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Historical Events

Results 1 - 100 of 887

Jan 1st - 12 member European Economic Community set up vast free trade zone
Jan 1st - Blockbuster Bowl 3: Stanford beats Penn State, 24-3
Jan 1st - Cigarette advertisements are banned in NYC's MTA
Jan 1st - Czechoslovakia separates into Czech Republic (Bohemia) & Slovakia
Jan 1st - Harry Connick Jr arrested at a NY airport for gun possession
Jan 2nd - "Gypsy Passion" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 55 performances
Jan 3rd - "Catskills on Broadway" closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 452 perfs
Jan 3rd - "Christmas Carol" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 22 perfs
Jan 3rd - "Lost in Yonkers" closes at Richard Rodgers NYC after 780 perfs
Jan 3rd - "Secret Garden" closes at St James Theater NYC after 706 performances
Jan 3rd - "Tommy Tune Tonite!" closes at Gershwin NYC after 10 performances
Jan 3rd - Junk bond king Michael Milkin is released from jail after 22 months
Jan 4th - 7th largest wrestling crowd (63,500-Tokyo Dome)
Jan 5th - Brian Lara completes 277 v Australia at cricket SCG
Jan 5th - Price is Right model Janice Pennington sues CBS for show accident
Jan 5th - Reggie Jackson elected to Hall of Fame
Jan 5th - The oil tanker MV Braer runs aground on the coast of the Shetland Islands, spilling 84,700 tons of crude oil.
Jan 5th - Washington state executes Westley Allan Dodd by hanging (the first legal hanging in America since 1965).
Jan 6th - Bill Wyman announces he will leave Rolling Stones
Jan 6th - Jean Mueller discovers comet Mueller/1993a
Jan 6th - Last day of Test cricket for Greg Matthews
Jan 7th - The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as President.
Jan 8th - Chicago Bull Michael Jordan scores his 20,000th career point
Jan 8th - Elvis Presley Commemorative Postage Stamp goes on sale
Jan 8th - Michael Jordan scores his 20,000th career point
Jan 8th - NBC offers "Tonight Show" to David Letterman
Jan 9th - Franziska van Almsick swims world record 100 m free style (53.33)
Jan 10th - "My Favorite Year" closes at Vivian Beaumont NYC after 37 perfs
Jan 10th - "Sea Gull" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 48 performances
Jan 10th - Maiden flight of Ultrair (Houston to LA)
Jan 11th - Howard Stern's radio show begins transmitting to Buffalo NY (WKBW)
Jan 11th - Independent pres candidate Ross Perot publicly returns to politics
Jan 12th - Doctors announce Pitts Penguin Mario Limeux has Hodgkin's disease
Jan 12th - MTV hostess Martha Quinn marries longtime boyfriend Jordan Tarlow
Jan 13th - STS-54 (Endeavour) launches into orbit
Jan 13th - Super Bowl XXVII in Pasadena - Cowboys beat Bills
Jan 14th - "Anna Christie" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 54 performances
Jan 14th - David Letterman announces his show is moving from NBC to CBS
Jan 14th - Polish ferry boat capsizes in storm, 50 die
Jan 15th - 7.5 earthquake strikes northern Japan, 2 die
Jan 15th - Soap opera "Santa Barbara" final show on NBC TV
Jan 15th - Top mafia leader Salvatore "Toto" Riina arrested in Palermo
Jan 17th - 14th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins 32 awards
Jan 17th - Russian Irina Privalova cycles world record 300m indoor (35.45")
Jan 18th - Martin Luther King Jr holiday observed in all 50 states for 1st time
Jan 18th - West Indies win the World Series Cup, beating Australia 2-0
Jan 19th - Israel recognizes PLO as no longer criminal
Jan 19th - Oakland A's unveil new elephant logo
Jan 19th - Robert M Gates, ends term as 15th director of CIA
Jan 19th - STS-54 (Endeavour) lands
Jan 20th - Adm Studeman, serves as acting director of CIA
Jan 20th - Bill Clinton inaugurated as 42nd president
Jan 21st - Johan Koss skates world record 5 km in 6:38.77
Jan 21st - Nigerian singer Fela Kuti arrested on suspicion of murder
Jan 22nd - Johan Koss skates world record 5 km in 6:38.77
Jan 23rd - 50th Golden Globes: Scent of a Woman, wins
Jan 23rd - Graham Gooch scores his 100th 100, on tour at Cuttack
Jan 23rd - Indian Airlines B737 crashes art Aurangabad, 61 die
Jan 23rd - NY Newsday reports Ore Sen Bob Packwood sexually harassed 23 women
Jan 23rd - US female Figure Skating championship won by Nancy Kerrigan
Jan 24th - 14th annual star-athon $24,000,000
Jan 24th - Polish ferry boat John Heweliusz sinks, 52 killed
Jan 24th - Soyuz TM-16 launches
Jan 24th - US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Davis
Jan 24th - Turkish journalist and writer Uğur Mumcu is assassinated by a car bomb in Ankara.
