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Historical Events

Results 1 - 77 of 77

1st - "White Liars/Black Comedy" opens at Criterion NYC for 38 perfs
1st - Goran Ivanisevic & Daniel Nestor play longest tie-break in US Tennis
2nd - 10th MTV Awards: Pearl Jam, En Vogue wins
2nd - Central African Republic ex-emperor Bokassa freed
2nd - Day of Peace in South Africa
4th - Jim Abbott pitches 4-0, no-hit win over Indians at Yankee Stadium
4th - Miklos Horthy appointed Hungarian admiral
4th - Mats Wilander defeats Mikael Pernfors 7-6 (7-3), 3-6, 1-6, 7-6 (8-6), 6-4 in 4 hrs 1 min US Open Tennis match concluding at 2:26 AM
5th - "Fool Moon" closes at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC after 207 perfs
5th - "Jelly's Last Jam" closes at Virginia Theater NYC after 569 perfs
5th - "Will Rogers Follies" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 983 perfs
5th - F Murray Abraham released from hospital after car accident
5th - Largest US Tennis Open 2 sessions (total) daily gate (43,502)
5th - Noureddine Morceli runs world record mile (3:44,39)
5th - Robocop Richard Eden (36) weds actress Shannon Hile (30)
6th - Helen Dobson wins LPGA State Farm Rail Golf Classic
6th - Jerry Lewis' 28th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $46,014,922
7th - Brazil votes over importing monarchy
7th - Cards Mark Whiten, hits 4 HRs & 12 RBIs in 2nd game of doubleheader
8th - Baseball's proposed switch to a three-division format OKed in AL
8th - Cheek Junxia wins world record ladies 10 km (29:31.78)
8th - Houston's Darryl Kile throws 3rd no-hitter of season in 7-1 over Mets
9th - Croupier of casino in Bristol England, shoots a 4, a record 8 times
9th - PLO recognizes state of Israel
9th - Ukraine premier Leonid Koetsjma, resigns
10th - 1,000 Boeing 747 jumbo plane produced
10th - Actress Loretta Young, 80, weds costume designer Jean Louis, 85
10th - Israel & PLO sign joint recognition statements
11th - 107th US Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Helena Sukova (63 63)
11th - Junxia Qu runs 1500m ladies world record (3:50.46)
12th - 113rd US Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Cedric Pioline (64 64 63)
12th - Donna Andrews wins Ping-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship
12th - Junxia Cheek runs 3000 m ladies world record (8:12.29)
12th - Paul Molitor at 37 is oldest to reach 100 RBIs for 1st time in career
12th - STS-51 (Discovery) launches into orbit
13th - Israeli min of Foreign affairs Peres & PLO-Abu Mazen sign peace accord
13th - Junxia Cheek runs ladies world record 3000m (8:06.11)
13th - Queens NY begins required recycling
13th - Public unveiling of the Oslo Accords, an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement initiated by Norway.
15th - Liechtenstein prince Hans-Adam II disbands parliament
16th - Minn Twins Dave Winfield, is 19th to get 3,000 hits
16th - Singer Karen Akers (48) weds businessman Kevin Powers (41)
17th - Last Russian troops leave Poland.
18th - Kimberly Clarice Aiken (SC), 18, crowned 67th Miss America 1994
18th - LA Mighty Ducks play their 1st NHL pre-season game against Penguins
18th - Trailing 3-1 with 2 outs in 9th, time is called prior to Mike Stanley pop out, gets a 2nd chance, & Yanks rally to beat Boston 4-3
19th - 45th Emmy Awards: Seinfeld, Picket Fences & Ted Danson wins
19th - Actress Michele Phillips (Knots Landing) is robbed at gunpoint
19th - Brandie Burton wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
19th - Kimberly Clarice Aiken, 18, Miss SC wins 67th Miss America
19th - Parliamentary election in Poland
19th - Tom Glavine wins 20 games in 3 straight years
21st - Ukraine govt of Kutshma resigns
22nd - Nolan Ryan, 46, pitches his last game
22nd - STS-51 (Discovery) lands
22nd - Supreme Soviet dismisses president Boris Yeltsin
22nd - A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia.
23rd - "Les Miserables," opens at Playhouse, Edinburgh
23rd - Paul Chu group reports super conduction at -123°C (record high)
24th - 1st Israeli killed by Islamics after PLO signs peace accord
24th - Beverly Hills 90210 star Shannen Doherty (Brenda) weds Ashley Hamilton
24th - Norodom Sihanouk again installed as king of Cambodia
26th - 30th Ryder Cup: US beats Europe, 15-13 at The Belfry, England
26th - Cubs bat out of order against Pirates in 2nd inning
26th - Indians win their last game at Cleveland Stadium, beating Brewers 6-4
26th - Kris Monaghan wins LPGA Kyocera Inamori Golf Classic
26th - Seattle's Randy Johnson joins 300-strikeout club
27th - Actor Daniel Day Lewis pleads guilty to speeding charges
27th - The Sukhumi massacre takes place in Abkhazia.
28th - Dennis Martinez is 7th to win 100 games in AL & NL
28th - Gas field in Caracas explodes, 53 killed
28th - Ron Wood releases "Slide On Live"
29th - "Grace Under Fire," starring Brett Butler debuts on ABC-TV
29th - 27th Country Music Assn Award: Vince Gill wins
30th - 6.4 earthquake at Latur, India, 28,000 killed
30th - General Colin Powell retires at 56
30th - MS Dos 6.2 released

