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Historical Events

Results 101 - 188 of 188

1959 - Vinoo Mankad ends his final Test Cricket (v WI at Delhi)
1960 - Jack Paar walks off his TV show
1961 - Robert Weaver sworn in with then highest federal post by a black
1961 - Trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem
1962 - Beatles record "Please, Please Me"
1963 - Beatles tape 10 tracks for their 1st album
1963 - CIA Domestic Operations Division created (pretty scary!)
1963 - Julia Child's show The French Chef premieres.
1964 - Beatles 1st live appearance in US; Washington DC Coliseum
1964 - Greek & Turks begin fighting in Limassol, Cyprus
1964 - Taiwan drops diplomatic relations with France
1965 - Beatle Ringo Starr marries Maureen Cox
1965 - Braves propose to pay 5 cents from each ticket to bring a new team to Milwaukee
1966 - SF Giant Willie Mays signs highest contract, $130,000 per year
1968 - Israeli-Jordan border fight
1968 - Jeffrey Kramer survives 76-m jump, Wash Bridge, Hudson River NY
1968 - Madison Square Garden III closes MSG IV opens (NYC)
1969 - Diana Crump becomes 1st US woman jockey to ride against men, Hialelah
1969 - Dorey Funk Jr beats Gene Kiniski in Tampa, to become NWA champ
1970 - 26.37 cm (10.38") of rainfall, Mt Washington, NH (state 24-hr rec)
1970 - Japan becomes 4th nation to put a satellite (Osumi) in orbit
1970 - John Lennon pays £1,344 fines for 96 protesting South African rugby team playing in Scotland
1971 - Montreal Canadien John Believau scores his 500th NHL goal
1971 - US, UK, USSR, others sign Seabed Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons
1973 - 1st one-day international for Pakistan & NZ
1973 - 1st sub 17-min 1,500m female free style swim (Shane Gould 16m56.9s)
1973 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Naples-Lely Golf Classic
1973 - Philadelphia 76ers lose their 20th NBA game in a row
1974 - Dick Woodson is 1st of 48 to invoke baseball's new arbitration rule
1974 - Titan-Centaur Test launch fails
1974 - 1st baseball arbitration Twins pitcher Dick Woodson seeking $29,000 wins, Twins offered $23,000
1975 - Margaret Thatcher defeats Edward Heath for Conservative leadership
1976 - Clifford Alexander Jr confirmed as 1st black secretary of Army
1977 - 20.2-kg lobster caught off Nova Scotia (heaviest known crustacean)
1978 - 16 Unification church couples wed in NYC
1978 - 25th hat trick in Islander history-Denis Potvin
1978 - China lifts a ban on Aristotle, Shakespeare, & Dickens
1978 - EOKA organization disbands in Cyprus
1979 - "They're Playing Our Song" opens at Imperial NYC for 1082 perfs
1979 - 43 million watch "Elvis!" on ABC
1979 - Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
1979 - Iran's premier Bakhtiar resigns, Ayatollah Khomeini seizes power
1979 - Musical "They're Playing Our Song," premieres in NYC
1981 - Australia all out 83 v India at MCG chasing 143 to win
1981 - Polish premier Jozef Pinkowski replaced by Wojciech Jaruzelski
1982 - Ozzie Smith for Garry Templeton trade finally goes through
1983 - "Weird Al" Yankovic records "Ricky" & "Buckingham Blues" debut LP
1983 - 4th largest snowfall in NYC history (18"(46 cm))
1984 - 10th space shuttle mission (41-B)-Challenger 4-returns to Earth
1984 - Wayne Gretzky sets NHL short handed season scoring record at 11
1985 - Jordan king Hussein & PLO leader Arafat sign accord
1985 - Kent Hrbek signs 5-year, $6 million contract with Minn Twins
1985 - Wasim Akram takes 10 wickets in his 2nd Test Cricket, NZ still wins
1986 - Activist Anatoly Scharansky released by USSR, leaves country
1986 - Australia beat India 2-0 to win the World Series Cup
1986 - Iran begins Fajr-8 offensive against Iraq
1987 - British Airways begins trading stocks
1987 - England beat Australia 2-0 to win the World Series Cup
1987 - Philippines constitution goes into effect
1987 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1988 - Anthony M Kennedy appointed to Supreme Court
1989 - Barbara Clementine Harris consecrated 1st female bishop (Episcopalian)
1989 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary
1990 - 40th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 130-113 at Miami
1990 - James "Buster" Douglas KOs Mike Tyson to win heavyweight boxing crown
1990 - Nelson Mandela (political prisoner-27 years) freed in South Africa
1990 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge
1991 - UNPO, Unrepresented Nations & People Org forms in Hague Neth
1992 - F-16 jet crashes at residential district of Hengelo Neth (No deaths)
1992 - Michael Johnson runs indoor world record 400m (44.97 sec)
1993 - Howard Stern's radio show begins transmitting to Rochester NY (WRQI)
1993 - Irina Privalova runs world record 60m indoor (6.92 secs)
1993 - Janet Reno selected by Clinton as US Attorney General
1994 - Lu Parker, (South Carolina), crowned 43rd Miss USA
1994 - Space shuttle STS-60 (Discovery 18), lands
1995 - Danyon Loader swims world record 400m freestyle (340.46)
1995 - Mark Foster swims world record 50m butterfly (23.55 sec)
1995 - Sandra Volker swims European record 50m backstroke (27.67 sec)
1995 - Space shuttle STS-63 (Discovery 19), lands
1995 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge
1995 - West Indies score 5-660 against NZ
1996 - 46th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 129-118 at San Antonio
1997 - Bill Parcells becomes head coach of NY Jets
1997 - STS 82 (Discovery 22) launches
1998 - KVBC-FM (Las Vegas) offers Monica Lewinsky $5M for interview
1998 - Lyrics to "Candle in the Wind 1997," auctioned for $442,500
2007 - In Portugal, a national referendum legalizes non-therapeutic abortion when requested by the woman during the first 10 weeks of pregnancy.
2008 - In East Timor, assassination attempts were made on Xanana Gusmao and Jose Ramos-Horta. Both failed.

