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Historical Events

Results 1 - 65 of 65

1st - 1st transmission of CNN, Cable News Network
1st - ANC sets fire to Sasol oil installations in South Africa
1st - Barbra Streisand appears at an ACLU Benefit in Calif
1st - Beth Daniel wins LPGA Golden Lights Golf Championshipship
1st - Steve Garvey, hits the 7,000th Dodger home run
1st - Ted Turner's Cable News Network begins broadcasting
2nd - "Your Arm's Too Short to Box..." opens at Ambassador NYC for 149 perfs
3rd - "It's So Nice to Be Civilized" opens at Martin Beck NYC for 8 perfs
3rd - Crew of Soyuz 36 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 35
3rd - ESPN begins televising college world series games
3rd - Jimmy Carter wins enough delegates for renomination
3rd - NY Mets draft Darryl Strawberry, 18, #1
5th - Soyuz T-2 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
6th - Bjorn Borg beats John McEnroe for Wimbledon title
7th - "Billy Bishop Goes to War" closes at Morosco NYC after 12 perfs
7th - "Cars," by Gary Numan hits #9
7th - 112th Belmont: Eddie Maple aboard Temperence Hill wins in 2:29.8
7th - 50th French Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats Vitas Gerulaitis (64 61 62)
7th - Jeff Norman runs world record 50k (2:48:06)
7th - John McEnroe beats Bjorn Borg for US Open
7th - Tommy John wins his 200th, 3-0 on a 2-hitter
8th - "It's So Nice to Be Civilized" closes at Martin Beck NYC after 8 perfs
8th - 26th LPGA Championship won by Sally Little
8th - 34th Tony Awards: Children of a Lesser God & Evita win
8th - 50th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats Virginia Ruzici (60 63)
9th - 14th Music City News Country Awards: Statler Brothers & Loretta Lynn
9th - Comedian Richard Pryor suffers burns from free basing cocaine
9th - Phillies & SF Giants end their game at 3:11 AM
9th - Soyuz T-2 returns to Earth
11th - K-Ingleside streetcar converts to METRO service (SF)
12th - Reagan said he would submit to periodic medical tests
13th - Billy Joel's "Glass Houses" hits #1
13th - Deborah Harry/Meat Loaf film, "Roadie," premieres
13th - Paul McCartney releases "Waterfall"
13th - Rep John Jenrette Jr (D-SC) indicted in "Abscam" investigation
13th - UN Security Council calls for South Africa to free Nelson Mandela
14th - Theme From NY, NY by Frank Sinatra hits #32
15th - "Fearless Frank" opens at Princess Theater NYC for 12 performances
15th - 80th US Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 272 at Baltusrol GC NJ
15th - Dale Lundquis wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
15th - Jorge Orta of Cleveland gets 6 hits in a baseball game
16th - "Blues Brothers," premieres in Chicago
16th - Supreme Court rules new forms of life created in labs could be patents
17th - Led Zeppelin begins their last European tour
18th - Dutch 2nd Chamber joins oil boycott of South Africa
18th - Mrs Shakuntala Devi mentally multiplies 2 13-digit #s in 28 sec
19th - Battle between police & demonstrators in Capetown, 34 killed
20th - "Blues Brothers" with Dan Akwoyd & John Belushi opens in 594 theaters
20th - Calif Angels Freddie Patek, hits 3 HRs & double to beat Red Sox 20-2
20th - Roberto Duran takes WBC welterweight title from Sugar Ray Leonard at Olympic Stadium in Montreal by unanimous decision
22nd - Jim King begins riding Miracle Strip Roller coaster 368 hours
22nd - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
23rd - "David Letterman Show," debuts on NBC-TV daytime
23rd - 1st solar-powered coast-to-coast two-way radio conversation
23rd - West German wins European soccer title (2-1 against Belgium)
24th - Affirmed wins $500,000 Hollywood Cup, 1st horse to win $2 million
25th - "Fearless Frank" closes at Princess Theater NYC after 12 performances
27th - 1st female state police graduates (NJ)
27th - Dodger's Jerry Reuss' no-hits SF Giants 8-0
27th - Italian plane crashes into Tyrrheense Sea, kills 81
27th - US revives draft registration
28th - NYC transit fare rises from 50 cents to 60 cents
29th - "Sweeney Todd" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 557 performances
29th - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Golf Tournament
30th - West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt visits Moscow

