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Historical Events

Results 101 - 200 of 508

Mar 24th - Gracie de Moss wins LPGA Pro-Ladies Golf Championship
Mar 24th - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Yvonne C Sherman
Mar 24th - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button
Mar 27th - Jazz pianist, Erroll Garner's solo concert (Cleve OH)
Mar 27th - Netherlands recognizes People's Republic of China
Mar 27th - WHAS TV channel 11 in Louisville, KY (CBS) begins broadcasting
Mar 28th - 12th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: CCNY beats Bradley 71-68 NYC college becomes 1st to win NCAA & Natl Inv Basketball in same year
Mar 30th - Phototransistor invention announced, Murray Hill, NJ
Apr 2nd - WTAR (now WTKR) TV channel 3 in Norfolk, VA (CBS) begins broadcasting
Apr 4th - Dirk Stikker becomes chairman of OES
Apr 5th - Prague espionage trial against bishops & priests begins
Apr 6th - John F Dulles becomes advisor to US Sect of State Acheson
Apr 8th - "Miss Liberty" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 308 performances
Apr 9th - 14th Golf Masters Championship: Jimmy Demaret wins, shooting a 283
Apr 9th - 4th Tony Awards: Cocktail Party & South Pacific win
Apr 9th - Bob Hope's 1st TV appearance
Apr 11th - Prince Rainier III becomes ruler of Monaco
Apr 11th - US B-29 bomber shot down above Latvia
Apr 14th - 1st edition of British strip "Eagle"
Apr 14th - Doorne's Auto factory opens in Netherlands
Apr 18th - 1st opening night-game, Cards beat Pirates, 4-2
Apr 18th - 1st transatlantic jet passenger trip
Apr 18th - Polish Catholic church & govt sign accord over relations
Apr 18th - Sam Jethroe is 1st black to play for Boston Braves
Apr 18th - Yankees win 15-10 after trailing Red Sox 9-0 in 6th
Apr 19th - 54th Boston Marathon won by Kee Yong Ham of Korea in 2:32:39
Apr 20th - Balt's Memorial Stadium opens - Orioles of International League
Apr 23rd - 1st major league day game completed under lights (Phils 6, Braves 5)
Apr 23rd - 4th NBA Championship: Min Lakers beat Syracuse Nationals, 4 games to 2
Apr 23rd - Nationalist China evacuates Hainan Island
Apr 23rd - Stanley Cup: Detroit Red Wings beat NY Rangers, 4 games to 3
Apr 24th - "Peter Pan" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 320 performances
Apr 24th - Independent republic of South Molukkas declared
Apr 24th - Pres Truman denies there are communists in US govt
Apr 25th - Ambon (proclaims RMS (Republik Maluku Selatan)
Apr 25th - Chuck Cooper becomes 1st black to play in NBA
Apr 26th - Last horse race at Havre de Grace Track in Md, is run
Apr 26th - U of Miami ends William & Mary straight tennis match victories at 82
Apr 27th - "Tickets, Please" opens at Coronet Theater NYC for 245 performances
Apr 27th - South Africa passes Group Areas Act segregating races
Apr 28th - Bhumibol Adulyadej marries Queen Sirikit after their quiet engagement in Lausanne, Switzerland on July 19, 1949.
