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Historical Events

Results 1 - 70 of 70

1st - Infinity Radio agrees to voluntarily pay $1.7 million to US Treasury
1st - NYC reinstates the death penalty
1st - Rock & Roll Hall of Fame opens in Cleveland Ohio
2nd - Actor Charlie Sheen (30th birthday) marries Donna Peele (25)
2nd - Frank Bruno beats Oliver McCall in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
2nd - Southern California begins using new area code 562
3rd - Carolina Panthers lose their 1st NFL game (Atlanta-23 Carolina-20 OT)
3rd - Jacksonville Jaguars lose their 1st NFL game (Houston-10, Jaguars-3)
3rd - NY Yankee Tony Fernandez hits for the cycle
3rd - Soyuz TM-22, launched into orbit
3rd - eBay founded.
4th - Jerry Lewis' 30th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $47,800,000
4th - Mary Beth Zimmerman wins LPGA State Farm Rail Golf Classic
4th - The Fourth World Conference on Women opens in Beijing with over 4,750 delegates from 181 countries in attendance.
5th - Cal Ripken Jr ties Gehrig's record of playing in 2,130 straight games
6th - Cal Ripken Jr breaks Gehrig's record, plays in 2,131 straight games
6th - Senate Ethics committee votes 6-0 to ask for expulsion of Bob Packwood
7th - 12th MTV Awards
7th - STS 69 (Endeavour 9), launches into orbit
7th - Sen Bob Packwoord (R-Ore) resigns rather than face expulsion
8th - Cleveland Indians clinch 1st AL Central Division title
9th - "Broadway Limited" last train ride (began in 1902)
9th - 109th US Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Monica Seles (76 06 63)
9th - Chynna Phillips weds William Baldwin
9th - Dean St Station in Brooklyn, is 6th MTA station to close since 1904
9th - Ice Skater Nancy Kerrigan (25) weds her agent Jerry Solomon (41)
10th - 115th US Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Andre Agassi (64 63 46 75)
10th - 35th Walker Cup: Britain-Ireland beats US, 14-10
10th - 47th Emmy Awards: NYPD Blue, ER, Fraiser & Candice Bergen wins
10th - Alison Nicholas wins PING-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship
10th - Browns & Indians, play simultaneous regular season games in Cleve for only time, Browns 22-6 over Tampa, Indians 5-3 over Orioles
11th - Eastern Tennessee begins using new area code 423
11th - Ohio's Governor Voinovich proclaims "Cleveland Indians Day"
11th - Soyuz TM-22, lands
12th - INXS' Michael Hutchence pleads guilty to punching a photographer
12th - Belarus military shoots down a hydrogen balloon, killing its two American pilots.
14th - Body Worlds opens in Tokyo, Japan
15th - Cards shortstop Ozzie Smith sets record of 1,554 double plays
16th - Greg Maddux of Braves sets record of 17 consecutive road victory
16th - Shawntel Smith (Okla), 24, crowned 69th Miss America 1996
16th - Stephen Hawkins (53) wets Elaine Mason
17th - "Love! Valor! Compassion!" closes at Walter Kerr NYC after 276 perfs
17th - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
18th - Art Modell 1st meets (he claims) with Balt to move Browns
18th - Space shuttle STS-69 (Endeavour 9), lands
19th - Andres Galarraga is 4th to hit 30 HRs for Rockies in 1995
19th - Padres Ken Caminiti switch hits HRs in 3rd of 4 games
19th - The Washington Post and The New York Times publish the Unabomber's manifesto.
20th - Cincinnati Reds becomes 1st team to clinch NL Central
21st - The Hindu milk miracle occurs, in which statues of the Hindu God Ganesh began drinking milk when spoonfuls were placed near their mouths.
22nd - E-3B AWACS crashed outside of Elmendorf AFB, Alaska after multiple bird strikes to two of the four engines soon after takeoff; all 24 on board killed
24th - 31st Ryder Cup: Europe beats US, 14½-13½ at Oak Hill County Club (Rochester, New York, US)
24th - Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA GHP Heartland Golf Classic
24th - Emillio & Gloria Estefan's boat hits & kills a jet skiier
24th - Mt Ruapehu Volcano (North Island, NZ) erupts
26th - "George" magazine premieres, published by John F Kennedy Jr
26th - Earliest 1st-class cricket in Aust season (Qld v Western Prov)
26th - Sri Lanka complete 2-1 Test Cricket series win in Pakistan from 0-1
28th - "Batman Forever" released Czech Republic
28th - Dennis Martinez pitch breaks Kirby Puckett's jaw in Indians 12-4 win
28th - Mary Tyler Moore returns to series TV in "NY News," on CBS
28th - Singer Bobby Brown escapes injury in gun battle
28th - Troy Dixon scores cricket century on 1st-class debut for Qld v W Prov
28th - Yitzhak Rabin & Yasir Arafat, sign accord to transfer West Bank
28th - Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries take the islands of Comoros in a coup.
29th - Indians break 1902 Pirates record for largest lead over 2nd-place team (KC) (27½ games)
29th - OJ Simpson trial sent to the jury
29th - Saleem Elahi scores century on ODI debut, Pakistan v Sri Lanka
29th - US space probe Ulyssus completes 2nd passage behind Sun
30th - Cleve Indian Albert Belle hits his 50th home run of season