Jan 25th - 20th American Music Award: Michael Jackson, Mariah Carey win
Jan 25th - Puerto Rico adds English as its 2nd official language
Jan 25th - Sears announces it is closing its catalog sales dept after 97 years
Jan 25th - Five people were shot outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia resulting in two murders.
Jan 26th - West Indies defeat Australia by one run in 4th Test at Adelaide
Jan 27th - DC-3 crashes in Kinshasa, killing 12
Jan 29th - Test debut of Vinod Kambli, prolific Indian batsman
Jan 30th - 100,000n Europeans demonstrate against fascism & racism
Jan 30th - 67th Australian Women's Tennis Open: Monica Seles beat Graf (46 63 62)
Jan 31st - "St Joan" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 49 performances
Jan 31st - 81st Australian Mens Tennis: Jim Courier beats S Edberg (62 61 26 75)
Jan 31st - Superbowl XXVII: Dallas Cowboys beat Buffalo Bills, 52-17 in Pasadena Superbowl MVP: Troy Aikman, Dallas, QB
Feb 1st - NY Judge Sol Wachtler indicted for harassing Joy Silverman
Feb 1st - Soyuz TM-16 lands
Feb 2nd - Frito Lay pays court ordered $2,500,000 to Tom Wait for using his song
Feb 2nd - Irina Privalova runs world record 50m indoor (6.05 sec)
Feb 3rd - Cin Red owner Marge Schott suspended for 1 year due to racist comments
Feb 3rd - General Hospital's Tristan Rogers convicted of drunk driving
Feb 3rd - Federal trial of 4 police officers charged with civil rights violations in videotaped beating of Rodney King begins in LA Calif
Feb 4th - Admiral Studeman, ends term as acting director of CIA
Feb 4th - Marge Schott suspended from baseball for 1 year due to racism
Feb 4th - Russian space agency tests a 82' wide space mirror
Feb 5th - Grenade explodes in Sarajevo, killing 63 & injuring 160
Feb 5th - R James Woolsey, becomes 16th director of CIA
Feb 6th - 44th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 16-6 at Montreal
Feb 6th - Riddick Bowe TKOs Michael Dokes in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
Feb 7th - NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 23-20
Feb 7th - Pebbles Flintstone & Bamm Bamm Rubble wed
Feb 7th - Tammie Green wins LPGA Healthsouth Palm Beach Golf Classic
Feb 8th - Suchoi-24 crashes into Tupolev passenger flight, 134 die
Feb 8th - GM sues NBC, alleging that "Dateline NBC" program had rigged 2 car-truck crashes to show that 1973-87 GM pickups were prone to fires
Feb 9th - Army of opium king Khun Sa kills 60 in NE Burma
Feb 10th - Jani Sievinen swims world record 200m backstroke (1:55.59)
Feb 10th - US officially backs peace plan in Bosnia
Feb 10th - "Michael Jackson Talks To Oprah Winfrey" airs on ABC & drew an astounding 39.3 rating/56 share, 90 million people

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 65 of 65

Jan 11th - Flora Cross, American actress
Jan 18th - Morgan York, American actress
Jan 19th - John Bouvier Kennedy Schlossberg, son of Caroline Kennedy
Jan 24th - Ashley Jade Stern, daughter of radio personality Howard Stern
Jan 26th - Cameron Bright, Canadian actor
Jan 29th - Michelle Larcher De Brito, Portuguese tennis player
Feb 7th - David Dorfman, American actor
Feb 7th - Philip Wiegratz, German actor
Feb 12th - Jennifer Stone, American actress
