1904 - Federation Internationale de Football Assn (Soccer) forms in Paris
1906 - Louis H Perlman patents a demountable tire carrying rim for cars
1907 - 32nd Preakness: G Mountain aboard Don Enrique wins in 1:45.4
1908 - 1st horror movie (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde) premieres in Chicago
1908 - Bill Burns has no-hitter broken up with 2 outs in 9th
1914 - 39th Preakness: Andy Schuttinger aboard Holiday wins in 1:53.8
1914 - Greyhound Bus Co begins in Minnesota
1916 - Britain begins "Summer Time" (Daylight Savings Time)
1917 - Leo Pinckney, 1st American drafted during WW I
1917 - The Great Atlanta fire of 1917 takes place.
1918 - House of Representatives passes amendment allowing women to vote
1921 - Oldest radio station west of Mississippi River licensed in Greeley Co
1922 - "On the Road to Moscow" is 1st cartoon to receive a Pulitzer Prize
1922 - Col Ruppert buys out Col Huston interest in NY Yankees for $1,500,000
1922 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Eugene O'Neill (Anna Christie)
1922 - Ruppert buys out Huston interest in Yankees for $15 million
1924 - Leopold & Loeb kidnap Bobby Franks for fun
1925 - Canadians allow to sell beer
1925 - George Lloyd of Dolobran becomes British High Director of Egypt
1925 - Roald Amundsun leaves Spitsbergen with 2 seaplanes to North Pole
1926 - White Sox Earl Sheely hits a record 6th consecutive double
1927 - Lindburgh lands in Paris, after 1st solo air crossing of Atlantic
1929 - Automatic electric stock quotation board installed, NYC
1929 - Sergei Prokoviev's ballet "Prodigal Son," premieres in Paris
1930 - Max Bishop draws 8 walks in a doubleheader
1930 - NY Yankee Babe Ruth hits 3 consecutive homers
1931 - Belgian govt of Jaspar falls
1932 - 1st Curtis Cup: US wins, 5½-3½ at Wentworth Club (Wentworth, England)
1932 - 1st transatlantic solo flight by a woman (Amelia Earhart) lands
1933 - Mt Davidson Cross lit by FDR via telegraph
1934 - Oskaloosa Iowa, becomes 1st US city to fingerprint its citizens
1936 - Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover's severed genitals in her hand. Her story soon becomes one of Japan's most notorious scandals.
1938 - Bradman scores 143 Aust v Surrey, 198 mins, 11 fours
1940 - AVRO-chairman Willem Vogt fires all Jewish employees
1940 - Allied counter attack at Atrecht North-France
1940 - Reynaud forms French govt
1941 - 1st US ship sunk by a U-boat (SS Robin Moore)
1941 - German airforce occupies airport at Maleme Kreta
1941 - Singer Johan Heesters visits Dachau concentration camp
1942 - Great-Britain convoy PQ16 departs to Russia
1943 - Fastest 9 inning AL baseball game (89 mins), White Sox beat Senators
1944 - Hitler begins attack on English/US "terror pilots"
1945 - Aust Services win 1st Victory Test Cricket at Lord's by 6 wickets
1945 - German war criminal Heinrich Himmler captured
1945 - Lauren Bacall & Humphrey Bogart wed
1948 - NY Yank Joe Dimaggio hits for cycle (single, double, triple, HR)
1950 - Vietnamese troops of Ho Chi-Minh attack Cambodia
1951 - The opening of the Ninth Street Show, otherwise known as the 9th Street Art Exhibition - a gathering of a number of notable artists, and the stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde, collectively know as the New York School.
1952 - Bkln Dodgers score 15 runs in 1st inning & beat Cin Reds, 19-1
1952 - Dutch Queen Juliana opens Amsterdam-Rhine Canal
1953 - French govt of Mayer resigns
1954 - Amendment to give 18-year-olds right to vote is defeated
1955 - "House of Flowers" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 165 performances
1955 - 1st transcontinental round-trip solo flight-sunrise to sunset
1955 - WFRV TV channel 5 in Green Bay, WI (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1906 - Louis H Perlman patents a demountable tire carrying rim for cars
1907 - 32nd Preakness: G Mountain aboard Don Enrique wins in 1:45.4
1908 - 1st horror movie (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde) premieres in Chicago
1908 - Bill Burns has no-hitter broken up with 2 outs in 9th
1914 - 39th Preakness: Andy Schuttinger aboard Holiday wins in 1:53.8
1914 - Greyhound Bus Co begins in Minnesota
1916 - Britain begins "Summer Time" (Daylight Savings Time)
1917 - Leo Pinckney, 1st American drafted during WW I
1917 - The Great Atlanta fire of 1917 takes place.
