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Historical Events

Results 101 - 185 of 185

1959 - Antonio Segni forms Italian govt
1959 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Tournament
1961 - Australia beat WI 2-1 in one of best Test Cricket series ever
1961 - Entire US figure skating team of 18, dies in Belgian Sabena 707 crash
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - 1st US female world figure skating champ (Tenley Albright)
1963 - Ken Lynch records "Misery," 1st Lennon-McCartney song by someone else
1964 - Beatles' "Meet the Beatles!," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 11 weeks
1964 - Bill Bradley scores 51 points for Princeton
1965 - Canada replaces Union Jack flag with Maple Leaf
1965 - John Lennon passes his driving test
1965 - Maple Leaf becomes official flag of Canada
1966 - Kees Verkerk becomes world champion all-round skater
1967 - 1st anti-bootleg recording laws enacted
1967 - D66 (D'66) wins 7 seats in Dutch 2nd Chamber
1967 - Longest dream (REM sleep) on record, Bill Carskadon, Chicago (2:23)
1968 - Anaheim's Les Salvage scores 10, 3-pt baskets in ABA game vs Denver
1968 - WVUT TV channel 22 in Vincennes, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting
1970 - Ard Schenk becomes world champion all-round skater
1970 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational
1970 - Dominican DC-9 crashes into sea at Santo Domingo, kills 102
1970 - KAMU TV channel 15 in College Station, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
1970 - Nationalists disrupt UN session on Congo
1971 - After 1,200 years Britain abandons 12-shilling system for decimal
1971 - Decimalisation of British coinage is completed on Decimal Day.
1972 - Bill Torrey becomes 1st Islander General Manager
1972 - Dimitrios Papadopoulos becomes metropolitan of Imbros/Tenedos
1972 - Pres Velasco Ibarra of Ecuador deposed for 4th time
1972 - Sound recordings are granted U.S. federal copyright protection for the first time.
1973 - Friendsville Academy (Tenn) ends 138-game basketball losing streak
1973 - USSR launches Prognoz 3 to study sun (589/200,300 km)
1976 - 12th Winter Olympic games close at Innsbruck, Austria
1976 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
1977 - Social-democrats win Danish parliamentary election
1978 - England all out 64 for 1st loss to NZ in cricket (Boycott capt)
1978 - Escaped mass murderer Ted Bundy recaptured, Pensacola, Fla
1978 - Leon Spinks beats Muhammad Ali in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1978 - Zaire revises constitution
1979 - 21st Grammy Awards: Just the Way You Are, Taste of Honey wins
1979 - Paul Shirley (21) of Australia, sucked a lifesaver for 4 hrs 40 mins
1979 - Temple City Kazoo Orchestra appears on Mike Douglas Show
1979 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1980 - Eric Heiden skates Olympic record 500m in 38.03 sec
1980 - Wayne Gretzy assists on NHL-record-tieing 7 goals
1981 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic
1981 - Rocket-powered ice sled attains 399 kph, Lake George, NY
1982 - Dan Issel (NBA-Nuggets), begins streak of 63 consecutive free throw
1982 - Ocean Ranger oil-drilling platform lost off Newfoundland, 84 die
1984 - 500,000 Iranian soldiers move into Iraq
1985 - STS 51-E vehicle moves to launch pad
1985 - World chess championship match abandoned-Karpov 25, Kasparov 23
1986 - 44,180 largest NBA crowd to date-Phila at Detroit
1986 - Ferdinand Marcos wins rigged Philippines presidential election
1986 - Phil Natl Assembly authorizes 6 more years for Ferdinand Marcos
1987 - ABC-TV begins broadcasting "Amerika" mini-series
1987 - Karlstad skates world record 10km (14:03,92)
1987 - Nikolai Guljajev becomes world champion skater
1987 - Craig Stadler disqualified from Andy Williams Open for kneeling on a towel to make a shot
1988 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1989 - Israel attacks border strip Taba near Egypt
1989 - Soviet military occupation of Afgh nist n ends
1990 - Baseball owners lock out players
1991 - Freighter with dynamite explodes in Phang Nga Thailand, 120 die
1991 - Troy State sets NCAA Div II record with 103 points in 2nd half routing DeVry Institute 187-117
1992 - 100th episode of "Cops" airs on Fox
1992 - Jeffrey Dahmer found sane & guilty of killing 15 boys
1993 - Bomb strike on mafia drug lords in Bogot , Colombia; kills 14
1993 - Bombings by mafia drug lords kill 14 in Bogota Colombia
1993 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Rochester NY on WNVE 95.1 FM
1993 - Katie Elizabeth Hillyard was born, famous English young composer of the year 2007.England
1994 - US asks Aristide to adopt a peace plan from Haiti
1995 - Burundi premier Anatole Kanyenkiko, resigns
1995 - Dow-Jones closes at record 3986.17
1995 - Population of People's Republic of China hits 1.2 billion
1996 - Mortar attack on the US Embassy in Athens, Greece.
1997 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Tara Lipinski
1997 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldridge
1998 - Dale Eggeling wins Los Angeles Women's Golf Championship
1998 - Daytona 500 race
1999 - Abdullah Öcalan, leader of the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party, widely recognized as terrorist organization), was arrested in Kenya.
2000 - Indian Point II nuclear power plant in New York State vents a small amount of radioactive steam when a steam generator fails.
2001 - First draft of the complete Human Genome is published in Nature
2002 - At the Tri-State Crematory in La Fayette, Georgia, investigators find uncremated bodies disposed of in the woods and buildings on the crematorium's property. The discovery reveals one of the worst incidents of abuse in the funeral service industry.
2003 - An estimated eleven million people around the world take to the streets to protest against the looming war with Iraq
2005 - YouTube, the popular Internet site on which videos may be shared and viewed by others, is launched in the United States.

