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Historical Events

Results 101 - 200 of 639

Mar 4th - North Sea Gas was 1st pumped ashore by BP
Mar 5th - 75 MPH air currents causes BOAC 707 crash into Mount Fuji, 124 die
Mar 5th - Bob Seagren pole vaults 5.19m indoor world record
Mar 5th - Player reps elect Marvin Miller, as exec dir of Players' Assn
Mar 5th - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Mar 6th - Barry Sadlers' "Ballad of the Green Berets" becomes #1 (13 weeks)
Mar 7th - "Wait A Minim!" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 457 performances
Mar 7th - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Mar 8th - "Golden Boy" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 569 performances
Mar 8th - An IRA bomb destroyed Nelson's Column in Dublin
Mar 8th - Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame
Mar 9th - Andrew Brimmer becomes 1st black governor of Federal Reserve Board
Mar 10th - 5 time Horse of the Year, Kelso, retires
Mar 10th - Dutch crown princess Beatrix marries Claus von Amsberg
Mar 10th - North Vietnamese capture US Green Beret Camp at Ashau Valley
Mar 11th - Military coup led by Indonesian Gen Suharto breaks out
Mar 11th - A fire at two ski resorts in Numata, Japan kills 31 people.
Mar 12th - Bobby Hull's 51st goal of season, sets record
Mar 12th - Jockey Johnny Longden retires after 40 years (6,032 wins)
Mar 12th - Love's 1st album released "Love"
Mar 12th - Pioneer Plaza dedicated
Mar 12th - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Mar 13th - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lagunita Golf Invitational
Mar 15th - 8th Grammy Awards: Taste of Honey, Tom Jones, Sintra & Striesand
Mar 15th - Racial riots erupt in the Watts section of Los Angeles
Mar 16th - Gemini 8 launched with Armstrong & Scott, aborted after 6.5 orbits
Mar 16th - Man From Uncle star David McCallum receives huge welcome in London
Mar 17th - South Africa govt bans Defense & Aid Fund
Mar 17th - US sub locates missing H-bomb in Mediterranean
Mar 18th - "Pousse Cafe" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 3 performances
Mar 18th - General Suharto forms government in Indonesia
Mar 18th - Scott Paper begins selling paper dresses for $1
Mar 19th - "Pousse Cafe" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 3 performances
Mar 19th - 28th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Texas Western beats Ky 72-65
Mar 19th - Belgium government of Vanden Boeynants begins
Mar 20th - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA St Petersburg Women's Golf Open
Mar 21st - Supreme Court reverses Mass ruling that "Fanny Hill" is obscene
Mar 23rd - 1st official meeting after 400 years of Catholic & Anglican Church
Mar 24th - Selective Service announces college deferments based on performance
Mar 25th - US Supreme court rules "poll tax" unconstitutional
Mar 25th - Beatles pose with mutilated dolls & butchered meat for the cover of the "Yesterday & Today" album, It is later pulled
Mar 27th - Anit Vietnam war demonstrations in US, Europe & Australia
Mar 27th - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Louise Suggs Delray Beach Golf Invitational
Mar 29th - "It's a Bird... It's Superman" opens at Alvin NYC for 129 perfs
Mar 29th - Muhammad Ali beats George Chuvalo in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
Mar 30th - Barbra Streisand stars on "Color Me Barbra" special on CBS
Mar 31st - 25,000 anti war demonstrators march in NYC
Mar 31st - Labour Party wins British parliamentary election
Mar 31st - USSR launches Luna 10, 1st lunar orbiter
Apr 1st - 1st world festival of black art (Dakar Senegal)
Apr 1st - China premier Tsjoe en-Lai starts "Cultural revolution"
Apr 2nd - Soviet Union's Luna 10 becomes 1st spacecraft to orbit Moon
Apr 2nd - WJET TV channel 24 in Erie, PA (ABC) begins broadcasting
Apr 3rd - Luna 10 orbits Moon
Apr 3rd - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Venice Ladies Golf Open
Apr 3rd - Tom Seaver, signs with the Mets for a reported $50,000 bonus
Apr 4th - Pirate Radio Scotland changes name to Radio Ireland
Apr 4th - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Apr 5th - WTVX TV channel 34 in Ft Pierce-Vero Beach, FL (IND) 1st broadcast
Apr 6th - Mihir Sen swims Palk Strait between Sri Lanka & India
Apr 7th - US recovers lost H-bomb from Mediterranean floor (whoops!)
