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Historical Events

Results 1 - 76 of 76

1st - "In the Summer House" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 25 perfs
1st - "She Loves Me" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 61 performances
1st - Missie Berteott wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship
1st - Reggie Jackson enshrined in Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY
1st - Walter Koenig, Checkov of Star Trek, suffers a heart attack
2nd - NYC radio (WFAN) personality Don Imus' lung collapes
2nd - Peter Angelos & William DeWitt purchase Orioles
2nd - Train crash in tunnel at Vega de Anzo Spain, 12 killed
2nd - Shamrock Broadcasting, a Disney company, officially takes ownership of Cleveland's WMMS-FM/100.7 & WHK-AM/1420
4th - Angolese air force bombs Huambo
4th - Rwandian Hutu's & Tutsi's sign peace treaty in Arusha
4th - Tony Gwynn gets 6 hits, 4th time in 1993 a Padre gets 5 or more hits
6th - Japan Hosokawa govt begins
6th - Pope John Paul II publishes Veritatis splendor encyclical
7th - "Camelot" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 56 performances
7th - Tropical storm Brett ravages Venezuela, 118 killed
8th - Calif state senator Tom Hayden (54) weds actress Barbara Williams (40)
8th - Dana Lofland wins McCall's LPGA Golf Classic Dormann at Stratton Mt
8th - Tropical storm Bret ravages Venezuela, about 100 killed
9th - King Albert II of Belgium, crowned
10th - Charlotte Anne Lopez, 16, of Vermont, crowned 11th Miss Teen USA
10th - An earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter Scale hits the South Island of New Zealand.
11th - Director Oliver Stone files for divorce from Elizabeth
11th - NY Islander Brian Mullen, 31, suffers a mild stroke
11th - Pope John Paul II visits Mexico
11th - Red Sox Roger Clemens pitches 2,000th strike out (Danny Tartabul-NY)
12th - Pope John Paul II begins visit of US
13th - Blue Jay Rickey Henderson pays Turner Ward $25,000 for his #24
13th - Hotel in Nakhon Ratchasima Thailand, collapses, 114 killed
13th - US Court of Appeals rules congress must save all E-Mail
14th - Dr William Masters (78) weds college sweetheart Geraldine Oliver (76)
14th - Nigerian presidential election
14th - Reggie Jackson Day - NY Yanks retire 13th # (#44)
14th - Shari Beadley weds Christopher Martin (Kid 'n Play)
14th - St Louis reliever Lee Smith is fastest to get 40 saves
15th - "Goodbye Girl" closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 188 performances
15th - 75th PGA Championship: Paul Azinger shoots a 272 at Inverness Club Oh
15th - Cindy Schreyer wins LPGA Sun-Time Challenge Golf Tournament
15th - NYC radio (WFAN) personality Don Imus' lung collapes for 2nd time
15th - Nolan Ryan, 324th & final victory, Rangers 4, Indians 1
15th - Televangelist Robert Tilton announces he is divorcing Marte
16th - The Debian distribution was first announced by Ian Murdock, then a student at Purdue University. Murdock initially called his system the "Debian Linux Release"
18th - Historical Kapelbrug in Luzern Switz, destroyed by fire
19th - 34th Walker Cup: US, 19-5
19th - Actress Kim Basinger weds actor Alec Baldwin
19th - Dow Jones hits record high of 3612.13
19th - George Tiller, abortion doctor, shot in his arms by Rachelle Shannon
19th - Mattel & Fisher Price toys merge
19th - Sally Gunnell runs lady world record 400m hurdles (52.74")
20th - Colin Jackson runs world record 110m hurdles (12.91)
20th - Howard Stern is fired from WLUP-AM, Chicago
20th - Mother Teresa hospitalized with malaria
20th - After rounds of secret negotiations in Norway, the Oslo Peace Accords are signed, followed by a public ceremony in Washington, D.C. the following month.
21st - Lyricist Bernie Taupin weds Strephanie Haymes
21st - NASA loses contact with Mars Observer
22nd - "In the Summer House" closes at Beaumont Theater NYC after 25 perfs
22nd - Hiromi Kobayash wins Minnesota LPGA Golf Classic
23rd - NY Dow Jones index reaches record high of 3,638.96 points
23rd - Fred McGriff & David Justice are 6th to hit back-to-back HRs twice in same game
24th - Mars Observer comes closest to Mars
24th - Padres scores 14 in 1st vs Cardinals
27th - Yak-40 crashes in Tadzjikistan, 79 killed/1 lives
27th - The Rainbow Bridge, connecting Tokyo's Shibaura and the island of Odaiba, is completed.
28th - Dam breaks in Qinghai West China, 223 killed
28th - Jakovlev-42 crashes in Tadzjikistan, 76 killed
28th - Long Beach Calif beats Panama for little league world championship
28th - Singapore vice-premier Teng Cheong elected president
29th - 21st du Maurier Golf Classic: Brandie Burton
29th - 93rd US Golf Amateur Championship won by John Harris
29th - Actress Elke Sommer (52) weds Wolf Walther (46)
29th - Actress Marlee Matlin (28) weds Kevin Grandalski (28)
30th - 150,000,000 millionth visitor to Eiffel Tower
30th - Hassan II mosque opens in Casablanca, 2nd largest mosque in the world
31st - Minnesota Twins beat Cleve Indians 5-4 in 22 innings
31st - Venezuela president Carlos Perez flees
31st - HMS Mercury closes after 52 years in commission.

