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• 1903 - President Theodore Roosevelt visits SF
• 1904 - 1st Olympics in US are held (St Louis)
• 1905 - 2nd official intl soccer match, Neth beats Belg 4-0
• 1906 - Flagpole at the White Sox ballpark breaks during pennant-raising
• 1908 - 1st passenger flight in an airplane
• 1910 - Canada authorizes issuing of silver dollar coins
• 1913 - French Hals museum opens in Harleem Netherlands
• 1913 - Wash Senator Walter Johnson ends record scorless streak at 56 innings
• 1914 - Chic Jim Scott no-hits Cleve, gives up 2 hits in 10th & loses 1-0
• 1918 - Indians' Stan Coveleski sets club record for most innings pitched (19)
• 1918 - Sunday baseball is made legal in Wash DC
• 1919 - 45th Preakness: Johnny Loftus aboard Sir Barton wins in 1:53
• 1919 - Pope Benedictus XV publishes encyclical In hac tanta
• 1920 - Wash Senator Walter Johnson wins his 300th game vs Detroit
• 1920 - Giants inform Yankees that the lease allowing them to play in the Polo Grounds will not be renewed at end of 1920 season
• 1921 - Florence Allen is 1st woman judge to sentence a man to death
• 1921 - Mussolini's fascists obtains 29 parliament seats
• 1927 - "Ain't She Sweet?" hits #1 on the pop singles chart by Ben Bernie
• 1927 - 53rd Kentucky Derby: Linus McAtee aboard Whiskery wins in 2:06
• 1928 - John McGraw is knocked down by a taxicab & suffers a broken leg
• 1932 - "We Want Beer!" parade in NY
• 1935 - Griffith Planetarium opens in LA
• 1935 - LA's Griffith Planetarium opens, 3rd in US
• 1935 - Plebiscite in Philippines ratifies independence agreement
• 1938 - 64th Preakness: Maurice Peters aboard Dauber wins in 1:59.8
• 1938 - English soccer team beats Nazi-Germany, 6-3
• 1940 - Admiral Furstner departs to England
• 1940 - Boston's Jimmie Foxx HR goes over Comiskey Park's left field roof
• 1940 - German breakthrough at Sedan
• 1940 - Lord Beaverbrook appointed British minister of aircraft production
• 1940 - Nazi bombs Rotterdam (600-900 dead), Netherlands surrender to Germany
• 1941 - 3,600 Parisian Jews arrested
• 1942 - US Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) forms
• 1944 - 91 German bombers harass Bristol
• 1944 - British troops occupy Kohima
• 1944 - Gen Rommel, Speidel & von Stlpnagel attempt to assassinate Hitler
• 1945 - Kamikaze-Zero strikes US aircraft carrier Enterprise
• 1945 - US offensive on Okinawa, Sugar Loaf conquered
• 1946 - Paul Hindemith's "For Those We Love," premieres
• 1948 - Israel declares independence from under British administration
• 1948 - Israeli Radio Station Kol Yisrael's 1st broadcast
• 1948 - Jordan's Arab League captures Atarot, north of Jerusalem
• 1948 - US grants Israel de facto recognition
• 1948 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
• 1948 - WBEN (now WIVB) TV channel 4 in Buffalo, NY (CBS) begins broadcasting
• 1949 - "Love Life" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 252 performances
• 1949 - 75th Preakness: Ted Atkinson aboard Capot wins in 1:56
• 1949 - Truman signs bill establishing a rocket test range at Cape Canaveral
• 1950 - Pitts Johnny Hopp goes 6 for 6 including 2 HRs
• 1951 - "Flahooley" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 40 performances
• 1951 - Ernie Kovacs Show, TV Variety debut on NBC
• 1951 - Sammy Fain/EY Harburg's musical "Flahooley," premieres in NYC
• 1954 - Belgium shortens military conscription from 20 to 18 months
• 1955 - US performs nuclear test at Pacific Ocean
• 1955 - Warsaw Pact is signed by the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland & Romania
• 1957 - "New Girt in Town" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 432 performances
• 1957 - Bob Merrill's musical "New Girl in Town," premieres in NYC
• 1960 - "At the Drop of a Hat" closes at John Golden NYC after 216 perfs
• 1960 - USSR launch 1st (unmanned) space capsule
• 1960 - Virgil Thomson's "Missa Pro Defunctis," premieres in Pottstown NY
• 1961 - Bus with 1st group of Freedom Riders bombed & burned in Alabama
• 1961 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Columbus Golf Open
• 1962 - Ex-pres Milovan Djilas sentenced to 5 years
• 1962 - Princess Sophia of Greece weds Don Juan Carlos of Spain
• 1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
• 1963 - Kuwait is 111th member of the United Nations
• 1964 - Underground America Day is 1st observed
• 1965 - 2nd Chinese atom bomb explodes
• 1965 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1966 - 1st reported monitoring of pirate radio station WBBH (NJ)
• 1966 - A Lover's Concerto by Mrs Miller hits #95
• 1967 - Mickey Mantle's 500th HR off Oriole's Stu Miller
• 1967 - Pirate Radio Station 270 (England) closes down
