1998
Don Sutton selected to Baseball Hall of Fame
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1998
Barry Switzer resigns as Dallas Cowboy coach
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1997
"It's a Slippery Slope," closes at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC
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1996
Record $65.2 million British lottery won by 3 people (2-3-4-13-42-44)
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1995
Atlanta Hawks' Lenny Wilkens becomes NBA's winningest coach (939)
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1994
"Government Inspector" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 37 performances
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1994
Dow-Jones hits record 3803.88
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1994
Ice skater Nancy Kerrigan is attacked by Tonya Harding's bodyguard
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1994
Yat Weiju swims world record 50m butterfly stroke (26.44)
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1994
Zhong Weiju swims world record 25m pool (26.44)
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1993
Bill Wyman announces he will leave Rolling Stones
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1993
Jean Mueller discovers comet Mueller/1993a
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1993
Last day of Test cricket for Greg Matthews
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1992
Shane Warne takes 1-150 in his 1st Test innings
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1992
Sachin Tendulkar completes 148* v Australia at the SCG
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1992
Robert Schenkkan's "Kentucky Cycle," premieres in LA
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1992
NY Yankees sign free agent Danny Tartabul
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1991
Qian Hong swims female world record 50m butterfly (27.30 sec)
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1991
"Real Life With Jane Pauley" premieres on NBC-TV
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1991
"Gypsy" closes at St James Theater NYC after 477 performances
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1990
NY Lotto pays $35 million to one winner (#s are 18-25-26-32-42-44)
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1987
100th US Congress convenes
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1987
Astronomers at U of Calif see 1st sight of birth of a galaxy
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1986
STS 61-C scrubbed at T-31sec because of liquid oxygen valve problem
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1986
Last day in Test cricket for Bob Holland
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1986
Impala Platinum fires 20,000 black mine workers in Johannesburg
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1986
British Defense Secretary Michael Heseltine resigns
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1984
Last day of Test cricket for Chappell, Marsh & Lillee
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1984
Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 41 B mission
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1981
50th hat trick in Islander history-John Tonelli scored 5 goals
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1980
Indira Gandhi's Congress Party wins elections in India
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1980
"1940's Radio Hour" closes at St James Theater NYC after 105 perfs
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1980
Phil Flyers set NHL record of 35 straight games without a defeat
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1978
US hand over St Stephan crown to Hungary
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1978
1st postage stamp copyrighted by US (Carl Sandburg stamp)
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1977
EMI records drop punk rock group Sex Pistols
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1976
China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
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1976
Ted Turner purchases Atlanta Braves for reported $12 million
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1975
"Wheel Of Fortune," debuts on NBC-tv
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1975
"AM America," premieres on ABC-TV with Bill Beutel as host
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1974
England begins 3 day work week during mine strike
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1974
"CBS Mystery Theater," premieres on radio
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1973
"Schoolhouse Rock," premieres on ABC-TV with Multiplication Rock
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1972
Vladimir Bukovski is exiled from USSR
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1972
US male Figure Skating championship won by Kenneth Shelley
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1972
US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn
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1971
Cecil Partee elected president pro tem of Illinois state senate
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1971
Berkeley chemists announces 1st synthetic growth hormones
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1969
Supremes release "I'm Livin' In Shame"
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1969
WLIW TV channel 21 in Garden City, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting
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1968
Surveyor 7 (last of series) launched by US for soft-landing on Moon
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1968
Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 8 weeks
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1968
Dr N E Shumway performs 1st US adult cardiac transplant operation
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1967
"Milton Berle Show" last airs on ABC-TV
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1967
KHTV TV channel 39 in Houston, TX (IND) begins broadcasting
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1967
2 homemade buses collided on a mountain road in Terpate, Philippines plunging off a cliff, killing 84, injuring 140
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1965
Geoff Boycott takes 3-47 against S Africa, his best Test bowling
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1964
Rolling Stones' 1st tour as headline act (with Ronettes)
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1964
Charlie Finlay announces he wants to move KC A's to Louisville
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1963
"Oliver!" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 774 performances
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1963
"Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom" with Marlin Perkins begins on NBC
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1958
Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to ee cummings
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1958
Gibson patents Flying V Guitar
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1958
WIPR TV channel 6 in San Juan, PR (PBS) begins broadcasting
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1957
