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Historical Events

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Feb 16th - Livingston Bramble defeats Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini to win WBA champ
Feb 16th - NJ Devils score their fastest hat trick in 42 seconds
Feb 16th - The founding of Hezbollah.
Feb 17th - 1st class postage rises from 20 cents to 22 cents
Feb 17th - 1st day/night game at the MCG, Australia v England
Feb 17th - 3rd person to receive an artificial heart (Murray Haydon)
Feb 17th - Hein Vergeer becomes world champion skater
Feb 17th - Laffit Pincay Jr is third to ride 6,000th winners at Santa Anita
Feb 19th - 150 killed when a Spanish jetliner crashed approaching Bilbao, Spain
Feb 19th - ADM of Amsterdam declares bankruptcy
Feb 19th - Canned & bottled Cherry Coke introduced by Coca-Cola
Feb 19th - Mickey Mouse welcomed in China
Feb 19th - William Schroeder is 1st artificial heart patient to leave hospital He spent 15 minutes outside Humana Hospital in Louisville, Ky
Feb 20th - After defending his WBC flyweight championship, Sot Chitalada's check for $104,000 is stolen by a ringside pickpocket
Feb 21st - Evert van Benthem wins 13th Friese 11 city skateing race
Feb 21st - Largest NBA crowd to date 44,970 (Atlanta at Detroit)
Feb 21st - Tim Raines is awarded a $12 million salary for 1985 by arbitrator
Feb 23rd - Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight throws a chair during a game
Feb 23rd - US Senate confirms Edwin Meese III as attorney general
Feb 24th - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Circle K Golf Open Tucson
Feb 24th - Birendra, Bir Bikram Shah Dev crowned King of Nepal
Feb 24th - Jim Kelly (Houston USFL) passes for pro football record 574 yds
Feb 24th - Yul Brynner reprised his role in "The King & I"
Feb 26th - 27th Grammy Awards: Whats Love Got to Do With It, Cyndi Lauper wins
Feb 27th - Farmers converge in Washington to demand economic relief
Feb 27th - Mauritania's new constitutional charter published
Feb 27th - US dollar is worth Ÿ3.9355 (Netherlands)
Mar 1st - Liza Minnelli enters Betty Ford Drug Center
Mar 1st - Milwaukee businessman Herb Kohl purchases the Milwaukee Bucks
Mar 1st - Pentagon accepts theory that atomic war would cause a nuclear winter
Mar 2nd - US approves screening test for AIDS
Mar 3rd - "Moonlighting" with Cybill Shepard & Bruce Willis, premieres
Mar 3rd - "My One & Only" closes at St James Theater NYC after 767 performances
Mar 3rd - Betsy King wins LPGA Samaritan Turquoise Golf Classic
Mar 3rd - Bill Shoemaker is 1st jockey to surpass $100 million
Mar 3rd - National Union of Mine Workers in England end a 51 week strike
Mar 3rd - Willie Shoemaker becomes 1st jockey to win $100 million
Mar 4th - STS 51-E vehicle rolls back to Vandenberg AFB; mission cancelled
Mar 4th - Virtual ban on leaded gas ordered by EPA
Mar 4th - War veterans returned to the "Bridge over the River Kwai"
Mar 5th - NY Islander Mike Bossy is 1st to score 50 goals in 8 straight seasons
Mar 6th - Enos Slaughter & Arky Vaughan are elected to baseball Hall of Fame
Mar 6th - Mike Tyson KOs Hector Mercedes in 1 round in his 1st pro fight
Mar 6th - Mexican authorities find body of US drug agent Enrique C Salaazar
Mar 6th - Yul Brynner appears in his 4,500th performance of "King & I"
Mar 7th - IBM-PC DOS Version 3.1 (update) released
Mar 8th - Ice Dance Championship at Tokyo won by Bestemianova & Bukin (URS)
Mar 9th - Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Tokyo won by Katarina Witt (GDR)
Mar 9th - Laura Johnson (Falcon Crest) & Harry Hamlin (LA Law) wed
Mar 10th - Bonnie Lauer wins Uniden LPGA Golf Invitational
Mar 10th - Dallas Maverick coach Dick Motta is 4th NBA coach to win 700 games
Mar 10th - French socialists lose election (National Front 9%)
Mar 10th - Ice Pairs Championship at Tokyo won by Elena Valova & O Vasiliev (URS)
Mar 10th - India beat Pakistan to win "World Championship of Cricket"
Mar 10th - Mens Figure Skating Championship in Tokyo won by Alexandr Fadeev (URS)
Mar 11th - Mikhail S Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet leader
Mar 12th - Larry Bird scores Boston Celtic record 60 points
Mar 13th - Funeral services held for Konstantin Chernenko (Moscow)
Mar 13th - Michael Secrest (US) begins 24-hr ride of 516 miles, 427 yards
Mar 14th - 11th People's Choice Awards: Bill Cosby wins 4 awards
Mar 14th - Michael Secrest (US) completes 24-hr ride of 516 miles, 427 yards
Mar 15th - Larry Holmes TKOs David Bey in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
Mar 15th - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Mar 15th - The first Internet domain name is registered (symbolics.com).