Apr 8th - AFL chooses 36 year old Al Davis as commissioner
Apr 8th - Leonid Brezhnev elected secretary-general of communist party
Apr 8th - OAO 1, 1st orbiting astronomical observatory, launched
Apr 9th - Anaheim Stadium for Calif Angels opens
Apr 9th - Sophia Loren marries married Carlo Ponti in Paris
Apr 11th - 30th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 288
Apr 11th - Emmett Ashford becomes 1st black major league umpire
Apr 12th - 1st B-52 bombing on North Vietnam
Apr 12th - Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium opens; Pirates beat Braves 3-2
Apr 12th - Rocker Jan Berry crashes his corvette into a parked truck
Apr 13th - Pan Am places $525,000,000 order for 25 Boeing 747s
Apr 15th - KHET TV channel 11 in Honolulu, HI (PBS) begins broadcasting
Apr 15th - Rolling Stones release "Aftermath"
Apr 16th - Rhodesian PM Ian Smith breaks diplomatic relations with Britain
Apr 17th - 100th intl soccer meet between Netherlands-Belgium (3-1)
Apr 17th - Carol Mann wins LPGA Raleigh Ladies Golf Invitational
Apr 18th - Bill Russell became 1st black coach in NBA history (Boston Celtics)
Apr 19th - In 1st regular season game at Anaheim Stadium, Angels lose 3-1 to Chic
Apr 19th - 70th Boston Marathon won by Kenji Kimihara of Japan in 2:17:11
Apr 19th - Roberta Bignay becomes 1st woman to run in the Boston Marathon
Apr 20th - WDCA TV channel 20 in Washington, DC (IND) begins broadcasting
Apr 21st - Emperor Haile Selassie (Ethiopia) visits Kingston Jamaica
Apr 22nd - Atlanta Braves win their 1st game, beating NY Mets 8-4
Apr 22nd - USSR performs underground nuclear test
Apr 24th - Atlanta Braves win NL-record 18 straight home games (17 in Milwaukee)
Apr 24th - Carol Mann wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Invitational
Apr 25th - Drunk driver kills 10 children in Asse Belgium
Apr 25th - The city of Tashkent is destroyed by a huge earthquake.
Apr 26th - Arnold "Red" Auerbach retires as Boston Celtic's coach
Apr 26th - An earthquake of magnitude 7.5 destroys Tashkent.
Apr 27th - Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 2nd cello concert
Apr 28th - 20th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 3
Apr 28th - 38th Academy Awards - "Sound of Music," Julie Christie & L Marvin win
Apr 28th - Cleve ties record with 10th straight win since Opening Day
Apr 28th - OCAM, Common Afro-Mauritian Organization forms
May 1st - Last British concert by Beatles (Empire Pool in Wembley)
May 1st - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Club Golf Invitational
May 1st - Radio RSA, South Africa begins shortwave transmitting
May 1st - US troops shooting targets in Cambodia

Famous Birthdays

Results 101 - 200 of 1,068

Feb 4th - Spike, rocker [or Sep 18]
Feb 4th - Viatcheslav Ekimov, Russian cyclist
Feb 5th - Jose Maria Olazabal, golfer
Feb 5th - Apostolos Nanos, Greek archer
Feb 5th - Rok Petrovič, Slovenian skier (d. 1993)
Feb 6th - Alex Antonitsch, Austria, tennis star
Feb 6th - Rick Astley, rock vocalist (Never Gonna Give You Up)
Feb 6th - Tom Tupa, NFL punter/quarterback (Cleve Browns, NE Patriots)