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 68 of 68

1st - Oliver James, British actor
2nd - Fabrizio Moretti, Brazilian-born rock drummer (The Stro
2nd - Abby Wambach, American Soccer player
3rd - Lazaros Papadopoulos, Greek basketball player
4th - Alicja Janosz, Polish singer
4th - François Beauchemin, French Canadian ice hockey player
5th - Yasser Latif Hamdani, Pakistani constitutional lawyer
5th - Sutee Suksomkit, Thai football player
6th - Matt Belisle, American baseball player
6th - Martin Devaney, English footballer
9th - Mike Fontenot, American baseball player
9th - Lehlohonolo Seema, Lesotho footballer
9th - Udonis Haslem, American basketball player
10th - Francelino Matuzalem, Brazilian footballer
10th - Jessica Di Cicco, American actress
11th - Yhency Brazoban, Dominican born baseball player
12th - Larry Foote, American football player
12th - Marco Bortolami, Italian rugby union player
13th - Florent Malouda, French footballer
13th - Markus Winkelhock, German racing driver
13th - Darius Vassell, English footballer
13th - Sarah Connor, German singer
15th - Mary Carey, American pornographic actress
15th - Christopher Castile, American actor
15th - Almudena Cid, Spanish gymnast
15th - Cara Zavaleta, American model
16th - Daré Nibombé, Togolese footballer
16th - Nehir Erdoğan, Turkish actress
16th - Brad Gushue, Canadian curler
16th - Martin Stranzl, Austrian footballer
16th - Joey Yung, Hong Kong singer
17th - Andee Pickens, New Orleans La, gymnast (alt-Olympics-96)
17th - Brittney McConn, Largo Fla, figure skater (1997 Eastern Sr champ)
17th - Venus Williams, Lynwood Calif, tennis star
17th - Kimeru, Japanese singer
18th - Antonio Gates, American football player
18th - Tara Platt, American actress
18th - Ivana Wong, Hong Kong singer and songwriter
18th - Craig Mottram, Australian middle distance runner
19th - Amy Merrill, Miss Utah Teen USA (1997)
19th - Adel Abdulaziz, Emiratie football player
19th - Dante Robinson, American football player
19th - Lauren Lee Smith, Canadian actress
20th - Carlo Festuccia, Italian rugby union footballer
20th - Fabian Wegmann, German road racing cyclist
20th - Franco Semioli, Italian footballer
20th - Tony Lovato, American singer and guitarrist (Mest)
21st - Sendy Rleal, Dominican baseball player
21st - Richard Jefferson, American basketball player
23rd - Becky Cloonan, American comic book artist
23rd - Ramnaresh Sarwan, Guyanese cricketer
24th - Kelly Dutra, Miss Rhode Island Teen USA (1996)
24th - Cicinho, Brazilian footballer
24th - Liane Balaban, Canadian actress
24th - Andrew Jones, Australian racing driver
24th - Minka Kelly, American actress
25th - Maja Latinović, Serbian model
25th - Nozomi Takeuchi, Japanese actress
26th - Jason Schwartzman, American actor
26th - Michael Vick, American football player
26th - Chris Shelton, American baseball player
26th - Sinik, French singer and rapper
27th - Kevin Pietersen, English cricketer
27th - Craig Terrill, American football player
29th - Katherine Jenkins, Welsh soprano
29th - Mel Peachey, British television personality
29th - Martin Truex Jr, American race car driver
30th - Rade Prica, Swedish footballer

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 26 of 26

1st - [Richard] Rube Marquard, US baseball pitcher, dies at 90
1st - Arthur Nielsen, American market analyst (b. 1897)
5th - Lauritz Lauritzen, German politician, dies at 70
7th - Henry [Valentine] Miller, US writer (Tropic of Capricorn), dies at 88
7th - Richard Bonnelli, actor (Enter Madame), dies
7th - Elizabeth Craig, British writer (b. 1883)
8th - Ernst Busch, German singer and actor (b. 1900)
9th - Leonard Huizinga, journalist/writer (Olivier & Adrian), dies at 73
10th - Denys Morkel, S Afr cricketer (batsman scored 663 runs 1927-32), dies
12th - Milburn Stone, actor (Doc-Gunsmoke), dies at 75
12th - Billy Butlin, Founder of the brand of holiday venues known as Butlins (b. 1899)
18th - André Leducq, French cyclist (b. 1904)
18th - Terence Fisher, English film director (b. 1904)
20th - Gustaf Allan Pettersson, composer, dies at 68
23rd - John Laurie, actor (39 Steps, Jericho, Kidnapped), dies at 83
23rd - Odile Versois, actress (Nude in a White Car, Young Lovers), dies
23rd - Sanjay Gandhi, Indian politician, dies
23rd - Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian (bomanslag), dies
23rd - Clyfford Still, American painter (b. 1904)
23rd - Varahagiri Venkata Giri, Fourth President of India (b. 1894)
27th - Steve Peregrin Took, percussionist (T-Rex), dies at 31
28th - Heal Gahagan Douglas, (Rep-D-Ca), lost to Nixon, dies at 79
28th - Herbie Faye, comedian (Doc, Phil Silvers Show), dies at 81
28th - Yoshiro Irino, composer, dies at 58
28th - José Iturbi, Spanish pianist and conductor (b. 1895)
30th - Virginia Brown Faire, actress (Lonesome Trail, Temptress), dies