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Historical Events

Results 201 - 300 of 769

Apr 3rd - Players' Association agrees to expand LCS from 5 to 7 games
Apr 3rd - Vic Elliot pocketed 15,780 pool balls in 24 hours in London
Apr 4th - Tulane University cancels its basketball season amidst scandal
Apr 6th - Atlantis (OV-104) rollout at Palmdale
Apr 6th - Bombay beat Delhi by 90 runs to win the Ranji Trophy final
Apr 6th - Sudan suspends constitution after coup under general Swarreddahab
Apr 6th - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Apr 7th - 14th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Alice Miller
Apr 7th - 1st live telecast of Easter Parade
Apr 7th - NJ General Hershel Walker runs for USFL record 233 yards
Apr 8th - "Leader of the Pack" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 120 perfs
Apr 8th - Amdahl releases UTS/V, 1st mainframe Unix
Apr 8th - India files suit against Union Carbide over Bhopal disaster
Apr 9th - White Sox pitcher Tom Seaver starts a record 15th opening day game
Apr 10th - At 80 Leo Sites becomes oldest bowler to score a 300 game
Apr 10th - Caps 4-Isles 3 (OT)-Patrick Div Semifinals-Caps hold 1-0 lead
Apr 10th - Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-B mission
Apr 11th - Caps 2-Isles 1 (OT)-Patrick Div Semifinals- Caps hold 2-0 lead
Apr 12th - 16th Shuttle Mission (51D)-Discovery 4 launched-with Senator Jake Garn
Apr 12th - US Olympic Committee endorses a boycott of Moscow games
Apr 13th - "TASS" denounced US boycott of Moscow Olympics
Apr 13th - Atlantis ferried to Kennedy Space Center via Ellington AFB, Texas
Apr 13th - Caps 1-Isles 2-Patrick Div Semifinals- Caps hold 2-1 lead
Apr 13th - Katrin Dörre wins 1st female World Cup marathon (2:33:30)
Apr 13th - Ramiz Alia succeeds Enver Hoxha as party leader of Albania
Apr 14th - "Take Me Along!" opens/closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC
Apr 14th - 49th Golf Masters Championship: Bernhard Langer wins, shooting a 282
Apr 14th - Ahmed Salah wins 1st World Cup marathon (2:08:09)
Apr 14th - Alan Garcia wins elections in Peru
Apr 14th - Beth Daniel wins LPGA Kyocera Inamori Golf Classic
Apr 14th - Bob Carpenter is unsuccessful on Wash Caps 1st playoff penalty shot
Apr 14th - Caps 4-Isles 6-Patrick Div Semifinals-Series tied at 2-2
Apr 14th - Jack C Burcham is 5th to receive "Jarvik 7" permanent artificial heart
Apr 15th - 14th Boston Women's Marathon won by Lisa Larsen Weidenbach in 2:34:06
Apr 15th - 89th Boston Marathon won by Geoff Smith of Great Britain in 2:14:05
Apr 15th - Challenger moves to launch pad for 51-B missing
Apr 15th - S Africa will repeal sex & marriage laws against whites & non-whites
Apr 16th - "Grind" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 79 performances
Apr 16th - Caps 1-Isles 2-Patrick Div Semifinals-Isle win series 3-2
Apr 18th - Flyers 3-Isles 0-Patrick Div Finals-Flyers hold 1-0 lead
Apr 19th - 16th Space Shuttle Mission (51-D)-Discovery 4 returns to Earth
Apr 19th - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Apr 19th - Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours.
Apr 20th - Carlos Lopes runs world record marathon (2:07:12)
Apr 20th - Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Mark Williams
Apr 20th - Karyn Marshall of NYC lifted 303 lbs in a clean & jerk lift
Apr 20th - ATF raid on The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord compound in northern Arkansas.