Feb 19th - Victoria Justice, American Actress notably for her roles in The Suite Life Of Zack And Cody, and as Lola Martinez in Nickelodeon show Zoey 101
Feb 26th - Taylor Dooley, American actress
Mar 4th - Bobbi Kristina Brown, daughter of Whitney Houston & Bobby Brown
Mar 4th - Jenna Boyd, American actress
Mar 4th - Alice Jones, British actress
Mar 4th - Abigail Mavity, American actress
Mar 4th - Yves Michel-Beneche, American actor
Mar 19th - Munro Chambers, Canadian actor
Mar 22nd - Mick Hazen , American actor
Apr 3rd - Dakoda Dowd, American golfer
Apr 8th - Trent Sullivan, Australian Actor
Apr 14th - Vivien Cardone, an American actress
Apr 14th - Graham Phillips (actor), American actor
Apr 15th - Madeleine Martin, American television actress
Apr 16th - Mirai Nagasu, American Figure Skater
Apr 29th - Aurelia Clasina Lucia Wildeboer, daughter of Pieter & Mirtle
May 10th - Charice Pempengco, Filipino singer
May 10th - Mirai Shida, Japanese actress
May 13th - Debby Ryan, American actress
May 14th - Miranda Cosgrove, American actress and singer
May 20th - Caroline Zhang, American figure skater
May 25th - Dilley sextuplets, American sextuplets
Jun 4th - ... Mowatt, grandson of English princess Alexandra
Jun 7th - Jordan Fry, American actor
Jun 9th - Danielle Chuchran, American actress
Jun 16th - Alice Ann Newman, daughter of Gretchen & Randy
Jun 24th - Primera, an Andean condor, hatched at Cleve Zoo, 5th born in captivity
Jun 25th - Barney Clark, English actor
Jun 29th - Angela & Amy Lakeberg, US Siamese twin (separated on Aug 20th)
Jun 29th - George Sampson, English dancer
Jul 22nd - Patricia Quinn, 11th child of actor Anthony Quinn (78)
Jul 24th - Arissa Seagal, daughter of Kelly LeBrock & Steven Seagal
Jul 26th - Taylor Momsen, American actress
Jul 28th - Hannah Lochner, Canadian actress
Aug 2nd - Cassidy Gifford, daughter of Frank & Kathy Lee
Aug 3rd - Yurina Kumai, Japanese singer
Aug 5th - Suzuka Ōgo, Japanese actress
Aug 5th - Corey J. Smith, English actor
Aug 11th - Alyson Stoner, American actress
Aug 26th - Keke Palmer, American actress
Sep 1st - Ilona Mitrecey, French singer
Sep 3rd - Rina Koike, Japanese junior idol
Sep 5th - Gage Golightly, American actress
Sep 7th - Joshua Wilkinson, prince of self proclaimed principality sealand
Sep 20th - Taylor Parks, American actress
Oct 2nd - Tara Lynne Barr, American actress
Oct 3rd - Lindsay Fabes, actor (Charlie Winthrop-Another World)
Oct 8th - Angus T. Jones, American actor (Two and a Half Men)
Oct 13th - Tiffany Trump, daughter of Donald Trump & Marla Maples
Nov 4th - Jonathan Ric Ocasek, son of rocker Ric & model Paulina Porizkova
Nov 15th - Saaya Irie, Japanese Actress, singer
Nov 30th - Yuuri Chinen,Japanese singer
Dec 8th - AnnaSophia Robb, American actress and singer
Dec 11th - Gina Miele, American singer and actress
Dec 22nd - Aliana Lohan, American actress
Dec 23rd - Nathan Waddle, New Zealander

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 100 of 733

Jan 1st - June Clayworth, actress (Bodyguard, Criminal Court), dies of lymphoma
Jan 1st - Phyllis Hill, actress (Singing in the Dark), dies of lung cancer at 72
Jan 3rd - Peter Brocco, blacklisted in the 1950's, dies of heart attack at 89
Jan 3rd - Johnny Most, American sports announcer (b. 1923)
Jan 4th - Daniel H Craven, South African rugby coach, dies
