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Historical Events

Results 1 - 57 of 57

1st - Bermuda begins using new area code 441
1st - Gail Graham wins FieldCrest Cannon/Carolina LPGA Golf Classic
1st - Indians set record of 30 game lead over 2nd place team
1st - Mike Mussina tosses Balt's 5th consecutive shutout 4-0 win over Tigers
1st - NY Yankees win 1st baseball wildcard ever
1st - Rockies are 1st team to make postseason before 7th year in existence
2nd - "Moon Over Buffalo" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 308 perfs
2nd - Seattle Mariners beat Cal Angels, 9-1 in a playoff game to win AL West
3rd - 1st 1st-class match at Hurstville Oval, Sydney (NSW v W Prov)
3rd - OJ Simpson found not guilty in murder of Nicole Simpson & Ron Goldman
4th - 29th Country Music Assn Award: Krauss Jackson win
4th - Jim Leyritz homers with a man on in 15th inning to give Yankees 2-0 Division Series lead over Mariners
5th - "Company" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 68 performances
6th - BPAA US Women's Open won by Cheryl Daniels
6th - Colorodo Avalanche (former Que Nordiques) 1st NHL game, beat Detroit
6th - 51 Pegasi was discovered to be the first major star apart from the Sun to have a planet (and extrasolar planet) orbiting around it.
7th - Boston's Fleet Center opens, NY Islanders & Boston Bruins tie at 4-4
7th - Mariners rally from 5-0 to force Game 5 of Division Series vs Yankees
8th - Dolphin's Dan Marino breaks Tarkenton's NFL career completions record
8th - Edgar Martinez drives home tying & winning runs to rally Mariners to 6-5 win in bottom of 11th to beat Yankees & win AL Division Series
10th - "Garden District" opens at Circle in the Sq Theater NYC
10th - Israel begins W Bank pullback, frees hundreds of Palestinian prisoners
10th - Most Dutch telephone numbers increase to 10 digits
10th - Robert E Lucas awarded Nobel Prize in economics
11th - John Bobbitt has plastic surgery to increase his penis 3 inches
11th - O J Simpson cancels a TV appearance on Dateline
12th - "Patti LuPone on Broadway" opens at Walter Kerr NYC for 46 perfs
13th - Joseph Rotblat awarded Nobel Peace Prize
13th - Pamela Anderson Lee, rush to hospital with flu like symptoms
14th - Atlanta Braves become 1st team to sweep in NL playoff (beat Reds)
15th - Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA World Championship of Women's Golf
15th - Carolina Panthers win 1st game ever beating NY Jets 26-15
16th - Allan Donald takes 8-71 as South Africa defeat Zimbabwe
16th - Brian Lara scores 169 in Sharjah ODI versus Sri Lanka
16th - Million Man March held in Wash DC (over 800,000 black men attend)
16th - ODI in Sharjah WI 7-333 in 50 overs beat Sri Lanka 329 all out
17th - Keith Moore sentenced to 6 years for robbing Sting of $9,000,000
18th - NHL Winnipeg Jets sold to Americans who plan to move them to Phoenix
19th - "Hello Dolly!" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 118 performances
20th - STS 73 (Columbia 18), launches into orbit
20th - Sri Lanka beat West Indies to win Sharjah Champions Trophy final
21st - Addison Vance, 18, of Hickory NC, crowned 7th Ms Venus Swimwear
21st - Mario Tremblay, selected 22nd NHL coach of Montreal Canadians
22nd - "Swinging On a Star" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 97 perfs
24th - Total solar eclipse in SW/S Asia (2m09s)
25th - "Victor/Victoria," opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 738 performances
26th - Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Mossad agents assassinate Islamic Jihad leader Fathi Shikaki in his hotel in Malta.
27th - Contract finalizing Cleveland Browns' move to Balt is signed
27th - Meyrick Pringle takes cricket hat-trick in England tour game at Soweto
27th - Latvia applies for membership in the European Union.
28th - Atlanta Braves beat Cleveland Indians in 6 games in World Series
28th - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Cigar, Desert Stormer, Inside Information, My Flag, Northern Spur, Ridgewood Pearl, Unbridled's Song
29th - "Fool Moon" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC
29th - Sunday NY News increases price from $1.00 to $1.25
29th - US beats Japan, 19-17, at Nichirei International LPGA Golf Tournament
30th - Quebec Referendum votes to remain part of Canada
31st - NHL NJ Devils agree to stay in NJ

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 2 of 2

6th - Jessica Lunsford, American kidnapping victim (d. 2005)
25th - Conchita Campbell, Canadian actress

