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Historical Events

Results 1 - 61 of 61

1st - -61°F (-52°C), Maybell, Colorado (state record)
1st - -69°F (-56°C), Peter's Sink, Utah (state record)
1st - Azharuddin scores 3rd Test century in 3rd Test Cricket (122 v Eng)
1st - Cards trade D Green, Jose Uribe, Dave LaPoint to Giants for Jack Clark
1st - US female Figure Skating championship won by Tiffany Chin
2nd - US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano
3rd - "Harrigan 'n Hart" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 5 performances
3rd - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic
4th - 20 countries (but not US) sign UN treaty outlawing torture
4th - Naval exercises canceled when US refuses to tell NZ of nuclear weapons
7th - "New York, New York" became the official anthem of NYC
7th - Marshall U's Bruce Morris scores a basket from 92'5"
7th - NY Devil Don Lever becomes 57th NHLer to score 300 goals
8th - 1st-class cricket debut of Jimmy Adams (age 17), Jamaica v Barbados
8th - Bruce Morris, Marshall Univ, makes a 92' 5½" basketball shot
8th - Michael Gross swims world record 800m freestyle (7:38.75)
8th - Opposition leader Kim Dae Jung returns to South-Korea
9th - Madonna's "Like a Virgin," album goes #1 for 3 weeks
10th - ... Sch"ne skates ladies world record 5 km (7:32.82)
10th - 35th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 140-129 at Indiana
10th - Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-E mission
10th - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic
10th - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
11th - Jordan king Hussein & PLO leader Arafat sign accord
11th - Kent Hrbek signs 5-year, $6 million contract with Minn Twins
11th - Wasim Akram takes 10 wickets in his 2nd Test Cricket, NZ still wins
12th - 37th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 6-4 at Calgary
12th - West Indies beat Australia 2-1 to win cricket World Series Cup
13th - Dow Jones closes at 1297.92 (record high) after topping 1300 earlier
13th - Polish police arrests 7 Solidarity leaders
14th - Hostage CNN reporter Jeremy Levin is released in Beirut
15th - STS 51-E vehicle moves to launch pad
15th - World chess championship match abandoned-Karpov 25, Kasparov 23
16th - Largest NBA crowd to date, 43,816, sees Phila at Detroit
16th - Livingston Bramble defeats Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini to win WBA champ
16th - NJ Devils score their fastest hat trick in 42 seconds
16th - The founding of Hezbollah.
17th - 1st class postage rises from 20 cents to 22 cents
17th - 1st day/night game at the MCG, Australia v England
17th - 3rd person to receive an artificial heart (Murray Haydon)
17th - Hein Vergeer becomes world champion skater
17th - Laffit Pincay Jr is third to ride 6,000th winners at Santa Anita
19th - 150 killed when a Spanish jetliner crashed approaching Bilbao, Spain
19th - ADM of Amsterdam declares bankruptcy
19th - Canned & bottled Cherry Coke introduced by Coca-Cola
19th - Mickey Mouse welcomed in China
19th - William Schroeder is 1st artificial heart patient to leave hospital He spent 15 minutes outside Humana Hospital in Louisville, Ky
20th - After defending his WBC flyweight championship, Sot Chitalada's check for $104,000 is stolen by a ringside pickpocket
21st - Evert van Benthem wins 13th Friese 11 city skateing race
21st - Largest NBA crowd to date 44,970 (Atlanta at Detroit)
21st - Tim Raines is awarded a $12 million salary for 1985 by arbitrator
23rd - Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight throws a chair during a game
23rd - US Senate confirms Edwin Meese III as attorney general
24th - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Circle K Golf Open Tucson
24th - Birendra, Bir Bikram Shah Dev crowned King of Nepal
24th - Jim Kelly (Houston USFL) passes for pro football record 574 yds
24th - Yul Brynner reprised his role in "The King & I"
26th - 27th Grammy Awards: Whats Love Got to Do With It, Cyndi Lauper wins
27th - Farmers converge in Washington to demand economic relief
27th - Mauritania's new constitutional charter published
27th - US dollar is worth Ÿ3.9355 (Netherlands)

