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Historical Events

Results 301 - 400 of 769

May 20th - 1150 Lebanese/Palestinian prisoners exchanged for 3 Israelis
May 20th - Dow Jones industrial avg closes above 1300 for 1st time
May 20th - FBI arrests John A Walker Jr, convicted of spying for USSR
May 20th - Indians-Brewers game at Cleve Stadium is 1st rain-out of 1985, ends record string of 458 ML games since Opening Day without a rain-out
May 20th - Israel exchanges 1,100+ Arab prisoners for 3 Israeli soldiers
May 20th - Larry Holmes beats Carl Williams in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
May 20th - US began broadcasts to Cuba on Radio Marti
May 22nd - Pete Rose 2,108th run passes Hank Aaron as NL run scoring leader
May 22nd - Real Madrid wins 14th UEFA Cup at Madrid
May 22nd - US sailor Michael L Walker arrested for spying for USSR
May 24th - "View to a Kill" premieres in US
May 24th - -25) cyclone hits Bangladesh; about 10,000 die
May 25th - Allan Border scores 4th successive 1st class 100 (v Derbyshire)
May 25th - Cyclone ravages Bangladesh; 11,000 killed
May 26th - Danny Sullivan wins Indy 500 by 24 seconds following a spin
May 26th - Explosions destroys 2 tankers off of Gibraltar, 30 die
May 26th - Patti Rizzo wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
May 27th - Britain agrees to return Hong Kong to China in 1997
May 27th - Inaugural bands parade for Pres Reagan
May 28th - David Jacobsen taken hostage in Beirut Lebanon
May 28th - Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-G
May 29th - Juventus wins 30th Europe Cup 1 in Brussels, 39 die in riot
May 29th - Amputee Steve Fonyo completes cross-Canada marathon at Victoria, British Columbia, after 14 months.
May 30th - Stanley Cup: Edmonton Oilers beat Phila Flyers, 4 games to 1
May 31st - 41 tornadoes hit Northeast US, killing 88
May 31st - Guatemala adopts constitution
May 31st - New Orleans Saints are sold for $70,204,000
May 31st - Tornados in Penn, Ohio, NY & Canada kill 88 & injured more than 1,000
May 31st - 1985 United States-Canadian tornado outbreak: Forty-one tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario, leaving 76 dead.
May 31st - Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) became a Schedule I drug in the United States.
Jun 1st - "Just A Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody" by David Lee Roth hits #12
Jun 1st - Viv Richards scores 300 in a day on the way to 322 v Warwicks cricket
Jun 1st - Weird Al Yankovic released his Dare To Be Stupid LP
Jun 2nd - 31st LPGA Championship won by Nancy Lopez
Jun 2nd - 39th Tony Awards: Biloxi Blues & Big River win
Jun 2nd - Andreas Papandreous PASOK-party wins election in Greece
Jun 2nd - RJ Reynolds Company proposed a merger with Nabisco
Jun 3rd - Brewers draft B J Surhoff #1
Jun 3rd - Massive anti-ETA demonstration in Basques
Jun 4th - STS 51-G vehicle moves to launch pad
Jun 4th - Supreme Court strikes down Alabama "moment of silence" law
Jun 6th - 55th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats Navratilova (63 67 75)
Jun 6th - 58th National Spelling Bee: Balu Natarajan wins spelling milieu
Jun 6th - Body of Nazi criminal, Dr Josef Mengele located & exhumed
Jun 6th - Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts "status" of Aruba
Jun 6th - Soyuz T-13 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station
Jun 8th - 117th Belmont: Eddie Maple aboard Creme Fraiche wins in 2:27
Jun 8th - Pirates score 10 in top of 1st, but lose 15-11 to Phillies, as Steve becomes 1st Phillie to switch hit HRs in same game
Jun 9th - 39th NBA Championship: LA Lakers beat Boston Celtics, 4 games to 2
