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Historical Events
Events 901 - 1,000 of 1,326
1975-06-10 - Rockefeller panel reports on 300,000 illegal CIA files on Americans
1975-06-26 - Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial.
1975-09-06 - Tawny Elaine Godin (NY), 18, crowned 48th Miss America 1976
1975-09-29 - Sharon Dahlonega Raiford Bush becomes American television's first African-American weathercaster.
1975-10-26 - Mary Bea Porter wins LPGA Golf Inns of America
1975-11-03 - Good Morning America premieres on ABC (David Hartman & Nancy Dussault)
1975-11-15 - Miss Teenage America Pageant
1975-11-28 - As the World Turns and The Edge of Night, the final two American soap operas that had resisted going to pre-taped broadcasts, air their last live episodes.
1976-01-26 - David Mamet's "American Buffalo," premieres in NYC
1976-05-16 - Sue Roberts wins LPGA American Defender Golf Classic
1976-07-10 - One American and three British mercenaries are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.
1976-09-11 - Dorothy Kathleen Benham (Minn), 20, crowned 49th Miss America 1977
1976-09-18 - Rev Sun Myung Moon holds "God Bless America" convention
1976-10-21 - American Saul Bellow wins Nobel Prize for Literature
1976-11-27 - Miss Teenage America Pageant
1976-12-10 - Wings release triple album "Wings Over America"
1977-02-13 - Eric Heiden is 1st American to win world speed skating championship
1977-02-13 - Pam Higgins wins LPGA American Cancer Society Golf Classic
1977-03-01 - Bank of America adopts the name VISA for their credit cards
1977-04-24 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA American Defender Golf Tournament
1977-08-03 - United States Senate Hearing on MKULTRA.
1977-09-10 - Susan Perkins (Ohio), crowned 50th Miss America 1978
1977-09-18 - Courageous (US) sweeps Australia (Aust) in 24th America's Cup
1977-11-25 - Miss Teenage America Pageant
Singer-Songwriter Stevie Wonder
1978-01-16 - 5th American Music Award: Stevie Wonder, Fleetwood Mac & C Twitty
1978-01-19 - The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW's plant in Emden. Beetle production in Latin America would continue until 2003.
1978-02-08 - Proceedings of the United States Senate are broadcast on radio for the first time.
1978-02-12 - Debbie Austin wins LPGA American Cancer Society Golf Classic
1978-03-30 - "History of the American Film" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 21 perfs
1978-04-16 - "History of the American Film" closes at ANTA NYC after 21 perfs
1978-04-23 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA American Defender Golf Classic
1978-05-03 - The first unsolicited bulk commercial e-mail (which would later become known as "spam") is sent by a Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States.
1978-07-09 - American Nazi Party, holds a rally at Marquette Park, Chicago
1978-08-17 - 1st successful crossing of the Atlantic by balloon (3 Americans)
1978-09-09 - Kylene Barker (Virginia), crowned 51st Miss America 1979
1979-01-12 - 6th American Music Award: Barry Manilow, Linda Ronstadt win
1979-01-18 - Peter Jenkins finishes "A Walk Across America," Florence Oregon
1979-02-14 - In Kabul, Muslims kidnap the American ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs who is later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police.
1979-04-14 - Susan Horvath, of Penn, crowned America's Young Woman of the Year
Musician Barry Manilow
1979-05-25 - American Airlines DC-10 crashes on takeoff from Chicago killing 273 including 2 on the ground
1979-06-18 - SALT II is signed by the United States and the Soviet Union.
1979-08-05 - Varetta Shankle (Miss), crowned 12th Miss Black America
1979-09-08 - Cheryl Prewitt (Miss), 22, crowned 52nd Miss America 1980
1979-11-04 - 63 Americans taken hostage at US Embassy (Teheran, Iran)
1979-11-08 - ABC broadcasts "Iran Crisis: American Held Hostage" with Frank Reynolds (forerunner to "Nightline")
1980-04-13 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA American Defender/WRAL Golf Classic
1980-07-02 - Julie Marie Bryan, 18, of Georgia, crowned America's Young Woman of Yr
1980-07-11 - American hostage Richard I Queen freed by Iran
1980-08-12 - Signature of the Montevideo Treaty establishing the Latin American Integration Association.
