Today in History for March 1984

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 59 of 59

1st - Landsat 5 & ham satellite Oscar 11 launched into polar orbit
1st - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR #3931 Batten, #4529 Webern, #4530 Smoluchowski, #4818 Elgar, #5502 Brashear & #5943 Lovi
2nd - Iran offensive against Iraq fails
2nd - John Long (Detroit) begins NBA free throw streak of 51 games
3rd - NY Islanders score their most goals (11) vs Tor Maple Leafs (6)
3rd - Peter Ueberroth elected baseball commissioner (Effective Oct 1)
4th - Nancy Lopez wins Uniden LPGA Golf Invitational
4th - Pee Wee Reese & Rick Ferrell elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
5th - Supreme Court (5-4): city may use public money for Nativity scene
5th - US accuse Iraq of using poison gas
6th - Twelve-month-long strike in British coal industry begins.
7th - The United States attacks San Juan del Sur in Nicaragua.
9th - Emile Gumbs' Anguilla National Alliance wins elections
9th - John Lennon releases "Borrowed Time"
9th - Phila 76'ers block 20 Seattle shots tying NBA regulation game record
9th - Tim Witherspoon beats Greg Page in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
9th - The Competitive Enterprise Institute in founded in Washington, D.C.
10th - Heavyweight Tim Witherspoon KOs Greg Page
11th - Chris Johnson wins LPGA Samaritan Turquoise Golf Classic
12th - Coal Miners' strike ended
12th - National Union of Mine Workers in England begin a 51 week strike
12th - British ice dancing team, Torvill & Dean, become 1st skaters to receive 9 perfect 6.0s in world championships
13th - Last day of 1st-class cricket for G Chappell, R Marsh, B Laird
13th - WA beat Queensland by four wickets to win the Sheffield Shield
14th - Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 41-C mission
14th - Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Féin, is seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in central Belfast.
Model & Actress Brooke Shields 15th - 10th People's Choice Awards: Brooke Shields
15th - Tanzania adopts constitution
16th - Gunmen kidnap William Buckley, CIA station chief in Beirut
16th - South-Africa & Mozambique sign non attack treaty
18th - Chris Johnson wins LPGA Tucson Conquistadores Golf Open
19th - "Kate & Allie," premieres
19th - John J O'Connor named 8th archbishop of NY
19th - KSD-AM in St Louis MO changes call letters to KUSA
19th - Mobil oil tanker spills 200,000 gallons into Columbia River
19th - Pitcher Denny McLain, indicted on various charges of racketeering
19th - STS 41-C vehicle moves to launch pad
20th - Andy Kaufman & Fred Blassie's "My Breakfast With Blassie" premieres
20th - Senate rejects amendment to permit spoken prayer in public schools
21st - Border scores 100* v WI Trinidad after 98* in 1st cricket innings
21st - NFL owners passed the infamous anti-celebrating rule
21st - Part of Central Park is named Strawberry Fields honoring John Lennon
21st - Soviet sub crashes into USS aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off Japan
22nd - Islander Bryan Trottier ties NHL rec scores 5 seconds into game
22nd - Teachers at the McMartin preschool in Manhattan Beach, California are charged with Satanic ritual abuse of the children in the school. The charges are later dropped as completely unfounded.
23rd - Andrea Schone skates ladies world record 3 km (4:20.91)
23rd - Ice Dance Championship at Ottawa won by J Torvill & Chris Dean (GRB)
23rd - Ice Pairs Championship at Ottawa won by Underhill & Paul Martini (CAN)
23rd - Ladies Fig Skating Championship in Ottawa won by Katarina Witt (GDR)
23rd - Men's Fig Skating Championship in Ottawa won by Scott Hamilton (USA)
24th - Andrea Schone skates ladies world record 5 km (7:34.52)
24th - IOC agrees to 6-team exhibition baseball tournament in Olympics
24th - Igor Malkov skates world record 10 km (14:21.51)
25th - Betsy King wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber 27th - Andrew Lloyd Webber/Richard Stilgoe's "Starlight Express," premieres
29th - NFL Baltimore Colts move to Indianapolis
29th - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
30th - US ends participation in multinational Lebanon peace force
31st - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 52 of 52

