Today in History for April 1991

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 107

1st - 53rd NCAA Mens Basketball Championship: Duke Bluedevils beats Kansas 72-65
1st - Dwight Gooden signs $5.15 million 3 year contract with NY Mets
1st - Iran releases British hostage Roger Cooper after 5 years
1st - Supreme Court rules jurors can't be barred from serving due to race
1st - US minimum wage goes from $3.80 to $4.25 per hour
1st - Warsaw Pact officially dissolves
2nd - Rotterdam Daily Newspaper begins publishing
3rd - "Penn & Teller - Refrigerator Tour" opens at Eugene O'Neill NYC
3rd - 12th Emmy Sports Award presentation
3rd - Bo Jackson signs 1-year contract with Chicago White Sox
3rd - Thomas Bos skates world record 3 km (3:65.16)
3rd - UN Security Council adopts Gulf War truce resolution
4th - "Lucifer's Child" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 28 performances
4th - Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and six others are killed when a helicopter collides with their plane over an elementary school in Merion, Pennsylvania.
5th - Joe Dumaars (Detroit) ends NBA free throw streak of 62 games
5th - Kitty Kelly publishes a book knocking Nancy Reagan
5th - Southeast Airlines Embracer 120 crashes in Georgia, killing 23
5th - Space Shuttle STS 37 (Atlantis 8) launched
5th - US begins air drops to Kurd refugees in Northern Iraq
6th - Former child actor Adam Rich arrested for breaking into a pharmacy
6th - NY-NJ Knights 1st home game (Giant Stad) lose to Frankfurt 27-17
6th - Subhana, becomes 1st Australian woman to become a Zen teacher
Soccer Legend Diego Maradona 6th - Argentine soocer star Diego Maradona suspended for 15 month by Italian League for testing positive for cocaine use
7th - "Big Love" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 41 performances
7th - "Shadowlands" closes at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC after 169 perfs
7th - 3rd Seniors Golf Tradition: Jack Nicklaus
7th - Chris Johnson wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship
7th - Compton Gamma Ray Observatory orbits Earth
7th - George Washington Bridge raises toll from $3.00 to $4.00
7th - Wrestlemania VII scheduled in LA, actually performed 03/24
8th - "I Hate Hamlet" opens at Walter Kerr Theater NYC for 88 performances
8th - Jockey, Bill Shoemaker, paralyzed in a car accident
8th - Major league umpires & baseball reach a 4-year agreement
8th - Michael Landon announces he has inoperable cancer of pancreas
8th - Oakland A's stadium becomes 1st outdoor arena to ban smoking
9th - Georgia SSR votes to secede from USSR
10th - Boat rams a tanker in Livorno Italy fog, killing about 138
NHL all-time top scorer Wayne Gretzky 10th - LA King Wayne Gretzky scores NHL record 93rd playoff goal
10th - Last automat (coin operated cafeteria) closes (3rd & 42nd St, NYC)
10th - Martin Zubero swims world record 200m backstroke (1:52.51)
10th - A rare tropical storm develops in the Southern Hemisphere near Angola; the first to be documented by satellites.
11th - "Miss Saigon," opens at Broadway Theater NYC
11th - NYC's Museum of Broadcasting becomes "Museum of Radio & Television"
11th - Space Shuttle STS 37 (Atlantis 8) lands
11th - UN Security Council issues formal cease fire with Iraq declaration
12th - 2,500th episode of Entertainment Tonight airs
12th - Nepalese Congress party wins general elections
12th - US announces closing of 31 major US military bases
13th - BPAA US Open by Pete Weber
14th - "Mule Bone" closes at Ethel Barrymore Theater NYC after 67 perfs
14th - "Oh, Kay!" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC
14th - 55th Golf Masters Championship: Ian Woosnam wins, shooting a 277
14th - Chic Blackhawks becomes 1st NHL regular season champion in 20 years to lose in 1st round of the playoffs (To Minn North Stars)
15th - "Secret Garden" opens at St James Theater NYC for 706 performances
15th - 20th Boston Women's Marathon won by Wanda Panfil of Poland in 2:24:18
15th - 95th Boston Marathon won by Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya in 2:11:06
15th - East-Europe Bank forms in London
15th - Europe foreign ministers lift most remaining sanctions against S Afr
15th - Former child actor Adam Rich charged with burglary
15th - Magic Johnson sets NBA record for career assistswith 9,898
15th - Maximum NY State unemployment benefits raised to $280 per week
15th - Sacramento Kings set NBA record, losing 35th consecutive game on road
15th - Ton Sijbrands improves world record blind checker games (15 wins)
16th - M Leander & E Seago's musical "Matador," premieres in London
16th - St Louis Blues becomes 8th NHL team in Play-off to come back from a 3-1 deficit as they beat the Detroit Red Wings 3-2 in game 7
17th - Dow Jones closes above 3,000 for 1st time (3,004.46)
17th - Railroad workers go on strike in US
18th - Census Bureau said it failed to count up to 63 million in 1990 census
18th - Congress ends railroad worker 1 day strike
18th - John Stockton breaks his own NBA season assist record at 1,136
Champion Boxer Evander Holyfield 19th - Evander Holyfield beats George Foreman in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
19th - Greyhound Bus posts $195 million loss for 1990
20th - "Les Miserables," opens at Odense Teater, Odense
20th - 1st non stop flight Schiphol-Flamingo airport Bonaire
20th - Mark Lenzi is 1st diver to score 100 pts on a dive (101.85)
20th - Raghib "Rocket" Ismael signs with Toronto Argonauts for $26.2 million
21st - 52nd PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Jack Nicklaus
21st - Jakov Tolstikov wins 4th World Cup marathon (2:09:17)
21st - Rosa Mota wins 4th World Cup female marathon (2:26:14)
21st - Greatest extra-inning comeback, Pitts scores 6 in bottom of 11th erasing 5 run Cub lead, Pirates also trailed 7-2 in bottom of 9th
22nd - Earthquake strikes Costa Rica & Panama, kills 95
22nd - Frank Thomas is 1st White Sox to homer at new Comiskey Park
22nd - Intel releases 486SX chip
22nd - Johnny Carson announces he will retire next year from Tonight Show
22nd - Shalom America (Jewish cable network) is launched in Brooklyn & Queens
23rd - Bjorn Borg loses 6-2, 6-3 to Jordi Arrese after 8 year lay off
23rd - Gordon Greenidge scores 223 v Aus, his last Test Cricket knock at home
23rd - USSR grants republics right to secede under certain conditions
24th - 26th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks
24th - Freddie Stowers is awarded the posthumous Medal of Honor for which he had been recommended in 1918.
25th - "Grand Hotel" closes at Beck Theater NYC after 1018 performances
25th - Designer Mary McFadden (52) announces divorce of Kohie Yohannan (23)
25th - Lisa Olson brings suit against NFL NE Patriots for sexual harassment
25th - Lucy Simon & Marsha Norman's musical premieres in NYC
26th - "Dinosaurs" premieres on ABC-TV
26th - 23 killed in Kansas & Oklahoma by tornadoes
26th - Soccer star Diego Maradona, suspended for using cocaine, arrested in Argentina for possession & distribution of illegal narcotics
27th - "Lucifer's Child" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 28 perfs
27th - Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by David Ozio
28th - "Gypsy" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 105 performances