Apr 30th - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA 144-hole Golf Weathervane
May 1st - Gwendolyn Brooks, is 1st Black awarded a Pulitzer Prize (poetry)
May 1st - Mayor of Brussels reluctantly bans May Day parade
May 1st - New marriage laws enforced in People's Republic China
May 1st - Pulitzer prize awarded to Rodgers & Hammerstein (South Pacific)
May 1st - WJIM (now WLNS) TV channel 6 in Lansing, MI (CBS) begins broadcasting
May 2nd - Carlo Terrons "Giuditta," premieres in Milan
May 2nd - Dutch 1st Chamber accept Laws on immigration
May 2nd - Dutch PM Malan recognizes South-Africa but not China PR
May 5th - Phumiphon Abundet crowned as king Rama IX of Thailand
May 6th - "Great to Be Alive" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 52 perfs
May 6th - 76th Kentucky Derby: William Boland on Middleground wins in 2:01.6
May 6th - Liz Taylor's 1st marriage (Conrad Hilton Jr)
May 8th - Chiang Kai-shek asks US for weapons
May 9th - French Foreign min Robert Schuman calls for European community EGKS
May 9th - Norman Dello Joco's premieres in Bronxville
May 10th - 1st Neth-US telex sent
May 11th - Belgium mine disaster at Borinage, 39 die
May 11th - Eugene Ionesco's "La Cantatrice Chauve," premieres in Paris
May 12th - Darius Milhauds opera "Bolivar," premieres in Paris
May 13th - Diner's Club issues its 1st credit cards
May 13th - The first round of the Formula 1 World Championship is held at Silverstone.
May 14th - Pitts Johnny Hopp goes 6 for 6 including 2 HRs
May 18th - "Liar" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 12 performances
May 18th - Tommy Glaviano makes 3 consecutive errors on grounders
May 19th - NY Times reports of worlds smallest & dumbest mechanical brain
May 20th - 76th Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Hill Prince wins in 1:59.2
May 21st - Vietnamese troops of Ho Chi-Minh attack Cambodia
May 22nd - Celal Bayar elected president of Turkey
May 22nd - Dutch poet Gerrit Achterberg wins PC Hooft prize
May 22nd - Richard Strauss' "4 Last Songs" (4 letzte Lieder) in London
May 25th - Bkln-Battery Tunnel opens in NYC
May 27th - "Arms & the Girl" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 134 performances
May 27th - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Wallace Stevens
May 30th - Patty Berg wins LPGA Eastern Golf Open
May 31st - Due to rain, Indy 500 shortened to 345 miles, Johnny Parson wins
May 31st - Laker takes 14-12-2-8 in Test Cricket trial
Jun 1st - WKZO (now WWMT) TV channel 3 in Kalamazoo, MI (CBS) 1st broadcast
Jun 2nd - ST Louis Browns pitcher Harry Dorish swipes home vs Wash Senators
Jun 3rd - French expedition reaches top of Himalayan peak of Annapurna in Nepal
Jun 4th - CVP wins Belgian parliamentary election
Jun 4th - Dutch cyclist Wim van Est wins Bordeaux-Paris (586 km in 17:25)
Jun 5th - US Supreme Court undermines legal foundations of segregation
Jun 6th - German DR & Poland sign treaty about Oder-Neisse border
Jun 6th - Turkey: The Adhan in Arabic is legalized.
Jun 8th - Boston Red Sox beat St Louis Browns 29-4 (win by record 25 runs)
Jun 8th - Jean Duvieusart becomes Belgian premier
Jun 8th - Test Cricket debut of Ramadhin & Valentine (8-104 1st inn) v England
Jun 8th - Sir Thomas Blamey becomes the only Field Marshal in Australian history.
