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1998 ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by

1997 WIBC Bowling Queens won by Sandra Jo Shiery-Odom

1997 ABC Bud Light Masters Bowling Tournament won by Jason Queen

1997 Brunswick World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by John Gant

1996 Sam's Town Bowling Invitational

1996 BPAA U.S. Bowling Open by Dave Husted

1996 BPAA U.S. Women's Bowling Open won by Liz Johnson

1996 WIBC Bowling Queens won by Lisa Wagner

1996 ABC Bud Light Masters Bowling Tournament won by Ernie Schlegel

1995 Sam's Town Bowling Invitational won by Michelle Mullen

1995 Harold Larwood, cricket (98 wkts bowling for Engl 1926-34), dies at 91

1995 WIBC Bowling Queens won by Sandra Postma

1995 ABC Bud Light Masters Bowling Tournament won by Mike Aulby

1995 General Tire World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Mike Aulby

1994 Sam's Town Bowling Invitational won by Tish Johnson

1994 BPAA U.S. Women's Bowling Open won by Aleta Sill

1994 WIBC Bowling Queens won by Anne Marie Duggan

1994 General Tire World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Norm Duke

1993 Sam's Town Bowling Invitational won by Robin Romeo

1993 ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Phil Ware

1993 Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by George Branham

1992 Sam's Town Bowling Invitational won by Tish Johnson

1992 WIBC Bowling Queens won by Cindy Coburn-Carroll

1992 Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Marc McDowell

1991 Sam's Town Bowling Invitational won by Lorrie Nichols

1991 ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Doug Kent

1991 Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by David Ozio

1990 BPAA U.S. Women's Bowling Open won by Dana Miller-Mackie

1990 WIBC Bowling Queens won by Patty Ann

1990 ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Chris Warren

1990 Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Dave Ferraro

1989 Sam's Town Bowling Invitational won by Tish Johnson

1987 Sam's Town National Bowling Pro-Am won by Debbie Bennett

1986 Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Marshall Holman

1985 Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Mark Williams

1983 Don Genalo needs just 3 of 5 pins to win Southern California Open bowling tournament, miscalculates his score and intentionally gutters his ball

1982 Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Mike Durbin

1982 Sharie Langford, California, sets women's bowling series record of 853

1980 ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Neil Burton

1980 Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Wayne Webb

1978 Ian Botham takes 8-34 vs. Pakistan, his best Test cricket bowling

1978 Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Earl Anthony

1973 WIBC Bowling Queens won by Dotty Fothergill

1973 ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Dave Soutar

1973 BPAA U.S. Women's Bowling Open won by Millie Martorella

1973 Doug Walters' best Test Cricket bowling, 5-66 vs. WI Georgetown

1973 Greg Chappell's best Test bowling, 5-61 vs. Pakistan at SCG

1969 BPAA All-Star Bowling Tournament won by Billy Hardwick

1969 Firestone World Bowling Tournament (Mercury Open) won by Jim Godman

1969 ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Jim Chestney

1968 WKGB TV channel 53 in Bowling Green, Kentucky (PBS) begins broadcasting

1968 BPAA All-Star Bowling Tournament won by Jim Stefanich

1968 BPAA U.S. Women's Bowling Open won by Dotty Fothergill

1968 ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Pete Tountas

1965 Chris Hoiles, Bowling Green, Ohio, catcher for the Baltimore Orioles

1965 Geoff Boycott takes 3-47 against South Africa, his best Test bowling

1964 WBGU TV channel 27 in Bowling Green, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting

1964 Dick Weber rolls highest bowling game in air (Boeing 707)

1963 Harry Steers, bowling hall of famer, dies

1962 WBKO TV channel 13 in Bowling Green, Kentucky (ABC) begins broadcasting

1960 Roger Wijesuriya, cricketer, bowling avg 294 in 4 Tests for Sri Lanka

1958 "Jackpot Bowling" premieres on NBC with Leo Durocher as host

1957 Jim Spalding set a 2088 pin nine-game bowling record

1955 Bill Lloyd, Bowling Green, Kentucky, singer, Foster and Lloyd-Crazy Over You

1952 American Bowling Congress approves use of an automatic pinsetter

1951 American Bowling Congress begins 1st masters tournament

1950 American Bowling Congress ends all-white-males rule

1945 DePaul beats Bowling Green for NIT title

1939 1st black bowling league formed (National Bowling Assoc)

1938 American Bowling Congress' largest tournament (24,765 competitors)

1936 Jahangir Khan kills a sparrow while cricket bowling, Cambridge U vs. MCC

1935 Andrew Varipapa sets bowling record of 2,652 points in 10 games

1934 Miss Theo Trowbridge sets female bowling record 702 pins in games

1933 Ian Sinclair, cricketer, 2 Tests NZ vs. WI 1956, bowling average 120.00

1926 Don Carter, bowling great, 1st PBA president

1925 D G "Dattu" Phadkar, cricketer, pace bowling all-rounder for India

1925 Eric Dempster, cricketer, NZ slow bowl of mid-50's, bowling avg 109.5

1917 1st exclusively women's bowling tournament begins in St. Louis

1913 William Knox, becomes 1st in American Bowling Congress to bowl 300

1902 1st National Bowling Championship held (Chicago, Ill)

1898 32nd Belmont: F Littlefield aboard Bowling Brook wins in 2:32

1895 American Bowling Congress forms (New York City)

1893 1st U.S. bowling magazine, Gut Holz, published in New York

1891 Francis McDonald, Bowling Green, Kentucky, actor, Will-Adv of Champion

1875 National Bowling Association organized in New York City

1865 John Wilkes Booth, assassin, is shot dead near Bowling Green Virginia at 27

1862 Bowling ball invented

1840 1st recorded bowling match in U.S., Knickerbocker Alleys, New York City

1520 King Henry VIII of England orders bowling lanes at Whitehall



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