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Historical Events

Results 201 - 300 of 887

Mar 30th - "Redwood Curtain" opens at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC for 40 perfs
Mar 30th - French govt of Balladur forms
Mar 30th - Jamaican premier Percival Patterson wins parliamentary election
Mar 30th - Lanford Wilson's "Redwood Curtain," premieres in NYC
Mar 30th - New South Wales beat Qld by eight wkts to win Sheffield Shield
Mar 30th - Punjab beat Maharashtra by 120 runs to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy
Apr 1st - Alan Bennett's "Madness of George III," premieres in London
Apr 1st - Stephane Powers weds Patrick de la Chenais
Apr 2nd - 1st test flight of Fokker 70 (Amsterdam)
Apr 2nd - Venezuelan DC-10 crashes at Margarita, killing 10
Apr 4th - 12th NCAA Women's Basketball Champion: Texas Tech beats OH State 84-82
Apr 4th - 5th Seniors Golf Tradition: Tom Shaw
Apr 4th - Trish Johnson wins Las Vegas LPGA at Canyon Gate Golf Tournament
Apr 4th - Wrestlemania IX at Caesar's Palace Las Vegas, Hulk Hogan pins Yokozuna
Apr 5th - 55th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: NC beats Michigan 77-71
Apr 5th - 73,293 see Yankees beat Indians 9-1
Apr 5th - Colorado Rockies 1st game - lose to NY Mets 3-0
Apr 5th - Construction begins on Cleveland's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
Apr 5th - Florida Marlins 1st game - beat LA Dodgers 6-3
Apr 5th - Republican Guard kills 64 in Chad
Apr 6th - 1st test flight of Ilyushin IL-96M (Moscow)
Apr 6th - Florida Marlins 1st lost ever (4-2 to LA Dodgers)
Apr 7th - Dante Bichette hits the 1st Colo Rockie HR (Shea Stadium NY)
Apr 8th - Indians' Carlos Baerga is 1st to switch hit HRs in same inn (vs Yanks)
Apr 8th - STS-56 (Discovery) launches into orbit
Apr 9th - Colorado Rockies 1st home game & 1st victory, 11-4 over Mont Expos
Apr 10th - BPAA US Open by Del Ballard Jr
Apr 10th - Ottawa Senators win 1st road game (Islanders) after 38 straight loses
Apr 10th - Pittsburgh Penguins win their NHL record 17 game winning streak
Apr 11th - 57th Golf Masters Championship: Bernhard Langer wins, shooting a 277
Apr 11th - Jeff Rouse swims world record 100m backstroke (51.43 sec)
Apr 11th - Kirsan Ilumzjinov installed as president of Kalmukkie
Apr 11th - 450 prisoners rioted at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, and continued to do so for ten days, citing grievances related to prison conditions, as well as the forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners (for tuberculosis) against their religious beliefs. It was Easter Sunday.
Apr 13th - "3 Men on a Horse" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 40 performances
Apr 13th - 14th Emmy Sports Award presentation
Apr 13th - Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia," premieres in London
Apr 16th - Jury reaches guilty verdict in Federal case against cop who beat Rodney King, but the verdict is not read until April 17th
Apr 17th - Police officers found guilty of violating Rodney Kings civil rights
Apr 17th - STS-56 (Discovery) lands
Apr 18th - "Ain't Broadway Grand" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 25 perfs
Apr 18th - 54th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Tom Wargo
Apr 18th - Beirut-hostage Terry Anderson marries Madeleine Bassil
Apr 18th - David Lee Roth arrested in NYC for purchasing marijuana for $10
Apr 18th - Trish Johnson wins LPGA Atlanta Women's Golf Championship
Apr 19th - 22nd Boston Women's Marathon won by Olga Markova of Russia in 2:25:27
Apr 19th - 97th Boston Marathon won by Cosmas N'deti of Kenya in 2:09:33
Apr 19th - Branch Davidians in Waco Texas commit suicide after 51 day siege
Apr 19th - Fire in psychiatric institute in South Korea, kills 40
Apr 19th - South Dakota governor George Mickelson and seven others are killed when a state-owned aircraft crashed lands in Iowa.
