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Historical Events

Results 101 - 200 of 957

Feb 10th - S Afr Pres de Klerk announces Nelson Mandela will be free Feb 11th
Feb 10th - US female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary
Feb 11th - 40th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 130-113 at Miami
Feb 11th - James "Buster" Douglas KOs Mike Tyson to win heavyweight boxing crown
Feb 11th - Nelson Mandela (political prisoner-27 years) freed in South Africa
Feb 11th - US male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge
Feb 13th - 50 killed at Inkatha-UDF battle in Natal, South Africa
Feb 13th - Larry Bird (Celtics) ends NBA free throw streak of 71 games
Feb 13th - US, England, France & England give Germany OK to reunify
Feb 14th - Alan Ayckbourn's "Man of the Moment," premieres in London
Feb 14th - Perrier recalls 160 million bottles of sparkling water after traces of benzene, a carcinogen, are found in some
Feb 14th - Space probe Voyager 1 takes photograph of entire solar system
Feb 15th - Baseball owners lock out players
Feb 18th - Jane Crafter wins LPGA Phar-Mor at Inverrary Golf Tournament
Feb 19th - Police kill 8 demonstrators for multi party system in Nepal
Feb 19th - Soyuz TM-9 lands
Feb 21st - 32nd Grammy Awards: Wind Beneath My Wings, Nick of Time wins
Feb 22nd - 1st day India v NZ cricket at Auckland NZ 5-78 at lunch, 9-387 stumps
Feb 23rd - Ian Smith 173* NZ v India, 136 balls, world record for no 9 bat
Feb 24th - Beth Daniel wins LPGA Orix Hawaiia Ladies Golf Open
Feb 25th - Australia beat Pakistan 2-0 to win the Cricket World Series Cup
Feb 25th - Nicaraguans votes out Sandinistas
Feb 25th - On a BBC taped interview, rock star Stevie Nicks breaks down, saying that she will never have children & no man can stand her for long
Feb 26th - USSR agrees to withdraw all 73,500 troops from Czech by July, 1991
Feb 26th - The Sandinistas are defeated in Nicaraguan elections.
Feb 27th - Exxon Corp & Exxon Shipping are indicted on 5 criminal counts (Valdez)
Feb 27th - No one elected to Hall of Fame for 2nd time in 3 years
Feb 28th - Dutch police seize 3,000 kg of cocaine
Feb 28th - US 65th manned space mission STS 36 (Atlantis 6) launches into orbit
Mar 1st - Benin nullifies its constitution
Mar 1st - Luis Alberto Lacelle sworn in as president of Uruguay
Mar 1st - Steve Jackson Games is raided by the United States Secret Service, prompting the later formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Mar 2nd - Greyhound Bus goes on strike
Mar 2nd - Mark Tewsksbury swims world record 50m backstroke (25.06 sec)
Mar 3rd - Carole Gist, 20, (Michigan 1st black), crowned 39th Miss USA
Mar 4th - 20th Easter Seal Telethon
Mar 4th - Beth Daniel wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
Mar 4th - US 65th manned space mission STS 36 (Atlantis 6) returns from space
Mar 6th - SR-71 sets a transcontinental record, flying 2,404 miles in 1:08:17
Mar 7th - 3 passengers killed & 162 injured as subway train derails (Phila)
Mar 7th - H Wayne Huizenga buys ½ of Joe Robbie Stadium and 15% of Dolphins for $30m
Mar 8th - NYC's Zodiac killer shoots 1st victim, Mario Orosco
Mar 9th - Dr Antonia Novello sworn-in as 1st hispanic/female US surgeon general
Mar 10th - 4th American Comedy Award: When Harry Met Sally
Mar 10th - Ice Dance Championship at Halifax won by Klimova & Ponomarenko (URS)
Mar 10th - Ice Pairs Championship at Halifax won by Gordeeva & Grinkov (URS)
Mar 10th - Ladies Figure Skating Champions in Halifax won by Jill Trenary (USA)
Mar 10th - Lt Gen Avril resigns as pres of Haiti
Mar 10th - Mens Figure Skating Championship in Halifax won by Kurt Browning (CAN)
Mar 10th - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Mar 11th - 16th People's Choice Awards
Mar 11th - Lithuania declares it's Independence
Mar 11th - Maggie Will wins Desert Inn LPGA Golf International
Mar 12th - LA Raiders announce they were returning to Oakland
Mar 13th - Nicholoas Braithwaite elected premier of Grenada
Mar 14th - 4th Soul Train Music Awards: Soul II Soul, Janet Jackson
Mar 14th - Mikhail S Gorbachev becomes president of the Soviet Congress
Mar 15th - Fernando Collor de Mello sworn in as pres of Brazil
Mar 17th - PBA National Championship Won by Jim Pencak
Mar 18th - 1st free elections in East Germany, Conservatives beat Communists
Mar 18th - 32-day lockout by baseball owners ends
Mar 18th - A Tampa little leaguer, dies, after being struck by a pitch
Mar 18th - Biggest US art robbery, $100's millions at Gardner Museum, Boston
Mar 18th - Colleen Walker wins Circle K Tucson LPGA Golf Open
Mar 19th - 1st world ice hockey tournament for women held (Ottawa)
Mar 20th - LA Lakers retires Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's #33
Mar 20th - Singer Gloria Estefan breaks her collarbone in a bus accident
Mar 21st - "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opens at Eugene O'Neill NYC for 149 perfs
Mar 21st - "Normal Life" starring Moon Unit & Dweezil Zappa premieres on CBS-TV
Mar 21st - "Sydney" starring Valerie Bertinelli premieres on CBS-TV
Mar 21st - Namibia becomes independent of S Africa, Sam Nujoma becomes president
Mar 22nd - "Grapes of Wrath" opens at Cort Theater NYC for 188 performances
Mar 22nd - "Les Miserables," opens at Shunert Theatre, Boston
Mar 22nd - Anchorage jury finds Capt Hazelwood innocent of Valdez oil spill
Mar 22nd - The ML umpires announce that they will boycott exhibition games
Mar 23rd - Former Exxon Valdez Captain Joseph Hazelwood ordered to help clean up Prince William Sound & pay $50,000 in restitution for 1989 oil spill
Mar 24th - Indian troops leave Sri Lanka
Mar 24th - Tom Hunter swims world record 50m freestyle (21.81 sec)
Mar 25th - "Lettice & Lovage" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 284 performances
Mar 25th - 10th Golden Raspberry Awards: Star Trek V wins
Mar 25th - Fire in illegal NYC social club, kills 87
Mar 25th - Pat Bradley wins LPGA Standard Register Turquoise Golf Classic
Mar 26th - 62nd Academy Awards - "Driving Miss Daisy," D Day-Lewis, J Tandy win
Mar 27th - Bus accidentally touches high voltage wire in Karagpur India; 21 die
Mar 27th - NSW beat Queensland by 345 runs to win Sheffield Shield Final
Mar 27th - The United States begins broadcasting TV Martí to Cuba in an effort to bridge the information blackout imposed by the Castro regime.
Mar 28th - Bengal beat Delhi in rained-out cricket Ranji Trophy final on quotient
Mar 28th - Michael Jordan scores 69 points, 4th time he scores 60 pts in a game
Mar 28th - President Bush awards Jesse Owen the Congressional Gold Medal
Mar 30th - Jack Nicklaus made his debut in the "Seniors" golf tournament
Mar 31st - "Carol & Company" starring Carol Burnette premieres on NBC-TV
Mar 31st - Dionisio Castro cycles world record 20km (57:18.4)
Mar 31st - Riots began in London over the new poll tax laws
Apr 1st - "Ha!" comedy Channel on cable TV begins transmitting
Apr 1st - 19th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Betsy King
Apr 1st - 2nd Seniors Golf Tradition: Jack Nicklaus wins
Apr 1st - 9th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Stanford beats Auburn 88-81
Apr 1st - CBS fires sportscaster Brent Mussburger
Apr 1st - Guns & Roses' Duff divorces Mandy Brix, lead singer for Lame Flames
Apr 1st - It becomes illegal in Salem Oregon to be within 2' of nude dancers

