| 182001. |
Name The Year: Great London Fire begins in Pudding Lane. 80% of London is destroyed.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182002. |
Name The Year: Louis XIV the great, king of France (1643-1715), dies at 76.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182003. |
Name The Year: RC Carrington and R Hodgson make 1st observation of solar flare.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182004. |
Name The Year: Napoleon III captured at Sedan.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182005. |
Name The Year: Sydney General Post Office opens.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182006. |
Name The Year: Edgar Rice Burroughs, novelist (Tarzan, John Carter Of Mars Saga), born.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182007. |
Name The Year: St Petersburg, Russia changes name to Petrograd.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182008. |
Name The Year: Yvonne De Carlo, Vancouver BC, actress (Lily Munster in the Munsters), born.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182009. |
Name The Year: Rocky Marciano, heavyweight champion boxer (1952-56), born.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182010. |
Name The Year: Albania becomes a kingdom, with Zogu I as king.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182011. |
Name The Year: Physical Review publishes 1st paper to deal with black holes.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182012. |
Name The Year: WW II starts, Germany invades Poland, takes Danzig.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182013. |
Name The Year: Japan surrenders ending WW II (US date, 9/2 in Japan).
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182014. |
Name The Year: UN's World Health Organization forms.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182015. |
Name The Year: US, Australia and New Zealand sign ANZUS treaty.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182016. |
Name The Year: Gloria Estefan, Cuba, singer, born.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182017. |
Name The Year: 10,000 die in an earthquake in western Iran.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182018. |
Name The Year: UN announces Earth population has hit 3 billion.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182019. |
Name The Year: Libyan revolution, Col Moammar Gadhafi deposes King Idris.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182020. |
Name The Year: Qatar declares independence from Britain.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182021. |
Name The Year: Pioneer 11 makes 1st fly-by of Saturn, discovers new moon, rings.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182022. |
Name The Year: Palestinian Liberation Organization leaves Lebanon.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182023. |
Name The Year: Korean Boeing 747 strays into Siberia and is shot down by a Soviet jet.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182024. |
Name The Year: BC Phidippides runs first marathon, to announce the victory of Sparta over Persia.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182025. |
Name The Year: C Battle of Actium; Octavian defeats Mark Antony and becomes Emperor Augustus.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182026. |
Name The Year: The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth with 102 Pilgrims.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182027. |
Name The Year: Great Fire of London starts; destroys St. Paul's Church.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182028. |
Name The Year: Last day of Julian calendar in Britain, British colonies.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182029. |
Name The Year: K. L. Harding discovers Juno, third known asteroid.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182030. |
Name The Year: Queen Liliuokalani, last queen of Hawaii (1891-93)
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182031. |
Name The Year: Wilhelm Ostwald, German physical chemist (Nobel 1909)
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182032. |
Name The Year: Lord Kitchener retakes Sudan for Britain.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182033. |
Name The Year: First transatlantic round-trip air flight.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182034. |
Name The Year: Vietnam declares independence from France (National Day).
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182035. |
Name The Year: V-J Day; formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182036. |
Name The Year: Jimmy Connors, tennis player
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182037. |
Name The Year: St Gregory I begins his reign as Catholic Pope.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182038. |
Name The Year: England's King Richard I (the Lion-Hearted) crowned in Westminster.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182039. |
Name The Year: Nicolo Amati, Italy, violin maker (Stradivari and Guarneri), born.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182040. |
Name The Year: James I king of England (1603-25), dies at 92.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182041. |
Name The Year: Lord Oliver Cromwell British king (1653-58), dies at 59.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182042. |
Name The Year: Charles X, Versailles, France, Duke of Prussia, born.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182043. |
Name The Year: British annex Natal (South Africa).