Apr 20th - Uranus passes Neptune (once every 171 years)
Apr 21st - "Wilder, Wilder, Wilder" opens at Circle in Sq NYC for 30 perfs
Apr 21st - Brazil votes against a monarchy
Apr 21st - Rolling Stone Bill Wyman weds Suzanne Accosta on French Riveria
Apr 22nd - "Who's Tommy" opens at St James Theater NYC for 899 performances
Apr 22nd - Candid Camera creator Allen Funt suffers a stroke at 78
Apr 22nd - Holocaust Memorial Museum dedicated in Wash DC
Apr 22nd - Seattle Mariner Chris Basio no-hits Boston Red Sox
Apr 22nd - Tennis star Bjorn Borg divorces Loredana Berte
Apr 22nd - The web browser Mosaic version 1.0 is released.
Apr 23rd - Eritrea votes to secede from Ethiopia
Apr 23rd - Motley Crue's Mike Mars files for divorce from Emi-Canyn
Apr 23rd - Peter Townshend's musical "Tommy," premieres in NYC
Apr 24th - 1000 kg heavy IRA car bomb explodes in London, killing 1
Apr 24th - ABC news analyst Jeff Greenfield weds Karen Gannett
Apr 24th - Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by George Branham
Apr 24th - An IRA bomb devastates the Bishopsgate area of London.
Apr 25th - "Blood Brothers" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 839 performances
Apr 25th - Russia elect Boris Yeltsin leader
Apr 26th - "Shakespeare for My Father" opens at Helen Hayes NYC for 266 perfs
Apr 26th - Boeing 737 crashes at Aurangabad, kills 56
Apr 26th - NBC announces Conan O'Brien to replace David Letterman
Apr 26th - STS-55 (Columbia) launches into orbit
Apr 27th - Afghan Antonov AN-32 crashes at Tashqurgan, kills 76
Apr 28th - "Tango Passion" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 5 performances
Apr 28th - Carlo Ciampi forms Italian govt with ex-communists
Apr 28th - Zambian plane crashes at Libreville, Gabon, 30 soccer players die
Apr 28th - NY Islanders beat Wash Caps 4 to 1 in playoffs, Caps Dale Hunter attacks Pierre Turgeon after scoring, in hockey's worst cheap shot
Apr 30th - The World Wide Web is born at CERN.
Apr 30th - Virgin Radio broadcasts for the first time in the United Kingdom.
May 1st - 119th Kentucky Derby: Jerry Bailey aboard Sea Hero wins in 2:02.4
May 1st - Bomb attack on Sri Lankan president (26 die)
May 2nd - "5 Guys Named Moe" closes at Eugene O'Neill NYC after 445 perfs
May 2nd - "Candida" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 45 performances
May 2nd - "Redwood Curtain" closes at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC after 40 perfs
May 2nd - "Tango Passion" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 5 performances
May 2nd - Kristi Albers wins Sprint Golf Classic
May 2nd - Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Sprint Senior Challenge Golf Tournament
May 3rd - "Kiss of the Spider Woman" opens at Broadhurst NYC for 906 perfs
May 4th - "Angels in America-Millennium Approaches" opens at Kerr for 367 perfs
May 6th - STS-55 (Columbia) lands
May 7th - South Africa agrees to multi-racial elections
May 8th - ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Phil Ware
May 8th - Lennox Lewis beats Tony Tucker in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
May 8th - 16 year old Keron Thomas disguises himself as a motorman & takes NYC subway train & 2,000 passengers on a 3 hour ride
May 9th - "Ain't Broadway Grand" closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 25 perfs
May 9th - "Song of Jacob Zulu" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 53 perfs
May 9th - Landslide in Nambija Ecuador, kills 300
May 9th - Meg Mallon wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic
