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Historical Events

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Jul 5th - Nicholas Mark Sanders (England) begins circumnavigation of globe, covering 13,035 road miles in 78 days, 3 hr, 30 min
Jul 7th - 92nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats C Evert (46 63 62)
Jul 7th - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Mazda Hall of Fame Golf Championship
Jul 8th - 99th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Boris Becker beats K Curren (63 67 76 64)
Jul 8th - Marge Schott becomes CEO of Cincinnati Red
Jul 9th - South Africa police arrested Dutch ANC'er Klaas de Jong
Jul 10th - Coca-Cola Co announces it will resume selling old formula Coke
Jul 10th - French agents sink Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior in NZ
Jul 10th - Playboy publishes full frontal nude pictures of Madonna
Jul 11th - Astros' Nolan Ryan, 1st to strike out 4000 (Mets' Danny Heep)
Jul 11th - Refurbished Columbia moves overland from Palmdale to Dryden
Jul 11th - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Jul 12th - "Singin' in the Rain" opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 367 perfs
Jul 12th - Doctors discover a cancerous growth in Pres Reagan's colon
Jul 12th - STS 51-F launch scrubbed at T -3s because of main engine shutdown
Jul 13th - "Live Aid" concert raises over $70 million for African famine relief
Jul 13th - NY Yankees retire Roger Maris (9) & Elston Howard (32) uniforms
Jul 14th - 40th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Kathy Baker
Jul 14th - Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center via Offutt AFB, Neb
Jul 14th - Last USFL game-Baltimore Stars defeats Oakland Invaders, 28-24
Jul 15th - Deborah Carthy-Deu, of Puerto Rico, crowned 34th Miss Universe
Jul 16th - 56th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-1 at Humphrey Metrodome, Minn
Jul 16th - All star MVP: LaMarr Hoyt (SD Padres)
Jul 16th - Bill to abolish Greater London Council receives royal assent
Jul 16th - F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record of 1152 kph (716 mph)
Jul 18th - USSR performs underground nuclear Test
Jul 19th - Christa McAuliffe chosen 1st school teacher to fly space shuttle
Jul 19th - Dam in Fiemme Valley Italy bursts; 200-300 die
Jul 19th - The Val di Stava Dam collapse killing 268 people in Val di Stava, Italy.
Jul 20th - Divers find wreck of Spanish galleon Atocha
Jul 20th - The government of Aruba passes legislation to secede from the Netherlands Antilles.
Jul 21st - "Leader of the Pack" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 120 perfs
Jul 21st - 114th British Golf Open: Sandy Lyle shoots a 282 at Royal St George
Jul 21st - Amina Fakir (Detroit), 23, crowned 18th Miss Black America
Jul 21st - Bernard Hinault wins his 5th & last Tour de France
Jul 21st - Judy Clark wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
Jul 24th - Gandhi signs peace contract with Sikh leader Harchand Singh Longowai
Jul 25th - Spokeswoman for Rock Hudson confirmed he had AIDS
Jul 25th - Steve Cram runs world record mile (3:46.32)
Jul 25th - US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
Jul 25th - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Jul 25th - Uganda suspends constitution following coup
Jul 28th - 13th du Maurier Golf Classic: Pat Bradley
Jul 28th - Alan Garcia sworn in as president of Peru
Jul 28th - L Brock, Slaughter, A Vaughan, & H Wilhelm inducted into Hall of Fame
Jul 29th - 19th Space Shuttle Mission (51-F)-Challenger 8-launched
Jul 30th - Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-I mission
Jul 30th - Valerie Lowrance, of Texas, 18, crowned America's Junior Miss
Aug 1st - 15.4 cm rainfall at Cheyenne, Wyoming (state record)
Aug 1st - Emmy 12th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 6th time
Aug 1st - Vince Coleman steals 2 bases in 1st inning, for NL rookie record 74
Aug 2nd - 5 die in a train crash in Westminster Colo
Aug 2nd - Delta Lockheed L-1011 crashes at Dallas-Ft Worth Airport, 137 die
Aug 2nd - NASA launches space vehicle S-209
Aug 3rd - "Nihilator" set harness pacing mile (1:49.6) in East Rutherford, NJ
Aug 3rd - Train crash at Flaujac, France: 35 killed
Aug 4th - "Dreamgirls" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 1522 performances
Aug 4th - Calif Angel Rod Carew gets his 3,000th hit
Aug 4th - Penny Hammel wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic
Aug 4th - Phil Rizzuto Day, Yanks retire #10
Aug 4th - Rod Carew, is 16th to get 3,000 hits
Aug 4th - White Sox Tom Seaver is 17th to win #300, beating Yankees
Aug 5th - Baseball players go on strike for 2 days
Aug 5th - Establishment of a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is announced
Aug 5th - Flexible-wing glider altitude record (214,250') set by Larry Tudor
Aug 6th - 19th space shuttle mission (51-F), Challenger 8, lands at Edwards AFB
Aug 6th - Major League Baseball Players Assn go on strike
Aug 6th - Players' Association stages a midseason baseball strike (lasts 1 day)
Aug 6th - STS 51-I vehicle moves to launch pad
Aug 7th - Barbra Streisand records "Broadway Album"
Aug 7th - Baseball players end a 2 day strike
Aug 7th - Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first astronauts.
Aug 8th - Baseball's new agreement permits 2 new NL teams in 1993
Aug 8th - Japan launches Planet A, a probe to Halley's comet
Aug 10th - Oakland A's Dave Kingman is 21st to hit 400 HRs (off Matt Young at Seattle)
Aug 10th - Michael Jackson buys ATV Music (every Beatle song) for $47 million
Aug 10th - Uno Lindstron of Sweden, juggles a soccer ball 13.11 miles
Aug 11th - "Tap Dance Kid" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 669 perfs
Aug 11th - 67th PGA Championship: Hubert Green shoots 278 at Cherry Hills Denver
Aug 11th - Challenger flies to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz
Aug 11th - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic
Aug 11th - Rudolf Povarnitsin of USSR sets new high jump world record (7'10"12)
Aug 12th - 7th Emmy Sports Award presentation
Aug 12th - Balt Orioles W Gross & L Sheets are 6th to hit consecutive pinch HRs
Aug 12th - Japanese Boeing 747SR crashes, 520 die (worst in-flight toll)
Aug 15th - Anti-apartheid lawyer Bulelani Ngcuka marries in South Africa
Aug 15th - Iraqi air raid on Iran oil-island Kharg
Aug 16th - Madonna weds Sean Penn on her 27th birthday
Aug 17th - 1,400 meatpackers walk off the job at a Geo A Hormel & Co plant
Aug 17th - Rajiv Gandhi announces Punjab state elections in India
Aug 17th - Sara Trollinger forms House of Hope in Orlando
Aug 18th - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Nestle World Championship of Women's Golf
Aug 18th - Muffin Spencer-Devlin wins MasterCard International Pro-Am Golf Tourn
Aug 18th - Suisei Launch (Halley's Comet Flyby)
Aug 19th - Japan launches its 2nd probe of Halley's Comet, Suisei
Aug 20th - 1st NL pitcher to strike out 200+ in 1st 2 seasons (Dwight Gooden)
Aug 20th - Israel ships 96 TOWs to Iran on behalf of US
Aug 20th - Libya throws out 1000s Tunisian/Egyptian gas workers
Aug 20th - Met Dwight Gooden strikes out 16 on way to his 13th consecutive win
Aug 20th - Hanspeter Beck of South Australia, finishes a 3,875 mile, 51 day trip from Western Australia to Melbourne on a unicycle