Famous Birthdays

Results 101 - 133 of 133

Oct 1st - Charlie McDonnell, British YouTube Personality
Oct 2nd - Dean Bouzanis, Australian soccer player
Oct 3rd - Rhian Denise Ramos, Filipino actress
Oct 5th - Myles Jeffrey, American actor
Oct 12th - Henri Lansbury, English footballer
Oct 18th - Carly Schroeder, American actress
Oct 21st - Ricky Rubio, Spanish basketball player
Oct 22nd - Jonathan William Lipnicki, actor (Jeff Foxworthy Show, Jerry McGuirre)
Oct 23rd - Stevie Brock, American singer
Oct 29th - Carlson Young,American actress
Oct 31st - James Charles Lewis aka Lil' JJ, American actor/singer
Nov 2nd - Natasha Smirnoff, daughter of Yakov Smirnov
Nov 3rd - Ellyse Perry, Australian soccer player/cricket player
Nov 7th - Matt Corby, Australian singer
Nov 13th - Jibbs, American rapper
Nov 14th - Jessie Jacobs, Australian actress and singer (d. 2008)
Nov 15th - Kanata Hongō, Japanese actor
Nov 17th - Shanica Knowles, American actress
Nov 20th - Sam Burton, English footballer
Nov 25th - Yasmin van der Meer, 15 millionth Netherlander
Nov 29th - Blake Tuomy-Wilhoit, actor (Full House)
Nov 29th - Dylan Tuomy-Wilhoit, actor (Full House)
Nov 30th - Kara Crane, American actress
Nov 30th - Magnus Carlsen, Norwegian chess Grandmaster
Dec 9th - LaFee, German singer
Dec 10th - Giulia Boverio, Italian actress
Dec 12th - Victor Moses, an English footballer of Nigerian descent
Dec 20th - JoJo, American singer
Dec 22nd - Jean-Baptiste Maunier, French actor
Dec 23rd - Anna Maria Perez de Tagle, American actress, model, and singer
Dec 26th - Aaron Ramsey, Welsh footballer
Dec 27th - Luis Trujillo, Peruvian Football Player
Dec 28th - David Archuleta, American Idol runner-up, American Singer