May 9th - Mustapha Matura's "Playboy of West Indies," premieres in NYC
May 9th - Paraguay holds its 1st pres & parliamentary elections in 50 years

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Famous Deaths

Results 201 - 300 of 733

Mar 27th - Clifford Jordan, tenor saxophonist, dies of cancer at 61
Mar 27th - Kate Reid, British actress (Lil-Dallas), dies of cancer at 62
Mar 27th - Katherine Hynes De Groot, dies of stroke at 88
Mar 27th - Wilhelmus M J Russell, Dutch MP (KVP, CDA), dies at 74
Mar 28th - Scott Cunningham, Occult author (b. 1956)
Mar 30th - Jeremy Siegrist, actor (Adv of Darly & Samy), dies hiking at 20
Mar 30th - Richard C Diebenkorn Jr, US painter (Ocean Park Paintings), dies at 70
Mar 31st - Brandon Lee, US actor (Crow)/son of Bruce Lee, accidentally shot at 28
Mar 31st - Jose Maria Lemus, president of El Salvador (1956-60), dies
Mar 31st - Mitchell Parish, American lyricist (b. 1900)
Mar 31st - Chichay, Filipino actress (b. 1918)
Apr 1st - Alan Kulwicki, stock car racer, dies in plane crash at 38
Apr 1st - Ihsan Mohamed Salem, [Yunis Awad], Palestinian Al-Fatah leader, killed
Apr 1st - Juan of Borbon y Battemberg, father of king Juan Carlos I, dies
Apr 1st - Wayne Mack, sportscaster/actor (Storyville), dies of cancer at 68
Apr 2nd - Eugenie Leontovitch, actress (4 Sons, Homicidal), dies at 93
Apr 2nd - Klaas Schenk, Dutch speed skater/coach/father of Ard, dies at 86
Apr 3rd - Alexander Mnouchkine, French movie producer (Professional), dies at 83
Apr 3rd - Dieter Plage, German wildlife filmmaker, dies at 57
Apr 3rd - Eduardo Cabellero Calderon, Colombian writer/diplomat, dies at 83
Apr 3rd - Pinky Lee, kiddie host (Pinky Lee Show), dies of heart attack at 85
Apr 4th - Alfred Mosher Butts, US architect/game maker (Scrabble), dies at 93
Apr 4th - Bep [Alberta B] Ogterop, [Rita la Roche], singer, dies
Apr 6th - Divya Bharati, "Baby Doll" Indies actress (Diwana), dies in car at 19
Apr 6th - Hedi Amira Nouira, PM of Tunisia (1970-80), dies
Apr 7th - Max Croiset, Dutch actor/dramatist/director (Zeekant), dies at 80
Apr 7th - Richard Schmiechen, dies of AIDS at 45
Apr 7th - S C (Billy) Griffith, cricketer (England 1948-49, MCC sect), dies
Apr 8th - Arleen Whelan, dies of stroke at 78
Apr 8th - H Earnest, bishop of Breda, dies
Apr 8th - Marian Anderson, US contralto (My Lord, What a Morning), dies at 96
Apr 9th - Wouter Perquin, journalist/Dutch MP (KVP), dies at 74
Apr 10th - Chris Hani, sec-gen South Africian Communist Party, assassinated at 50
Apr 11th - Mohammed el-Himi, brigade-general of Egyptian police, murdered
Apr 11th - Rachmon Nabiyev, President of Tadzjikistan (1973..92), dies at 63
Apr 12th - Isaac Rojas, vp of Argentina (1955-58), dies
Apr 12th - Patience Jarvis, dies of melanoma at 56
Apr 13th - Barry Karas, dies of leukemia at 49
Apr 13th - Henny Budie, Dutch director/producer (Sterrenslag), dies
Apr 13th - Max Tripels, Dutch attorney/MP, dies at 72
Apr 14th - Jo Boer, Dutch painter/writer/author (Heir, dies at 85
Apr 14th - Sam Ntombani, ANC-secretary in Soweto South-Africa, shot to death
Apr 15th - George Ives, dies at 111
Apr 15th - H H "Bull" Alexander, cricketer (Test for Aust 1933, avg 154), dies
Apr 15th - Leslie Charteris, British mystery writer (Saint), dies at 85
Apr 15th - William Bakewell, dies of leukemia at 84
Apr 15th - John Tuzo Wilson, Canadian geologist (b. 1908)
Apr 16th - John P W Meefout, sculptor (Laying wife), dies at 77
Apr 17th - Turgut Özal, president of Turkey (1989-93), dies at 65
