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Historical Events

Results 101 - 180 of 180

1958 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open
1959 - Fidel Castro named himself Cuba's premier after overthrowing Batista
1959 - Leonard Spigelgass' "Majority of One," premieres in NYC
1960 - US nuclear submarine USS Triton set off on underwater round-world trip
1961 - 1st all-solid-propellant rocket put in orbit, Wallops Island, Va
1961 - China uses it's 1st nuclear reactor
1961 - US satellite Explorer 9 is launched
1962 - Darius Milhaud's 12th Symphony, premieres
1962 - US Open Tennis: Jimmy Bostwick defeats brother Pete to win
1963 - 1st round-trip swim of Strait of Messina, Italy (Mary Revell of US)
1963 - Beatles top British rock charts with "Please, Please Me"
1963 - C & A Building in Amsterdam burns down
1964 - "Foxy" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 72 performances
1964 - Beatles' 2nd appearance on "Ed Sullivan Show"
1965 - "Baker Street" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 313 performances
1965 - Pegasus 1 launched to detect micro-meteors
1966 - Bob Cowper makes 307 v England at the MCG, 727 mins, 20 fours
1966 - End of Wally Grout's Test Cricket career, 187 dismissals as Aust WK
1966 - France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
1967 - Red Ruffing selected to Hall of Fame
1968 - Country's 1st 911 phone system went into service in Haleyville, Ala
1968 - Elvis Presley receives gold record for "How Great Thou Art"
1968 - Beatles George Harrison & John Lennon & wives fly to India for transcendental meditation study with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
1970 - Joe Frazier TKOs Jimmy Ellis in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
1972 - 1st NBA to score 30,000 points (Wilt Chamberlain in 940 games)
1972 - German mass murderers "Three of Breda" freed
1972 - Test Cricket debut of Lawrence Rowe WI v NZ Kingston, 214 & 100
1972 - Wilt Chamberlain hit 30,000 point mark during a game with Phoenix Suns
1973 - WI v Australia at Kingston, 1st time since 1955 without Sobers
1975 - Washington Capitals 1st NHL shutout, beating KC Scouts 3-0
1977 - USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
1978 - 1st Computer Bulletin Board System (Ward & Randy's CBBS, Chicago)
1979 - George Harrison releases "Blow Away"
1979 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1980 - Continuous traffic jam extends 176 km north of Lyons, France
1980 - Eric Heiden skates 5k in 7:02.29 (Olympic Record)
1982 - Agatha Barbara elected as 1st female president of Malta
1982 - Assembled STS-3 vehicle moves from Vandenberg AFB to launch pad
1982 - Lee Majors & Farrah Fawcett Majors divorce
1983 - The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia claim the lives of 75 people in Australia's worst ever fires.
1984 - Bill Johnson becomes 1st American to win Olympic downhill skiing gold
1984 - NJ Devils 1st OT goal, Jan Ludvig beats Hartford Whalers 6-5
1985 - Largest NBA crowd to date, 43,816, sees Phila at Detroit
1985 - Livingston Bramble defeats Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini to win WBA champ
1985 - NJ Devils score their fastest hat trick in 42 seconds
1985 - The founding of Hezbollah.
1986 - "Uptown... It's Hot!" closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 24 perfs
1986 - French air force bombs Ouadi Doum airport in Chad
1986 - Hein Vergeer becomes world champion skater
1986 - Karlstad skates world record 10 km (14:12.14)
1986 - Mario Soares (Socialist) elected Portugal's 1st civilian pres
1987 - John Demjanjuk, accused of being "Ivan the Terrible" trial begins
1988 - 1st documented combat action by US military advisors in El Salvador
1989 - Egypt, Iraq, Jordan & North Yemen form common market
1989 - Jane Fonda & Tom Hayden separate after 16 years of marriage
1989 - Orel Hershiser, Dodger pitcher signs $7.9M-3 year contract
1989 - Roger Clemens, Red Sox pitcher signs $7.5M-3 year contract
1989 - William Hayden becomes governor-general of Australia
1991 - Dutch PPR, Political Party Radicals, disbands
1991 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Tonya Harding
1992 - Former silver Goodyear blimps are now painted yellow & blue
1992 - LA Lakers retire Magic Johnson's #32 uniform
1993 - Sandra V"lker swims world record 50m backstroke (28.33 sec)
1993 - Western Australia's and Australia's first woman Premier, Carmen Lawrence, is voted out of office.
1994 - 6.5 earthquake strikes SE Sumatra, kills 200
1994 - Johann Olav Koss skates world record 1500m (1:51.29)
1994 - Premier Alfonso Bustamente ends govt in Peru
1996 - Gary Kirsten scores 188* for S Africa v UAE at Rawalpindi
1997 - At age 25, Jeff Gordon is youngest winner in Daytona 500 history
1997 - GTE Suncoast Senior Golf Classic
1997 - Paul Stankowski wins Hawaiian Golf Open
1997 - Terry-Jo Myers wins LPGA Los Angeles Women's Championship
1998 - Tellabs Inc acquires Coherent Communications Systems for $670 million
1999 - O.J. Simpson's 1968 Heisman Trophy is sold for $230,000 to help settle a $33.5 million civil judgement against Simpson for the deaths of his ex-wife and her friend
1999 - Across Europe, Kurdish rebels take over embassies and hold hostages after Turkey arrested one of their rebel leaders, Abdullah Öcalan.
2003 - Michael Waltrip wins motor racing's Daytona 500 after rain stops the race for a second time at lap 109
2004 - The Pittsburgh Penguins lose their 12th consecutive home game, a NHL record
2005 - 2004-05 NHL season is canceled by league commissioner Gary Bettman. This was the first time that a North American professional sports league had to cancel a season due to a labor dispute
2005 - The Kyoto Protocol comes into force, following its ratification by Russia.
2006 - The last Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army.