Mar 16th - Associated Press correspondent Terry Anderson taken hostage in Beirut
Mar 16th - Denny McLain, pitcher; convicted of racketeering, sentenced to 25 yrs
Mar 17th - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
Mar 17th - Matti Nykanen of Finland set a world ski jump record of 623'
Mar 18th - Capital Cities Communications Inc acquires ABC
Mar 18th - Commissioner Peter Ueberroth reinstates Willie Mays & Mickey Mantle
Mar 19th - "Spin Magazine" begins publishing
Mar 19th - NSW wins cricket Sheffield Shield by beating Queensland by 1 wicket
Mar 19th - Senate votes 55-45, to authorize production of the MX missile
Mar 20th - Libby Riddles is 1st woman to win Iditarod Trail Dog Sled Race
Mar 21st - Arthur Ashe is named to Intl Tennis Hall of Fame
Mar 21st - Bloodbath at Langa (Uitenhage) South-Africa, 19 killed
Mar 22nd - NASA launches Intelsat VA
Mar 23rd - Billy Joel weds supermodel Christie Brinkley
Mar 23rd - Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-D mission
Mar 23rd - Julian Lennon's 1st concert (San Antonio Texas)
Mar 23rd - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Mar 24th - 5th Golden Raspberry Awards: Bolero wins
Mar 24th - Golden Raspberry Awards presented to parody Oscar Awards (Bolero wins)
Mar 24th - Jan Stephenson wins LPGA GNA Golf Classic
Mar 24th - Norman Gifford makes cricket ODI debuts at age 44 (v Aust, Sharjah)
Mar 25th - 57th Academy Awards - "Amadeus," F Murray Abraham & Sally Field win
Mar 25th - Edwin Meese III becomes US Attorney General
Mar 27th - Billy Dee Williams receives a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
Mar 28th - International Cometary Explorer measures solar wind ahead of Halley
Mar 28th - Neil Simon's "Biloxi Blues," premieres in NYC
Mar 28th - STS 51-D vehicle moves to launch pad
Mar 29th - Christos Sartzetakis elected president of Greece
Mar 29th - Wayne Gretzky breaks own NHL season record with 126th assist
Mar 31st - 15th Easter Seal Telethon raises $27,400,000
Mar 31st - 4th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Old Dominion beats Ga 70-65
Mar 31st - El Salvador's Pres Duartes Christian-Democrats win election
Mar 31st - Wrestlemania I at MSG NY, Hogan & Mr T beat Piper & Orndorf
Apr 1st - 47th NCAA Men's Basketball Champion: Villanova beats Georgetown 84-75
Apr 2nd - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Apr 3rd - French government adopts equal electoral system

Famous Birthdays

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Mar 8th - Ewa Sonnet, Polish model and pop singer
Mar 9th - Parthiv Patel, Indian Cricket Player
Mar 10th - Lassana Diarra, French footballer
Mar 10th - Casey Dienel, American singer-songwriter
Mar 10th - Kim Leclerc, Canadian politician
Mar 11th - Derek Schouman, American football player
Mar 11th - Nikolai Topor-Stanley, Australian soccer player
Mar 12th - Bradley Wright-Phillips, English footballer
Mar 12th - Tosh Townend, American skateboarder
Mar 13th - Emile Hirsch, American actor
Mar 13th - Alcides, Brazilian football player
Mar 13th - Austin Scott, American football player
Mar 14th - Eva Angelina, American porn star
Mar 14th - Idaira, Spanish singer
Mar 14th - Brianna Love, American porn Star
Mar 15th - Antti Autti, Finnish snowboarder
Mar 15th - James MacLurcan, Australian actor
Mar 15th - F.V.A. Morriello, Canadian author
Mar 15th - Eva Amurri, American actress
Mar 15th - Tom Chilton, British racing driver
Mar 16th - Nicole Trunfio, Australian supermodel
Mar 18th - Vince Lia, Australian Footballer
Mar 18th - Gennaro Esposito, Italian footballer
Mar 19th - Ernesto Viso, Venezuelan racing driver