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182044. |
Name The Year: Cardinal Giacome della Chiesa becomes Pope Benedict XV.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182045. |
Name The Year: Allies turned back Germans in WW I's Battle of Verdun.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182046. |
Name The Year: Britain declares war on Germany. France follows 6 hours later quickly joined by Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Canada.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182047. |
Name The Year: Pauline Collins, London England, actress (Shirley Valentine), born.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182048. |
Name The Year: US gives Britain 50 destroyers in exchange for Newfoundland base lease.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182049. |
Name The Year: Allies invade Italy.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182050. |
Name The Year: Japanese forces in the Philippines surrender to Allies.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182051. |
Name The Year: Pope Pius X canonized a saint.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182052. |
Name The Year: e. e. cummings poet, dies at 67.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182053. |
Name The Year: Charlie Sheen, actor (Wall St, Platoon), born.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182054. |
Name The Year: Ho Chi Minh North Vietnamese president, dies.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182055. |
Name The Year: Qatar regains complete independence from Britain.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182056. |
Name The Year: Viking 2 soft lands on Mars (Utopia), returns photos.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182057. |
Name The Year: Crew of Soyuz 31 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 29.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182058. |
Name The Year: Frank Capra director (It's a Wonderful Life), dies at 94.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182059. |
Name The Year: Romulus Augustulus, last Roman emperor in west, is deposed.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182060. |
Name The Year: Navigator Henry Hudson discovered the island of Manhattan.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182061. |
Name The Year: Francois Ren, de Chateaubriand, French poet, novelist, statesman
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182062. |
Name The Year: Los Angeles founded in the Valley of Smokes (Indian Name).
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182063. |
Name The Year: Marcus Whitman, missionary
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182064. |
Name The Year: Anton Bruckner (in Austria), Wagner disciple
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182065. |
Name The Year: The first newsboy in the US hired (Barney Flaherty), by the NY Sun.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182066. |
Name The Year: Daniel Burnham, American architect, built skyscrapers
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182067. |
Name The Year: French republic proclaimed.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182068. |
Name The Year: Darius Milhaud, composer
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182069. |
Name The Year: Geronimo, Apache indian, finally surrenders ending last major US-Indian war.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182070. |
Name The Year: George Eastman patents first rollfilm camera and registers Kodak.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182071. |
Name The Year: Paul Osborn, playwright
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182072. |
Name The Year: Richard Wright, American author (Native Son, Uncle Tom's Children)
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182073. |
Name The Year: Garros sets world altitude record of 4,250 m (13,944 ft).
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182074. |
Name The Year: Henry Ford II, businessman
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182075. |
Name The Year: Last day of Julian civil calendar (in parts of Bulgaria).
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182076. |
Name The Year: Tom Watson, Golfer
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182077. |
Name The Year: Ford Motor Co. introduced the Edsel! (Oh boy !)
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182078. |
Name The Year: NASA launches its first Orbital Geophysical Observatory (OGO-1)
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182079. |
Name The Year: George Harrison releases "My Sweet Lord" single.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182080. |
Name The Year: American swimmer Mark Spitz becomes the first athlete to win seven olympic gold medals.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182081. |
Name The Year: Iraqi troops seized Iranian territory in a border dispute.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182082. |
Name The Year: Louis VIII [Coeur-de-Lion] king of France (1223-26), born.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182083. |
Name The Year: Louis XIV the great, king of France (1643-1715), born.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182084. |
Name The Year: Jesse James Missouri, outlaw, born.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182085. |
Name The Year: Sam Houston elected president of the Republic of Texas.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182086. |
Name The Year: France proclaims a protectorate over Chad.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182087. |
Name The Year: Raquel Welch Chic (Myra Breckenridge, 1,000,000 BC, 100 Rifles), born.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182088. |
Name The Year: Freddie Mercury, singer, born.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182089. |
Name The Year: 1st color video recording on magnetic tape presented, Charlotte North Carolina, USA.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182090. |
Name The Year: Cassius Clay captures the olympic light heavyweight gold medal.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182091. |
Name The Year: 11 Israeli athletes are slain at Munich Olympics.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182092. |
Name The Year: Iraqi Pres Saddam Hussein urges Arabs to rise against the West.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182093. |
Name The Year: US trial of former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega begins.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182094. |
Name The Year: Pilgrims set sail from Plymouth England to the New World.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182095. |
Name The Year: James II king of England (1685-88), dies at 68.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182096. |
Name The Year: Pres William McKinley assassinated by Leon Czologosz in Buffalo, New York.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182097. |
Name The Year: Roger Waters, singer (Pink Floyd), born.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182098. |
Name The Year: Juliana becomes queen of the Netherlands.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182099. |
Name The Year: Michael Winslow, actor/comedian (Police Academy), born.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 182100. |
Name The Year: "Star Trek" premiers on NBC TV.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |