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Historical Events

Results 101 - 200 of 887

Feb 11th - Howard Stern's radio show begins transmitting to Rochester NY (WRQI)
Feb 11th - Irina Privalova runs world record 60m indoor (6.92 secs)
Feb 11th - Janet Reno selected by Clinton as US Attorney General
Feb 13th - Ljubow Kremljowa runs world record 1000m indoor (2:34:84)
Feb 13th - Merlene Ottey runs world record 200m indoor (21.87 sec)
Feb 13th - Sergei Bubka pole vaults indoor record (6.14 m)
Feb 14th - Fire in Linxi department store in Tangshan China, kills 79
Feb 15th - Bomb strike on mafia drug lords in Bogot , Colombia; kills 14
Feb 15th - Bombings by mafia drug lords kill 14 in Bogota Colombia
Feb 15th - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Rochester NY on WNVE 95.1 FM
Feb 15th - Katie Elizabeth Hillyard was born, famous English young composer of the year 2007.England
Feb 16th - Sandra V"lker swims world record 50m backstroke (28.33 sec)
Feb 16th - Western Australia's and Australia's first woman Premier, Carmen Lawrence, is voted out of office.
Feb 17th - Haitian ferry boat capsize in storm, 800-2,000 die
Feb 17th - Mark Foster swims world record 50m free style (21.60 sec)
Feb 18th - Howard Stern's radio show begins transmitting to Rochester NY
Feb 19th - Kenya Moore, 22, (Michigan), crowned 42nd Miss USA
Feb 20th - Florida Marlins open their 1st spring training camp
Feb 20th - Lisa Walters wins LPGA Itoki Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open
Feb 20th - NY Islanders retire Billy Smith's number 31
Feb 21st - 43rd NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 135-132 (OT) at Salt Lake City
Feb 21st - Sergei Bubka pole vaults world record indoor (6.15 m)
Feb 22nd - Vinod Kambli scores 224 v England at Bombay, 411 balls, 23 fours
Feb 23rd - Gary Coleman wins $1,280,000 lawsuit against parents for high fees
Feb 23rd - India complete a 3-0 series drubbing of England
Feb 23rd - Sacramento Gold Miners admitted as CFL's 9th franchise (1st US team)
Feb 24th - 35th Grammy Awards: Tears in Heaven, Eric Clapton wins
Feb 25th - "Fool Moon" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 207 performances
Feb 25th - Florida Marlins introduce their mascot "Billy"
Feb 25th - Pakistan all out 43 v West Indies, world one-day int record low
Feb 26th - 2nd tallest building in world, NYC World Trade Center bombed, 7 die
Feb 26th - 9th Soap Opera Digest Awards
Feb 26th - Allan Border beats Gavaskar's record for most Test Cricket runs 10,123
Feb 27th - PBA National Championship Won by Ron Palombi Jr
Feb 28th - "Anna Christie" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 54 performances
Feb 28th - 7th American Comedy Award: Seinfeld wins
Feb 28th - Gun battle erupts at Waco Texas between FBI & Branch Davidians
Feb 28th - Iolanda Chen triple jumps world indoor record hop step (14.46m)
Feb 28th - Tony Curtis weds Lisa Deutsch as his 4th wife
Mar 1st - Authorities in Waco, Texas negotiate with Branch Davidians
Mar 1st - George Steinbenner is reinstated as owner of NY Yankees
Mar 1st - New expansion NHL team, owned by Disney, is named the Mighty Ducks
Mar 2nd - Claudette Colbert, suffers a stroke at 89
Mar 2nd - Salman Rushdie divorces Marianne Wiggins
Mar 3rd - Howard Stern radio show premieres in Boston (WBCN 104.1 FM-evenings)