Apr 21st - Bomb attacks in NATO/AEG-Telefunken building in Brussels
Apr 21st - Flyers 5-Isles 2-Patrick Div Finals-Flyers hold 2-0 lead
Apr 21st - Ingrid Kristiansen wins London Marathon in a record 2:21:06
Apr 21st - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA J&B Scotch Pro-Am Golf Tournament
Apr 23rd - Brooklyn College soccer team wins Nepal's invitational
Apr 23rd - Coca-Cola announced it is changing its secret flavor formula
Apr 23rd - Flyers 5-Isles 3-Patrick Div Finals-Flyers hold 3-0 lead
Apr 23rd - New Coke debuts
Apr 24th - Pulitzer prize awarded to Carolyn Lizer for "Yin"
Apr 25th - "Big River" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 1005 performances
Apr 25th - Flyers 2-Isles 6-Patrick Div Finals-Flyers hold 3-1 lead
Apr 25th - For 2nd time, Wayne Gretzky, scores 7 goals in a Cup game
Apr 25th - Roger Miller's musical "Big River," premieres in NYC
Apr 25th - West German Parliament ruled it illegal to deny the holocaust
Apr 28th - Alice Miller wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic
Apr 28th - Billy Martin named NY Yankee manager for 4th time
Apr 28th - Fernando Valenzuela sets record of 41 scoreless inn to start season
Apr 29th - 17th space shuttle mission (51-B)-Challenger 7 launched
Apr 29th - Ranger Larry Parrish is 5th to hit 3 HRs in a game in both leagues
Apr 29th - Tony Tubbs TKOs Greg Page in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
Apr 30th - Dale Murphy drives in record tying 28th & 29th runs of April
Apr 30th - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
Apr 30th - Last edition of Brink Daily Mail/Sunday Express in South Africa
May 1st - "Communist" bomb attack kills 2 firemen in Brussels
May 1st - US president Reagan ends embargo against Nicaragua
May 1st - William Hoffman's "As Is," premieres in NYC
May 2nd - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
May 3rd - Date of $5 million check in "View to a Kill"
May 4th - 111th Kentucky Derby: Angel Cordero Jr on Spend A Buck wins 2:00.2
May 5th - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Moss Creek Women's Golf Invitational
May 6th - 17th Space Shuttle Mission (51-B)-Challenger 7 lands at Edwards AFB
May 8th - 20th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama & Judds win
May 8th - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
May 10th - Challenger transports back to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB
May 11th - 40 die & 150 injured in fire at Bradford City football ground
May 11th - Booby trap bomb kills 86 people in India
May 11th - Madonna's "Crazy For You," single goes #1
May 11th - Pope John Paul II arrives in Netherlands
May 11th - Soccer stadium in Bradford England catches fire; 53 die
May 11th - Dave Concepcion becomes 4th Cin Red teammate to get 2,000 hits, others include Pete Rose, Tony Perez & Cesar Cedeno
May 12th - Amy Eilberg is ordained in NY as 1st woman Conservative rabbi
May 12th - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic
May 13th - Carlton Fisk becomes 5th catcher to steal 100 bases
May 13th - Laura Elena Martinez-Herring, 21, (Texas), crowned 34th Miss USA
May 13th - Phila Police bomb a house held by group "Move," kills 11
May 15th - Everton wins 25th Europe Cup II at Rotterdam
May 16th - Michael Jordan named NBA Rookie of Year
May 16th - Pope John Paul II arrives in Belgium
May 17th - Les Anderson, catches record 97 lb 4 oz Chinook Salmon, off Alaska
May 18th - "One Night In Bangkok" by Murray Head hits #3
May 18th - 111th Preakness: Pat Day aboard Tank's Prospect wins in 1:53.4
May 18th - 1st remote location for "Nightline" (South Africa)
May 19th - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Golf Classic

Famous Birthdays

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May 22nd - Tranquillo Barnetta, Swiss footballer
May 22nd - Caridee English, American Model