1st - Naima Mora, American model
1st - Alexander Steen, Canadian-born Swedish ice hockey player
2nd - Elizabeth Jagger, English model and actress
3rd - Alexander Semin, Russian ice hockey player
4th - Ai Iwamura, Japanese actress
4th - Zak Whitbread, American-born English footballer
6th - Becky, Japanese-British entertainer
7th - Mathieu Flamini, French footballer
7th - Dani Woodward, American pornographic star
7th - Brandon T. Jackson, American actor
8th - Dave Moffatt, Canadian musician
9th - Julia Mancuso, American Olympic gold medalist
10th - Ben May, English footballer
10th - Olivia Wilde, American actress
11th - Anna Tsuchiya, Japanese model, actress and singer
11th - Tom James, British rower
11th - Marc-André Grondin, Canadian actor
12th - Shreya Ghoshal, Indian singer
12th - Jaimie Alexander, American Actress
13th - Rachael Bella, actress
13th - Pieter Custers, Dutch athlete
13th - Steve Darcis, Belgian tennis player
13th - Noel Fisher, Canadian actor
13th - Yuuka Nanri, Japanese seiyū
13th - Marc Zwiebler, German badminton player
14th - Liesel Matthews, American former child actress
15th - Kostas Vassiliadis, Greek basketball player
16th - Levi Brown, American football player
18th - Vonzell Solomon, American Idol Contestant
19th - Tanushree Dutta, Indian actress
20th - Justine Ezarik, American Internet personality
20th - Markus Niemelä, Finnish racing driver
20th - Fernando Torres, Spanish footballer
20th - Winta, Norwegian musician
20th - Valtteri Filppula, Finnish professional ice-hockey player
20th - Rami Malek, Egyptian-born actor
20th - Christy Carlson Romano, American actress
20th - Marcus Vick, American football player
24th - Chris Bosh, American basketball player
25th - Katharine McPhee, American singer/actress
26th - Gregory Strydom, Zimbabwean crickaeter
26th - Sara Jean Underwood, American model
26th - Stéphanie Lapointe, French-Canadian singer
27th - Emily Ann Lloyd, actress (Sarah Kramer-Something So Right)
27th - J P Steur, actor (Grace Under Fire)
28th - Christopher Samba, French-born footballer
28th - Yordanos Abay, Ethiopian footballer
28th - Nikki Sanderson, British actress and model
30th - Mario Ancic, Croatian tennis player
30th - Anna Nalick, American singer and songwriter.
30th - Samantha Stosur, Australian tennis player
31st - James Jones, American football player

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 1 of 1

24th - "Knight Rider" actor David Hasselhoff (32) weds "One Life to Live" actress Catherine Hickland (28)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 33 of 33

1st - Jackie Coogan, actor (Uncle Fester-Addams Family), dies at 69
2nd - Louis Basile, actor (Louie-The Super), dies at 48
4th - Shalva Mikhaylovich Mshvelidze, composer, dies at 79
4th - Ernest Buckler, Canadian novelist (b. 1908)
4th - Jewel Carmen, American actress (b. 1897)
4th - Geoffrey Lumsden, British actor (b. 1914)
5th - Harry Salter, orchestra leader (Stop the Music), dies at 85
5th - Michael Sklar, California, comedian (Laugh-in, Sha Na Na), dies at 39
5th - Tito Gobbi, Italian baritone (Scarpia in Tosca), dies at 68
5th - William Powell, actor (My Man Godfrey), dies at 91
6th - Henry Wilcoxon, actor (Cleopatra, Dragnet, Jericho), dies at 78
6th - Ian Cromb, cricketer (5 Tests for NZ, 123 runs, 8 wkts), dies
6th - Martin Niemöller, German submarine capt/anti-nazi minister, dies at 92
6th - Pierre Cochereau, composer, dies at 59
7th - Paul Rotha, English director (b. 1907)
10th - June Marlowe, actress (Pardon US), dies at 81
11th - Nakagawa Soen, Zen teacher/poet, dies in Rytutakuji monastery at 76
11th - Kostas Roukounas, Greek rembetiko singer and song writer (b. 1903)
12th - Arnold Riley, playwright/actor, dies at 88
Actor Jackie Coogan (1st) 13th - Dick Whitington, journalist/cricketer (South Aust & AIF bat), dies
14th - Aurelio Peccei, Italian businessman/CEO (Club Rome), dies at 75
15th - Tommy Cooper, comedian, collapses & dies on stage
16th - John Hoagland, American photographer (b. 1947)
18th - Charlie Lau, White Sox coach/renowned hitting instructor, dies at 50
18th - Paul Frances Webster, lyricist, dies of Parkinson's disease at 76
19th - Garry Winogrand, American photographer (b. 1928)
21st - Shauna Grant, American actress (suicide) (b. 1963)
24th - Sam Jaffe, actor (Dr Zorba-Ben Casey), dies of cancer at 93
26th - Ahmed Sékou Touré, President of Guinea (b. 1922)
28th - Kenneth Whitty, 1st sec at British Embassy in Athens, shot dead
28th - Carmen Dragon, American conductor, composer and arranger (b. 1914)
30th - Peter Yarrall, strongest Englishman/weighed 826 lb (374.7 kg), dies
31st - Ronald Clark O'Bryan, American murderer (b. 1944)