Famous Deaths

Results 101 - 200 of 482

Mar 10th - Michael Stewart, UK Sect of State (1965-66, 68-70), dies
Mar 11th - Dean Horrix, English footballer (b. 1961)
Mar 12th - Wallace Breem, British author (b. 1926)
Mar 13th - Bruno Bettelhelm, Austrian/US psychoanalyst, commits suicide at 86
Mar 13th - Bruno Bettelheim, American psychiatrist (b. 1903)
Mar 13th - Karl Münchinger, German conductor (b. 1915)
Mar 15th - Tom Harmon, NFL tail back (Heisman Trophy), dies at 70
Mar 15th - Farzad Bazoft, Iranian-born journalist (hanged) (b. 1958)
Mar 15th - Tom Harmon, American football player and broadcaster (b. 1919)
Mar 16th - Ernst Bacon, composer, dies at 91
Mar 17th - Capucine, actress (Lion, Red Sun, Fellini Satyricon), dies at 55
Mar 17th - Germaine Capucine, actress (Rendez-Vous de Juillet), dies at 57
Mar 17th - Rick Grech, rocker (Blind Faith, Traffic), dies at 44
Mar 18th - Robin Harris, actor (House Party, Mo' Better Blues), dies at 36
Mar 19th - Andrew Wood, American singer (Mother Love Bone) (b. 1966)
Mar 20th - Jannetje Visser-Roosendaal, Dutch writer, dies at 90
Mar 20th - Jev Jasjin, Russian soccer goalie, dies at 60
Mar 20th - Lev Yashin, Soviet footballer (b. 1929)
Mar 22nd - Gerald Bull, Canadian engineer (b. 1928)
Mar 24th - Alice Sapritch, actress (European Vacation), dies
Mar 24th - An Wang, computer manufacturer (Wang), dies at 70 of cancer
Mar 24th - Ray Goulding, comedian (Bob & Ray), dies of kidney failure at 68
Mar 24th - Rene Enriquez, actor (Hill St Blues), dies of pancreatic cancer at 56
Mar 26th - International Chrysis, Transvestite actor (Q&A), dies of cancer at 38
Mar 26th - Roy "Halston" Frowick, fashion designer, dies of AIDs at 68
Mar 28th - Helene Fortescu Reynolds, actress (Bermuda Mystery), dies at 65
Mar 29th - Germaine Montenesdro, 2nd victim of NYC's Zodiac killer, shot dead
Mar 31st - Lillian "Miss" Miller, audience member (Merv Griffin, Tonight), dies
Apr 2nd - Aldo Fabrizi, actor (Postman Goes to War, Open City), dies at 85
Apr 3rd - Katharine Balfour, actress (Love Story), dies of ALS at 69
Apr 3rd - Sarah Vaughn, jazz singer, dies of lung cancer at 66
Apr 5th - Nico Scheepmaker, Dutch columnist/poet, dies at 59
Apr 6th - Nancy Hawkes, (1946 best dress woman), dies at 73
Apr 6th - Ronald E Evans, astronaut (Apollo 17), dies of a heart attack at 57
Apr 8th - Doreen Sloane, dies
Apr 8th - Jose De Vega, dies of AIDS at 56
Apr 8th - Ryan White, hemophiliac aids sufferer, dies at 18
Apr 11th - Barbara Ann Miller, dies
Apr 11th - Harold Ballard, Canadian ice hockey club owner and executive (b. 1903)
Apr 11th - Xenophon Zolotas, Greek economist, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1904)
Apr 12th - Henry Kendrick, dies
Apr 13th - Luis Trenker, dies at 97
Apr 13th - Ronald Ibbs, dies
Apr 14th - Martin Kessel, writer, dies on 89th birthday
Apr 14th - Peter Dunn, actor (Invaders from Mars) dies
Apr 14th - Thurston Harris, American singer (b. 1931)
Apr 15th - Greta Garbo, actress (Anna Karenina, Camille), dies at 84
Apr 17th - Ralph David Abernathy, US civil rights leader, dies
Apr 18th - Robert D Webb, director/actor (Love Me Tender, Jackals), dies at 87
Apr 18th - Gory Guerrero, professional wrestler (b. 1921)
Apr 19th - Vladislav Ivanovich Gulyayev, Russia, cosmonaut, dies at 52
