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Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 134

1st - 5th Largest wrestling crowd (64,287-Toronto SkyDome)
1st - Battleship USS Missouri (on which, Japan surrendered) decommissioned
1st - Last defendant in St John sex assault case sentenced to 3 yrs prob
1st - NFL decides to stay with 17 week sched instead of expanded 18 games
1st - NHL players begin 1st strike in 75-year history
1st - Rocker Billy Idol fined $2,000 for hitting a woman
1st - WA beat NSW by 44 runs to win the Sheffield Shield Final
1st - World's 7 wealthiest nations agree on $24B aid for former USSR
2nd - "Hamlet" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 45 performances
2nd - Edith Cresson, France's 1st female premier, resigns
2nd - John Gotti found guilty in death of Paul Castallanos
2nd - Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) lands
3rd - 1st exhibition game at Camden Field-Orioles beat NY Mets
4th - Game 1 of Mayor Challenge - NY Yankees beat NY Mets 6-4 at Yank Stad
4th - Jury deliberations begin in Noriega case
4th - Sali Berisha becomes president/Alexander Meksi premier of Albania
5th - "Search & Destroy" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 46 perfs
5th - 11th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Stanford beats Western Ky 78-62
5th - 4th Seniors Golf Tradition: Lee Trevino
5th - Dana Lofland wins Las Vegas LPGA Golf International
5th - Game 2 of Mayor Challenge - NY Yankees sweep NY Mets 6-5 at Shea
5th - Peru's Pres Alberto Fujimori suspend constitution & dissolved Congress
5th - Thailand General Suchinda Kraprayoon installed as president
WWF Wrestler Hulk Hogan 5th - Wrestlemania VIII, 62,167 at Hoosier Dome, Hulk Hogan DQs Sid Justice
5th - Several hundred-thousand abortion rights demonstrators march in Washington, D.C.
6th - 1st game at Camden Field, Balt-Orioles beat Indians 2-0
6th - 54th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Duke beats Michigan 71-51
6th - Britain Radio Authority licenses Virgin & TV-AM radio licenses
6th - Microsoft announced Windows 3.1, upgrading Windows 3.0
6th - Oriole Park at Camden Yards opens, beating Cleveland 2-0
6th - Serbian troops begin siege of Sarajevo
6th - US Supreme Court rules a Nebraska farmer was entrapped by postal agents into buying mail-order child pornography
6th - Voting begins on choice of Elvis postage stamps
6th - A general strike is declared by communist groups in Nepal.
7th - Republika Srpska announces its independence.
8th - "5 Guys Named Moe" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 445 perfs
8th - After 151 years Britain's "Punch Magazine" final issue
9th - "Redwood Curtain" opens at Neiderlander theater on Broadway
9th - Florida drops rape charges against NY Mets Gooden, Boston & Coleman
9th - John Majors, (C) elected PM of England
9th - Noriega convicted on 8 of 10 drug & racketeering charges
9th - Record 18 golfers shoot in 60s in Masters round 1 (old record 12)
9th - US Fed court finds Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega guilty of drugs
9th - William O Studeman, becomes deputy director of CIA
10th - 25 die in a bus bombing in Sri Lanka
10th - Floriade (Flower Show) opens at Hague Neth
10th - NHL strike ends after 10 days
11th - BPAA US Open by Robert Lawrence
11th - Euro-Disney opens near Paris
11th - Indians set team record for long game loss to Red Sox (19 inn - 6½ hr)
11th - Irish Republican Army bombs London financial district, killing 3
