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Historical Events

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Oct 9th - Nobel prize for literature awarded to Czeslaw Milosz
Oct 9th - Princess Caroline of Monaco divorces Philippe Junot
Oct 10th - 4,500 die when a pair of earthquakes strikes NW Algeria
Oct 10th - Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope network dedicated
Oct 10th - Yanks lose 4-2 & are swept by Royals in AL Championship series
Oct 11th - Cosmonauts Popov & Ryumin set space endurance record of 184 days
Oct 11th - Dallas Mavericks 1st game at Reunion Arena beat San Antonio 103-92
Oct 11th - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
Oct 12th - "Your Arm's Too Short to Box" closes at Ambassador NYC after 149 perfs
Oct 12th - 7 stabbed at Blood, Sweat & Tears concert in LA
Oct 12th - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic
Oct 13th - 14th Country Music Assn Award:[approx]
Oct 13th - Unprovoked slayings of 6 blacks in Buffalo, NY
Oct 14th - Bob Marley's last concert
Oct 14th - Phils rally from 4-0 deficit to beat the Royals, 7-6 to take WS opener
Oct 14th - Pres nominee Ronald Reagan promises to name a woman to Supreme Court
Oct 15th - George Brett is forced out of World Series with hemorrhoids
Oct 15th - Nobel prize for economy awarded to Lawrence R Klein
Oct 16th - "Brigadoon" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 133 performances
Oct 16th - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
Oct 17th - 1st-class debut of Mike Whitney, NSW v Qld (2-52 & 1-39)
Oct 18th - Brooke Alexander, 18, of Hawaii, crowned Miss World USA
Oct 18th - Detroit blocks 21 Atlanta shots setting NBA record (double OT)
Oct 19th - Steve McPeak rides 101'9" unicycle
Oct 21st - "Banjo Dancing" opens at Century Theater NYC for 38 performances
Oct 21st - 1st (& only) time Phillies win World Series (in 98 years)
Oct 21st - Michael Gorbatsjov elected member of Politburo
Oct 21st - Phillies win their 1st World Championship in their 98-year history
Oct 22nd - 4th govt of Martens forms in Belgium
Oct 22nd - New South Korean constitution comes into effect
Oct 23rd - "Tintypes" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 93 performances
Oct 23rd - McCosker (168) & Dyson (152) make 319 opening stand cricket, NSW v WA
Oct 23rd - Soviet PM Nikolai Tichonov succeeds Alexei Kosygin, due to illness
Oct 24th - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Oct 24th - Iraqi troops occupies Khorramshar
Oct 24th - John Lennon releases "(Just Like) Starting Over" in UK
Oct 24th - Polish government legalizes independent labor union Solidarity
Oct 25th - Mike Weaver KOs Gerrie Coetzee in 13 for heavyweight boxing title
Oct 25th - Barbra Streisand's "Guilty," album goes #1 for 3 weeks & her single "Woman In Love," goes #1 for 3 weeks
Oct 26th - 10th NYC Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:25:41.3
Oct 26th - 11th NYC Marathon won by Alberto Salazar in 2:09:41
Oct 26th - St Louis Cards sack Balt Colt QBs an NFL record tying 12 times
Oct 27th - Astros owner John McMullen replaces GM Tal Smith with Al Rosen
Oct 27th - Dave Gryllis sets world bicycle speed record of 94.37 kph
Oct 30th - Honduras & El Salvador settle their boundary dispute
Oct 30th - NASA launches Flt Satcom-4
Oct 31st - Julian Nott sets world hot-air balloon altitude record (16,806 m)
Oct 31st - Polish government recognizes Solidarity
Oct 31st - Senegal routes troops to Gambia due to Libyan threat
Nov 1st - USSR performs nuclear test