Jun 10th - 50th US Golf Open: Ben Hogan shoots a 287 at Merion Golf Club PA
Jun 10th - 82nd Belmont: William Boland aboard Middleground wins in 2:28.6
Jun 10th - Germany doesn't annex Oder-Neissegrens
Jun 11th - Ben Hogan wins US Open golf tournament
Jun 12th - 2 Air France DC-4s crash near Bahrain, about 100 die
Jun 12th - Connie Mack named Honorary Manager of the All-Star Game
Jun 13th - South African parliament accept "Groups Area Act"
Jun 15th - Dutch police seize condoms
Jun 17th - 1st kidney transplant (Chicago)
Jun 17th - Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia & Syria sign security pact

Famous Birthdays

Results 101 - 200 of 749

Feb 10th - Gail Rebuck, CEO (Random House)
Feb 10th - Mark Spitz, Modesto Calif, swimmer (Oly-9 gold/silver/bronze-68, 72)
Feb 10th - Mike Rutherford, rocker (Genesis-Against All Odds, Mike & Mechanics)
Feb 11th - Clarence Ellis, NFLer
Feb 11th - Earnest Jim Istook, (Rep-R-Oklahoma)
Feb 11th - Johanna E "Joke" Beerens, actress (Schipper Next to God)
Feb 11th - Rochelle Fleming, US soul vocalist (First Choice, Smarty Pants)
Feb 12th - Michael Ironside, actor, (Starship Troopers)
Feb 12th - Steve Hackett, rock guitarist (Genesis-Against All Odds/GTR)
Feb 13th - Leonard Pascoe, cricketer (dynamic Aussie quick 1977-82)
Feb 13th - Peter Gabriel, Surrey England, rock vocalist (Genesis, In Your Eyes)
Feb 14th - Raymond van het Groenewoud, Belgian vocalist/actor (Brussels by Night)
Feb 14th - Roger Fisher, American musician (Heart)
Feb 15th - Donna Hanover Giuliani, TV news anchor (WPIX)/wife of Mayor Giuliani
Feb 15th - Nikolai Sergeivich Grekov, Russia, cosmonaut
Feb 16th - Peter Hain, British MP
Feb 16th - William Katt, LA Calif, actor (Greatest American Hero, 1st Love)
Feb 16th - Kazuki Tomokawa, Japanese acid-folk singer
Feb 16th - Roman Tam, Hong Kong famous singer (d. 2002)
Feb 17th - Rick Medlocke, rock guitarist/vocalist (Blackfoot)
Feb 18th - John Hughes, director (Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller)
Feb 18th - Michel Gauthier, Quebec politician
Feb 19th - Andy Powell, rocker (Wishbone Ash)
Feb 20th - John Voldstad, Oslo Norway, actor (Darryl-Newhart)
Feb 20th - Walter Becker, NYC, rock bassist (Steely Dan-Peg)
Feb 20th - Ken Shimura, Japanese performer and actor
Feb 22nd - Ellen Greene, Bkln NY, vocalist/actress (Little Shoppe of Horrors)
Feb 22nd - Julie Walters, England, actress (Educating Rita, Prick Up Your Ears)
Feb 22nd - Julius Erving, ABA/NBA forward (Virg Squirers, NY Nets, Phila 76ers)
Feb 22nd - Miou-Miou, Paris France, actress (Dog Day, My Other Husband)
Feb 22nd - Sylvette Miou-Miou, Paris France, actress (Bottom Line, Menage)
Feb 22nd - Lenny Kuhr, Dutch singer
Feb 23rd - Neil Jordan, Sligo Ireland, novelist (Dream of a Beast, Past)
Feb 23rd - Steve Priest, London, rock bassist (Sweet Hayes)
Feb 24th - Cathy Mant, LPGA golfer
Feb 24th - G J M Gazdar, computational linguist
Feb 24th - George Thorogood, American Singer and Guitarist
Feb 25th - Anthony Lloyd, British MP
Feb 25th - Emitt Rhodes, musician (Merry-go-Round)
Feb 25th - Neil Jordan, director (Crying Game)
Feb 25th - Rick Flair, [Richard Fliehr], wrestling champ (NWA/WWF/WCW/AWA)
Feb 25th - Néstor Kirchner, President of Argentina
Feb 25th - Francisco Fernández Ochoa, Spanish alpine skier (d. 2006)
Feb 26th - Jonathan Cain, Chicago, rock guitarist/keyboardist (Journey, Babys)