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 6 of 6

2nd - Cassidy Gifford, daughter of Frank & Kathy Lee
3rd - Yurina Kumai, Japanese singer
5th - Suzuka Ōgo, Japanese actress
5th - Corey J. Smith, English actor
11th - Alyson Stoner, American actress
26th - Keke Palmer, American actress

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 46 of 46

1st - Alfred Manessier, Fr painter (glass-in-lead), dies in car crash at 81
1st - Anatoli Koretski, Russian major general, murdered
1st - Ewing Kaufman, founder/owner (KC Royals), dies of lung cancer at 76
1st - Lea Verschuuren-Smulders, Dut author (Kleutertje Luister), dies at 72
1st - Viktor Polyanitshko, governor of Kaukasus, murdered
3rd - James Donald, actor (In Which We Serve, Way Ahead), dies at 76
4th - Bernard Barrow, actor (Louie-Loving, Johnny-Ryan's Hope), dies
4th - Kenny Drew, US/Danish jazz pianist (Moonlight Desert), dies at 64
6th - Milton "Milt" Thompson, US NASA-test pilot/chief-engineer, dies at 67
7th - Kelly Ahrendt, 1st NYer to die of rabies in 40 years, dies at 14
7th - Roy Budd, English jazz pianist/composer (Paper Tiger), dies at 46
8th - Harry Bellaver, actor (Blue Collar, Old Man & the Sea), dies at 88
8th - Lou van Raised, impresario, dies at 77
8th - Roy London, US actor/director (Tiger Warsaw), dies of lymphoma at 50
9th - Mohamed M Tabet, commissar of Casablanca, raped 518, executed at 54
10th - Ken England, US screenwriter (Good Girls Go to Paris), dies at 82
10th - Øystein Aarseth, Norwegian musician (Mayhem) (b. 1968)
12th - Jerome Thor, actor (Riot in Juvenile Prison), dies of cardiac at 69
15th - Robert W Kempner, German officer of justice in Prussia, dies at 93
16th - Irene Sharaff, US costume designer (Cleopatra, Can-can), dies at 83
16th - Joseph Towers, US pilot, dies
16th - Stewart Granger, actor (Scaramouche), dies of cancer at 80
16th - Tom Fuccella, actor (Paul-One Life to Live), dies of AIDs at 56
17th - Max de Metz, Dutch publisher/translator/interpreter, dies at 72
17th - Max de Metz, Dutch publisher/translator, dies at 72
17th - Robert C Maynard, CEO (Oakland Tribune), dies at 56
17th - Feng Kang, Chinese mathematician (b. 1920)
18th - Alf Bold, German festival programmer, dies of AIDS at 47
19th - Jean King, actress (Night Hasa a Thousand Eyes), dies at 76
19th - Lucinda Ballard, US costume designer/wife of Howard Dietz, dies at 90
20th - Bernard Delfgaauw, philosopher (Johnson murderer!), dies at 80
22nd - Don Getz, US filmer (Playpoint)
22nd - Kasdi Merbah, PM of Algeria (1988-89), assassinated
23rd - Charles Scorsese, actor (Cape Fear, Goodfellas, Wise Guys), dies at 80
23rd - Edwina Lewis, actress (Boy Who Cried Bitch), dies of heart attack 42
23rd - Victorine Hefting, historian/wife of Bert Baker, dies at 88
24th - Professor D B Deodhar, cricketer (Ind non-Test bat o 30s), dies at 101
25th - Amy Biehl, US activist in South-Africa, murdered at 26
26th - Rockin Dopsie Sr, Jazz-Fusion singer (Zydeco), dies at 61
27th - Bob Verstraete, Dutch actor/screenwriter/director (Alicia), dies at 71
28th - René Ray, English countess/actress (Farewell again), dies at 80
28th - William Stafford, American poet (b. 1914)
29th - Dorian Corey, actor (Paris is Burning), dies of AIDs at 56
29th - Henry J "Harry" Smeets, dealer of Volkskrant, dies at 56
30th - Richard Jordan, US actor (Hunt for Red October, Posse), dies at 55
31st - Gerben Wagenaar, Dutch resistance fighter (communist), dies at 80