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 2 of 2

20th - Sammi Hanratty, American actress
22nd - Juliette Goglia, American actress

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 83 of 83

1st - Elizabeth Brown, minister healer/writer, dies at 32
1st - Ernest Charles Melvin Patrick Ekundio Marke, club Owner, dies at 93
2nd - Vaclav Neummann, conductor, dies at 74
3rd - Alex Brown, snooker player, dies at 87
3rd - Alfred Earle Birney, poet, dies at 91
3rd - Donald Cuthbert Coleman, economic historian, dies at 75
3rd - Mary Adshead, muralist/painter, dies at 91
3rd - Peter Michalke, journalist, dies at 40
3rd - Roye England, modeller/museum curator, dies at 88
4th - Chuck Greenberg, new age musician (Shadowfax), dies at 45
4th - Edmond Jouhaud, general, dies at 90
4th - John Megna, actor (To Kill a Mocking Bird), dies at 42
4th - William Moses Kunstler, UCLA attorney (Chicago 7), dies at 78
5th - Francis Showering, brewer, dies at 83
5th - James "Pigmeat" Jarrett, pianist, dies at 95
5th - John Britten, motorcycle Designer, dies at 45
6th - Buster Mathis, heavyweight boxer, dies at 52
6th - Joanne Gail Abbott, exec (MTV), dies at 36
7th - Gordon DeMarco, writer/activist, dies at 51
8th - Eileen Zhang Ailing Chang, writer, dies at 73
8th - Olga Ivinskaya, mistress of Boris Pasternak, dies of cancer at 83
8th - Safa Khulusi, writer, dies at 78
9th - Ida Carroll, musician, dies at 89
10th - Charles Denner, actor (Mado, Stella, Z, Landru), dies at 69
10th - Derek Meddings, special Effects technician, dies at 64
10th - Molly Mary Hyde, cricketer, dies at 81
11th - Charles William Hutton, architect, dies at 90
11th - Jerome Theisen, benedioctine, dies at 64
11th - Keith Odor, racing Driver, dies at 33
11th - Anita Harding, neurologist (b. 1952)
12th - Geoffrey Stokes, rock & roll writer, dies at 55
12th - Jeremy Brett, English actor (Sherlock Holmes), dies at 59
12th - Jeremy William Huggins Brett (Moll Flanders), actor, dies at 59
12th - John Stuart-Jervis, balloonist, dies
12th - Lawrence Bernard "Larry" Gales, bassist, dies at 59
13th - Francesco Messina, sculptor, dies at 94
13th - Harold Sheperdson, soccer Trainer, dies at 76
13th - Walter Goetz, illustrator cartoonist/painter, dies at 83
14th - Eiji Okada, actor (Traffic Jam, Yakuza, Ugly American), dies at 75
14th - Maurice K. Goddard, American state government official (b. 1912)
15th - Marguerite Fawdry, museum curator, dies at 83
15th - Michio Watanabe, politician, dies at 72
15th - Sam McCluskie, trade unionist, dies at 63
16th - Michael Balfour, historian, dies at 86
16th - Pierre Olaf, cabaret artist/clown, dies at 67
17th - Grady Sutton, actor (Come Blow Your Horn, Flying Blind), dies at 87
17th - Yehuda Meir Getz, rabbi/soldier/religious leader, dies at 71
17th - Lucien Victor, Belgian cyclist (b. 1931)
18th - Donald Alfred Davie, poet/critic, dies at 73
18th - Doreen Cannon, teacher of acting (London), dies at 64
18th - Lesley Sunderland, decorative artist, dies at 47
18th - Oleg Tverdokhleb, Ukrainian athlete (b. 1969)
19th - Louis "Mr Bo" Collins, blues SInger, dies at 63
19th - Orville Reddenbacher, popcorn magnate, drowns in bathtub at 88
19th - Walter Shlomo Gross, journalist, dies at 83
19th - Yevgeni Nikolayevich Khludeyev, Russia, cosmonaut, dies at 55
19th - Orville Redenbacher, American botanist and businessman (b. 1907)
20th - Monica Maurice, industrialist, dies at 87
21st - Irven Spence, animator, dies at 86
21st - Peter Shankland, film maker/writer, dies at 94
21st - Vernell Townsend, blues/gospel singer, dies at 64
21st - William Murray, teacher/educationalist, dies at 83
21st - Rudy Perpich, American politician (b. 1928)
22nd - Albert Goodwin, historian, dies at 89
22nd - Arthur Benfield, formed head of Cheshire CID, dies at 82
22nd - Dorothy "Dolly" Ann Collins, folk musician/composer, dies at 62
23rd - Booker T Laury, blues pianist/vocalist, dies at 81
23rd - Odut Joseph Olutola Oluola Oguntala, soho club owner, dies at 74
25th - Bessie Annie Elizabeth Delany, dentist writer, dies at 104
25th - Dave Bowen, footballer, dies at 67
25th - Dorothy Dickson, actress/dancer (Paying the Piper), dies at 102
27th - Alison "Night Bird" Steele, DJ (WNEW-FM, WXRK-FM), dies of cancer
27th - Christopher Shaw, composer pianist/critic, dies at 71
28th - Eddy Grove, dies
28th - Lynette Roberts, poet, dies at 86
28th - Olive Gibbs, peace campaigner, dies at 77
29th - Francis Frederick Johnson, architect, dies at 84
29th - George Chesterman Phillips, naval Officer, dies at 90
29th - Karl Anton Martin Gerhard Gerd Bucerius, publisher, dies at 89
29th - Seger Pillot Ellis, pianist/vocalist, dies at 91
29th - Susan Maureen Fleetwood, actress (Krays, Clash of Titans), dies at 51
30th - Frederick Archibauld Warner, diplomat, dies at 77
30th - George Kirby, comedian/impressionist (Pearl Bailey), dies at 71