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Historical Events

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Oct 11th - US warship Harlan County anchors off Port-au-Prince Haiti
Oct 12th - "Mixed Emotions" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 48 performances
Oct 13th - Greek govt of Papandreou forms
Oct 13th - Mighty Ducks win their 1st NHL game
Oct 13th - Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Kary Mullis & Michael Smith
Oct 13th - Nobel prize for physics awarded to Russel Hulse & Joseph Taylor
Oct 13th - Phillies beat Atlanta in NLCS
Oct 13th - Captured American Pilot Mike Durant is filmed in an interview in captivity by a CNN camera crew.
Oct 15th - Amstel brewery on Curacao produces 1,000,000,000th bottle
Oct 15th - Guardian Angel Lisa Evers Sliwa files for divorce from Curtis Sliwa
Oct 15th - Nelson Mandela & S Afr Pres F W de Klerk awarded Nobel Peace Prize
Oct 16th - General Omar al-Bashir appointed Sudan president
Oct 16th - IRA bomb attack on fish & chips restaurant in Belfast, 10 killed
Oct 16th - Anti-Nazi riot breaks out in Welling in Kent, after police stop protesters approaching British National Party headquarters
Oct 17th - Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA World Championship of Women's Golf
Oct 18th - STS-58 (Columbia) launches into orbit
Oct 19th - UN authorizes arms, milt & police supply embargo against Haiti
Oct 20th - Highest scoring World Series game Blue Jays 15, Phillies 14 in 4h14m
Oct 21st - "Twilight of the Golds" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 29 performances
Oct 21st - Gary Kasparov defeats Nigel Short for chess championship
Oct 21st - Milt coup by Burundi Pres Ndadaye/525,000 Hutu's flee
Oct 22nd - Actor James Coburn (65) weds Paula Murad (37)
Oct 22nd - Cosmonaut Aleksandr Serebrov makes record 9th space walk
Oct 23rd - 7 killed by IRA-bomb attack in Belfast
Oct 23rd - Paramilitia kills 22 demonstrators at Bijbihara Kashmir
Oct 23rd - Tor Blue Jays beat Phila Phillies, 4 games to 2, in 89th World Series
Oct 24th - "Wonderful Tennessee" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 9 performances
Oct 25th - Airbus A310 of Air Nigeria hijacked, 1 dead
Oct 25th - Canada Liberal Party/Bloc Québécois wins parliamentary election
Oct 25th - Daryll Cullinan hits 337* for Transvaal, SAf 1st-class cricket record
Oct 26th - NFL announces new expansion team, Carolina Panthers in Charlotte
Oct 26th - NJ Devils lose 2-0 to Montreal, after winning 1st 7 games of 1993
Oct 27th - Howard Stern's radio show begins broadcasting in El Paso Texas
Oct 28th - Cleveland Metroparks lease Brookside Park from Cleveland for 99-years
Oct 28th - Dutch Antilles govt of Liberia-Peters resigns
Oct 29th - Dow Jones index reaches record 3687.86
Oct 30th - Toronto Maple Leafs lose 1st game of season after going 10-0-0
Oct 31st - "Wonderful Tennessee" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 9 perfs
Oct 31st - 25 people killed during Ghana-Ivory Coast soccer match
Oct 31st - Germany unemployment hits country record of 3.5 million
Oct 31st - Rapper Tupac Shakur charged with aggravated assault
Oct 31st - US wins Nichirei International LPGA Golf Tournament
Nov 1st - Atlantic Radio (20 radio stations) becomes American Radio Systems
Nov 1st - Last day in 1st-class cricket for Mike Whitney, NSW v NZ
Nov 1st - STS-58 (Columbia) lands
Nov 2nd - 1st commemorative bricks are laid at Bob Feller Memorial
Nov 2nd - Actor Roger Moore (James Bond) has his enlarge prostate removed
Nov 2nd - Christie Todd Whitman (R) elected 1st woman governor of NJ
Nov 2nd - Dow Jones hits record 3697.64
Nov 2nd - Ehud Olmert elected mayor of Jerusalem
Nov 2nd - Rudolph Guliani (R) elected 107th mayor of NYC
Nov 3rd - Ken Daneyko sets NJ Devil 'Ironman' record by playing 322nd cons game
Nov 4th - "Timon of Athens" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 37 performances
Nov 4th - Elton John awarded $518,700 from Sunday Mirror for a false report on his diet
Nov 4th - Nia Peeples files for divorce from Howard Hewett
Nov 4th - Bolivia becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
Nov 5th - 1st NBA game in Alamodome, San Antonio Spurs beat Warriors 91-85
Nov 6th - Actor Howard Rollins arrested for drunk driving
Nov 6th - Actress Allison Angrim (32) weds Robert Schoonover (44)
Nov 6th - Evander Holyfield beats Riddick Bowe in 12 for heavywgt boxing title
Nov 6th - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Arcangues, Brocco, Cardmania, Hollywood Wildcat, Kotashaan, Lure, Phone Chatter at Belmont
Nov 7th - Betsy King wins LPGA Toray Japan Queens Cup Golf Tournament
Nov 9th - "Cinderella" opens at New York State Theater NYC for 14 performances
Nov 9th - Serbian army fires on school in Sarajevo, 9 children died
Nov 9th - Stari most, the "old bridge" in Bosnian Mostar built in 1566, collapses after several days of bombing.
Nov 10th - "Joseph & the Amazing" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 223 perfs
Nov 10th - Slowakije govt of Meciar forms
Nov 11th - Pope John Paul II hospitalized for 2 days for fractured shoulder
Nov 13th - 7.1 seaquake east of Kamchatka
Nov 13th - Chinese MD82 makes crash landing at Urumqi, 12 killed
Nov 13th - Pakistan minister of Foreign affairs Faruk Leghari elected president
Nov 14th - "Kentucky Cycle" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 34 performances
Nov 14th - "Twilight of the Golds" closes at Booth Theater NYC after 29 perfs
Nov 14th - 23rd NYC Women's Marathon won by Uta Pippig in 2:26:24
Nov 14th - 24th NYC Marathon won by Andres Espinosa in 2:10:04
Nov 14th - Don Shula becomes winningest coach in NFL history
Nov 14th - Puerto Rico votes against becoming the 51st US state
Nov 15th - Howard Stern radio show premieres in Myrtle Beach SC on WYAV 104.1 FM
Nov 15th - Joe Buttafuoco sentence to 6 months for statutory rape of Amy Fisher
Nov 15th - 13 Cuban refugees land in Florida after stealing a crop-duster in Cuba.
Nov 16th - "Any Given Day" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 32 performances
Nov 16th - James Carrey files for divorce from Melissa
Nov 16th - Russian President Yeltsin shuts Lenin museum
Nov 17th - "Grand Night For Singing" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 52 perfs
Nov 17th - Antonov AN-124 flies in South Iran against mountain: 17 killed
Nov 17th - US House of Representatives approve Nafta
Nov 18th - 27 killed at prison in Morazan, El Salvador
Nov 18th - Black & white leaders in S Africa approve new democratic constitution
Nov 18th - NAFTA passes House
Nov 18th - North-Siberia record cold for November (-55°C)
Nov 18th - Pearl Jam lead singer Eddie Vedder arrested for public drunkiness
Nov 18th - WWF boss Vince McMahon charged with steroid distribution
Nov 19th - Algerian Moslem fundamentalists uprising, 27 killed
Nov 19th - Curacaose vote to remain part of Dutch Antilles
Nov 20th - Jakovlev-42 crashes into mountain at Ohrid Macedonia, 116 killed
Nov 20th - Sam's Town Bowling Invitational won by Robin Romeo
Nov 20th - Winnie Mandela's driver/bodyguard murdered in Johannesburg
Nov 20th - Savings and Loan scandal: The United States Senate Ethics Committee issues a stern censure of California senator Alan Cranston for his "dealings" with savings-and-loan executive Charles Keating.
Nov 21st - "Cinderella" closes at New York State Theater NYC after 14 perfs
Nov 21st - "Cyrano - The Musical" opens at Neil Simon Theater NYC for 137 perfs