Mar 4th - "Goodbye Girl" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 188 performances
Mar 4th - Katharine Hepburn enters the hospital suffering from exhaustion
Mar 5th - Boston Celtic Larry Bird undergoes backfusion surgery
Mar 5th - Fokker 100 crashes at Skopje Macedonia, 81 die
Mar 5th - Former Wash DC Mayor Marion Barry divorces his wife Effi
Mar 5th - Marlins beat Astros 12-8 in their 1st spring training game
Mar 7th - 23rd Easter Seal Telethon raises
Mar 7th - Diff'rent Stroke actor Todd Bridges arrested for stabbing a tenant
Mar 8th - Katharine Hepburn released from the hospital after exhaustion
Mar 8th - Nigerian singer Fela Kuti arrested again on suspicion of murder
Mar 9th - 19th People's Choice Awards
Mar 9th - 7th Soul Train Music Awards
Mar 9th - Pittsburgh Penguins begin NHL record 17 game winning streak
Mar 9th - Rodney King in court says he thinks he heard cops yell racial slurs
Mar 11th - Men's Figure Skating Championship in Prague won by Kurt Browning CAN
Mar 12th - 317 killed by bomb attacks in Bombay
Mar 12th - Cleveland radio station WMMS-FM/101.7 is bought by Disney
Mar 12th - Entertainment Tonight's 3,000th show
Mar 12th - Inkhata leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi begins 2½ week speech
Mar 13th - Blizzard of '93 hits north-east US
Mar 14th - "Conversations with My Father" closes at Royale NYC after 462 perfs
Mar 14th - "Face Value" closes at Cort Theater NYC after * performances
Mar 14th - "Saint Joan" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 49 performances
Mar 14th - 3,000th performance of "Nunsense"
Mar 14th - Johan Koss skates world record 5km (6:36.57)
Mar 14th - Meg Mallon wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship
Mar 14th - Ricky Ponting hits twin tons for Tasmania aged 18 years 84 days
Mar 14th - Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Prague won by Oksana Baiul (UKR)
Mar 15th - Vinod Kambli scores 227 v Zimbabwe, his 2nd consecutive Test 200
Mar 17th - 86 killed by bomb attack in Calcutta
Mar 18th - "Sisters Rosensweig" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 556 perfs
Mar 18th - Amsterdam stock exchange hits record Ÿ12.2 billion
Mar 18th - Eddie Murphy marries Nicole Mitchell in NYC
Mar 18th - Sri Lanka beat England in Test match by 5 wickets
Mar 19th - Ice Dance Championship at Prague won by M Usova & A Zhulin (RUS)
Mar 19th - Ice Pairs Championship at Prague won by I Brasseur & L Eisler (CAN)
Mar 19th - Supreme Court Justice Byron R White announced plans to retire
Mar 20th - Dan Jansen skates world record 500m (36.02 sec)
Mar 20th - IRA-bomb kills 3 year old in Warrington England
Mar 20th - Morton Downey Jr weds Lori Krebs
Mar 21st - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Standard Register Ping Golf Tournament
Mar 21st - Pope John Paul II declares Duns Scotus, a saint
Mar 21st - South Africa White Wolves kill 5 year old black girl
Mar 22nd - Intel introduces Pentium-processor (80586) 64 bits-60 MHz-100+ MIPS
Mar 23rd - Belgian govt of Dehaene, resigns
Mar 23rd - NY Knicks & Phoenix Suns get into a major brawl
Mar 24th - Ezer Weizman elected president of Israel
Mar 25th - "Candida" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 45 performances
Mar 27th - Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People's Republic of China.
