| 0579 |
Benedict I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
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| 0657 |
St Vitalian begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Eugene I
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| 1178 |
Frederick I (Barbarossa), Holy Roman Emperor, crowned King of Burgundy
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| 1419 |
Anti-Catholic Hussites, followers of executed reformer Jan Hus, stormtown hall in Prague & throw Catholic councillors out the windows
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| 1537 |
Resistant of Bomy: French/Dutch cease fire
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| 1601 |
Spanish garrison of Rhine birch surrenders to Earl Mauritius
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| 1618 |
Prince Maurits' troops pull into Utrecht
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| 1619 |
House of Burgesses Virginia forms, 1st elective US governing body
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| 1626 |
Earthquake hits Naples; 10,000 die
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| 1646 |
English parliament sets king Charles I Newcastle Propositions
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| 1650 |
Prince Willem II occupies Amsterdam
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| 1653 |
Johan de Witt sworn in as pension advisor of Holland
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| 1655 |
Dutch troops occupy Fort Assahudi Seram
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| 1678 |
English troops lands in Flanders
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| 1715 |
Spanish gold & silver fleet disappears off St Lucie, Florida
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| 1729 |
City of Baltimore founded
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| 1733 |
Society of Freemasons opens 1st American lodge in Boston
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| 1739 |
Caspar Wistar begins glass manufacturing in Allowaystown, NJ
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| 1775 |
Capt Cook with Resolution returns to England
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| 1792 |
500 Marseillaisian men sing France's national anthem for 1st time
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| 1809 |
English invasion army lands in Walcheren
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| 1822 |
James Varick becomes 1st bishop of Afr Meth Episcopal Zion Church
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| 1824 |
Gioacchino Rossini becomes manager of Théƒtre Italian, Paris
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| 1826 |
Java prince Dipo Negoro surprise attacks Dutch colony, 82 killed
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| 1836 |
1st English newspaper published in Hawaii
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| 1839 |
Slave rebels, take over slaver Amistad
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| 1844 |
1st US yacht club organized, NY Yacht Club
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| 1863 |
Pres Lincoln issues "eye-for-eye" order to shoot a rebel prisoner for every black prisoner shot
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| 1864 |
Battle of Chambersburg, PA - burned by Union forces under McCausland
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| 1864 |
Battle of the Crater: Gen Burnsides fails on attack of Petersburg
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| 1864 |
Confederate troops attack Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, in fire
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| 1865 |
Pope Pius IX visits Suriname
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| 1866 |
Race riot in New Orleans
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| 1870 |
Staten Island ferry "Westfield" burns, killing 100
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| 1874 |
1st baseball teams to play outside US, Boston-Phila in British Isles
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| 1878 |
German anti-semitism begins during the Reichstag election
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| 1878 |
Russian assault on Plevna Turkey, 7,300 Russian casualties
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| 1889 |
Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Naval Treaty" (BG)
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| 1898 |
Will Kellogg invents Corn Flakes
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| 1902 |
Anti-Jewish rioters attack funeral procession of Rabbi Joseph (NYC)
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| 1905 |
Dutch Covenant of Worker's union, NVV, forms
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| 1908 |
Around the World Automobile Race ends in Paris
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| 1909 |
John A Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League
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| 1909 |
Wright Brothers deliver 1st military plane to the army
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| 1913 |
Conclusion of 2nd Balkan War
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| 1914 |
Austrian-Hungary & Russia proclaim general mobilization
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| 1914 |
French troops withdraw 10 km from German border
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| 1914 |
John French appointed British supreme commander
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| 1916 |
German saboteurs blow up a munitions plant on Black Tom Island, NJ
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| 1917 |
Board of Commissioners of Cleveland Metroparks has its 1st meeting
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| 1923 |
New Zealand claims Ross Dependency
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| 1926 |