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 92 of 92

1st - Aditya Biria, industrialist, dies at 50
1st - Margaret Gorman Cahill, 1st Miss America (1921), dies at 90
1st - Rene Mable Neighbour Cloke, illustrator, dies at 90
1st - Russ Karel, director, dies at 45
2nd - Elizabeth Jane Lloyd, artist/teacher, dies at 67
2nd - Norman Ewart Thurston, musician, dies at 74
3rd - Molly Harris, actress/writer (Immortal), dies at 82
4th - Peter Nicholson Gunn, writer, dies at 81
5th - Dick Henry Jurgen, bandleader, dies at 85
5th - Fred Fehl, photographer, dies at 89
5th - Peter Crichton Kirkpatrick, oarsman, dies at 79
5th - Linda Gary, American voice actress (b. 1944)
6th - Hugh Charles, songwriter/impressario, dies at 88
6th - Oswald Moxley Gibbs, diplomat, dies at 67
6th - Walter "Crash" Morgan, drummer, dies at 35
7th - Ariston Muguranayanga Chambati, politician/businessman, dies at 59
7th - Louis Meyer, Indie 500 racer (3 wins), dies at 91
8th - Christopher Keene, musician, dies at 48
8th - Frederick Harry Baines, painter, dies at 85
8th - John Cairncross, linguist (5th Man), dies at 82
8th - Terry Hawkins, theatre administrator, dies at 45
9th - Alec Douglas-Home, PM of Britain (1963-64), dies
9th - John Alfred Scali, journalist/diplomat, dies at 77
9th - Kukrit Pramoj, PM of Thailand (1975-76), dies at 84
9th - Lord Home of Hirsel, cricket (Middlesex player later British PM), dies
9th - Patric William Billy Walker, astrologer, dies at 64
9th - Phillip Jack Oppenheimer, diamond trader, dies at 83
10th - Edward Gill, baseball player, dies at 100
10th - Jimmy Nash, record company owner, dies at 47
10th - John Rodolph, wheelchair-race world record holder, hit by truck at 31
10th - Michelle Francis Bird, campaigner, dies at 30
10th - Paolo Gucci, entrepreneur/accessories designer, dies at 64
12th - Eleanor Aller, cellist, dies at 78
12th - Gary Bond, actor (Outback, Zulu, Anne of Thousand Days), dies at 55
13th - Golfredo Corradetti, conductor, dies at 79
13th - Henry Roth, novelist (Call it Sleep), dies at 89
13th - Ali Faik Zaghloul, Egyptian radio presenter
14th - Edith Pargeter, author (Brother Cadfael), dies of a stroke at 82
14th - Helen Vlachos, journalist, dies at 83
15th - Arthur Carleton Hetherington, public servant, dies at 82
15th - Phil Sidey, broadcaster, dies at 69
16th - John Walker, museum director, dies at 88
16th - Linda Goodman, astrologer, dies
16th - Murdo Alexander MacLeod, minister, dies at 60
16th - Thomas Augustine Martin, academic, dies at 59
17th - Peter Hinchcliff, historian, dies at 66
18th - Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher, lawyer, dies at 67
18th - Bryan Johnson, singer/actor, dies at 69
18th - Iri Maruki, artist, dies at 94
18th - John Gardener, boatbuilder/writer, dies at 90
18th - Thomas Lyttle, paramilitary, dies at 56
19th - Don E Cherry, jazz Musician, dies at 58
19th - Vicki Stangroome, campaigner, dies at 53
20th - Bernadette Hingley, priest, dies at 47
20th - Christopher Stone, actor (Dave-Dallas, Interns), dies at 53
20th - Jack Rose, screenwriter, dies at 83
20th - Raymond Rasberry, pianist/singer, dies at 65
21st - Jose Ignacio Cabrujas, writer, dies at 58
21st - Maxene Andrews, vocalist (Andrews Sister), dies of heart attack at 79
21st - Shannon Hoon, vocalist (Blind Melon), dies of drug overdose at 28
22nd - Edward Totah, art Dealer, dies at 46
22nd - K B Wilson, methodist principal (Westminster College), dies at 50
22nd - Kingsley Amis, author, dies of injuries from a fall at 73
22nd - Mary Wickes, actress (Sister Act), dies at 79
22nd - Ralph Whitlock, writer, dies at 81
22nd - Simone Gallimard, publisher, dies at 77
24th - Emile Jonassaint, president of Haiti (1994), dies at 82
24th - Ronald Selby Wright, minister, dies at 87
25th - Bobby Riggs, tennis star, dies of prostate cancer at 77
25th - David Healy, actor (Supergirl, Doomsday Gun, Patton), dies at 64
25th - Kenneth Kweku Sinaman Dadzie, diplomat, dies at 65
25th - Robert Grieve, civil Servant, dies at 84
25th - Robert Lorimer Riggs, tennis Player, dies at 77
25th - Viveca Lindfors, actress (Stargate, Luba, Misplaced), dies at 74
26th - Agha Saadat Ali, cricketer (8 not out in 1 inn for Pak 1956), dies
26th - Bernhard Heiliger, sculptor, dies at 79
26th - Georgia Neese Gray, 1st Woman Treasurer of USA, dies at 95
27th - Mike Dutfield, documentary Prodcuer, dies at 48
27th - Susi Hush, tYelevision producer, dies at 49
28th - Allan Leslie Merson, historian, dies at 79
28th - Katsumasu Roy Sakioka, propery owner, dies at 96
30th - Brian Easdale, composer, dies at 86
30th - Terry Southern, writer, dies at 71
31st - Alan Dudley Bush, composer pianist/teacher, dies at 94
31st - Derek Anthony Enright, politician, dies at 60
31st - Henry A Walter Richard Percy, 11th Duke of Northumberland, dies at 42
31st - Lavad "Dr Hepcat" Durst, vocal/piano, dies at 82
31st - Leonard Ernest John Chant, social Worker, dies at 57
31st - Lloyd Lambert, bassist, dies at 67
31st - Louis Levy Jr, music publisher, dies at 84
31st - Rosalind Cash, actress (Emma-Go Tell It on the Mountain), dies at 56
31st - Wallace Edward Rowling, PM of NZ (1974-1975), dies at 68