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Historical Events

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May 6th - Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic
May 6th - Former president PW Botha quit South Africa's ruling National Party
May 6th - Tom Cruise is ticketed for careless operation of a vehicle in SC
May 8th - Cuyahoga County voters approve sin tax to build Cleveland Gateway
May 8th - Reindependence Day of Estonia
May 9th - NY Newsday reporter Jimmy Breslin suspended for a racial slur
May 9th - Sampdoria wins 30th Europe Cup II
May 10th - "Zoya's Apartment" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 45 perfs
May 10th - French TGV-train hits record speed of 510.6 kph
May 10th - Howard Stern holds a mock funeral for rival John DeBella
May 11th - NY Yankees trade Dave Winfield to Angels for Mike Witt
May 12th - 3rd time Saturday Night Live uses time delay (Andrew Dice Clay hosts)
May 12th - Comic Relief '90 (4th one) raises $4.7 million
May 12th - Nora Dunn & Sinead O'Connor boycott Saturday Night Live to protest Andrew "Dice" Clay's hosting
May 13th - "Change in the Heir" closes at Edison Theater NYC after 16 perfs
May 13th - Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA Crestar Golf Classic
May 14th - 46th time opposing pitchers hit HR, Valenzuela (Dodgers)/Gross (Expos)
May 14th - Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,821.53
May 15th - "Cemetery Club" opens at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC for 56 perfs
May 15th - "Portrait of Doctor Gachet" by Vincent Van Gogh sold for $825 million
May 15th - Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,822.45
May 15th - Edmonton Oiler Klima beats Boston Bruins in 6th period
May 15th - Mona Grudt, 19, of Norway, crowned 39th Miss Universe
May 16th - Dominican Republic President Joaquín Ricardo Balaguer re-elected
May 16th - Juventus wins 19th UEFA Cup in Avellino
May 17th - Cheers' star Kelsey Grammer sentenced to jail for 30 days for DWI
May 17th - Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,831.71
May 17th - European court rules pension rights for both men & women
May 17th - WIBC Bowling Queens won by Patty Ann
May 17th - the WHO takes Homosexuality out of its list of mental illnesses.
May 18th - 2 Germanys sign a monetary union treaty
May 18th - Cubs Ryne Sandberg ends 2nd baseman record 123 errorless game streak
May 18th - Judy Carne arrested at JFK airport on an 11 year old drug warrant
May 18th - Return To Green Acres TV movie airs
May 19th - 116th Preakness: Pat Day aboard Summer Squall wins in 1:53.6
May 19th - General Elvis, TV Drama last airs on ABC
May 20th - "Truly Blessed" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 33 performances
May 20th - Cindy Rarick wins LPGA Planters Pat Bradley Golf International
May 20th - Hubble Space Telescope sends 1st photograph's from space
May 21st - Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,844.68
May 21st - Last episode of "Newhart" airs on CBS-TV
May 22nd - Andre Dawson sets record being intentionally walked 5 times
May 22nd - Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,852.23
May 22nd - Final episode of "Newhart" airs
May 22nd - Microsoft releases Windows 3.0
May 22nd - North & South Yemen merge to form Republic of Yemen
May 23rd - A C Milan wins 35th Europe Cup 1 at Vienna
May 23rd - Cost of rescuing savings & loan failures is put at up to $130 billion
May 23rd - Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,856.26
May 23rd - NY Yankees hit 6 home runs to beat Minn Twins 12-0
May 24th - Andre Dawson receives a record 5 intentional walks in a game
May 24th - Stanley Cup: Edmonton Oilers beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 1
May 24th - A car carrying American Earth First! activists Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney explodes in Oakland, California, critically injuring both.