1980-09-06 - Susan Powell (Okla), 21, crowned 53rd Miss America 1981
1980-12-02 - 4 American Maryknoll nuns killed by death squads in El Salvador
1980-12-24 - Americans remembered Iran hostages by shining lights for 417 seconds
1981-01-19 - US & Iran sign agreement to release 52 American hostages
1981-01-20 - 52 Americans held hostage in Iran for 444 days freed
1981-01-25 - 52 Americans held hostage by Iran for 444 days arrived back in US
Country Singer Kenny Rogers
1981-01-30 - 8th American Music Award: Kenny Rogers wins
1981-04-04 - Henry Cisneros becomes 1st Mexican-American mayor (San Antonio)
1981-04-12 - Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA American Defender/WRAL Golf Classic
1981-06-18 - Kimberley Ann Smith, of NC, 17, crowned America's Junior Miss
1981-06-23 - Amanda Maccaro becomes 1st American to win Russian Ballet Competition
1981-06-27 - Pamela Jenks, 21, crowned 14th Miss Black America
1981-08-24 - American Charles Chapman is 1st black to swim English Channel
1981-09-01 - RKO radio network premieres America Overnight talk show
1981-09-07 - West Tampa Fl defeats Rich Va, 6-4 to win American Legion World Series
1981-09-12 - Elizabeth Ward (Arkansas), 20, crowned 54th Miss America 1982
1981-10-05 - Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg becomes an honarary American
1981-10-14 - Citing official misconduct in the investigation and trial, Amnesty International charges the U.S. government with holding Richard Marshall of the American Indian Movement as a political prisoner.
1981-11-30 - Cold War: In Geneva, representatives from the United States and the Soviet Union begin to negotiate intermediate-range nuclear weapon reductions in Europe (the meetings ended inconclusively on December 17).
1981-12-28 - The first American test-tube baby, Elizabeth Jordan Carr, is born in Norfolk, Virginia.
1982-01-17 - "Cold Sunday" in the United States would see temperatures fall to their lowest levels in over 100 years in numerous cities.
1982-01-25 - 9th American Music Award: Kenny Rogers win
1982-03-07 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA American Express Sun City Golf Classic
1982-03-10 - The United States places an embargo on Libyan petroleum imports because of their support of terrorist groups.
1982-06-22 - Susan Lea Hammett, of Miss, 18, crowned 25th America's Junior Miss
1982-06-30 - NJ NHL franchise officially named Devils by fan balloting, runner-up names are Blades, Meadowlanders & Americans
1982-07-19 - David S Dodge becomes 1st American hostage in Lebanon
1982-09-01 - The United States Air Force Space Command is founded.
1982-09-11 - Debbie Maffett (California), 25, crowned 55th Miss America 1983
1982-11-01 - Honda becomes the first Asian automobile company to produce cars in the United States with the opening of their factory in Marysville, Ohio. The Honda Accord is the first car produced there.
1982-12-23 - The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces it has identified dangerous levels of dioxin in the soil of Times Beach, Missouri.
1983-01-17 - 10th American Music Award: Kenny Rogers
1983-02-23 - The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces its intent to buy out and evacuate the dioxin-contaminated community of Times Beach, Missouri.
1983-06-21 - Stephanie Kay Ashmore, of Alabama, 18, crowned America's Junior Miss
1983-07-21 - US announces Lebanon freed American hostage David Dodge
1983-07-24 - Sonya Robinson, (Milwaukee), 23, crowned 16th Miss Black America
1983-08-30 - Guion Bluford becomes 1st African-American astronaut in space
1983-09-04 - Greg LeMond becomes only American to win cycling's Road Championship
1983-09-17 - Vanessa Williams (NY), 20, crowned 56th Miss America 1984, 1st black
1983-09-26 - Australia II wins America's Cup yacht race (1st non-US winner)
1983-10-01 - Denise Wallace, 18, of Virginia crowned Miss Teen of America
1983-11-20 - "Marilyn: An American Fable" opens at Minskoff NYC for 16 perfs
1983-12-03 - "Marilyn: An American Fable" closes at Minskoff NYC after 16 perfs
Pop Star Madonna
1984-01-14 - Madonna 1st sings "Holiday" on American Bandstand
1984-01-16 - 11th American Music Award: Michael Jackson
1984-02-16 - Bill Johnson becomes 1st American to win Olympic downhill skiing gold
1984-03-07 - The United States attacks San Juan del Sur in Nicaragua.
