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Historical Events

Results 101 - 176 of 176

1964 - Austrian chancellor Alfons Gorbach resigns
1964 - Cassius Clay TKOs Sonny Liston in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
1966 - Syrian military coup under Hafiz al-Assad
1968 - 430 Unification Church couples wed in Korea
1968 - Makarios re-elected president of Cyprus
1969 - Beatles begin recording Abbey Road album
1969 - Mariner 6 launched for fly-by of Mars
1969 - Pension plan for baseball is agreed to
1969 - Germany gives $5 million to an Arab terrorist as ransom for the passengers and crew of a hijacked jumbo jet.
1971 - "Oh! Calcutta!" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 1,316 performances
1971 - P Zindel's "And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little," premieres in NYC
1972 - Lopsided trade, Cards trade Steve Carlton to Phillies for Rick Wise
1972 - Paul McCartney releases "Give Ireland back to the Irish" single
1973 - "Little Night Music" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 601 performances
1973 - Juan Corona sentenced to 25 life sentences for 25 murders
1973 - Steven Sondheim's musical "Little Night Music," premieres in NYC
1974 - Veronica & Colin Scargill (England) begin tandem bicycle ride a record 18,020 miles around the world, completed on August 27, 1975
1975 - Ewen Chatfield flattened by Peter Lever & seriously injured
1977 - New Orleans' Pete Maravich sets NBA record for a guard with 68 pts
1977 - Oil tanker explosion west of Honolulu spills 31 million gallons
1977 - Soyuz 24 returns to Earth
1978 - Botham scores 1st Test Cricket century, 103 v NZ Christchurch
1979 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
1979 - Soyuz 32 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station is launched
1980 - Coup ousts PM Henck Arron of Suriname
1981 - 23rd Grammy Awards: Sailing, Christopher Cross, Billy Joel wins
1981 - Calgary Flames scored 11 goals against the Islanders
1981 - Exec Board of Players' Assn votes unanimously to strike on May 29
1981 - L Calvo Sotelo elected premier of Spain
1981 - NHL most penalized game; Bruins vs Northstars, 84 penalties (392 mins)
1981 - NY Islanders give up their most goals (11) vs Calgary Flames
1981 - Rita Jenrette (wife of Abscam congressman) appears on Donahue
1981 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1981 - Exec Board of Baseball Players' Assn votes unanimously to strike on May 29 if the issue of free-agent compensation remains unresolved
1982 - Final episode of "The Lawrence Welk Show" airs
1982 - Record speed for a snowmobile (239 kph)
1984 - Oil fire in Cubatao Brazil kills 500
1986 - 28th Grammy Awards: We Are the World, Sade, Phil Collins wins
1986 - Corazon Aquino becomes president of Philippines, Marcos flees
1986 - Iran conquerors Iraq peninsula Fao
1986 - Thousands of Egyptian military police riot, destroy 2 luxury hotel
1987 - LaMarr Hoyt is banned from baseball for 1987, due to drug abuse
1987 - Michael Jordan, scores Chicago Bull record 58 points in a game
1987 - US Supreme Court upholds (5-4) affirmative action
1988 - Bruce Springsteen "Tunnel of Love Tour," begins in Worcester Mass
1988 - South Korea adopts constitution
1989 - 1st independent blue-collar labor union in Communist Hungary forms
1989 - Dallas Cowboys fire coach Tom Landry after a 29-year career
1989 - Dallas Cowboys' new owner fires 29-year coach Tom Landry
1989 - Javed Miandad scores 271 v NZ at Eden Park
1989 - Lowest baramotric pressure in Netherlands (956.7 mbar at De Bilt)
1989 - Mike Tyson TKOs Frank Bruno in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
1990 - Australia beat Pakistan 2-0 to win the Cricket World Series Cup
1990 - Nicaraguans votes out Sandinistas
1990 - On a BBC taped interview, rock star Stevie Nicks breaks down, saying that she will never have children & no man can stand her for long
1991 - Andrew Jones scores twin Test Cricket tons v Sri Lanka (122 & 100*)
1991 - Bruce McNall, Wayne Gretzky & John Candy buy CFL's Toronto Argonauts
1991 - US, barracks in Dhahran Saudi Arabia, hit by scud missile, kills 28
1992 - 34th Grammy Awards: Unforgetable, Marc Cohn wins
1992 - Khojaly massacre: about 613 civilians killed by Armenian armed forces during the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan
1993 - "Fool Moon" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 207 performances
1993 - Florida Marlins introduce their mascot "Billy"
1993 - Pakistan all out 43 v West Indies, world one-day int record low
1994 - Israeli extremist Baruch Goldstein massacres 30 Palestinians in Hebron
1994 - Peruvian Yak-40 crashes into mountain near Tingo Maria, kills 31
1994 - Phil Rizzuto elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1995 - Bomb attack on train in Assam India (27 soldiers killed)
1995 - British heavyweight Nigel Benn hits Gerard McClellan in hospital
1995 - Moslem fundamentalists shoot 20 shite mosque goers dead
1995 - PBA National Championship Won by Scott Alexander
1996 - "Father" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 52 performances
1996 - Rajindra Dhanraj takes 16-167 in match Trinidad v Leeward Is
1998 - 40th Grammy Awards:
1998 - Pamela Lee has husband Tommy Lee arrested on battery charges
1998 - Switzerland's 1st legal brothel opens in Zurich
2009 - BDR massacre in Pilkhana, Dhaka, Bangladesh. 74 People are being killed, including more than 50 Army officials, by Bangladeshi Boarder Guards inside its headquarter.

