Today in History for May 1992

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 78 of 78

1st - Eric Houston kills 4 in a California HS where he failed history 4 yrs prior
1st - LA Dodgers postpone 3 games due to racial riots due to Rodney King
1st - NY Rangers wins their 1st ever 7th game of a playoff (vs NJ Devils)
1st - Rickey Henderson steals his 1,000th base
2nd - "High Rollers Social & Pleasure Club" opens at H Hayes NYC 14 perfs
2nd - 118th Kentucky Derby: Pat Day aboard Lil E Tee wins in 2:03
2nd - Yugoslav Army seize Bosnian Pres Alija Izetbegovic
3rd - Balt's Gregg Olson, 25, is youngest to record 100 saves
3rd - Danielle Ammaccapane wins LPGA Centel Golf Classic
3rd - NY Met Eddie Murray is 24th to hit 400 HRS
3rd - Ohio Glory wins 1st WLAF game (after 6 loses), beat Frankfurt 20-17
3rd - Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Centel Senior Golf Challenge
5th - Country singer Tammy Wynette hospitalized with bile duct infection
6th - NY Met Anthony Young begins losing streak of at least 26 games
6th - Werder Bremen wins 32nd Europe Cup II
7th - 5 NYC cops arrested in Hauppauge Long Island for selling cocaine
7th - Constitutional amendment barring mid-term congressional raises passes
7th - Jockey Angel Cordero retires after winning over 7,000 horse races
7th - US space shuttle STS-49 launched (maiden voyage of Endeavour)
Country singer Tammy Wynette 9th - America Cup finals begin in San Diego
9th - Final episode of "Golden Girls" airs on NBC-TV
9th - Michelle McLean, 19, of Namibia, crowned 41st Miss Universe
9th - Armenian forces capture Shusha, marking a major turning point in the Karabakh War.
10th - "Hamlet" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 45 performances
10th - Bible Lands Museum opens in Jerusalem Israel
10th - Jennifer Wyatt wins LPGA Crestar-Fresh Farm Golf Classic
12th - 1st Belgian woman (Ingrid Baeyens) to ascend Mount Everest
13th - 3 astronauts simultaneous walked in space for the 1st time
13th - Ajax wins 21st UEFA Cup
13th - Concrete foundation for ballpark at Gateway (Jacobs Field) is poured
13th - Final episode of "Night Court" airs on NBC-TV
13th - Frank Stallone beats Geraldo Rivera in boxing on Howard Stern Show
13th - Li Hongzhi gave the first public lecture on Falun Gong in Changchun, People's Republic of China.
14th - WIBC Bowling Queens won by Cindy Coburn-Carroll
15th - Colombo '92 opens in Genoa Italy
15th - NY dept store chain Alexanders announces closing of all 11 stores
15th - Part of Cruger Avenue in Bronx renamed Regis Philbin Avenue
Parody Singer and Comedian Weird Al Yankovic 16th - "Smells Like Nirvana," by Weird Al Yankovic hits #35
16th - 118th Preakness: Chris McCarron aboard Pine Bluff wins in 1:55.6
16th - Polls show Perot, Bush & Clinton could be in a deadlock
16th - US space shuttle STS-49 lands (maiden voyage of Endeavour)
17th - 38th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Betsy King
17th - Expos Gary Carter is 3rd to catch 2,000 games (joins Boone & Fisk)
18th - Supreme Court rules states could not force mentally unstable criminal defendants to take anti-psychotic drugs
19th - 27th Amendment ratified, prohibits Congress from raising its salary
19th - Amy Fisher shoots Mary Jo Buttafuoco in Massapequa LI
19th - Englishman Dave Gauder, 224 lbs, pulls 196 ton jumbo jet, 3 inches
19th - Ric Flair wins NWA wrestling title
19th - VP Dan Quayle attacks Murphy Brown for being a single mother and as a poor example of family values
20th - FC Barcelona wins 373 Europe Cup 1 at London
20th - India launches its 1st satellite independently
20th - Rap singer raps 597 syllables in under 60 seconds
21st - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
21st - NJ senate overrides Governor Florio's veto & lowers sales tax to 6%
22nd - California Angels, are involved in a bus crash, in NJ
22nd - India launches its Agni rocket
22nd - Johnny Carson's final appearance as host of Tonight Show
23rd - NY Yankees play in their 4th straight extra inning game
23rd - Pres Bush orders Coast Guard to intercept boats with Haitian refugees
Indy Car Driver Al Unser Jr 24th - Al Unser Jr wins Indy 500
24th - Colleen Walker wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
24th - Pat Bradley wins J C Penney/LPGA Skins Game Golf Tournament
24th - Despite trailing 7-1, NY Yanks tie Milwaukee Brewers & then score 1 in 9th to avoid 5th straight extra inning game
25th - Jay Leno becomes permanent host of "Tonight Show"
25th - NY Yankees score 9 runs before 1st out in 8th inn, beat Brewers 13-7
25th - Oscar Luigi Scalfaro elected president of Italy
26th - Carlos Martinez hits a ball off Jose Canseco's head for a HR
26th - Weird Al Yankovic begins his Off The Deep End tour
28th - 65th National Spelling Bee: Amanda Goad wins spelling lyceum
29th - NY Mets score in 9th to end home shut-out streak at 3 games
29th - White Sox Tim Raines swipes his 700th career base
30th - Minn Twin Bert Blyleven is 2nd to win as teenager & 40 year old
30th - NY Lotto pays $30 million to one winner (#s are 12-15-30-33-40-48)
30th - NY Yankee Scott Sanderson becomes 9th to beat all 26 teams
30th - UN votes for sanctions against Serb-led Yugoslavia to halt fighting
31st - 46th Tony Awards: Dancing at Lughnasa & Crazy For You win
31st - 5th Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $1,060,000
31st - Barb Mucha wins LPGA Oldsmobile Golf Classic