Famous Birthdays

Results 101 - 200 of 271

1909 - Miep Gies, Dutch biographer of Anne Frank
1910 - 9th earl of Jersey, English large landowner/art collector
1911 - Leonard Woodcock, labor leader (UAW)
1912 - George Mikes, Hungary, British writer (How to Be an Alien)
1913 - Willy Vandersteen, Belgian cartoonist (Suske & Wiske)
1913 - Erich Eliskases, Austrian chess player (d. 1997)
1914 - Arthur Sydney Martin, spy catcher
1914 - Kevin McCarthy, Seattle, actor (Invasion of Body Snatchers, Howling)
1914 - R W Woods, bishop (Worcester)
1914 - Hale Boggs, American politician (d. 1972)
1915 - Paul Ferris, British author
1916 - Ian Ballantine, publisher (Ballantine Books)
1916 - Mary Jane Croft, American actress (d. 1999)
1918 - Alan Arbus, NYC, actor (Dr Sidney Freedman-M*A*S*H)
1920 - Ingmar Milveden, composer
1920 - Piet van Aken, Flemish writer (Devil Sails to US, Niggers)
1920 - Richard O'Brien, CEO (Manpower Services Commission)
1920 - Endicott Peabody, 62nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1997)
1921 - Radha Krishna Choudhary, Indian historian and writer (d. 1985)
1922 - Herman Kahn, NJ, writer (Thinking About the Unthinkable)
1922 - John Bayard Anderson, American politician
1923 - Justice Drake, British justice
1923 - Keene Curtis, Salt Lake City Utah, actor (Magician, Amanda's)
1923 - Yelena Bonner, Moscow, soviet disident/wife of Andre Sakharov
1927 - Frank Dunlop, director (Edinburgh International Festival)
1927 - Gottfrid Grasbeck, composer
1927 - Harvey Korman, Chicago, actor (Carol Burnett Show, Blazing Saddles)
1927 - William Bentley, diplomat
1929 - Countess of Dysart
1929 - Gerald Harper, broadcaster/actor (Tunes of Glory, Extra Day)
1929 - Graham Hill, London, auto racer (1962, 68 international racing champ)
1929 - James Schlesinger, US Secretary of Defense (1973-75)
1930 - C F Payne, Cleveland, British chief constable
1930 - Nico Minardos, American actor
1931 - W K Reid, British ombudsman
1931 - [Patricia] Claire Bloom, London, actress (Charly, Look Back in Anger)
1931 - Geoff Edwards, American television game show host
1932 - Adrian Swire, British aircraft magnate (Cathay Pacific)
1933 - Adolfo, Cardones Cuba, fashion designer (Nancy Reagan)
1934 - Niklaus Wirth, Switzerland, computer programmer/inventor (PASCAL)
1934 - Graham Kennedy, Australian actor (d. 2005)
1935 - John R Block, US Secretary of Agriculture (1981-86)
1935 - Roger B Chaffee, Grand Rapids Michigan, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut
1935 - Susan Brownmiller, Brooklyn, feminist author (Against Our Wills)
1936 - Andrew Miller, British principal (Stirling U)
1937 - Nicholas Bayne, diplomat
1937 - P J Squire, British headmaster (Bedford Modern School)
1937 - Terry Everett, (Rep-R-Alabama)
