Today in History for March 1986

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 66 of 66

2nd - 1st million-dollar purse for a handicap race won at Santa Anita
2nd - Mary Beth Zimmerman wins Uniden LPGA Golf Invitational
2nd - Protesters try to stop Land Rover motor company being sold to US
4th - Border completes twin Test tons (140 & 114*) v NZ
5th - "Today" tabloid launched (Britain's 1st national color newspaper)
6th - Ken Ludwig's "Lend me a Tenor," premieres in London
6th - USSR's Vega 1 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,889 km
7th - South-Africa emergency crisis in Brabant & Limburg ends
7th - Wayne Gretzky breaks own NHL season record with 136th assist
8th - 4 French TV crew members are abducted in west Beirut Lebanon
8th - Japanese probe Suisei passes Halley's Comet at 109,800 km
8th - Martina Navratilova is 1st tennis player to earn $10 million
9th - 16th Easter Seal Telethon raises $30,100,000
9th - Juli Inkster wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
9th - NASA announces searchers found remains of Challenger astronauts
9th - Soviet probe Vega 2 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,030 km
10th - Ernie Lombardi, NL MVP in 1938, & Bobby Doerr, elected to Hall of Fame
11th - 1 million days since traditional foundation of Rome, 4/21/753 BC
11th - 12th People's Choice Awards
Tennis Player Martina Navratilova 11th - 187.27 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
11th - Islander Mike Bossy, 1st NHLer to score 50 goals in 9 straight seasons
11th - Japanese probe Sakigake flies by Halley's Comet at 6.8 million km
11th - NFL adopts instant replay rule
12th - 210.25 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
12th - Susan Butcher wins 1,158 mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
13th - Soyuz T-15 carries 2 cosmonauts to Soviet space station Mir
13th - Microsoft has its Initial public offering.
14th - European Space Agency's Giotto flies by Halley's Comet (605 km)
15th - Funeral services held for Swedish PM Olaf Palme
16th - Chris Johnson wins LPGA GNA/Glendale Federal Golf Classic
17th - Haemers gang robs gold transport in Belgium of 35 million BF
18th - Exciting draw in final gives NSW the Sheffield Shield over Qld
18th - Treasury Dept announces plans to alter paper money
20th - 228 KPH gust of wind strikes Cairngorm (UK record)
20th - Jacques Chirac forms French government
21st - 199.22 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
21st - Kania skates ladies world record 500 m (39.52 sec) & 3 km (4:18.02)
21st - Pittsburgh Associates buy Pittsburgh Pirates for $218 million
22nd - Ehrig skates ladies world record 5 km (7:20.99)
22nd - HBO launches boxing's heavyweight-title-unification-tournament
22nd - Heart's "These Dreams," single goes #1
22nd - Ice Pairs Championship at Geneva won by Gordeeva & Grinkov (URS)
22nd - Kania skates ladies world record 1500m (1:59.30)
22nd - Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Debi Thomas (USA)
22nd - Trevor Berbick beats Pinklon Thomas in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
23rd - 6th Golden Raspberry Awards: Rambo: First Blood Part II wins
23rd - Heavyweight Trevor Berbick KOs Pinklon Thomas
23rd - Penny Pulz wins LPGA Circle K Tucson Golf Open
24th - 58th Academy Awards - "Out of Africa," William Hurt & G Page win
24th - Suriname army capt Etienne Boerenveen arrested for cocaine smuggling
24th - US & Libya clash in Gulf of Sidra
24th - NASA publishes "Strategy for Safely Returning the Space Shuttle to Flight Status"
25th - Men's Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Brian Boitano (USA)
25th - Supreme Court rules Air Force could ban wearing of yarmulkes
25th - Kurt Browning (Canada) becomes 1st skater to land a quadruple jump
26th - Geffen records signs Guns & Roses
27th - Disney-MGM Studio Tour ground breaking
28th - Extremist Sikhs kill 13 hindus in Ludhiana India
28th - John N McMahon, ends term as deputy director of CIA
29th - Beatle records officially go on sale in Russia
30th - "Tango Argentino" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 198 perfs
30th - 5th NCAA Women Basketball Championship: Texas beats Southern Cal 97-81
31st - 167 die when Mexicana Airlines Boeing 727 crashes
31st - 48th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Louisville beats Duke 72-69
31st - English Hampton Court palace destroyed by fire, 1 dead
31st - Six metropolitan county councils are abolished in England.