Mar 21st - Adrian Peterson, American Football player
Mar 22nd - Mike Jenkins, American football player
Mar 23rd - Maurice Jones-Drew, American football player
Mar 24th - Haruka Ayase, Japanese actress and model
Mar 26th - Keira Knightley, English actress
Mar 26th - Prosper Utseya, Zimbabwean cricket captain
Mar 26th - Jonathan Groff, American stage actor
Mar 27th - Dario Baldauf, Austrian footballer
Mar 27th - Stijn De Smet, Belgian footballer
Mar 27th - Caroline Winberg, Swedish supermodel
Mar 29th - Maxim Lapierre, Canadian ice hockey forward
Mar 29th - Mickey Pimentel, National Football League linebacker
Apr 1st - Josh Zuckerman, American actor
Apr 3rd - Leona Lewis, English singer
Apr 4th - Rudy Fernández, Spanish basketball player
Apr 6th - Garrett Zablocki, American musician
Apr 6th - Clarke MacArthur, Canadian-born ice hockey player
Apr 9th - Yamashita Tomohisa, Japanese singer News
Apr 10th - Carlos Tevez, Argentine footballer
Apr 10th - Dion Phaneuf, Canadian ice hockey player
Apr 11th - Will Minson, Australian rules footballer
Apr 12th - Hitomi Yoshizawa, Japanese singer
Apr 12th - Jeisa Chiminazzo, Brazilian supermodel
Apr 12th - Ted Ginn, American football player
Apr 12th - Paul Murphy, Irish footballer
Apr 12th - Olga Seryabkina, Russian singer
Apr 15th - John Danks, American baseball player
Apr 15th - Aaron Laffey, American baseball player
Apr 16th - Mark Baker, Welsh author and historian
Apr 16th - Luol Deng, British-Sudanese basketball player
Apr 16th - Benjamín Rojas, Argentine actor and singer
Apr 17th - Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, French tennis player
Apr 18th - Łukasz Fabiański, Polish footballer
Apr 18th - Karl Reindler, Australian racing driver
Apr 18th - Elena Temnikova, Russian singer (Serebro)
Apr 19th - Valon Behrami, Swiss Footballer
Apr 22nd - Lauri Hendler, Ft Belvoir Va, actress (Julie-Gimme a Break)
Apr 23rd - Angel Locsin, Filipina TV and movie actress
Apr 25th - Jonathan Halyalkar, Ramsey NJ, actor (Billy-Who's the Boss)
Apr 25th - Giedo van der Garde, Dutch racing driver
Apr 26th - John Isner, American Tennis player
Apr 26th - Nam Gyu-Ri, Korean singer, member of See Ya
Apr 30th - Ashley Alexandra Dupré, American singer and call girl
May 1st - Drew Sidora, American actress
May 2nd - Kyle Busch, American race car driver
May 2nd - Lily Allen, English singer and songwriter
May 2nd - Sarah Hughes, American figure skater
May 2nd - David Nugent, English footballer
May 2nd - Jarrod Saltalamacchia, American baseball player
May 3rd - Greg Raposo, American pop/rock singer
May 4th - Anthony Fedorov, American singer
May 4th - Ravinder Bopara, English cricketer
May 5th - Shoko Nakagawa, Japanese actress, illustrator and singer
May 5th - Terrence Wheatley, American Football player
May 5th - P. J. Tucker, American basketball player
May 6th - Chris Paul, All-Star NBA Point Guard
May 7th - Drew Neitzel, American college basketball player
May 8th - Mashio Miyazaki, Japanese actress
May 9th - Jake Long, American football player
May 10th - Ryan Getzlaf, Canadian ice hockey player
May 11th - sifow, Japanese pop star and business woman
May 12th - Tally Hall, American soccer player
May 12th - Jeroen Simaeys, Belgian footballer
May 13th - Travis Zajac, Canadian ice hockey player
May 14th - Sally Martin, American actress
May 15th - Cristiane, Brazilian footballer
May 16th - Anja Mittag, German footballer
May 16th - Stanislav Ianevski, Bulgarian actor
May 16th - Corey Perry, Canadian ice hockey player
May 17th - Matt Ryan, American football player