1937 - Zoltan Pesko, composer
1937 - Gregory Mcdonald, American author
1938 - Jack Tinker, drama critic
1938 - Lord Justice Ward, British judge
1939 - Jo Clayton, US, sci-fi author (Irsud, Maeve, Star Hunters)
1939 - Tony Bloom, deputy CEO (Sketchley)
1939 - Robert Hansen, American serial killer
1940 - John Hadl, American football player
1940 - Hamzah Haz, Indonesian politician
1941 - Brian Holland, US pianist/producer (Holland/Dozier/Holland)
1941 - Dan Crompton, Nottinghamshire, Chief Constable
1941 - Florinda Bolkan, Ceara Brazil, actress (Damned, Last Valley, Word)
1944 - Aleksandr A Serebrov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-7, T-8, TM-8, TM-17)
1944 - Mick Avory, rock drummer (Kinks-Lola)
1944 - Tineke Netelenbos, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1945 - John Helliwell, British musician (Supertramp)
1945 - Douglas Hofstadter, American academic and writer
1946 - Clare Short, British MP
1946 - John Greenway, British MP
1946 - Esko Seppänen, Finnish politician
1947 - John Adams, Worcester Mass, composer (Nixon in China)
1947 - Marisa Berenson, NYC, actress (Barry Lyndon, Death in Vienna, SOB)
1947 - Rusty Hamer, Tenafly NJ, actor (Rusty-Make Room for Daddy)
1948 - Ron "Penguin" Cey, Tacoma Wash, 3rd baseman (LA Dodgers)
1948 - Ron Cey, American baseball player
1948 - Art Spiegelman, American cartoonist
1949 - Christopher Rouse, composer
1949 - Earl of Carlisle
1949 - Jess Walton, Mich, actress (Jill Foster Abbott-Young & Restless)
1949 - Ken Anderson, NFL quarterback (Cincinnati Bengals)
1949 - Hans Graf, Austrian conductor
1950 - Donna Hanover Giuliani, TV news anchor (WPIX)/wife of Mayor Giuliani
1950 - Nikolai Sergeivich Grekov, Russia, cosmonaut
1951 - Jane Seymour, [Joyce Frankenberg], England, actress (Dr Quinn)
1951 - Melissa Manchester, Bronx NY, vocalist (Don't Cry Out Loud)
1953 - Derek Conway, British MP
1953 - Tony Adams, Irish film producer (d. 2005)
1954 - Matt Groening, cartoonist (Life in Hell, Simpsons)
1954 - Armand Parmentier, Belgian athlete
1955 - Bev Francis, Australia, world women's power-lifting champion
1955 - Clive Aslet, British editor (Country Life)
1955 - Christopher McDonald, American actor
1955 - Janice Dickinson, American Ex-Supermodel
1956 - Desmond Haynes, cricket (WI opener-greatest batsman in 1-day history)
1956 - Hilda Beatriz "Hildita" Guevara, Cuba, daughter of "Che" Guevara
1956 - Hitoshi Ogawa, Japanese racing driver (d. 1992)
1957 - Bienvenida Buck, Velencia Spain, lover of Brit Peter Harding
1957 - Charles Edward Pevensey Tennant, aristocrat
1957 - Jake E Lee, rocker (Badlands-Dreams in the Dark)
1957 - Jimmy Spencer, American race car driver
1957 - Steve Farhood, American boxing historian and analyst
1958 - Chrystine Brouillet, Quebec novelist