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 7 of 7

4th - Courtney Jines, American actress
7th - Gavin Hetherington, British actor
12th - Malcolm David Kelley, American actor
18th - Josh Phelps, Soccer Player
18th - Spencer Breslin, American actor
21st - Olivia Olson, American singer and actress
24th - Travis T. Flory, American actor

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 3 of 3

3rd - Beverly Hills 90210 Gabrielle Carteris marries Charles Isaacs
23rd - "Once and Again" actress Sela Ward (35) weds actor Howard Sherman (42)
30th - Paul Simon weds Edie Brickell

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 77 of 77

1st - Sharon Redd, American house music and urban contemporary singer (b. 1945)
2nd - Joey Cuevas, dancer, dies at 34
2nd - Lee Salk, baby doctor/author, dies of cardiac arrest at 65
2nd - Margareth Wallmann, Austrian opera director, dies at 88
2nd - Philip Dunne, screenwriter, dies of cancer at 84
2nd - Wilbur Mills, (Rep-D-Ark)/involved with Fanne Foxe, dies at 82
3rd - Elizabeth Lennox, radio singer, dies of heart seizure at 98
3rd - George Murphy, (Sen-R-Ca, 1965-71)/actor, dies of Leukemia at 89
3rd - Peter Bruni, dies of heart failure at 60
4th - Henri Guillemin, French historian, dies at 89
4th - Ismael Galeano, "Commandant Franklyn" (Contra), dies
4th - Vitali Andreyevich Grishchenko, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 50
4th - Gregor Mackenzie, Labour Party (UK) politician (b. 1927)
5th - Ben Frommer, dies at 78
5th - Dick Yarmy, dies of lung cancer at 58
5th - Jean-Claude Pascal, French actor (Golden Salamander), dies at 64
5th - Stefano d'Arrigo, Siciilian writer, dies at 72
6th - Jilly Rizzo, restauranteur/friend of Frank Sinatra, dies in car at 75
6th - Marlene Dietrich, [Maria Losch], actress (Angel), dies in Paris at 90
Singer/Actress Marlene Dietrich (6th) 6th - Gaston Reiff, Belgian athlete (b. 1921)
8th - Addeke H Boerma, dir-gen (FAO), dies at 80
8th - Brian Moore, writer (Catholics), dies of heart failure at 59
8th - Gul Mahomed, cricketer (8 Tests for India & one for Pakistan), dies
8th - Margaretha D Ferguson-Wigerink, author (Fear on Java), dies
8th - Richard Derr, actor (When Worlds Collide), dies at 74 of cancer
9th - Mike Tyrell [Red Baron], British air acrobat, dies in an accident
10th - Joan Merrill, vocalist, dies of a stroke at 74
10th - John Lund, actor (Perils of Pauline), dies at 81
10th - Liesbeth Saijers, sculptor, dies
10th - Sylvia Sims, singer (Flower Drum Song), dies of a heart attack at 74
11th - Carlos Herrera, drink inventor (Margarita), dies at 90
11th - Elizabeth McDonald, inventor (Spic & Span), dies at 98
12th - Joe Burke, president (KC Royals), dies at 68, dies