May 17th - Derek Hough, American dancer and singer
May 21st - Frustaci Septuplets, Calif, Patricia Frustaci gives birth to 7
May 21st - Andrew Miller, Major League Baseball player
May 21st - Kano, British rapper
May 21st - Mutya Buena, English singer (ex-Sugababes)
May 21st - Marco Carta, Italian singer

Famous Deaths

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Apr 21st - Rudi Gernreich, US designer (miniskirt), dies at 62
Apr 21st - Tancredo Neves, president-elect of Brazil, dies at 75
Apr 21st - Foster Hewitt, Canadian radio pioneer (b. 1902)
Apr 22nd - Paul H. Emmett, American chemical engineer (b. 1900)
Apr 23rd - Kent Smith, actor (Peyton Place, Invaders), dies at 78
Apr 23rd - Sam J Ervin Jr, (Sen-D-NC), dies at 88
Apr 24th - Sergei Yutkevich, Russian director, (Otello, Banya), dies at 80
Apr 25th - Murray Matheson, actor (Felix-Banacek), dies at 72
Apr 25th - Richard Haydn, British actor (Mutiny on the Bounty), dies at 80
Apr 30th - George Pravada, actor (Felscher-Holocaust), dies at 66
Apr 30th - George Pravda, Czechoslovakian actor (b. 1918)
May 2nd - Hal LeRoy, dancer/actor (Harold Teen), dies at 71 after surgery
May 2nd - Milton S Eisenhower, US diplomat, dies at 85
May 2nd - Attilio Bettega, Italian rallydriver (b.1951)
May 2nd - Larry Clinton, American trumpeter and bandleader (b. 1909)
May 4th - Clarence Wiseman, the 10th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1907)
May 5th - Sir Donald Bailey, British civil engineer (b. 1901)
May 6th - Julie Vega, Filipino child actress and singer (b. 1968)
May 7th - Dawn Addams, actress (Alan Young Show, Star Maidens), dies at 54
May 8th - Dolph Sweet, actor (Gil McGowan-Another World), dies at 74
May 8th - Edmond O'Brien, actor (Sam Benedict), dies of Alzheimer's at 69
May 8th - Karl Marx, German composer/conductor, dies at 87
May 9th - Edmond O'Brien, actor (Moon Pilot, Wild Bunch), dies at 69
May 11th - Chester Gould, cartoonist (Dick Tracy), dies at 84
May 11th - Garmt Stuiveling, literatrary (Ego & Echo), dies at 77
May 11th - Jorja Curtright, actor (Whistle Stop), dies of a heart attack
May 11th - Samuel Frith, English co-founder of soccer team (Bradford City), dies
May 12th - Jean Debuffet, French painter/sculptor, dies
May 13th - Leatrice Joy, silent screen star, dies in Riverdale (Bronx) NYC at 91
May 13th - Selma Diamond, comedienne (Selma-Night Court), dies of cancer at 64
May 14th - Mohammed Munir, Indonesian worker's union leader, executed
May 15th - Jackie Curtis, actor (Underground USA), dies of a drug overdose at 38
May 16th - Margaret Hamilton, actress (Wicked Witch-Wizard of Oz), dies at 82
May 17th - Bobby Ewing, (Patrick Duffy) killed off on Dallas
May 17th - Hugh Burden, actor (Night of Laughing Dead), dies at 72
May 17th - Abe Burrows, songwriter, composer, and writer (b. 1910)
May 18th - Tex Terry, actor (Apache Rose, Timberjack), dies at 82
May 20th - George Memmoli, actor (Earl-Hello Larry), dies at 46
May 21st - Julie Vega, Philippine Actress (b. 1968)
May 25th - Harold Hecht, choreographer, dies at 77 of cancer
May 25th - Robert Nathan, US writer/poet (Portrait of Jennie), dies at 91
May 27th - Kay Campbell, actress (All My Children), dies at 80
May 29th - 39, die at Heysel Stadium in Liverpool in a riot prior to soccer match
May 29th - Madge West, actress (Grandma-McLean Stevenson Show), dies at 93
Jun 1st - Richard Greene, actor (Adv of Robin Hood), dies at 67
Jun 6th - Siem Devout, Dutch actor, dies at 54
Jun 10th - Bob Prince, sportscaster (Monday Night Baseball), dies at 68
Jun 10th - George Chandler, actor (Lassie), dies of Alzheimer's disease at 87
