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Historical Events

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Aug 27th - Worst fire in NY in 80 years ends after 4 days
Aug 28th - Last day of Test Cricket for Richie Richardson
Aug 28th - Northants 7-781 decl defeat Nottinghamshire 527 & 157
Aug 29th - NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces.
Aug 30th - Cable News Network joins internet
Aug 30th - Tigers teammates Lou Whitaker & Alan Trammell play in 1,914 game together tying AL record
Sep 1st - Infinity Radio agrees to voluntarily pay $1.7 million to US Treasury
Sep 1st - NYC reinstates the death penalty
Sep 1st - Rock & Roll Hall of Fame opens in Cleveland Ohio
Sep 2nd - Actor Charlie Sheen (30th birthday) marries Donna Peele (25)
Sep 2nd - Frank Bruno beats Oliver McCall in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
Sep 2nd - Southern California begins using new area code 562
Sep 3rd - Carolina Panthers lose their 1st NFL game (Atlanta-23 Carolina-20 OT)
Sep 3rd - Jacksonville Jaguars lose their 1st NFL game (Houston-10, Jaguars-3)
Sep 3rd - NY Yankee Tony Fernandez hits for the cycle
Sep 3rd - Soyuz TM-22, launched into orbit
Sep 3rd - eBay founded.
Sep 4th - Jerry Lewis' 30th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $47,800,000
Sep 4th - Mary Beth Zimmerman wins LPGA State Farm Rail Golf Classic
Sep 4th - The Fourth World Conference on Women opens in Beijing with over 4,750 delegates from 181 countries in attendance.
Sep 5th - Cal Ripken Jr ties Gehrig's record of playing in 2,130 straight games
Sep 6th - Cal Ripken Jr breaks Gehrig's record, plays in 2,131 straight games
Sep 6th - Senate Ethics committee votes 6-0 to ask for expulsion of Bob Packwood
Sep 7th - 12th MTV Awards
Sep 7th - STS 69 (Endeavour 9), launches into orbit
Sep 7th - Sen Bob Packwoord (R-Ore) resigns rather than face expulsion
Sep 8th - Cleveland Indians clinch 1st AL Central Division title
Sep 9th - "Broadway Limited" last train ride (began in 1902)
Sep 9th - 109th US Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Monica Seles (76 06 63)
Sep 9th - Chynna Phillips weds William Baldwin
Sep 9th - Dean St Station in Brooklyn, is 6th MTA station to close since 1904
Sep 9th - Ice Skater Nancy Kerrigan (25) weds her agent Jerry Solomon (41)
Sep 10th - 115th US Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Andre Agassi (64 63 46 75)
Sep 10th - 35th Walker Cup: Britain-Ireland beats US, 14-10
Sep 10th - 47th Emmy Awards: NYPD Blue, ER, Fraiser & Candice Bergen wins
Sep 10th - Alison Nicholas wins PING-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship
Sep 10th - Browns & Indians, play simultaneous regular season games in Cleve for only time, Browns 22-6 over Tampa, Indians 5-3 over Orioles
Sep 11th - Eastern Tennessee begins using new area code 423
Sep 11th - Ohio's Governor Voinovich proclaims "Cleveland Indians Day"
Sep 11th - Soyuz TM-22, lands
Sep 12th - INXS' Michael Hutchence pleads guilty to punching a photographer
Sep 12th - Belarus military shoots down a hydrogen balloon, killing its two American pilots.
Sep 14th - Body Worlds opens in Tokyo, Japan
Sep 15th - Cards shortstop Ozzie Smith sets record of 1,554 double plays
Sep 16th - Greg Maddux of Braves sets record of 17 consecutive road victory
Sep 16th - Shawntel Smith (Okla), 24, crowned 69th Miss America 1996
Sep 16th - Stephen Hawkins (53) wets Elaine Mason
Sep 17th - "Love! Valor! Compassion!" closes at Walter Kerr NYC after 276 perfs
Sep 17th - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
Sep 18th - Art Modell 1st meets (he claims) with Balt to move Browns
Sep 18th - Space shuttle STS-69 (Endeavour 9), lands
Sep 19th - Andres Galarraga is 4th to hit 30 HRs for Rockies in 1995
Sep 19th - Padres Ken Caminiti switch hits HRs in 3rd of 4 games
Sep 19th - The Washington Post and The New York Times publish the Unabomber's manifesto.