Famous Birthdays

Results 101 - 200 of 279

1920 - Gérard Bessette, Canadian author (d. 2005)
1922 - Matti Rautio, composer
1923 - Roger Parker, Lord Justice of Appeal
1924 - Peg Ridge, peace campaigner
1925 - Bert Remsen, Glen Cove NY, actor (Mario-It's a Living)
1926 - Harvey McGregor, QC/warden (New College-Oxford)
1927 - Dick Jones, Snyder Tx, actor (Buffalo Bill Jr)
1927 - Jacques Monod, composer
1927 - Jane Nigh, Hollywood Calif, actress (Lorelei-Big Town)
1927 - Ralph Stanley, country singer
1928 - Keith Williamson, British RAF marshal
1928 - Larry Gelbart, writer/producer/actor (Oh God!, M*A*S*H)
1928 - Richard Stern, US writer
1929 - Christopher George, Royal Oak Minn, actor (Rat Patrol, Immortal)
1929 - Peter Bingham Hinchcliff, Brit church historian (1 Sided Reciprocity)
1929 - Peter Hinchcliff, historian
1929 - Tommy Newsom, Va, musician/bandleader/saxophonist (Tonight Show)
1930 - Erica Pedretti, writer
1931 - Edward Kellett-Bowman, British MEP
1931 - J R Stephenson, Lt-col/secretary (MCC)
1932 - Faron Young, country singer/actor (Hidden Guns, Daniel Boone)
1932 - Laurence New, Major-General
1932 - Martin William Karlins, composer
1932 - Tony Brooks, English race car driver
1934 - Lord Crickhowell
1934 - Michael Wheeler-Booth, Clerk of the Parliaments
1934 - Robert Neame, brewer
1934 - Bernard Bresslaw, English actor (d. 1993)
1936 - Jonnie Nicely, playmate (Aug, 1956)
1936 - Norman Orville Scribner, composer
1937 - Basia Johnson, maid (inherited Johnson & Johnson fortune)
1937 - Bob Schieffer, Austin Tx, newscaster (CBS Weekend News)
1937 - Tom Courtenay, England, actor (Dresser, Dr Zhivago, To Catch a Spy)
1938 - Diane Baker, Hollywood Calif, actress (Diary of Anne Frank, Marnie)
1938 - Farokh Engineer, Indian cricket wicket-keeper (1961-75)
1938 - Herb Elliott, Australia, 1500m runner (Olympic-gold-1960)
1939 - A C F Verity, master (Dulwich College)
1939 - Marisa Mell, Graz Austria, actress (Masquerade, Casanova '70)
1940 - Billy Packer, Wellsville NY, basketball sportscaster (CBS)
1940 - George Paul, CEO (Norwich Union Insurance Group)
1940 - Hector MacKenzie, trade unionist
1940 - Jud Taylor, actor (Dr Gerson-Dr Kildare)
1940 - Ron Santo, shortstop (Cubs, 1st baseball player to veto his trade)
1941 - David Puttnam, London, film producer/CEO (Columbia Pictures)
1941 - Ramon Pagayon Santos, composer
1941 - Stewart Sutherland, Principal/Vice-Chancellor (Edinburgh University)
1941 - Susan Browning, Baldwin NY, actress (Pat-Mary Hartman)
1942 - Karen Grassle, American actress
1943 - George Harrison, rocker (Beatle/Travelling Willberries-My Sweet Lord)
1943 - Maryann Amacher, composer
1943 - Sally Jessy Raphael, TV talk show host (Sally) [or May 25]
1943 - Wilson da Silva Piazza, Brazilian footballer
1944 - Karen Grassle, Berkeley Ca, actress (Caroline-Little House on Prairie)
1944 - Kristina Holland, Fayetteville NC, (Tina-Courtship of Eddie's Father)