Jun 9th - 55th French Mens Tennis: Mats Wilander beats Ivan Lendl (36 64 62 62)
Jun 9th - Alice Miller wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship
Jun 9th - American Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped & held hostage in Lebanon
Jun 9th - Bernard Hinault wins Tour de France
Jun 9th - USSR's Vega 1 deposits lander on surface of Venus
Jun 10th - 19th Music City News Country Awards: Statler Brothers, B Mandrell
Jun 10th - Claus von Bulow acquitted on charges he tried to murder his wife
Jun 10th - Coca Cola announces they'd bring back their 99-year-old formula
Jun 10th - French agents blow up Greenpeace boat Rainbow Warrior near NZ
Jun 11th - Russian space probe Vega 1 lands on Venus
Jun 11th - Von Hayes becomes 21st to hit 2 HRS in an inning (Phils-26, Mets-7)
Jun 11th - WJW-AM/TV in Cleveland Ohio change call letters to WRMR
Jun 14th - "Michael Nesmith In Television Parts" premieres on NBC-TV
Jun 14th - Earl Weaver comes out of retirement to manage Balt Orioles
Jun 14th - Lebanese Shiite Muslim extremists hijacked TWA Flight 847
Jun 15th - "Pryor's Place," children show last airs on CBS-TV
Jun 15th - En route to Halley's Comet, USSR's Vega 2 drops lander on Venus
Jun 15th - Pinklon Thomas KOs Mike Weaver in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
Jun 15th - Russian space probe Vega 2 lands on Venus
Jun 15th - Rembrandt's painting Danaë is attacked by a man later judged insane; he threw sulfuric acid on the canvas and cut it twice with his knife.
Jun 16th - 85th US Golf Open: Andy North shoots a 279 at Oakland Hills CC Mich
Jun 16th - Pat Bradley wins LPGA Rochester Golf International
Jun 16th - T C Chen, ahead by 4 strokes in final round of US Open
Jun 16th - Willie Banks of USA sets triple jump record (58 feet 11 inches) in Indianapolis
Jun 17th - 18th Space Shuttle Mission (51-G)-Discovery 5 launched
Jun 18th - Boston Red Sox Fred Lynn gets 10 RBIs
Jun 19th - Reggie Jackson hits his 513th HR to move into 10th place
Jun 21st - American, Brazilian & West German forensic pathologists confirm skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were Nazi Dr Josef Mengele
Jun 22nd - "Grind" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 79 performances
Jun 22nd - "Smuggler's Blues" by Glenn Frey peaks at #12
Jun 23rd - Alice Miller wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
Jun 23rd - Bomb destroys Air India Boeing 747 in air near Ireland, 329 die
Jun 23rd - Laffit Pincay Jr becomes 2nd jockey to win $100 million
Jun 24th - 18th Space Shuttle Mission (51-G)-Discovery 5 returns to Earth
Jun 24th - Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-F
Jun 25th - Fireworks factory near Hallett, OK explodes (21 die)
Jun 27th - 1st hotel strike in NY
Jun 27th - Route 66 (Chicago to Santa Monica), is decertified
Jun 27th - U.S. Route 66 ceases to be an official U.S. highway.
Jun 28th - Discovery ferried back to Kennedy Space Center via Bergstrom AFB, Tx
Jun 29th - NASA launches Intelsat VA
Jun 29th - STS 51-F vehicle moves to launch pad
Jun 30th - "King & I" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 191 performances
Jun 30th - 39 remaining hostages from Flight 847 are freed in Beirut
Jun 30th - Juli Inkster wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
Jun 30th - LA Dodger Pedro Gonzalez sets NL record of 15 HRs in June
Jul 2nd - Andrei Gromyko appointed president of USSR
Jul 2nd - European Space Agency launches Giotto (Halley's Comet Flyby)
Jul 3rd - CBS announces a 21% stock buy-back to thwart Ted Turner's takeover
Jul 4th - Tinker Bell's nightly flight begins
Jul 5th - Premier Mugabe wins Zimbabwe elections