Feb 7th - Chris Rock, comedian (SNL, CB4, Boomerang)
Feb 8th - Gary Coleman, Zion Ill, American actor (Arnold-Diff'rent Strokes)
Feb 8th - Kirk Muller, Kingston, NHL center (Toronto Maple Leafs)
Feb 8th - Hristo Stoichkov, Bulgarian footballer
Feb 9th - Amanda Roocroft, opera singer
Feb 9th - James "Rachel" Bolan, Pt Pleasant NJ, rocker (Skid Row-Psycho Love)
Feb 9th - Ellen van Langen, Dutch athlete
Feb 9th - Harald Eia, Norwegian TV - comedian
Feb 10th - Daryl Johnston, NFL running back (Dallas Cowboys)
Feb 11th - Alexander Semak, Ufa Russia, NHL center (NY Islanders)
Feb 11th - Anthony Parker, NFL cornerback (Minn Vikings, St Louis Rams, TB Bucs)
Feb 11th - Patrick Kuhnen, West Germany, tennis star
Feb 11th - Stephen Gregory, NYC, actor (Chase-Young & Restless)
Feb 12th - Boty Goodwin, artist
Feb 13th - Freedom Williams, rock vocalist (C&C Music Factory-Everbody Dance Now)
Feb 13th - Tally Chanel, Tel Aviv Israel, actress (Warrior Queen)
Feb 14th - Clark Sherwood Dennis, Houston TX, PGA golfer (1990 Hawaiian Open-3rd)
Feb 14th - Petr Svoboda, Most Cze, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers, Oly-gold-1998)
Feb 15th - Melido Perez, Dominican/US baseball pitcher (NY Yankees)
Feb 15th - Petra Huber, Austria, tennis star
Feb 16th - Eric Uptagrafft, Spokane Wash, prone rifle (Olympics-1996)
Feb 17th - Luc Robitaille, Montreal, NHL left wing (NY Rangers, Pitts Penguins)
Feb 17th - Melissa Brooke-Belland, rocker (Voice of the Beehive-Let it Bee)
Feb 17th - Ioannis Kalitzakis, Greek footballer
Feb 17th - Quorthon, Swedish musician (Bathory) (d. 2004)
Feb 17th - Michael Lepond, American musician
Feb 18th - Kris King, Bracebridge, NHL left wing (Winnipeg Jets)
Feb 18th - Phillip De Freitas, cricket pace bowler (in Dominica England 1986-95)
Feb 18th - Guy Ferland, American television director
Feb 19th - Justine Bateman, Rye NY, actress (Mallory-Family Ties, Satisfaction)
Feb 19th - Matthew Ryan, Port Jefferson NY, team handball circle (Olympics-1996)
Feb 19th - Paul Haarhuis, Eindhoven Neth, tennis star (1994 US/Austral doubles)
Feb 19th - Peter Douris, Toronto, NHL right wing (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
Feb 19th - Prince Markie D, [Mark Morale], rocker (Fat Boys-Jail House Rock)
Feb 19th - William White, NFL safety (KC Chiefs, Atlanta Falcons)
Feb 19th - Enzo Scifo, Belgian footballer
Feb 20th - Britt Hager, NFL linebacker (Denver Broncos, St Louis Rams)
Feb 20th - Cecilia Cummins, Clintwood Va, 5th of 5 siblings born on 2/20
Feb 20th - Cindy Crawford, Dekalb Ill, super model (Sports Illustrated Swimsuit)
Feb 20th - Dennis Allen Mitchell, Cherry Point NC, 100m/200m (Olympics-silver-96)
Feb 20th - Derek Lilliquist, US baseball pitcher (Cleveland Indians, Atl Braves)
Feb 21st - Bronwen Booth, London, actress (Andy-One Life to Live, Eternal Evil)
Feb 21st - Chris Donnels, US baseball infielder (Houston Astros)
Feb 21st - Edie Boyer, St Paul Minn, discus thrower
Feb 21st - Tommy Hendricks, rocker
Feb 21st - Wendy James, London England, vocalist (Transvision Vamp-Velveteen)
Feb 22nd - Brent Severyn, Vegreville, NHL defenseman (NY Islanders)