Apr 20th - Horst Sinderman, RDA 1st minister (1973-76), dies
Apr 21st - Johnny Beagley, winner of two 1942 World Series games, dies
Apr 21st - Erté, French artist (b. 1892)
Apr 22nd - Bertil Unger, actor (Devil & Max Devlin), dies
Apr 23rd - Albert Salmi, (Caddyshack), kills terminally ill wife & self at 62
Apr 23rd - Palmer Deane, actor (Still of the Night), dies
Apr 23rd - Paulette Goddard, actress (Hazard), dies in Switzerland at 78
Apr 24th - Joseph Leberman, entertainer, dies
Apr 24th - Tom Rolfing, actor (He Knows You're Alone, Cliff-Another World), dies
Apr 25th - Dexter Gordon, Jazz saxophonist, dies of kidney failure at 67
Apr 26th - Carlos Pizarro Leongomez, Colombian pres candidate, assassinated
Apr 28th - Jean Blazer Baney, entertainer, dies
May 1st - Sunset Carson, cowboy actor (El Paso Kid, Oregon Trail), dies at 62
May 2nd - David Rappaport, 3'11' actor (Wizard, LA Law), shoots himself at 38
May 2nd - Oleg Anatolyevich Yakovlev, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 49
May 2nd - William Levi Dawson, composer, dies at 90
May 3rd - Pimen, [Sergei Irzyekov], patriarch of Rus-orthodox church, dies at 79
May 4th - Don Appell, dies
May 6th - Charles Farrell, actor (Vern-My Little Margie), dies at 89
May 7th - Jessica James, actress (Spring Break), dies of breast cancer at 60
May 8th - Tomas O'Fiach, [Tomas Seamus Fee], Irish cardinal-archbishop, dies
May 9th - Luigi Nono, Ital composer (Intolleranza), dies at 66
May 9th - Pauline Frederick, 1st women to moderate Pres debate, dies at 84
May 10th - Susan Oliver, actress (Disorderly Orderly), dies of cancer at 61
May 10th - Walker Percy, physician/novelist (Lancelot), dies of cancer at 73
May 12th - Chen Kenmin, Japanese chef (b. 1912)
May 13th - Venedikt Jerofejev, Russian writer, dies
May 14th - Andre Ameller, composer, dies at 78
May 16th - Dag Drollet, Cheyenne Brando's boyfriend killed by brother Christian
May 16th - Jim Henson, puppeteer (Sesame Street, Muppet Show), dies at 53
May 16th - Sammy Davis Jr, singer/actor (Golden Boy), dies at 64
May 18th - Jill Ireland, actress (Carry on Nurse, Family), dies of cancer at 54
May 21st - Franklyn Seales, actor (Silver Spoon, Onion Field), dies of AIDS at 37
May 21st - Mary Victor Bruce, who flew around empire state bldg in 1930, dies
May 21st - Moelvi Mohammed Farouk, Indian spiritual leader, murdered
May 22nd - Max Wall, actor (Jabberwocky), dies
May 22nd - Rocky Graziano, boxer, dies at 71, of heart failure
May 23rd - Rocky Graziano, boxer/writer/actor (Mr Rock & Roll), dies
May 25th - Vic Tayback, actor (Mel-Alice), dies of a heart attack at 60
May 27th - Robert B. Meyner, American politician (b. 1908)
May 28th - Giorgio Manganelli, writer, dies at 67
May 28th - Hussein Bin Onn, 1st minister of Malasia (1976-81), dies
May 28th - Joseph Hardy, actor/director (Tree Grows in Brooklyn), dies at 71
Jun 1st - Eric Barker, actor/writer (Carry on Sergeant, Roommates), dies
Jun 2nd - Frederick Mellinger, founder of Fredericks of Hollywood, dies at 76
Jun 2nd - Jack Gilford, actor (Cracker Jacks), dies at 82
Jun 2nd - Rex Harrison, actor (My Fair Lady), dies of cancer at 82
Jun 2nd - Robert Noyce, co-inventor (semi-conductor)/founder (Intel), dies
Jun 2nd - Stuart Hall, actor (Cavalcade, Dawn Patrol), dies