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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