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Historical Events

Results 101 - 200 of 256

1944 - US 7th Infantry/25th Marine Division lands on Kwajalein/Roi/Namur
1945 - US Army arrives at Siegfriedlinie
1946 - Republic of Hungary proclaimed, Zolt n Tildy as communist president
1946 - Trygve Lie, a Norwegian socialist, becomes 1st Sec-Gen of UN
1947 - Aleide de Gasperi forms Italian govt of christian-dems & communists
1947 - Dmitri Shostakovitch named professor at conservatory of Leningrad
1947 - NV United Dutch Fokker's Aircraft established
1948 - Federation Malaysia forms from 9 sultanates
1948 - Palestine Post building in Jerusalem bombed
1949 - 200" (5.08-m) Hale telescope 1st used [See June 3, 1948]
1949 - RCA releases 1st single record ever (45 rpm)
1950 - USSR demands condemnation of Emperor Hirohito for war crimes
1950 - Urko Kekkonen elected president of Finland
1951 - -50°F (-46°C), Gavilan, New Mexico (state record)
1951 - 1st X-ray moving picture process demonstrated
1951 - 1st telecast of atomic explosion
1951 - Alfred Krupp & 28 other German war criminals freed
1951 - UN condemns People's Republic of China as aggressor in Korea
1951 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1952 - General strike against French colonial management in Tunisia
1952 - SN Behrman's "Jane," premieres in NYC
1953 - "General Electric Theater" premieres on CBS TV; Reagan later hosts
1953 - "You Are There" with Walter Cronkite premieres on CBS television
1953 - Dr A de Waal appointed as Neth 1st female asst sect of state
1953 - Flooding in Netherlands, kills 1,835
1953 - WEEK TV channel 25 in Peoria, IL (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 - 1st TV soap opera "Secret Storm" premieres
1954 - Scapino Ballet Studio in Amsterdam destroyed by fire
1954 - Soccer team The County froms in Doetinchem
1955 - HC Hansen appointed premier of Denmark
1956 - Hague Daily Newspaper reveals war crimes of Hague mayor Schokking
1956 - WSAV TV channel 3 in Savannah, GA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1957 - 1st black pilot (PH Young) on a US scheduled passenger airline
1957 - Gijsbert of Hall appointed mayor of Amsterdam
1957 - Felix Wankel's first working prototype DKM 54 of the Wankel engine was running at the NSU research and development department Versuchsabteilung TX in Germany
1958 - 1st US satellite (Explorer I) launched
1958 - Egypt & Syria announce plans to merge into United Arab Republic
1958 - WFTV TV channel 9 in Orlando, FL (ABC) begins broadcasting
1959 - Swiss males vote against voting rights for women
1959 - Texas Instruments requests patent of IC (Integrated Circuit)
1959 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Carol Heiss
1959 - US male Figure Skating championship won by David Jenkins
1959 - WVUE TV channel 8 in New Orleans, LA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1959 - Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Havana Golf Tournament
1959 - Zack Wheat unanimously elected to baseball Hall of Fame
1960 - 34th Australian Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith beats J Lehane (75 62)
1960 - 4 students stage 1st civil rights sit-in, at Greensboro NC Woolworth
1960 - 48th Australian Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats N Fraser (57 36 63 86 86)
1960 - Extreme right-wing rebels in Algiers surrender
1961 - 1st full-scale test of US Minuteman ICBM is successful
1961 - British minister Enoch Powell makes medical insurance more expensive
1961 - Mackay & Kline hang on for 100 mins for cricket draw vs West Indies
1962 - "New Faces of '62" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 28 performances
1962 - NL releases its 1st 162-game schedule
1963 - Nyasaland (now Malawi) becomes self-governing under Hastings Banda
1964 - "Stop the World, I Want to..." closes at Shubert NYC after 556 perf
1964 - Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand," 1st #1 hit, stays #1 for 7 weeks
1964 - Indiana Governor Mathew Walsh tries to ban "Louie Louie" for obscenity
1964 - Suriname River dammed
1965 - Dutch Queen Juliana opens Brienenoord Bridge in Rotterdam
1965 - Martin Luther King Jr & 700 demonstrators arrested in Selma Ala
1965 - Peter Jennings, 26, becomes anchor of ABC's nightly news
1965 - NL adopts emergency team replacement plan to restock any club struck by disaster
1967 - Severe brush fires in Tasmania destroy $11 million & 60 lives
1967 - WCLP TV channel 18 in Chatsworth, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 - Former VP Richard Nixon announces candidacy for president
1968 - Vince Lombardi resigns as coach of Green Bay Packers
1968 - World trade conference Unctad 2 opens in New Delhi
1968 - Famous photo: Saigon police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to head
1969 - Jim Morrison arrested for exposing himself in concert
1969 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn
1969 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Tim Wood
1969 - WPGH TV channel 53 in Pittsburgh, PA (IND) begins broadcasting
1970 - Ford Frick, Earle Combs & Jesse Haines elected to Hall of Fame
1970 - Stalled commuter train rammed by express in Argentina, 139 die
1970 - WMAA TV channel 29 in Jackson, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting
1970 - West-Germany & USSR sign gas contract
1972 - 1st scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) introduced ($395)
1972 - Wings release "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" in UK
1972 - Kuala Lumpur becomes a city by a royal charter granted by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
1973 - Monte Irvin elected to baseball Hall of Fame
1974 - "Good Times" (spinoff from "Maude") premieres on CBS TV
1974 - Kuala Lumpur is declared a Federal Territory.
1975 - "Hoppy, Gene & Me" by Roy Rogers peaks at #65
1975 - "Men on the Moon" closes at Little Theater NYC after 5 performances
1975 - 1st successful Wash Cap penalty shot, Ken Lockett vs Vancouver Canucks
1975 - Lorne Henning scores on 3rd Islander penalty shot
1975 - Otis Francis Tabler is 1st open homosexual to get security clearance to work for the Defense Department
1976 - "Rich Man, Poor Man" mini-series premieres on ABC TV
1976 - Judy Rankin wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational
1976 - Sonny & Cher resume TV show, despite real-life divorce
1976 - East Lansing police arrest Dodgers reliever Mike Marshall for taking batting practice at Mich State U after he is warned not to
1977 - Heavy blizzard in New England claims 100 lives
1977 - Hillsdale High School defeats Person High School 2-0 in basketball
1978 - Harriet Tubman is 1st black woman honored on a US postage stamp
1978 - Director Roman Polanski skips bail & fled to France after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl
1979 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Iran after 15 yrs in exile
1979 - Patricia Hearst is released from a SF prison for bank robbery
1979 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1980 - Sears Radio Theater moves from CBS to Mutual Broadcasting System