Famous Birthdays

Results 101 - 200 of 271

1921 - Lloyd Bentsen, (Sen-D-TX, 1971- )/1989 Dem VP nominee)
1921 - Edward Seidensticker, American scholar (d. 2007)
1922 - Leslie Nielsen, Regina Sask, actor (Forbidden Planet, Naked Gun)
1922 - Tudor Jarda, composer
1923 - Baroness Sharples
1923 - Ronald Arculus, British diplomat
1924 - Mary Tregear, Oriental art historian
1925 - Kim Stanley, [Patricia Reid], Tularosa NM, actress (Right Stuff)
1925 - Peter Berger, British vice-admiral
1925 - Virginia E Johnson, doctor/sexologist (Masters & Johnson)
1925 - Kim Stanley, American actress (d. 2001)
1926 - Alexander Gibson, British conductor/founder (Scottish Opera)
1926 - Paul Bocuse, France, great chef (Legion of Honor)
1926 - Leslie Nielsen, Canadian actor
1928 - Archibald Forster, CEO (Esso UK)
1928 - Conrad Janis, NYC, actor (Mork & Mindy, Quark, Bonino)
1928 - Gerry Alexander, cricket wicketkeeper (WI of 50s & 60s)
1928 - Raoul Cita, rocker
1929 - Leonard Gregory Kastle, composer
1930 - Alevtina Koltschina, USSR, cross coutry relay skier (Oly-gold-1960)
1930 - C H Dearnley, organist
1930 - Earl of Rosebery
1930 - Roy De Forest, American Painter (d. 2007)
1931 - Larry Merchant, author/boxing commentator (Showtime)
1932 - Dennis Skinner, MP
1932 - Jerome Lowenthal, Phila, pianist/prof (Jerusalem Academy of Music)
1934 - Francesco Pennisi, composer
1934 - John Surtees, British race car driver
1934 - Mary Quant, Kent England, fashion designer (Chelsea Look, Mod Look)
1934 - Patrick Holmes Sellors, ophthalmologist
1934 - Tina Louise, NYC, actress (Ginger-Gilligan's Island, Julie-Dallas)
1934 - Mel Carnahan, American politician (d. 2000)
1935 - Bent Lorentzen, composer
1935 - Gene Vincent, Norfolk Va, rock guitarist/vocalist (Be-Bop-A-Lula)
1936 - Burt Reynolds, Mich, actor (Evening Shade, Strip Tease, Cannonball)
1937 - Bill Lawry, cricketer (dour Australian lefty opener, Can talk a bit)
1937 - Lodewijk Boer, Dutch violinist/playwright (The Family)
1937 - Marilyn Butler, Rector (Exeter College-Oxford)
1937 - Peter Lashley, cricketer (4 Tests for West Indies 1960-66)
1938 - Bevan Congdon, cricketer (NZ batsman of 60s & 70s)
1938 - Boris Majorov, USSR, ice hockey (Olympic-gold-1964)
1938 - Manuel Antonio Noriega, Panamanian general/dictator (-1990)
1938 - Willy Correa de Oliveira, composer
1938 - Yevgeniy Majorov, USSR, ice hockey (Olympic-gold-1964)
1938 - Simone de Oliveira, Portuguese actress
1939 - Bryan Gould, MP
1939 - Gerry Goffin, Queens NY, rock lyricist (married Carole King)
1939 - Jane [Hyatt] Yolen, US, sci-fi author (Spider Jane, Heart's Blood)
1940 - Bobby "Boris" Pickett, rocker (Monster Mash)
1940 - Calvin Fowler, Pitts, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1968)
1941 - Glenn Randall Jr, stuntman (Species, Mrs Soffel, Return of the Jedi)
1941 - Jeremy Mackenzie, general
1941 - Sergio Mendes, jazz/pop musician (Brazil '66/'77/'88)