12th - "Streetcar Named Desire" opens at Ethel Barrymore NYC for 137 perfs
12th - 2nd lowest NBA scoring game - Detroit Piston 72, NY Knicks 61
12th - 53rd PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Lee Trevino
12th - 56th Golf Masters Championship: Fred Couples wins, shooting a 275
Musician Lenny Kravitz 12th - Actress Lisa Bonet files for divorce from singer Lenny Kravitz
12th - Earthquake rocks Germany
12th - Euro Disney opens in Marne-la-Vallee France
12th - Lynn Gunther of California threatens to blow herself up in front of UN
12th - Matt Young no-hits Cleveland, but loses 2-1
12th - NY Mets lose 1st 3 home games for 1st time since 1962
12th - Trump Shuttle becomes US Air Shuttle
13th - "2 Trains Running" opens at Walter Kerr Theater NYC for 160 perfs
13th - 5.5 earthquake hits Netherlands
13th - American Airlines reduce its 1st-class fares 20%-50%
13th - Crystal Pepsi begins test marketing in Providence, Denver & Dallas
13th - Great Chicago Flood - Chicago's underground tunnels flood
13th - Lou Conaseca retires as coach of St John's basketball team
13th - Nelson Mandela announces he will seek divorce from Winnie
13th - Longest 2 undefeated baseball teams to meet (NY Yanks 5-0 vs Toronto Blue Jays 6-0); Yanks score 3 in top of 9th to win 5-2
Anti-apartheid activist/South African President Nelson Mandela 14th - "Guys & Dolls" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 1143 performances
14th - "Les Miserables," opens at Palace Theatre, Manchester
14th - Court throws out Apple's lawsuit against Microsoft
14th - UAW ends 5 month strike against Caterpillar Inc
14th - UN imposes embargo against Libya takes effect
15th - Billionaire Leona Helmsly is sent to jail for tax evasion
15th - Jay Leno's final appearance as permanent guest host of Tonight
15th - Lincoln Hospital in Bronx loses its accreditation
15th - NY Islander, Al Arbour, coaches most NHL games (1,438)
15th - William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy & DeForest Kelley inducted into National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame
15th - The National Assembly of Vietnam adopts the 1992 Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
16th - "Metro" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 13 performances
16th - 1st concrete is poured at new ballpark at Gateway (Jacobs Field)
16th - Afghanistan president Najibullah resigns
16th - NY Rangers win team record 50th game
Actor William Shatner 16th - The Katina P. runs aground off of Maputo, Mozambique. 60,000 tons of crude oil spill into the ocean.
18th - Start of South Africa's 1st Test Cricket since 1970 (v WI Bridgetown)
19th - "4 Baboons Adoring the Sun" closes at Beaumont NYC after 38 perf
19th - Balki & Mary Ann wed on "Perfect Strangers"
19th - Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA Sega Women's Golf Championship
20th - 100th episode of "Murphy Brown" airs
20th - 21st Boston Women's Marathon won by Olga Markova of Russia in 2:23:43
20th - 96th Boston Marathon won by Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya in 2:08:14
20th - All star concert in memory of Freddie Mercury held at Wembley Stadium
20th - Expo '92 opens in Seville Spain
20th - Joan Lunden, breaks her left shoulder after being thrown from a horse
20th - Madonna signs $60-million deal with Time Warner
21st - "High Rollers" opens at Helen Hayes theater on Broadway
21st - Mobil Oil tug with 12,000 gallons of oil run aground in Arthur Kill
21st - Robert Alton Harris is put to death in the California Gas Chamber for 3 murders.