12th - Robert Reed, actor (Brady Bunch), dies of AIDs at 59
12th - Lenny Montana, American actor (b. 1926)
13th - Floyd Arceneaux, trumpeter, dies at 58
13th - Gisela Elsner, writer, dies at 55
13th - F. E. McWilliam, Northern Irish sculptor (b. 1909)
14th - Lyle Alzado, NFL defense linesman (Raiders), dies of cancer at 43
15th - Bruce Hopkins, performer/director, dies at 44
15th - Robert Morris Page, US physicist (radar), dies at 88
15th - Jovy Marcelo, Filipino race car driver (b. 1965)
16th - Marisa Mell, actress (Hostages), dies of cancer at 53
16th - Chalino Sanchez, Mexican musician (b, 1960)
17th - George Hurrell, Hollywood photographer, dies of cancer at 87
17th - Lawrence Welk, conductor/accordionist (Lawrence Welk Show), dies of pneumonia at 89
17th - Leonardo del Ferro, [Keyser], US epic tenor, dies
17th - Warren Neal Boxer, dies of AIDS at 34
18th - Marshall Thompson, actor (Bog), dies of congestive heart failure at 65
18th - Skip Stephenson, comedian (Real People), dies of heart attack at 52
20th - Roger Keith Coleman, American convict
21st - Brendan Nulholland, Daily Mail reporter, dies at 59
21st - Elizabeth David, British cookbook writer, dies
21st - Mrithi, gorilla (Gorilla in the Mist), dies at 24
21st - Skip Stephenson, TV host (Real People), dies
22nd - Zellig Harris, American linguist (b. 1909)
23rd - Atahualpa Yupanqui, Argentine singer/composer/poet/guitarist, dies
23rd - Giovanni Falcone, anti-mafia judge (Palermo), murdered
24th - Joan Sanderson, actress (Young Wives' Tale, Fawlty Towers), dies at 79
25th - Danny Biasone, persuaded NBA to use 24 second clock, dies at 83
25th - Marshall Thompson, US actor (To Hell & Back), dies at 66
25th - Nancy Walker, actress (Ida Morgenstein-Rhoda), dies of cancer at 71
25th - Philip C Habib, US diplomat (Middle-East/Asia), dies at 72
25th - Viktor Grishin, hardline soviet communist, dies at 78, dies
27th - Daniel Robberechts, Belgian writer (Aankomen in Avignon), dies at 55
27th - Glen White, dancer/actor (Graft, Camille), dies of AIDS at 42
27th - John Myhers, director/actor (Billion Dollar Hobo), dies at 70
27th - Tony "Big Tuna" Accardo, mobster (St Valentines Day), dies at 86
27th - Uncle Charlie Osborne, American fiddler (b. 1890)
29th - Bill Beyers, actor (Wally-Capitol), dies of AIDS at 37
29th - Karl Carstens, president of RFA (1979-84), dies
29th - Peter John "Ollie" Halsall, guitarist, dies of a heart attack at 43
29th - Pippa Steele, actress (Vampire Lovers), dies of cancer at 44
30th - Daniel Addes, actor (Victor-Sunst Grill), dies at 59
30th - Karl Carstens, president German FR (1979-84), dies at 77
30th - Leen 't Hart, organist/composer, dies at 72
31st - Lutz Stavenhagen, top aid to Chancellor Helmut Kohl, dies at 52