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Historical Events

Results 1 - 78 of 78

1st - "Oh, Kay!" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 77 performances
1st - Last of Margaret Thatcher's original govt resigns, Deputy PM Howe
1st - Rhetoric escalates as Bush likens Saddam to Hitler
1st - Sandra Miller awarded $100 for Mike Tyson fondling her breasts
2nd - 1st NBA game at Target Center, Minn Timberwolves beat Mavericks 98-85
3rd - Gro Harlem Brundtland installed as premier of Norway
4th - "Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story" opens at Shubert NYC for 225 perfs
4th - 20th NYC Women's Marathon won by Wanda Panfil in 2:30:45
4th - 21st NYC Marathon won by Douglas Wakiihuri in 2:12:39
4th - Debbie Massey wins LPGA Mazda Japan 133 Golf Classic
4th - Iraq says it is preparing for a "dangerous war"
4th - Sec of State James Baker visits US troops in Saudi Arabia
6th - Arsenio Hall gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame
6th - Braves Dave Justice wins NL Rookie of Year
6th - Fire destroys some of Universal Studio's stages
6th - Guam Republican governor Joseph Ada re-elected
7th - "Little Night Music" closes at New York State NYC after 11 perfs
7th - "Those Were The Days" opens at Edison Theater NYC for 126 performances
7th - Cleve Indian Sandy Alomar Jr wins AL Rookie of Year, unanimously
7th - Mary Robinson elected as 1st female president of Ireland
8th - "6 Degrees of Separation" opens at Vivian Beaumont NYC for 496 perfs
8th - 100,000 additional US troops are sent to Persian gulf
8th - Darryl Strawberry signs 5-year contract with LA Dodgers
8th - Gina Marie Tolleson of USA, 21, crowned 40th Miss World
8th - Saddam fires his army chief & threatens to destroy Arabian peninsula
9th - Tanzania govt of Malecela forms
9th - New democratic constitution is issued in Nepal.
10th - Lebanon releases 2 french hostages (Camille Sontag & Marcel Coudari)
11th - "Shadowlands" opens at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC for 169 perfs
11th - Calif's Chuck Finley & Seattle's Randy Johnson combine to pitch a no-hitter in exhibition game between US & Japanese all-star teams
12th - Crown Prince Akihito is formally installed as Emperor Akihito of Japan, becoming the 125th Japanese monarch.
12th - Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.
13th - Oakland's Bob Welch wins AL Cy Young Award
13th - The World Wide Web first began.
13th - In Aramoana, New Zealand, Resident David Gray shot dead 13 people, in what became known as the Aramoana Massacre.
14th - Doug Drabek (22-6) wins NL Cy Young Award
14th - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
14th - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
14th - Michael Heseltine contests Thatcher's leadership of party
14th - Philippines hit by typhoon, 110 die
15th - Pres Bush signs Clear Air Act of 1990
15th - Producers confirm that Milli Vanilla didn't sing on their album
15th - US 68th manned space mission STS 38 (Atlantis 7) launches into orbit
16th - Manuel Noriega claims US denied him a fair trial
18th - "Fiddler on the Roof" opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 241 perfs
18th - 1st Solheim Cup: US beats Europe 11½-4½ at Lake Nona CC FLA
18th - NFL NY Giants beat Det Lions 20-0, to run 1990 record to 10-0
18th - Saddam offers to free an estimated 2,000 men held in Kuwait
19th - Greyhound files reoganization plan so they can be traded publically
19th - Iraq announces it will free all German hostages
19th - Pittsburgh's Barry Bonds wins NL MVP
20th - Oakland's Rickey Henderson wins AL MVP
20th - Sacramento Kings last NBA win on the road for over a year
20th - Thatcher fails to defeat Heseltine's bid for party leadership
20th - US 68th manned space mission STS 38 (Atlantis 7) returns from space
21st - Michael Milken is sentenced to 10 years for security law violations
22nd - George Bush visits US troops in Saudi Arabia
22nd - Margaret Thatcher announces her resignation as British Prime Minister
22nd - Prof Amos Sawyer installed as interim pres of Liberia
23rd - Model Cheryl Tiegs marries actor Tony Peck
23rd - Test Cricket debut of Saeed Anwar (Pak v WI), scores 0 & 0
25th - 78th CFL Grey Cup: Winn Blue Bombers defeat Edmonton Eskimos, 50-11
25th - Lech Walesa wins in Poland's 1st popular election
25th - NFL's NY Giants & SF 49ers after winning their 1st 10 games both
25th - Sri Lanka all out 82, Venkatapathy Raju (I) 6-12 off 17 lose, Phil Eagles beat Giants 31-13 & L.A. Rams beat 49ers 28-17
26th - 1st Billboard Music Awards: Janet Jackson wins
26th - Buffalo Bills become 6th 1st place NFL team to lose on same weekend
26th - Matsushita purchases MCA for $6.6 billion
26th - Mikhail Gorbachev tells Iraq to get out of Kuwait
26th - Premier Mazowiecki of Poland, resigns
27th - Britain's conservatives chose John Major to succeed Margaret Thatcher
28th - Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew resigns, ending his reign as Singapore's longest-serving Prime Minister
28th - Margaret Thatcher resigns as Britain's PM, replaced by John Majors
29th - "Shogun - The Musical" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 72 perfs
29th - Expos pres Claude Brochu agrees to buy club from Charles Bronfman
29th - UN Security Council sets Jan 15th military deadline against Iraq
30th - Actor Burt Lancaster suffers a stroke
30th - Bush proposes US-Iraq meeting to avoid war