Albanian boundaries deduced
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| 1928 |
George Eastman shows 1st color motion pictures (US)
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| 1930 |
1st broadcast of "Death Valley Days" on NBC-radio
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| 1930 |
Uruguay beats Argentina 4-2 for soccer's 1st World Cup in Montevideo
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| 1932 |
10th modern Olympic games opens in Los Angeles
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| 1933 |
28th Davis Cup: Great Britain beats France in Paris (3-2)
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| 1935 |
1st Penguin book is published, starting the paperback revolution
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| 1937 |
Phillies Dolph Camilli, plays 1st base & registers no put outs
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| 1938 |
Gen Metaxas names himself premier of Greece
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| 1939 |
Belgium Sylvère Maes wins 33rd Tour de France
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| 1941 |
German occupiers forbid SDAP, VDB, ARP, RKSP, CHU & SGP in Netherlands
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| 1942 |
FDR signs bill creating women's Navy auxiliary agency (WAVES)
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| 1942 |
German SS kills 25,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia
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| 1942 |
German occupiers set night curfew on Jews in Netherlands
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| 1943 |
Last Judy Garland-Mickey Rooney movie released (Girl Crazy)
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| 1943 |
US 45th Infantry division occupies San Stefano
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| 1944 |
Heavy battles at Tessy-sur-Vire & Villebaudon Normandy
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| 1944 |
US 30th division reaches suburbs of St-L“ Normandy
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| 1945 |
Philippines Sea: US cruiser Indianapolis torpedoed/sinks, 880 die
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| 1946 |
1st rocket attains 100 mi (167 km) altitude, White Sands, NM
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| 1947 |
Cin Reds 16 game win streak ends, losing to NY Giants 5-4
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| 1948 |
Emile Zatopek runs Olympic record (10K - 29:59.6)
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| 1948 |
Professional wrestling premieres on prime-time network TV (DuMont)
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| 1949 |
British warship HMS Amethyst escape down Yangtze River, having been refused a safe passage by Chinese Communists after 3-month standoff
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| 1951 |
Ty Cobb testifies before the Emanuel Celler committee, denying that the reserve clause makes peons of baseball players
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| 1952 |
Ford Frick sets waiver rule to bar inter-league deals until all clubs in same league get right to bid
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| 1954 |
Bob Kennedy hits the 1st grand slam for the new Baltimore Orioles
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| 1954 |
Elvis Presley joins Memphis Federation of Musicians, Local 71
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| 1955 |
Louison Bobet wins his 3rd Tour de France
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| 1956 |
US motto "In God We Trust" authorized
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| 1959 |
In his major league debut, SF Giant Willie McCovey goes 4-for-4
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| 1960 |
1st AFL preseason game Boston Patriots defeat Bills in Buffalo (28-7)
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| 1961 |
43rd PGA Championship: Jerry Barber shoots a 277 at Olympia Fields IL
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| 1961 |
Judy Kimball wins LPGA American Women's Golf Open
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| 1962 |
33rd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 9-4 at Wrigley Field, Chicago
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| 1962 |
All star MVP: Leon Wagner (LA Angels)
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| 1963 |
British spy Kim Philby found in Moscow
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| 1964 |
US naval fire on Hon Ngu/Hon Mo, North Vietnam
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| 1965 |
Charles Ives' "From the Steeples & the Mountains," premieres
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| 1965 |
Duke Ellington's "Golden Brown & the Green Apple," premieres
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| 1965 |
LBJ signs Medicare bill, which goes into effect in 1966
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| 1965 |
Milwaukee manager Bobby Bragan says his pitchers threw 75 to 80 spitballs in a 9-2 loss to the Giants
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| 1966 |
Beatles' "Yesterday... & Today," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 5 weeks
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| 1966 |
England beats West Germany 4-2 for soccer's 8th World Cup in London
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| 1966 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Supertest Ladies Golf Open
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| 1966 |
US airplanes bombs demilitarized zone in Vietnam
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| 1967 |
Clifford Ann Creed/Margie Masters wins Yankee Ladies' Team Golf Champ
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| 1967 |
Race riot in Milwaukee (4 killed)
