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Historical Events

Results 201 - 300 of 694

Apr 11th - Apollo 13 launched to Moon; unable to land, returns in 6 days
Apr 11th - Beatles' "Let It Be," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
Apr 11th - SF beats Cincinnati 2-1, only day Reds aren't in 1st place in 1970
Apr 12th - Yankees dedicate plaques to Mickey Mantle & Joe DiMaggio
Apr 13th - 34th Golf Masters Championship: Billy Casper wins, shooting a 279
Apr 13th - Greek composer Mikis Theordorakis freed
Apr 13th - Apollo 13 announces "Houston, we've got a problem!" as Beech-built oxygen tank explodes en route to Moon
Apr 13th - Oakland uses gold-colored bases during the club's home opener Rules Committee subsequently bans this innovation
Apr 14th - "Boy Friend" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 119 performances
Apr 15th - "Cry for Us All" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 8 performances
Apr 15th - Libyan leader Gadaffi launches "Green Revolution"
Apr 15th - WMGZ TV channel 16 in Mayaguez, PR ([M]) begins broadcasting
Apr 15th - WPSJ TV channel 14 in Ponce, PR ([P]) begins broadcasting
Apr 16th - 70 die in a snow crush (France)
Apr 17th - Apollo 13 limps back safely, Beech-built oxygen tank no help
Apr 17th - Paul McCartney's 1st solo album "McCartney" is released
Apr 19th - "Look to the Lilies" closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 25 perfs
Apr 19th - 24th Tony Awards: Borstal Boy & Applause win
Apr 19th - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Raleigh Ladies Golf Invitational
Apr 20th - 74th Boston Marathon won by Ron Hill of Great Britain in 2:10:30
Apr 20th - Bruno Kreisky becomes 1st socialist chancellor of Austria
Apr 20th - Ron Hill's 2:10:30 at Boston, sets new US marathon record
Apr 21st - Reds clout 7 HRs by 6 batters, Braves counter with 3 HRs, 6 for one team & 9 different batters for two teams, all tie or set records
Apr 21st - The Hutt River Province Principality secedes from Australia.
Apr 22nd - "Park" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 5 performances
Apr 22nd - 1st Earth Day held internationally to conserve natural resources
Apr 22nd - Flat Earth celebrated
Apr 22nd - NY Met Jerry Grote sets record of 20 put outs by a catcher
Apr 22nd - NY Met Tom Seaver strikes out last 10 Padres, for a total of 19
Apr 22nd - Senators beat Yankees 2-1 in 18 innings
Apr 24th - China PR launches its 1st satellite transmitting song "East is Red"
Apr 24th - Gambia becomes a republic within Commonwealth
Apr 24th - Senegal adopts constitution
Apr 25th - "Park" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 5 performances
Apr 25th - Freda Payne releases "Band of Gold"
Apr 25th - Melanie releases "Lay Down"
Apr 26th - "Company" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 690 performances
Apr 29th - 50,000 US & South Vietnamese troops invade Cambodia
Apr 30th - Cubs Billy Williams is 1st NLer to play in 1,000 consecutive games
Apr 30th - US troops invade Cambodia
May 2nd - 1st woman jockey at Kentucky Derby (Diane Crump)
May 2nd - 96th Kentucky Derby: Mike Manganello on Dust Commander wins 2:03.4
May 2nd - KOAI (now KNAZ) TV channel 2 in Flagstaff, AZ (NBC) 1st broadcast
May 3rd - 24th NBA Championship: NY Knicks beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 3
May 3rd - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Golf Invitational
May 4th - National Guard kills 4 at Kent State in Ohio
May 4th - Premier Kosygin affirms existence Russian military advisors in Egypt
May 4th - Pulitzer prize awarded to Erik H Erikson (Gandhi's Truth)
May 5th - US performs nuclear test at Nevada test Site
May 6th - Yuchiro Miura of Japan skies down Mt Everest
May 7th - "Long & Winding Road" becomes Beatles' last American release
May 8th - Beatles release "Let it Be" album
May 8th - Construction workers break up an anti-war rally in NYC's Wall Street
May 8th - NBA championship: Knicks beat Lakers, 113-99
May 9th - 100,000s demonstrate against Vietnam War
May 10th - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
May 10th - Brave's Hoyt Wilhelm pitches in his 1,000th game, loses to Cards 6-5
May 10th - Stanley Cup: Boston Bruins sweep St Louis Blues in 4 games
May 11th - Sammy Davis Jr weds Altovise
May 11th - Henry Marrow is murdered in a violent racially-motivated crime in Oxford, North Carolina.