1984-04-16 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Mary Oliver for "American Primitive"
1984-06-20 - Amber Kvanli, of Minnesota, crowned America's Junior Miss
1984-06-25 - Lydia Garrett, 24, crowned 17th Miss Black America
1984-07-20 - Vanessa Williams is asked to resign as Miss America
Famous Birthdays
Birthdays 901 - 1,000 of 9,105
1896-08-17 - Leslie Groves, American military engineer (d. 1970)
1896-09-08 - Howard Dietz, American lyricist and librettist (d. 1983)
1896-09-10 - Adele Astaire, American dancer and entertainer (d. 1981)
1896-10-01 - Ted Healy, American actor and comedian (d. 1937)
1896-11-28 - Dawn Powell, American writer (d. 1965)
1896-11-29 - Yakima Canutt, American actor and stuntman (d. 1986)
1896-12-15 - Betty Smith, American author (d. 1972)
1897-02-02 - Howard Johnson, American hotelier (d. 1972)
1897-02-06 - Louis Buchalter, Jewish American mobster (d. 1944)
1897-02-12 - Vola Vale, American actress (d. 1970)
1897-02-19 - Alma Rubens, American actress (d. 1931)
1897-02-27 - Marian Anderson, American contralto (d. 1993)
1897-03-15 - Jackson Scholz, American runner (d. 1986)
1897-03-17 - Jozef C. Mazur, American stained glass artist and painter (d. 1970)
1897-04-14 - Claire Windsor, American actress (d. 1972)
1897-04-26 - Eddie Eagan, American sportsman (d. 1967)
1897-05-02 - J. Fred Coots, American songwriter (d. 1985)
1897-05-11 - Robert E. Gross, American businessman (d. 1961)
1897-05-14 - Ed Ricketts, American marine biologist (d. 1948)
1897-05-19 - Frank Luke, American World War I pilot (d. 1918)
1897-06-16 - Elaine Hammerstein, American actress (d. 1948)
1897-06-22 - Edmund A. Chester, American broadcaster and journalist (d. 1973)
1897-06-24 - Daniel K. Ludwig, American shipping magnate (d. 1992)
1897-07-10 - Lloyd Goodrich, American Arts Museum director
1897-07-10 - Jack "Legs" Diamond", American bootlegger (d. 1931)
1897-07-11 - Bull Connor, American law enforcement official (d. 1973)
1897-08-09 - Ralph Wyckoff, American pioneer in x-ray crystallography
1897-08-10 - John Galbreath, American businessman (d. 1988)
1897-08-24 - Fred Rose, American songwriter and publishing executive (d. 1954)
1897-08-31 - Fredric March, American actor (d. 1975)
1897-09-03 - Sally Benson, American writer (d. 1972)
1897-09-29 - Herbert Agar, American journalist and historian (d. 1980)
1897-10-18 - Isabel Briggs Myers, American psychological theorist (d. 1980)
1897-10-30 - Rex Cherryman, American actor (d. 1928)
1897-11-08 - Dorothy Day, New York, American journalist, social activist, and devout Catholic convert
1897-11-13 - Gertrude Olmstead, American actress (d. 1975)
1897-11-17 - Frank Fay, American actor (d. 1961)
1897-11-19 - Quentin Roosevelt, son of United States President Theodore Roosevelt (d. 1918)
1897-11-27 - Vito Genovese, American mafioso (d. 1969)
1897-12-02 - Rewi Alley, NZ, writer (Americans in China)
1897-12-05 - Nunnally Johnson, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1977)
1897-12-18 - Fletcher Henderson, American arranger and composer (d. 1952)
1898-01-06 - Charles E. Pont, American artist (d. 1971)
1898-01-09 - Wally Baker, American supercentenarian
1898-01-16 - Margaret Booth, American film editor (d. 2002)
1898-02-07 - Dock Boggs, American musician (d. 1971)
1898-02-15 - Allen Woodring, American runner (d. 1982)
1898-03-18 - Jake Swirbul, American aircraft manufacturer (d. 1960)
1898-04-01 - William James Sidis, American genius (d. 1944)