Feb 27th - Franco Moschino, fashion Designer
Feb 27th - Julia Neuberger, British Rabbi
Feb 28th - Ilene Graff, Bkln NY, actress (Marsha-Mr Belvedere)
Feb 28th - Stephen Chatman, composer
Mar 1st - Shahid Israr, Pakistani cricket wicket-keeper (in one Test v NZ 1976)
Mar 2nd - Karen Carpenter, New Haven Ct, vocalist/drummer (We Only Just Begun)
Mar 2nd - Matthew Laurance, actor (Duet)
Mar 2nd - Mitchel Laurance, actor (LA Law, Not Necessarily the News)
Mar 2nd - Jeffrey Chodorow, American restaurateur and financier
Mar 3rd - Ed Marinaro, actor (Hill Street Blues)
Mar 3rd - Re Styles, rock vocalist (Tubes)
Mar 3rd - Tim Kazurinsky, Johnstown Pa, comedian (SNL, Police Academy 2, 3, 4)
Mar 4th - Emilio Estefan, Cuba, rocker (Miami Sound Machine-1 2 3)
Mar 4th - Judy Dickinson, Akron OH, LPGA golfer (1985 Boston Five Classic)
Mar 4th - Kenny Dalglish, soccer manager
Mar 4th - Rafael Canizares Poey, Alacs Mtnzs Cuba, basketballer (Oly-bronze-72)
Mar 4th - Ofelia Medina, Mexican actress and screenwriter
Mar 4th - Rick Perry, Governor of Texas
Mar 5th - Eugene Fodor, Turkey Creek CO, violinist (1974 Tchaikovsky Award)
Mar 5th - Harvey Jacob Alperin, Minneapolis MN, actor (Cocktail)
Mar 7th - Franco Harris, NFL fullback (Pitts Steelers)
Mar 7th - Mark Pinter, Decorah Iowa, actor (Behind the Screen, Another World)
Mar 7th - Iris Chacon, Puerto Rican singer and dancer
Mar 9th - Danny Sullivan, Indy-car racer (over 10 wins)
Mar 10th - Ted McKenna, rocker (Alex Harvey Band)
Mar 11th - Bobby McFerrin, singer (Don't Worry Be Happy-Grammy 1989)
Mar 11th - Jerry Zucker, Milwaukee WI, director (Airplane, Naked Gun)
Mar 12th - Jon Provost, actor (Timmy-Lassie)
Mar 12th - Willie Duggan, rugby football player
Mar 12th - Javier Clemente, Spanish football manager
Mar 12th - Wheeler Winston Dixon, American filmmaker, critic and author
Mar 13th - Bernard Julien, cricketer (WI left-arm pace all-rounder mid-70's)
Mar 13th - Danny Kirwan, London, rock guitarist (Fleetwood Mac)
Mar 13th - Joe Bugner, Hungarian/British/Australian boxer (European Champ 1971)
Mar 13th - Robert S Woods, Calif, actor (Bo-One Life to Live, Waltons)
Mar 13th - Steve Hill, country vocalist (A Winning Hand)
Mar 13th - William H Macy, Miami FL, actor (Homicide, Water Engine)
Mar 13th - Charles Krauthammer, American political commentator
Mar 14th - Michael Ford, son of pres Gerald & Betty Ford
Mar 15th - Jørgen Olsen, Danish singer
Mar 18th - Brad Dourif, WV, actor (Ragtime, Eyes of Laura Mars, Fatal Beauty)
Mar 18th - James Conlon, NYC, conductor (Cincinnati May Festival-1979)
Mar 18th - John Hartman, Falls Church Va, rock drummer (Doobie Brothers)
Mar 18th - Richard Kretchmer, English artist and historian
Mar 18th - Larry Perkins, Australian racing driver
Mar 20th - William Hurt, Wash DC, actor (Big Chill, Children of a Lesser God)
Mar 21st - Peter Banks, rocker (Genesis)
Mar 21st - Roger Hodgson, rock vocalist (Supertramp-It's Raining Again)
Mar 22nd - Jocky Wilson, Scottish darts player
Mar 23rd - Corrine Clery, Paris France, actress (Moonraker, Yor)
Mar 23rd - P R Scott, Headmaster (Bancroft's School, Woodford Green)
Mar 23rd - Anthony De Longis, American actor
Mar 25th - Chuck Greenberg, American musician (Shadowfax) (d. 1995)
Mar 26th - Ernest Thomas, Gary Ind, actor (Roger-What's Happening!!)
