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Historical Events

Results 101 - 190 of 190

1951 - Ladies Figure Skating Champion in Milan won by Jeanette Altwegg of GRB
1951 - Men's Figure Skating Championship in Milan won by Richard Button USA
1952 - Betty MacKinnon & Sam Snead wins LPGA Orlando Mixed Golf Tournament
1955 - "Silk Stockings" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 461 performances
1955 - Pact of Baghdad between Iraq & Turkey signed
1960 - Italian govt of Segni falls
1960 - US beats Germany in Olympic hockey finals round, 9-1
1961 - Explorer (10) fails to reach Earth orbit
1962 - "New Faces of '62" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 28 performances
1962 - "Sail Away" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 167 performances
1962 - General mobilization in Indonesia over New-Guinea
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1964 - Cassius Clay defeated Sonny Liston for the heavyweight boxing title
1965 - Beatles begin filming "Help" in Bahamas
1965 - East German president Ulbricht visits Egypt
1966 - Coup ousts Pres Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana
1966 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1968 - "Darling of the Day" closes at George Abbott NYC after 31 perfs
1968 - 1st pulsar discovered (CP 1919 by Jocelyn Burnell at Cambridge)
1968 - Discovery of 1st pulsar announced
1968 - Gary Unger begins NHL consecutive game record of 914 games
1968 - Jocelyn Bell discovers 1st pulsar
1968 - US troops reconquer Hue Vietnam
1969 - Mariner 6 launched for Mars flyby
1970 - 29 Swiss Army officers die in avalanche (Reckingen, Switzerland)
1970 - Heintje Simons (14) wins 7 gold records
1970 - KVDO TV channel 3 in Salem, OR (IND) begins broadcasting
1971 - Algeria nationalizes French oil companies
1974 - Atje Keulen-Deelstra becomes world champ all-round skater
1974 - Pakistan officially recognizes Bangladesh
1976 - Cuba adopts its constitution
1976 - Jules Feiffer's "Knock Knock," premieres in NYC
1976 - Leonid Brezhnev opens 25th congress of CPSU
1977 - Pres Carter announces US foreign aid will consider human rights
1978 - Kevin Porter, NJ, sets NBA record with 29 assists in a game
1979 - Highest price ever paid for a pig, $42,500, Stamford, Texas
1979 - War between North & South Yemen begins
1980 - "Canterbury Tales" closes at Rialto Theater NYC after 16 performances
1980 - Joanne Carner Ladies wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic
1980 - Rangers score 5 power-play goals against Islanders
1980 - USA Olympic hockey team defeated Finland, 4-2, to win the gold medal
1981 - Boston Celtics begin 18 NBA game win streak
1981 - Britain's Prince Charles announces engagement to Lady Diana Spencer
1981 - Jean Harris is convicted of murdering Scarsdale diet doctor Tarnower
1981 - An earthquake registering 6.7 on the Richter scale hits Athens, killing 16 people and destroying buildings in several towns west of the city.
1982 - 24th Grammy Awards: Betty Davis Eyes, Double Fantasy wins
1982 - Wayne Gretzky scores NHL-record 78th goal of season en route to 92
1983 - Dow Jones closes above 1100 mark for 1st time
1983 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1983 - A special commission of the U.S. Congress releases a report that condemns the practice of Japanese internment during World War II.
1984 - Iraq resumes air attack on Iran
1985 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Circle K Golf Open Tucson
1985 - Birendra, Bir Bikram Shah Dev crowned King of Nepal
1985 - Jim Kelly (Houston USFL) passes for pro football record 574 yds
1985 - Yul Brynner reprised his role in "The King & I"
1986 - Texas Air buys Eastern Airlines for $676 million
1986 - Voyager 2, 1st Uranus flyby
1987 - 29th Grammy Awards: Higher Love, Graceland, Bruce Hornsby wins
1987 - LA Laker Kareem Abdul-Jabbar scores his 36,000th NBA point
1987 - Radio personality Larry King suffers a heart attack
1988 - Matti Nykanen becomes winter olympics 1st triple gold medalist
1988 - South African apartheid regime bans the UDF
1988 - Supreme Ct votes 8-0 Jerry Falwell cannot collect for Hustler parody
1989 - 150-million-year-old fossil egg (oldest dinosaur embryo) found
1989 - Harold E Ballard sells CFL Hamilton Tiger-Cats to David Braley
1989 - Margaret Ray found in David Letterman's home, claims to be his wife
1989 - US Boeing 747 loses parts of roof over Pacific, 9 die
1989 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1989 - Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini offers $1M-$3M bounty on Salman Rushdie's death due to his novel, "Satanic Verses"
1990 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA Orix Hawaiia Ladies Golf Open
1991 - "Those Were The Days" closes at Edison Theater NYC after 126 perfs
1991 - End of World League of American Football's (WLAF) 1st draft
1991 - US & allies begin a ground war assault on Iraqi troops
1993 - 35th Grammy Awards: Tears in Heaven, Eric Clapton wins
1994 - Scoreboard is unveiled at new Cleve Indians' park (Jacobs Field)
1995 - Dow-Jones hits record 4011.74
1995 - The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.
1996 - Cuba downs 2 US planes
1996 - Meg Mallon wins LPGA Cup o' Noodles Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open
1996 - The last occurrence of February 24 as a leap day in the European Union and for the Roman Catholic Church.
1997 - Deng Xiaoping, leader of China, cremated (died Feb 19th)
1997 - South Africa announces it is constructing largest modern day blimp
1998 - Elton John knighted
1998 - NHL resumes season since Feb 8th to accomodate the Olympics
1999 - The State of Arizona executes Karl LaGrand, a German national involved in an armed robbery, in spite of Germany's legal action to attempt to save him.
1999 - A China Southern Airlines Tupolev TU-154 airliner crashes on approach to Wenzhou airport in eastern the People's Republic of China, killing 61.
2002 - XIX Winter Olympics closes in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
2002 - Canada defeats the United States 5-2 to win the men's ice hockey Olympic Gold Medal
2006 - Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo declares Proclamation 1017 placing the country in a state of emergency in attempt to subdue a possible military coup.
2008 - Fidel Castro retires as the President of Cuba after nearly fifty years.