1945 - Elkie Brooks, Manchester England, rocker (Pearl's a Singer)
1945 - Shivadhar Srinivasa Naipaul, Trinidad, novelist, essayist (Fireflies)
1946 - F Xaver Kroetz, writer
1946 - Jean Todt, French executive director of Scuderia Ferrari
1947 - Eddie Thomson, Australian soccer coach (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
1947 - Lee Edward Evans, Madera Calif, 400m runner (Olympic-2 gold-1968)
1947 - Lewis Moonie, British MP
1947 - Lee Evans, American athlete
1948 - G B Warren, British biochemist
1948 - Danny Denzongpa, Indian actor
1948 - Aldo Busi, Italian writer
1949 - Lord Sempill
1949 - Ric Flair, American professional wrestler
1950 - Anthony Lloyd, British MP
1950 - Emitt Rhodes, musician (Merry-go-Round)
1950 - Neil Jordan, director (Crying Game)
1950 - Rick Flair, [Richard Fliehr], wrestling champ (NWA/WWF/WCW/AWA)
1950 - Néstor Kirchner, President of Argentina
1950 - Francisco Fernández Ochoa, Spanish alpine skier (d. 2006)
1951 - Don Quarrie, Jamaican runner
1951 - James Brown, American sportscaster
1951 - César Cedeño, Dominican baseball player
1952 - James A Barcia, (Rep-D-Michigan)
1952 - Jerry Chamberlain, American musician
1952 - Joey Dunlop, Irish motorcycle racer (d. 2000)
1952 - Inger Segelström, Swedish politician
1953 - Garrett Glaser, entertainment correspondent (Entertainment Tonight)
1953 - José María Aznar, former Prime Minister of Spain
1953 - Kim Yeong-cheol, South Korean actor
1954 - Steve Rixon, Australian cricket wicket-keeper (1977-85)
1954 - John Doe, American musician
1955 - Leann Hunley, actress (Dane Carrington-Dynasty, Dawson's Creek)
1956 - Davie Cooper, soccer star
1957 - Jane Ackroyd, British sculptor
1957 - Stuart "Woody" Wood, Scot, guitarist (Bay City Rollers-Saturday Night)
1958 - Kurt Rambis, NBA forward (Lakers, Hornets)/Clark Kent look-a-like
1959 - Mike Peters, rocker (Alarm-In the Summertime)
1959 - Carl Marotte, Canadian actor
1960 - Glen Bishop, cricketer (S Aussie bat, 2 ODI's for Australia 1987)
1961 - Davey Allison, American race car driver (d. 1993)
1961 - Todd Blackledge, American football player
1962 - Birgit Fischer, German DR, 500m kayaker (Olympic-gold-1980)
1962 - Cammy Ciarelli, Iowa City, WPVA volleyballer (Best of Beach-2nd-1995)
1962 - Foster Emerson Sylvers, rocker
1963 - Alison Roberts, fashion designer
1963 - Paul O'Neill, Columbus OH, right fielder (Cin Reds, NY Yankees)

Famous Deaths

Results 101 - 107 of 107

2006 - Charlie Wayman, English footballer (b. 1922)
2007 - William R. Anderson, CO USS Nautilus submarine, US Congressman (b. 1921)
2007 - Mark Spoelstra, American singer/songwriter (b. 1940)
2008 - Ashley Cooper, Australian race car driver (b. 1980)
2008 - Hans Raj Khanna, Judge of the Supreme Court of India (b. 1912)
2008 - Static Major, American singer (b. 1974)
2009 - Ivan Cameron, son of David Cameron UK politician