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Historical Events

Results 1 - 62 of 62

1st - Gerd Wessig of East Germany set high jump record
1st - Waldemar Cierpinski wins 19th olympics marathon (2:11:03
1st - Buttevant Rail Disaster kills 18 and injures dozens of train passengers in Ireland.
2nd - Fascist bomb attack on Bologna Italy train station, 86 killed
2nd - US swimmers set 3 world records at National championships
3rd - 22nd Olympic games close at Moscow, USSR
3rd - Kaline, Snider, Klein, & Tom Yawkey inducted into Hall of Fame
3rd - Sandra Post wins West Virginia LPGA Golf Classic
4th - -11] Hurricane Aline, kills 272 in Texas & Caribbean
4th - John & Yoko begin recording "Double Fantasy"
4th - Seattle Mariners replace manager Darrell Johnson with Maury Wills
5th - Expos Dick Williams wins his 1,000th career game as a manager
5th - NY Met Doug Flynn ties record of 3 triples in a game
6th - University adm declares 5 Pac-10 schools ineligible for conference titles & post-season play due to transcript & curriculum abuses
7th - Hurricane Allen ravages Caribisch area, about 70 killed
8th - LBV Conference Center & Club Lake Villas open
9th - Belgian constitution revised
10th - 62nd PGA Championship: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 274 at Oak Hill NY
10th - 8th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Pat Bradley
10th - Allen, most powerful hurricane in Caribbean hits Brownsville, Tx
11th - Angola revises its constitution
11th - Mohammed Ali Radjai appointed premier of Iran
11th - Yanks Reggie Jackson hits his 400th HR off Chicago's Britt Burns
12th - Signature of the Montevideo Treaty establishing the Latin American Integration Association.
13th - Suriname president Johan Ferrier ousted
13th - Tatyana Kazankina of USSR sets 1.5k woman's record (3:52.47) in USSR
14th - 17,000 workers strike in Gdansk, Poland
14th - Democratic Convention in NYC nominates Jimmy Carter & Walter Mondale
14th - In Lenin Shipyard Gdansk Poland, 17,000 workers go on strike
16th - Bill Ward quits Black Sabbath
16th - Cozy Powell quits Rainbow
16th - Jools Holland quits Squeeze
17th - "Blackstone" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 104 performances
17th - Beth Daniel wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic
17th - George Brett goes 4-for-4, raising his batting average to .401
17th - Azaria Chamberlain disappears, likely taken by a dingo, leading to what was then the most publicised trial in Australian history.
18th - KC Royals' George Brett, batting avg reach .400
19th - George Brett ends hitting streak at 30
19th - Saudi Arabian Lockhead Tristar crashes on landing at Riyadh, 301 die
19th - Willy Russell's "Educating Rita," premieres in London
20th - Mt Everest climbed by Italian Reinhold Messner, alone
20th - NY Yankee Bob Watson hits Seattle Kingdome speaker, 2nd straight day
20th - Pitts Omar Moreno steals record 70 bases for 3rd consecutive season
20th - Reinhold Messner of Italy is 1st to solo ascent Mt Everest
20th - Cleve Dan Spillner, 545 ERA, is 2 outs from a no-hitter when White Sox rookie Leo Sutherland singles
20th - UN Security Council condemns (14-0, US abstains) Israeli declaration that all of Jersualem is it's capital
21st - Linda Ronstadt opens in "Pirates of Penzance" on Broadway
22nd - Bill Veeck agrees to sell Chicago White Sox to Eddie DeBartolo Sr for $20,000,000, AL owners block the sale
23rd - Charlie Finley sells A's for $127M to Haas (owners of Levi Strauss)
24th - Beth Daniel wins Columbia Savings LPGA Golf Classic
24th - Jozef Pinkovski replaces Poland premier Babiuch
25th - "42nd Street" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 3486 performances
25th - Gower Champion's musical "42nd Street," premieres in NYC
25th - Rangers pitcher Ferguson Jenkins arrested for possession of drugs
26th - Pete Comita replaces Tom Peterson as bassist of Cheap Trick
26th - John Birges plants a bomb at Harvey's Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada.
27th - Chon Doo Hwan elected pres of South Korea
30th - Polish government recognizes Solidarity
31st - "Oklahoma!" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 301 performances
31st - 80th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Hal Sutton
31st - Poland's Solidarity labor union forms
31st - The Gdańsk Agreement is signed.

