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Historical Events

Results 1 - 36 of 36

2nd - Vic Toweel knocks down Danny O'Sullivan 14 times in a title fight
3rd - Cleve Browns last NFL team with no-pass game (beat Phila 13-7)
3rd - Paul Harvey begins his national radio broadcast
3rd - Cleveland Browns' Horace Gillom sets club record with 12 punts
5th - Ezzard Charles KOs Nick Barone in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
5th - Sikkim becomes a protectorate of India
6th - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Mirabile illud
10th - Ralph J Bunche (1st black American) presented Nobel Peace Prize
11th - Baseball owners vote 9-7 not to renew Commissioner Chandler's contract
11th - Hindemiths Concerto for clarinet, premieres
12th - 16th Heisman Trophy Award: Vic Janowicz, Ohio State (HB)
12th - Baseball owners vote to drop 4-year old bonus & high school rule
13th - "Let's Make an Opera" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 5 perfs
13th - James Dean begins his career with an appearance in a Pepsi commercial
14th - "Bless You All" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 84 perfs
14th - UN Gen Assembly establishes High Comm for Refugees (Nobel 1954)
14th - Baseball owners choose Lou Perini (Braves), Phil Wrigley (Cubs), Del Webb (Yankees), & Ellis Ryan (Indians) to select new commissioner
15th - Ezzard Charles KOs Nick Barone to retain heavyweight boxing title
15th - NYC's Port Authority opens
16th - "Let's Make an Opera" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 5 perfs
16th - Truman proclaims state of emergency against "Communist imperialism"
19th - Gen Eisenhower named NATO commander
19th - Tibet's Dalai Lama flees Chinese invasion
20th - "Harvey," starring James Stewart, premieres in NY
21st - "Out of This World" opens at New Century Theater NYC for 157 perfs
21st - Cole Porter's musical "Out of this World," premieres in NYC
22nd - 2 self-propelled trains of Long Island RR collide, killing 77
24th - Cleveland Browns win NFL championship, beat LA 30-28
25th - Cleve Browns beat LA Rams 30-28 in NFL championship game
25th - Dick Tracy marries Tess Truehart
25th - Coronation Stone, taken from Scone in Scotland by Edward I in 1296, stolen from Westminster Abbey & smuggled back to Scotland
26th - Gillette & Mutual buy All Star & World Series rights ($6M for 6 yrs)
28th - Chinese troops cross 38th Parallel, into South Korea
28th - The Peak District becomes the United Kingdom's first National Park.
30th - Vietnam, Laos & Cambodia become Independent states in France Union
31st - Jockeys W Shoemaker & Joe Culmone set record of 388 wins in a year

