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Historical Events

Results 101 - 163 of 163

1958 - Egypt & Syria form United Arab Republic (UAR)
1958 - Indonesian air force bombs Padang, Sumatra/Menado, Celebes
1959 - 1st Daytona 500 auto race-Lee Petty wins (135.521 MPH)
1962 - Wilt Chamberlain sets NBA record with 34 free throw attempts
1963 - Beatles begin their own music publishing company (Northern Songs)
1964 - Beatles arrive back in England after their 1st US visit
1965 - USSR launches Kosmos 57 into earth orbit (Voskhod Test)
1966 - Soviets launch Kosmos 110 with Veterok & Ugolek, 1st 2-dog crew
1967 - Barbara Garson's "MacBird," premieres in NYC
1967 - Sling-shot goal post & 6' wide border around field are standard in NFL
1967 - 25,000 US & S Vietnamese troops launched Operation Junction City, offensive to smash Viet Cong stronghold near Cambodian border
1968 - Rock group Genesis release their 1st record "Silent Sun"
1969 - Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st female jockey to win at a major US track
1970 - "Charles Aznavour" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 23 perfs
1971 - Lt Gen Hafiz al-Assad becomes President of Syria
1972 - Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani becomes Amir & Prime Minister of Qatar
1972 - President Nixon, meets with Chinese Premier Chou En-Lai in Beijing
1973 - US & China agree to establish liaison offices in Beijing & Wash DC
1974 - Ethiopian police shoot at demonstrators
1976 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic
1978 - 2 tankers with propane gas explode killing 15 at Waverly, Tenn
1979 - Billy Martin named manager of Oakland A's
1979 - Cleveland Metroparks Zoo's Primate & Cat Building is dedicated
1979 - St Lucia gains independence from Britain
1980 - Afghanistan declares martial law
1980 - USA beats USSR in Olympic hockey 4-3 en route to a gold medal
1981 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Bent Tree Ladies Golf Classic
1982 - NYC Mayor Koch announces he will run for NY governor (unsuccessful)
1983 - Harold Washington wins Chicago's Democratic mayoral primary
1983 - Hindus kill 3000 Moslems in Assam, India
1983 - Vladimir Salnikov (USSR) sets 1500m free style swimming record
1984 - Brothers Anton & Peter Stastny score 8 pts each for NHL Quebec
1986 - Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines.
1987 - Bruno Marie-Rose runs world record 200m indoor (20.36 sec)
1988 - Bonnie Blair skates world record 500m (39.10 sec)
1989 - Fins ministry of Public health installs sex vacation to thwart stress
1989 - NY Lotto pays $26.9 million to one winner (#s are 1-5-12-19-44-50)
1989 - UK physicist Stephen Hawking calls Star Wars a "deliberate fraud"
1989 - US authors demonstrate against Iranian death treats against Salman Rushdee, author of "Satanic Rituals"
1989 - 31st Grammy Awards: Don't Worry Be Happy, Faith, Tracy Chapman
1989 - 1st Spanish commercial on network TV (Pepsi-Cola-CBS Grammy Award)
1990 - 1st day India v NZ cricket at Auckland NZ 5-78 at lunch, 9-387 stumps
1991 - Actor Bill Bixby (57) weds Laura Michael (32)
1991 - Bush & US Gulf War allies give Iraq 24 hrs to begin Kuwait withdrawal
1991 - Kelli McCarty, 21, (Kansas), crowned 40th Miss USA
1991 - Test Cricket debut of Sanath Jayasuriya, vs NZ at Hamilton
1992 - "Park Your Car in Harvard Yard" closes at Music Box NYC
1992 - Barry Diller resigns as CEO of Fox
1992 - Ed McMahon, 69, weds Pamela Hurn, 37
1992 - Lisa Walters wins LPGA Itoki Hawaiian Ladies Open Golf Tournament
1992 - Rockers Kurt Corbin (Nirvana) & Courtney Love (Hole), wed
1993 - Vinod Kambli scores 224 v England at Bombay, 411 balls, 23 fours
1994 - "Les Miserables," opens at Chunichi Theatre, Nagoya
1995 - Algiers police kill at least 99 prison rioters
1995 - Steve Fossett completes 1st air balloon over Pacific Ocean (9600 km)
1996 - "Bus Stop" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 29 performances
1996 - Actress Halle Berry files for divorce from David Justice
1996 - STS 75 (Columbia 19), launches into orbit
1997 - Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA Cup Noodles Hawaiian Ladies Open
1998 - "King & I," closes at Neil Simon Theater NYC after 781 performances
1998 - 18th Winter Olympic games close at Nagano Japan
2002 - Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush.
2006 - At least six men stage Britain's biggest robbery ever, stealing £53m (about $92.5 million or 78€ million) from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.

