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Historical Events

Results 1 - 84 of 84

1st - 1 second is added to the clock
1st - Russian manned space craft TM-17, launches into orbit
1st - STS-57 (Endeavour) lands
2nd - Boat sinks at Bocaue Philippines, 325 die
2nd - F-28 crashes at Sorong Irian Barat, 41 die
2nd - Kansas Royals rename stadium Ewing Kaufman Stadium after founder
2nd - Moslem fundamentalists in Sivas Turkey, set hotel on fire, kill 36
2nd - NY Met Anthony Young loses a record 25th straight game (goes to 27)
2nd - Pope John Paul II hospitalized for Cat Scan test
3rd - 100th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats J Novotna (76 16 64)
3rd - Boon completes 16th Test Cricket century, 101 at Trent Bridge
3rd - Prince Alois of Liechtenstein weds Duchess Sophie of Bavaria
4th - 107th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Courier (76 76 36 63)
4th - Brandie Burton wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic
4th - Dave Winfield hits 442nd HR to move into 19th place
4th - Pilar Fort, crowned 25th Miss Black America
4th - Pizza Hut blimp deflates & lands safely on W 56th street in NYC
5th - A's Rickey Henderson is 2nd to hit leadoff homers in doubleheader
5th - Kurd guerrilla's murder 32 villager in East Turkey
5th - Richard Chelimo run world record 10 km (27:07.91)
6th - Graham Thorpe scores 114 on Test Cricket debut, England v Australia
6th - John F Kennedy Jr, gives notice of quitting as ADA in Manhattan
7th - Guntis Ulmanis elected president of Latvia
7th - NY Met Anthony Young, loses his 26th straight game (goes to 27)
7th - Phila Phillies beat SF Giants 7-6 in 20 innings
7th - Prodigy announces it will offer Cox newspapers
7th - Red Tom Browning decides to watch his team play at Wrigley Field from the roof of a building across Sheffield Ave, he is fined $500
10th - Melchior Ndadaye becomes 1st Hutu Burundi pres/Sylvie Kinigi, PM
10th - Yobes Ondieki runs world record 10km (26:58.38)
11th - 14th US Seniors Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus
11th - Nancy Lopez wins Youngstown-Warren LPGA Golf Classic
12th - 7.8 earthquake hits Hokkaido Japan, 160 killed
12th - Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical "Sunset Promenade" opens in London
12th - Don Imus begins broadcasting to Boston on WEEI (590 AM)
13th - 64th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 9-3 at Camden Yards, Baltimore
13th - All star MVP: Kirby Puckett (Minn Twins)
14th - Aeroflot starts non-stop flights between Moscow & NY
16th - President Lissouba calls emergency rule in Congo-Brazzaville
16th - S van Ruysdael's "Winter Landscape" sold for £705,500 in London
16th - SF outfielder Darren Lewis sets record of 267 consec errorless games
17th - Graeme Obree bicycles world record time, 51,596 km
18th - 122nd British Golf Open: Greg Norman shoots a 267 at Royal St George
18th - Afghanistan president Ishaq Khan & premier Nawaz Sharif resign
18th - Graeme Obree bicycles world record time (51,596 K)
18th - Hiromi Kobayash wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic
18th - Liberal-Democratic Party loses Japan's parliamentary election
19th - Glen Chapple (Lancs) scores fastest F-C century, 21 minutes
19th - Last day of 1st-class cricket for Ian Botham
19th - Pres Clinton fires FBI director William Sessions
20th - Fire in the press box at Altanta Fulton County Stadium
20th - Joe Petruzzi files for divorce from Annabella Sciorra (Jungle Fever)
21st - Angela Kennedy swims world record 50 m butterfly stroke (26.93)
22nd - NY Yankee Don Mattingly hits his 200th HR
22nd - Soyuz TM-17 lands
23rd - Boon completes 17th Test Cricket century, 107 at Headingley
23rd - British Aerospace 147 crash at Yinchuan, 55 killed
23rd - Chinese B737 crash at Yinchuan, at least 66 killed
23rd - Chris Boardman bicycles world record 1 hour distance (52,270 km)
23rd - NY Yankee Mark Hutton is 1st Australian to be a starting pitcher, He beats Angels 5-2; Yanks, Red Sox, Blue Jays 3 way tie for 1st
24th - Actor Richard Moll (Night Court) weds Susan Brown
24th - Met Vince Coleman injures 3 when he throws cherry bomb at Dodger fans
24th - NY Met Anthony Young loses record 27th straight
24th - Night Court actor Richard Moll (50) weds Susan Brown (32)
25th - 31st Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats Australia in Frankfurt Germany (3-0)
25th - 48th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Lauri Merten
25th - Designer Claude Montana (44) weds his model Wallis Franken (44)
25th - Israeli offensive against terrorist bases in South Lebanon
25th - Miguel Indurain wins his 3rd Tour de France
25th - The St James Church massacre occurs in Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa.
26th - Boeing 737-500 crashes in South Korea, 66 killed
26th - Mars Observer takes 1st photo of Mars, from 5 billion km
27th - Detroit Tiger Fryman hits for cycle but loses 12-7 to Yankees
27th - Javier Sotomayor jumps world record 2.45 m high
27th - Mafia bombs historical buildings in Rome/Milan/Vatican City, 5 killed
27th - NBC TV awarded 1996 Olympic coverage for $456 million
27th - NY Met Anthony Young wins ending his losing streak at 27 games
28th - Mariner Ken Griffey Jr is 3rd to hit HRs in 8 straight games
29th - Cin Red pitcher Thomas Browning arrested for marijuana possession
29th - Walter Koenig (Checkov-Star Trek) suffers a mild heart attack
29th - Israeli Court of Appeal overturns (5-0) conviction of John Demjaujuk, saying not enough evidence he is Concentration Camp Ivan the Terrible
31st - A's trade Rickey Henderson to Blue Jays
31st - Allman Bros guitarist Dickey Betts arrested for shoving 2 cops
31st - Inkatha-arm forces killed 49 ANC-followers in Johannesburg
31st - Prince Ronald "Ronnie" Mutebi crowned king of Uganda