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 39 of 39

1st - Jonathan Spector, American soccer player
3rd - Stacie Orrico, American singer
4th - Margo Harshman, American actress
4th - Tom De Mul, Belgian footballer
4th - Bohdan Shust, Ukrainian footballer
5th - Matty Fryatt, English footballer
6th - Eli Marienthal, American actor
7th - Ben Griffin, Australian soccer player
9th - Brittany Snow, American actress
10th - JC de Vera, Filipino Actor
12th - Danny Jones, English singer (McFly)
13th - Chiaki Kyan, Japanese gravure idol
14th - Elton Chigumbura, Zimbabwean cricketer
14th - Jamie Bell, British actor
14th - Andy Taylor, British/English footballer
15th - Tyler Noyes, actor (CJ-One Life to Live)
16th - Ken Doane, American professional wrestler
16th - T. J. Jordan, American basketball player
17th - Olesya Rulin, American actress
18th - Bia Figueiredo, Brazilian racing driver
18th - Abdennour Cherif El Ouazzani, Algerian footballer
18th - Kaloyan Ivanov, Bulgarian basketball player
20th - Dean Geyer, Australian singer/actor
23rd - Andrea Dovizioso, Italian motorcycle racer
23rd - Steven Strait, American actor
24th - Kohei Hirate, Japanese racing driver
24th - Anthony McMahon, English footballer
25th - Megan Gibson, American softball player
26th - Jessica McClure, baby trapped in Texas well in 1988
27th - Melissa Stern, [Baby M]/[Sara Whitehead], surrogate baby
27th - Valerie "So Cal Val" Wyndham, American professional wrestling valet
27th - Ramani, Indian Girl
28th - Lady Gaga [Stefani Germanotta], New York, singer/songwriter (Bad Romance)
28th - J-Kwon, American rapper
28th - Barbora Strýcová, Czech tennis player
29th - Sylvan Ebanks-Blake, English footballer
30th - Sergio Ramos, Spanish footballer
30th - Beni Arashiro, Japanese singer
31st - Cveta Majtanović, Serbian singer, winner of Pop Idol.

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 35 of 35

2nd - Marcel Liebman, Belgian historian, dies at 56
2nd - Zafer Masri, mayor of Nablus, murdered
4th - Henri Knap, Dutch journalist/writer, dies at 75
4th - Richard Manuel, rock vocalist/pianist (Band), commits suicide at 42
4th - Howard Greenfield, American songwriter (b. 1936)
5th - Teddy Hoad, cricketer (West Indian captain 1930), dies
6th - Adolph Caesar, actor (Club Paradise, Soldier's Story), dies
6th - Georgia O'Keefe, US painter (Flowers), dies at 98
6th - Georgia O'Keeffe, American artist (b. 1887)
7th - Jacob K Javits, (Sen-R-NY), dies in Palm Beach, Fla at 81
8th - Hubert Fichte, writer, dies at 50
9th - Ned Calmer, TV host (In the First Person), dies at 78
10th - Ray Milland, actor (Lost Weekend-Acad Award 1945), dies at 81
11th - Sonny Terry, American blues musician (b. 1911)
13th - Alvaro Fayad Delgado, Colombian guerilla leader (M-19), dies
14th - Benno Ammann, composer, dies at 81
14th - Edith Atwater, actress (Phyllis-Love on a Rooftop), dies at 74
14th - Jozef Kresanek, composer, dies at 73
14th - Marlin Perkins, TV host (Wild Kingdom) at 80
17th - Hal Buckley, actor (John Quincy-OK Crackerby), dies at 49
18th - Bernard Malamud, US writer (Fixer, Natural), dies at 71
21st - August de Boodt, Belgian politician, dies at 90
22nd - Charles Starrett, actor (Silver Streak, Jungle Bride), dies
22nd - Mark Dinning, American singer (b. 1933)
24th - Sarah Cunningham, actress (Nurse Andrews-Trapper John MD), dies at 67
26th - Bartlett Robinson, actor (Wendy & Me, Mona McCluskey), dies at 73
27th - Cass Canfield, US publisher, dies at 88
28th - Victor J Lopez, actor (Chuey-Man From Atlantis), dies at 39
28th - Virginia Gilmore, actress (Jennie, Western Union), dies
29th - Harry Ritz, actor (3 Musketeers, On the Avenue), dies at 79
30th - James Cagney, actor (Yankee Doodle Dandy), dies in NY at 86
30th - John Ciardi, US poet/interpreter (Dante), dies at 69
31st - Harry Ritz, comedian/actor (Ritz Brothers), dies at 79
31st - Jerry Paris, director/actor (Jerry-Dick Van Dyke Show), dies at 60
31st - O'Kelly Isley, US, singer (Isley Brothers), dies of heart attack at 48