Jan 4th - Joe Keenan, actor (Conviction of Kitty Dodd), dies of cancer at 69
Jan 4th - Charles Bridgford, Australian politician
Jan 5th - George L George, Russian/US journalist/director/producer, dies at 85
Jan 5th - Henk Knol, Suriname MP (PvdA), dies at 61
Jan 5th - Jennifer Raine Bissell, daughter of Alan Napier, dies 60
Jan 5th - Juan Benet Goitia, Spanish writer (Herrumbrosas Lanzas), dies at 65
Jan 5th - Klaas Wiersma, Dutch sec of Justice (VVD), dies
Jan 5th - Leonce Gras, Flemish singer/conductor, dies at 84
Jan 5th - Nyamuisi Muvingi, Zaire minister of Culture, murdered
Jan 5th - Ronnie Welsh, actor (Patterns), dies of brain cancer at 52
Jan 5th - Westley A Dodd, US murderer, 1st hanging in US since 1965
Jan 6th - Elisabeth, arch duch of Austria/princess of Liechtenstein, dies at 70
Jan 6th - John B "Dizzy" Gillespe, blues trumpeter, dies of cancer at 75
Jan 6th - Rudolph Nureyev, Russian ballet dancer (Kirov), dies of AIDS at 54
Jan 7th - Richard Branda, actor (2 Minute Warning), dies of colon cancer at 57
Jan 8th - Asif Nawaz, Pakistani general, dies
Jan 8th - Hakija Turajlic, Bosnian vice-premier, murdered
Jan 8th - Theo Bruins, Dutch pianist/composer (Syncope), dies at 63
Jan 9th - Alois Brunner, German/Syrian commandant of KZ-Lower Drancy, dies
Jan 9th - Felix Grucci, fireworks expert, dies of Alzheimer's disease at 87
Jan 9th - Sir Paul Hasluck, Governor-General of Australia (b. 1905)
Jan 10th - Diana Adams, ballerina, dies
Jan 10th - Noorjahan Begum, "adulterous" wife in Bangladesh, stoned to death
Jan 11th - Lacey Fosburgh, author (Closing Time), dies of breast cancer at 50
Jan 12th - Carles Mira, Spanish director (Que Nos Quiten Lo Bailao), dies at 45
Jan 13th - Rene Pleven, PM of France (1950-51, 51-52), dies
Jan 13th - Camargo Guarnieri, Brazilian composer (b. 1907)
Jan 14th - Elisabeth A de Vreugd, chambermaid for Dutch Queen, dies at 98
Jan 14th - Manfred Lachs, Polish lawyer (Intl Court of Justice), dies
Jan 15th - Henry Iba, basketball coach, dies at 88
Jan 15th - Huub H Jacobse, Dutch MP (VVD), dies at 68
Jan 15th - Ken Cory, dies of AIDS at 51
Jan 15th - Sammy Cahn, American songwriter (b. 1913)
Jan 16th - Florence Desmond, [Dawson], actress (Sally in Our Alley), dies at 87
Jan 16th - Glenn Corbett, US actor (Shenandoah, Chisum, Midway), dies at 63
Jan 16th - Sathasivam Krishnakumar, Sri Lanka commander, commits suicide
Jan 16th - Jón Páll Sigmarsson, Icelandic strength athlete (b. 1960)
Jan 17th - Ger ter Horst, Dutch soccer trainer (Sparta), dies
Jan 17th - Albert Hourani, English historian (b. 1915)
Jan 18th - M Eleonore Lippits, 1st Dutch female missionary doctor, dies at 85
Jan 18th - Mia Meijer, Dutch playwright/director (Machine Child), dies
Jan 18th - Mike Templeton, 2nd person to receive a heart pump, dies at 34
Jan 18th - Eleanor Hibbert, British author (b. 1906)
Jan 19th - Chris Street, basketball player, dies at 20
Jan 19th - Kees Scherer, Dutch photographer (World Press Photo), dies at 72
Jan 19th - Reginald Lewis, CEO (Beatrice), dies of brain cancer at 50
Jan 19th - William LeMassena, actor (All that Jazz), dies of lung cancer at 76
Jan 20th - Audrey Hepburn, actress (Roman Holiday), dies of colon cancer at 63
Jan 20th - Joseph Anthony [Deuster], US director/actor (Rainmaker), dies at 80
