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1995 Expos pitcher Pedro Martinez perfect game is broken up in 10th inning as San Diego's Bip Roberts leads off with a double, Mont wins 1-0 1991 NHL owners present contract to players, leads to Apr 1, 1992 strike 1989 Desmond Tutu leads biggest anti-apartheid protest march in South Africa 1989 Rev Al Sharpton leads a civil rights march through Bensonhurst 1977 Anita Bryant leads successful crusade against Miami gay rights law 1966 Kanton Bazel leads female suffrage in Switzerland 1963 Charles Barkley, Leads Ab, NBA forward, Phoenix, Rockets, Oly-gold-96 1959 Castro leads Cuba to victory as Fulgencio Batista flees to Dom Rep 1957 Yanks involved in Copacabana Incident, leads to Billy Martin trade 1950 Red Sox Dom DiMaggio leads AL with only 15 stolen bases 1945 Vietnam conflict begins as Ho Chi Minh leads a successful coup 1943 Lech Walesa, born in Popowo, Poland, leads Polish Solidarity, Nobel 1983 1943 SS-lt-gen Jurgen Stoop leads destruction of ghetto of Warsaw 1933 Ruth's homer leads AL to a 4-2 win in 1st All Star Game 1920 Red Sox turn triple-play, but Ruth's 35th HR leads Yanks to 8-2 win 1916 Pancho Villa leads Mexican band raid on Columbus NM, killing 12 1909 Ump Tim Hurst instigates a riot by spitting at A's 2nd baseman Eddie Collins, who had questioned a call, this leads to Hurst's banishment 1902 2 deaf-mutes face each other for 1st time as Dummy Hoy leads off for the Reds against Dummy Taylor of the Giants, Reds win 5-3 1863 Harriet Tubman leads Union guerrillas into Maryland, freeing slaves 1859 John Brown leads 20 in raid on federal arsenal, Harper's Ferry, Va 1831 Nat Turner leads uprising of slaves in Virginia 1831 Former slave Nat Turner leads uprising against slavery 1822 Denmark Vessy leads slave rebellion in South Carolina 1817 San Martin leads a revolutionary army over Andes 1789 Fletcher Christian leads Mutiny on HMS Bounty and Capt William Bligh 1730 Tsarina Anna Ivanovna leads autocracy 1638 Petition in Recife Brazil leads to closing of their 2 synagogues 1601 John Lancaster leads 1st East India Company voyage from London 1601 Robert, Earl of Essex leads revolt in London against Queen Elizabeth 1569 Duke van Alva leads "tenth penning" in Ponts the Ce 1545 English earl Hertford leads retaliatory mission against Scotland 1536 Danish/Norw king Christian III leads reform in Catholic possessions 1429 Joan of Arc leads French army in Battle of Orleans 1429 Joan of Arc leads Orleans, France, to victory over English 1253 Clara van Assisi leads rules of life in order of Clarissen 1180 Yoritomo Minamoto leads uprising against emperor Kiyomori Taira

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