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 5 of 5

1st - Ilona Mitrecey, French singer
3rd - Rina Koike, Japanese junior idol
5th - Gage Golightly, American actress
7th - Joshua Wilkinson, prince of self proclaimed principality sealand
20th - Taylor Parks, American actress

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 58 of 58

1st - Gerben Wagenaar, resistance fighter/communist, dies at 80
1st - Hew Lorimer, British sculptor, dies at 86
1st - Jacqueline Wijchers, film publicist (Havenloods, Sextant), dies at 89
2nd - Eric Berry, English/US actor (Pippin, 49th Parallel), dies at 80
2nd - John/Eoin Higgins, N Ire supreme court justice (1984-93), dies at 66
3rd - Leon Liebgold, Pol/US actor/chairman (Hebrew Actors Union), dies at 83
4th - Clyde Adler, voice (White Fang/Black Tooth-Soupy Sales), dies
4th - Herve Villechaize, actor (Fantasy Island), shoots self to death at 50
4th - Mehmet Sincar, Turkish/Kurd MP, murdered
5th - Claude Renoir, French cinematographer (Spy Who Loved Me), dies at 78
5th - John Truscott, Australian set designer (Camelot), dies at 57
5th - René Klijn, [Dorian], singer (Mr Blue), dies of AIDS at 30)
5th - Willem Wagter, actor (Ghetto, Medic Center West), dies at 60
6th - Josephine Rich Corday, vaudevillian, dies of kidney failure at 79
8th - Hall Bartlett, US director (Jonathan Livingston Seagull), dies at 70
8th - Lorin "Whitey" Harrison, surfer, dies at 80 of a heart attack
8th - Zaki Naguib Mahmoud, Egyptian philosopher/author/diplomat, dies at 88
9th - David Tendlar, animator (Betty Boop), dies
9th - Helen O'Connell, singer (Green Eyes), dies of cancer at 74
10th - Janice Carroll, actress (End, April Fools), dies of cancer at 61
10th - Rita Karin, Polish-Latvia/US actress (Sophie's Choice), dies at 73
11th - Antoine Izmery, Haitian businessman/advisor to pres Aristide, murdered
11th - Erich Leinsdorf, Austria/US conductor/author (Cadenza), dies at 81
12th - Charles Lamont, actor/director (Abbott & Costello movies), dies at 95
12th - Harold Innocent, actor (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves), dies at 60
12th - Herman Nieland, organist/pianist/composer, dies at 82
12th - Raymond Burr, actor (Perry Mason), dies of liver cancer at 76
15th - Frits Noske, musicologist (Tie Musikwerk), dies at 72
15th - Herman Meyer, Germanist (Deutsche Dichtung), dies at 82
16th - Johanna F Zandstra-Giezen, oldest person in Netherland, dies at 111
16th - Willie Mosconi, world billiards champ, dies of heart attack at 80
17th - Christian Nyby, US director (Big Sleep, Thing), dies at 80
19th - Bruce Ferden, US conductor (NY, Washington, Amsterdam), dies at 44
19th - Richard Landau, US screenwriter (Back to Bataan), dies at 79
20th - Leonard Parkin, British TV host (ITN), dies at 64
20th - Loan Volkerijk, Dutch baseball coach (ADO), dies at 65
21st - Fernand Ledoux, Belgian/French actor (L'Homme de Londres), dies at 96
21st - Kamaran Abdalla, Iraq/Engl/Neth actor (Best Thing in Life), dies at 34
22nd - Margaret MacDonald, maid to Queen Elizabeth, dies at 89
23rd - William Cort, actor/producer (Ghost, Dear Heart), dies of cancer at 53
24th - Zita Johann, Hungarian/US actress (Mummy), dies at 89
24th - Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physicist (b. 1913)
24th - Ian Stuart Donaldson, British musician (b. 1957)
26th - James Boyden, British Labour MP (1959-79), dies at 82
27th - Andrei Solovyiov, Russian photographer, dies in battle at 38
27th - James H Doolittle, US air force general (Tokyo 1942), dies at 96
28th - Alfonso Balcazar, dies
28th - Gustavo Brillembourg, Venez/US advocate, dies in an accident at 35
28th - Peter De Vries, cartoonist (New Yorker), dies at 83
28th - Fraser MacPherson, Canadian jazz saxophonist (b. 1928)
28th - Alexander A. Drabik, American soldier (b. 1910)
29th - Ghuslam Wyne, premier of Lahore Pakistan, murdered at 60
29th - Gordon Douglas, director (Call Me Mr Tibbs, Our Gang), dies at 85
30th - Alex Lyon, English Labor Lower house leader (1966-83), dies at 61
30th - Gordon Douglas, actor/director (Tony Rome), dies of cancer at 85
30th - Paul Nowee, writer (Arendsoog.. premiejager), dies at 57
30th - Reizl Bozyk, Polish/US actress (Crossing Delancey), dies at 79
30th - Tony Brafa, actor (Enrico Pallazzo-Naked Gun), dies at 72