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Historical Events

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Feb 24th - "Canterbury Tales" closes at Rialto Theater NYC after 16 performances
Feb 24th - Joanne Carner Ladies wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic
Feb 24th - Rangers score 5 power-play goals against Islanders
Feb 24th - USA Olympic hockey team defeated Finland, 4-2, to win the gold medal
Feb 25th - Coup ousts PM Henck Arron of Suriname
Feb 26th - Egypt & Israel exchange ambassadors for 1st time
Feb 26th - Milt coup under Desi Bouterse in Suriname
Feb 26th - R Hadlee scores Test Cricket century v Roberts, Garner, Holding, Croft
Feb 27th - 22nd Grammy Awards: What a Fool Believe, Streisand-Diamond duet
Feb 27th - Israel & Egypt exchange ambassadors
Feb 27th - Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF wins elections in Zimbabwe
Feb 27th - Terrorists occupies Dominican embassy in Bogota
Feb 28th - "The Well-Tuned Piano" by La Monte Young premieres (takes 4 h 12 m)
Feb 28th - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Feb 29th - Gordie Howe becomes 1st NHL player to score 800 career goals
Feb 29th - Michael Bracey ends 59 h 55 m trapped in an elevator, England
Mar 1st - CTUC, Commonwealth Trade Union Council, established
Mar 1st - Hilbert van der Duim becomes world champion all-round skater
Mar 1st - Patti Smith & MC5 guitarist Fred Sonic Smith wed in Detroit
Mar 1st - Snow falls in Florida
Mar 2nd - 3rd Islander scoreless tie-Penguins in Pitts
Mar 2nd - Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Sun City Golf Classic
Mar 2nd - Mike Bratz (Phoenix) ends NBA free throw streak of 57 games
Mar 3rd - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
Mar 3rd - The USS Nautilus is stricken.
Mar 4th - 40th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy
Mar 4th - Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF wins parliamentary election in Zimbabwe
Mar 5th - Earth satellites record gamma rays from remnants of supernova N-49
Mar 6th - Emmy 7th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 1st time
Mar 6th - Princess Theater (Latin Quarter, Cotton Club) opens at 200 W 48th NYC
Mar 6th - French Academy, founded in 1635, elects it 1st woman novelist (Marguerita Youcenar)
Mar 8th - Greg Chappell 235 & Yallop 172, for 217 stand at Faisalabad
Mar 8th - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Mar 8th - The first festival of rock music kicks off in the Soviet Union.
Mar 9th - Flemish/Walloon battles in Belgium, 40 injured
Mar 9th - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Sunstar '80 Golf Tournament
Mar 10th - Willard Scott becomes the weather forcaster on the Today Show
Mar 11th - Rod Marsh bowls 10 overs for 51 runs in dull Aust v Pak cricket draw
Mar 12th - Jury finds John Wayne Gacy guilty of murdering 33 in Chicago
Mar 12th - NY Islanders 3rd scoreless tie, vs Pittsburgh Penguin
Mar 13th - Eric Heiden skates world record 1000m (1:13.60)
Mar 13th - Ford Motor Co found innocent in death of 3 women in a fiery Pinto
Mar 13th - Men's Figure Skating Championship in Dortmund won by Jan Hoffmann GDR
Mar 14th - 3rd Emmy Sports Award presentation
Mar 14th - Ice Dance Championship at Dortmund W Germany won by Regoczy & Sallay
Mar 14th - Ice Pairs Championship at Dortmund won by Cherkasova & Shakhrai (USSR)
Mar 14th - Polish airliner crash kills all 87 aboard (22 are US amateur boxers)
Mar 14th - Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Dortmund won by Anett Potzsch
Mar 16th - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Honda Civic Golf Classic
Mar 18th - Vostok rocket exploded on launch pad while being refueled, killing 50
Mar 20th - The Mi Amigo ship containing England's pirate Radio Caroline sinks
Mar 20th - US appeals to International Court on hostages in Iran
Mar 21st - On TV show Dallas, J.R. is shot
Mar 23rd - Border completes 150 in each inning of Test Cricket v Pakistan
Mar 23rd - Donna Caponi Young Pro-Am wins LPGA National Golf Tournament
Mar 23rd - France performs nuclear test
Mar 23rd - Shah of Iran arrives in Egypt
Mar 24th - 42nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Louisville beats UCLA 59-54
Mar 24th - ABC's nightly Iran Hostage crisis program renamed "Nightline"
Mar 24th - Capitol Records releases some rare Beatles tracks
Mar 26th - Bombay gets its 1st rock concert in 10 years (The Police)
Mar 27th - "Happy New Year" opens at Morosco Theater NYC for 17 performances
Mar 27th - "Reggae" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 21 performances
Mar 27th - Elevator in Vaal Reef S Afr gold mine crash 1900m down (23 die)
Mar 27th - Mount St Helens becomes active after 123 years
Mar 27th - The Norwegian oil platform Alexander Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.