Famous Birthdays

Results 101 - 200 of 313

1900 - Sean O'Faolain, [John Whelan], Ire, writer (Murder at Cobbler's Hulk)
1900 - Seán Ó Faoláin, Irish author (d. 1991)
1901 - Charles E Whittaker, Kansas, US Supreme Court justice (1957-62)
1901 - Mildred Davis, PA, actress (Grandma's Boy)
1901 - Stefan Lorant, writer
1902 - Hanns Neupert, German piano builder/author (Das Klavichord)
1903 - Morley Callaghan, Canada, author (Toronto Star, Native Argosy)
1903 - Ain-Ervin Mere, Estonian Nazi (d. 1969)
1903 - Robert Weede, American baritone (d. 1972)
1904 - Peter Hurd, Roswell NM, painter (Portrait of Jose Herrera)
1905 - Luis Sandi, composer
1906 - Edmund von Borck, composer
1906 - Gale Gordon, LA Calif, actor (Conklin-Our Miss Brooks, Here's Lucy)
1907 - Robert Young, Chic Ill, actor (Father Knows Best, Marcus Welby MD)
1907 - Sheldon Leonard, NYC, actor/director (Danny Thomas Show, Big Eddie)
1908 - John Mills, England, actor (Big Sleep, King Rat, War & Peace)
1908 - Romulo Betancourt, pres of Venezuela (1945-48, 1958-64)
1909 - Roderick Barclay, diplomat
1910 - Al Sears, jazz performer
1910 - Muriel Monkhouse, Red Cross worker
1910 - Nicholas Monsarrat, Liverpool England, novelist
1911 - Bill Baker, American baseball player (d. 2006)
1914 - Renato Dulbecco, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
1915 - Dan Seymour, Chicago Ill, actor (We the People, Sing It Again)
1915 - Gus Lesnevich, light heavyweight boxing champ (1947 fight of year)
1917 - Harmen van Rossum, civil servant/resistance fighter (WW II)
1917 - Jack Robertson, cricketer (superb Engld batsman only played 11 Tests)
1917 - Jane Bowles, writer
1918 - Charles O Finley, baseball team owner (Oakland A's)
1918 - Don Pardo, Westfield Mass, TV announcer (Jeopardy, SNL)
1918 - Robert Wadlow, Alton Ill, tallest known human (2.72 m, 8' 11.1")
1918 - Sid Abel, NHLer (1948-49 Hart Trophy)
1918 - Sid Abel, Canadian hockey player (d. 2000)
1918 - Charlie Finley, American sports entrepreneur (d. 1996)
1919 - Jiri Pauer, composer
1920 - Bettina Vernon-Warren, dancer
1920 - Del Wood, singer
1920 - Giulietta Masina, Italy, actress (La Strada, Swindle, White Sheik)
1921 - Jean-Bedel Bokassa, dictator
1921 - Wayne Booth, American literary critic (d. 2005)
1921 - David Greene, British television director (d. 2003)
1922 - Andre Asriel, composer
1922 - Felix Werder, composer
1922 - Jesús Iglesias, Argentine racing driver (d. 2005)
1925 - Edward Gorey, Chicago, author/artist (Curious Sofa)
1925 - Gerard Hoffnung, Berlin Germany, artist/humorist/musician
1925 - Guy Mitchell, Detroit MI, actor (Red Garters, 3 Redheads from Seattle)
1925 - Raymond Joseph Cecil, British architect
1926 - Bud Yorkin, producer (All in the Family, 1959, 1960 Emmy)
1926 - Kenneth Williams, English actor (d. 1988)
1927 - David Ahlstrom, composer
1927 - Donald May, Chicago Ill, actor (Adam-Edge of Night, Colt .45)
1928 - Bruce Forsyth, London England, comedian/TV host (Generation Game)
1928 - Paul Dooley, Parkensburg WV, actor (16 Candles, Strange Brew, Wedding)
1929 - Marni Nixon, singer (for Audrey Hepburn, Natalie Wood & Deborah Kerr)
1929 - Ryne Duren, near-sighted pitcher (NY Yankees)
1929 - James Hong, American actor
1929 - Rebecca Schull, American actress
1930 - Allison Hayes, Washington, actress (Attack of the 50 Foot Woman)
1930 - JPS van Neerven, Dutch economist/editor (Limbourg Daily)
1930 - James McGarrell, American painter
1932 - Edward M "Ted" Kennedy, (Sen-D-Mass, 1962- ), (Don't let him drive)
1932 - Ted Kennedy, American politician
1933 - Katharine Lucy Mary Worsley, England, Duchess of Kent
1933 - Bobby Smith, English footballer
1934 - George "Sparky" Anderson, SD, baseball manager (Reds, Tigers)
1934 - Thomas Paul, Chicago Illinois, bass (NYC Opera 1963-70)
1935 - Ineke [R M] Haas-Berger, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1936 - Ernie K-Doe, [Ernest Kador Jr], New Orleans La, rocker
1936 - J. Michael Bishop, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
1936 - Ernie K-Doe, American singer (d. 2001)
1937 - Dubravko Detoni, composer
1937 - Joanna Russ, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Female Man, Alyx)
1937 - Noel Murphy, British(?) rugby player
1937 - Samuel Whitbread, English brewer/multi-millionaire
1937 - Tommy Aaron, Gainesville GA, PGA golfer (1973 Masters)
1938 - Bobby Hendricks, US soul vocalist (Itchy Twitchy Feeling)
1938 - Ishmael Reed, US, author (Last Days of Louisiana Red)
1938 - Pierre Vallières, French-Canadian politician (d. 1995)
1939 - Steve Barber, pitcher (Balt Orioles, NY Yankees)
1940 - Chet Walker, NBA all-star forward (Chicago Bulls)
1940 - Johnson P Mlambo, South African leader (Pan-African Congress)
1940 - Julian Chagrin, London, mime/actor (Golddiggers)
1940 - Billy Name, American photographer
1941 - Hipólito Mejía, Dominican politician
1942 - Christine Keeler, English model and showgirl
1943 - David E Skaggs, (Rep-D-Colorado)
1943 - Dick Van Arsdale, NBA all-star (NY Knicks, Phoenix Suns)
1943 - Louise Lopez, singer
1943 - Tom Van Arsdale, NBA all-star (Detroit, Cincinnati, KC-Omaha, Phil)
1943 - Horst Köhler, President of Germany
1944 - E J Peaker, Tulsa Okla, actress (That's Life)
1944 - Jonathan Demme, Baldwin NY, actor/director (Caged Heat, Swing Shift)
1944 - Ranjit Fernando, Sri Lankan cricket wicketkeeper (1975 World Cup)
1944 - Tom Okker, tennis star
1944 - Robert Kardashian, American lawyer (d. 2003)
1945 - Oliver, rock vocalist (Good Morning Starshine, Jean)
1945 - Leslie Charleson, American actress
1945 - Oliver, American singer (d. 2000)
1947 - John Bryant, (Rep-D-TX, 1983- )

