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Historical Events

Results 1 - 48 of 48

1st - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open
2nd - Morley Safer's sends 1st Vietnam report indicating we are losing
4th - Cook Islands enters into free association with New Zealand
5th - Dave Marr wins PGA title
6th - 32nd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Cleveland 24, All-Stars 16 (68,000)
6th - Beatles release "Help" album in UK
6th - Federal Voting Rights Act guarantees black voting rights
6th - Indian troops invade Pakistan
6th - LBJ signs Voting Rights Act, guaranteeing voting rights for blacks
8th - Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Milwaukee Golf Open
8th - Singapore leaves Malaysian Federation
9th - Fire in Titan II silo in Searcy Arkansas, 53 die
9th - Singapore gains independence from Malaysia (National Day)
10th - Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 82 km
11th - 6 day insurrection starts in Watts section of Los Angeles
11th - Beatles movie "Help" opens in NYC
11th - Watts riots begin in Southeast LA, lasts 6 days
12th - Elizabeth Lane becomes 1st female British supreme court justice
12th - Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club, Inc applies for a NL franchise
12th - Race riot in West Side of Chicago
14th - Beatles tape an appearance for Ed Sullivan Show
14th - Continental Football League plays 1st games
14th - Sonny & Cher's "I Got You Babe" hits #1
15th - 47th PGA Championship: Dave Marr shoots a 280 at Laurel Valley GC PA
15th - Beatles play to 55,000 at Shea Stadium
15th - Mary Mills wins LPGA St Louis Golf Open
15th - Japanese community of SF holds Masanori Murakami Day at Candlestick Park to honor 1st Japanese player to play in major leagues
16th - AFL awards its 1st expansion franchise (Miami Dolphins)
18th - Hank Aaron loses a HR, because he hit it out of batter's box
18th - Orioles' Brooks Robinson hits into his record tying (George Sisler)
19th - Auschwitz trials end with 6 life sentences
19th - Cincinnati Red Jim Maloney 2nd no-hitter of year beats Chic Cubs, 1-0
20th - Rolling Stones release "Satisfaction" (their 1st #1 US hit)
20th - Eddie Mathews & Hank Aaron (1954-65) pass Babe Ruth-Lou Gehrig hitting 772 HRs while playing together on the same team
21st - Gemini 5 launched into Earth orbit (2 astronauts)
21st - Romania adopts constitution
21st - The Crusher beats Mad Dog Vachon in St Paul, to become NWA champ
22nd - Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Omaha Jaycee Golf Open
22nd - LA Dodger pitcher Juan Marachal hits SF Giant catcher John Roseboro on the head with his bat causing a 14 minute brawl
27th - Beatles spend an evening with Elvis Presley
27th - WTVI TV channel 42 in Charlotte, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting
28th - Bob Dylan booed for playing electric guiter at a concert in New York's Forest Hills
29th - Astronauts Cooper & Conrad complete 120 Earth orbits in Gemini 5
29th - Willie Mays sets NL record for HRs in a month with his 17th of August
30th - Casey Stengel announces his retirement after 55 years in baseball
30th - Section of Allalin glacier wipes out construction site at Mattmark Dam near Saas-Fee, Switzerland
31st - House of Reps joins Senate establish Dept of Housing & Urban Develop
31st - The Aero Spacelines Super Guppy Aircraft makes its first flight.