Nov 3rd - Ianford Wilsons "5th of July," premieres in NYC
Nov 3rd - Walter Hass Jr becomes CEO of Oakland A's
Nov 4th - Islanders start 15 game undefeated streak (13-0-2)
Nov 4th - Libyan invasion in Chad
Nov 4th - Ronald Reagan (R) defeats Pres Jimmy Carter (D) by a landslide
Nov 4th - Sadaharu Oh, 40, pro baseball's all-time HR run king with 868, retires
Nov 4th - Steve Carlton wins 3rd NL Cy Young Awards
Nov 8th - Voyager 1 space probe discovers 15th moon of Saturn
Nov 9th - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein declares holy war against Iran
Nov 9th - Tatsuko Ohsako wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
Nov 10th - Dan Rather refuses to pay his cabbie, CBS pays $12.55 fare
Nov 10th - Poland acknowledges Solidarity union
Nov 11th - Crew of Soyuz 35 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 37
Nov 11th - Islander's Mike Bossy scores 4 goals against North Stars
Nov 12th - Baltimore's Steve Stone wins AL Cy Young Award
Nov 12th - NYC Mayor Ed Koch admits to trying marijuana
Nov 12th - US space probe Voyager I approaches 77,000-mi (124,000 km) of Saturn
Nov 13th - US spacecraft Voyager I sent back 1st close-up pictures of Saturn
Nov 13th - Gabriella Brum, 18, of W Germany crowned 30th Miss World, she resigns the next day, because she wants to marry her 52 year old boyfriend
Nov 14th - Guinee-Bissau premier Vieira fires president Luis Cabral
Nov 14th - Kimberley Santos, 19 of Guam, crowned 30th Miss World
Nov 14th - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Nov 15th - Pope John Paul II began 5 day visit to West Germany
Nov 16th - Tampa Bay Buccaneer QB Doug Williams throws for 486 yards
Nov 17th - John Lennon releases "Double Fantasy" album in UK
Nov 18th - "Heaven's Gate" premieres
Nov 18th - Despite missing 45 games, George Brett wins AL MVP
Nov 18th - Honduras & El Salvador signs peace (after "soccer war" 1969)
Nov 19th - CBS TV bans Calvin Klein's jean ad featuring Brooke Shields
Nov 20th - Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year (Oakland A's)
Nov 20th - Steve Ptacek in Solar Challenger makes 1st solar-powered flight
Nov 20th - UA withdraws $44 million movie "Heaven's Gate" for reediting
Nov 21st - Dallas' "Who Shot JR?" episode (Kristen) gets a 53.3 rating (83 mill)
Nov 21st - Fire at MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas kills 84
Nov 21st - Gene Michael named 25th Yank mgr, replacing Dick Howser, who resigns
Nov 21st - It is revealed Kristen shot J.R. Ewing on "Dallas"
Nov 21st - John & Yoko pose nude for photographer Allan Tannenbaum
Nov 21st - MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas in fire; 84 die
Nov 22nd - Georgia tanker at Pilottown La, spills 1.3 million gallons of oil after an anchor chain caused a ship to leak
Nov 23rd - 4,800 die in series of earthquakes that devastated southern Italy
Nov 23rd - 68th CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 48-10
Nov 23rd - National Black Independent Party forms
Nov 24th - Ronald Reagan Jr marries Doria Palmieri
Nov 25th - Coup in Burkina abolishes constitution
Nov 25th - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
Nov 25th - Imran Khan scores his 1st Test Cricket ton, 123 v WI Lahore
Nov 25th - Sugar Ray Leonard defeats Duran regains WBC welterweight championship
Nov 25th - Upper-Volta milt coup under Col Saye Zerbo, president Lamizana flees
Nov 26th - Columbia mated to SRBs & external tank at Vehicle Assembly Building
Nov 26th - Mike Schmidt is unanimous choice as NL MVP