Famous Birthdays

Results 101 - 200 of 277

1926 - Douglas Johnson, historian
1926 - Peter Crill, Bailiff of Jersey
1926 - Stuart Whitman, SF Calif, actor (Capt Apache, Ransom, Cimarron Strip)
1927 - Galway Kinnell, Providence RI, author (Body Rags, Book of Nightmares)
1928 - Eric Evans, Dean (St Paul's)
1928 - Peter Gordon Dorrell, archaeologist/photographer
1928 - Sam Edwards, physicist
1928 - Thoams Eric Evans, dean (St Paul's)
1928 - Tom Lantos, (Rep-D-CA, 1981- )
1928 - Ursula Mamlok, composer
1930 - Peter Tapsell, British MP
1930 - Shahabuddin Ahmed, President of Bangladesh
1930 - Mario Beaulieu, Quebec politician (d. 1998)
1931 - Barrel, [ABM] Frinking, teacher/Dutch MP (CVP)
1931 - Boris Yeltsin, Ural Mts USSR, president of Russian SSR
1931 - Madeline Berthod, Switzerland, downhill skier (Olympic-gold-1956)
1931 - Mark Richmond, CEO (Science & Engineering Research Council)
1931 - Ton [ABM] Frinking, Dutch MP (CDA)
1931 - Iajuddin Ahmed, President of Bangladesh
1932 - John Hart, Denver Colo, newsman (CBS News Retrospective, NBC News)
1932 - John Nott, British MP
1933 - Reynolds Price, US writer (Strengthened by a Pale Green Light)
1934 - Bob Shane, vocalist (Kingston Trio-Scarlet Ribbons)
1935 - Ruth Clarke, Moderator (General Assembly of the United Reform Church)
1935 - Vladimir Viktorovich Aksyonov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 22, T-2)
1936 - G H Blake, Principal (Collingwood College, Durham U)
1936 - Azie Taylor Morton, 35th Treasurer of the United States (d. 2003)
1937 - Don Everly, Brownie Ky, vocalist (Everly Bros-Wake Up Little Susie)
1937 - Dr Hook, [Ray Sawyer], Ala, vocalist (Dr Hook-When You're in Love)
1937 - Garrett Morris, New Orleans La, actor (SNL, Martin, Carwash)
1938 - Jacky Cupit, golfer (Rookie of Year 1961)
1938 - Jimmy Carl Black, rocker (Mothers Of Invention)
1938 - Sherman Hemsley, Phila, actor (All in the Family, Jeffersons, Amen)
1939 - Del McCoury, bluegrass singer/musician
1939 - Paul E Gillmor, (Rep-R-Ohio)
1939 - Ray Sawyer, rocker
1939 - Claude François, French singer (d. 1978)
1940 - Bibi Besch, Vienna Austria, actress (Star Trek 2, Beast Within)
1940 - Herve Filion, sulky driver (1969 Canadian Sports Hall of Fame)
1941 - Anatoliy Firssov, USSR, ice hockey play (Olympic-gold-1964, 68, 72)
1941 - Franco Nones, Italy, 30K cross country skier (Olympic-gold-1968)
1941 - Robert Walmsley, British Vice-Admiral
1941 - Karl Dall, German television host
1941 - Jerry Spinelli, children's author
1942 - Dave Sincock, cricketer (chinaman bowler played for Aust 1964-66)
1942 - Terry Jones, Colwyn Bay North Wales, comedian (Monty Python)
1942 - Muna Wassef, Wassef is a well known Syrian/Arab movie star and a United Nations Goodwill ambassador.