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 90 of 90

1st - Sam Mendes, British stage and film director
2nd - Takayuki Iizuka, wrestler (NJPW)
4th - Crystal Chappell, Silver Spring Md, actress (Carly-Days of our Lives)
4th - Trena Trice, WNBA forward/center (NY Liberty)
4th - Dennis Lehane, American crime writer
4th - Fredrik Reinfeldt, Swedish politician
5th - M V Sridhar, cricketer (score 366 for Hyderabad v Andhra Pradesh 1994)
5th - Motoi Sakuraba, Japanese composer
5th - Scott William Winters, American actor
6th - Brian Kinchen, NFL tight end (Cleve Browns, Baltimore Ravens)
6th - David Robinson, Fla, NBA center (San Antonio Spurs, Olympic-gold-92)
6th - Yuki Kajiura, Japanese composer
6th - Juliane Köhler, German actress
6th - Mark Speight, British television presenter (d. 2008)
6th - Vincent Wells, England cricketer
7th - Caroline S Keggi, El Paso TX, LPGA golfer (1994 Dinah Shore-19th)
7th - Elizabeth Manley, Canada, figure skater (Olympics-Silver-88)
8th - Akitoshi Saito, wrestler (NJPW)
8th - Angus Fraser, cricketer (England right-arm pace bowler 1989- )
8th - Kate Langbroek, Australian media personality
8th - Aaron Abeyta, American musician
9th - Ezra Polley, Georgetown Kentucky, pitcher (NY Yankees)
9th - John Smith, Del City Okla, 62kg freestyle wrestler (Oly-2 gold-88, 92)
9th - Kyle Kyle, Kensington Pa, rock bassist (Bang Tango-Dancin' on Coals)
10th - Carolyn Schuwalow, Australian distance runner (Olympics-96)
10th - John Starks, NBA guard (NY Knicks)
10th - Patricia Spurgin, US scherpschutser (Olympics-gold-1984)
10th - Claudia Christian, American actress
10th - Mike E. Smith, American jockey
11th - Marc Bergevin, Canadian professional ice hockey player
11th - Shinji Mikami, Japanese video game designer (Resident Evil)
11th - Viola Davis, American actress
11th - Embeth Davidtz, American actress
12th - Angeliki Kanellopoulou, Greece, tennis star
12th - Barry Manuel, Mamou LA, pitcher (Montreal Expos)
12th - Peter Krause, American actor
13th - Cris Dishman, NFL cornerback (Houston Oilers, Wash Redskins)
13th - Leo Groenewegen, CFL guard (Edmonton Eskimos)
13th - Mark Lemke, Utica NY, infielder (Atlanta Braves)
13th - Hayato Matsuo, Japanese composer
14th - Emmanuelle Seigner, Paris France, actress (The Smile)
14th - Lynette Falls, Ridgewood NJ, Miss NJ-America-1991
15th - Jon Evans, Nottimgham ENG, Australasia golfer
15th - Rob Thomas, American writer
16th - Brian McDonough, Long Beach Calif, points cyclist (Olympics-19th-96)
16th - Eric van der Luer, soccer player (Roda JC)
16th - Todd McNair, NFL running back/kick returner (Houston Oilers)
16th - Xavier Hernandez, Port Arthur TX, pitcher (Houston Astros)
17th - Dottie Mochrie Pepper, Saratoga Springs NY, golfer (1992 Dinah Shore)
17th - Fred Grim, soccer player (Cambuur L, Ajax)
17th - Glen Goldsmith, rocker (What You See is What You Get)
17th - Robert Manry, Cleve newspaper editor/sailed the Atlantic (in craft)
17th - Steve Gorman, Hopkinsville Ky, rock drummer (Black Crowes)
18th - Koji Kikkawa, Japanese singer
18th - Jim Florentine, American comedian
19th - James Tomkins, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
19th - Kevin Dillon, NY, actor (Heaven Help Us, Remote Control, Platoon)
19th - Kyra Sedgwick, actress (Phenomenon, Singles, Julia-Another World)
19th - Maria de Medeiros, Portuguese actress and director
20th - Joe Durigon, jockey
20th - KRS-One, American rapper
21st - Jim Bullinger, New Orleans LA, pitcher (Chic Cubs)
21st - Caryn Mower, American actress, stuntwoman and former professional wrestler
22nd - Patricia Hy-Boulais, Cambodia, tennis star (1994 Auckland doubles)
22nd - Tom Gibis, American voice actor
23rd - Anne Minter, Austratia, tennis star
23rd - Roger Avary, Canadian-born screenwriter, director, and producer
24th - Casey Lambert, jockey
24th - Marlee Matlin, Ill, deaf actress (Children of Lesser God-Acad Award)
24th - Reggie Miller, Riverside Calif, NBA guard (Ind Pacers, Oly-gold-96)
24th - Vince Alcalde, WLAF offensive assistant (Scottish Claymores)
25th - Cornelius Bennett, NFL linebacker (Atlanta Falcons, Buffalo Bills)
25th - Kathleen Horvath, Chic Ill, tennis player (French Open Jr 1980)
25th - Nate Odomes, NFL cornerback (Seattle Seahawks)
25th - Sanjeev Sharma, cricketer (Indian pace bowler 1988-89)
25th - Mia Zapata, American singer (The Gits) (d. 1993)
26th - Chris Burke, actor with down syndrome (Corky-Life Goes On)
26th - Jon Hensley, Doylestown PA, actor (Holden Snyder-As the World Turns)
26th - Bobby Duncum, Jr., wrestler (d. 2000)
27th - Michael Perry, NFL defensive tackle (Denver Broncos)
27th - Patricia Hy-Boulais, Phnom Penh Kampuchea, Canada tennis (Oly-92, 96)
27th - Wayne James, cricketer (Zimbabwe Test wicketkeeper v Pakistan 1993)
28th - James Jagger, son of Mick Jagger & Jerry Hall
28th - Shania Twain, Canadian singer
29th - Alphons Arts, Dutch soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles)
29th - Will Perdue, NBA center (San Antonio Spurs)
29th - Dina Spybey, American actress
31st - Willie Watson, cricket pace bowler (NZ)
31st - Daniel Bernhardt, Swiss actor
31st - Céline Bonnier, French Canadian actress

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 22 of 22

1st - Kiyoshi Nobutoki, composer, dies at 77
2nd - Milton B Babbitt, US composer (Widow's Lament), dies at 49
6th - Aksel Sandemose, writer, dies
6th - Everett Sloane, dies of apparent suicide with bartiturates at 55
6th - Nancy Carroll, actress (Alice-Aldrich Family), dies at 60
6th - Peter Ronnefeld, composer, dies at 30
8th - Shirley Hardie Jackson, US author (Road Through the Wall), dies at 45
9th - Creighton Hale, silent film actor (Cat & Canary), dies at 83
10th - Rayford Robinson, cricketer (Test Aust v England 1937), dies
11th - Bill Woodfull, cricketer (35 Tests for Australia), dies
13th - Ikeda Hayato, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1899)
14th - Jan van Nijlen, Flemish poet/writer (Walk at Dawn), dies
16th - Vasily Petrovich Shirinsky, composer, dies at 64
22nd - Henriette de Vreker-Verschuur, actress (Revolt in Mental Home), dies
22nd - Ellen Church, American airline stewardess (b. 1904)
23rd - John Bata, Czech shoe manufacturer, dies at 67
25th - Moonlight Graham, American baseball player
27th - Edmond of Dooren, Flemish painter, dies at 68
27th - Gerald Bond, cricketer (South Africa 1938-39), dies
27th - Le Corbusier, [Charles Jeanneret], Swiss/French architect, dies at 77
27th - Otto Reinhold, composer, dies at 66
28th - Giulio Racah, Israeli physicist (b. 1909)