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 47 of 47

1st - Dean Shiels, Northern Irish footballer
1st - Rachael Scdoris, American dog musher
1st - Jodi Gordon, Australian actress and model
4th - Bug Hall, American actor
5th - Cristiano Ronaldo, Portuguese footballer
5th - Laurence Maroney, American football player
5th - Crystal Hunt, American actress
5th - Lindsey Cardinale, American singer
6th - Yang Yu, Chinese swimmer
6th - Joji Kato, Japanese speedskater
6th - Kris Humphries, American basketball player
7th - Tina Majorino, actress, (Waterworld, When a Man Loves a Woman)
7th - Clara Bryant, American actress
9th - David Gallagher, American actor
10th - Anette Sagen, Norwegian ski jumper
11th - Mike Richards, Canadian ice hockey player
11th - William Beckett, lead singer of the American rock band The Academy Is...
12th - Saskia Burmeister Croft, Australian actress
13th - Alexandros Tziolis, Greek footballer
13th - Kwak Ji-min, South Korean actress
13th - David Padgett, American basketball player
14th - Jacob Parker, actor (Evening Shade)
14th - Natsume Sano, Japanese gravure idol
14th - Philippe Senderos, Swiss footballer
14th - Karima Adebibe, Moroccan-English actress and model
14th - Tyler Clippard, American baseball player
14th - Heart Evangelista, Filipina singer, TV and movie actress
14th - Miki Yeung, Hong Kong singer and actress
16th - Zoi Dimoschaki, Greek swimmer
17th - Anne Curtis, Filipino actress and commercial model
18th - Anton Ferdinand, English footballer
18th - Lee Boyd Malvo, American serial killer
19th - Haylie Duff, American singer/actress
19th - Arielle Kebbel, American actress
20th - Ryan Sweeney, American baseball player
20th - Yulia Volkova, Russian singer (t.A.T.u.)
21st - Bob Burton, American speedcuber
21st - Georgios Samaras, Greek footballer
22nd - Hameur Bouazza, Algerian footballer
22nd - Sean Garballey, American politician
25th - Benji Marshall, New Zealand rugby player
25th - Joakim Noah, American basketball player
26th - Alexandria Hilfiger, American actress, daughter of Tommy Hilfiger
27th - Juliana Imai, Brazilian model
27th - Diniyar Bilyaletdinov, Russian Footballer
28th - Fefe Dobson, Canadian singer
28th - Jelena Janković, Serbian tennis player

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 36 of 36

3rd - Frank Oppenheimer, American physicist (b. 1912)
5th - Georges-Émile Lapalme, Quebec politician (b. 1907)
6th - Charles Briggs, actor (13 Frightened Girls, Capt Newman), dies at 53
6th - Dandy Nichols, actress (Confessions of a Window Cleaner), dies at 78
6th - James Hadley Chase, English writer (b. 1906)
7th - Albert Dondeyne, Belgian philosopher/theologist, dies at 83
7th - Uday Merchant, cricket (bro of Vijay, prolific scorer), dies
7th - Matt Monro, English singer (b. 1932)
8th - Marvin Miller, actor (Michael Anthony-Millionaire), dies at 71
8th - Tom Greenway, actor (Miami Story), dies of a heart attack at 75
8th - William Lyons, British automobile manufacturer (b. 1901)
10th - Johnny Mokan, baseball player (b. 1895)
11th - Heinz Eric Roemheld, composer, dies of pneumonia at 83
11th - Henry Hathaway, actor/director (Nob Hill), dies of heart attack at 86
11th - Ulysses Sipmson Kay, composer, dies at 68
11th - Ben Abruzzo, American businessman and balloonist (b. 1930)
12th - Nicholas Colssanto, actor (Coach-Cheers), dies at 61
16th - Larry Ward, actor (Frank Ragan-Dakotas), dies at 69
17th - Wanda Perry, actress (Roberta, Death of a Salesman), dies at 67
18th - Willy Alberti, [Carel Verbruggen], Dutch singer, dies at 58
19th - Elizabeth Julesberg, author (Dick & Jane), dies
19th - George Holmes, actor (Man in the Trunk), dies at 66
20th - Clarence Nash, voice (Donald Duck), dies at 80 of leukemia, in Calif
21st - Eric Herfst, Dutch cabaret performer (Floris), dies at 47
21st - Ina Claire, actress/comedienne (3 Bdwy Girls), dies of stroke at 89
21st - Louis Hayward, actor (Lone Wolf, Survivors), dies of lung cancer at 75
22nd - Alexander Scourby, actor (Victory at Sea, Ransom), dies at 71
22nd - Efrem A Zimbalist, Russian/US composer/violinist, dies at 95
22nd - Salvador Espriu, Spanish poet (b. 1913)
23rd - Alexander Scourby, actor (Jesus, Shaggy Dog, Giant), dies at 71
27th - David Huffman, actor (FIST, Jane Doe, Firefox, Onion Field), dies
27th - Henry Cabot Lodge, (Sen-R)/diplomat, dies at 82
27th - Pat J O'Malley, actor (My Favorite Martian, Maude), dies at 83
28th - Charita Bauer, actress (Mary-Aldrich Family), dies at 62 in NYC
28th - David Byron, English singer (Uriah Heep) (b. 1947)
28th - Ray Ellington, English singer (b. 1916)