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 4 of 4

22nd - Patricia Quinn, 11th child of actor Anthony Quinn (78)
24th - Arissa Seagal, daughter of Kelly LeBrock & Steven Seagal
26th - Taylor Momsen, American actress
28th - Hannah Lochner, Canadian actress

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 60 of 60

2nd - Don Drysdale, pitcher (Dodgers), dies of a heart attack at 56
2nd - Fred Gwynne, actor (Herman-Munsters), dies of pancreatic cancer at 66
2nd - Sir Edward Dunlop, Australian war hero (b. 1907)
3rd - "Curly" Joe DeRita, last of Three Stooges, dies of pneumonia at 83
4th - Anne Shirley, actress (Stella Dallas), dies of lung cancer at 75
4th - Charles Crain, actor, dies in Hollywood at 83
4th - Felix White, choreographer (Black Vibrations Theatre), dies at 65
5th - Harrison E Salisbury, US journalist (NY Times), dies at 84
6th - Ruth Lady Fermoy, maternal grandmother of Princess Diane, dies at 84
7th - Mia Zapata, American singer with The Gits (b. 1965)
9th - Cut Meijer, [Saul Messel], historian/rabbi to Paramaribo, dies at 80
9th - Will Rogers Jr, (Rep-D)/actor (Boy from Okla), commits suicide at 81
10th - Masugi Ibuse, Japanese author (Kuroi ame (Black rain)), dies at 95
10th - Ruth Krauss, author (Carrot Seed), dies at 91
10th - Sam Rolfe, American screenwriter (b. 1924)
11th - Deng Yingchao, high ranking communist China official, dies at 88
11th - Denis Tomlinson, S Afr cricket leg-spinner, dies
11th - Henri van Soede, sub commandant (WW II), dies at about 83
11th - Kelly Ahrendt, 1st death by rabies in NY since 1954, dies
11th - Mario Bauza, Cubans/US jazz musician, dies at 82
11th - Sergey Vozovikov, cosmonaut, dies during underwater test at 34
12th - Gusti Huber, Mother of Bibi Besch, dies of heart failure at 78
12th - Lily van Lugt Melsert, actress (Tomorrow will be better), dies at 91
12th - Dan Eldon, British photojournalist (b. 1970)
13th - Davey Allisson, race car drive, dies in a plane crash at 32
13th - Edwin "Rick" Bakker, author (Rick's Report/AIDS Diary), dies at 31
14th - Robert Strong
15th - David Brian, US actor (Damned Don't Cry, Fort Worth), dies at 78
15th - Bobby Kent, alleged Florida bully murdered by his friends (b. 1973)
17th - Ineke Shutter, choreography (Black Girl Goes to School), dies at 61
17th - Scott Salmon, US choreographer (La Cage aux Folles), dies at 51
17th - Vladimir Barmyn, Russian inventor (Stalinorgel), dies at 84
18th - Jean Negulesco, director (3 Coins in a Fountain), dies at 93
18th - John Beck, US producer (Harvey, Singing Nun), dies at 83
18th - Robert Davis, dies of emphysema at 76
18th - Sergei Y Vozovikov, Russian major/cosmonaut, dies in accident at 35
18th - Vladimir Pavlovich Barmin, Chief designer of Soviet launch pads, dies
19th - Elmar Klos, Czech director (Shop on Main Street), dies at 83
19th - Szymon Goldberg, Polish violinist/conductor, dies at 84
20th - Donald Alexander, System director/producer (East Valley), dies at 79
21st - Henk Kersting, bureau chef (Associated Press-WW II), dies at 88
21st - Piet Wielinga, TV producer (Dutch Glory), dies at 56
21st - Robert J Glass, film producer (ET), is killed at 53
23rd - James Jordan, father of NBA star Michael Jordan, found dead near McColl SC
24th - Ben[jamin S] Polak, Dutch physician/resistance fighter, dies
24th - Francis Bouygues, French entrepreneur/billionaire, dies at 70
24th - Lonnie D'Orsa, dies at 96
24th - Rene Requiestas, Filipino comedian (b. 1957)
25th - Nan Grey, actress (Invisible Man Returns), dies on 75th birthday
26th - Daniel Fuchs, US, screenwriter (Hard Way), dies at 84
26th - Matthew B Ridgway, US Army Chief of Staff (1953-55), dies at 98
27th - Reggie Lewis, NBA star (Boston Celtics), dies of heart failure at 27
28th - Herbert Joeks, [van Hugten], Dutch actor (Pipo the Clown), dies at 77
29th - AJA Quintus Bosz, Indonesian/Suriname lawyer, dies at 78
30th - Edward B A M Raczynski, Polish pres-in-exile (1979-86), dies at 97
30th - Jay Scott, [Jeffrey Scott Beaven], US/Canada movie critic, dies at 43
30th - John Castrios, 1st murder in Washington NH in 200 years, killed at 45
31st - Baudouin, king of Belgium (1951-93), dies at 62 from heart problems
31st - Elmar Klos, director (Obzalovany, Obchod na Korze), dies at 83
31st - Paul Henry, US Republicans Congressional leader, dies at 51