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 13 of 13

2nd - Natasha Smirnoff, daughter of Yakov Smirnov
3rd - Ellyse Perry, Australian soccer player/cricket player
7th - Matt Corby, Australian singer
13th - Jibbs, American rapper
14th - Jessie Jacobs, Australian actress and singer (d. 2008)
15th - Kanata Hongō, Japanese actor
17th - Shanica Knowles, American actress
20th - Sam Burton, English footballer
25th - Yasmin van der Meer, 15 millionth Netherlander
29th - Blake Tuomy-Wilhoit, actor (Full House)
29th - Dylan Tuomy-Wilhoit, actor (Full House)
30th - Kara Crane, American actress
30th - Magnus Carlsen, Norwegian chess Grandmaster

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 44 of 44

3rd - Mary Martin, actress (Peter Pan), dies of cancer at 76
3rd - Valerie French, actress (Jubal), dies of leukemia
5th - Bobby Nunn, US bassist (Coasters-Down in Mexico), dies at about 65
5th - Herbert Berghof, actor (Belarus File), dies of heart failure at 81
6th - Will Kuluva, actor (To Trap a Spy, Go Naked in World), dies at 73
7th - Josephine Wilson, actress (We Dive at Dawn), dies at 86
7th - Lawrence Durrell, Indian/English author (Mount Olive), dies at 78
8th - Anya Seton, US author, dies
8th - Grampy Davis, dies of heart attack at 87
10th - Lisa Kirk, US Broadway-singer, dies
10th - Ronnie Dyson, US singer (Salvation-I Don't Wanna Cry), dies at 40
10th - Mário Schenberg, Brazilian physicist (b. 1914)
11th - Attilio Demaría, Argentinian footballer (b. 1909)
11th - Alexis Minotis, Greek actor (b. 1898)
12th - Dave Willock, actor (Queen of Outer Space), dies at 81
12th - Eve Arden, actress (Our Miss Brooks), dies at 82
12th - Nico Haak, Dutch singer (Foxy Foxtrot), dies
12th - Rifaat El-Maghub, Egyptian MP leader, murdered
12th - Yannis Ritsos, Greek poet, dies at 81
13th - Charlie Carpenter, dies at 77
14th - K L Poll, journalist/author, dies
14th - Malcolm Muggeridge, WW II spy for Britain, dies at 87
14th - Robert Mariano, entertainer, dies at 21
15th - Bill E Herndon, actor (Rivals), dies at 54
15th - Alydar, American racehorse (b. 1975)
17th - Robert Hofstadter, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
18th - Peter Schilperoort, saxophonist/clarinetist, dies
19th - Sun Li-jen, Chinese general (b. 1900)
21st - Dean Hart, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1954)
23rd - Bo Diaz, catcher, crushed to death by a satellite dish at 37
23rd - Nguyen Van Tam, PM of Vietnam (1952-53), dies
23rd - Renate Rubinstein, author/columnist (Tamar), dies
23rd - Roald Dahl, Br short story author (Sweet Mystery of Life), dies at 74
24th - Bulent Arel, composer, dies at 72
24th - Nistani Keiji, philosopher, dies in Kyoto Japan
24th - Dodie Smith, English novelist and playwright (b. 1896)
24th - Juan Manuel Bordeu, Argentine racing driver (b. 1934)
25th - Bill Vukovich, Indie 500 driver, dies in crash at 27
26th - David White, actor (Bewitched), dies of heart attack at 74
27th - David White, actor (Larry Tate-Bewitched), dies at 74
28th - Tamara De Treaux, actress (ET), dies at 31
30th - Hilde Spiel, writer, dies at 78
30th - Horst Bienek, German author, dies
30th - Norman Cousins, editor (Saturday Review), dies at 75