1898-04-04 - Agnes Ayres, American actress (d. 1940)
1898-04-12 - Lily Pons, American soprano (d. 1976)
1898-05-23 - Scott O'Dell, American author (d. 1989)
1898-06-19 - James Joseph Sweeney, American Catholic prelate (d. 1968)
1898-06-21 - Donald C. Peattie, American botanist and writer (d. 1964)
1898-07-14 - A. B. "Happy" Chandler, American politician and baseball commissioner (d. 1991)
1898-07-22 - Stephen Vincent Benét, American author (d. 1943)
1898-07-23 - Jacob Marschak, American economist (d. 1977)
1898-07-28 - Lawrence Gray, American actor (d. 1970)
1898-08-30 - Shirley Booth, NYC, American actress (Hazel)
1898-09-10 - Waldo Semon, American inventor (d. 1999)
1898-09-16 - H.A. Rey, American children's author, creator of "Curious George" (d. 1977)
1898-09-22 - Katherine Alexander, American actress (d. 1981)
1898-09-25 - Robert Brackman American artist (d. 1980)
1898-10-03 - Leo McCarey, American film director (d. 1969)
1898-12-05 - Grace Moore, Slabtown, Tennessee, American soprano (One Night of Love)
1898-12-24 - Baby Dodds, American jazz drummer (d. 1959)
1899-01-11 - Eva Le Gallienne, English-American actress (d. 1991)
1899-01-13 - Kay Francis, American actress (d. 1968)
1899-02-22 - George O'Hara, American actor (d. 1966)
1899-02-23 - Norman Taurog, American film director (d. 1981)
1899-03-15 - George Brent, American film actor (d. 1979)
Actress Gloria Swanson (1899-03-27)
1899-03-27 - Gloria Swanson, Chicago Illinois, American actress (Sunset Boulevard, Queen Kelly)
1899-03-28 - Harold B. Lee, American religious leader (d. 1973)
1899-03-28 - August Anheuser Busch, Jr., brewing magnate and American baseball executive (d. 1989)
1899-04-19 - George O'Brien, American actor (d. 1985)
1899-05-08 - Arthur Q. Bryan, American voice actor (d. 1959)
1899-06-27 - Juan Trippe, American airline entrepreneur (d. 1981)
1899-06-30 - Madge Bellamy, American actress (d. 1990)
1899-07-10 - John Gilbert, American actor (d. 1936)
1899-07-17 - James Cagney, New York City, NY, American actor (Yankee Doodle Dandy)
1899-10-01 - Ernest Haycox, American writer (d. 1950)
1899-11-24 - Ward Morehouse, American theater critic and newspaper columnist (d. 1966)
1900-01-04 - James Bond, American ornithologist (d. 1989)
1900-01-09 - Richard Halliburton, American adventurer (presumed dead 1939)
1900-01-28 - Alice Neel, American artist (d. 1984)
1900-03-04 - Herbert Biberman, American screenwriter (d. 1971)
1900-03-09 - Howard Aiken, American computing pioneer (d. 1973)
1900-05-14 - Hal Borland, American author (d. 1978)
1900-05-28 - Tommy Ladnier, American musician (d. 1939)
1900-07-06 - Frederica Sagor Maas, American playwright and screen writer (d. 2012)
1900-07-07 - Earle E. Partridge, United States Air Force general (d. 1990)
1900-07-10 - Mitchell Parish, American lyricist (d. 1993)
1900-07-13 - George Lewis, American musician (d. 1969)
1900-07-29 - Don Redman, American musician (d. 1964)
1900-08-06 - Cecil H. Green, American geophysicist (d. 2003)
1900-08-11 - Charles William Paddock, Texas, American athlete and 100m record breaker (Olympic-2 gold-1920) (d. 1943)
1900-08-11 - Philip Phillips, American archaeologist (d. 1994)
1900-08-18 - Glenn Albert Black, American archaeologist (d. 1964)
1900-08-23 - Malvina Reynolds, American folk singer/songwriter (d. 1978)
1900-09-11 - D. W. Brooks, American farmer and businessman (d. 1999)
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Famous Divorces