Famous Birthdays

Results 401 - 458 of 458

Nov 18th - Christian Siriano, American fashion designer
Nov 19th - Chris Eagles, English footballer
Nov 20th - Juan Cruz Álvarez, Argentine racing driver
Nov 20th - Dan Byrd, American actor
Nov 21st - Jesús Navas, Spanish footballer
Nov 22nd - Asamoah Gyan, Ghanaian footballer
Nov 23rd - Ahn Hyun-Soo, South Korean short track skater
Nov 24th - Julia Alexandratou, Greek fashion model and singer
Nov 24th - Tony Hunt, National Football League player
Nov 26th - Lil' Fizz, American singer
Nov 27th - Alison Pill, Canadian actress
Nov 27th - Klara Ósk Elíasdóttir, Icelandic singer
Nov 28th - Caitlin McClatchey, Scottish swimmer
Nov 29th - Taguchi Junnosuke, Japanese idol (KAT-TUN)
Nov 29th - Shannon Brown, American basketball player
Nov 30th - Kaley Cuoco, American actress and model
Dec 2nd - Dorell Wright, American basketball player
Dec 3rd - Mike Randolph, American soccer player
Dec 3rd - Amanda Seyfried, American actress
Dec 3rd - László Cseh, Hungarian swimmer
Dec 3rd - Marcus Darrell Williams, American basketball player
Dec 4th - Andrew Brackman, American baseball player
Dec 4th - Carlos Gómez, Dominican baseball player
Dec 5th - Frankie Muniz, American actor
Dec 5th - Nico Verdonck, Belgian racing driver
Dec 5th - Josh Smith, American basketball player
Dec 6th - Dulce María, Mexican actress and singer
Dec 6th - Rudra Pratap Singh, Indian Cricketer
Dec 8th - Dwight Howard, American basketball player
Dec 10th - T. J. Hensick, American ice hockey player
Dec 10th - Raven-Symoné, American actress and singer
Dec 14th - Jakub Błaszczykowski, Polish footballer
Dec 14th - Paul Rabil, professional lacrosse player
Dec 14th - Julio Pimentel, Dominican baseball player
Dec 14th - Tom Smith, Welsh rugby union footballer
Dec 14th - Nonami Takizawa, Japanese actress
Dec 14th - Ren Yagami, Japanese actor and singer
Dec 15th - Sheeba Reiter, Fla, illegitimate daughter of Jackie Mason
Dec 16th - Keita Tachibana, member of Japanese boy band w-inds.
Dec 17th - Ryuichi Ogata, member of Japanese boy band w-inds.
Dec 18th - Tara Conner, 2006 Miss USA
Dec 18th - Hana Soukupová, Czech supermodel
Dec 19th - Gary Cahill, English footballer
Dec 19th - Neil Kilkenny, English-born Australian footballer
Dec 19th - Lady Sovereign, English musician
Dec 21st - James Stewart Jr., American motorcycle racer
Dec 23rd - Harry Judd, British drummer (McFly)
Dec 23rd - Luke O'Loughlin, Australian actor
Dec 24th - David Ragan, American race car driver
Dec 25th - Leon Pisani, Welsh singer
Dec 25th - Perdita Weeks, British actress
Dec 26th - Steven Hartman, Westlake CA, actor (Rick Forrester-Bold & Beautiful)
Dec 26th - Yuu Shirota, Japanese Idol
Dec 27th - Logan Bailly, Belgian football goalkeeper
Dec 27th - Paul Stastny, Canadian-American ice hockey player
Dec 28th - Kamani Hill, American footballer
Dec 29th - Alexa Ray Joel, daughter of Billy Joel & Christie Brinkley
Dec 30th - Lars Boom, Dutch cyclist

Famous Deaths

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