Feb 22nd - Resga Riggins, Trussville Alabama, Miss Alabama-America (1991)
Feb 22nd - Suave, singer
Feb 22nd - Thorsten Kaye, soap actor (Patrick-One Life to Live, Silencers)
Feb 22nd - Rachel Dratch, American actress and comedienne
Feb 22nd - Brian Greig, Australian politician
Feb 22nd - Aiden Shaw, English pornographic actor
Feb 23rd - John Druce, Peterborough, NHL right wing (Phila Flyers, LA Kings)
Feb 23rd - Marc Price, actor/comedian (Skippy-Family Ties)
Feb 24th - Billy Zane, actor (Orlando, Memphis Belle, Millions, Titanic)
Feb 24th - Rene Arocha, Cubans/US baseball pitcher (St Louis Cardinals)
Feb 25th - Don Anurasiri, cricketer (Sri Lankan slow left-armer)
Feb 25th - Samantha Phillips, Ft Meade MD, Penthouse Pet
Feb 25th - Stacey Cortez, actress (Sheila Cantillan-General Hospital)
Feb 25th - Tea Leoni, NYC, actress (Flying Blind, Naked Truth)
Feb 25th - Alexis Denisof, American actor
Feb 25th - Samson Kitur, Kenyan athlete (d. 2003)
Feb 25th - Nancy O'Dell, American reporter and television personality
Feb 26th - Jennifer Grant, actress (Celeste-Beverly Hills 90210)
Feb 26th - Wesley Walls, NFL tight end (Carolina Panthers, SF 49ers, NO Saints)
Feb 26th - Najwa Karam, Lebanese singer
Feb 27th - Chris Howard, US baseball catcher (Seattle Mariners)
Feb 27th - Gregg Rainwater, actor (Buck Cross-Young Riders)
Feb 27th - Pete Smith, US baseball player (Atlanta Braves, NY Mets)
Feb 27th - Donal Logue, Canadian actor
Feb 28th - Erik van Kessel, Dutch soccer player (FC Utrecht)
Feb 28th - Jan Varholik, Kosice CZE, hockey defenseman (Team Slovakia)
Feb 28th - Tim Goad, NFL defensive tackle (Cleve Browns)
Feb 28th - Vincent Askew, NBA guard/forward (Seattle Supersonics, Trailblazers)
Feb 28th - Paulo Futre, Portuguese footballer
Mar 1st - Clinton Gregory, singer
Mar 1st - John David Cullum, actor (1776, Sweet Country, Day After)
Mar 1st - Luis Sojo, Barquisimeto Venezuela, infielder (Seattle Mariners)
Mar 1st - Steve Reed, LA Calif, pitcher (Colorado Rockies)
Mar 2nd - Judith Wiesner, Hallein Austria, tennis star (1994 Schenectady)
Mar 2nd - Stevie Rachelle, rock vocalist (Tuff-What Comes Around Goes Around)
Mar 3rd - Claus Boekweg, Dutch soccer player (FC Groningen, FC Zwolle)
Mar 3rd - Dmitri Volkov, Russian swimmer (world record)
Mar 3rd - Ellen Minzner, Lawrence Mass, rower (Olympics-96)
Mar 3rd - Gary Parker, WLAF kicker (Scotland Claymores)
Mar 3rd - Hope Marie Carlton, Riverhead NY, playmate (July, 1985)
Mar 3rd - Noelle Daghe, Decatur IL, LPGA golfer (1994 PING-Cellular One-21st)
Mar 3rd - Tone-Loc, [Anthony Terrell Smith], LA Calif, rocker (Let's Do It)
Mar 3rd - Wendy Fletcher, Boston Mass, WPVA volleyballer (National-5th-1993)
Mar 3rd - Fernando Colunga, Mexican actor
Mar 3rd - Timo Tolkki, Finnish musician (Stratovarius)

Famous Deaths

Results 101 - 200 of 255

May 21st - Pat O'Malley, silent film actor (Wild One, Quiet Man), dies at 75
May 22nd - Tom Goddard, cricketer (22 wkts in 8 Tests for England 1930-39), dies
May 23rd - Ruth Gates, Denton TX, actress (Aunt Jenny-Mama), dies at 79
May 23rd - Demchugdongrub, Mongolian politician (b. 1902)
