1999 Clifton Fadiman, "writer, host", helped to start the Book-of-the-mon Club, dies at 95
1996 Start of 1st Test Cricket match between Zimbabwe and England
1996 Start of 1st "Super 8's" tournament in Kuala Lumpur
1995 Owners accept baseball players proposal, agree to start season 4/26
1994 Earliest start of Sheffield Shield season (Queensland vs. Tasmania)
1993 Houston Rockets tie NBA record of 15-0 start
1992 Start of Zimbabwe's 1st Test match, vs. India at Harare
1992 Start of South Africa's 1st Test Cricket since 1970 (v WI Bridgetown)
1991 Wilson Alvarez hurls a no-hitter in his 1st big league start
1990 Reds win running their record to 9-0, best start in club history
1990 Jack Nicklaus wins 1st start on Senior PGA tour
1989 Dave Stewart is 1st since 1976 to start consec World Series openers
1989 In 2nd start since after cancer treatment, Giants Dave Dravecky breaks his pitching arm while throwing to Tim Raines
1989 Despite retiring May 29, Mike Schmidt elected to start All Star game
1989 1st Baseball game to start outdoors and end indoors, as Toronto Blue Jays stadium closes roof during game at 8:48, and beat Brewers 4-2
1989 Start 1st Test Cricket, NZ vs. Pak, washed out
1988 Baltimore Orioles set worst record to start a season 0-14 (will go 0-21)
1987 Occupied Palestinians start "intefadeh" (uprising) against Israel
1987 Yank Phil Niekro is 3rd pitcher to make 700th start (Young and Sutton)
1987 Milwaukee Brewers lose after 13th straight victory to start season
1986 Record 23,000 start in a marathon (Mexico City)
1985 Fernando Valenzuela sets record of 41 scoreless inn to start season
1984 SF 49er Joe Montana misses his 1st start in 49 games
1984 Orel Hershiser begins string of making every sched start until 1990
1984 U.S.S.R. offers to start talking about banning SDI
1984 Tigers set best 30 game start record (26-4)
1983 Start of 1st Sri Lanka-Australia Test Cricket match (at Kandy)
1982 Record 11,763 start a 186 mile cross-country race near Stockholm
1982 Islanders start 23 undefeated home streak (21-0-2) 14 straight wins
1981 Start of 1st-class game at Newcastle, NSW vs. Queensland
1981 Pawtucket and Rochester start a 33-inning baseball game
1981 Los Angeles Dodgers Fernando Valenzuela's 1st start, beats Astros 2-0
1980 Islanders start 15 game undefeated streak (13-0-2)
1979 Flyers start 35 game unbeaten streak beating Toronto 4-3
1979 Iran press censors start massive book burnings
1978 Islanders start 15 game undefeated streak (12-0-3)
1978 New York Islanders start a streak of 23 undefeated games at home (15-0-8)
1978 Yanks start 14 game comeback with 2-0 win
1978 Pitcher Ron Guidry sets Yankee record of 13-0 start
1976 Belgium catholic elite start amnesty campaign for war criminals
1975 Gertrude Niesen, actress (Start Cheering), dies at 63
1974 Mel Stottlemyre's AL record 272nd consecutive start, without relief
1973 Los Angeles Dodgers announce night games will start at 7:30 instead of 8
1973 Monks Heng Yo and Heng Ju, start 1000 mile San Francisco to Seattle pilgrimage
1973 Columbia Records fires president Clive Davis for misappropriating $100,000 in funds, Davis will start Arista records
1972 Los Angeles Kings start Islanders on 12 game losing streak
1972 Flyers start Islanders on 15 game winless streak
1970 Would have been start of Aust/Eng Test Cricket at MCG, washed out
1970 Start of the 1st Test match at the WACA, vs. England
1969 Hanif, Mushtaq and Sadiq Mohammad start their only Test Cricket together
1968 Start of Colin Cowdrey's 100th Test, 1st person to do so
1967 Royal Canadian Mint ordered to start converting 10 cent and 25 cent coins to pure nickel as soon as possible
1964 Reds Chico Ruiz steals home, beats Phillies 1-0. Phillies start a 10 game losing streak that gives Cards the pennant
1962 Bo Belinsky pitches a no-hitter, in his 4th start
1962 New York Mets tiea NL record by losing 9 straight to start season
1962 Pirates tie then record of 10 straight wins to start season
1958 Mao Tse tung start "Great leap forward" movement in China
1956 White Sox Jim Derrington, 16, is youngest to start a game (he loses)
1953 Brown's Bobo Holloman 1st major league start, no-hits Philadelphia A's, 6-0
1949 Indians start 12-17, owner Bill Veeck arranges a "Second Opening Day"
1949 Don Newcombe, 1st start, shuts out Cincinnati on 5 hits to win 3-0
1948 Cleveland's Satchel Paige make his 1st start and goes 7 innings
1946 Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas opens (start of an era)
1945 Start of the 1st Victory Test Cricket between England and Aust Services
1943 Teams agrees to start season later due to WW II
1941 Dodgers start to wear liners in their caps
1939 Franklin D. Roosevelt declares U.S. neutrality at start of WW II in Europe
1938 Would be start of Eng/Aust Test Cricket at Old Trafford Washout
1936 Carl Hubbell's 1st start of season is his 17th straight win
1930 Start of the 1st Australia vs. West Indies Test (at Adelaide)
1930 Mao Tse-tung writes "A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire"
1929 "Black Thursday," start of stock market crash, Dow Jones down 12.8%
1919 Ross and Keith Smith start a 1 month flight from London to Australia
1919 Volstead Act passed by Congress, start prohibition over Wilson's veto
1918 Giants' 9-0 winning start and Dodgers' 0-9 losing streak are stopped
1917 China declares war on Germany and Austria at start of WW I
1917 Lenin returns to Russia to start Bolshevik Revolution