Mar 26th - Graham Barlow, cricketer (England batsman in 3 Tests 1976-77)
Mar 26th - Martin Short, Hamilton Ontario, comedian (SNL, SCTV, 3 Amigos)

Famous Deaths

Results 101 - 146 of 146

Sep 11th - John C Smuts, co-found British RAF/S African PM (1919..48), dies at 80
Sep 11th - S M H Colah, cricketer (69 runs in India's 1st 2 tests 1932-33), dies
Sep 13th - Sara Allgood, Irish actress (Jane Eyre, Spiral Staircase), dies at 56
Sep 15th - Vojtech Rihovsky, composer, dies at 79
Sep 16th - Pedro De Cordoba, actor (Club Havana, Swamp Fire), dies at 68
Sep 23rd - Sam Barry, American basketball player and coach (b. 1892)
Sep 29th - Balthazar H Verhagen, Neth/South African dramatist/writer, dies
Oct 5th - Frederic Lewy, German neurologist (b. 1885)
Oct 9th - George Hainsworth, National Hockey League goaltender (b. 1895)
Oct 13th - Ernest Haycox, American writer (b. 1899)
Oct 19th - Edna St Vincent Millay, poet/dramatist/feminist (Harp Weaver-Pulitzer Prize)
Oct 20th - Henry Lewsis Stimson, US minister of War/gov-gen, dies
Oct 23rd - Al Jolson, [Asa Yoelson], singer/actor (Jazz Singer), dies at 64
Oct 29th - Gustav V, king of Sweden, dies at 92
Oct 31st - Carel T Scharten, Dutch poet/writer (Lost Paradise), dies at 72
Oct 31st - Jozef C Bittremieux, Flemish theologist, dies at 72
Nov 1st - Griselio Torresola, attempted to assassinate Pres Truman, shot dead
Nov 2nd - George Bernard Shaw, Irish author (Pygmalion), dies at 94
Nov 4th - Grover Cleveland Alexander, American baseball player (b. 1887)
Nov 5th - Jacobus J E Hondius, Dutch classicist/graphic artist, dies at 53
Nov 16th - Bob Smith, American doctor, co-founder of the Alcoholics Anonymous (b. 1879)
Nov 18th - Gerardus van de Lion, Dutch minister of Education, dies at 60
Nov 19th - Thomas Wood, composer, dies at 57
Nov 20th - Francesco Cilea, composer, dies at 84
Nov 25th - Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1873)
Nov 25th - Gustaf John Ramstedt, Finland-Swedish linguist and diplomat (b. 1873)
Nov 26th - Hedwig Courts-Mahler, German author, dies at 83
Dec 1st - Ernest John Moeran, British composer, dies at 55
Dec 2nd - Dino Lipatti, composer, dies at 33
Dec 5th - Shri Aurobindo, Indian guru (b. 1872)
Dec 11th - Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer (b. 1893)
Dec 13th - Abraham Wald, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1902)
Dec 14th - Albrecht Schaeffer, German writer (Heroische Fahrt), dies at 65
Dec 15th - Robert Muller-Hartmann, composer, dies at 66
Dec 15th - Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Indian political leader, Iron Man of India (b. 1875)
Dec 16th - Otto Vrieslander, composer, dies at 70
Dec 22nd - Julius Weismann, composer, dies at 70
Dec 22nd - Walter Johannes Damrosch, composer, dies at 88
Dec 23rd - Vincenzo Tommasini, composer, dies at 72
Dec 25th - Xavier Villaurrutia, Mexican poet (Nostalgia de la muerte), dies at 47
Dec 25th - Neil Francis Hawkins, British fascist (b. 1903)
Dec 26th - Emile Enthoven, composer, dies at 47
Dec 26th - James Stephens, Irish poet (Crock of Gold), dies at 68
Dec 27th - Max Beckmann, German painter/graphic artist, dies at 66
Dec 31st - Charles Koechlin, French composer (Jungle Book), dies at 83
Dec 31st - Karl Renner, Austrian Chancellor/pres (1918-20, 45-50), dies at 80