May 22nd - Marc-Antoine Pouliot, Canadian ice hockey player
May 23rd - Ross Wallace, Scottish footballer
May 24th - Tim Bridgman, British racing driver
May 25th - Luciana Abreu, Portuguese singer and actress
May 27th - Chien-Ming Chiang, Taiwanese baseball player
May 28th - Colbie Caillat, American folk singer-songwriter
May 31st - Ian Vouyoukas, Greek basketball player
Jun 1st - Mário Hipólito, Angolan footballer
Jun 1st - Nick Young, American basketball player
Jun 2nd - Ana Cristina, Cuban American singer,composer, and actress
Jun 4th - Lukas Podolski, Polish-born footballer
Jun 4th - Bar Refaeli, Israeli model
Jun 4th - Evan Lysacek, American figure skater
Jun 4th - Ana Carolina Reston, Brazilian fashion model (d. 2006)
Jun 5th - Kenny De Ketele, Belgian cyclist
Jun 6th - Drew Galloway, Scottish professional wrestler
Jun 7th - Charlie Simpson, British pop singer
Jun 8th - Alexandre Despatie, French-Canadian diver
Jun 9th - Sonam Kapoor, Indian actress
Jun 9th - Sebastian Telfair, American basketball player
Jun 10th - Kristina Lundberg, Swedish ice hockey player
Jun 10th - Vasilis Torosidis, Greek footballer
Jun 11th - Anja Rubik, Polish supermodel
Jun 11th - Chris Trousdale, American pop singer and dancer
Jun 12th - Blake Ross, American software developer
Jun 12th - Tasha-Ray Evin, Canadian musician (Lillix)
Jun 12th - Kendra Wilkinson, American Playboy bunny/Playmate/Television Personality
Jun 12th - Sam Thaiday, Australian professional rugby league player
Jun 12th - Chris Young, American musician
Jun 13th - Raz-B, American singer (B2K)
Jun 13th - Danny Syvret, Canadian ice hockey player
Jun 13th - Filipe Albuquerque, Portuguese racing driver
Jun 14th - Andrew Bonner, Scottish football player
Jun 14th - Andy Soucek, Spanish racing driver
Jun 15th - Nadine Coyle, Northern Irish singer (Girls Aloud)
Jun 17th - Marcos Baghdatis, Cypriot professional tennis player
Jun 17th - Rafael Sóbis, Brazilian footballer
Jun 19th - John Decyk, American martial artist
Jun 20th - Souleymane Mamam, Togolese footballer
Jun 20th - Darko Miličić, Serbian basketball player
Jun 21st - Anthony Morelli, American football player
Jun 21st - Byron Schammer, AFL footballer
Jun 22nd - Rosa Kato, Italian-Japanese model and actress
Jun 22nd - Sofoklis Schortsanitis, Greek-Cameroonian basketball player
Jun 24th - Kyle Searles, American actor
Jun 24th - Yukina Shirakawa, Japanese gravure idol
Jun 26th - Urgyen Trinley Dorje, Tibetan spiritual leader
Jun 27th - Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russian tennis player
Jun 27th - Coby Linder, American Pop Punk Drummer (Say Anything)
Jun 27th - Nico Rosberg, German race car driver
Jun 27th - James Hook, Welsh rugby player
Jun 28th - Phil Bardsley, English football player
Jun 29th - Quintin Demps, American football player
Jun 30th - Rafal Blechacz, Polish classical pianist
Jun 30th - Michael Phelps, American swimmer
Jun 30th - Fabiana Vallejos, Argentine footballer
Jun 30th - Cody Runnels, American wrestler
Jul 2nd - Rhett Bomar, American football player
Jul 2nd - Chad Henne, American football player
Jul 2nd - Ashley Tisdale, American actress and singer
Jul 3rd - Minami Keisuke, Japanese singer and actor.
Jul 5th - Stephanie McIntosh, Australian pop singer and actress
Jul 5th - Nick O'Malley, British musician (Arctic Monkeys)
Jul 8th - Jamie Cook, British musician (Arctic Monkeys)
Jul 9th - Paweł Korzeniowski, Polish swimmer
Jul 9th - Ashley Young, English footballer
Jul 10th - Mario Gómez, German footballer
Jul 11th - Aki Maeda, Japanese actress
Jul 12th - Luiz Ejlli, Albanian singer
Jul 12th - Natasha Poly, Russian supermodel
Jul 13th - Guillermo Ochoa, Mexican footballer
Jul 17th - Neil McGregor, Scottish footballer
Jul 17th - Tom Fletcher, British singer (McFly)
Jul 18th - Chace Crawford, American actor
Jul 20th - John Francis Daley, American actor
Jul 21st - Von Wafer, American basketball player