Mar 30th - Mark Medoff's "Children of a Lesser God," premieres in NYC
Mar 30th - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
Mar 31st - Larry Holmes TKOs Leroy Jones in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
Mar 31st - Mike Weaver KOs John Tate in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
Mar 31st - President Jimmy Carter deregulates banking industry
Mar 31st - The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad operates its final train after being ordered to liquidate its assets due to bankruptcy and debt owed to creditors.
Apr 1st - Baseball Players' Assn votes to cancel 92 remaining exhibition games
Apr 1st - Failed assassination attempt on Iraqi vice-premier Tariq Aziz
Apr 1st - France performs nuclear test
Apr 1st - Wayne Gretzky breaks Bobby Orr's record with 103rd assist
Apr 1st - New York City's Transit Worker Union 100 begins a strike lasting 11 days.
Apr 2nd - Wayne Gretzky becomes 1st teenager to score 50 goals in a season
Apr 3rd - France performs nuclear test
Apr 3rd - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Apr 4th - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Apr 6th - 9th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Donna Caponi Young
Apr 6th - Gordie Howe completes a record 26th season
Apr 6th - Post It Notes, introduced
Apr 7th - Jimmy Carter breaks relations with Iran during hostage crisis
Apr 8th - Islander Potvin's 2 shorthanded goals tie NHL record vs Kings & set NHL rec of 2 shorthanded playoff goals in 1 period
Apr 9th - Belgium's Marten's govt resigns
Apr 9th - Kings tie NHL rec with 2 shorthanded playoff goals in a pd vs Isles
Apr 9th - Soyuz 35 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6
Apr 11th - Equal Employment Opportunity Commission regulates sexual harassment
Apr 11th - Paul McCartney releases "Coming Up"
Apr 12th - BCMA, Black Consciousness Movement of Azania, forms
Apr 12th - Milwaukee beats Boston Red Sox, 18-1 (Cooper & Money hit grand slams)
Apr 12th - Samuel Doe takes control of Liberia in a coup d'etat, ending over 130 years of national democratic presidential succession.
Apr 12th - Terry Fox begins his "Marathon of Hope" at St. John's, Newfoundland.
Apr 13th - "Grease" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 3,388 performances
Apr 13th - "Reggae" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 21 performances
Apr 13th - 44th Golf Masters Championship: Seve Ballesteros wins, shooting a 275
Apr 13th - Amy Alcott wins LPGA American Defender/WRAL Golf Classic
Apr 13th - Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation

Famous Birthdays

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Feb 10th - César Izturis, Venezuelan baseball player
Feb 10th - Mike Ribeiro, Canadian ice hockey player
Feb 10th - Steve Tully, English footballer
Feb 11th - Matthew Lawrence, Montgomery Pa, actor (Matthew-Gimme a Break)
Feb 11th - Natasha Bobo, Watsonville Calif, actress (Sally-Together We Stand)
Feb 11th - Titi Buengo, Angolan footballer
Feb 11th - Cormac McAnallen, Northern Irish Gaelic footballer (d. 2004)
Feb 11th - Marco Bresciano, Australian soccer player
Feb 12th - Christina Ricci, actress (Wednesday-Addams Family, Mermaids, Casper)
Feb 12th - Sarah Lancaster, KC KS, actress (Rachel-Saved By Bell: New Class)
Feb 12th - Juan Carlos Ferrero, Spanish tennis player
Feb 13th - Kristy Powell, Fla, gymnast (Olympics-96)
Feb 13th - Sebastian Kehl, German footballer
Feb 14th - Fátima Leyva, Mexican footballer
Feb 14th - Michelle Ye, Hong Kong actress
Feb 14th - Josh Senter, American screenwriter
Feb 15th - Conor Oberst, American singer and songwriter (Bright Eyes)
Feb 16th - Agim Kaba, American actor and film producer
