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Historical Events

Results 1 - 72 of 72

1st - India's Bombay state split into Gujarat & Maharashtra states
1st - Pancho Gonzalez retires from tennis
1st - Russia shoots down Francis Gary Powers' U-2 spy plane over Sverdlovsk
2nd - Harry Belafonte 2nd Carnegie Hall performance
2nd - Pulitzer prize awarded to Al Drury (Advice & Consent)
2nd - "American Bandstand's" Dick Clark
2nd - House investigating committee, looking into payola questions
3rd - Harvey Schmidt/Tom Jones' musical "Fantasticks," premieres in NYC
3rd - The Anne Frank House opens in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
4th - 1st great Delta dam closes, North-South Beveland
6th - English prince Margaret marries Antony Armstrong-Jones (Lord Snowdon)
6th - Pres Eisenhower signs Civil Rights Act of 1960
6th - Students attack Dutch embassy in Djakarta
6th - Trotsky's murderer Jacques Mornard (Ramon Mercader), freed in Mexico
7th - "Christine" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 12 performances
7th - "Flower Drum Song" closes at St James Theater NYC after 602 perfs
7th - "From A to Z" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 21 performances
7th - 86th Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack on Venetian Way wins in 2:02.4
7th - Dodgers Larry & Norm Sherry are baseball's 10th brother battery
7th - LA Dodger Norm Sherry's 11th HR wins the game for brother Larry
7th - Leonid Brezhnev replaces Kliment Voroshilov as pres of USSR
7th - Michael Tal beats Botvinnik 12½-8½ for world chess championship
7th - USSR announces Francis Gary Powers confessed to being a CIA spy
8th - USSR & Cuba resume diplomatic relations
8th - Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Betsy Rawls Peach Blossom Golf Open
9th - Nigeria becomes a member of British Commonwealth
9th - US is 1st country to use the birth control pill legally
9th - US send U-2 over USSR
10th - John F Kennedy wins primary in West Virginia
10th - US atomic sub USS Triton completes 1st around world under water trip
10th - USS Nautilus completes 1st circumnavigation of globe under water
11th - French liner "France" launched
11th - Israeli soldiers capture Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires
11th - The first contraceptive pill is made available on the market.
12th - Elvis Presley appears on a Frank Sinatra special
13th - 1st launch of Delta satellite launching vehicle; it failed
13th - Phillies lose 3rd consecutive 1-0 game
13th - WOLE TV channel 12 in Aguadillo, PR
14th - "At the Drop of a Hat" closes at John Golden NYC after 216 perfs
14th - USSR launch 1st (unmanned) space capsule
14th - Virgil Thomson's "Missa Pro Defunctis," premieres in Pottstown NY
15th - Chic Cub Don Cardwell no-hits St Louis Cards, 4-0
15th - Dmitri Shostakovitch's 7th String quartet, premieres in Leningrad
15th - KHVO TV channel 13 in Hilo, HI (ABC) begins broadcasting
15th - Sputnik 4 launched into Earth orbit; later recovery failed
15th - Taxes took 25% of earnings in US
16th - Big 4 summit in Paris collapses as USSR levels spy charges against US
16th - Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser, at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California.
17th - 1st atomic reactor system patents, J W Flora of Canoga Park CA
18th - Eillen Fulton begins playing Lisa on As the World Turn (for > 30 yrs)
18th - Jean Genets "Le Balcon," premieres in Paris
19th - Alan Freed & eight other DJ accused of taking radio payola
19th - Belgian parliament requires rest day for self employed
19th - DJ Alan Freed is accused of bribery in radio payola scandal
19th - Juan Marichal debuts as SF Giant pitcher, beats Phillies on 1 hitter
19th - USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 33,222 m
20th - Baseball game in Milwaukee postponed due to dense fog
21st - 86th Preakness: Bobby Ussery aboard Bally Ache wins in 1:57.6
22nd - Virtually all coastal towns between 37th & 44th parallels severly damaged by tsunami that strikes Hilo, Hawaii at 01:04 AM
23rd - "Finian's Rainbow" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 12 performances
23rd - "Got A Girl" by The Four Preps hits #24
23rd - Israel announces capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina
23rd - WGTV TV channel 8 in Athens-Atlanta, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
23rd - WKBM TV (now WLII) channel 11 in Caguas/San Juan, PR 1st broadcast
23rd - WRCA radio changes call letters back to WNBC (NYC)
24th - 1 millionth Dutch telephone installed
25th - George Crowe's record 11th pinch-hit HR
27th - 1st use of oversized catching mitt (Balt Oriole Clint Courtney)
27th - Balt manager Paul Richards devises oversized catcher's mitt
27th - Military coup overthrows democratic government of Turkey
28th - "Greenwillow" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 95 performances
29th - Everly Brothers "Cathy's Clown" hits #1