Mar 28th - 13th Golden Raspberry Awards: Shining Through wins
Mar 28th - 22nd Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Helen Alfredsson
Mar 28th - Conservatives win French parliamentary election
Mar 28th - Type II supernova detected in M81 (NGC 3031)
Mar 29th - 65th Academy Awards - "Unforgiven," Al Pacino & Emma Thompson win
Mar 29th - Queensland all out for 75 v NSW in Sheffield Shield Final

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Famous Deaths

Results 101 - 200 of 733

Feb 15th - George Wallington, [Giacinto Figlia], Italian bebop-pianist/, dies
Feb 16th - Donald Phelps, dies of AIDS at 61
Feb 16th - Richard Salant, news president (CBS-60 Minutes), dies at 78
Feb 17th - Alfredo de Leon, leader (Philippines Red Scorpio Gang), killed
Feb 17th - George E Wilburn, film editor, dies of emphysema at 77
Feb 17th - Leslie Townsend, cricket all-rounder (Engld in 4 Tests 1930-34), dies
Feb 18th - Edward S "Ted" Haworth, US set designer (Sayonara, Marty), dies at 76
Feb 18th - Jacqueline Hill, dies of cancer at 63
Feb 18th - Leslie Norman, English director/producer (Dunkirk), dies at 82
Feb 18th - Michael David Morrison, actor (Caleb-As the World Turns), dies at 33
Feb 18th - Kerry Von Erich, American professional wrestler (b. 1960)
Feb 19th - Gerhard Gesell, judge (Pentagon Papers), dies of liver cancer at 82
Feb 19th - Michael Morrison, actor (Caleb-As the World Turns), dies at 33
Feb 20th - Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian auto-designer (Miura), dies
Feb 21st - Ferrucci Lamborghini, car maker (Lamborghini), dies at 76
Feb 22nd - Jean Lecanuet, French UDF-presidential candidate, dies at 72
Feb 22nd - Pieter A H Bos, Dutch lawyer/procureur-general (Aruba), dies at 63
Feb 23rd - Edwin Louis Battle, actor (Almost Blue, Chase), dies of stroke at 33
Feb 24th - Bobby Moore, English soccer team capt (World champs 1966), dies
Feb 24th - Toy Caldwell, guitarist (Marshall Tucker Band), dies at 45
Feb 24th - Danny Gallivan, Canadian radio and television sportscaster (b. 1917)
Feb 25th - Eddie Constantine, actor (Alphaville, License to Kill), dies at 75
Feb 25th - Jan D Boeke, Dutch organist/conductor, dies
Feb 25th - Jean G H "Sjeng" Tans, Dutch PM (social dem, 1965-69), dies
Feb 25th - John D Boeke, organist/conductor, dies
Feb 25th - Troy Caldwell, country musician (Marshall Tucker Band), dies at 45
Feb 25th - Mary Walter, Filipino actress (b. 1912)
Feb 26th - Constance Ford, US actress (Another World, Burden Hunt), dies at 64
Feb 26th - Fletcher Knebel, author (7 Days in May), commits suicide at 81
Feb 26th - Mark Kolthoff, Dutch painter/photographer, dies at 92
Feb 27th - Jose Duval, actor (Juan Valdez), dies at 72
Feb 27th - Lillian Gish, US actress (Birth of a Nation), dies at 96
Feb 27th - Ruby Keeler, actress (42nd Street), dies of cancer at 83
Feb 28th - Fer A Olthoff, Dutch WW II resistance fighter (Het Parool), dies
Feb 28th - Franco Brusati, Italian dir/writer (Bread & Chocolate), dies at 70
Feb 28th - Ishiro Honda, Japanese director/producer (Godzilla), dies at 81
Feb 28th - Joyce Carey, [Lawrence], English actress (Number 27), dies at 94
Feb 28th - Ruby Keeler, actress (42nd Street, Dames), dies of cancer at 82
Mar 1st - Luis Kutner, US co-founder (Amnesty International), dies at 84
Mar 1st - Terry Frost, actor (Waterfront, Dead Man's Trail), dies at 86
Mar 2nd - Floortje Peneder, Dutch poet (Diary), dies at 15
Mar 2nd - Paul D Zimmerman, US screenwriter (King of Comedy), dies at 54
Mar 3rd - Albert Sabin, physician (oral polio vaccine), dies at 86
Mar 3rd - Carlos Montoya, flamenco guitarist, dies at 89
Mar 3rd - Cyril Collard, French composer/dir/actor (A Nos Amours), dies at 35
Mar 3rd - Carlos Marcello, Tunisian-born gangster (b. 1910)
Mar 4th - Art Hodes, Russ/US jazz/blues pianist/editor (Jazz Record), dies