Famous Birthdays

Results 301 - 400 of 458

Aug 5th - Salomon Kalou, Ivorian footballer
Aug 8th - Brayan Ruiz, Costa Rican football player
Aug 9th - Luca Filippi, Italian racing driver
Aug 9th - Hayley Peirsol, American swimmer
Aug 9th - JaMarcus Russell, American football player
Aug 10th - Roy O'Donovan, Irish footballer
Aug 11th - Grace Adams-Short, British reality television contestant
Aug 14th - Christian Gentner, German footballer
Aug 16th - Agnes Bruckner, American actress
Aug 17th - Yū Aoi, Japanese actress
Aug 19th - Megan Rochell, American singer
Aug 24th - Destiny Davis, American model and Playboy Playmate
Aug 27th - Alexandra Nechita, Romanian/American artist
Aug 28th - Ralph Woolfolk IV, American actor
Aug 29th - Jeffrey Licon, American actor
Aug 30th - Richard Duffy, Welsh footballer
Aug 30th - Leisel Jones, Australian swimmer
Aug 30th - Eamon Sullivan, Australian swimmer
Aug 30th - Steven Smith, Scottish footballer
Sep 1st - Camile Velasco, Filipino-American singer
Sep 3rd - Scott Carson, English footballer
Sep 3rd - Kelvin Wilson, English footballer
Sep 5th - Ryan Guy, American soccer player
Sep 6th - Webbie, American rapper
Sep 6th - Ali Ashfaq, Maldivian footballer
Sep 6th - Alberto Valerio, Brazilian racing driver
Sep 7th - Tatia Jayne Starkey, Ringo's 1st grandchild
Sep 7th - Rafinha, Brazilian footballer
Sep 8th - Yendi Phillips, Jamaican beauty pageant contestant
Sep 9th - Luka Modrić, Croatian footballer
Sep 9th - J.R. Smith, American basketball player
Sep 11th - Shaun Livingston, American basketball player
Sep 11th - Zack Stortini, Canadian ice hockey player
Sep 12th - Jack Wilkinson, English footballer
Sep 13th - Keyunta Dawson, National Football League player
Sep 14th - Paolo Gregoletto, American bassist (Trivium)
Sep 14th - Aya Ueto, Japanese actress and singer
Sep 14th - Delmon Young, American baseball player
Sep 16th - Madeline Zima, American actress
Sep 17th - Alexander Ovechkin, Russian hockey player
Sep 17th - Brendan Clarke, Irish Soccer Player with St. Patrick's Athletic
Sep 17th - Jon Walker, American musician (Panic at the Disco)
Sep 17th - Tomáš Berdych, Czech tennis player
Sep 17th - Mason Raymond, Canadian ice hockey player
Sep 20th - David Allen, American composer and writer
Sep 21st - Maryam Hassouni, Dutch actor
Sep 22nd - Faris Haroun, Belgian footballer
Sep 23rd - Maki Goto, Japanese pop singer
Sep 23rd - Jared High, American victim of bullying (d. 1998)
Sep 23rd - Brian Brohm, American football player
Sep 23rd - Lukáš Kašpar, Czech ice hockey player
Sep 23rd - Hossein Ka'abi, Iranian footballer
Sep 23rd - Joba Chamberlain, American baseball player
Sep 25th - Calvin Johnson, American football player
Sep 26th - Lenna Kuurmaa, Estonian singer (Vanilla Ninja)
Oct 1st - Ryo Miyamori, Japanese singer
Oct 1st - Nazimuddin Ahmed, Bangladeshi cricketer
Oct 1st - Revazi Zintiridis, Greek judoka
Oct 1st - Tim Deasy, English footballer
Oct 2nd - Craig Davis, Wide Receiver for the San Diego Chargers
Oct 5th - Nicola Roberts, English singer (Girls Aloud)
Oct 7th - Evan Longoria, American baseball player
Oct 8th - Eiji Wentz, German-Japanese entertainer
Oct 10th - Dominique Cornu, Belgian professional cyclist
Oct 10th - Aaron Himelstein, American actor
Oct 11th - Michelle Trachtenberg, American actress
Oct 12th - Mike Green, Canadian ice hockey player
Oct 14th - Digão, Brazilian footballer
Oct 14th - Daniel Clark, Canadian actor
Oct 14th - Sherlyn González, Mexican actress
Oct 14th - Alexandre Sarnes Negrão, Brazilian racing driver
Oct 15th - Walter López, Uruguayan footballer
Oct 15th - Marcos Martinez Ucha, Spanish racing driver
Oct 16th - Casey Stoner, Australian motorcycle racer and 2007 MotoGP World Champion
Oct 20th - Jennifer Nicole Freeman, American actress
Oct 20th - Dominic McGuire, American basketball player
Oct 20th - James Sutton, British racing driver
Oct 22nd - Zac Hanson, Tulsa OK, singer (Hansons-MMMMbop)
Oct 23rd - James Kotecki, American political blogger
Oct 24th - Wayne Rooney, English footballer
Oct 25th - Maximillian Roeg, actor (Aria)
Oct 25th - Ciara Harris, American singer
Oct 26th - Andrea Bargnani, Italian basketball player
Oct 26th - Monta Ellis, American basketball player
Oct 26th - Asin Thottumkal, Indian actress
Oct 28th - Richard Smith, American entrepreneur
Oct 29th - Severino Jefferson, Brazilian football player
Nov 1st - Dizzee Rascal, English rapper
Nov 4th - Marcell Jansen, German footballer
Nov 5th - Tanaka Koki, Japanese idol (member of KAT-TUN)
Nov 5th - Kate DeAraugo, Australian Idol 2005
Nov 8th - Jack Osbourne, English television star
Nov 10th - David Lee Rohr Jr, transplant donor
Nov 10th - Giovonnie Samuels, American television actress
Nov 10th - Ricki-Lee Coulter, Australian singer
Nov 11th - Jessica Sierra, American Idol season 4 finalist
Nov 11th - Robin Uthappa, Indian cricket player
Nov 13th - Asdrúbal Cabrera, Venezuelan baseball player
Nov 14th - Thomas Vermaelen, Belgian footballer
Nov 17th - Patrick Quinn, Personal Trainer