May 12th - Ernie Banks hits his 500th home run
May 12th - Harry A Blackmun is confirmed as a justice on Supreme Court
May 12th - KTVM TV channel 6 in Butte, MT (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
May 12th - Race riots in Augusta Georgia; 6 blacks killed (5 by cops)
May 12th - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
May 13th - Beatles movie "Let it Be" premieres
May 14th - Cops kill 2 students in racial disturbance (Jackson State U, Miss)
May 14th - Harry A Blackmun appointed to Supreme Court
May 14th - NYC local newspaper "Our Town" begins publishing
May 14th - RAF-leader Andreas Baader freed after serving 2 years in West Berlin
May 14th - The Red Army Faction is established in Germany.
May 15th - Beatles' last LP, "Let It Be," is released in US
May 15th - Elizabeth Hoisington & Anna Mae Mays named 1st female US generals
May 15th - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
May 15th - Mississippi Highway Patrol kills 2 at Jackson State College
May 15th - South-Africa excluded from Olympic play
May 16th - 96th Preakness: Eddie Belmonte aboard Personality wins in 1:56.2
May 16th - Grover Henson Feels Forgotten by Bill Cosby hits #70
May 17th - Hank Aaron becomes 9th player to get 3,000 hits
May 17th - Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Johnny Londoff Chevrolet Golf Tournament
May 17th - Thor Heyerdahl crosses Atlantic on reed raft Ra
May 20th - 100,000 march in NY supporting US policies in Vietnam
May 20th - 2 die in a NYC subway accident
May 20th - Beatles' "Let it Be" movie premieres in UK
May 21st - National Guard mobilizes to quell disturbances at Ohio State U
May 21st - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
May 22nd - Arab terrorists kill 9 children & 3 adults on a school bus
May 22nd - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
May 22nd - Mel Stottlemyre sets record by walking 11, but wins 2-0
May 23rd - Grateful Dead's 1st performance outside of US (England)
May 23rd - SD Padres beat SF Giants 17-16 in 15 innings
May 23rd - USSR performs nuclear test (underground)
May 23rd - A fire breaks out in the Britannia Bridge over the Menai Straits in north Wales contributing to its partial destruction and causing approximately £1,000,000 worth of fire damage.
May 24th - Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational
May 24th - Peter Queen quits Fleetwood Mac to join a religious cult
May 24th - The drilling of the Kola Superdeep Borehole begins in the Soviet Union.
May 25th - 3rd ABA Championship: Indiana Pacers beat LA Stars, 4 games to 2
May 26th - The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2.
May 27th - British expedition climbs south face of Annapurna I
May 27th - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

Famous Birthdays

Results 201 - 300 of 1,482

Feb 16th - Serdar Ortac, Turkish popstar
Feb 16th - D.J. Wallis, American fitness competitor
Feb 16th - Angelo Peruzzi, Italian footballer
Feb 17th - Tommy Moe, Anchorage Alaska, nordic skiier (Olympic-gold/silver-1994)
Feb 17th - Tim Mahoney, American musician (311)
Feb 17th - Dominic Purcell, English-born actor
Feb 18th - Tyler Green, US baseball pitcher (Phila Phillies)
Feb 18th - Raine Maida, Canadian musician (Our Lady Peace)
Feb 18th - Susan Egan, American actress
Feb 19th - Garland Hawkins, NFL defensive end (Chic Bears)
Feb 19th - Ruwan Kalpage, cricket off-spinner (Sri Lankan)
Feb 20th - Bryan Robinson, defensive end (St Louis Rams)