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Famous Deaths

Results 701 - 733 of 733

Dec 16th - Ratu Penaia Ganilau, president of Fiji (1987-93), dies at 75
Dec 16th - Richard AFM Auwerda, Dutch journalist/writer (Volkskrant), dies at 68
Dec 16th - Charizma, American Hip-Hop MC (b. 1973)
Dec 17th - Janet Margolin, US actress (Annie Hall), dies at 50 of ovarian cancer
Dec 18th - Sam Wanamaker, actor (Pvt Benjamin), dies of prostate cancer at 74
Dec 18th - Charizma, American rapper (b. 1973)
Dec 19th - Anthonius AM "Ton" Kors, writer (Time of Anton de Lange), dies at 47
Dec 19th - Antoon Veerman, Dutch ARP asst sect of Education (1973-75), dies at 77
Dec 19th - Michael Clarke, drummer (Byrds), dies of liver failure at 49
Dec 20th - Moses Gunn, actor (Shaft), dies at 64
Dec 20th - Sam Wanamaker, actor (Pvt Benjamin), dies from cancer at 74
Dec 20th - W Edwards Deming, US economist (helped Japan after WW II), dies at 93
Dec 21st - Philip Christison, British general (Rangoon), dies at 100
Dec 22nd - Alexander Mackendrick, director (Whiskey Galore!), dies at 81
Dec 22nd - Don DeFore, actor (George Baxter-Hazel), dies of cardiac arrest at 76
Dec 23rd - Gertrude "Trudi" Duby Blom, actress, shot to death at about 92
Dec 24th - Alexander Mackendrick, British/US director (Lady Killers), dies at 81
Dec 24th - Norman Vincent Peale, rev (Power of Positive Thinking), dies at 95
Dec 24th - Yen Chia-kan, PM/Pres of Taiwan (1963-72, 75-78), dies
Dec 25th - Pierre Victor Auger, French physicist (b. 1899)
Dec 26th - Jeff Morrow, actor (Robe, Harbor Lights, Blood Legacy), dies at 80
Dec 27th - Youssef Sebti, Algerian scholar/poet, murdered at 50
Dec 28th - Howard Caine, dies
Dec 28th - Joop Vervoort, Dutch soccer referee, dies at 61
Dec 28th - William L Shirer, writer (Rise & Fall of 3rd Reich), dies at 89
Dec 29th - Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Soviet Armenian actor (b. 1930)
Dec 30th - Mack David, US songwriter (Bachelor in Paradise), dies at 81
Dec 30th - [Irving Paul] "Swifty" Lazar, superagent, dies of kidney failure at 86
Dec 31st - Arthur Dreifuss, director/producer (Murder in Amsterdam), dies at 85
Dec 31st - Lambert Fokkema, founder Dutch Export Combination, dies at 80
Dec 31st - Thomas J Watson Jr, president of IBM (1956-71)/diplomat, dies at 79
Dec 31st - Zviad Gamsachurdia, pres of Georgia SSR (1991-1993), suicide at 54
Dec 31st - Brandon Teena, Transsexual, murdered (b. 1972)