Famous Birthdays

Results 101 - 200 of 258

1927 - David Mourao-Ferreira, poet/politician
1927 - Emmanuelle Riva, French actress
1928 - Al Lettieri, NYC, actor (Deadly Kiss, Pulp, Mr Majestyk, Getaway)
1928 - Michael Harrington, St Louis, socialist/author (Fragments of Century)
1928 - Barbara Lawrence, American actress
1929 - David Houston, Major-General/Lord Lieutenant of Sutherland
1929 - Richard B Shull, Evanston Ill, actor (Diana, Holmes & Yoyo)
1930 - Barbara Lawrence, Carnegie OK, actress (Joe Dakota)
1931 - Brian Close, cricketer (played for England between 1949 & 1976)
1931 - Inge Bernstein, British judge
1931 - Lev Vasilyevich Vorobyov, Russia, cosmonaut
1931 - Maezumi Hakuyu Taizan Koun, teacher Rinzai/Soto lines of Zen Buddhism
1931 - Marta Marzotto, Italy, countess
1931 - Dominic Chianese, American actor
1932 - Andrew Jacobs Jr, (Rep-D-IN, 1965-73, 75- )
1932 - Everard Goodman, English real estate developer (TOPS Estates)
1932 - John Vernon, Canada, actor (Animal House, Chained Heat, Dirty Harry)
1932 - Michel Legrand, composer (Summer of '42, Windmills of Your Mind)
1933 - Judah Folkman, American cancer researcher
1934 - Bettino Craxi, Italy's 1st socialist premier (1983-87)
1934 - Flemming Nielsen, Denmark, soccer player (Olympic-silver-1960)
1934 - Frank Chapot, US, equestrian (Olympic-silver-1960, 1972)
1934 - Linda Cristal, Buenos Aires Arg, actress (Victoria-High Chapparal)
1934 - Renata Scotto, Savona Italy, soprano (Violetta-La Traviata)
1934 - Shuko Mizuno, composer
1935 - Renata Scotto, singer
1936 - Renata Scotto, Savona Italy, operatic soprano
1937 - Jerry Wiggin, British MP
1938 - James Farentino, Bkln NY, actor (Dead & Buried, Final Countdown)
1938 - Kathleen Richardson, president (Methodist Conference)
1938 - Phil Knight, American sportswear manufacturer
1939 - George Bain, principal (London Business School)
1940 - Denis Law, British(?) soccer player
1940 - Jimmy Ellis, WBA heavyweight boxing champ (1968-70)
1940 - Theo Bosch, Dutch humanist/architect (Nieuwmarkt, Amsterdam)
1940 - Pete Duel, American actor (d. 1971)
1940 - Denis Law, Scottish footballer
1941 - Joanie Sommers, American singer and actress
1942 - David K Williamson, Australian screenplay/playwright (Removalists)
1942 - Joe Lieberman, (Sen-D Connecticut)
1942 - Paul Jones, England, rocker (Manfried Mann-Mighty Quinn)
1942 - Stuart Henry, British disc jockey
1942 - Colin Bond, Australian racing driver
1943 - Hristo Prodanov, Bulgarian mountaineer
1943 - Terry Semel, American business executive
1943 - Pablo Milanés, Cuban musician
1944 - Barry Bostwick, San Mateo Ca, actor (Rocky Horror Show, Megaforce)
1944 - Nicky Hopkins, rock pianist (Stones-Ruby Tuesday, Quicksilver)
1944 - Sheila Larkin, Bkln NY, actress (Deborah-Storefront Lawyer)
1945 - Alain Prost, formula-1 racer (1985, 86 champ)
1946 - Anthony Mayer, chief executive (Housing Corporation)
1946 - Michael Radford, director (1984, White Mischief)
1946 - Grigory Margulis, Russian mathematician
1946 - John Stapleton, English television presenter
1947 - Edward James Olmos, Cal, actor (Miami Vice, Stand & Deliver, Triumph)