Famous Deaths

Results 101 - 148 of 148

1981 - Thomas Beversdorf, composer, dies at 56
1981 - Karl Richter, German conductor (b. 1926)
1982 - Rolfe Sedan, actor (Mailman-George Burns Show), dies at 86
1984 - Avon Long, dancer/actor (Roots: Next Generation), dies of cancer at 73
1984 - Ethel Merman, singer/actress (Kid Million), dies in her sleep at 76
1984 - Leamon Hunt, US director-General in Sinai, killed by communists
1987 - Jimmy Holiday, US singer (Baby I Love You), dies at 42
1987 - Osmo Uolevi Lindeman, composer, dies at 57
1988 - Frederick [Fritz] Loewe, composer, dies
1988 - Gardiner Means, US economist, dies at 91
1988 - Gerard Holt, architect, dies at 83
1988 - Neil R[onald] Jones, sf writer (Space War, Twin Worlds), dies at 78
1988 - Richard P Feynman, physicist (Nobel 1965, Physical Law), dies at 69
1990 - Henry Brandon, actor (Assault on Precinct 13), dies at 77
1990 - Jack Fletcher, actor (Any Wednesday), dies of heart attack at 68
1991 - Gary Gears, Chicago disk jockey, dies at 46 of a heart attack
1991 - Luis Escobar, Spanish actor (Don Juan My Love), dies at 78
1992 - William H Schuman, US composer (Pulitzer)/Pres of Julliard, dies at 81
1992 - María Elena Moyano, Peruvian activist (b. 1960)
1993 - George Wallington, [Giacinto Figlia], Italian bebop-pianist/, dies
1994 - Andrei Tsjikatilo, [Rostov Ripper], Russian mass murdered, executed
1994 - Tiger Haynes, US actor (Moscow on the Hudson, Cosby Show), dies at 79
1995 - Francis Taylor, builder, dies at 90
1995 - Joseph Ortiz, French-Algerian extremist/rebel, dies at 77
1995 - Lord Taylor of Hadfield, Brit pres of Taylor Woodrow Group, dies at 90
1995 - Nabila Diahnine, Algerian architect/feminist, murdered at 33
1995 - Sahnoun Jawhari, Tunisian Annahda-leader, dies at 40 in jail
1995 - Viscount Camrose, British large landowner/Conservative, dies
1996 - Bruno Ferenc Straub, Hungarian statesman, dies
1996 - Margaret Courtenay, actress (Royal Flash, Duet for One), dies at 72
1996 - McLean Stevenson, actor (M*A*S*H, Hello Larry), dies at 66
1996 - Oscar Abrams, community organiser, dies at 58
1996 - Tommy Rettig, actor (Lassie)/computer programmer (Clipper), dies at 54
1998 - Martha Gelhorn, female war correspondents, dies at 89
1999 - Big L, American rapper (b. 1974)
1999 - Henry Way Kendall, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1926)
2002 - Howard K. Smith, American journalist (b. 1914)
2002 - Kevin Smith, New Zealand actor (b. 1963)
2004 - Jens Evensen, Norwegian minister and jurist (b. 1917)
2004 - Jan Miner, American actress (b. 1917)
2005 - Samuel Francis, American journalist (b. 1947)
2005 - Pierre Bachelet, French singer and songwriter (b. 1944)
2007 - Walker Edmiston, actor (b. 1926)
2007 - Ray Evans, American songwriter (b. 1915)
2008 - Amnon Netzer, Iranian-Israeli historian (b. 1934)
2008 - Ashley Callie, South African actress (b. 1976)
2009 - Joe Cuba, Puerto-Rican musician (b. 1931)
2009 - Dr. Diether H. Haenicke, university president (b. 1935)