Feb 20th - Cheyenne Brando, Papeete Tahiti, daughter of Marlon
Feb 20th - Jeff Robinson, NFL defensive end (Denver Broncos, St Louis Rams)
Feb 20th - Leo Stefan, Chelyabinsk RUS, hockey forward (Team Germany)
Feb 21st - Javier De La Hoya, Mexican/US baseball pitcher (Florida Marlins)
Feb 21st - Marc Woodard, NFL linebacker (Phila Eagles)
Feb 21st - Michael Slater, cricketer (devastating Aust opening bat since 1993)
Feb 21st - Patrick Pilloni, hockey forward (Team Austria 1998)
Feb 21st - Will Moore, NFL wide receiver (NE Patriots, Jacksonville Jaguars)
Feb 22nd - Adam Keefe, NBA forward (Utah Jazz)
Feb 22nd - Dominic Roussel, Hull, NHL goalie (Winnipeg Jets)
Feb 22nd - Leo Stefan, hockey forward (Team Germany 1998)
Feb 23rd - Niecy Nash, American actress
Feb 24th - Jeff Garcia, CFL quarterback (Calgary Stampeders)
Feb 24th - Jonathan Ward, Balt Md, actor (Doug-Charles in Charge, Beans Baxter)
Feb 24th - Wilson Alvarez, Maracaibo Venezuela, pitcher (Chic White Sox)
Feb 24th - Kienast quintuplets, American quintuplets
Feb 25th - Alfred Jordan, CFL cornerback (Calgary Stampeders)
Feb 25th - Brian O'Neal, NFL full back (SF 49ers)
Feb 25th - Corey Mayfield, NFL defensive tackle (Jacksonville Jaguars)
Feb 25th - Dave Brown, NFL quarterback (NY Giants)
Feb 25th - Joe Bowden, NFL linebacker (Houston/Tennessee Oilers)
Feb 25th - Troy Mallette, Sudbury, NHL left wing (Ottawa Senators)
Feb 26th - Ben Maruquin, Ventura Calif, field hockey sweeper (Olympics-96)
Feb 26th - Katie O'Neill, LA Calif, actress (Together We Stand)
Feb 26th - Meeno Peluce, Amsterdam Netherlands, actor (Bad News Bears)
Feb 26th - Radka Zrubakova, Czech, tennis star
Feb 26th - Sasha Danilovic, NBA guard (Miami Heat)
Feb 27th - David White, NFL linebacker (Buffalo Bills)
Feb 27th - Michael A. Burstein, American writer
Feb 27th - Kent Desormeaux, American jockey
Feb 27th - Matthias Lechner, German art director
Feb 27th - Patricia Petibon, French opera singer
Feb 28th - Jan Varholik, hockey defenseman (Team Slovakia 1998)
Feb 28th - Mika Stromberg, Helsinki FIN, hockey defenseman (Team Finland)
Feb 28th - Noureddine Morceli, Algeria, 1500m runner (Olympics-gold-96)
Feb 28th - Daniel Handler, American writer, better known as Lemony Snicket
Mar 1st - Lisa Eagen, Harlan Iowa, team handball wing/back court (Olympics-1996)
Mar 1st - Ray Crittenden, wide receiver (San Diego Chargers)
Mar 1st - Stuart Thompson, Australian baseball infielder (Olympics-1996)
Mar 2nd - Kevin Miniefield, NFL defensive back (Chic Bears)
Mar 2nd - Steve Holman, Indianapolis Indiana, miler
Mar 3rd - Donovan Bergstrom, US 3K steeplechase runner
Mar 3rd - Inzamam-ul-Haq, cricketer (dashing Pakistani batsman)
Mar 3rd - Kristine Radford, Sydney Australia, tennis star (1996 ITF/Lyneham)
Mar 3rd - Rick Mirer, NFL QB (Seattle Seahawks)
Mar 3rd - Scott Keswick, Nevada, gymnast (Coca-Cola-1st-94, Olympics-96)
Mar 3rd - Shawn Marie Brogan, Miss USA-Iowa (1997)
Mar 4th - Dave Stevens, Fullerton CA, pitcher (Minn Twins)
Mar 4th - Marja Helena Paluila, ice hockey defenseman (Finland, Oly-98)
Mar 4th - Matt Gay, WLAF safety (Rhein Fire)
Mar 4th - Tina Paternostro, Williamsport PA, golfer (1995 JAL Big Apple-57th)
Mar 5th - John Frusciante, American musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
Mar 5th - Lisa Robin Kelly, American actress
Mar 6th - Amy Pietz, Milwaukee Wisc, actress (Annie-Caroline In the City)
Mar 6th - Robbie Tobeck, NFL guard/center (Atlanta Falcons)