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 61 of 61

1st - Richard Keith, Lafayette La, actor (Little Ricky-I Love Lucy)
1st - Keith Thibodeaux, American actor and drummer
2nd - Merrill Ashley, St Paul Minn, ballerina (NYC Ballet)
2nd - Amin Saikal, Afghan-Australian academic
3rd - John Akii-bua, Uganda, 400m hurdler (Olympic-gold-1972)
3rd - Muntu Myeza, South African anti-apartheid activist
4th - Jan Rietman, Dutch radio/TV host
4th - Karel van de Graf, Dutch TV host
4th - Pamela Stephenson, Auckland NZ, actress (Superman 3, Sat Night Live)
5th - Camarón de la Isla, Spanish flamenco singer (d. 1992)
5th - Osvaldo Golijov, Argentine-born composer
6th - Daniel Sahuleka, Moluks/Dutch singer/guitarist (Viva la Libertad)
6th - Joe Hisaishi, Japanese composer
8th - Dan Hartman, rocker
8th - Rick Baker, Binghamton NY, special effects makeup artist (Exorcist)
8th - Tim Foli, American baseball player
8th - Dan Hartman, American musician (Edgar Winter Group) (d. 1994)
9th - Joan Armatrading, St Kitts, singer (Back to the Night)
10th - Simon Owen, Wanganui NZ, Australasia golfer
10th - Tom Towles, American actor
11th - Christine Onassis, [Andreadis], NYC, Aristotle's daughter
11th - Christina Onassis, American heiress (d. 1988)
12th - Billy Smith, Ontario, NHL goaltender (NY Islanders)
12th - Rajnikanth, Indian actor
13th - Davey O'List, rocker (Roxy Music)
13th - Heather North, Pasadena Calif, actress (Barefoot Executive)
13th - Wendie Malick, actress (Just Shoot Me)
14th - Vicki Michelle, Essex England, actress (Virgin Witch, Allo Allo)
16th - Caroline Munro, Windsor, actress (Golden Voyage of Sinbad) [or 1/16]
16th - Ieremia Tabai, pres of Kiribati (Gilbert Islands) (1979-91)
16th - Claudia Cohen, American gossip columnist and socialite (d. 2007)
16th - Roy Schuiten, Dutch cyclist (d. 2006)
17th - Carlton Barrett, Jamaicans reggae drummer (Bob Marley & Wailers)
17th - Laurence F. Johnson, American educator
18th - Gillian Armstrong, Melbourne Aust, director (High Tide, Mrs Soffel)
18th - Leonard Maltin, NYC, movie critic (Entertainment Tonight)
18th - Martha Johnson, Toronto Canada, rocker (M+M)
18th - Randy Castillo, American drummer (Ozzy Osbourne) (d. 2002)
20th - Alex Chllton, rocker
21st - Jeffrey Katzenberg, American film producer
21st - Lillebjørn Nilsen, Norwegian singer-songwriter
23rd - Michael C. Burgess, American politician
23rd - Ilchi Lee, Korean educator and author
24th - Libbi Larsen, composer
24th - Peter te Bos, Dutch singer (Claw Boys Claw)
24th - Dana Gioia, American poet
25th - Barry Pearson, NFLer
25th - Manny Trillo, baseball infielder (Phila Phillies)
25th - Karl Rove, former American presidential advisor
26th - Michael Jones, rocker (BT Express-Here Comes the Express)
26th - Victoria Racimo, NYC, actress (Corene-Falcon Crest)
27th - Jack van Gelder, Dutch TV host
27th - Terry Bozzio, rock drummer (Missing Persons-Hello I Love You)
27th - Roberto Bettega, Italian footballer
28th - Alex Chilton, Memphis Tenn, rock guitarist/vocalist (Box Tops)
28th - Øivind Blunck, Norwegian comedian and actor
29th - Jon Polito, Phila, actor (Fire With Fire, Homicide)
30th - Yunus I Mahomed, South African attorney/leader (UDF)
30th - Lewis Shiner, American sci-fi/fantasy author
31st - Inge Helten, German FR, sprinter (Olympic-bronze-1976)
31st - Robert Bryan Gilder, Corvallis OR, PGA golfer (1980 Canadian Open)

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 19 of 19

1st - Ernest John Moeran, British composer, dies at 55
2nd - Dino Lipatti, composer, dies at 33
5th - Shri Aurobindo, Indian guru (b. 1872)
11th - Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer (b. 1893)
13th - Abraham Wald, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1902)
14th - Albrecht Schaeffer, German writer (Heroische Fahrt), dies at 65
15th - Robert Muller-Hartmann, composer, dies at 66
15th - Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Indian political leader, Iron Man of India (b. 1875)
16th - Otto Vrieslander, composer, dies at 70
22nd - Julius Weismann, composer, dies at 70
22nd - Walter Johannes Damrosch, composer, dies at 88
23rd - Vincenzo Tommasini, composer, dies at 72
25th - Xavier Villaurrutia, Mexican poet (Nostalgia de la muerte), dies at 47
25th - Neil Francis Hawkins, British fascist (b. 1903)
26th - Emile Enthoven, composer, dies at 47
26th - James Stephens, Irish poet (Crock of Gold), dies at 68
27th - Max Beckmann, German painter/graphic artist, dies at 66
31st - Charles Koechlin, French composer (Jungle Book), dies at 83
31st - Karl Renner, Austrian Chancellor/pres (1918-20, 45-50), dies at 80