Yeshiva Kol Ya'ackov opens in Moscow Russia
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1957
Elvis Presley makes his 7th & final appearance on Ed Sullivan Show
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1956
Federal court bars former Little League Commissioner Carl Stotz from forming a rival group
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1956
KGNS TV channel 8 in Laredo, TX (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
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1953
WKBN TV channel 27 in Youngstown, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting
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1951
Indianapolis beats Rochester 75-73 in NBA-record 6 overtimes
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1951
"Pardon Our French" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 100 perfs
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1950
Britain recognizes Communist government of China
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1950
"Happy as Larry" opens at Coronet Theater NYC for 3 performances
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1947
Ray Lindwall smashes 100 v England in MCG Test
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1946
Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Quemadmodum
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1945
Future president George Bush marries Barbara Pierce in Rye NY
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1942
Bob Feller, enlists in Navy & reports for duty to Norfolk Virginia
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1942
1st around world flight (Pan Am "Pacific Clipper")
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1941
FDR's "4 Freedoms" speech (speech, worship, from want & from fear)
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1938
Bronze memorial statue of Henry Hudson erected in Bronx
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1929
Alexander I establishes a royal dictatorship in Yugoslavia
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1928
Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Mortalium animos (against oecumene)
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1927
US marines sent to Nicaragua
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1926
Kees Boeke opens 1st comprehensive school in Holland
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1925
Paavo Nurmi, sets indoor record, 4:13.6 mile & 14:44.6 5,000m
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1924
Poulenc/Nijinska's ballet "Les Biches," premieres in Monte Carlo
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1922
-13) Conference of Cannes concerning German retribution payments
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1914
Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded
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1912
New Mexico becomes 47th state
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1907
Maria Montessori opens her 1st (Montessori) school (Rome)
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1906
Maurice Ravel's "Miroirs," premieres in Paris
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1903
Dutch Press museum opens in Amsterdam
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1900
Boers attack at Ladysmith, about 1,000 killed or injured
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1900
Maurice Ravel's "Albaradode Gracioso," premieres in Paris
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1898
1st telephone message from a submerged submarine, by Simon Lake
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1896
Cecil Rhodes resigns as premier of Cape colony
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1896
1st US women's 6-day bicycle race starts, Madison Square Garden
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1893
Great Northern Railway connects Seattle with east coast
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1883
Ontario Rugby Football Union forms
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1880
Record snow cover in Seattle-120 cm
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1873
US Congress begins investigating Credit Mobilier scandal
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1873
Pope Pius IX encyclical "On the Church in Armenia"
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1861
NYC mayor proposes NY become a free city, trading with N & S
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1861
Florida troops seize Federal arsenal at Apalachicola
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1857
Patent for reducing zinc ore granted to Samuel Wetherill, Penn
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1842
4,500 British & Indian troops leave Kabul, massacred before India
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1839
2 day storm off Irish & English coast immortalized as "Big Wind"
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1838
Samuel Morse made 1st public demonstration of telegraph
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1832
New England Anti-Slavery Society organizes (Boston)
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1784
Turkey & Russia sign treaty in Constantinople
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1781
Battle of Jersey (Island in UK)
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1773
Massachusetts slaves petition legislature for freedom
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1759
George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Curtis
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1745
Bonnie Prince Charlies army draws to Glasgow
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1690
Emperor Leopold's son Jozef chosen Roman Catholic king
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1681
1st recorded boxing match (Duke of Albemarle's butler vs his butcher)
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1663
Great earthquake in New England
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1639
Virginia is 1st colony to order surplus crops (tobacco) destroyed
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1622
Pope Gregory XV forms Congregatio the Propagande Fide
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1579
Artois/Hainault/Dowaai sign pro-Spanish Union of Arras
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1540
King Henry VIII of England married his 4th wife, Anne of Cleves
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1535
City of Lima Peru founded by Francisco Pizarro
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1497
Jews are expelled from Graz (Syria)
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1496
Moorish fortress Alhambra, near Grenada, surrenders to the Christi
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1453
Emperor Frederik III becomes archduke of Austria
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1352
French king Jean II introduces Order of the Star
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1227
Ferrand of Portugal freed from the Louvre
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1099
Henry V crowned German king
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1066
King Harald of England crowned
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