1918 - House of Representatives passes amendment allowing women to vote
1921 - Oldest radio station west of Mississippi River licensed in Greeley Co
1922 - "On the Road to Moscow" is 1st cartoon to receive a Pulitzer Prize
1922 - Col Ruppert buys out Col Huston interest in NY Yankees for $1,500,000
1922 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Eugene O'Neill (Anna Christie)
1922 - Ruppert buys out Huston interest in Yankees for $15 million
1924 - Leopold & Loeb kidnap Bobby Franks for fun
1925 - Canadians allow to sell beer
1925 - George Lloyd of Dolobran becomes British High Director of Egypt
1925 - Roald Amundsun leaves Spitsbergen with 2 seaplanes to North Pole
1926 - White Sox Earl Sheely hits a record 6th consecutive double
1927 - Lindburgh lands in Paris, after 1st solo air crossing of Atlantic
1929 - Automatic electric stock quotation board installed, NYC
1929 - Sergei Prokoviev's ballet "Prodigal Son," premieres in Paris
1930 - Max Bishop draws 8 walks in a doubleheader
1930 - NY Yankee Babe Ruth hits 3 consecutive homers
1931 - Belgian govt of Jaspar falls
1932 - 1st Curtis Cup: US wins, 5½-3½ at Wentworth Club (Wentworth, England)
1932 - 1st transatlantic solo flight by a woman (Amelia Earhart) lands
1933 - Mt Davidson Cross lit by FDR via telegraph
1934 - Oskaloosa Iowa, becomes 1st US city to fingerprint its citizens
1936 - Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover's severed genitals in her hand. Her story soon becomes one of Japan's most notorious scandals.
1938 - Bradman scores 143 Aust v Surrey, 198 mins, 11 fours
1940 - AVRO-chairman Willem Vogt fires all Jewish employees
1940 - Allied counter attack at Atrecht North-France
1940 - Reynaud forms French govt
1941 - 1st US ship sunk by a U-boat (SS Robin Moore)
1941 - German airforce occupies airport at Maleme Kreta
1941 - Singer Johan Heesters visits Dachau concentration camp
1942 - Great-Britain convoy PQ16 departs to Russia
1943 - Fastest 9 inning AL baseball game (89 mins), White Sox beat Senators
1944 - Hitler begins attack on English/US "terror pilots"
1945 - Aust Services win 1st Victory Test Cricket at Lord's by 6 wickets
1945 - German war criminal Heinrich Himmler captured
1945 - Lauren Bacall & Humphrey Bogart wed
1948 - NY Yank Joe Dimaggio hits for cycle (single, double, triple, HR)
1950 - Vietnamese troops of Ho Chi-Minh attack Cambodia
1951 - The opening of the Ninth Street Show, otherwise known as the 9th Street Art Exhibition - a gathering of a number of notable artists, and the stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde, collectively know as the New York School.
1952 - Bkln Dodgers score 15 runs in 1st inning & beat Cin Reds, 19-1
1952 - Dutch Queen Juliana opens Amsterdam-Rhine Canal
1953 - French govt of Mayer resigns
1954 - Amendment to give 18-year-olds right to vote is defeated
1955 - "House of Flowers" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 165 performances
1955 - 1st transcontinental round-trip solo flight-sunrise to sunset
1955 - WFRV TV channel 5 in Green Bay, WI (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1956 - Jordan government of Said el-Mufti forms
1956 - US explodes 1st airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll
1956 - WITI TV channel 6 in Milwaukee, WI (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
1957 - French govt of Mollet resigns
1958 - Indonesian paratroopers reconquers Morotai Island
1958 - US performs nuclear test at Bikini Island (atmospheric tests)
1959 - "Gypsy" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 702 performances
1959 - Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Children's Petting Farm opens
1960 - 86th Preakness: Bobby Ussery aboard Bally Ache wins in 1:57.6
1961 - Governor Patterson declares martial law in Montgomery
1962 - 3 more Cleveland HR set AL record for most HR (26) over 8 games
1964 - 1st nuclear-powered lighthouse begins operations (Chesapeake Bay)
1964 - Fire in Belgium resort, kills 19
1964 - US begin intelligence flights above Laos
1966 - "Downtown" by Mrs Miller hits #82
1966 - "Time for Singing" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 41 performances
1966 - 92nd Preakness: Don Brumfield aboard Kauai King wins in 1:55.4
1966 - Louie Louie by The Kingsmen reentered the chart & hits #97
1966 - Muhammad Ali TKOs Henry Cooper in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
1967 - "Sing, Israel Sing" closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 14 perfs
1967 - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
1968 - Cubs Billy Williams sets outfielder record of 695 straight game
1968 - Paul McCartney & Jane Asher attend an Andy Williams concert
1968 - USSR performs nuclear test (underground)
1968 - WEKW TV channel 52 in Keene, NH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 - Nuclear-powered sub Scorpion, with 99 men, reported missing & is later found at the bottom of the ocean off Azores
1969 - Robert Kennedy's murderer Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death
1969 - Slovan Bratislava wins 9th Europe Cup II in Basel
1969 - After 9,015 at bats Hank Aaron is lifted for a pinch hitter, Mike Lum, who doubled in a 15-3 victory over NY Mets
1969 - Civil unrest in Rosario, Argentina, aka Rosariazo, following the death of a 15-year-old student.
