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Historical Events

Results 1 - 71 of 71

1st - David Dinkins sworn in as 1st black mayor of NYC
1st - Mitsuko Nishiwaki beats Nakano to become Japan Women wrestling champ
1st - NYC MTA stops token redemption at subway stations
1st - Sports News Network begins operation on cable TV
1st - FCC implements "SYNDEX" giving independent stations more rights over cable TV outlets for exclusive syndicated programs
2nd - Dow Jones hits record 2,800 (2,810.15)
2nd - Sting joins wrestlings 4 Horsemen (Flair, Arn Anderson, Ole Anderson)
3rd - Panama's leader Gen Manuel Noriega surrenders to US authorities
5th - J Donald Crump appointed 8th Commissioner of CFL
6th - NY Lotto pays $35 million to one winner (#s are 18-25-26-32-42-44)
7th - Lynn Jennings runs world record 5K indoor at 15:22.64
7th - Tower Of Pisa closed to the public after leaning too far
9th - 64th US manned space mission STS 32 (Columbia 10) launches into orbit
9th - Boston Celtics worst ever (6 pts in 2nd vs NJ Nets) & lose 87-78
9th - Jim Palmer & Joe Morgan elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
9th - Supreme Court strikes down Dallas' ordinance imposing strict zoning on sexually oriented businesses
10th - "Les Miserables," opens at Mechanic Theatre, Baltimore
10th - China lifts martial law (imposed after Tiananmen Square massacre)
10th - NCAA approves random drug testing for college football players
11th - 200,000 demand return of Lithuania's independence
11th - Actor Joseph Cotton undergoes vocal cancer operation at 84
11th - Bobby Knight becomes basketball's Big 10 winningest coach (229)
11th - Pat Lafontaine sets NY Islander record of scoring goals in 11 straight
12th - Civil Rights activist Rev Al Sharpton is stabbed in Bensonhurst Bkln
12th - Romania bans Communist party (1st Warsaw Pact member to do so)
13th - 1st elected US black governor inaugurated (Douglas Wilder-Virginia)
14th - "Simpsons" premiered on Fox-TV
14th - 11th ACE Cable Awards
14th - Perez de Cuellar says he has lost all hope for peace in Gulf
15th - 42 year old George Foreman KOs George Cooney in 2 rounds
15th - 6th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Knots Landing wins
15th - AT&T experiences long distance problems due to a computer glitch
15th - Blue Jay Cecil Fielder signs with Detroit as a free agent
15th - NY Knicks Trent Tucker scores with 1/10 sec, beats Bulls, 109-106
16th - 2 Bank of Credit & Commerce members plea guilty to money laundering
17th - 5th Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Awards: Bobby Darin
17th - Dave Stewart signs record $3,500,000 per year Oak A's contract
17th - Who, Simon & Garfunkel, 4 Seasons, 4 Tops, Hank Ballard, Platters &
17th - Kinks inducted into Cleveland's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
18th - South Africa says its reconsidering ban on African Natl Congress
18th - Wash DC, Mayor Marion Barry arrested in drug enforcement sting
19th - Test debut of Mushtaq Ahmed, v Australia at Adelaide
20th - 47th Golden Globes: Born on 4th of July, Driving Miss Daisy win
20th - US 64th manned space mission STS 32 (Columbia 10) returns from space
20th - Black January - crackdown of Azerbaijani pro-independence demonstrations by Soviet army in Baku.
21st - 41st NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 12-7 at Pittsburgh
21st - Bob Goodenow succeeds Alan Eagleson as NHL players assn exec director
21st - John McEnroe becomes 1st ever player to be expelled from the Australian Open
21st - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Jamaica Golf Classic
22nd - 17th American Music Award: Milli Vanilli
22nd - Wasim Akram scores Test century (123) at Adelaide
22nd - Will Clark, NL's MVP signs a $15M 4-year contract with SF Giants
22nd - Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. is convicted of releasing the 1988 Internet worm.
23rd - Dean Jones scores twin Test tons v Pakistan at Adelaide Oval
24th - Japanese MUSES-A (Hiten) launched towards moon
25th - Avianca Flight 52, runs out of fuel & crashes in Cove Neck NY, 73 die
25th - Former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is transferred to a Miami jail
25th - West-Europe's strongest hurricane
25th - The Burns' Day storm hits northwestern Europe.
25th - Honduras becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
26th - Annular eclipse visible over Antarctica & South Atlantic
26th - Boston Red Sox hires Elaine Weddington as asst GM (highest-ranking black female in a major-league front office)
27th - 64th Australian Women's Tennis Steffi Graf beats MJ Fernandez (63 64)
28th - "Independent on Sunday" begins publishing in London
28th - 78th Australian Mens Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats S Edberg (46 76 52-ret)
28th - Superbowl XXIV: SF 49ers beat Denver Broncos, 55-10 in New Orleans Superbowl MVP: Joe Montana, San Francisco, QB
29th - Exxon Valdez capt Joseph Hazelwood goes on trial due to oil spill
31st - 1st McDonalds in Russia opens in Moscow, world's biggest McDonalds
31st - 1st ever all-sports daily "National" begins publishing
31st - Jushin "Thunder" Liger beats Naoki Sano to become New Japan IWGP champ
31st - The first McDonald's in the Soviet Union opens in Moscow, USSR.