1947 - Lonnie Turner, bassist/vocalist (Steve Miller Band-Abracadabra)
1947 - Rupert Holmes, English musician
1948 - Dennis "Minder" Waterman, London England, actor (Fair Exchange)
1948 - Lord Melchett
1948 - Lorri Menconi, playmate (Feb, 1969)
1948 - J. Jayalalithaa, Indian politician
1948 - Walter Smith, Scottish football manager
1948 - Tim Staffell, English singer
1949 - John Lever, cricketer (England lefty quick in 21 Tests 1976-81)
1950 - Cathy Mant, LPGA golfer
1950 - G J M Gazdar, computational linguist
1950 - George Thorogood, American Singer and Guitarist
1951 - Derek Randall, cricketer (England batsman & animated cover fieldsman)
1951 - Helen Shaver, Ontario Canada, actress (WIOU, Praise of Older Women)
1951 - Debra Jo Rupp, American actress
1952 - Simon Weinstock, businessman/racehorse owner
1952 - Tom Burleson, USA, basketball (Oly-silv-1972) tallest Olympian-7'4"
1954 - Marquess of Normanby
1955 - Bob Abrams, Ohio, rocker (Buckinghams)
1955 - Steven Jobs, co-founder (Apple Computer)
1956 - Eddie Murray, LA Calif, 1st baseman (Orioles, Dodgers, Cleve Indians)
1956 - Paula Zahn, Napperville Ill, news anchor (ABC, CBS This Morning)
1956 - Judith Butler, American philosopher
1957 - Lan Burden, rocker
1957 - Phil McConkey, NFL wide receiver (NY Giants)
1958 - Sammy Kershaw, Kaplan LA, country vocalist (Cadillac Style)
1958 - Susan Scannell, Lexington Mass, actress (Nicole-Dynasty)
1958 - Plastic Bertrand, Belgian singer
1959 - Beth Broderick, Falmouth KY, actress (Aunt Zelda-Sabrina)
1959 - Michael Roy Whitney, cricket (great NSW & Aussie lefty quick 1981-92)
1961 - Janice Gibson, Tulsa OK, LPGA golfer (1994 Youngstown-Warren-15th)
1961 - Persijn "Dakota" Joling, Dutch rock guitarist/singer (Pilgrims-Red)
1961 - Ruud Really, soccer player (Feyenoord)
1962 - Michelle Shocked, singer/musician
1962 - Outi Mäenpää, Finnish actress
1963 - Fuad Reveiz, NFL kicker (Minn Vikings)
1963 - Matias Carrillo, Mexican/US baseball outfielder (Florida Marlins)
1964 - Andy Crane, British children's television presenter
1964 - Todd Field, American actor and film director
1964 - Bill Bailey, British comedian
1964 - Russell Ingall, Australian racing driver
1965 - Paul Gruber, NFL tackle (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1965 - Lloyd McGrath, former English footballer
1965 - Jane Swift, former acting Governor of Massachusetts
1966 - Billy Zane, actor (Orlando, Memphis Belle, Millions, Titanic)

Famous Deaths

Results 101 - 112 of 112

2003 - Bernard Loiseau, French chef (b. 1951)
2004 - John Randolph, American actor (b. 1915)
2006 - Octavia Butler, American author and MacArthur Foundation Fellow (b. 1947)
2006 - Don Knotts, American actor (b. 1924)
2006 - John Martin, Canadian broadcaster (b. 1947)
2006 - Denis Twitchett, Cambridge scholar, and Chinese historian (b. 1925)
2006 - Dennis Weaver, American actor (b. 1924)
2007 - Bruce Bennett, American actor (b. 1906)
2007 - Leroy Jenkins, American composer and violinist (b. 1932)
2007 - Lamar Lundy, American football player (b. 1935)
2007 - Damien Nash, American football player (b. 1982)
2008 - Larry Norman, American musician, singer, songwriter and producer (b. 1947)