Famous Birthdays

Results 101 - 200 of 256

1920 - Patty Andrews, Minneapolis MN, vocalist (Andrews Sisters)
1920 - Anna Mae Hays, American army general
1921 - Jean Behra, auto racer
1921 - Araucaria, British crossword compiler
1921 - Vera-Ellen, American actress (d. 1981)
1922 - Geraint Evans, British opera vocalist (Knaben Wunderhorn)
1922 - Paul van 't Veer, Dutch journalist/writer (Het Vrije Volk)
1924 - James Swaffield, director-general (Swaffield & Clerk to the GLC)
1924 - Peter Webster, British High Court Judge
1925 - David Emms, director (London Goodenough Trust for Overseas Graduates)
1925 - John Schlesinger, London England, director (Midnight Cowboy, Darling)
1925 - PER Bailey, director (Gatwick & Stansted Airports)
1925 - Carlos Paredes, Portuguese guitar master (d. 2004)
1926 - Jack Levy, mechanical engineer
1926 - John Schlesinger, film director, (Midnight Cowboy)
1926 - Vera-Ellen, [Westmeyr Rohe], Cincinnati, actress/dancer (Wonder Man)
1927 - June Brown, British actress
1929 - Peter NF Porter, Australian/British author/poet (Chair of Babel)
1929 - Gerhard Hanappi, Austrian footballer (d. 1980)
1930 - F G R Cuming, painter
1930 - Peggy King, Greensburg Pa, vocalist/actress (George Gobel Show)
1930 - Ricou Browning, Florida, director/actor (Thunderball)
1931 - A Kolleritsch, writer
1931 - Gamini Goonesena, cricket leg-spinner (all-rounder for Ceylon, Notts)
1931 - George E Sangmeister, (Rep-D-Illinois)
1931 - Ken Takakura, [Goichi Oda], Kita Japan, actor (Story of Antarctic)
1932 - A Appelfeld, writer
1932 - Gretchen Wyler, Bartlesville Okla, actress (Silk Stockings)
1932 - Nand Baert, Belgian radio/TV-host
1932 - Otis Blackwell, composer/singer
1932 - Harry Goz, American actor (d. 2003)
1932 - Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, President of Sierra Leone
1934 - Austin "Ted" Taylor, US gospel/R&B-singer (Be Ever Wonderful)
1934 - Marlene Bauer Hagge, Eureka SD, LPGA golfer (1950 Woman Athlete)
1935 - Brian Bedford, England, actor (Anthony-Coronet Blue)
1935 - Robin Clark, chemist (FRS)
1935 - Sonny Bono, Detroit, vocalist (Sonny & Cher)/(Rep-R-Ca, 1995-98)
1936 - Jill Kinmont, American skier
1937 - Paul Bailey, novelist
1937 - Valentin Vasilyevich Bondarenko, cosmonaut
1938 - Barry Primus, NYC, actor (Sgt McKenna-Cagney & Lacey, Boxcar Bertha)
1938 - John Corigliano, NYC, composer (Fern Hill, Ghosts of Versailles)
1939 - David Griffiths, portrait painter
1939 - Harold Kalin, singer
1940 - Karoli Ruth Needles, painter
1941 - Vitali Kuznetsov, USSR, judo (Olympic-silver-1972)
1942 - Gabriel Brncic, composer
1942 - Kim Chong-Il, [Yura], president of North-Korea (1994- )
1943 - Anthony Dowell, London, ballet dancer (Royal Ballet)
1943 - J D Moore, headmaster (St Dunstan's College)
1943 - James Beaton, British GC
1944 - Richard Ford, US author (Sportswriter)
1944 - António Mascarenhas Monteiro, 2nd President of Cape Verde
1945 - Frank Welker, American voice actor
1946 - Aleksandr Shaparenko, USSR, 1K kayak (Olympic-gold-1972)
1946 - Ian Lavender, British actor (Stupid Boy in Dad's Army)
1946 - J R Farndon, British consultant surgeon