1970 - National Guard mobilizes to quell disturbances at Ohio State U
1970 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1971 - Chelsea wins 11th Europe Cup II in Athens
1971 - National Guard mobilizes to quell riot in Chattanooga Tenn
1972 - "Heathen!" opens & closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC for 1 performance
1972 - "Lost in the Stars" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 39 perfs
1972 - Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational
1972 - Michelangelo's Pietà in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is damaged by a vandal.
1975 - Borussia Mönchengladbach wins 4th UEFA Cup at Enschede
1975 - Lowell W Perry confirmed as chairman of Equal Opportunity Comm
1975 - Trial against Baader-Meinhof-group begins in Stuttgart
1977 - "Fiddler on the Roof" closes at Winter Garden NYC after 167 perfs
1977 - 103rd Preakness: Jean Cruguet aboard Seattle Slew wins in 1:54.4
1977 - Albert Innaurato's "Gemini," premieres in NYC
1977 - Fire in hotel Duc de Brabant Brussels, kills 19
1977 - SD Padres beat Mont Expos, 11-8, in 21 innings
1978 - 118 Unification church couples wed in England
1978 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Coca-Cola Golf Classic
1978 - Yamada Mumon Roshi appointed head of Zen Rinzai Sect
1979 - Dan White convicted of manslaughter death of SF mayor Moscone
1979 - Elton John becomes 1st western rocker to perform live in USSR
1979 - National Volksraad installed in Namibia
1979 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat NY Rangers, 4 games to 1
1980 - "Empire Strikes Back" premieres
1980 - Eintracht Frankfurt wins 9th UEFA Cup at Frankfurt
1980 - Ensign Jean Marie Butler is 1st woman to graduate from US service acad
1981 - Francois Mitterrand becomes president of France
1981 - Kim Seelbrede, (Ohio), crowned 30th Miss USA
1981 - Stanley Cup: NY Islanders beat Minnesota North Stars, 4 games to 1
1982 - British troops lands on Falkland Islands
1983 - "Bang The Drum All Day" by Todd Rundgren hits #63
1983 - 109th Preakness: Donald Miller Jr on Deputed Testamony wins in 1:55.4
1983 - Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB, for mating for STS-7 mission
1983 - David Bowie's "Let's "Dance," single goes #1
1986 - Atlanta Brave Rafael Ramirez hits 4 doubles in a game
1986 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1987 - Military coup in Fiji Islands under lt col Sitivani Rabuka
1987 - Xignals PC Board BBS begins in Alabama
1988 - "Da'Butt" by EU hits #35
1988 - "Fat" by Weird Al Yankovic hits #99
1988 - 114th Preakness: Eddie Delahoussaye aboard Risen Star wins in 1:56.2
1988 - Jane Powell weds Dickie Moore
1988 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1989 - 35th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Nancy Lopez
1990 - Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,844.68
1990 - Last episode of "Newhart" airs on CBS-TV
1991 - Ethiopia's Marxist president (Mengistu Haile Mariam) resigns
1992 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1992 - NJ senate overrides Governor Florio's veto & lowers sales tax to 6%
1993 - Dayanara Torres, 18, of Puerto Rico, crowned 42nd Miss Universe
1993 - Opposition leader Xanana Gusmao of East-Timor sentenced to life
1993 - Robin Smith scores 167 in England Texaco Trophy loss v Australia
1993 - Venezuela president Carlos Andres Perez fired
1994 - "Best Little Whorehouse" closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 16 perfs
1994 - 120th Preakness: Pat Day aboard Tabasco Cat wins in 1:56.4
1994 - Burger King spokesman Dan Cortese (26) weds Dee Dee Hemby (26)
1994 - Country singer Trisha Yearwood (29) weds Robert Reynolds (32)
1994 - Reds bat out of order against Dodgers in 2nd inning
1994 - South Yemen secedes from Yemen
1994 - Sushmita Sen, 18, of India, crowned 43rd Miss Universe
1995 - Chris Johnson wins Star Bank LPGA Golf Classic
1996 - Blackout in many areas of Queens NY
1996 - Ken Griffey Jr, 26, is 8th youngest to hits 200 home runs
1996 - Red Sox pitcher Roger Clemens beats Yankees for his 200th win
1996 - The Trappist Martyrs of Atlas are executed.
