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1994 Baseball owners impose salary cap, fiercely opposed by players

1994 Court upholds NBA salary cap and draft rights

1990 At Yankee Stadium rally, Nelson Mandela dons a New York Yankee baseball cap and proclaims "I am a Yankee!"

1987 Japan 1st exceeds military spending cap of 1% of GNP ($23 billion)

1977 Cap's H Monahan scored on 2nd penalty shot against Islanders

1967 Bruny Surin, born in Cap Haitien, Haiti, Canadian 4X100m sprinter, Gold Medal 1996 Olympics

1958 Pamela Prati, Rome, Italy, Million $ Cap, 1984, actress

1950 Rebel army of cap Raymond Westerner occupies Bandung

1947 Francisca "Cisca" Beaudoux, actress, 2 Under a Cap

1945 German ship "Cap Arcona" sinks in East Sea, 5,800 killed

1941 U.S. Civil Air Patrol (CAP) organizes

1937 Bruce McCandless II, Boston, Cap USN/astronaut, STS 41B, STS-31

1936 Edward Ravenscroft patents screw-on bottle cap with a pour lip

1932 Henri Namphy, Cap Hatien Haiti, President of Haiti, 1986-88

1930 Joe Solomon, cricketer, WI batsman of 50's Cap fell on wkt vs. Australia

1925 Ty Cobb hits his 5th home run in 2 games tying Cap Ansons record of 1884

1919 Casey Stengel releases a sparrow from under his baseball cap

1915 Constant A M Cap, Flemish poet/etcher, dies at 73

1914 Colonel Jacob Ruppert and Cap Huston purchase New York Yankees for $460,000

1897 Cap Anson, is 1st to get 3,000 hits

1892 Bottle cap with cork seal patented by William Painter (Baltimore)

1889 Dan Rylands patents screw cap

1842 Constantly AM Cap, Flemish poet/etcher

1816 French frigate "Medusa" runs aground off Cap Blanc. Gross incompetence kills 150 in calm seas

1745 English fleet occupies Cap Breton on St. Lawrence River

1642 Christiaan Huygens discovers Martian south polar cap


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