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Historical Events

Results 1 - 74 of 74

1st - 15.4 cm rainfall at Cheyenne, Wyoming (state record)
1st - Emmy 12th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 6th time
1st - Vince Coleman steals 2 bases in 1st inning, for NL rookie record 74
2nd - 5 die in a train crash in Westminster Colo
2nd - Delta Lockheed L-1011 crashes at Dallas-Ft Worth Airport, 137 die
2nd - NASA launches space vehicle S-209
3rd - "Nihilator" set harness pacing mile (1:49.6) in East Rutherford, NJ
3rd - Train crash at Flaujac, France: 35 killed
4th - "Dreamgirls" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 1522 performances
4th - Calif Angel Rod Carew gets his 3,000th hit
4th - Penny Hammel wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic
4th - Phil Rizzuto Day, Yanks retire #10
4th - Rod Carew, is 16th to get 3,000 hits
4th - White Sox Tom Seaver is 17th to win #300, beating Yankees
5th - Baseball players go on strike for 2 days
5th - Establishment of a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is announced
5th - Flexible-wing glider altitude record (214,250') set by Larry Tudor
6th - 19th space shuttle mission (51-F), Challenger 8, lands at Edwards AFB
6th - Major League Baseball Players Assn go on strike
6th - Players' Association stages a midseason baseball strike (lasts 1 day)
6th - STS 51-I vehicle moves to launch pad
7th - Barbra Streisand records "Broadway Album"
7th - Baseball players end a 2 day strike
7th - Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first astronauts.
8th - Baseball's new agreement permits 2 new NL teams in 1993
8th - Japan launches Planet A, a probe to Halley's comet
10th - Oakland A's Dave Kingman is 21st to hit 400 HRs (off Matt Young at Seattle)
10th - Michael Jackson buys ATV Music (every Beatle song) for $47 million
10th - Uno Lindstron of Sweden, juggles a soccer ball 13.11 miles
11th - "Tap Dance Kid" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 669 perfs
11th - 67th PGA Championship: Hubert Green shoots 278 at Cherry Hills Denver
11th - Challenger flies to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz
11th - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic
11th - Rudolf Povarnitsin of USSR sets new high jump world record (7'10"12)
12th - 7th Emmy Sports Award presentation
12th - Balt Orioles W Gross & L Sheets are 6th to hit consecutive pinch HRs
12th - Japanese Boeing 747SR crashes, 520 die (worst in-flight toll)
15th - Anti-apartheid lawyer Bulelani Ngcuka marries in South Africa
15th - Iraqi air raid on Iran oil-island Kharg
16th - Madonna weds Sean Penn on her 27th birthday
17th - 1,400 meatpackers walk off the job at a Geo A Hormel & Co plant
17th - Rajiv Gandhi announces Punjab state elections in India
17th - Sara Trollinger forms House of Hope in Orlando
18th - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Nestle World Championship of Women's Golf
18th - Muffin Spencer-Devlin wins MasterCard International Pro-Am Golf Tourn
18th - Suisei Launch (Halley's Comet Flyby)
19th - Japan launches its 2nd probe of Halley's Comet, Suisei
20th - 1st NL pitcher to strike out 200+ in 1st 2 seasons (Dwight Gooden)
20th - Israel ships 96 TOWs to Iran on behalf of US
20th - Libya throws out 1000s Tunisian/Egyptian gas workers
20th - Met Dwight Gooden strikes out 16 on way to his 13th consecutive win
20th - Hanspeter Beck of South Australia, finishes a 3,875 mile, 51 day trip from Western Australia to Melbourne on a unicycle
21st - Mary Decker Slaney runs mile in world record 4:16.71
21st - NY Lotto pays $41 million to three winner (#s are 14-17-22-23-30-47)
22nd - 30th Walker Cup: US wins 13-11
22nd - Airtours Boeing-737 crashes at airport of Manchester, 55 killed
23rd - Said Aouita of Morocco sets 1.5k record (3:29.46) in Berlin
23rd - South African attorney/UDF leader "Dulah" Omar arrested
23rd - West German top counter espionage Hans Tiedge moves to German DR
23rd - Paul Hornung awarded $1,160,000 by a Louisville court against NCAA who barred him as a college football analyst for betting on games
24th - STS 51-I mission scrubbed at T -5m because of bad weather
25th - Met Dwight Gooden becomes youngest pitcher to win 20 games (20y 9m 9d)
25th - Pat Bradley wins LPGA National Pro-Am Golf Tournament
25th - STS 51-I scrubbed at T -9m because of an onboard computer problem
26th - Balt Oriole Eddie Murray knocks in 9 RBIs in a game vs Calif Angels
26th - French government claims no knowledge of assault on Rainbow Warrior
27th - 20th Space Shuttle Mission (51-I)-Discovery 6-launched
27th - Mary Joe Fernandez, 14 years & 8 days old is youngest to win a US Tennis Open match (beats Sara Gomer in 1st round)
29th - Atlantis moves to launch pad for 51-J mission
29th - Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
29th - NY Yank Don Baylor is hit by a pitch for a record 190th time
31st - "Prakas" sets trotting mile record of 1:53.4 at Du Quoin, Ill
31st - Angel Cordero becomes 3rd jockey to ride horses earning over $100 M
31st - Night Stalker suspect that terrorized S Calif captured in East LA