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 58 of 58

1st - Albert McDonald, Dartmouth NS, US canoe (alt-Olympics-96)
2nd - Ravi Ratnayeke, cricketer (Sri Lankan pace bowler & opening batsman)
3rd - Amy Steel, American actress
4th - Martyn Moxon, cricketer (England batsman in ten Tests 1986-89)
4th - Andrew Denton, Australian television presenter and comedian
6th - Bart de Boer, Dutch guitarist (Ivy Green)
6th - Julianne Phillips, Lake Oswego Oregon, actress (Frankie Reed-Sisters)
6th - Larry Steinbachek, rock synthesizer (Bronski Beat-Smalltown Boy)
6th - John Flansburgh, American musician
6th - Phyllis Treigle, American soprano
7th - Arnon Ohad, co-pilot (El Al) plane that crashed on Bijlmer Amsterdam
7th - Adam Bernstein, American music video/television director
7th - Almudena Grandes, Spanish novelist
8th - Franco Baresi, Italian footballer
8th - Eric Brittingham, American bassist
9th - Iain Butchart, cricket all-rounder (Zimbabwe, Test v Pak 1995)
9th - Jim Reilly, rocker (Red Rockers)
9th - Tony Gwynn, LA CA, outfielder (San Diego Padres)
10th - Bono Vox, [Paul Hauson], Dublin Ireland, rocker (U2-Joshua Tree)
10th - Merlene Ottey, Jamaican/Italian running star (Olympics)
10th - Tauseef Ahmed, cricketer (leading Pakistani off-spinner of 80's)
10th - Victoria Rowell, Portland ME, actress (Drucilla-Young & Restless)
11th - Jorgen Schult, German FR, discus thrower (world record 1986)
12th - Lisa Martin, Australian marathoner (Olympic-silver 1988)
12th - Lisa Ondieki, Australian marathoner (Olympics-7th-84, 88, 96)
13th - Richard M "Dick" van de Toorn, actor (Pastorale)
13th - Shannon Vessup-Millen, LA Calif, WPVA volleyballer (National-9th-1991)
14th - Carlyle Best, cricketer (WI batsman late 80's)
14th - David Duchovny, actor (X Files)
14th - Frank Nobilo, Auckland NZ, Australasia golfer
14th - Anne Clark, English singer
14th - Steve Williams, American wrestler
15th - Rob Bowman, American film director
16th - Anne Parillaud, Paris France, actress (Subway, Nikita, Innocent Blood)
17th - Fiona Hutchison, Miami Fla, actress (One Life to Live, Guiding Light)
17th - Lou DiBella, American boxing promoter
18th - Jari Kurri, Helsinki Fin, NHL left wing (NY Rangers, LA Kings, Colo)
18th - Tom Jackson, Oakville Ont, Canadian Tour golfer (1991 CPGA Winter)
18th - Yannick Noah, France, tennis player (French 1983)
20th - John Cowsill, rock vocalist (Cowsills-Hair)
20th - Susan Cowsill, Newport RI, rock vocalist (Cowsills-We Can Fly)
20th - Tony Goldwyn, LA Calif, actor (Ghost, Kuffs, Traces of Red)
20th - John Billingsley, American actor
21st - Mark Kevin Carnevale, Annapolis MD, PGA golfer (1992 Chattanooga)
21st - Kent Hrbek, American baseball player
21st - Mohanlal, Indian actor
22nd - Hideaki Anno, Japanese director
24th - Pete Metzelaars, NFL tight end (Carolina Panthers, GB Packers, Lions)
25th - Amy Klobuchar, American politician, junior senator from Minnesota
26th - Rob Murphy, American baseball player
27th - Ray Armsetad, Kirksville Mo, 4X400 runner (Olympic-gold-1984)
27th - Vinodhan John, cricket pace bowler (Sri Lankan in 6 Tests 1983-84)
28th - Allan Green, cricketeer
29th - Adrian Paul, London England, actor (Dance to Win, Highlander)
30th - Stephen "Tea Tower" Duffy, rocker (Lilac Time-Paradise Song)
31st - Chris Elliott, actor/comedian (Get a Life, David Letterman Show)
31st - Norm Johnson, NFL place kicker (Seattle Seahawk, Pitts Steelers)
31st - Peter Winterbottom, British rugby player

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 16 of 16

2nd - Caryl Chessman, rapist executed after 12 years of appeals at 39
5th - Sulho Ranta, composer, dies at 58
6th - Paul Abraham, Hungarian composer (Blume von Hawaii), dies at 67
8th - Hugo Alfven, Swedish composer (Midsommarvaka), dies at 88
8th - J. H. C. Whitehead, British mathematician (b. 1904)
10th - Juri Olescha, writer, dies at 61
10th - Yury Olesha, Russian novelist (b. 1899)
11th - John D Rockefeller Jr, philanthropist, dies at 86
12th - Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, composer, dies at 70
23rd - Georges Claude, engineer/inventor, dies
27th - Edward Brophy, actor (Champ, Dumbo, Great Guy), dies at 65
27th - George Zucco, actor (Fog Island, Black Raven, Desire Me), dies at 74
27th - James Montgomery Flagg, American illustrator (b. 1877)
30th - Boris Pasternak, Russian poet (Dr Zhivago), dies at 70
31st - Willem Elsschot, [Alfons de Ridder], Flemish writer (Kas), dies at 78
31st - Walther Funk, Nazi leader (b. 1890)