Famous Deaths

Results 101 - 143 of 143

1984 - David, spent most of his life in a plastic bubble, dies at 12
1984 - Jessamyn West, American writer (b. 1902)
1985 - Alexander Scourby, actor (Victory at Sea, Ransom), dies at 71
1985 - Efrem A Zimbalist, Russian/US composer/violinist, dies at 95
1985 - Salvador Espriu, Spanish poet (b. 1913)
1987 - Andy Warhol, pop artist, dies of a heart attack at 58
1987 - David Susskind, TV host (Open End, David Susskind Show), dies at 66
1987 - Glenway Wescott, US writer (Apartment in Athens), dies at 85
1989 - Joan Woodbury, actress (Super Sleuth, Northwest Trail), dies
1990 - Stephen Burns, actor (Casey's Shadow), dies
1992 - Richard Sheldon, dies at 59
1993 - Jean Lecanuet, French UDF-presidential candidate, dies at 72
1993 - Pieter A H Bos, Dutch lawyer/procureur-general (Aruba), dies at 63
1994 - "Papa" John Creach, US jazz musician (Papa Blues), dies at 76
1995 - Ed Flanders, actor (Dr Westphall-St Elsewhere), commits suicide at 60
1995 - Elfi Althoff-Jacobi, Austrian circus director, dies at 80
1995 - Lembarek Boumaarafi, Algerian murderer of Pres Boudiaf, dies
1996 - Helmut Schoen, soccer coach, dies at 80
1996 - Niall MacDermott, lawyer/politician, dies at 79
1997 - Austin Andrew Wright, sculptor, dies at 85
1997 - Frank Launder, director/scriptwriter, dies at 91
1997 - Joseph Aiuppa, American gangster (b. 1907)
1998 - Grandpa [Louis Marshall] Jones, country singer (Hee Haw), dies at 84
1998 - Jose Maria de Areilza, Sp minister of foreign affairs (1975-76), dies
1998 - Sandy Hume, correspondent (Fox News), commits suicide at 28
1998 - Abraham Ribicoff, American politician (b. 1910)
1999 - Menno Oosting, Dutch tennis player (b. 1964)
2000 - Fernando Buesa, Spanish politician (b. 1946)
2002 - Chuck Jones, American cartoonist (b. 1912)
2002 - Jonas Savimbi, Angolan rebel leader (b. 1934)
2002 - Roden Cutler, Australian diplomat and war hero (b. 1916)
2002 - Daniel Pearl, American journalist (b. 1963)
2003 - Daniel Taradash, American screenwriter (b. 1913)
2004 - Andy Seminick, American baseball player (b. 1920)
2004 - Roque Máspoli, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1917)
2005 - Zdzisław Beksiński, Polish artist (b. 1929)
2005 - Simone Simon, French actress (b. 1910)
2005 - Lee Eun Ju, Korean actress (b. 1980)
2006 - Anthony Burger, American musician and singer (b. 1961)
2007 - Dennis Johnson, American basketball player (b. 1954)
2007 - Howard Verne Ramsey, oldest U.S. veteran of WWI (b. 1898)
2007 - Samuel Hinga Norman, Sierra Leonean alleged war criminal (b. 1940)
2007 - George Jellicoe, Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords & Special Boat Service veteran (b. 1918)