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Historical Events

Results 1 - 97 of 97

1st - "Ha!" comedy Channel on cable TV begins transmitting
1st - 19th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Betsy King
1st - 2nd Seniors Golf Tradition: Jack Nicklaus wins
1st - 9th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Stanford beats Auburn 88-81
1st - CBS fires sportscaster Brent Mussburger
1st - Guns & Roses' Duff divorces Mandy Brix, lead singer for Lame Flames
1st - It becomes illegal in Salem Oregon to be within 2' of nude dancers
1st - Jack Nicklaus wins 1st start on Senior PGA tour
1st - Wrestlemania VI, 67,678 in Toronto, Ultimate Warrior beats Hulk Hogan
2nd - 52nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Nevada-LV beats Duke 103-73
4th - "Marshall Chronicles" premieres on ABC-TV
4th - Gloria Estefan released from hospital after her accident
4th - Security law violator Ivan Boesky is released from federal custody
5th - John Stockton reaches 1000-assist mark for NBA record 3 yrs in a row
5th - NY Rangers beat NY Islanders 2-1 in 1st game of preliminary
5th - Paul Newman wins a court victory over Julius Gold, to keep giving all profits from Newman foods to charity
7th - BPAA US Open by Ron Palombi Jr
7th - Farm Aid IV concert
7th - John Poindexter (Natl Sec Advisor) found guilty on Iran-Contra scandal
7th - Michael Milken pleads innocent to security law violations
7th - NY Rangers beat NY Islanders 5-2, Rangers lead 2-0 in preliminary
7th - Fire kills 110 on a ferry in Norway, in an unrelated event, 30 die in a ferry flip over in Burma
8th - "Aspects of Love" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 377 performances
8th - "Twin Peaks" with Peggy Lipton premieres on ABC-TV
8th - 54th Golf Masters Championship: Nick Faldo wins, shooting a 278
8th - King Birendra of Nepal lifts 30-year ban on political parties
8th - Kris Monaghan wins LPGA Red Robin Kyocera Inamori Golf Classic
8th - Norwegian Scandinavian Star catches fire; about 170 die
8th - New Democracy wins the national election in Greece.
9th - "Capital News" starring Lloyd Bridges premieres on ABC-TV
9th - Don Mattingly signs a $19.7 million 5-year contract with Yankees
9th - NY Islanders beat NY Rangers 4-3 in double overtime-Rangers lead 2-1
9th - World's largest bunny hop at Radio City Music Hall (NYC)
10th - CUNY/Lehman College, Bronx, opens a branch campus in Hiroshma Japan
10th - Curtly Ambrose takes 8-45 in cricket vs England at Bridgetown
11th - Angels Mark Langston & Mike Witt, no-hit Seattle, 1-0
11th - NY Lotto pays $35 million to two winner (#s are 6-14-24-32-34-51)
11th - NY Rangers beat NY Islanders 6-1, Rangers lead 3-1 in preliminary
11th - Customs officers in Middlesbrough, United Kingdom, say they have seized what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq.
12th - Greyhound Bus hires new drivers to replace strikers
12th - James Brown moves to a work-release center after serving 15 months
12th - 1st meeting of East German democratically elected parliament, acknowledges responsibility for Nazi holocaust & asks for forgivenesss
13th - 4th largest NBA crowd (45,458) see Orlando play at Minneapolis
13th - Final episode of Pat Sajak's late night TV show on CBS
13th - NY Rangers beat NY Islanders 6-5, Rangers win preliminary, 4-1
15th - "In Living Color" premieres on FOX-TV
15th - Greenidge & Haynes make 298 opening stand (v Eng), their best
16th - "Piano Lesson" opens at Walter Kerr Theater NYC for 320 performances
16th - 19th Boston Women's Marathon won by Rosa Mota of Portugal in 2:25:23
16th - 94th Boston Marathon won by Gelindo Bordin of Italy in 2:08:19
16th - Maximum NY State unemployment benefits raised to $260 per week
16th - Supreme Court rejects appeal from retarded man, Dalton Prejean, condemned to death for murdering a Louisiana state trooper in 1977
17th - Gas explodes on passenger train in Kumrahar India, 80 die
18th - Bankruptcy court forces Frank Lorenzo to give up Eastern Airlines
18th - Birmingham Fire issued an original franchise in WLAF
18th - Supreme Court rules states could make it a crime to possess or look at child pornography, even in one's home
19th - Contra guerrillas, leftist Sandinistas & incoming govt agree to truce
19th - Marla Maples appears on ABC's Prime-Time
19th - Pistons & 76'ers get into a fight accruing $162,500 fines (NBA record)
19th - Truce in Nicaragua's civil war
20th - Pete Rose pleads guilty to hiding $300,000 in income
20th - 8 2/3 inning perfect game pitched by Brian Holman of Oakland A's is spoiled by a home run hit by Ken Philips
21st - "Cartoon All Stars to Rescue" shown on all 4 TV networks
21st - National League umpire is arrested for stealing baseball cards
21st - Reds win running their record to 9-0, best start in club history
22nd - "Truly Blessed" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 33 performances
22nd - Lebanon release US hostage Robert Polhill after 39 months
23rd - 11th Emmy Sports Award presentation
24th - Brian Friel's "Dancing at Lughnasa," premieres in Dublin
24th - Security law violator Michael Milken pleads guilty to 6 felonies
24th - US 66th manned space mission STS 31 (Discovery 10) launches into orbit
24th - West & East Germany agree to merge currency & economies on July 1st
24th - Gruinard Island, Scotland, is officially declared free of the anthrax disease after 48 years of quarantine.
25th - 25th Academy of Country Music Awards: Clint Black & Kathy Mattea win
25th - Hubble space telescope is placed into orbit by shuttle Discovery
25th - Violeta Barrios de Chamorro begins a 6 year term as Nicaragua's pres
26th - "Accomplice" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 52 performances
26th - 126 die in a (6.9) earthquake in China
26th - Danny Wood of New Kids, steps on a stuffed animal & twists his ankle
26th - NY court of appeals ends 2½ year legal battle over 1988 America's Cup by refusing jurisdiction of case
26th - Nolan Ryan ties Bob Feller's record of pitching 12 1-hitters
27th - 50th annual barbershop quartet singing convention held (Mich)
27th - Dodger Orel Hershiser undergoes career-threatening shoulder surgery
27th - Villanova's women set a 6,000 m relay world record of 17:18:10
28th - "Chorus Line" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 6,137 performances
28th - Boston Celtics score most points in a playoff, beat NY Knicks 157-128
28th - Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Dave Ferraro
28th - Guns & Roses' Axl marries Erin Everly (annulled same year)
28th - Last issue of Dutch communist daily De Waarheid (The Truth)
29th - "Change in the Heir" opens at Edison Theater NYC for 16 performances
29th - Dan Quisenberry (all-time AL save king, 238) announces his retirement
29th - STS-31 (Discovery 10) lands
29th - Wrecking cranes began tearing down Berlin Wall at Brandenburg Gate
30th - As Met pitcher David Cone argues a call at 1st base, 2 Braves score
30th - Seattle's Brian Holman's perfect game broken up with 2 outs in 9th
30th - US 66th manned space mission STS 31 (Discovery 10) returns from space
30th - US hostage Frank Reed freed after 4 years in hands of pro-Iranians