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| 1968 |
Beatles' Apple Boutique closes, entire inventory is given away
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| 1968 |
Wash Senator Ron Hansen makes 1st unassisted triple-play in 41 years
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| 1969 |
Astros Denis Menke & Jim Wynn hit grandslams in 9th inn vs Mets
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| 1969 |
Barbra Streisand opens for Liberace at International Hotel, Las Vegas
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| 1969 |
KAEC TV channel 19 in Lufkin, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
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| 1969 |
Mariner 6 passes Venus on 3410 km (74 photos)
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| 1970 |
-Aug 5] Hurricane Celia, kills 31 in Cuba, Florida & Texas
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| 1970 |
30,000 attend Powder Ridge Rock Festival, Middlefield Ct
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| 1971 |
38th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Baltimore 24, All Stars 17 (52,289)
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| 1971 |
George Harrison releases "Bangladesh"
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| 1971 |
Japanese Boeing 727 collides with an F-86 fighter killing 162
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| 1971 |
US Apollo 15 (Scott & Irwin) lands on Mare Imbrium on the Moon
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| 1972 |
"Ain't Supposed to Die Death" closes at Barrymore NYC after 325 perfs
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| 1972 |
Jan Ferraris wins LPGA Lady Pepsi Golf Open
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| 1973 |
Texas Rangers Jim Bibby no-hits 1st-place Oakland, 6-0
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| 1974 |
House Judiciary Committee votes on 3rd & last charge of "high crimes & misdemeanors" to impeach President Nixon in the Watergate cover-up
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| 1975 |
Simon Gray's "Otherwise Engaged," premieres in London
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| 1975 |
Teamsters Pres Jimmy Hoffa disappears in suburban Detroit
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| 1976 |
Giulio Andreotti sworn in as premier of Italy
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| 1976 |
Japanese beat Russian for Olympic gold in woman's volleyball
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| 1978 |
Expos crush Braves, 19-0, collecting 28 hits & NL-record-tying 8 HRs
|
| 1978 |
Pat Bradley wins LPGA Hoosier Golf Classic
|
| 1980 |
Houston Astro pitcher J R Richard suffers a stroke
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| 1980 |
Vanuatu (New Hebrides) gains independence from Britain & France
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| 1981 |
Belgian Senate accept laws against racism
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| 1981 |
Simon Gray's "Quartermaine's Terms," premieres in London
|
| 1982 |
Atlanta Braves remove Chief Noc-A-Homa to make room for more seats
|
| 1982 |
USSR performs underground nuclear Test
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| 1983 |
Official speed record for a piston-driven aircraft, 832 kph, Calif
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| 1983 |
Weight lifter Sergei Didyk of USSR jerks a record 261 kg
|
| 1984 |
Alvenus tanker at Cameron La, spills 2.8 million gallons of oil
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| 1984 |
Holly Roffey (11 days) gets heart transplant
|
| 1984 |
Soap Opera "Santa Barbara" premieres on NBC TV
|
| 1985 |
Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-I mission
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| 1985 |
Valerie Lowrance, of Texas, 18, crowned America's Junior Miss
|
| 1988 |
Cin Red pitcher John Franco sets a record of 13 saves in 1 month
|
| 1988 |
Harry Drake shoots arrow record 1873m
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| 1988 |
James Ogilvy (under Engl princess Alexandra) marries Julia Rawlinson
|
| 1988 |
John Franco saves record 13th game of July
|
| 1988 |
Jordanian King Hussein renounces sovereignity over West Bank to PLO
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| 1988 |
King Hussein dissolves Jordan's House of Representatives
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| 1988 |
Ronald J Dossenbach begins world record ride, pedaling across Canada from Vancouver BC, to Halifax, NS (13 days, 15 hr, 4 min)
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| 1989 |
Chile amends its constitution
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| 1989 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Atlantic City Golf Classic
|
| 1990 |
5 Bank of Credit & Commerce members found guilty of money
|
| 1990 |
Graham Gooch scores 123 v India to follow up 1st innings 333
|
| 1990 |
Soldiers opens fire on worshippers in Monrovian church, 200-600 die
|
| 1990 |
George Steinbrenner is forced by Commissioner Fay Vincent to resign as prinicipal partner of NY Yankees
|
| 1991 |
MTV announces it will split into 3 channels in 1993
|
| 1991 |
Red Sox Carlos Quintana is 11th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (3rd)
|
| 1992 |
Lin Li swims female world record/OR 200m medley (2:11.65)
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| 1994 |
Record 103.8°F (39.9°C) in Preschen Lausitz Germany
|
| 1995 |
Becky Iverson wins LPGA Friendly's Golf Classic
|
| 1995 |
Dominic Cork takes hat-trick in England Test Cricket win v WI
|
| 1995 |
Lara completes 5th Test Cricket century, 145 at Old Trafford
|
| 1995 |
Richie Ashburn and Mike Schmidt enter basaeball's Hall of Fame
|
| 1996 |
Tommy Lasoda retires as LA Dodger manager
|
| 1997 |
Terrorist double suicide bombing in Jerusalem, kills 14
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