1943 - Josceline Dimbleby, cookery writer
1943 - Lord Mountevans
1943 - Tina Sloan, NY, actress (Lillian-Guiding Light, Search for Tomorrow)
1944 - Leo Burmester, Louisville Ky, actor (Flo, Chiefs, Abbys, Odd Jobs)
1944 - Tommy Duffy, rocker (Echos)
1944 - Mike Enzi, American politician, senator of Wyoming
1944 - Burkhard Ziese, German football manager
1945 - Ole Buck, composer
1946 - Bart Braverman, LA Calif, actor (Bobby-Vega$, Roy-New Odd Couple)
1947 - Adam Ingram, British MP
1947 - Terry Hibbitt, soccer star
1947 - Mike Brant, Israeli pop singer (d. 1975)
1947 - Normie Rowe, Australian singer
1948 - Debbie Austin, LPGA golfer
1948 - Jennifer Adams, superintendent (Central Royal Parks)
1948 - Elisabeth Sladen, British actress
1949 - Jimmy Lee Thorpe, Roxboro NC, PGA golfer (1985 Greater Milwaukee Open)
1950 - Mike Campbell, American guitarist and producer
1951 - Andrew Smith, British MP
1952 - Rick James, [James Johnson], rock/soul/funk vocalist (Super Freak)
1953 - Andy Mill, skier/husband of Chris Everet
1953 - C A Barnett, headmaster (Whitgift School)
1953 - Brendan Batson, English former footballer
1954 - Billy Mumy, Calif, actor (Will Robinson-Lost in Space, Dear Brigitte)
1954 - Mike Campbell, guitarist (Tom Petty & Heartbreakers-Breakdown)
1954 - Chuck Dukowski, American musician (Black Flag)
1955 - Kate Ashbrook, general secretary (Open Spaces Society)
1955 - Virginia Elliot, three-day eventer
1955 - Ernie Camacho, baseball player
1956 - Brahmanandam, Indian film actor
1956 - Exene Cervenka, American musician
1956 - Mike Kitchen, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1957 - Donna Adamek, Duarte Calif, bowler (BWAA Woman of Year 1978-81)
1958 - Maureen Madill, Coleraine No Ireland, golfer (Brit Open Amateur 1979)
1958 - Jackie Shroff, Indian actor
1958 - Luther Blissett, English footballer
1959 - Anthony LaPlagia, actor (Criminal Justice, Betsy's Wedding)
1959 - Carolyn Hill, Santa Monica CA, LPGA golfer (1994 McCall's Classic)
1959 - Mike Horan, NFL punter (NY Giants)
1959 - Wade Wilson, NFL quarterback (Dallas Cowboys)
1961 - Daniel M Tani, Ridley Park MD, astronaut
1961 - Gabrielle Carteris, actress (Beverly Hills 90210)
1961 - Gina Hull, Jacksonville FL, LPGA golfer (1989 USX Golf Classic-8th)
1962 - José Luis Cuciuffo, Argentinian footballer (d. 2004)
1962 - Tomoyasu Hotei, Japanese guitarist
1963 - Jani Lane, heavy metal drummer (Warrant-Cherry Pie)
1963 - Takashi Murakami, Japanese artist
1964 - Dwayne Rudolph Goettel, musician
1964 - Kaitlin Hopkins, NYC, actress (Kelsey-Another World)
1964 - Sharon Bruneau, Toronto Ontario, actress (Sensuous Muscle)
1964 - Mario Pelchat, Quebec singer
1964 - Linus Roache, English actor
1965 - Brandon Lee, Emerson Colo, actor (Showdown in Little Tokyo)