Famous Deaths

Results 301 - 326 of 326

Dec 4th - Marcel Boereboom, Belgian musicologist, dies at 83
Dec 6th - Burleigh Grimes, US baseball pitcher, dies at 92
Dec 6th - Burr Tillstrom, puppeteer (Kukla Fran & Ollie), dies at 68
Dec 7th - Potter Stewart, 94th Supreme Court Justice (1958-81), dies in NH at 70
Dec 7th - Robert Graves, English writer/poet (King Jesus), dies at 90
Dec 12th - Anne Baxter, actress (Myra-Marcus Welby, Victoria-Hotel), dies at 62
Dec 12th - Ian Stewart, keyboardist/road mgr (Rolling Stones), dies at 47
Dec 12th - Ian Stewart, Scottish musician (b. 1938)
Dec 14th - Roger Maris, HR hitter (61 in 61, NY Yankees), dies of cancer at 51
Dec 14th - Stanley G[rauman] Weinbaum, US, sci-fi author (Red Peri), dies at 85
Dec 14th - Catherine Doherty, social justice activist (b. 1896)
Dec 16th - Dick Pollard, cricketer (England fast-medium bowler 1946-48), dies
Dec 16th - Merv Waite, cricketer (2 Tests for Aust 1938, 1 wkt avg 190), dies
Dec 16th - Paul Castellano, Organized-crime chief, shot dead at a NYC restaurant
Dec 16th - Thomas Bilotti, American mafioso (b. 1940)
Dec 17th - Otto Gotsche, writer, dies
Dec 18th - Xuân Diệu, Vietnamese poet (b. 1916)
Dec 22nd - D. Boon, American singer and guitarist (The Minutemen) (b. 1958)
Dec 23rd - James Vance (20) & Raymond Belknap (18), commit suicide, sparking their families to sue rock group Judas Priest for subliminal messages
Dec 25th - George Rhodes, orch leader (Sammy Davis Jr Show), dies at 66
Dec 26th - Dian Fossey, zoologist (Gorillas in the Mist), murdered at 53
Dec 26th - Harold P. Warren, American movie director (d. 1928)
Dec 27th - Dian Fossey, US naturalist (Gorillas in Mist), found dead in Rwanda
Dec 31st - Alexander Matheson, cricketer (2 wickets/2 Tests for NZ 1930-31), dies
Dec 31st - Rick Nelson, singer/actor (Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet), dies at 45
Dec 31st - Sam Spiegel, Academy Award winning producer (Betrayal), dies at 84