Apr 18th - Arthur P Smith, US founder of Miami Planetarium, dies at 76
Apr 18th - Masahiko Kimura, Japanese judoka (b. 1917)
Apr 19th - David Koresh, [Vernon Howell], cult leader (Davidians), suicide
Apr 19th - George Mickelson, Gov of SD, & 7 others, die in a plane crash
Apr 20th - Cantinflas, [Mario Moreno], Mexican actor (Pepe), dies at 81
Apr 21st - Hal Schumacher, baseball pitcher, dies at 82
Apr 22nd - Andries Treurnicht, founder S Afr Conservative Party, dies at 72
Apr 22nd - Cesar Chavez, US farm worker (United Farm Workers), dies at 66
Apr 22nd - Mark Koenig, baseball shortstop (NY Yankees), dies at 88
Apr 23rd - Bertus Aafjes, poet/writer (World is a Muze), dies at 78
Apr 23rd - Lalith Athulathmudali, Sri Lankan minister, murdered at 59
Apr 24th - Oliver R Tambo, chairman (African National Congress), dies at 75
Apr 25th - Rosita Moreno, actress (Walls of Gold), dies of heart attack at 85
Apr 27th - Hans Sahl, German/US writer (Tie Exil im Exil), dies at 90
Apr 28th - Jim Valvano, basketball coach (NC State), dies of cancer at 47
Apr 29th - Cy Howard, director (Lovers & Other Strangers), dies at 77
Apr 29th - Michael Gordon, actor/director (Pillow Talk), dies at 83
Apr 29th - Mick Ronson, English guitarist/producer (Mott the Hoople), dies at 46
Apr 30th - David Waymer, NFLer (Saints, 49'ers, Raiders), dies at 34
Apr 30th - Eric Rowan, cricketer (26 Tests for South Africa), dies
Apr 30th - Tommy Caton, English footballer (b. 1962)
May 1st - Hans [Henri EA] Tuynman, provo (Full-time Provo), dies at 50
May 1st - Ranasinghe Premadasa, pres (Sri Lanka, 1989-93), assassinated at 68
May 2nd - Julio Gallo, wine maker (Gallo), dies in a car accident at 82
May 2nd - WLPM, the Short, Dutch MP (KVP, 1945-73), dies at 83
May 2nd - Will Weng, Sunday Times crossword puzzle editor (1968-78), dies at 86
May 5th - Balak Brahmachari, [Marxist Godman], Indies guru, dies at 73
May 5th - Irving Howe, US writer/critic (Dissent), dies at 72
May 5th - Lenore Kingston Jenson, dies of cancer at 79
May 6th - Ann Todd, actress (Things to Come, Danny Boy), dies of stroke at 84
May 6th - Minnie Gentry, actress (Def by Temptation), dies in NY at 77
May 7th - Mary Philbin, actress (Phantom of the Opera), dies at 89
May 8th - Kees Deenik, singer/conductor
May 8th - Avram Davidson, American writer (b. 1923)
May 9th - Freya Stark, English author (Sunday Bloody Sunday), dies at 61
May 9th - Mary Duncan Sanford, dies at 98
May 9th - Penelope Gilliatt [Conner], British author
May 13th - Borolas, [Joaquin Garcia], Mexican comedian (Santa Sangre), dies at 71
May 13th - Evert "Eef" Dolman, Dutch cyclist (Olympic-gold-1964), dies at 47
May 13th - Joaquin Garcia, Mexican comic actor, dies of heart attack at 71
May 14th - Patrick Haemers, Belgian criminal, commits suicide at 40
May 14th - William Randolph Hearst, US newspaper magnate (Pulitzer), dies at 85
May 15th - Salah Ahmed Ibrahim, Sudanese writer, poet, and diplomat (b. 1933)
May 16th - Marv Johnson, US soul singer (You Got What it Takes), dies at 54
May 18th - Heinrich Albertz, theologist/mayor of Berlin (1966-67), dies at 78
May 18th - Pamela M Cunnington, English architect/writer, dies at 67
May 19th - Nemesio Antunes, Chilean painter, dies at 75
May 19th - Richard Murphy, director (3 Stripes in the Sun), dies of stroke at 81
May 19th - S W Sohoni, cricketer (4 Tests for India), dies
May 20th - Max Klein, inventor (paint by numbers), dies at 77
May 21st - John Frost, English lt-kol (operation Market Garden 1944), dies at 80