1942 - Archie Andrews, comic book character (Archie)
1942 - James Couchman, MP
1942 - Leon Haywood, US vocalist/keyboardist (It's Got to be Mellow)
1942 - Otis Clay, US gospel/R&B-singer (That's how it is)
1942 - Tony Colton, rock producer (On the Boards)
1943 - Iain Cameron, British brigadier
1943 - Win Griffiths, MP
1943 - Serge Lama, French singer
1944 - Bert Greene, golfer
1944 - Buddhadev Dasgupta, director (Charachar, Grihajuddha)
1944 - Michael G Oxley, (Rep-R-OH, 1981- )
1946 - M C Walker, CEO (Iceland Frozen Foods)
1946 - Timothy Chambers, pediatrician
1946 - Ian Porterfield, English footballer (d. 2007)
1947 - Joselito, Spanish singer
1947 - Kikko Matsuoka, Japanese actress
1948 - Sue Bernard, Los Angeles CA, playmate (Dec, 1966)
1949 - Charlie Hargrett, rock guitarist (Blackfoot)
1950 - Clarence Ellis, NFLer
1950 - Earnest Jim Istook, (Rep-R-Oklahoma)
1950 - Johanna E "Joke" Beerens, actress (Schipper Next to God)
1950 - Rochelle Fleming, US soul vocalist (First Choice, Smarty Pants)
1953 - Alan Rubin, music figure (Blues Brothers)
1953 - Philip Anglim, SF Calif, actor (Dane-Thorn Birds)
1953 - Stephen D Thorne, Frankfurt-on-Main, German FR, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut
1953 - Jeb Bush, American politician
1954 - Catherine Hickland, Ft Lauderdale, actress (Capitol, Star Trek IV)
1954 - Noriyuki Asakura, Japanese composer
1954 - Wesley Strick, American screenwriter
1956 - Kathleen Beller, Queens NY, actress (Ft Apache the Bronx, Touched)
1956 - H.R., American singer
1956 - Didier Lockwood, French violinist
1958 - Michael Jackson, controller (BBC2)
1959 - Corinne Shigemoto, US judo coach (Olympics-96)
1960 - Richard A Mastracchio, Waterbury Ct, astronaut
1961 - Becky LeBeau, LA Calif, vocalist (Mischief)
1961 - Carey Lowell, NYC, actress (Me & Him, Guardian, Dangerously Close)
1961 - Mary Docter, US, 3000m speed skater (Olympics-1980, 84, 88, 92)
1962 - Scott Kolden, Torrance Calif, actor (Scott-Me & the Champ)
1962 - Tammy Baldwin, American politician
1962 - Sheryl Crow, American musician
1962 - Eric Vanderaerden, Belgian cyclist
1963 - Todd Benzinger, US baseball player (SF Giants)
1963 - José Mari Bakero, Spanish footballer
1964 - Sheryl Crow, vocalist (All I Want to Do-Grammy 1995)
1964 - Ken Shamrock, American martial artist
1964 - Sarah Palin, American politician

Famous Deaths

Results 101 - 110 of 110

2002 - Frank Crosetti, baseball player (b. 1910)
2004 - Shirley Strickland, Australian athlete (b. 1925)
2005 - Jack L. Chalker, American author (b. 1944)
2006 - Jockey Shabalala, South African singer (b. 1943)
2006 - Peter Benchley, American author (b. 1940)
2006 - Jackie Pallo, wrestler (b. 1926)
2007 - Marianne Fredriksson, Swedish author (b. 1927)
2008 - Tom Lantos, member of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1928)
2008 - Frank Piasecki, American aeronautical designer (b. 1919)
2009 - Estelle Bennett, American singer (b. 1941)