Sep 20th - Cincinnati Reds becomes 1st team to clinch NL Central
Sep 21st - The Hindu milk miracle occurs, in which statues of the Hindu God Ganesh began drinking milk when spoonfuls were placed near their mouths.
Sep 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
Sep 24th - 31st Ryder Cup: Europe beats US, 14½-13½ at Oak Hill County Club (Rochester, New York, US)
Sep 24th - Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA GHP Heartland Golf Classic
Sep 24th - Emillio & Gloria Estefan's boat hits & kills a jet skiier
Sep 24th - Mt Ruapehu Volcano (North Island, NZ) erupts
Sep 26th - "George" magazine premieres, published by John F Kennedy Jr
Sep 26th - Earliest 1st-class cricket in Aust season (Qld v Western Prov)
Sep 26th - Sri Lanka complete 2-1 Test Cricket series win in Pakistan from 0-1
Sep 28th - "Batman Forever" released Czech Republic
Sep 28th - Dennis Martinez pitch breaks Kirby Puckett's jaw in Indians 12-4 win
Sep 28th - Mary Tyler Moore returns to series TV in "NY News," on CBS
Sep 28th - Singer Bobby Brown escapes injury in gun battle
Sep 28th - Troy Dixon scores cricket century on 1st-class debut for Qld v W Prov
Sep 28th - Yitzhak Rabin & Yasir Arafat, sign accord to transfer West Bank
Sep 28th - Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries take the islands of Comoros in a coup.
Sep 29th - Indians break 1902 Pirates record for largest lead over 2nd-place team (KC) (27½ games)
Sep 29th - OJ Simpson trial sent to the jury
Sep 29th - Saleem Elahi scores century on ODI debut, Pakistan v Sri Lanka
Sep 29th - US space probe Ulyssus completes 2nd passage behind Sun
Sep 30th - Cleve Indian Albert Belle hits his 50th home run of season
Oct 1st - Bermuda begins using new area code 441
Oct 1st - Gail Graham wins FieldCrest Cannon/Carolina LPGA Golf Classic
Oct 1st - Indians set record of 30 game lead over 2nd place team
Oct 1st - Mike Mussina tosses Balt's 5th consecutive shutout 4-0 win over Tigers
Oct 1st - NY Yankees win 1st baseball wildcard ever
Oct 1st - Rockies are 1st team to make postseason before 7th year in existence
Oct 2nd - "Moon Over Buffalo" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 308 perfs
Oct 2nd - Seattle Mariners beat Cal Angels, 9-1 in a playoff game to win AL West
Oct 3rd - 1st 1st-class match at Hurstville Oval, Sydney (NSW v W Prov)
Oct 3rd - OJ Simpson found not guilty in murder of Nicole Simpson & Ron Goldman
Oct 4th - 29th Country Music Assn Award: Krauss Jackson win
Oct 4th - Jim Leyritz homers with a man on in 15th inning to give Yankees 2-0 Division Series lead over Mariners
Oct 5th - "Company" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 68 performances
Oct 6th - BPAA US Women's Open won by Cheryl Daniels
Oct 6th - Colorodo Avalanche (former Que Nordiques) 1st NHL game, beat Detroit
Oct 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.
