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Historical Events

Results 101 - 186 of 186

1960 - France performs 1st nuclear test at Reggane Proving Grounds Algeria
1961 - Frank Sinatra launches Reprise label under Warner Bros Records
1961 - Soviet Union fires a rocket from Sputnik V to Venus
1965 - Peggy Fleming, 16, wins ladies senior figure skating title
1965 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming
1965 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Gary Visconti
1966 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1968 - US sends 10,500 additional soldiers to Vietnam
1969 - Mary Hopkin's Postcard album on Apple is released
1969 - Suriname govt of Pengel resigns
1970 - Man-eating tiger is reported to have killed 48, 80 km from New Delhi
1970 - NL offices begins move from Cin to SF (completed Feb 23)
1971 - 12,000 South Vietnamese troops cross into Laos
1971 - Golfing VP Spiro Agnew hits 2 tee shots into crowd, injuring 2
1972 - "1776" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 1,217 performances
1972 - "Grease" opens on Broadway
1972 - 11th Winter Olympic games close at Sapporo, Japan
1973 - Musical "El Grande de Coca-Cola," premieres in NYC
1973 - US dollar devalues 10%
1974 - "Rainbow Jones" opens & closes at Music Box Theater NYC
1974 - Dissident Nobel writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from USSR
1974 - James "Cool Papa" Bell is named to baseball's Hall of Fame
1975 - Cyprus premier Denktash procliams Turkish-Cypriot Federation
1976 - Dorothy Hamill wins Olympic figure-skating gold, Innsbruck, Austria
1976 - Peter Casserly of NZ hand-sheers record 353 lambs in 9 holes
1977 - "Guys & Dolls" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 239 performances
1977 - "Ipi Tombi" closes at Harkness Theater NYC after 39 performances
1977 - "Robber Bridegroom" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 145 perfs
1977 - Eric Heiden is 1st American to win world speed skating championship
1977 - Pam Higgins wins LPGA American Cancer Society Golf Classic
1978 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1979 - 2nd Emmy Sports Award presentation
1979 - Washington State's Hood Canal Bridge breaks up in windstorm
1980 - Apollo Computer Inc incorporated
1980 - NZ beats West Indies by one wicket in cricket at Dunedin
1981 - Longest sentence published by NY Times-1286 words
1981 - A series of sewer explosions destroys more than two miles of streets in Louisville, Kentucky.
1982 - Dark Side of the Moon, is on charts for 402nd week
1982 - Islander's Bryan Trottier scores 5 goals against Flyers
1983 - "Merlin" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 199 performances
1983 - 33rd NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 132-123 at LA
1983 - Australia beats NZ 2-0 to win World Series Cup
1983 - Donna White wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic
1983 - E Bernstein, Levinson & Link's musical "Merlin" premieres in NYC
1983 - World Boxing Council becomes 1st to cut boxing from 15 to 12 rounds
1984 - 6 year old Texan Stormie Jones gets 1st heart & liver transplant
1984 - Konstantin Chernenko succeeds Yuri Andropov as USSR leader
1985 - Dow Jones closes at 1297.92 (record high) after topping 1300 earlier
1985 - Polish police arrests 7 Solidarity leaders
1987 - Tigers' Jack Morris awarded $1.85 million salary by arbitrator
1988 - 15th Winter Olympic games opens at Calgary, Canada
1988 - Christine Wachtel runs world record 800m indoor (1:56:40)
1988 - European Community plans removal of inner boundaries on Jan 1, 1992
1988 - Heike Dreschler long jumps world record indoor (7.37m)
1988 - Ronald Weigel runs unofficial world record speed walking (18:11.41)
1989 - Kidnapped Belgian Premier Vanden Boeynants freed
1989 - Salvadoran army attacks Encuentros hospital, rapes, kills patients
1989 - Oklahoma football player Charles Thompson is charged with selling cocaine; he is later sentenced to 2 years in prison
1990 - 50 killed at Inkatha-UDF battle in Natal, South Africa
1990 - Larry Bird (Celtics) ends NBA free throw streak of 71 games
1990 - US, England, France & England give Germany OK to reunify
1991 - Syria tells Germany they are ready to recognize Israel
1991 - US bombs Iraqi air raid shelter, killing 334
1991 - US air raid on the Amiriyah shelter in Baghdad kills more than 408 civilians
1992 - "Most Happy Fella" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 229 performances
1992 - Jose Canseco repeatedly rams his Porsche into wife Esther's BMW
1992 - West beats East 14 to 9 in Major Soccer League all star game
1993 - Ljubow Kremljowa runs world record 1000m indoor (2:34:84)
1993 - Merlene Ottey runs world record 200m indoor (21.87 sec)
1993 - Sergei Bubka pole vaults indoor record (6.14 m)
1994 - 44th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 127-118 at Minneapolis
1994 - Inna Lassovskaya jumps world record 14.9m
1994 - Johann Olav Koss skates world record 5000m 6:34,96
1994 - Ship disaster near Ranong Thailand, kills 200
1995 - Howard Stern radio show premieres in San Diego CA on KIOZ 105.3 FM
1995 - West Indies beat NZ by innings & 332, Courtney Walsh 13-55
1996 - Howard Stern announces he will be making the film "Private Parts"
1996 - Rock musical "Rent," by Jonathan Larson, opens off-Broadway
1997 - "Three Sisters," opens at Criterion Theater NYC
1997 - Discovery captures Hubble Space Telescope
2000 - The last original "Peanuts" comic strip appears in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schulz dies.
2001 - An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter Scale hits El Salvador, killing at least 400.
2004 - The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovers the universe's largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093.
2007 - Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou resigns as the chairman of the Kuomintang party after being indicted by the Taiwan High Prosecutors Office on charges of embezzlement during his tenure as the mayor of Taipei; Ma also announces his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election.
2008 - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd makes an historic apology to the Indigenous Australians and the Stolen Generations.
2009 - Unix time passed 1,234,567,890 seconds February 13, 2009 at exactly 23:31:30 (UTC).