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Famous Deaths
Deaths 901 - 1,000 of 3,949
1969-12-13 - Spencer Williams, Jr., American actor (b. 1893)
1970-01-17 - Simon Kovar, Russian-American bassoonist (b. 1890)
1970-01-24 - Caresse Crosby, American poet (b. 1891)
1970-02-02 - Lawrence Gray, American actor (b.1898)
1970-02-20 - Sophie Treadwell, American playwright and journalist (b. 1885)
1970-02-23 - Hirsch Jacobs, American thoroughbred horse trainer and owner (b. 1904)
1970-03-01 - Lucille Hegamin, American singer and entertainer (b. 1894)
1970-03-29 - Anna Louise Strong, American communist journalist (b. 1885)
1970-04-05 - Alfred Henry Sturtevant, American geneticist (b. 1891)
1970-04-06 - Sam Sheppard, American accused murderer (b. 1923)
1970-04-16 - Richard Neutra, American architect (b. 1892)
1970-05-11 - Johnny Hodges, American musician (b. 1906)
1970-06-08 - Abraham Maslow, American psychologist (b. 1908)
1970-06-11 - Earl Grant, American musician and singer (b. 1931)
1970-06-11 - William 'Billy Batts' Devino, American crime figure (b. 1921)
1970-06-23 - Roscoe Turner, American aviator and racer (b. 1895)
1970-06-27 - Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler (b. 1902)
1970-07-04 - Harold Vanderbilt, America Cup winner (1930, 34, 37), dies at 85
1970-07-04 - Barnett Newman, American artist (b. 1905)
1970-07-31 - Walter Briggs, Jr., American sports executive (b. 1912)
1970-08-30 - Del Moore, American comedian (b. 1916)
1970-10-17 - Vola Vale, American actress (b. 1897)
1970-12-29 - Marie Menken, American experimental filmmaker and socialite (b. 1909)
1971-01-02 - Willard Maas, American educator and experimental filmmaker (b. 1906)
1971-01-04 - Arthur Ford, American clairaudient (b. 1896)
1971-01-19 - Harry Shields, American musician (b. 1899)
1971-01-24 - Bill W., American co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (b. 1895)
1971-04-12 - Wynton Kelly, American jazz pianist (b. 1931)
1971-05-30 - Audie Murphy, most decorated American WW II hero/actor (Sierra), killed in plane crash at 46
1971-06-15 - Wendell Meredith Stanley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
1971-06-18 - Thomas Gomez, American actor (b. 1905)
1971-06-30 - Herbert Biberman, Jewish American screenwriter and film director (b. 1900)
1971-07-04 - August Derleth, American writer and editor (b. 1909)
Jazz Trumpeter Louis Armstrong (1971-07-06)
1971-07-06 - Louis Armstrong, American jazz trumpeter and singer, dies at 69
1971-07-07 - Ub Iwerks, American artist, director, and cartoonist (b1901)
1971-07-28 - Charles E. Pont, American artist (b. 1898)
1971-08-25 - Ted Lewis, American musician and entertainer (b. 1890)
1971-09-23 - J. W. Alexander, American mathematician (b. 1888)
1971-10-15 - Sylvester Magee, last living American slave and oldest person who ever lived, dies at 130
1971-10-26 - Vincent Coleman, American actor (b. 1901)
1971-11-15 - Edie Sedgwick, American actress and model (b. 1943)
1971-11-16 - Edie Sedgwick, American socialite and heiress (b. 1940)
1971-12-11 - Maurice "Mac" McDonald, American fast-food pioneer (b. 1902)
1971-12-30 - Melba Rae, American actress (Search for Tomorrow) (b. 1922)
1971-12-31 - Pete Duel American actor (b. 1940)
1971-12-31 - Marin Sais, American actress (b. 1890)
1972-01-16 - Teller Ammons, American politician (b. 1895)
1972-01-17 - Betty Smith, American writer and singer (b. 1896)
1972-01-19 - Michael Rabin, American violinist (b. 1936)