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 11 of 11

5th - Haruma Miura, Japanese Actor
9th - Marston Glenn Hefner, son of Hugh Hefner & Kimberley Conrad
9th - Kristen Stewart, American actress
10th - Lulinha, Brazilian footballer
10th - Alex Pettyfer, English actor
15th - Emma Watson, English actress
16th - Heather Fulton, American marine biologist
16th - Lorraine Nicholson, American actress
17th - Jonathan Brown, Welsh footballer
19th - Kim Chiu, Filipino actress
23rd - Matthew Dillon Underwood, American actor

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 35 of 35

2nd - Aldo Fabrizi, actor (Postman Goes to War, Open City), dies at 85
3rd - Katharine Balfour, actress (Love Story), dies of ALS at 69
3rd - Sarah Vaughn, jazz singer, dies of lung cancer at 66
5th - Nico Scheepmaker, Dutch columnist/poet, dies at 59
6th - Nancy Hawkes, (1946 best dress woman), dies at 73
6th - Ronald E Evans, astronaut (Apollo 17), dies of a heart attack at 57
8th - Doreen Sloane, dies
8th - Jose De Vega, dies of AIDS at 56
8th - Ryan White, hemophiliac aids sufferer, dies at 18
11th - Barbara Ann Miller, dies
11th - Harold Ballard, Canadian ice hockey club owner and executive (b. 1903)
11th - Xenophon Zolotas, Greek economist, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1904)
12th - Henry Kendrick, dies
13th - Luis Trenker, dies at 97
13th - Ronald Ibbs, dies
14th - Martin Kessel, writer, dies on 89th birthday
14th - Peter Dunn, actor (Invaders from Mars) dies
14th - Thurston Harris, American singer (b. 1931)
15th - Greta Garbo, actress (Anna Karenina, Camille), dies at 84
17th - Ralph David Abernathy, US civil rights leader, dies
18th - Robert D Webb, director/actor (Love Me Tender, Jackals), dies at 87
18th - Gory Guerrero, professional wrestler (b. 1921)
19th - Vladislav Ivanovich Gulyayev, Russia, cosmonaut, dies at 52
20th - Horst Sinderman, RDA 1st minister (1973-76), dies
21st - Johnny Beagley, winner of two 1942 World Series games, dies
21st - Erté, French artist (b. 1892)
22nd - Bertil Unger, actor (Devil & Max Devlin), dies
23rd - Albert Salmi, (Caddyshack), kills terminally ill wife & self at 62
23rd - Palmer Deane, actor (Still of the Night), dies
23rd - Paulette Goddard, actress (Hazard), dies in Switzerland at 78
24th - Joseph Leberman, entertainer, dies
24th - Tom Rolfing, actor (He Knows You're Alone, Cliff-Another World), dies
25th - Dexter Gordon, Jazz saxophonist, dies of kidney failure at 67
26th - Carlos Pizarro Leongomez, Colombian pres candidate, assassinated
28th - Jean Blazer Baney, entertainer, dies