• 1968 - Beatles announce formation of Apple Corp
• 1968 - Czech govt announces liberalizing reforms under Alexander Dubcek
• 1968 - RAF-leader Andreas Baader sentenced to 3 years in West Berlin
• 1969 - Abortion & contraception legalized in Canada
• 1969 - Last Chevrolet Corsair built
• 1970 - Cops kill 2 students in racial disturbance (Jackson State U, Miss)
• 1970 - Harry A Blackmun appointed to Supreme Court
• 1970 - NYC local newspaper "Our Town" begins publishing
• 1970 - RAF-leader Andreas Baader freed after serving 2 years in West Berlin
• 1972 - 24th Emmy Awards: All in the Family, Carrol O'Conner & Jean Stapleton
• 1972 - In Willie Mays 1st game as a NY Met his homer beats SF Giants, 5-4
• 1973 - Gold hits record $102.50 an ounce in London
• 1973 - Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, last airs on NBC-TV
• 1973 - Skylab launched, 1st Space Station
• 1973 - US Supreme court approves equal rights to females in military
• 1974 - Symbionese Liberation Army destroyed in shoot-out, 6 killed
• 1975 - Dynamo Kiev wins 15th Europe Cup II
• 1975 - French press reports massive deportation from Cambodia
• 1975 - US forces raid Cambodian island of Koh Tang to free Mayaguez ship
• 1975 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1976 - Lowell Thomas ends 46 years as radio network reporter
• 1976 - Oil tanker Urqui Ola explodes off Spanish coast
• 1977 - English football international Bobby Moore retires
• 1977 - KC Royals Jim Colborn no-hits Texas Rangers, 6-0
• 1977 - Netherlands State Delta Kappa Gamma Society forms
• 1977 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep Boston Bruins in 4 games
• 1978 - "Working" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 25 performances
• 1978 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Greater Baltimore Golf Classic
• 1980 - "Musical Chairs" opens at Rialto Theater NYC for 15 performances
• 1980 - Dept of Health & Human Services begins operation
• 1980 - Valencia wins 20th Europe Cup II
• 1980 - Bucky Dent hits an inside park HR, Royals walk 14 Yanks including 5 with bases loaded, Yanks win 16-3
• 1981 - 35th NBA Championship: Bost Celtics beat Houston Rockets, 4 games to 2
• 1981 - NASA launches space vehicle S-192
• 1982 - Guinea adopts constitution
• 1983 - "She Blinded Me with Science" by Thomas Dolby hits #5
• 1983 - Oilers 1-Isles 5-Stanley Cup-Isles hold 3-0 lead
• 1983 - Rosa Mota runs female world record 20k (1:06:55.5)
• 1984 - 19th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama
• 1986 - Institute for War documents publishes Anne Franks complete diary
• 1986 - Reggie Jackson hit his 537th HR passing Mickey Mantle into 6th place
• 1987 - "Little Shop of Horrors" is released in Germany
• 1987 - Colt revolver (Peacemaker) of 1873 sells for $242,000
• 1988 - "Mail" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 36 performances
• 1988 - 1st non-pitcher (Jose Oquendo) in 20 years to get a decision in a baseball game, he & St Louis Cards lose to Braves 7-5 in 19 inn
• 1989 - 1st Tour de Trump bicycle race run (Atlanta)
• 1989 - 1st time since 1948 a player hit 6 consecutive doubles (Kirby Puckett)
• 1989 - Cindy Rarick wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Golf Classic
• 1989 - Demonstration for democratic reforms in Beijing's Tiananmen square
• 1989 - Final TV episode of "Family Ties" airs
• 1989 - Moonlighting, TV Crime Drama last airs on ABC
• 1990 - 46th time opposing pitchers hit HR, Valenzuela (Dodgers)/Gross (Expos)
• 1990 - Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,821.53
• 1991 - 42 die in a train collision is Japan
• 1991 - Robert M Gates becomes head of CIA
• 1991 - World's Largest Burrito created at 1,126 lbs
• 1991 - Winnie Mandela sentenced to 6 years for complicity in kidnapping & beating of four youths, one of whom died, She is freed pending appeal
• 1992 - WIBC Bowling Queens won by Cindy Coburn-Carroll
• 1994 - Dave Winfield passes Frank Robinson for 12th on RBI list with 1,617
• 1994 - FA cup final at Wembley Stadium London
• 1994 - Mayflower Madame Sydney Biddle Barrows (42) weds Darnay Hoffman (46)
• 1995 - "My Thing of Love" closes at Beck Theater NYC after 16 performances
• 1995 - 41st McDonald's LPGA Championship won by Kelly Robbins
• 1995 - Eddie Murray of Indians hits his 463rd career home run (ties for 18th)
• 1995 - Dalai Lama proclaims 6-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima 11th reincarnation of Panchen Lama, Tibet's 2nd most sr spiritual leader
• 1996 - NY Yankee Dwight Gooden no-hits Seattle Mariners 2-0
• 1997 - Baseball's Exec Council suspends NY Yank owner George Steinbrenner
• 1998 - Last episode of Seinfeld on NBC (commercials are $2M for 30 seconds)