Jan 20th - Mercer McCleod, entertainer, dies of heart failure at 86
Jan 22nd - Alexander Bodon, Hung-Dutch architect (RAI, Dollywood), dies at 86
Jan 22nd - Charlie Gehringer, baseball player, dies at 89
Jan 22nd - Kobo Abe, Japanese writer (Wife in the Sand), dies at 68
Jan 22nd - Maria Vlamynck, Flemish author, dies at 75
Jan 23rd - Dudley Stevens, entertainer, dies of AIDS at 57
Jan 23rd - Thomas A Dorsey, jazz pianist (Take My Hand, Precious Lord), dies
Jan 24th - Thurgood Marshall, 1st black supreme court justice (1967-91), dies 84
Jan 24th - Ugur Mumcu, Turkish journalist (Cumhuriyet Murder), dies
Jan 26th - Axel Von Dem Bussche, German aristocrat, dies
Jan 26th - Jan Gies, Dutch resistance fighter (helped Anne Frank), dies at 87
Jan 26th - Robert Jacobsen, Danish sculptor (large iron sculptures), dies at 80
Jan 26th - Jeanne Sauvé, Governor-General of Canada (b. 1922)
Jan 27th - Andre "the Giant" Roussimoff, WWF wrestler, dies of heart attack at 49
Jan 28th - Aben Kandel, screenwriter (Dinner at 8), dies of heart failure at 96
Jan 28th - John Steadman, actor (Gator, Fade to Black), dies of lung ailment 83
Jan 29th - Hank Werba, [Herman Werblowski], US journalist (Variety), dies at 79
Jan 29th - Michel Renault, French ballet dancer (Giselle), dies
Jan 30th - Taikichiro Mori, Japanese real estate developer, dies at 88
Feb 3rd - Karel Goeyvaerts, Flemish composer (8 Horse Bet), dies at 69
Feb 5th - Jack Young, cricketer (8 Tests for England 1947-49, 17 wickets), dies
Feb 5th - Joseph L Mankiewicz, US writer/director (All about Eve), dies at 83
Feb 5th - Tip Tipping, [Tim], stuntman, dies in sky-diving accident at 34
Feb 5th - Marcel Léger, Quebec politician (b. 1930)
Feb 6th - Frances Hunt, actress (You're a Sweetheart), dies of stroke at 77
Feb 7th - Arthur Ashe, tennis star (Wimbledon 1975), dies of AIDS at 49
Feb 7th - W Sybout A Colenbrander, Dutch historian/journalist, dies at 82
Feb 8th - Casper van den Berg, Dutch poet (Fashionable inconvenience), dies
Feb 8th - Douglas Heyes, director/writer (Kitten with a Whip), dies at 73
Feb 8th - Eliot Janeway, financial columnist (Eliot Doomsday), dies at 80
Feb 8th - Franz Schnyder, Swiss director (10th of May), dies at 82
Feb 8th - Paul Brickhill, Dutch/US WW II pilot/physician, dies
Feb 8th - N. Shanmugathasan, Sri Lankan communist leader
Feb 9th - David Willis, British journalist (BBC World Service), dies at 54
Feb 9th - Kate Wilkinson, actress (Clara-Another World), dies of cancer at 76
Feb 9th - Nasrullah Mansoor, Afghan guerilla leader/governor of Paktia, dies
Feb 10th - John Grossman, Czech director (Process, Revisor), dies
Feb 10th - Joy Garrett, actress (Days of Our Live), dies of liver failure at 47
Feb 10th - Maurice Bourges-Maunoury, PM of France (1957), dies
Feb 10th - Fred Hollows, New Zealand ophthalmologist (b. 1929)
Feb 11th - George A Stephen, inventor (Weber Kettle Grill), dies at 71
Feb 11th - Joy Garrett, actress (Days of Our Lives), dies of liver failure
Feb 11th - Oksana Kostina, Russian gymnist, dies in an auto accident
Feb 12th - James Bulger, English child beaten to death at 2, by 10 yr old boys
Feb 13th - Agatha Hagtingius-Seger, Dutch author (Sparkles Chain), dies at 91
Feb 14th - Buddy Pepper, composer, dies of heart failure at 70