1915 Boston Braves start move from last place to become world series champs
1914 NL's Boston Braves start climb from last place to world series sweep
1911 Gertrude Niesen, born in New York, actress, Start Cheering
1910 Start of South Africa's 1st F-C game in Aust (v S Aust) It rained
1909 Workers start pouring concrete for Panama Canal
1903 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Creeping Man"
1903 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of 3 Gables"
1903 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Blanched Soldier"
1902 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Red Circle"
1902 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Illustrious Client"
1902 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax"
1902 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of 3 Garidebs"
1902 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place"
1901 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Priory School"
1900 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Problem of Thor Bridge"
1900 Start of the one and only olympic cricket match, in Paris
1900 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of 6 Napoleons"
1899 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure-Charles Augustus Milverton
1898 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Retired Colourman"(BG)
1898 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Dancing Men"
1897 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of The Devil's Foot"
1897 Indian, fans start calling the team Indians (in 1915 becomes official)
1897 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Abbey Grange"
1896 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Missing 3 Quarter"
1896 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Sussex Vampire"
1895 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Bruce Partington Plans"
1895 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Norwood Builder"
1895 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Black Peter"
1895 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Solitary Cyclist"
1895 Start of Sherlock Holmes' "Adventure of 3 Students"
1894 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Golden Pince-Nez"
1894 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Empty House"
1891 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Final Problem"
1890 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Beryl Coronet"
1890 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Red-Headed League"
1890 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Silver Blaze"
1890 Would be start of Eng/Aust Test Cricket at Old Trafford Washout
1890 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge"
1889 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Crooked Man"
1889 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Engineer's Thumb"
1889 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Cardboard Box"
1889 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Naval Treaty"
1889 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Man with the Twisted Lip"
1889 Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure "Boscombe Valley Mystery"
1889 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Copper Beeches"
1889 Start of South Africa's 1st Test, vs. England, Port Elizabeth
1888 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Hound of Baskervilles"
1888 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Sign of Four"
1888 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Greek Interpreter"
1888 Crouching start 1st used by Charles Sherrill of Yale
1888 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Yellow Face"
1888 Start of the Sherlock Holmes Adventure, "A Scandal in Bohemia"
1888 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Valley of Fear"
1887 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Blue Carbuncle"
1887 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Dying Detective"
1887 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "A Case of Identity"
1887 Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure "Five Orange Pips"
1887 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Reigate Squires"
1886 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of 2nd Stain"
1886 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Noble Bachelor"
1886 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Resident Patient"
1884 1st steam cable trams start in highgate
1883 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Speckled Band"
1881 Pogroms against Russian Jews start in Elisabethgrad
1879 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Musgrave Ritual"
1874 Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure, "Gloria Scott"
1867 Bricklayers start working 8-hour days
1863 Battle of Little Rock AK and Start of Chattanooga campaign
1860 Workmen start laying track for Market Street Railroad, San Francisco
1849 Start of 1st Lancashire-Yorkshire clash at Hyde Park, Sheffield
1815 Napoleon and 1,200 leave Elba to start 100-day re-conquest of France
1812 Napoleon occupies Moscow and fires start (fire extinguished on the 19th)
1787 Federalist letters start appearing in New York newspapers
638 Start of Islamic calendar
532 Start of Dionysian Pascal Cycle
463 Start of Lunar Cycle of Hilarius
313 Start of Roman (Pontifical) Indiction
312 Start of Imperial Indication
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