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 25 of 25

2nd - Harry Smith, Canadian professional wrestler
3rd - Sonny Bill Williams, New Zealand rugby league footballer
4th - Mark Milligan, Australian footballer
4th - Luis Antonio Valencia, Ecuadorean footballer
4th - Ha Seung-Jin, Korean basketball player
5th - Laurent Ciman, Belgian footballer
5th - Salomon Kalou, Ivorian footballer
8th - Brayan Ruiz, Costa Rican football player
9th - Luca Filippi, Italian racing driver
9th - Hayley Peirsol, American swimmer
9th - JaMarcus Russell, American football player
10th - Roy O'Donovan, Irish footballer
11th - Grace Adams-Short, British reality television contestant
14th - Christian Gentner, German footballer
16th - Agnes Bruckner, American actress
17th - Yū Aoi, Japanese actress
19th - Megan Rochell, American singer
24th - Destiny Davis, American model and Playboy Playmate
27th - Alexandra Nechita, Romanian/American artist
28th - Ralph Woolfolk IV, American actor
29th - Jeffrey Licon, American actor
30th - Richard Duffy, Welsh footballer
30th - Leisel Jones, Australian swimmer
30th - Eamon Sullivan, Australian swimmer
30th - Steven Smith, Scottish footballer

Famous Deaths

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1st - Joseph Walker, cameraman, dies at 92
2nd - Frank Faylen, vaudevillian, dies of pneumonia at 79
2nd - Sandy Bell, South African cricket pace bowler (16 Tests), dies
4th - Zbynek Vostrak, composer, dies at 65
5th - Theodore Sturgeon, sci-fi author (Hugo, It, Caviar), dies at 67
7th - Grayson Hall, actor (Dark Shadows), dies of cancer at 58
8th - Louise Brooks, actress (Pandora's Box), dies of a heart attack at 78
9th - Clive Churchill, Australian rugby league footballer (b. 1927)
10th - Kenny Backer, comedian (Time Bandits), dies of a heart attack at 72
12th - Marcel Mihalovici, composer, dies at 86
12th - Manfred Winkelhock, German race car driver (b. 1951)
13th - Marion Martin, actress (Dakota Lil, Queen of Burlesque), dies at 67
14th - Gale Sondergaard, actress (Letter), dies of cerebral thrombosis at 86
15th - Richard Yardumian, US composer (Creator Spirit), dies at 68
20th - Harchand Singh Longowai, Sikh leader, shot by Sikh extremists
22nd - Ginty Lush, cricketer (NSW quickie of 30's), dies
24th - Paul Creston [Giuseppe/Joseph Guttoveggio], US composer, dies at 78
25th - Samantha Smith, actress (Elizabeth-Lime Street), dies in plane at 13
26th - Pieter Jongeling, Dutch MP/editor (GPV, Netherlands Daily), dies at 76
28th - Ruth Gordon, actress (Big Bus), dies of a stroke in her sleep at 88
29th - Alexander Abramsky, composer, dies at 87
29th - Evelyn Ankers, actress (Black Beauty, Jungle Woman), dies at 67
29th - Patrick Barr, actor (Black Orchid, On the Run), dies at 77
30th - Taylor Caldwell, English-born author (b. 1900)
31st - Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1899)