1972-02-02 - Natalie Clifford Barney, American writer (b. 1876)
1972-02-19 - Tedd Pierce, American animator (b. 1906)
1972-02-27 - Pat Brady, American actor and singer (b. 1914)
1972-03-27 - Sharkey Bonano, American musician (b. 1904)
1972-03-30 - Gabriel Heatter, American radio commentator (b. 1890)
1972-04-12 - C W Ceram, [Kurt Marek], German/US writer (1st American), dies at 57
1972-05-04 - Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1886)
1972-05-13 - Dan Blocker, American actor (Hoss-Bonanza), dies at 43
1972-05-31 - Walter Freeman, American physician (b. 1895)
1972-07-09 - Robert Weede, American baritone (b. 1903)
1972-07-10 - Lovie Austin, American jazz pianist (b. 1887)
1972-07-21 - Ralph Craig, American athlete (b. 1889)
1972-07-28 - Helen Traubel, American soprano (b. 1903)
1972-08-02 - Helen Hoyt, American poet (b. 1887)
1972-08-08 - Andrea Feldman, American actor (b. 1948)
1972-08-14 - Oscar Levant, actor (American in Paris, Dance of Life), dies at 65
1972-09-11 - Max Fleischer, American animator (b. 1883)
1972-10-17 - Billy Williams, American singer (b. 1910)
1972-10-26 - Igor Sikorsky, Russian-American aviation pioneer and helicopter builder, dies at 83
1972-11-14 - Martin Dies, (Rep)/1st chairman of House Un-American, dies
1972-11-29 - Carl Stalling, American composer (b. 1888)
1972-12-03 - Bill Johnson, American musician (b. 1872)
1972-12-05 - Kenny Dorham [McKinley], American jazz trumpeter, dies at 48
1972-12-09 - Louella Parsons, American gossip columnist (b. 1881)
1973-01-15 - Coleman Francis, American film director (b. 1919)
1973-01-23 - Kid Ory, American jazz trombonist (b. 1886)
1973-01-26 - Jay C. Higginbotham, American musician (b. 1906)
1973-02-23 - Dickinson W. Richards, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1895)
1973-03-10 - Eugene 'Bull' Connor, American segregationist (b. 1897)
1973-05-11 - Lex Barker, American actor (b. 1919)
1973-05-12 - Art Pollard, American racecar driver (b. 1927)
1973-07-20 - Robert Smithson, American land artist (b. 1938)
1973-09-02 - Carl Dudley, American film director (b. 1910)
1973-10-14 - Edmund A. Chester, American broadcaster and journalist (b. 1897)
1973-10-18 - Margaret Caroline Anderson, American magazine publisher (b. 1886)
1973-11-21 - Thomas Pelly, American politician (b. 1902)
1973-11-24 - John Neihardt, American writer (b. 1881)
1973-11-27 - Frank Christian, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1887)
1973-12-03 - Emile Christian, American musician (b. 1895)
1974-01-02 - Tex Ritter, American actor (b. 1905)
1974-02-22 - Samuel Byck, American attempted assassin of Richard Nixon (b. 1930)
1974-02-23 - Harry Ruby, American composer and writer (b. 1895)
1974-03-01 - Bobby Timmons, American jazz pianist (b. 1935)
1974-03-05 - Billy De Wolfe, American actor (b. 1907)
1974-03-28 - Arthur Crudup, American blues singer and guitarist, dies of heart attack at 68
1974-06-30 - Vannevar Bush, American engineer and politician (b. 1890)
1974-07-14 - Carl Spaatz, American World War II general and 1st Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force, dies at 83
1974-08-06 - Gene Ammons, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1925)
1974-08-24 - Alexander de Seversky, Russian-American aviation pioneer (b. 1894)
1974-08-31 - William Pershing Benedict, American pilot
1974-09-03 - Harry Partch, American composer (b. 1901)
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