Mar 4th - Richard Sale, writer/director (Oscar, Torpedo Run), dies at 80
Mar 5th - Diana Ochoa, dies after long illness at 80
Mar 5th - Peter Bierdrager, Dutch Fokker's-test pilot, dies in air crash
Mar 6th - Cyril Collard, French director (Lesson nuits fauves), dies at 35
Mar 6th - Douglas Marland, soap writer (As the World Turns), dies at 58
Mar 6th - Nicholas Ridley, English Minister of Finance, dies at 64
Mar 7th - Arnold Franchetti, Ital/US composer, dies
Mar 7th - Earl Wrightson, singer/actor (Pinafore), dies of heart failure at 77
Mar 7th - Tony Harris, cricketer (8 Tests for S Afr 1947-49, 100 runs), dies
Mar 8th - Billy Eckstine, jazz singer (Fools Rush In), dies at 78 of stroke
Mar 8th - Johan Bodegraven, radio host (Purses Open, Dikes Closed), dies at 78
Mar 8th - Joop Scheltens, TV host/director (Explore Your Place), dies at 69
Mar 8th - Wells Root, US screenwriter (Prisoner of Zenda), dies at 92
Mar 9th - Ad van Gessel, Dutch actor (Everything For Our Soldiers), dies
Mar 9th - Bob Crosby, swing-era bandleader (Bobcats), dies of cancer at 79
Mar 10th - C Northcote Parkinson, English historian/sociologist (Law of P), dies
Mar 10th - David Gunn, abortion doctor, killed by Michael Griffin at 47
Mar 11th - Dino Bravo, wrestler (WWF), shot to death at 44
Mar 11th - Edgar Nelson Barclift, dancer, dies after lengthy illness at 76
Mar 11th - Manuel da Fonseca, Portuguese writer (Cerro Maior), dies at 81
Mar 12th - Andreas J A I Bruggeman, Dutch mayor (Leiderdorp), dies at 62
Mar 12th - June Valli, singer (Crying in the Chapel), dies of cancer at 62
Mar 12th - Michael Kanin, screenwriter (Woman of the Year), dies at 83
Mar 12th - Wang Zhen, marxist/vice-premier of China (1988), dies
Mar 13th - Ralph Smith Fults, US gangster (Bonnie & Clyde gang), dies at 82
Mar 15th - Anthony Bowles, music writer (Jesus Christ Superstar), dies at 61
Mar 15th - Dennis Gregory, actor (Village of the Damn), dies of pneumonia at 40
Mar 15th - Ricardo M Arias Espinosa, president of Panama (1955-56), dies
Mar 16th - Chishu Ryu, Japanese actor (Autumn Afternoon), dies of cancer at 86
Mar 16th - Djilalli Lyabes, Algerian minister of Higher Education, murdered
Mar 16th - Don Randolph, actor (Harem Girl), dies of pneumonia at 87
Mar 16th - Giovanni Testori, Italian writer (Arialda), dies at 69
Mar 16th - Mohammed Hussein Nagdi, Iran diplomat/resistance fighter, murdered
Mar 17th - Helen Hayes, actress (Airport), dies of congestive heart failure at 92
Mar 17th - Laadi Flici, Algerian MP, murdered
Mar 17th - Skip Young, actor (Smokey & Hotwire Gang), dies at 62
Mar 19th - Barend P Tammeling, journalist (Trouw, Peek on the North), dies at 58
Mar 19th - Jeff Ward, drummer (9 Inch Nails), commits suicide at 30
Mar 20th - Claudia Yeltsin, mother of Russian president Yeltsin, dies at 85
Mar 20th - Jonathan Ball, English youngster, killed by IRA at 3
Mar 22nd - Cec Pepper, cricketer (NSW & Commonwealth XI leggie), dies
Mar 22nd - Gret Palucca, German dancer/choreographer (Entartet), dies at 91
Mar 22nd - Phia [Sophia R] Berghout, Dutch harpist, dies at 83
Mar 22nd - Steve Olin, pitcher (Cleve Indians), drowns at 27
Mar 22nd - Tim Crews, pitcher (Cleve Indians), drowns at 31
Mar 23rd - Hans Werner Richter, German writer/founder (Gruppe 47), dies at 84
Mar 24th - Erik Andriesse, Dutch painter (skulls, skeletons), dies at 35
Mar 24th - John Hersey, Pulitzer prize author (Hiroshima), dies at 78
Mar 24th - Peter Roovers, Dutch sculptor/teacher (war monuments), dies at 90
Mar 24th - Taylor Reed, actor (Easy Money), dies of heart attack at 60
Mar 26th - Luis Falco, US choreographer (Fame, Angel Heart), dies at 50
Mar 26th - Roy Riegels, U of Calif football player who ran wrong way, dies at 84
Mar 27th - Carlos Gimenez, director (Theater Festival of Caracas), dies at 47