May 26th - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
May 26th - Phila Phillies retire Mike Schmidt's uniform #20
May 27th - 74th Indianapolis 500 runs
May 27th - Caesar Gaviria Trujillo chosen pres of Colombia
May 27th - Jan Stephenson wins J C Penney LPGA Golf Skins Game
May 27th - Pat Bradley wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
May 27th - Radical Democratic Party holds 1st political meetings in Moscow
May 28th - Cesar Gaviria Trujillo installed as president of Colombia
May 28th - Dave Thomas Comedy Show, debuts on CBS-TV
May 28th - Eugenia Charles' Dom'n Freedom Party wins election in Dominica
May 28th - Longest wheelie (David Robilliard with 5h12m33s (Channel Islands)
May 29th - An earthquake hit Peru, killing 56
May 29th - Boris Yeltsin is elected president of the Russian republic
May 29th - Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,870.49
May 29th - Mets replace manager Davey Johnson with Buddy Harrelson
May 29th - NY Mets fire manager Davey Johnson & hire Bud Harrelson
May 29th - Rickey Henderson steals record 893rd base, breaking Ty Cobb's record
May 30th - 135 die in a (6.4) earthquake in Peru
May 30th - Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,878.56
May 30th - Earthquake hit Peru, killing 135
May 31st - 63rd National Spelling Bee: Amy Marie Dimak wins spelling fibranne
May 31st - BPAA US Women's Bowling Open won by Dana Miller-Mackie
May 31st - NYC's Zodiac killer shoots 3rd victim, Joseph Ponce
May 31st - Seinfeld starring Jerry Seinfeld, debuts on NBC as Seinfeld Chronicles
Jun 1st - "Cemetery Club" closes at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC after 56 perfs
Jun 1st - Cowboy Channel on cable TV begins transmitting
Jun 1st - Detroit Pistons beat Trailblazers in Portland for 1st time since 1974
Jun 1st - Dow Jones Avg hits a record high of 2,900.97
Jun 2nd - "Turtle Power" by Partners In Kryme hits #13
Jun 2nd - Seattle's Randy Johnson, no-hits Tigers, 2-0
Jun 3rd - 3rd Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $894,560
Jun 3rd - 44th Tony Awards: Grapes of Wrath & City of Angels win
Jun 3rd - Cathy Gerring wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
Jun 4th - 24th Music City News Country Awards: R Van Shelton & Patty Loveless
Jun 4th - Greyhound Bus files bankruptcy
Jun 4th - LA Dodger Ramon Martinez strikes out 18 Atlanta Braves
Jun 4th - NY Telephone company announces that it wants Bronx area code 917
Jun 4th - Dr Jack Kevorkian assisted an Oregon woman to commit suicide, beginning a national debate over the right to die
Jun 5th - S African troops plunder Mandela's dwelling
Jun 6th - 2nd International Rock Awards
Jun 6th - For 2nd time this season, Cecil Fielder belts 3 home runs in a game
Jun 6th - Stump Merrill replaces Bucky Dent as NY Yankee manager
Jun 7th - Michael Jackson hospitalized for chest pains
Jun 7th - S Afr Pres F W de Klerk lifts 4 year olf state of emergency
Jun 8th - "It's Garry Shandling's Show," last airs on Fox-TV
Jun 8th - Phil Bradley hits 18th inside-the-park HR in Oriole history
Jun 9th - 122nd Belmont: Michael Kinane aboard Go & Go wins in 2:27.2

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Famous Deaths

Results 301 - 400 of 482

Aug 12th - Sara Seegar, [Stone], actor (Mystery of Room 13), dies at 76
Aug 12th - B. Kliban, American cartoonist (b. 1935)