Mar 6th - Scott Stahoviak, Waukegan IL, infielder (Minn Twins)
Mar 7th - Jacquelyn Doucette, Miss Massachusetts USA (1996)
Mar 7th - James Calvin Spivey, Schiller Park Ill, miler
Mar 7th - Kathy Gedney, Indianapolis Ind, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-25th-1994)
Mar 8th - Harry Decheiver, soccer player (RKC)
Mar 8th - Jason Elam, NFL kicker (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
Mar 8th - Rhett Harty, Pasedena CA, US soccer player (Olympic-92)
Mar 8th - Vadim Bekboulatov, NHL forward (Belarus, Oly-98)
Mar 9th - Melissa Rathburn-Nealy, US soldier (Iraqi POW)
Mar 10th - Antonio Edwards, NFL defensive end (Seattle Seahawks)
Mar 10th - Matt Barlow, American singer (Iced Earth)
Mar 11th - Brett Liddle, Boksburg S Afr, Canadian Tour golfer (1993 Newcastle)
Mar 11th - Evgeniy Koreshkov, hockey forward (Team Kazakhstan Oly-1998)
Mar 11th - Delia Gallagher, American journalist
Mar 12th - Michael Bankston, NFL defensive end (Arizona Cardinals)
Mar 12th - Rex Walters, NBA guard (Phila 76ers, Miami Heat)
Mar 12th - Rod Smith, NFL cornerback (Carolina Panthers, Green Bay Packers)
Mar 12th - Dave Eggers, American writer, editor, and publisher
Mar 12th - Roy Khan, Norwegian singer (Kamelot)
Mar 12th - John Nemechek, American NASCAR driver (d. 1997)
Mar 13th - Tim Story, American film director
Mar 14th - Meredith Salenger, actress (Dream a Little Dream, The Kiss)
Mar 14th - Thomas McLemore, NFL tight end (Indianapolis Colts)
Mar 14th - Ebru Kavaklıoğlu, Russian athlete
Mar 15th - Chris Dalman, NFL guard/center (SF 49ers)
Mar 15th - Diego Nargiso, Naples Italy, tennis pro
Mar 15th - Eric Castle, NFL free safety (SD Chargers)
Mar 15th - Paul Kruse, Merritt, NHL left wing (Calgary Flames)
Mar 16th - Kelli James, Medford NJ, field hockey forward (Olympics-96)
Mar 16th - Tammi Terrell, rocker (Ain't No Mountain High Enough)
Mar 17th - Shannan Mitchem, Decatur GA, female infielder (Colo Silver Bullets)
Mar 18th - Michael Rapaport, actor (Zak-Zebrahead)
Mar 18th - Queen Latifah, rap singer/actress (Khadijah James-Living Single)

Famous Deaths

Results 201 - 272 of 272

Sep 6th - Gerard Smithson, cricketer (Eng batsman against W Indies 1948), dies
Sep 8th - Percy Spencer, inventor of the microwave oven, (b. 1894)
Sep 11th - Chester Morris, actor (Diagnosis: Unknown), dies at 69
Sep 14th - Rudolph Carnap, German philosopher/mathematician, dies at 79
Sep 18th - Jimi Hendrix, rock guitarist (Purple Haze), dies of an overdose at 27
Sep 19th - Greville Stevens, cricketer (10 Tests for England 1922-29), dies
Sep 21st - Gijsbert Friedhoff, architect (Wibautstrat tax office), dies
Sep 23rd - Bourvil, French actor and singer (b. 1917)
Sep 25th - Efim Golishev, composer, dies at 73
Sep 25th - Erich M Remarque, German writer (Im West Nichts Neues), dies at 72
Sep 28th - Gamal' Abd al-Nassar, Egypt Pres (1953-70), dies of heart attack at 52
Sep 28th - John Roderigo Dos Passos, US writer (Manhattan Transfer), dies at 74
Sep 29th - Edward Everett Horton, actor/narrator (Bulwinkle Show), dies at 84
Sep 30th - Patrick Aherne, actor (Bwana Devil, Botany Bay), dies at 69
Oct 1st - Hans Poser, composer, dies at 52
Oct 1st - Petar Konjovic, composer, dies at 87
Oct 1st - Raoul Riganti, Argentine racing driver (b. 1893)
Oct 2nd - Alfred Julius Swan, composer, dies at 79
Oct 2nd - Anders Bo Leif Linde, composer, dies at 37
Oct 4th - George Frederick McKay, composer, dies at 71
