - 1946
94. In World War II, U.S. troops secure Saipan as Japan fell - 1944
95. World's largest circus tent catches fire at Ringling Brother's - Barnum and Bailey 2nd performance, 168 die (Hartford Conn) - 1944
96. 5th day of battle at Kursk: Germans occupy Verchopenje - 1943
97. British air raid sinks U-435 - 1943
98. Anne Frank, 13, goes into hiding with her family and 4 other Jews - 1942
99. 8th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-0 at Sportsman's Park, St. Louis - 1940
100. German Evangelist Church protests against euthanasia pogroms - 1940
101. RAF bombs Germany - 1940
102. SS-Reichs Fuhrer Himmler takes command of German Concentration Camps - 1934
103. Frankford Yellowjackets sold, rechristened Philadelphia Eagles - 1933
104. Washington Redskins, then Boston Braves, forms - 1932
105. Yanks' Ben Chapman hits 2 inside-the-park HRs, tying record - 1932
106. William T. Francis named minister to Liberia - 1927
107. Chiang Kai-shek appointed to national-revolutionary supreme commander - 1926
108. Coup under Gen Sinel de Cordes in Portugal - 1926
109. Johnny Weissmuller swims 1st 100 m free style under 1 minute - 1922
110. 101 killed and 171 injured in worst U.S. train wreck, Nashville, Tennessee - 1918
111. Congress creates Distinguished Service Medal - 1918
112. British warship "Vanguard" explodes at Scapa Flow killing 804 - 1917
113. 1st cargo submarine to cross Atlantic arrives in U.S. from Germany - 1916
114. 1st U.S. duplicate auction bridge championship held, Lake Placid, New York - 1914
115. Walter Brookins becomes 1st to pilot an airplane to 1 mile altitude - 1910
116. CHU (Christian Historic Union) Dutch political party forms - 1908
117. 10th U.S. Golf Open: Willie Anderson shoots a 303 at Glen View Club IL - 1904
118. Australia accepts its constitution - 1900
119. Dr. Daniel Hale Williams performs 1st successful open heart surgery without anesthesia - 1893
120. Irene Coit is 1st woman admitted to Yale University - 1891
121. An improved corncob pipe patents by Henry Tibbe, Washington, Mo - 1878
122. 1st Wimbledon tennis championship is held - 1877
123. Black landowner murdered in Hamburg, South Carolina - 1876
124. Concord pipe, made from small corn kernels, invented - 1869
125. 1st black cabinet member in South Carolina (Francis L Cardozo-sect of state) - 1868
126. Battle of Monocacy, MD US1959 CS400 - 1864
127. Union troops enter Port Hudson - 1863
128. Gen John Hunt Morgan captures Tompkinsville, Kentucky - 1862
129. Temperature hits 115 degrees F in Ft. Scott and 112 degrees F in Topeka Kansas - 1860
130. Adm Perry and U.S. Navy visit Japan - 1853
131. Fire destroys 1,100 construction sites in Montreal Canada and no one die - 1852
132. Capt Montgomery claims Yerba Buena, San Francisco, for U.S. - 1846
133. Notary Stamp Law passes - 1842
134. St. Etienne-Lyons railway opens in France - 1835
135. Argentina declares independence from Spain - 1816
136. 1st natural gas well in U.S. is discovered - 1815
137. King Louis XVIII leaves Ghent for France - 1815
138. Mt. Vernon Gardens becomes site of 1st summer theater in U.S. - 1800
139. James Swan pays off the $2,024,899 U.S. national debt - 1795
140. Denmark declares neutrality - 1780
141. Declaration of Independence is read to George Washington's troops, New York - 1776
142. English premier Rockingham resigns - 1766
143. Battle at Duquesne (Pittsburgh): French troops beat British - 1755
144. Brit Gen E Braddock mortally wounded during French and Indian War - 1755
145. Bonnie Prince Charlies "Elisabeth" battles with HMS Lion - 1745
146. Germany, Sweden and Spain signs anti-French League of Augsburg - 1686
147. Prince Willem III inaugurated as viceroy of Holland/Zealand - 1672
148. Emperor Rudolf II grants Bohemian protestants freedom of religion - 1609
149. Johannes Kepler inscribes geometric solid construction of universe - 1595
150. 19 Catholic priests hanged in Gorcum - 1572
151. Battle at Sievershausen Solingen: van Saksen beats Alcibiades - 1553
152. England's King Henry VIII 6-mo marriage to Anne of Cleves annulled - 1540
153. French navigator Jacques Cartier returns to Saint-Malo from Canada - 1536
154. Gelderse crowd robber murders population of Asperen - 1517
155. Mongol monarch Timur Lenk destroys Baghdad - 1401
156. Battle at Sempach: Swiss beat duke Leopold III of Austria - 1386
157. Pope Gregory XI names Arnold II of Horne as bishop of Utrecht - 1371
158. Berbers under Tarik-ibn Ziyad occupies North Spain - 0711
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