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 8 of 8

4th - Alexa Nikolas, American actress
8th - Shelby Young, American actress
13th - Jet Travolta, daughter of John Travolta & Kelly Preston
13th - Emma Degerstedt, American actress
15th - Amy Diamond, Swedish singer
16th - Prince Sébastien of Luxembourg, Prince of Luxembourg
24th - Sean Rademaker, actor (Kirkland Harrison-Another World)
27th - James Duke Mason, son of singer Belinda Carlisle & Morgan Mason

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 5 of 5

4th - John Tesh (Entertainment Tonight) marries actress Connie Selleca
5th - Comedian Sam Kenison marries live-in girlfriend Maleeka
11th - Country singer Lee Greenwood weds Miss Tennessee 1989 (Kimberly Payne)
18th - Tennis ace Stefan Edberg marries Annette Olsen in Sweden
24th - Rock star David Bowie (45) weds supermodel Iman (37) in Switzerland

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 3 of 3

12th - Actress Lisa Bonet files for divorce from singer Lenny Kravitz
13th - Nelson Mandela announces he will seek divorce from Winnie
23rd - British Princess Anne (the Princess Royal)and her 1st husband Captain Mark Phillips divorce after 19 years

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 65 of 65

1st - Juanito, soccer star (Madrid Real 1977-87), dies at 37 in car crash
2nd - Paula Kelly, singer/actress (Sweet Charity), dies at 72
2nd - Tomisaburo Wakayama, Japanese actor (b. 1929)
3rd - Lloyd "Slim" Andrews, actor (Buf Bill in Tomahawk Territory), dies
3rd - Margaret Barker, actress (Fathers & Son), dies of lung cancer at 83
4th - Karl Tunberg, US scriptwriter (Ben Hur), dies
4th - Samuel Reshevsky, Polish-born chess grandmaster, dies at 80
4th - Sy Kramer, singer/comedy writer dies of cancer at 59
4th - Arthur Russell, American cellist (b. 1951)
5th - Anthony "Tony" Papa, big band leader, dies at 65
5th - Sam Walton, Billionaire CEO (Wal-Mart), dies of cancer at 74
5th - Samuel H Reshevsky, Polish/US chess grandmaster, dies at 80
6th - Isaac Asimov, Sci-Fi author (I Robot), dies from kidney failure at 72
6th - Molly Picon, Yiddish actress (Milk & Honey), dies of Alzheimers at 94
7th - Alix Talton, former Miss Georgia, dies of lung cancer at 72
7th - Clovis Ruffin, fashion designer (T shirt dress), dies of AIDS at 46
7th - Rick Emery, dies after long illness at 39
8th - Nelson Olmstead, dies at 78
8th - Daniel Bovet, Swiss-born pharmacologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1907)
9th - Gale McGee, senator (Wyoming, 1959-77), dies at 77
9th - Ruth Hammond, dies in her sleep at 96
10th - Ken Ward, dies at 37
10th - Sam Kinison, loud mouth comedian, dies in a car crash at 38
11th - Adele Dixon, singer/actress (Uneasy Virtue), dies of pneumonia at 83
11th - Eve Merriam, poet (Inner City Mother Goose), dies of cancer at 75
11th - James Brown, actor (Rip-Adv of Rin Tin Tin), dies at 72
11th - Alejandro Obregón, Colombian painter (b. 1920)
12th - Joe Medwick, vocalist, dies at 61
13th - Brian Oulton, dies at 84
13th - Wallace Stegner, novelist (Pulitzer 1972), dies at 84
13th - Walter Stuart Surridge, cricketeer (Capt of Surrey), dies at 74
14th - David Miller, dies of cancer at 82
14th - Sammy Price, US boogie-woogie pianist, dies
16th - Andy Russell, drummer/vocalist (Your Hit Parade), dies of stroke at 72
16th - Frank Killmond, dies at 58
16th - Neville Brand, actor (Stalag 17), dies of emphysema at 71
17th - Hank Penny, country music singer, dies at 73 of heart failure
18th - Florence Randall, model/designer (Bill Blass), dies at 54 of cancer
19th - Alice Mary Riley, entertainer, dies of cancer at 51
19th - Frankie Howerd, actor (Carry on Doctor, Up the Front), dies at 70
19th - Pat Thompson, actress (Strictly Ballroom), dies at 51
19th - Robert F Clayton, drummer (Jody Grind), dies at 26 in a car crash
19th - Robert Paul Haynes, bassist (Jody Grind), dies at 26 in a car crash
20th - Benny Hill, comedian (Benny Hill Show), dies of a heart attack at 67
20th - Johnny Shines, Delta blues singer/guitarist, dies at 76
21st - Robert Harris, murderer, executed in Calif's gas chamber at 39
21st - Vladimir K Romanov, Grand Duke/Rus pretender to the throne, dies at 74
22nd - Billy Wayne White, murderer, executed in Texas at 34
22nd - Joop [Joseph] van Santen, Dutch 1st Chamber member (CPN), dies
22nd - Youcca Troubatzkoy, actress (Flower of the Night), dies
23rd - Deron Johnson, 1965 NL run leader, dies of cancer at 53
23rd - Satyajit Ray, Indian director (Distant Thunder/Agantuk), dies at 70
23rd - Victoria Kellem Lederman, model, dies of amyloidosis at 52
25th - Brian Macleod, Canadian musician, dies of cancer at 39
25th - Dany [Daniel S] Tuijnman, Dutch min of traffic & water, dies at 77
25th - Panos Christi, entertainer, dies of AIDS at 54
25th - Yutaka Ozaki, Japanese rock artist, dies at 26 of pulmonary edema
26th - Alberta Vaughn, actress (Wild Horse, Silver Devil), dies at 87
26th - Clyde Hartley, entertainer, dies at 68
27th - Olivier Messiaen, French composer, dies at 83
28th - Francis Bacon, Irish/British abstract painter, dies at 82
28th - Olivier Messiaen, French composer (St Francois d'Assise), dies at 83
28th - Iceberg Slim, American writer (b. 1918)
29th - Mae Clarke, actress (Public Enemy, Frankenstein), dies at 84
30th - Daan van Driel, Dutch cartoonist/WWII resist fighter (Trouw), dies

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