Aug 13th - Jimmy Starr, actor (Hot Flashes), dies at 86
Aug 15th - Nina Bara, actress (Missile to the Moon), dies of cancer at 66
Aug 15th - Viktor Tsoi, Russian musician (b. 1962)
Aug 16th - Pat O'Connor, New Zealand professional wrestler (b. 1925)
Aug 17th - Pearl Bailey, actress (Landlord)/singer, dies of heart attack at 72
Aug 17th - Roderick Cook, actor (Rockabye), dies of apparent heart attack at 58
Aug 18th - B F Skinner, psychologist (Skinner Box), dies of Leukemia at 86
Aug 18th - Raf Reymen, Flemish actor, dies
Aug 18th - Grethe Ingmann, Danish singer (b. 1938)
Aug 19th - Ben Rutgers Van de Loeff-Basenau, children's book writer, dies at 80
Aug 20th - Marc Turfkruijer, Flemish movie journalist/writer, dies
Aug 21st - George Adamson, British conservationist (Born Free), murdered in Kenya
Aug 22nd - Merlin Marston, actor (Blue Sky), dies of non-Hodgkins lymphoma at 45
Aug 23rd - David Rose, composer (Holiday for Strings, Stripper), dies at 80
Aug 24th - Sergei Dovlatov, Russian writer (b. 1941)
Aug 24th - Gailli AbedElrhman, Sudanese writer (b. 1931)
Aug 25th - Morley Callaghan, Canadian writer (b. 1903)
Aug 26th - Minoru Honda, Japanese astronomer (b. 1913)
Aug 27th - Raymond St Jacques, actor/dir (Falcon Crest), dies of cancer at 60
Aug 27th - Stevie Ray Vaughan, blues guitarist, dies in a helicopter crash at 35
Aug 28th - Willy Vandersteen, Flemish cartoonist (Suske & Wiske), dies
Aug 29th - Sandy, dog in the play Annie, dies at 16
Aug 31st - Johnny Lindsay, cricketer (South African wicket-keeper 1947), dies
Aug 31st - Nat (Sweetwater) Clifton, NY Knick, dies at 65 of a heart attack
Sep 3rd - David Acer, Florida dentist, dies of AIDs after infecting 5 patients
Sep 4th - Henry Faas, [Wandelganger], Dutch journalist (Volkskrant), dies
Sep 4th - Irene Dunne, actress (5 oscars), dies of heart failure at 91
Sep 5th - Beppo Brem, actor (Frontgockel), dies of heart failure at 84
Sep 5th - Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1896)
Sep 6th - Leonard Hutton, cricketer (79 Tests for England, 6971 runs), dies
Sep 6th - T Issan Dorsey, founder (Hartford St Zen Center SF), dies
Sep 6th - Tom Fogerty, rocker (Creedence Clearwater), dies of tuberculosis at 48
Sep 7th - Alan J P Taylor, British historian (Origins of WW II), dies
Sep 9th - Rimantas Antanas Stankiavichus, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 46
Sep 9th - Samuel Doe, Liberian politician (b. 1951)
Sep 10th - Samuel Kanyon Doe, president of Liberia (1980-90), assassinated
Sep 11th - Ben Frank, actor (Don't Answer the Phone), dies of heart attack at 56
Sep 11th - Myrna Mack, Guatemalan anthropologist (b. 1949)
Sep 12th - Athene Seyler, actress (Make Mine Mink), dies at 101
Sep 14th - Wime de Craene, Flemish chansonnier/composer, dies
Sep 15th - G M J Veldkamp, Dutch politician (CDA), dies
Sep 15th - Valentin Ignatyevich Filatyev, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 60
Sep 16th - Loretta Tupper, radio/TV entertainer, dies of cancer at 84
Sep 16th - Steve Condos, tap dancer, dies of heart attack at 71
Sep 19th - Werner Janssen, US composer (New Years Eve in NY), dies at 91
Sep 20th - Jackie Moran, actor (Janie, Barefoot Boy), dies of cancer at 65
Sep 24th - Jay Currin, stuntman/actor (Back to the Beach, Serial), dies at 34
Sep 26th - Alberto Moravia, Italian writer (Woman in Red), dies at 82
Sep 30th - Liesbeth de Uyl-of Vessem, feminist/wife of Joop du, dies