Jun 11th - Karen Ann Quinlan, comatose patient, dies in Morris Plains NJ at 31
Jun 11th - Sapfo Notara, Greek actress (b. 1907)
Jun 15th - Len Hopwood, cricketer (took 0-155 in two Tests Eng v Aust 1934), dies
Jun 15th - Percy Fender, cricketer (13 Tests for England, 380 runs 29 wkts), dies
Jun 15th - Andy Stanfield, American athlete (b. 1927)
Jun 15th - Robert Stethem, U.S. Navy Seabee diver murdered by terrorists on TWA Flight 847 (b. 1961)
Jun 17th - Piet De Somer, Belgian rector of University of Louvain, dies at 67
Jun 18th - Paul Colin, French poster designer (b. 1892)
Jun 21st - Tage Erlander, Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1901)
Jun 25th - Morris Mason, American murderer (b. 1954)
Jun 28th - James Craig, actor (Human Comedy, Kismet), dies of lung cancer at 74
Jun 28th - Lambros Konstantaras, Greek actor (b. 1913)
Jun 30th - James Dewar, inventor (Twinkie), dies
Jul 2nd - David Purley, British Formula 1 driver (b. 1945)
Jul 3rd - Frank Selke, Canadian ice hockey manager (b. 1893)
Jul 4th - John de Quay, Dutch premier (1959-63), dies at 83
Jul 5th - Gerard Schmook, Flemish literature historian/custodian, dies at 86
Jul 5th - Jack Robertson, S Afr cricket spinner (3 Tests v Aust 1935-36), dies
Jul 5th - Marion Byron, actress (Steamboat Bill Jr), dies at 73
Jul 7th - Patti McCarty, actress (Gangster of the Frontier), dies at 64
Jul 8th - Gardner Cowles Jr, US publisher (Look Magazine), dies at 82
Jul 8th - Phil Foster, comedian (Frank De Fazio-Laverne & Shirley), dies at 72
Jul 8th - Simon Kuznets, US economist (Nobel 1971), dies at 84
Jul 9th - Rafael Campos, actor (Ramon-Rhoda, Sancho-V), dies of cancer at 49
Jul 9th - Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (b. 1896)
Jul 9th - Jimmy Kinnon, Scottish founder of Narcotics Anonymous (b. 1911)
Jul 10th - Fernando Pereira, military activist, murdered
Jul 16th - Wayne King, orch leader (Wayne King Show), dies at 84
Jul 16th - Heinrich Böll, German writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1917)
Jul 17th - Czeslaw Josef Marek, composer, dies at 93
Jul 17th - Margo, actress (Rumba, Viva Zapata), dies at 68 of a brain tumor
Jul 18th - Shahnawaz Bhutto, son of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto
Jul 19th - Janusz A. Zajdel, Polish writer (b. 1938)
Jul 21st - Mickey Shaughnessy, actor (Chicago Teddy Bears), dies at 65
Jul 21st - Vicki Vola, actress (Miss Miller-Mr District Attorney)
Jul 23rd - Kay Kyser, bandleader (Kay Kyser's Kollege), dies at 79
Jul 23rd - Johnny Wardle, English cricketer (b. 1923)
Jul 27th - Joseph "Smoky Joe" Wood, pitcher (Boston Red Sox), dies at 95
Jul 28th - Grant Williams, actor (Shrinking Man), dies of toxic poisoning at 54
Jul 29th - James F Nolan, actor (Dante), dies of cancer at 69
Jul 30th - Julia Hall Bowman Robinson, American mathematician (b. 1919)
Jul 31st - Eugene Carson Blake, sec-gen World Council of Churches, dies at 78
Jul 31st - Murray Chapple, cricketer (14 Tests for NZ, 497 runs), dies
Aug 1st - Joseph Walker, cameraman, dies at 92
Aug 2nd - Frank Faylen, vaudevillian, dies of pneumonia at 79
Aug 2nd - Sandy Bell, South African cricket pace bowler (16 Tests), dies
Aug 4th - Zbynek Vostrak, composer, dies at 65
Aug 5th - Theodore Sturgeon, sci-fi author (Hugo, It, Caviar), dies at 67
Aug 7th - Grayson Hall, actor (Dark Shadows), dies of cancer at 58
Aug 8th - Louise Brooks, actress (Pandora's Box), dies of a heart attack at 78
Aug 9th - Clive Churchill, Australian rugby league footballer (b. 1927)
Aug 10th - Kenny Backer, comedian (Time Bandits), dies of a heart attack at 72