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 67 of 67

1st - Mancini, Brazilian footballer
2nd - Ivica Banović, Croatian footballer
2nd - Nadia Bjorlin, American actress
3rd - Brandan Schieppati, American singer (Bleeding Through)
3rd - Dominic Moore, Canadian ice hockey player
4th - Dingdong Dantes, Filipino actor
4th - Richard Dawson, English cricketer
5th - Kaylani Lei, Singaporean/American pornographic actress
5th - Wayne Bridge, English footballer
5th - Ali Umar, Maldivian footballer
5th - Sophie Winkleman, English actress
5th - Jason Čulina, Australian soccer player
6th - Danny Collins, Welsh footballer
6th - Wilber Pan, American/Taiwanese singer
7th - Aurélie Claudel, French model
8th - Mike Hindert, American musician
8th - Pat Noonan, American footballer
8th - Sabine Klaschka, German tennis player
8th - Michael Urie, American actor and director
9th - Ryu Seung-beom, South Korean actor
10th - Kaysar Ridha, Iraqi-American reality TV contestant
11th - Lee Suggs, American football player
12th - Maggie Lawson, American actress
12th - Matt Thiessen, Canadian/American musician (Relient K)
12th - Dominique Swain, American actress
12th - Jade Villalon, American singer/songwriter
14th - Estrella Morente, Spanish flamenco singer
14th - Roy Williams, American football player
15th - Nathalie Press, English actress
16th - Vanessa Carlton, American singer/songwriter
16th - Robert Hardy, English musician (Franz Ferdinand)
17th - Jan Kromkamp, Dutch footballer
17th - Keith Dabengwa, Zimbabwean cricketer
17th - Shannon Lucio, American actress
17th - Lene Marlin, Norwegian singer
18th - Esteban Cambiasso, Argentine footballer
18th - Athina Papayianni, Greek race walker
18th - Preeti Jhangiani, Indian actress
18th - Rob Nguyen, Australian racing driver
18th - Jeremy Shockey, American football Tight End
19th - Paul Parry, Welsh footballer
19th - Jun Jin, Korean rapper (Shinhwa)
19th - Darius Danesh, Scottish singer-songwriter & actor
19th - Michael Todd, American musician (Coheed and Cambria)
20th - Corey Carrier, actor (Young Indiana Jones)
20th - Rochelle Gadd, British actress
21st - Paul Menard, NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Driver
21st - Burney Lamar, American race car driver
22nd - Roland Benschneider, German footballer
22nd - Christi Shake, American model and actress
22nd - Nicolas Macrozonaris, French-Canadian track-and-field athlete
23rd - Denny Bautista, Dominican baseball player
23rd - Rex Grossman, American football player
24th - Sonja Bennett, Canadian actress
25th - Neal Musser, American baseball player
26th - Macaulay Culkin, NYC, actor (Home Alone, My Girl, Richie Rich)
26th - Brendan Harris, American baseball player
26th - Chris Pine, American actor
27th - Stephanie Michelle Steele, Abilene TX, country singer
27th - Kyle Lowder, American actor
28th - T.J. Beam, American baseball player
29th - David Desrosiers, Canadian musician(Simple Plan)
29th - Chris Simms, American football player
29th - David West, American basketball player
29th - Nicholas Tse, Hong Kong singer and actor
29th - Mohammad Sheikh, Kenyan cricketer
31st - Joe Budden, American rapper

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 28 of 28

1st - Strother Martin, actor (Slapshot), dies of heart attack at 61
1st - Patrick Depailler, French Formula 1 driver (b. 1944)
2nd - Verdun John Scott, cricketer (ten Tests for NZ), dies
5th - Harold Runnels, American politician (b. 1924)
6th - Charles Urbanus, Dutch baseball player, dies at 66
8th - Aga Yahya Khan, Pakistan military/politician, dies at 63
8th - Jacqueline Cochrane, US pilot/1st female faster than sound, dies at 70
8th - Paul Triquet, French Canadian army officer (b. 1910)
9th - Elliott Nugent, actor (Romance), dies
9th - Oleg Grigoryevich Kononenko, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 41
9th - P K "Perker" Lee, cricketer (Australian bowler 1931-33, 2 Tests), dies
9th - Jacqueline Cochran, American aviatrix (b. 1906)
11th - Paul Robert, French lexicographer and publisher (b. 1910)
14th - Dorothy Stratten, Playmate, murdered by boyfriend Paul Snider
18th - Norman Cazden, composer, dies at 65
20th - Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank, dies at 91
20th - Joe Dassin, American singer (b. 1938)
21st - Jack Cheetham, cricketer (15 Tests as S Afr capt, won 7 lost 5), dies
22nd - James Smith McDonnell, American aircraft manufacturer (b. 1899)
22nd - Alfred Neubauer, German racing team manager (b. 1891)
23rd - Norman Shelley, English radio actor (Churchill's Speech), dies at 77
24th - Yootha Joyce, British actress (b. 1927)
25th - Gower Champion, dancer (Marge & Gower Champion Show), dies at 60
26th - Miliza Korjus, actress (Great Waltz), dies at 71
26th - Rosa Albach-Retty, German actress (b. 1874)
26th - Tex Avery, American cartoonist (b. 1908)
27th - Sam Levenson, humorist (Sam Levenson Show), dies at 68
27th - Douglas Kenney, American humorist (b. 1947)