May 26th - Don Castle, actor (Motor Patrol, Born to Speed), dies at 47
May 26th - Neal Dodd, actor (Only Women, You Belong to Me), dies at 86
Jun 1st - Papa Jack Laine, American musician (b. 1873)
Jun 3rd - Alice Calhoun, actress (Flowing Gold, Between Friends), dies at 65
Jun 5th - Natacha Rambova, costume designer, dies at 69
Jun 6th - Claudette Orbison, wife of singer Roy, dies in a motorcyle crash
Jun 7th - Hans/Jean Arp, French/Swiss painter/poet/sculptor, dies at 78
Jun 8th - Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer (b. 1890)
Jun 11th - Ethel Clayton, actress (Warning Shadows), dies at 82
Jun 11th - Wallace Ford, actor (Deputy), dies of heart attack at 68
Jun 12th - Hermann Scherchen, German conductor/music publisher, dies at 74
Jun 12th - Thomas Chalmers, actor (Blind Alleys, Outrage), dies at 81
Jun 19th - Ed Wynn, comedian (Ed Wynn Show), dies at 79
Jun 19th - Marjan Kozina, composer, dies at 59
Jun 22nd - Roger Blunt, cricketer (9 Tests for NZ, 330 runs, 12 wickets), dies
Jun 27th - Arthur D Waley, [Schloss], British sinology/poet (Monkey), dies
Jun 29th - Arthur Meulemans, Belgian composer, dies at 82
Jun 29th - Isabel Dawn, writer, dies
Jun 29th - Ronald Shiner, actor (Aunt Clara, Forbidden, Girls at Sea), dies at 63
Jul 2nd - Jan Brzechwa, Polish poet (b. 1900)
Jul 3rd - Andre Gailhard, composer, dies at 81
Jul 3rd - Cornelis "Kees" Boeke, theorist, dies at 81
Jul 3rd - Joseph Deems Taylor, composer, dies at 80
Jul 5th - George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
Jul 6th - Anne Nagel, dies of cancer at 50
Jul 6th - Sad Sam Jones, American baseball player (b. 1892)
Jul 7th - Carmelita Geraghty, dies of heart attack at 65
Jul 11th - Delmore Schwartz, US poet/critic (Shenandoah), dies at 52
Jul 12th - D T Suzuki, Zen Buddhism scholar, dies in Tokyo Japan at 96
Jul 14th - Julie Manet, French painter (b. 1878)
Jul 17th - August Baeyens, Flemish composer (Piranesi-suite), dies at 71
Jul 18th - Bobby Fuller, rocker (I Fought the Law), found dead at 22
Jul 18th - German Germanovich Galinin, composer, dies at 44
Jul 20th - Julien Carette, dies of burns at 68
Jul 21st - Eugeen Calleen, Flemish sculptor, dies at 83
Jul 23rd - Donald Novis, singer/actor (Pajama Game), dies at 60
Jul 23rd - Douglass Montgomery, actor (Forbidden, Daybreak), dies at 56
Jul 23rd - [Edward] Montgomery Clift, actor (From Here to Eternity), dies at 45
Jul 24th - Tony Lema, US golfer, dies at 32
Jul 25th - Frank O'Hara, writer, dies at 40
Jul 25th - Montgomery Clift, movie actor (From Here to Eternity), dies
Jul 29th - Pal Jardanyi, composer, dies at 44
Jul 30th - Edward G Craig, English actor/dir (On Art of Theatre), dies at 94
Jul 31st - Alex E von Falkenhausen, German general, dies at 87
Aug 1st - Bud Powell, US jazz pianist/composer, dies
Aug 1st - Charles Whitman, former marine, kills 13 at U of Texas, shot by cops
Aug 3rd - Lenny Bruce, comedian, dies of a morphine overdose at 39
Aug 5th - Austin Diamond, cricketer (Australian capt to America 1913), dies
Aug 6th - Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, sci-fi author (Space Lords), dies at 53