Famous Deaths

Results 101 - 135 of 135

1991 - James G MacDonald, cartoon voice (Mickey Mouse), dies at 84
1991 - Phil Watson, NHL coach (NY Rangers), dies
1992 - George Berkeley, actor (Life Stinks, Capts & Kings), dies at 70
1992 - Irving R Kaufman, federal judge (Rosenberg Case), dies at 81
1994 - Fouad Fram al-Boustani, Lebanese historian (Rawaeaa), dies at 88
1994 - Olan Soule, radio voice (Super Friends), dies of lung cancer at 83
1995 - George Abbot, director (Damn Yankees), dies at 107
1995 - John Smith, CEO (Liverpool FC), dies at 74
1995 - Michael Caesar, pope of pot, dies of liver cancer at 52
1996 - Clive Burton, neuropathologist, dies at 54
1997 - Herb Caen, columnist, Lung cancer, dies at 80
1997 - Mitchell Goodman, writer, dies at 71
1997 - Peter Morris, historian of France, dies at 50
1997 - Thelma Moss, psychologist, dies at 78
1999 - Paul Mellon, American philanthropist (b. 1907)
1999 - Barış Manço, Turkish singer, composer, television producer and celebrity. (b. 1943)
2001 - André D'Allemagne, Quebec teacher, political observer and essayist (b. 1929)
2002 - Hildegard Knef, German actress, singer, and writer (b. 1925)
2003 - Michael P. Anderson - crew of the STS-107 Mission (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster) (b. 1959)
2003 - David Brown - crew of the STS-107 Mission (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster) (b. 1956)
2003 - Kalpana Chawla - crew of the STS-107 Mission (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster) (b. 1961)
2003 - Laurel Clark - crew of the STS-107 Mission (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster) (b. 1961)
2003 - Rick D. Husband - crew of the STS-107 Mission (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster) (b. 1957)
2003 - Willie McCool - crew of the STS-107 Mission (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster) (b. 1961)
2003 - Ilan Ramon - crew of the STS-107 Mission (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster) (b. 1954)
2003 - Mongo Santamaria, Cuban percussionist and band leader (b. 1922)
2004 - May O'Donnell, American modern dancer and choreographer (b. 1909)
2005 - John Vernon, Canadian actor (b. 1932)
2006 - Dick Bass, American football player (b. 1937)
2006 - Bryce Harland, New Zealand diplomat (b. 1931)
2007 - Gian Carlo Menotti, Italian-born composer (b. 1911)
2007 - Seri Wangnaitham, Thai dance choreographer (b. 1937)
2007 - Ray Berres, American baseball player (b. 1907)
2007 - Ahmad Abu Laban, Danish Muslim leader (b. 1946)
2007 - Whitney Balliett, American jazz critic (b. 1926)