Jul 22nd - Takudzwa Ngwenya, Zimbabwean/American rugby player
Jul 22nd - Akira Tozawa, Japanese professional wrestler
Jul 23rd - Luis Ángel Landín, Mexican footballer
Jul 23rd - Matthew Murphy, English musician (The Wombats)
Jul 24th - Patrice Bergeron, Canadian hockey player
Jul 24th - Teagan Presley, American pornographic actress
Jul 25th - James Lafferty, American actor
Jul 25th - Jasmine Lennard, English model
Jul 25th - Nelson Piquet Jr., Brazilian race car driver
Jul 26th - Gaël Clichy, French footballer
Jul 26th - Audrey De Montigny, Quebec singer
Jul 27th - Benedita Pereira, Portuguese actress
Jul 27th - Lou Taylor Pucci, American actor
Jul 28th - Dustin Milligan, Canadian actor
Jul 28th - Tynisha Keli, American singer
Jul 30th - Daniel Fredheim Holm, Norwegian footballer
Aug 2nd - Harry Smith, Canadian professional wrestler
Aug 3rd - Sonny Bill Williams, New Zealand rugby league footballer
Aug 4th - Mark Milligan, Australian footballer
Aug 4th - Luis Antonio Valencia, Ecuadorean footballer
Aug 4th - Ha Seung-Jin, Korean basketball player
Aug 5th - Laurent Ciman, Belgian footballer

Famous Deaths

Results 201 - 300 of 326

Aug 12th - Marcel Mihalovici, composer, dies at 86
Aug 12th - Manfred Winkelhock, German race car driver (b. 1951)
Aug 13th - Marion Martin, actress (Dakota Lil, Queen of Burlesque), dies at 67
Aug 14th - Gale Sondergaard, actress (Letter), dies of cerebral thrombosis at 86
Aug 15th - Richard Yardumian, US composer (Creator Spirit), dies at 68
Aug 20th - Harchand Singh Longowai, Sikh leader, shot by Sikh extremists
Aug 22nd - Ginty Lush, cricketer (NSW quickie of 30's), dies
Aug 24th - Paul Creston [Giuseppe/Joseph Guttoveggio], US composer, dies at 78
Aug 25th - Samantha Smith, actress (Elizabeth-Lime Street), dies in plane at 13
Aug 26th - Pieter Jongeling, Dutch MP/editor (GPV, Netherlands Daily), dies at 76
Aug 28th - Ruth Gordon, actress (Big Bus), dies of a stroke in her sleep at 88
Aug 29th - Alexander Abramsky, composer, dies at 87
Aug 29th - Evelyn Ankers, actress (Black Beauty, Jungle Woman), dies at 67
Aug 29th - Patrick Barr, actor (Black Orchid, On the Run), dies at 77
Aug 30th - Taylor Caldwell, English-born author (b. 1900)
Aug 31st - Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1899)
Sep 1st - Stefan Bellof, German race car driver (b. 1957)
Sep 1st - Jay Youngblood, American wrestler (b. 1955)
Sep 2nd - Abe Lenstra, Dutch soccer star, dies at 64
Sep 2nd - Jay Youngblood, American professional wrestler
Sep 3rd - Joe Jones, drummer, dies at 73
Sep 3rd - John Herbert McDowell, composer, dies at 58
Sep 4th - George O'Brien, actor (Daniel Boone, Salute), dies of a stroke at 85
Sep 4th - Isabel Jeans, actress (Suspicion, Easy Virtue, Tovarich), dies at 93
Sep 6th - Jane Frazee, singer/actress (Alice-Beulah), dies at 67 of pneumonia
Sep 6th - Johnny Desmond, singer (Your Hit Parade), dies of cancer at 65
Sep 6th - Leon Orthel, composer, dies at 79
Sep 8th - John Franklin Enders, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1887)
Sep 9th - Paul Flory, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
Sep 10th - Alexa Kenin, actress (Mousie-Coed Fever), dies at 23
Sep 11th - William Alwyn, composer, dies at 79
Sep 11th - Andrew C. Thornton II, American drug smuggler (b. 1945)
Sep 13th - Dane Rudhyar, composer, dies at 90
Sep 17th - Laura Ashley, Welsh fashion designer, dies by accident
Sep 19th - Italo Calvino, sci-fi author (T-Zero, Mr Palomar), dies at 61
Sep 21st - Gu Long, Taiwanese writer of wuxia novels (b. 1937)
Sep 22nd - Axel Springer, German newspaper magnate (Bild Zeitung), dies at 73
Sep 23rd - Mickey Simpson, actor (Wagonmaster), dies of a heart attack at 72
Sep 25th - Albert Moeschinger, composer, dies at 88
Sep 27th - Lloyd Nolan, actor (Dr Chegley-Julia), dies of lung cancer at 83
Sep 30th - Charles F Richter, US seismologist (scale of R), dies at 85