1948 - Eckhart Tolle, Author and spiritual teacher
1949 - Dorus Vrede, Surinam poet (Otobanda; the Other Bank)
1950 - Peter Hain, British MP
1950 - William Katt, LA Calif, actor (Greatest American Hero, 1st Love)
1950 - Kazuki Tomokawa, Japanese acid-folk singer
1950 - Roman Tam, Hong Kong famous singer (d. 2002)
1952 - Barry Foote, Major League Baseball player
1953 - Andre St Lauren, NHLer
1953 - George Martin, NFLer (NY Giants)
1953 - Mike Ford, NYC, Canadian Tour golfer (1976 Port Jefferson Open)
1953 - Roberta Williams, computer game designer
1954 - David Lombardo, rocker
1954 - Iain [Menzies] Banks, UK, sci-fi author (Wasp Factory)
1954 - Michael Holding, cricket fast bowler (Whispering Death-Awesome for WI)
1955 - George Martin, NFL defensive back (NY Giants)
1955 - Guy Gallo, New Orleans LA, writer (Under the Volcano)
1955 - Jeff Clayton, US jazz saxophonist/composer (Groove Shop)
1955 - Hunt Block, American actor
1956 - James Ingram, vocalist (On the Wings of Love)
1957 - LeVar Burton, Landstuhl Germany, (Roots, Star Trek Next Generation)
1958 - Herb Williams, NBA center (Toronto Raptors, NY Knicks)
1958 - Ice-T, rap singer/actor (New Jack City, Tank Girl, Crazy Six)
1958 - John Paul Morse, Marshall MI, PGA golfer (1995 United Airlines)
1958 - Lisa Loring, actress (As the World Turns, Wednesday-Addams Family)
1958 - Ice-T, American rapper, songwriter, and actor
1958 - Michael W. Burns, American politician
1959 - John P McEnroe, tennis player (US Open 1979-81, 84 Wimb 1981, 83, 84)
1959 - Kelly Tripuka, Glenn Ridge NJ, NBA forward (Det Pistons, Utah Jazz)
1960 - Cherie Chung, Hong Kong actress
1961 - Andy Taylor, Engld, rock guitarist (Duran Duran-Hungry Like the Wolf)
1962 - Alexa Kenin, NYC, actress (Mousie-Coed Fever)
1962 - Tony Kiley, rocker (Blow Monkeys-Wicked Ways)
1962 - John Balance, English musician (Coil, Psychic TV) (d. 2004)
1963 - Dave Lombardo, Cuban drummer (Slayer)
1963 - Dano Halsall, Swiss swimmer
1964 - Mark Price, NBA guard (Cleveland Caveliers)
1964 - Bebeto, Brazilian footballer
1964 - Christopher Eccleston, English actor
1966 - Eric Uptagrafft, Spokane Wash, prone rifle (Olympics-1996)
1967 - Robert Massey, NFL cornerback (Arizona Cardinals, Detroit Lions)
1967 - John Valentin, Mineola NY, infielder (Boston Red Sox)
1967 - Keith Gretzky, former hockey player; brother of Wayne Gretzky
1968 - Cecil Gray, NFL tackle (Arizona Cardinals)

Famous Deaths

Results 101 - 109 of 109

2001 - Bob Buhl, baseball player (b. 1928)
2002 - Walter Winterbottom, England football manager (b. 1913)
2003 - Eleanor "Sis" Daley, wife of Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley (b. 1907)
2004 - Doris Troy, American singer (b. 1937)
2005 - Nicole DeHuff, American actress (pneumonia) (b. 1975)
2005 - Queen Narriman, second and last wife of King Farouk and mother of their only child King Fuad II
2006 - Johnny Grunge, American professional wrestler (b. 1966)
2006 - Ernie Stautner, German-born American football player (b. 1925)
2009 - Stephen Cardinal Kim Sou-hwan, Korean Cardinal, Protopriest of the Holy Roman Church (b. 1921)