Aug 6th - Cordwainer Smith, American writer (b. 1913)
Aug 8th - Pierre Charles, Belgian heavyweight boxer, dies at 63
Aug 9th - Gosta Nystroem, composer, dies at 75
Aug 10th - Felix A Vening Meinesz, geophysicist (black force), dies at 79
Aug 10th - Jacobus C Bloem, poet (Cinders), dies
Aug 14th - S J "Tip" Snooke, S Afr cricket all-rounder (26 Tests 1905-23), dies
Aug 15th - Gerhard/Gerhart Pohl, German writer (Battle of Kolbenau), dies at 64
Aug 15th - Jan Kiepura, actor (Give Us this Night), dies of heart attack at 64
Aug 15th - Seena Owen, actress/writer (Queen Kelly), dies at 71
Aug 16th - Jack Mather, actor (Cisco Kid), dies of heart attack at 58
Aug 17th - Archibald Palm, cricketer (Test S Africa v England 1927-28), dies
Aug 17th - Michael Garrison, producer (Crowded Sky), dies after a fall at 43
Aug 18th - Isaac Keesing, Dutch founder (System Keesing), dies at 80
Aug 18th - Watze Cuperus, Frisian author (Struggle & Blessing), dies at 75
Aug 22nd - Apolinary Szeluto, composer, dies at 82
Aug 23rd - Francis Xavier Bushman, actor (Ben-Hur), dies at 83
Aug 26th - Art Baker, TV host (You Asked For It), dies at 67
Aug 29th - Sayyid Qutb, Egyptian theoretician (b. 1906)
Aug 31st - Kasimir Edschmid, [Karl E Schmidt], German writer, dies at 75
Sep 5th - Dezső Lauber, Hungarian athlete (b. 1879)
Sep 6th - Hendrik F Verwoerd, South African PM (1958-66), assassinated at 64
Sep 6th - Luigi Perrachio, composer, dies at 83
Sep 6th - Margaret Sanger, US feminist/birth control pioneer, dies at 86
Sep 7th - Al Kelly, double talk comedian (Ernie Kovacs Show), dies at 67
Sep 9th - Antonio Massana, composer, dies at 76
Sep 9th - Leon de Smet, Flemish painter, dies at 85
Sep 9th - Nestor Paiva, actor (3 Stooges in Orbit), dies of cancer at 61
Sep 10th - James Langridge, cricketer (242 runs & 19 wkts for England), dies
Sep 10th - Emil Gumbel, German mathematician and pacifist (b. 1891)
Sep 11th - Charlie Cantor, actor (Artie-Ray Bolger Show), dies at 68
Sep 11th - C. E. Woolman, American airline magnate (b. 1889)
Sep 14th - Gertrude Berg, actress (Molly Goldberg-Goldbergs), dies at 66
Sep 14th - Nikolai Cherkasov, actor (Ivan the Terrible), dies at 63
Sep 17th - Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor (Stuttgart 1955-58), dies at 35
Sep 18th - Fernand Lamy, composer, dies at 85
Sep 18th - Jeno Vecsey, composer, dies at 57
Sep 21st - Paul Reynaud, premier France (1940), dies
Sep 26th - Helen Kane, actress (Heads Up, Pointed Heels), dies of cancer at 62
Sep 28th - Eric Fleming, actor (Gil-Rawhide), dies at 41
Sep 28th - Lucky Millinder, bandleader/singer, dies
Sep 29th - Maurits H E Uyldert, Dutch poet/writer (Motion), dies at 75
Oct 1st - Albert P A A Besnard, poet/journalist (Doom & Thirst), dies
Oct 4th - Sherman Billingsley, talk show host (Stork Club), dies at 66
Oct 6th - Sydney Chatton, dies of heart attack at 48
Oct 7th - Johnny Kidd, rocker (Johnny Kidd & Pirates), dies at 26 in a car crash
Oct 7th - Smiley Lewis, [Overton Amos Lemons], rocker, dies at 46
Oct 12th - Arthur Vincent Lourie, composer, dies at 74