Oct 7th - Boston's Fleet Center opens, NY Islanders & Boston Bruins tie at 4-4
Oct 7th - Mariners rally from 5-0 to force Game 5 of Division Series vs Yankees
Oct 8th - Dolphin's Dan Marino breaks Tarkenton's NFL career completions record
Oct 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
Oct 10th - "Garden District" opens at Circle in the Sq Theater NYC
Oct 10th - Israel begins W Bank pullback, frees hundreds of Palestinian prisoners
Oct 10th - Most Dutch telephone numbers increase to 10 digits
Oct 10th - Robert E Lucas awarded Nobel Prize in economics

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Famous Deaths

Results 501 - 600 of 1,078

Jun 18th - Charles Martin, cartoonist, dies at 85
Jun 19th - Al Hansen, artist, dies at 67
Jun 19th - Murray Dickie, opera singer/director, dies at 71
Jun 19th - Richard Bernard Pape, POW escaper/writer, dies at 79
Jun 19th - Peter Townsend, RAF officer (b. 1914)
Jun 20th - Dennis Gomm, musician, dies at 84
Jun 20th - Emil Mihai Cioran, writer/aphorist, dies at 84
Jun 20th - Henry Iliffe Cozens, pilot, dies at 91
Jun 21st - Kenneth Henry Lowry Lamb, broadcaster, dies at 71
Jun 21st - Tristan Jones, sailor, dies at 71
Jun 22nd - Georges Yves Marie Congar, Dominican theologian cardinal, dies at 91
Jun 23rd - Jonas Salk, biologist (Polio vaccine), dies of heart failure
Jun 23rd - Anatoly Tarasov, Russian ice hockey coach (b. 1918)
Jun 24th - Inshan Ali, cricketer (WI chinaman bowler 1971-77), dies
Jun 24th - John Reginald "Nat" Allen, planning enforcement officer, dies at 66
Jun 24th - John Richard Brinsley Norton, landowner, dies at 71
Jun 25th - Warren Earl Burger, Supreme Court Justice, dies of heart failure at 78
Jun 27th - Lionel Edmund "Sonny" Taylor, musician, dies at 70
Jun 27th - Madeleine Gillian Jinkinson, medical administrator, dies at 59
Jun 27th - Prez "Kidd" Kenneth, blues singer/guitarist, dies at 61
Jun 28th - Donald Sinclair, vet, dies at 83
Jun 29th - Lana Turner, actress (Madame X), dies of cancer at 75
Jun 29th - Roy Rowland, film director, dies at 84
Jun 30th - Barney Simon, theatre director/writer, dies at 63
Jun 30th - Gale Gordon, comedian (Our Miss Brooks, Here's Lucy), dies at 89
Jun 30th - Georgi Timofeyevich Beregovoi, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 3), dies at 74
Jun 30th - Phyllis Hyman, R&B/Jazz singer (Prime of My Life), suicides at 45
Jun 30th - Sicco Mansholt, pres Commission of Europe (1972-1973), dies
Jul 1st - Bruce Mitchell, S Afr cricketer (leading Test scorer with 3471), dies
Jul 1st - Ronald Farrow, radio producer/priest, dies at 49
Jul 1st - Wolfman Jack, disc jockey (Midnight Special), dies at 57
Jul 2nd - Gail Gordon, actor (Our Miss Brooks, Lucy Show), dies of cancer at 89
Jul 2nd - George Seldes, journalist, dies at 104
Jul 2nd - Gervase F Ashworth Jackson-Stops, architectural adviser, dies at 48
Jul 2nd - Krissy Taylor, model (17 Mag), dies of respitory problems at 17
Jul 3rd - Albert Hardy, photographer, dies at 82
Jul 3rd - Brad Lee Sexton, bass guitarist, dies at 47
Jul 3rd - Gil Wolman, situationist, dies at 65
Jul 3rd - Eddie Mazur, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929)
Jul 4th - Bob Ross, artist, dies at 52
Jul 4th - Eva Gabor, actress (Green Acres), dies at 74
Jul 4th - Jacques Berque, Islamic scholar, dies at 85
Jul 4th - Richard "Pancho" Gonzalez, tennis great, dies of stomach cancer at 67