Feb 16th - Ashley Lelie, American football player
Feb 17th - Shanyn MacEachern, Brampton Ontario, gymnist (Olympics-96)
Feb 17th - Klemi Saban, Israeli footballer
Feb 17th - Al Harrington, American basketball player
Feb 17th - Jason Ritter, American actor
Feb 18th - Alison Rachel Fitch, Hamilton NZ, swimmer (Olympics-96)
Feb 18th - Regina Spektor, Russian-born singer and songwriter
Feb 18th - Nikolai Antropov, Kazakh ice hockey player
Feb 19th - Neleh Dennis, American Survivor contestant
Feb 19th - Mike Miller, American basketball player
Feb 20th - Artur Boruc, Polish footballer
Feb 20th - Imanol Harinordoquy, French rugby union footballer
Feb 21st - Parthiva Sureshwaren, Indian racing driver
Feb 21st - Brad Fast, Canadian ice hockey player
Feb 21st - Jim Vandermeer, Canadian ice hockey player
Feb 21st - Tiziano Ferro, Italian singer
Feb 23rd - Yvonne Tousek, Kitchener Ontario, gymnistic (Olympics-96)
Feb 24th - Anton Gustafsson, Swedish rock music fan (d. 2003)
Feb 24th - Shinsuke Nakamura, Japanese professional wrestler
Feb 24th - Roman Sloudnov, Russian swimmer
Feb 25th - Antonio Burks, American basketball player
Feb 25th - Christy Knowings, American actress
Feb 26th - Alex Fong, Hong Kong singer
Feb 26th - Gary Majewski, Major League Baseball player
Feb 27th - Chelsea Clinton, daughter of President Clinton (1993-2001)
Feb 27th - Bobby Valentino, American singer
Feb 28th - Pascal Bosschaart, Dutch footballer
Feb 28th - Piotr Giza, Polish footballer
Feb 28th - Lucian Bute, Romanian-born Quebec boxer
Feb 28th - Tayshaun Prince, American basketball player
Feb 29th - Ruben Plaza, Spanish cyclist
Feb 29th - Simon Gagné, Canadian ice hockey player
Feb 29th - Taylor Twellman, American soccer player
Feb 29th - Clinton Toopi, New Zealand rugby league footballer
Feb 29th - Chris Conley, American musician
Mar 1st - Rose VBL Windsor, daughter of English prince Richard
Mar 1st - Shahid Afridi, cricketer (ton in 37 balls in 1st ODI innings)
Mar 1st - Djimi Traoré, Malian footballer
Mar 1st - Abdur Rehman, Pakistani cricketer
Mar 2nd - Édson Nobre, Angolan footballer
Mar 2nd - Lance Cade, American professional wrestler
Mar 3rd - Mason Unck, American football player
Mar 4th - Omar Bravo, Mexican footballer
Mar 4th - Jung Da Bin, South Korean actress (d. 2007)
Mar 4th - Jack Hannahan, American baseball player
Mar 4th - Arash Markazi, American sportswriter
Mar 7th - Laura Prepon, American actress
Mar 8th - Stephen Milne, Australian rules footballer
Mar 11th - Paul Scharner, Austrian footballer
Mar 11th - Dan Uggla, American baseball player
Mar 12th - Douglas Murray, Swedish ice-hockey player
Mar 13th - Caron Butler, American basketballer
Mar 13th - Lee Jung-hyun, South Korean pop singer and actress
Mar 13th - Molly Stanton, American actress
Mar 14th - Matteo Grassotto, Italian racing driver
Mar 14th - Ben Herring, New Zealand rugby union footballer
Mar 14th - Aaron Brown, British/English footballer
Mar 14th - Mercedes McNab, Canadian-born actress
Mar 15th - Deidra Graham, Salt Lake City Utah, gymnast (alt-Olympics-96)
Mar 15th - Freddie Bynum, American baseball player
Mar 16th - Felipe Reyes, Spanish basketball player
Mar 16th - Todd Heap, American football player
Mar 17th - Danny Califf, American soccer player
Mar 18th - Sebastien Frey, French footballer
Mar 18th - Sophia Myles, English actress
Mar 19th - Mikuni Shimokawa, Japanese singer
Mar 19th - Don Sparrow, Canadian illustrator
Mar 20th - Jamal Crawford, American basketball player
Mar 20th - Ock Ju-Hyun, South Korean singer
Mar 21st - Ronaldinho Gaucho, Brazilian international footballer
Mar 21st - Marit Bjørgen, Norwegian cross-country skier
Mar 21st - Deryck Whibley, Canadian guitarist and singer (Sum41)