Sep 30th - Michel Levis, French cultural anthropologist/writer, dies
Sep 30th - Patrick White, Australian writer (Nobel 1973), dies
Sep 30th - Alice Parizeau, Quebec writer and journalist (b. 1930)
Oct 1st - Christine Forrest, actress (Martin), dies
Oct 1st - Curtis E LeMay, USAF General/VP candidate, dies at 83
Oct 3rd - Stefano Casiraghi, Princess Caroline of Monaco husband, dies at 30
Oct 3rd - Eleanor Steber, eminent American soprano dies in Langhorne, PA
Oct 4th - Avis Bunnage, actor (Loneliness of Long Distance Runner), dies at 67
Oct 4th - Jill Bennett, actress (Skull, Hawks), dies of undisclosed causes at 58
Oct 5th - Meir Kahane, founder of Jewish defense league, assassinated at 58
Oct 7th - J Teengs Gerritsen, resistance fighter, dies
Oct 7th - John "Cat" Thompson, basketball hall of famer, dies at 84
Oct 7th - Juan Jose Arevalo, president of Guatemala (1945-51), dies
Oct 8th - B.J. Wilson, English musician (Procol Harum) (b. 1947)
Oct 9th - Richard Murdoch, actor (Lilli Marlene), dies of heart attack at 83
Oct 10th - Carlos Thompson, actor (Mistress of the World), dies at 67
Oct 10th - Dick Jorgensen, NFL referee, dies at 56
Oct 10th - Michael A Salcido, dies at 39
Oct 10th - Tom Murton, American penologist (b. 1928)
Oct 11th - Douglas Edwards, WW II correspondent, dies of cancer at 73
Oct 11th - Robert Tessier, actor (Nightwish, Future Force), dies at 56
Oct 12th - Max Tailleur, adjunct prince Bernhard/Jewish humorist, dies
Oct 12th - Rifaat Maghub, president Egyptian MP, murdered
Oct 13th - Hans Freudenthal, mathematician/director OW&OC (F Institution), dies
Oct 13th - Le Duc Tho, North Vietnamese negotiator in Paris (1975), dies at 78
Oct 13th - Lê Ðức Thọ, Vietnamese general and politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1911)
Oct 14th - Leonard Bernstein, composer, dies of heart attack at 72
Oct 15th - Delphine Seyrig, dies of lung disease at 58
Oct 15th - Leonard Bernstein, composer (West Side Story), dies at 72
Oct 16th - Art Blakey, jazz drummer (Jazz Messengers), dies of cancer at 71
Oct 16th - Jorge Bolet, Cuban-American classical pianist (b. 1914)
Oct 17th - Ralph Abernathy, civil rights activist, dies at 64
Oct 20th - Joel McCrea, actor (Ramrod), dies of pulmonary complications at 84
Oct 23rd - Louis Althusser, French philosopher, dies
Oct 26th - William Paley, CEO (CBS), dies of a heart attack at 89
Oct 27th - Elliott Roosevelt, son of FDR, dies at 80
Oct 27th - Ugo Tognazzi actor/director (La Cage Aux Folles), dies at 68
Oct 27th - Xavier Cugart, bandlander, dies of heart failure at 90
Oct 27th - Xavier Cugat, Spanish-born musician (b. 1900)
Oct 27th - Princess Sophie von Hohenberg, daughter of assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (b. 1901)
Oct 29th - William French Smith, attorney general (1980), dies at 73 of cancer
Oct 30th - Craig Russell, female impersonator, dies of an AIDS-stroke at 42
Oct 30th - Henry Lauter, actor (Tarzan's Fight), dies
Oct 31st - Graig Russel, Canadian travel expert/transvestite, dies
Oct 31st - Hugh McPhillips, dies at 70
Nov 3rd - Mary Martin, actress (Peter Pan), dies of cancer at 76
Nov 3rd - Valerie French, actress (Jubal), dies of leukemia
Nov 5th - Bobby Nunn, US bassist (Coasters-Down in Mexico), dies at about 65
Nov 5th - Herbert Berghof, actor (Belarus File), dies of heart failure at 81