Jul 5th - Adrienne Keith Cohen, travel editor, dies at 69
Jul 6th - Aziz Nesin, writer, dies at 79
Jul 6th - Helene Johnson, poet, dies at 87
Jul 6th - Ivor Keys, musician/teacher, dies at 76
Jul 7th - Gabor Ormai, viola Player, dies at 40
Jul 7th - Geoffrey Freeman Allen, railway writer, dies at 73
Jul 8th - Elizabeth Adams, madam, dies at 65
Jul 9th - Jacques Molicard, translator/Navigator, dies at 62
Jul 9th - James Cameron Tudor, politician, dies at 66
Jul 9th - John Eric Tieman, production Manager (Guardian), dies at 67
Jul 9th - Julian Graham Theodore Hough, actor (Deathwatch, Shout), dies at 47
Jul 9th - W Fenton Morley, preacher, dies at 83
Jul 10th - Hugh Dundas, fighter pilot/businessman, dies at 74
Jul 11th - John Cruickshank, French scholar, dies at 70
Jul 12th - Alan David Marks, pianist/composer, dies at 49
Jul 12th - Earl Coleman, singer, dies at 69
Jul 12th - Ernie Furtado, bassist, dies at 72
Jul 12th - Michael Clegg, naturalist/broadcaster, dies at 62
Jul 13th - Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, Danish toy manufacturer (Lego Group) (b. 1920)
Jul 14th - Michael Naylor, insurance broker, dies at 59
Jul 15th - Eddie J Bush, golf professional, dies at 83
Jul 15th - Willie George "Bill" Woodruff Sr, vocalist, dies at 66
Jul 16th - Charles Bruck, Hungarian/French/US conductor (Dutch Opera), dies at 83
Jul 16th - Eleanore M "May" Sarton, Belg/US writer (Land of Silence), dies at 83
Jul 16th - Juan Manuel Fangio, racing Driver, dies at 84
Jul 16th - Max Factor Jr, makeup inventor, dies
Jul 16th - Mordechai Gur, Israeli general, commits suicide at 65
Jul 16th - Patsy Ruth Miller, actress (Wide Open, Sap, Twin Beds), dies at 91
Jul 16th - Peter Francis de Sautoy, publisher, dies at 83
Jul 16th - Stephen Harold Spender, writer, dies at 86
Jul 16th - Travis Kemp, dancer/teacher, dies at 91
Jul 17th - Herbert Hippauf, baseball player, dies at 56
Jul 17th - Joe Hutton, northumbrian piper/shepherd, dies at 71
Jul 18th - Fabio Casartelli, Italian olympian (Oly-gold-92), dies at 24
Jul 19th - Dorothy McHugh, actress (I Fallen & I Can't Get Up), dies at 87
Jul 19th - James Smiddy, high school basketball coach (1,216 wins), dies at 71
Jul 19th - Michael Andrews, painter, dies at 66
Jul 19th - Sydney Lipton, bandleader/violin, dies at 89
Jul 19th - Yusef Bedri, educationist, dies at 82
Jul 20th - Helmut Erich Robert Gernsheim, photographer/collector, dies at 82
Jul 20th - Natalia Dmitrevna Shpiller, singer, dies at 85
Jul 21st - Edwin "Russell" House, saxophonist, dies at 65
Jul 21st - Elleston Trevor, author, dies
Jul 21st - Jon Boulle, motorcyclist, dies at 59
Jul 22nd - Dave Clark, music promoter/songwriter, dies at 85
Jul 22nd - Harold Larwood, cricket (98 wkts bowling for Engl 1926-34), dies at 91
Jul 22nd - Percy Humphrey, musician, dies at 90
Jul 23rd - Bob Rundick, poet/DJ, dies at 52
Jul 23rd - Floyd McDaniel, blues singer/guitarist, dies at 80
Jul 24th - Don Richard Carpenter, novelist, dies at 64
Jul 24th - Jeremiah Jerry Patrick Lordam, songwriter/compser, dies at 61
Jul 24th - Jerzy Bonawentura Toeplitz, film maker/teacher, dies at 94
Jul 24th - Werner Grusch, film director, dies at 51
Jul 25th - Charlie Rich, country singer (Lonely Weekends), dies at 62
Jul 25th - Janice Elliott, novelist, dies at 63
Jul 25th - Osvaldo Pugliese, musician/composer, dies at 89
Jul 26th - Eleanore Griffin, screenwriter, dies