Famous Birthdays

Results 101 - 200 of 242

1926 - Barney Childs, composer
1927 - Harry Wich, Dutch set designer
1929 - Omar Torrijos Herrera, president Panama
1930 - Dotty McGuire, Middletown Oh, vocalist (McGuire Sisters)
1930 - Ernst Fuchs, Austrian artist
1931 - Marjorie Jackson, Austria, 100m/200m dash (Oly-gold-1952) [or Sep 13]
1932 - Susan Oliver, American actress (d. 1990)
1933 - Caroline Blakiston, actress (At Bertram's Hotel)
1933 - Emanuel Ungaro, France, fashion designer (Neiman-Marcus Award-1969)
1933 - Kim Novak, [Marilyn], Chicago Ill, actress (Vertigo, Of Human Bondage)
1933 - Paul Biya, president of Cameroon (1982- )
1934 - George Segal, actor/banjo player (Carbon Copy, Fun with Dick & Jane)
1935 - Tommy Jacobs, golfer
1935 - Dr. Don Panoz, American entrepreneur and motorsports impresario (ALMS)
1936 - John Harris, British(?) cricket player
1936 - Leamon King, Tulare Calif, 4X100m relayer (Olympic-gold-1956)
1937 - Sigmund Jaehn, German DR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 31/29)
1937 - Susan Oliver, NYC, actress (Ann-Peyton Place, Star Trek-Cage)
1937 - Ali El-Maak, Sudanese writer (d. 1992)
1938 - Oliver Reed, London England, actor (Big Sleep)
1939 - Valery Illych Rozhdestvensky, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 23)
1939 - Beate Klarsfeld, German Nazi hunter
1941 - Bo Svenson, Goteborg Sweden, actor (North Dallas 40, Walking Tall)
1941 - Andrea Conte, First Lady of Tennessee
1941 - Sigmar Polke, German painter
1942 - Carol Lynley, NYC, actress (Night Stalker, Fantasy Island, Immortal)
1942 - Donald E Williams, Lafayette Ind, Capt USN/astro (STS 51D, STS 34)
1942 - Peter Tork, American musician and actor (The Monkees)
1943 - F C Delius, writer
1943 - Leo Frankowski, US, sci-fi author (High Tech Knight, Flying Warlord)
1944 - Jerry Springer, London England, talk show host (Jerry Springer Show)
1944 - Peter Tork, Wash DC, singer/actor (Monkees-Last Train to Clarksville)
1944 - Sal Bando, baseball player (Oakland A's)
1944 - Stockard Channing, NYC, actress (Grease, Big Bus, Without a Trace)
1944 - Rebop Kwaku Baah, Nigerian percussionist (d. 1983)
1944 - Oduvil Unnikrishnan, Indian actor (d. 2006)
1945 - Keith Nichols, jazz pianist
1945 - King Floyd, rocker
1945 - Roy Dyke, Liverpool, rock drummer (Ashton, Gardner & Dyke)
1945 - David Tremlett, English Artist
1946 - Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German director/actor (Ehe der Maria Braun)
1946 - Louis Kondos, Greek actor
1947 - Mike Krzyzewski, basketball coach
1947 - Tony Butler, rock bassist (Big Country-It's a Big Country, Wonderland)
1950 - Leonard Pascoe, cricketer (dynamic Aussie quick 1977-82)
1950 - Peter Gabriel, Surrey England, rock vocalist (Genesis, In Your Eyes)
1951 - David Naughton, Hartford Ct, actor (My Sister Sam, Separate Vacations)
1951 - Greg Fulginiti, American mastering engineer
1952 - David Puilum Choi, Hong Kong, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1952 - Ed Gagliardi, NYC, rock bassist (Foreigner-Cold As Ice)
1952 - Freddy Maertens, Belgian cyclist
1953 - Sharon Wyatt, Lebanon Tenn, actress (Tiffany-General Hospital)
1953 - Suleiman Nyambui, Tanzanian runner (world record 5k indoor)
1953 - Rico J. Puno, Filipino pop singer
1955 - Jan de Ligt, Dutch saxophonist (I've Got the Bullets)
1955 - Scott Smith, rock bassist (Loverboy-Get Lucky)
1955 - Joe Birkett, American lawyer
1956 - Liam Brady, British soccer player
1956 - Peter Hook, English rock bassist (New Order-Round & Round, Run)
1956 - Richard Eden, actor (Brick-Santa Barbara, Solar Crisis, Robocop)
1956 - Yiannis Kouros, Greek-Australian runner
1956 - Princess Alia bint Al Hussein, Jordanian Royal Family member
1957 - Doris King, Nashville Tenn, vocalist (Girls Next Door-Don't Be Cruel)
1957 - Thelston Payne, cricket wicket-keeper (WI 1986)
1957 - Denise Austin, American fitness expert
1958 - Mark Fox, congas/percussionist (Haircut 100-Nobody's Fool)
1958 - Pernilla August, Swedish actress
1958 - Marc Emery, Canadian cannabis activist
1958 - Derek Riggs, British artist
1958 - Tip Tipping, British actor and stuntman (d. 1993)
1959 - Gaston Gingras, National Hockey League defenceman
1959 - Gord Hampson, Canadian ice hockey player
1960 - Kelly McCormick, Anaheim Calif, diver (Olympic-silver-1984)
1960 - Matt Salinger, Windsor VT, actor (Capt America, Deadly Deception)
1960 - Michael Craig, rock bassist (Culture Club-Do You Want to Hurt Me)
1960 - Pierluigi Collina, Italian football referee
1960 - Gary Patterson, American football coach
1960 - Artur Yusupov, Russian-German chess player
1961 - Henry Rollins, US vocalist/poet (Big Ugly Mouth, Talking From the Box)
1961 - Kyi Hla Han, Yangon, Australasia golfer
1961 - Les Warner, rocker (Cult-Fire Woman)
1962 - Jackie Silva, Rio de Janeiro Brazil, volleyballer (Pan Am-Bronze)
1962 - Aníbal Acevedo Vilá, American politician
1963 - Penelope Ann Miller, actress (Awakenings, Chaplin, Freshman) [or 1/13]
1963 - Roberta Vasquez, LA Calif, playmate (November, 1984)
1964 - Evi Strasser, Bavaria German, equestrian (Olympics-96)
1964 - Mark Patton, American actor
1964 - Ylva Johansson, Swedish politician
1965 - Kenny Harrison, Milwaukee Wisc, triple jumper
1965 - Stephen Manley, LA Calif, actor (Donny-Married the 1st Year)
1966 - Freedom Williams, rock vocalist (C&C Music Factory-Everbody Dance Now)
1966 - Tally Chanel, Tel Aviv Israel, actress (Warrior Queen)
1967 - Bas Roorda, soccer player (FC Groningen) [or Feb 21]
1967 - Eddie Pye, US baseball infielder (LA Dodgers)
1967 - Melanie Denise Bridges, Derry NH, Miss NH-America (1991)
1967 - Stanimir Stoilov, Bulgarian footballer and coach
1968 - Matt Mieske, US baseball outfielder (Milwaukee Brewers)
1969 - Ahlam, Bahraini singer
1970 - Kevin Stocker, US baseball infielder (Phila Phillies)
1970 - Ruben Brown, NFL guard (Buffalo Bills)