Famous Birthdays

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Sep 21st - Nyree Lewis, British Paralympic swimmer
Sep 21st - Aleksa Palladino, American actress
Sep 21st - Autumn Reeser, American actress
Sep 21st - Tomas Scheckter, South African racing driver
Sep 22nd - Fernanda Tavares, Brazilian supermodel
Sep 23rd - Cameron Litvack, American television producer
Sep 24th - Sabrine Maui, Filipino pornstar
Sep 24th - Petri Pasanen, Finnish footballer
Sep 24th - John Arne Riise, Norwegian footballer
Sep 24th - Daniele Bennati, Italian professional road racing cyclist
Sep 24th - Dean Canto, Australian racing driver
Sep 25th - T.I., American rapper
Sep 26th - Jane Darling, Czech porn model/actress
Sep 26th - Patrick Friesacher, Austrian race car driver
Sep 26th - Henrik and Daniel Sedin, Swedish ice hockey players
Sep 29th - Sarah Sucher, Miss Iowa Teen USA (1997)
Sep 29th - Dallas Green, Canadian musician (Alexisonfire,City and Colour)
Sep 29th - Zachary Levi, American actor
Sep 29th - Patrick Agyemang, English footballer
Sep 30th - Martina Hingis, Kosice Slovakia, tennis star (1997 Aust/US/Wimb)
Sep 30th - Camilla D’Errico, Canadian comic book artist and painter
Oct 2nd - Shane Andrus, National Football League kicker
Oct 3rd - Sheldon Brookbank, Canadian hockey player
Oct 4th - Jimmy Workman, actor (Pugsley-Addams Family)
Oct 4th - Kristina Lenko, Canadian ice skater
Oct 4th - Me'Lisa Barber, American athlete
Oct 4th - Sarah Fisher, American race car driver
Oct 4th - Tim Peper, American actor
Oct 4th - Tomáš Rosický, Czech footballer
Oct 5th - Paul Thomas, American bassist (Good Charlotte)
Oct 6th - Abdoulaye Méïté, French footballer
Oct 7th - Edison Chen, Canadian-born actor
Oct 8th - Andria Gayle Mullins, Miss Texas Teen USA (Teen with Style-1997)
Oct 8th - Mike Mizanin, American wrestler
Oct 8th - Nick Cannon, American actor
Oct 9th - Ibrahim Fazeel, Maldivian Ffotballer
Oct 9th - Henrik Zetterberg, Swedish ice hockey player
Oct 10th - Elvis Hammond, Ghanaian footballer
Oct 10th - Tim Maurer, American singer (Suburban Legends)
Oct 10th - Sherine, Egyptian singer
Oct 11th - Nyron Nosworthy, English footballer
Oct 13th - Magne Hoseth, Norwegian footballer
Oct 13th - Ashanti, American singer
Oct 13th - Scott Parker, English footballer
Oct 13th - Jon Micah Sumrall, American singer (Kutless)
Oct 14th - Paul Ambrosi, Ecuadorian footballer
Oct 14th - Niels Lodberg, Danish footballer
Oct 14th - Terrence McGee, American football player
Oct 15th - Tom Boonen, Belgian cyclist
Oct 15th - Siiri Nordin, Finnish singer (Killer)
Oct 16th - Jeremy Jackson, Newport Beach Calif, actor (Shout, Baywatch)
Oct 16th - Sue Bird, American basketball player
Oct 16th - Timana Tahu, Australian Rugby League player
Oct 17th - Alessandro Piccolo, Italian racing driver
Oct 17th - Ekaterina Gamova, Russian volleyball player
Oct 19th - Benjamin Salisbury, Minneapolis, actor (Brighton Sheffield-Nanny)
Oct 20th - Gary Jarman, English musician
Oct 20th - Jose Veras, Dominican baseball player
Oct 21st - Kim Kardashian, American socialite
Oct 21st - Brian Pittman, American musician (Relient K)
Oct 22nd - Garrett Tierney, American musician (Brand New)
Oct 23rd - Jade Davidson, Australia, gymnast (Olympics-96)
Oct 23rd - Pedro Liriano, Dominican baseball player
Oct 24th - James Killian, American football player
Oct 24th - Monica, American singer
Oct 24th - Matthew Amoah, Ghanaian footballer
Oct 24th - Zac Posen, American fashion designer
Oct 25th - Ilana Goldfogel, Denver Colo, pairs skater (& Erik Schulz)
Oct 25th - Mehcad Brooks, American actor and former model
Oct 26th - Cristian Chivu, Romanian footballer
Oct 27th - Tanel Padar, Estonian singer
Oct 27th - Cassia Riley, American model
Oct 28th - Kanzi, Most Literate Non-Human
Oct 28th - Alan Smith, English footballer
Oct 28th - Christy Hemme, American professional wrestler
Oct 28th - Dimitri Liakopoulos, Greek actor
Oct 29th - Ben Foster, American actor
Oct 29th - B.J. Sams, American football player
Oct 30th - Sarah Carter, Canadian actress
Oct 30th - Choi Hong-man, South Korean kickboxer
Oct 31st - Eddie Kaye Thomas, American actor,
Oct 31st - Samaire Armstrong, American actress
Oct 31st - Alondra de la Parra, Mexican founder and artistic director of the New York-based Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas
Nov 2nd - Kim So-yeon, South Korean actress
Nov 4th - Sabrina Colie, Jamaican actress
Nov 4th - Jerry Collins, New Zealand rugby union footballer
Nov 4th - Richard Owens, American football player
Nov 4th - Marcy Rylan, American actress
Nov 5th - Christoph Metzelder, German footballer
Nov 5th - Jaime Camara, Brazilian racing driver
Nov 5th - Eva González, Spanish model and beauty queen
Nov 7th - Gervasio Deferr, Spanish gymnast
Nov 7th - James Franklin, New Zealand Cricket player
Nov 7th - Luciana Salazar, Argentine model and actress
Nov 8th - Ana Vidovic, classical guitarist
Nov 8th - Luis Fabiano, Brazilian footballer
Nov 9th - Vanessa Minillo, Filipino television personality
Nov 9th - James Harper, English footballer
Nov 9th - Dominique Maltais, Quebec snowboarder
Nov 10th - Calvin Chen, One of the four members of the Taiwanese boy band, Fei Lun Hai/Fahrenhiet

Famous Deaths

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