Oct 4th - Janis Joplin, rock singer (Down on Me), dies of a drug overdose at 27
Oct 8th - Jean Giono, French writer (Hussard Sur le Toit), dies at 75
Oct 8th - Lucien Goldmann, Romanian/French sociologist/philosopher, dies
Oct 8th - Mitr Chaibancha, Thai film actor (b. 1934)
Oct 9th - Jean Giono, writer, dies
Oct 10th - Adam Rapacki, Polish minister of Maritime (1956-68), dies at 60
Oct 10th - Edouard Daladier, premier of France (1933..40), dies at 86
Oct 11th - Anis Fuleihan, composer, dies at 69
Oct 12th - Mustafa Zaidi, Pakistani poet (b. 1930)
Oct 13th - Julia Culp, mezzo-soprano, dies at 90
Oct 17th - Pierre Laporte, Vice-Premier of Quebec (assassinated) (b. 1921)
Oct 17th - Vola Vale, American actress (b. 1897)
Oct 19th - Unica Zorn, writer, dies at 54
Oct 20th - Patrick Wymark, actor (Skull, Tomb of Ligeia), dies at 44
Oct 21st - John T Scopes, US teacher (Scopes "monkey trial" 1925), dies at 70
Oct 22nd - René Schneider, Chilean general/supreme commander, murdered
Oct 24th - Richard Hofstadter, US historian, dies at 54
Oct 28th - Baby Huey, [James Ramey], vocalist (Baby Huey & Babysitters), dies
Oct 28th - Eduardo Lopez-Chavarri y Marco, composer, dies at 99
Nov 2nd - Richard Cushing, US cardinal to Boston, dies at 75
Nov 3rd - Peter II Karadjordjevic, last king of Yugoslavia (1934-45), dies at 57
Nov 6th - Agustín Lara, Mexican composer and poet (b. 1900)
Nov 8th - Huw Thomas Edwards, Welsh trade unionist and politician (b. 1892)
Nov 9th - William L Dawson, (Rep-D-Ill), dies at 84
Nov 10th - Charles DeGaulle, general/president France (Free French), dies at 79
Nov 17th - Naunton Wayne, actor (Dead of Night), dies at 69
Nov 18th - Hal Dickinson, singer (Modernaires), dies at 56
Nov 21st - Newsy Lalonde, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1887)
Nov 21st - Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, Indian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1888)
Nov 23rd - Yusuf Bin Ishak, president of Singapore 1965-70, dies at about 60
Nov 24th - Evgeny Karlovich Tikotsky, composer, dies at 76
Nov 25th - Yukio Mishima, Japanese author/nationalist (Harakiri), dies at 45
Nov 26th - B O Davis Sr, 1st black general, dies at 93 in Chicago
Nov 28th - Fritz v Unruh, writer, dies at 85
Nov 28th - Jan Drda, Czech author (Nema Barikada), dies at 55
Nov 29th - Robert Ruthenfranz, composer, dies at 65
Dec 1st - Frank Smailes, cricketer (England pace bowler Test v India 1946), dies
Dec 6th - Thomas S Power, USAF-gen (Raid on Tokyo-March 1945), dies at 65
Dec 7th - Rube Goldberg, US cartoonist (Mike & Ike, Pulitzer 1948), dies at 87
Dec 8th - Christopher K Ingold, English chemist, dies at 77
Dec 9th - Artem Mikoyan, Russian aircraft designer (MIG), dies at 65
Dec 9th - Sir Feroz Khan Noon, Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1893)
Dec 12th - Louis Zimmer, Flem clock maker (Jubelklok, Wonder Clock), dies at 82
Dec 12th - Doris Blackburn, Australian politician (b. 1889)
Dec 14th - Franz Schlegelberger, German Nazi politician (b. 1876)
Dec 23rd - Charlie Ruggles, actor (Ruggles, Aesop-Bullwinkle Show), dies at 84
Dec 26th - Lillian Board, British athlete (b. 1948)
Dec 28th - Charles "Sonny" Liston, heavyweight boxer champ (1962-64), dies
Dec 28th - L Mendel Rivers, (Rep-D-SC), dies at 65
Dec 29th - John de Mol, Dutch accordionist, dies at 58
Dec 29th - Marie Menken, American experimental filmmaker and socialite (b. 1909)
Dec 31st - Cyril M Scott, English composer/author (Alchemist), dies at 91