Sep 30th - Heleb MacInnes, US spy writer (Affiliate in place), dies at 77
Sep 30th - Simone Signoret, German/French actress (Room at Top, Gina), dies at 64
Oct 1st - Charlotte White, US author (New Yorker, Charlotte's Web), dies at 86
Oct 2nd - George Savalas, actor (Kojak), dies at 58
Oct 2nd - Rock Hudson, actor (MacMillian & Wife), dies of AIDS at 59
Oct 2nd - Sidney Clute, actor (Lou Grant, Cagney & Lacey), dies at 69
Oct 3rd - Charles Collingwood, newscaster (Chronicles), dies at 68
Oct 3rd - Maurice Copeland, actor (Ralph-Those Young Charmings), dies at 74
Oct 6th - Nelson Riddle, American bandleader (b. 1921)
Oct 8th - Leon Klinghoffer, hijackers of Achille Lauro, threw him off boat
Oct 8th - Ricardo Bacchelli, playwright/poet (Il malino del Po), dies at 94
Oct 9th - Emílio Garrastazu Médici, president of Brazil (b. 1905)
Oct 10th - Orson Welles, actor/dir (Citizen Kane), dies of heart attack at 70
Oct 10th - Yul Brynner, [Taidje Khan], actor (King & I), dies of cancer at 65
Oct 11th - Tex Williams, country-western singer, dies at 68 of cancer
Oct 12th - Johnny Olsen, TV announcer (Price is Right), dies at 75
Oct 12th - Ricky Wilson, rock guitarist (B-52's), dies of AIDS at 32
Oct 13th - Jack Wilson, cricketer (Test for Australia, 0-39 & 1-25, DNB), dies
Oct 14th - Emil Gilels, Ukrainian pianist (b. 1916)
Oct 15th - Meret Oppenheim, writer, dies at 72
Oct 16th - Claude Stroud, actor (Hobart-Ted Knight Show, Duke), dies at 78
Oct 18th - Benjamin Moloisi, South African poet/Anc'er, hanged at 30
Oct 19th - Alfred Rouleau, French Canadian businessman (b. 1915)
Oct 22nd - Viorica Ursuleac, Romanian soprano (b. 1894)
Oct 24th - Richie Evans, American NASCAR driver (b. 1941)
Oct 24th - Maurice Roy, Archbishop of Quebec, (b. 1905)
Oct 25th - Elsa Moranet, writer, dies at 67
Oct 25th - Morton Downey, singer (Star of the Family), dies at 83
Oct 29th - John Lodge, actor (Sensation, In Like Flint)/(gov-R-CT), dies at 82
Oct 30th - Kirby Grant, actor/singer (Sky King), dies in an auto accident at 74
Oct 31st - Poul Reichhardt, Danish actor (b. 1913)
Oct 31st - Nikos Engonopoulos, Greek painter and poet (b. 1907)
Oct 31st - Anton Christoforidis, Greek boxer (b. 1918)
Nov 1st - Phil Silvers, comedic actor (Sgt Bilko), dies in his sleep at 73
Nov 5th - Arnold Chikobava, Georgian linguist (b. 1898)
Nov 6th - Joel Crothers, actor (Edge of Night), dies of a heart attack at 44
Nov 8th - Nicolas Frantz, Luxembourgish cyclist (b. 1899)
Nov 9th - Helen Rose, costume designer, dies at 81
Nov 9th - Mary MacLaren, actress (Black Swan), dies at 85 of respiratory probs
Nov 10th - Pelle Lindbergh, goalie (Phila Flyers), dies in drunk driving accident
Nov 13th - George Robert Vincent, American sound recording pioneer (b. 1898)
Nov 15th - Spencer W Kimball, US head of mormon church, dies at 90
Nov 16th - John J Sparkmann, (Sen-D-Ala), dies at 85
Nov 17th - Jimmy Ritz, actor (Ritz Brothers), dies of heart failure at 81
Nov 19th - Lall Singh, cricketer (Test for India 1932), dies
Nov 19th - Stepin Fetchit, [Lincoln Penny], 1st black star, dies of pneumonia 83
Nov 20th - Bill Scott, cartoon voice (Mr Peabody, Bullwinkle), dies at 65
Nov 21st - Ramnath Kenny, cricketer (5 Tests for India 1958-60), dies
Nov 24th - Cees Buddingh', Dutch poet/writer/interpreter/translator, dies at 67
Nov 24th - Big Joe Turner, American singer (b. 1911)
Nov 25th - Ray Jablonski, American baseball player (b. 1926)
Nov 25th - Franz Hildebrandt, German Theologian(b. 1909)
Nov 26th - Ransom Sherman, comedian (Father of Bride), dies at 87
Nov 28th - Fernand Braudel, French historian, dies at 83
Nov 29th - Rik Jacobs, Flemish stage manager, dies at 71
Dec 2nd - Alex Courtney, actor (Sword of Justice), dies
Dec 2nd - Philip Larkin, [hermit of Hull], English poet, dies at 63
Dec 2nd - Aniello Dellacroce, American gangster (b. 1914)
Dec 3rd - Sam Gillman, actor (Sam-Shane), dies at 70