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 14 of 14

4th - Toni Kroos, German footballer
7th - Liam Aiken, American actor
7th - Elene Gedevanishvili, Georgian figure skater
7th - Camryn Grimes, American actress
7th - Gregor Schlierenzauer, Austrian skijumper
8th - Maci Wainwright, American singer
10th - Tao Li, Singaporean Olympic swimmer
12th - Sergey Karjakin, Ukrainian chess player
15th - Fernando Forestieri, Italian footballer
15th - Chris Warren Jr., American actor
21st - Jacob Smith, American actor
26th - Christopher Massey, American actor
30th - Jake Thomas, American actor
30th - Eiza Gonzalez, Mexican actress/singer

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 51 of 51

1st - Charles Boost, Dutch film critic, dies at 82
1st - Joe Hardstaff Jr, cricketer (23 Tests for England, 1636 runs), dies
1st - Suzuki Sochu, Zen teacher (Rinzai line)/abbot of Ryutakuji, dies
2nd - Alan Hale Jr, Skipper on Gilligan's Island, dies of cancer at 71
2nd - Vladimir Alexis Ussachevsky, Manchuria composer (Creation), dies at 78
3rd - Ken Hill, actor (Cobra, Protocol), dies
3rd - Arthur Gold, American pianist, half of Gold and Fizdale duo (b. 1917)
4th - Alberto Lleras Camargo, president of Colombia (1945-46, 58-62), dies
4th - Robert F Adams, US, sci-fi author (Castaways in Time), dies at 57
4th - Harold Edgerton, American electrical engineer (b. 1903)
4th - Sir Henry Bolte, Premier of Victoria 1955-1972 (b. 1908)
5th - Arthur Kennedy, actor (Air Force), dies of a brain tumor at 76
5th - Bart LaRue, entertainer, dies
6th - Hans Jaray, actor (Lydia, Fedora), dies
6th - Ian Charleson, actor (Gandhi, Chariots of Fire), dies of AIDS at 40
7th - Bronislau "Bronko" Nagurski, football hall of famer, dies at 81
7th - Gail Lucas, entertainer, dies
7th - Horace Stoneham, baseball owner (Giants), dies at 86
7th - Joseph Robbie, lawyer/NFL owner (Miami Dolphins), dies at 73
8th - Terry Thomas, Engl comic (Heroes), dies of Parkinson's disease at 78
9th - Sir Edward McTiernan, Australian jurist, lawyer and politician (b. 1892)
9th - Spud Chandler, baseball player (b. 1907)
10th - Juliet Berto, screenwriter/actress (Bastienne Bastien), dies at 42
10th - Yvonne Peattie Marquard, actress (Donovan's Reef), dies
11th - Mary Jane Carr, actress (Forbidden Trail, Second Wife), dies
12th - Laurence J Peter, author (Peter Princible), dies of a stroke at 70
12th - Paul Amadeus Pisk, composer, dies at 96
14th - David Arkin, actor (I Love You Alice B Toklas), dies
14th - Mani Madhava Chakyar, Koodiyattam artist and Sanskrit scholar (b. 1899)
15th - Gordon Jackson, actor (Hamlet), dies after a short illness at 66
17th - Charles Hernu, French minister of Defense (1981-85), dies
18th - Melanie Appleby, rocker (Mel & Kim), dies of liver cancer at 23
18th - Rusty Hamer, American actor (b. 1947)
19th - Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, indian guru, dies at 58
19th - Herbert Wehner, German ex-communist/chairman (1958-73), dies at 83
19th - Semprini, English musician (b. 1908)
20th - Barbara Stanwyck, [Ruby Stevens], actress (Big Valley), dies at 82
20th - Miloslav Istvan, composer, dies at 61
20th - Naruhito Higashi-Kuni, Japanese PM (1945), dies
20th - Hayedeh, Persian singer (b. 1942)
23rd - Albert Collins, guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd), dies of pneumonia at 57
23rd - Mariano Rumor, Italy's PM (1968-70, 73-1974), dies
24th - Madge Bellamy, actress (White Zombie), dies at 87
25th - Alexander Lockwood, actor (Duel), dies
25th - Ava Gardner, actress (Barefoot Contessa), dies of pneumonia at 67
25th - Ian Dudley Hardy, entertainer, dies
26th - FHP "Boy" Trip, Dutch minister, dies
26th - Lewis Mumford, American historian (b. 1895)
26th - Bob Gerard, British racing driver (b. 1914)
27th - Helen Jerome Eddy, actress (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm), dies at 92
31st - Rashad Khalifa, Egyptian-born imam (b. 1935)