Famous Deaths

Results 101 - 125 of 125

1995 - Azeddine Medjoubi, head Algerian nationally theater, murdered at 49
1995 - Joan A C Ramsey nee Hamilton, lady Ramsey of Canterbury, dies at 84
1995 - Wilton "Bogey" Gaynair, saxophonist, dies at 68
1996 - Daniel K Womack, singer/guitarist, dies at 91
1996 - Martin Balsam, actor (Archie's Place), dies at 76
1997 - Mark Krasnosel'skii, Russian-Ukrainian mathematician (b. 1920),Jessica Browne,singer and dancer
1998 - Jo Clayton, author, Cancer Died, Drums of Chaos, dies at 58
2000 - James Cooke Brown, American author and inventor (b. 1921)
2002 - Waylon Jennings, American musician (b. 1937)
2003 - Kid Gavilan, Cuban boxer (b. 1926)
2003 - Axel Jensen, Norwegian author (b. 1932)
2003 - Walt Rostow, U.S. government official (b. 1916)
2004 - Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, Chechen leader (b. 1952)
2005 - Nelson Briles, baseball player (b. 1943)
2005 - Lúcia Santos, Carmelite nun and Fatima visionary (b. 1907)
2005 - Maurice Trintignant, French race car driver (b. 1917)
2005 - Dick Weber, American professional bowler (b. 1929)
2005 - Emilios T. Harlaftis, Greek astrophysicist (b. 1965)
2006 - Andreas Katsulas, Greek-American actor (b. 1946)
2006 - Peter Frederick Strawson, British philosopher (b. 1919)
2007 - Elizabeth Jolley, Australian writer (b. 1923)
2007 - Charlie Norwood, American politician (b. 1941)
2007 - Richard Gordon Wakeford, Air Marshal, Royal Air Force (b. 1922)
2007 - Johanna Sällström, Swedish actress (b. 1974)
2008 - Roger Voisin, Trumpet player, Boston Symphony (b. 1918)