1997 - Emmy 24th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 17th time
1998 - In Miami, Florida, five abortion clinics are hit by a butyric acid attacker.
1998 - Suharto, the Indonesian dictator who had ruled for 32 years, resigns.
1999 - All My Children star Susan Lucci finally wins a Daytime Emmy after being nominated 19 times, the longest period of unsuccessful nominations in television history
2001 - French Taubira law officially recognizes the Atlantic slave trade and slavery as crimes against humanity.2003 - An earthquake hits northern Algeria killing more than 2,000 people.
2004 - Sherpa Pemba Dorjie climbs Mount Everest in 8 hours 10 minutes, breaking his rival Sherpa Lakpa Gelu's record from the previous year.
2004 - Stanislav Petrov is awarded the World Citizen Award for averting a potential World War III in 1983.
2006 - The Republic of Montenegro holds a referendum proposing independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro. The Montenegrin people choose independence with a majority of 55%.
2006 - The Swedish ice hockey team Tre Kronor takes gold in the World Championship, becoming the first nation to hold both the World and Olympic titles separately in the same year.
2007 - The Cutty Sark is badly damaged by fire in London, England. She was the last surviving clipper, now there is none.
1956 - US explodes 1st airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll
1956 - WITI TV channel 6 in Milwaukee, WI (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
1957 - French govt of Mollet resigns
1958 - Indonesian paratroopers reconquers Morotai Island
1958 - US performs nuclear test at Bikini Island (atmospheric tests)
1959 - "Gypsy" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 702 performances
1959 - Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Children's Petting Farm opens
1960 - 86th Preakness: Bobby Ussery aboard Bally Ache wins in 1:57.6
1961 - Governor Patterson declares martial law in Montgomery
1962 - 3 more Cleveland HR set AL record for most HR (26) over 8 games
1964 - 1st nuclear-powered lighthouse begins operations (Chesapeake Bay)
1964 - Fire in Belgium resort, kills 19
1964 - US begin intelligence flights above Laos
1966 - "Downtown" by Mrs Miller hits #82
1966 - "Time for Singing" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 41 performances
1966 - 92nd Preakness: Don Brumfield aboard Kauai King wins in 1:55.4
1966 - Louie Louie by The Kingsmen reentered the chart & hits #97
1966 - Muhammad Ali TKOs Henry Cooper in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
1967 - "Sing, Israel Sing" closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 14 perfs
1967 - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
1968 - Cubs Billy Williams sets outfielder record of 695 straight game
1968 - Paul McCartney & Jane Asher attend an Andy Williams concert
1968 - USSR performs nuclear test (underground)
1968 - WEKW TV channel 52 in Keene, NH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 - Nuclear-powered sub Scorpion, with 99 men, reported missing & is later found at the bottom of the ocean off Azores
1969 - Robert Kennedy's murderer Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death
1969 - Slovan Bratislava wins 9th Europe Cup II in Basel
1969 - After 9,015 at bats Hank Aaron is lifted for a pinch hitter, Mike Lum, who doubled in a 15-3 victory over NY Mets
1969 - Civil unrest in Rosario, Argentina, aka Rosariazo, following the death of a 15-year-old student.
1970 - National Guard mobilizes to quell disturbances at Ohio State U
1970 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1971 - Chelsea wins 11th Europe Cup II in Athens
1971 - National Guard mobilizes to quell riot in Chattanooga Tenn
1972 - "Heathen!" opens & closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC for 1 performance
1972 - "Lost in the Stars" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 39 perfs
1972 - Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational
1972 - Michelangelo's Pietà in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is damaged by a vandal.