Mar 22nd - Pamela O'Connor, Scottish ice dancer
Mar 22nd - Shannon Bex, American singer (Danity Kane)
Mar 23rd - Russell Howard, British Comedian
Mar 24th - Luke Edwards, Nevada City Ca, actor (Newsie)
Mar 24th - Tassos Venetis, Greek footballer
Mar 25th - Carrie Lam, Hong Kong actress
Mar 25th - Joe King, Guitarist and Co-Founder for the band The Fray
Mar 26th - Son Ho Young, Korean singer
Mar 28th - Cara Lewis, Miss Mississippi Teen USA (1997)
Mar 28th - Stiliani Pilatou, Greek long jumper

Famous Deaths

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Apr 14th - Tom Fadden, actor (Duffeild-Broken Arrow, Cimarron City), dies at 84
Apr 15th - Jean-Paul Sartre, existentialist philosopher and writer (Nobel 1964), dies in Paris at 74
Apr 15th - Marshall Reed, actor (Fred Asher-Lineup), dies at 62
Apr 15th - Paul Langton, actor (Leslie-Peyton Place), dies at 76
Apr 15th - Raymond Bailey, actor (Mr Drysdale-Beverly Hillbillies), dies at 75
Apr 19th - Ethel Wilson, actress (Aunt Harriet-Aldrich Family), dies at 88
Apr 19th - Tony Beckley, actor (Assault, When a Stranger Calls), dies at 51
Apr 21st - Aleksandr Oparin, Russian biochemist (b. 1894)
Apr 21st - Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter (b. 1928)
Apr 22nd - Jane Froman, singer (Jane Froman's USA Canteen), dies at 72
Apr 23rd - Jane Froman, US singer (JF's USA Canteen), dies at 72
Apr 24th - Alentejo Carpentier, Cuban/Fren writer (Guerra del Tiempo), dies at 75
Apr 25th - Katia Mann, wife of German writer Thomas Mann (b. 1883)
Apr 26th - Cicely Courtneidge, actress (Double Exposure), dies at 87
Apr 28th - Dee Carroll, [Betty Jean Marsh], actress (Mad Bomber, Split), dies
Apr 28th - Tommy Caldwell, rocker (Marshall Tucker Band), dies
Apr 29th - Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, British director (Psycho, Birds), dies at 80
Apr 30th - Mary McCarty, actress (French Line), dies
Apr 30th - Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rican poet, journalist, and politician (b. 1898)
May 2nd - Clarrie Grimmett, cricket (36 Tests for Australia, 216 wickets), dies
May 2nd - George Pál, Hungarian-born film director (b. 1908)
May 4th - Josip Broz Tito, leader of Yugoslavia (1943-80), dies at 87
May 4th - Kay Hammond, actress (Blithe SPirit, 5 Golden Hours), dies
May 5th - Edmond Vandercammen, Belgian writer/poet (Grand Combat), dies at 79
May 12th - Lillian Roth, actress (Animal Crackers, Alice Sweet Alice), dies
May 14th - Hugh Griffith, actor (Passover Plot, Ben Hur, Tom Jones), dies at 67
May 14th - Wilhelm Weismann, composer, dies at 79
May 18th - Ian Curtis, English rock vocalist (Joy Division), commit suicide at 23
May 18th - Reid Blackburn, a photojournalist for National Geographic was also a victim of Mount St. Helens eruption (b. 1952)
May 18th - Harry Truman, victim of Mount St. Helens eruption (b. 1896)
May 18th - David A. Johnston, a U.S. Volcanoligist was also a victim of Mount St. Helens eruption (b. 1949)
May 20th - Jack Walsh, cricketer (at Wallsend)/commentator (NBN), dies
May 21st - Ida Kaminska, actress (Shop on Main Street), dies
May 28th - Rolf Nevanlinna, Finnish mathematician (b. 1895)
May 30th - Carl Radle, bassist (Derek & Dominoes), dies of a kidney ailment
May 30th - Timmy Caldwell, rocker (Marshall Tucker Band), dies
Jun 1st - [Richard] Rube Marquard, US baseball pitcher, dies at 90
Jun 1st - Arthur Nielsen, American market analyst (b. 1897)
Jun 5th - Lauritz Lauritzen, German politician, dies at 70
Jun 7th - Henry [Valentine] Miller, US writer (Tropic of Capricorn), dies at 88
Jun 7th - Richard Bonnelli, actor (Enter Madame), dies
Jun 7th - Elizabeth Craig, British writer (b. 1883)
Jun 8th - Ernst Busch, German singer and actor (b. 1900)