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 3 of 3

4th - Jamie Lynn Spears, American actress
10th - Amanda Michalka, American actress/singer
13th - Dylan Francis Penn, LA California, daughter of Sean Penn & Robin Wright

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 1 of 1

25th - Designer Mary McFadden (52) announces divorce of Kohie Yohannan (23)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 49 of 49

1st - Martha Graham, US, choreographer (Appalachian Spring), dies at 96
1st - Paulo Muwanga, chief of Uganda (1980), dies
1st - Richard Thorpe, director (MGM), dies at 95
1st - Jaime Guzmán, Chilean politician (b.1946)
3rd - Graham Greene, Brit writer (3rd Man, Our man in Havana), dies at 86
4th - John Heinz, (Sen-R-Pa), dies in a plane crash, dies at 52
4th - Luc de Rijck, Belgian soccer player (Turnhout), dies
4th - Max Frisch, Swiss architect/writer (Stiller, Biedermann), dies at 79
4th - Edmund Adamkiewicz, German footballer (b. 1920)
4th - Forrest Towns, American hurdler (b. 1914)
5th - John Tower, (Sen-R-Tx), dies in a plane crash at 65
5th - Manley Lanier "Sonny" Carter Jr, USN/astro (STS 33), dies at 43
6th - Bill Ponsford, cricketer (Test avg 48 22, 1st-class avg 65 18), dies
8th - Dead (musician), Swedish metal singer (b. 1969)
9th - Maurice Binder, title designer (James Bond Movies), dies at 73
9th - Martin Hannett, record producer (b. 1948)
10th - Kevin Peter Hall, actor (Harry & Hendersons), dies of AIDS at 35
10th - Natalie Schafer, actress (Gilligan's Island), dies at 90 from cancer
11th - Tom Rosqui, dies at 62
12th - James Schuyler, US poet (Pulitzer 1980), dies
15th - Marjorie Warfield, dies at 88
15th - Martin Ashe, dies
16th - David Lean, director (28 academy awards), dies of pneumonia at 83
17th - Jack Yellen, US poet (Sons o' Fun), dies at 97
19th - Stanley Hawes, British-born Australian film producer, director and administrator (b. 1905)
20th - Don[ald] Siegel, US director (Coogan's Bluff/Dirty Harry), dies at 78
20th - Jumjaagiyn Tsedenbal, Mongolian politician, dies
20th - Sean O'Faolain, [J Whelan], Irish writer (Nest of Simple), dies at 91
20th - Steve Marriott, English guitarist (Small Faces), dies in a fire at 44
20th - Yumzhagin Tsendenbal, PM of Mongolia (1952-74), dies
21st - Richard Bolling, (Rep-D-Missouri), dies at 74
21st - Willi Boskovsky, Austrian conductor (new years concert), dies at 81
23rd - Peter Bailey, Graphic designer/calligrapher, dies
23rd - Johnny Thunders, American musician (b. 1952)
24th - J de Graaf, ethicus/president church & peace, dies
25th - Frank Hamilton, actor (Subterraneans), dies at 66
25th - Theo Laseroms, [Tank], Dutch soccer player (Feyenoord), dies
26th - Carmine Coppola, composer/father of Francis Ford Coppola, dies
26th - Emily McLaughlin, US actress (Jessie-General Hospital), dies at 61
26th - Leo Arnaud, French-American composer (b. 1904)
26th - Richard Hatfield, Canadian politician (b. 1931)
27th - Ken Curtis, actor (Lost, Freckles, California Gold Rush), dies at 74
27th - Marcus Heeresma, writer/poet (Anna, Son of a Whore), dies
28th - Floyd B McKissick, US founder (CORE), dies
28th - Ken Curtis, actor (Festus-Gunsmoke), dies at 74
28th - Steve Broidy, American motion picture executive (b. 1905)
29th - Claude Gallimard, French publisher, dies
30th - George Sperti Sperti, inventor (Preparation H), dies at 91
30th - Michael G Hagerty, actor (Overboard), dies at 39