1975 - Borussia Mönchengladbach wins 4th UEFA Cup at Enschede
1975 - Lowell W Perry confirmed as chairman of Equal Opportunity Comm
1975 - Trial against Baader-Meinhof-group begins in Stuttgart
1977 - "Fiddler on the Roof" closes at Winter Garden NYC after 167 perfs
1977 - 103rd Preakness: Jean Cruguet aboard Seattle Slew wins in 1:54.4
1977 - Albert Innaurato's "Gemini," premieres in NYC
1977 - Fire in hotel Duc de Brabant Brussels, kills 19
1977 - SD Padres beat Mont Expos, 11-8, in 21 innings
1978 - 118 Unification church couples wed in England
1978 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Coca-Cola Golf Classic
1978 - Yamada Mumon Roshi appointed head of Zen Rinzai Sect
1979 - Dan White convicted of manslaughter death of SF mayor Moscone
1979 - Elton John becomes 1st western rocker to perform live in USSR
1979 - National Volksraad installed in Namibia
1979 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat NY Rangers, 4 games to 1
1980 - "Empire Strikes Back" premieres
1980 - Eintracht Frankfurt wins 9th UEFA Cup at Frankfurt
1980 - Ensign Jean Marie Butler is 1st woman to graduate from US service acad
1981 - Francois Mitterrand becomes president of France
1981 - Kim Seelbrede, (Ohio), crowned 30th Miss USA
1981 - Stanley Cup: NY Islanders beat Minnesota North Stars, 4 games to 1
1982 - British troops lands on Falkland Islands
1983 - "Bang The Drum All Day" by Todd Rundgren hits #63
1983 - 109th Preakness: Donald Miller Jr on Deputed Testamony wins in 1:55.4
1983 - Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB, for mating for STS-7 mission
1983 - David Bowie's "Let's "Dance," single goes #1
1986 - Atlanta Brave Rafael Ramirez hits 4 doubles in a game
1986 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1987 - Military coup in Fiji Islands under lt col Sitivani Rabuka
1987 - Xignals PC Board BBS begins in Alabama
1988 - "Da'Butt" by EU hits #35
1988 - "Fat" by Weird Al Yankovic hits #99
1988 - 114th Preakness: Eddie Delahoussaye aboard Risen Star wins in 1:56.2
1988 - Jane Powell weds Dickie Moore
1988 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1989 - 35th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Nancy Lopez
1990 - Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,844.68
1990 - Last episode of "Newhart" airs on CBS-TV
1991 - Ethiopia's Marxist president (Mengistu Haile Mariam) resigns
1992 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1992 - NJ senate overrides Governor Florio's veto & lowers sales tax to 6%
1993 - Dayanara Torres, 18, of Puerto Rico, crowned 42nd Miss Universe
1993 - Opposition leader Xanana Gusmao of East-Timor sentenced to life
1993 - Robin Smith scores 167 in England Texaco Trophy loss v Australia
1993 - Venezuela president Carlos Andres Perez fired
1994 - "Best Little Whorehouse" closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 16 perfs
1994 - 120th Preakness: Pat Day aboard Tabasco Cat wins in 1:56.4
1994 - Burger King spokesman Dan Cortese (26) weds Dee Dee Hemby (26)
1994 - Country singer Trisha Yearwood (29) weds Robert Reynolds (32)
1994 - Reds bat out of order against Dodgers in 2nd inning
1994 - South Yemen secedes from Yemen
1994 - Sushmita Sen, 18, of India, crowned 43rd Miss Universe
1995 - Chris Johnson wins Star Bank LPGA Golf Classic
1996 - Blackout in many areas of Queens NY
1996 - Ken Griffey Jr, 26, is 8th youngest to hits 200 home runs
1996 - Red Sox pitcher Roger Clemens beats Yankees for his 200th win
1996 - The Trappist Martyrs of Atlas are executed.
1997 - Emmy 24th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 17th time
1998 - In Miami, Florida, five abortion clinics are hit by a butyric acid attacker.
1998 - Suharto, the Indonesian dictator who had ruled for 32 years, resigns.
1999 - All My Children star Susan Lucci finally wins a Daytime Emmy after being nominated 19 times, the longest period of unsuccessful nominations in television history
2001 - French Taubira law officially recognizes the Atlantic slave trade and slavery as crimes against humanity.2003 - An earthquake hits northern Algeria killing more than 2,000 people.
2004 - Sherpa Pemba Dorjie climbs Mount Everest in 8 hours 10 minutes, breaking his rival Sherpa Lakpa Gelu's record from the previous year.
2004 - Stanislav Petrov is awarded the World Citizen Award for averting a potential World War III in 1983.
2006 - The Republic of Montenegro holds a referendum proposing independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro. The Montenegrin people choose independence with a majority of 55%.
2006 - The Swedish ice hockey team Tre Kronor takes gold in the World Championship, becoming the first nation to hold both the World and Olympic titles separately in the same year.
2007 - The Cutty Sark is badly damaged by fire in London, England. She was the last surviving clipper, now there is none.
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