Jun 9th - Leonard Huizinga, journalist/writer (Olivier & Adrian), dies at 73
Jun 10th - Denys Morkel, S Afr cricketer (batsman scored 663 runs 1927-32), dies
Jun 12th - Milburn Stone, actor (Doc-Gunsmoke), dies at 75
Jun 12th - Billy Butlin, Founder of the brand of holiday venues known as Butlins (b. 1899)
Jun 18th - André Leducq, French cyclist (b. 1904)
Jun 18th - Terence Fisher, English film director (b. 1904)
Jun 20th - Gustaf Allan Pettersson, composer, dies at 68
Jun 23rd - John Laurie, actor (39 Steps, Jericho, Kidnapped), dies at 83
Jun 23rd - Odile Versois, actress (Nude in a White Car, Young Lovers), dies
Jun 23rd - Sanjay Gandhi, Indian politician, dies
Jun 23rd - Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian (bomanslag), dies
Jun 23rd - Clyfford Still, American painter (b. 1904)
Jun 23rd - Varahagiri Venkata Giri, Fourth President of India (b. 1894)
Jun 27th - Steve Peregrin Took, percussionist (T-Rex), dies at 31
Jun 28th - Heal Gahagan Douglas, (Rep-D-Ca), lost to Nixon, dies at 79
Jun 28th - Herbie Faye, comedian (Doc, Phil Silvers Show), dies at 81
Jun 28th - Yoshiro Irino, composer, dies at 58
Jun 28th - José Iturbi, Spanish pianist and conductor (b. 1895)
Jun 30th - Virginia Brown Faire, actress (Lonesome Trail, Temptress), dies
Jul 1st - Charles Percy Snow, British writer (Friends & Associates), dies at 75
Jul 4th - Maurice Grevisse, Belgian grammarian (b. 1895)
Jul 5th - Archibald James Potter, composer, dies at 61
Jul 6th - Gail Patrick, actress (My Man Godfrey), dies of leukemia at 69
Jul 7th - Reginald Gardiner, actor (Great Dictator), dies at 77
Jul 9th - Vinicius de Moraes, Brazilian poet and lyricist (b. 1913)
Jul 11th - Boleslaw Woytowicz, composer, dies at 80
Jul 11th - Peggy Knudson, actress (April-So This is Hollywood), dies at 57
Jul 12th - John W Davis, Pres (WV State college), dies at 92
Jul 13th - Seretse Khama, 1st president of Botswana, dies
Jul 15th - Eddie Jackson, comedian (Jimmy Durante Show), dies at 84
Jul 15th - Henri Martelli, composer, dies at 85
Jul 17th - Donald Barry, actor (Mr Gallo-Mr Novak), dies at 68
Jul 17th - Boris Delaunay, Russian mathematician (b. 1890)
Jul 18th - Naoomal Jeoomal, cricketer (3 Tests for India 1932-34, 108 runs), dies
Jul 22nd - Fred Kaps [Abram PA Bongers], magician (world champ 1955), dies at 54
Jul 23rd - Sarto Fournier, Mayor of Montreal (b. 1908)
Jul 23rd - Mollie Steimer, anarchist agitator and American political prisoner (b. 1897)
Jul 24th - Peter Sellers, actor (Pink Panther, Mouse that Roared), dies at 54
Jul 24th - Uttam Kumar, Indian actor (b. 1926)
Jul 25th - Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian poet, singer, and actor (b. 1938)
Jul 26th - Alan Hoskins, dies
Jul 26th - Ibn-e-Safi, Pakistani fiction writer and Urdu poet (b. 1928)
Jul 27th - Pahlawi Mohammed Reza, shah of Persia (1941-79), dies in Cairo at 60
Jul 28th - Cecil Burleigh, composer, dies at 95
Jul 29th - Jan Tausinger, composer, dies at 58
Jul 30th - Charles McGraw, actor (Michael-Falcon, Smith Family), dies at 66
Jul 30th - Norman Lloyd, composer, dies at 70
Jul 31st - Bobby Van, actor/TV host (Make Me Laugh), dies of cancer at 49
Jul 31st - Mohd. Rafi, Indian playback singer (b. 1924)
Aug 1st - Strother Martin, actor (Slapshot), dies of heart attack at 61
Aug 1st - Patrick Depailler, French Formula 1 driver (b. 1944)
Aug 2nd - Verdun John Scott, cricketer (ten Tests for NZ), dies
Aug 5th - Harold Runnels, American politician (b. 1924)
Aug 6th - Charles Urbanus, Dutch baseball player, dies at 66
Aug 8th - Aga Yahya Khan, Pakistan military/politician, dies at 63
Aug 8th - Jacqueline Cochrane, US pilot/1st female faster than sound, dies at 70
Aug 8th - Paul Triquet, French Canadian army officer (b. 1910)