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Historical Events

Results 101 - 174 of 174

1960 - Verne Gagne beats Doctor X in Omaha, to become NWA wrestling champ
1962 - Arthur Kopit's "Oh, Dad, Poor Dad . . .," premieres in NYC
1962 - US Supreme court disallows race separation on public transportation
1962 - Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Phila Warriors scores 67 points vs NY
1965 - Dutch Govt of Marijnen falls
1965 - West Germany ceases military aid to Tanzania
1966 - KBIM TV channel 10 in Roswell, NM (CBS) begins broadcasting
1967 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1967 - Verne Gagne beats Mad Dog Vachon in St Paul, to become NWA champ
1968 - Clandestine Radio Voice of Iraqi People (Communist) final transmission
1970 - "Georgy" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 4 performances
1970 - Beatles release "Beatles Again" aka "Hey Jude" album
1971 - Secretary-General U Thant signs United Nations proclamation of the vernal equinox as Earth Day.
1972 - Dam break in WV kills 107
1972 - Slag heap dam collapses above Buffalo Creek WV, kills 125
1973 - Triple Crown horse Secretariat bought for a record $5.7m
1974 - Gold hits record $188 an ounce in Paris
1975 - "Night... Made America Famous" opens at Barrymore NYC for 75 perfs
1975 - 1st televised kidney transplant (Today Show)
1976 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1977 - 1st flight of Space Shuttle (atop a Boeing 747)
1978 - Ira Levin's "Deathtrap," premieres in NYC
1978 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic
1979 - Last total eclipse of Sun in 20th century for continental US
1980 - Egypt & Israel exchange ambassadors for 1st time
1980 - Milt coup under Desi Bouterse in Suriname
1980 - R Hadlee scores Test Cricket century v Roberts, Garner, Holding, Croft
1981 - 3 Anglican missionaries detained in Iran since Aug 1980 are released
1981 - 84 penalties (406 mins) assessed for a brawl between NHL Minn & Bost
1981 - French Train Grande Vitesse averages 380 kph on trial run
1982 - Test Cricket debut of Martin Crowe, v Australia Wellington, run out 9
1983 - Michael Jackson's "Thriller" album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 37 weeks
1983 - Shortwave pirate Radio USA (Wellsville, NY) begins transmission
1984 - Last US marines in multinatl peacekeeping force in Lebanon left Beirut
1984 - Pak Awang (84) marries 80th spouse
1984 - Rev Jesse Jackson acknowledges that he called NYC, "Hymietown"
1984 - Robert Penn Warren, Pulitzer Prize winner, named 1st US poet laureate
1985 - 27th Grammy Awards: Whats Love Got to Do With It, Cyndi Lauper wins
1986 - Evert van Benthem wins 14th Frisian 11-Cities skating race (6:55:16)
1986 - People Power Revolution in the Philippines.
1987 - 1st release of Beatles compact discs
1987 - NASA launches GEOS-H
1987 - NBA's Michael Jordan's 58 points is a Chicago Bull record
1987 - Tower Commission probes Iran-Contra affair
1987 - USSR resumes nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1987 - Wash blocks 20 Indiana shots tying NBA regulation game record
1988 - Christa Rotherburger (GDR) skates ladies world record 1000m (1:17.65)
1989 - "Jerome Robbins' Broadway" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 634 perfs
1989 - Betsy King wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open/Helene Curtis Pro-Am
1989 - Lowest barometric pressure in Netherlands (95.5 hPa)
1989 - NY Yankees announce that Tom Seaver is their new TV sportscaster
1989 - Calif court throws out most of Margo Adams's $12 million breach-of- contract suit against Red Sox third baseman Wade Boggs
1990 - USSR agrees to withdraw all 73,500 troops from Czech by July, 1991
1990 - The Sandinistas are defeated in Nicaraguan elections.
1991 - Asanka Gurusinha scores twin Test Cricket tons v NZ (119 & 102)
1991 - Bill Veeck & Tony Lazzeri elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1991 - Kuwaiti resistance leaders declare they have control of their capital
1991 - NY-NJ Knights (WLAF) players 1st come together
1992 - "Search & Destroy" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 46 perfs
1992 - Irish Supreme Court rules 14 year old rape victim may get an abortion
1993 - 2nd tallest building in world, NYC World Trade Center bombed, 7 die
1993 - 9th Soap Opera Digest Awards
1993 - Allan Border beats Gavaskar's record for most Test Cricket runs 10,123
1994 - Actor Dolph Lundgren (34) weds Anette Qviberg in Stockholm
1994 - St Louis Blues beat Ottawa Senators 11-1
1995 - London finance house of Barings collapse after losses in Singapore by trader Nick Leeson
1997 - 39th Grammy Awards: Change the World Babyface, Beck & LeAnn Rimes wins
1998 - Oprah Winfrey beats Texas cattlemen in beef trial
1998 - Steven M Gluckstern completes sale of NY Islanders
1998 - Total solar eclipse in Venezuela-Pacific Ocean (4m09)
2001 - The Taliban destroy two giant Buddha statues in Bamyan, Afghanistan.
2004 - Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski is killed in a plane crash near Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
2004 - The United States lifts a ban on travel to Libya, ending travel restrictions to the nation that had lasted for 23 years.
2005 - Hosni Mubarak the president of Egypt orders the constitution changed to allow multi-candidate presidential elections before September 2005 by asking Egyptian parliament to amend Article 76 of the constitution.

Famous Birthdays

Results 101 - 200 of 245

1920 - Antony Kearey, TV producer
1920 - Tony Randall, [Leonard Rosenberg], Tulsa Ok, actor (Felix-Odd Couple)
1920 - Danny Gardella, American baseball player (d. 2005)
1920 - Lucjan Wolanowski, Polish journalist, writer and traveller (d. 2006)
1921 - Betty Hutton, Battle Creek Mich, actress (Greatest Show on Earth)
1922 - Bill Johnston, cricket pace bowler (mighty Australian lefty post-war)
1922 - Margaret Leighton, Birmingham England, actress (Astonished Heart)
1924 - Mark Bucci, NYC, composer (1959 Arts & Letters Award)
1924 - Noboru Takeshita, Japanese PM (1987-89)
1925 - Everton Weekes, West Indian cricket player
1925 - Frank Henry Copplestone, TV executive
1925 - James Moody, US, jazz saxophonist/orchestra leader
1926 - Arsene Souffriau, composer
1926 - Cynthia Stone, Peoria Ill, actress (That Wonderful Guy, Ad Libbers)
1926 - Konstantin P Feoktistov, Voronezh, cosmonaut (Voskhod 1)
1927 - Donald Gramm, Milwaukee Wisconsin, bass-baritone
1927 - Tom Kennedy, Louisville KY, quiz host (You Don't Say, Name That Tune)
1928 - Aldonis Kalnins, composer
1928 - Anatoli Vassilyevich Filipchenko, Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz 7, 16)
1928 - Antione "Fats" Domino, NO LA, rhythm & blues pianist (Blueberry Hill)
1928 - Everton Weekes, cricketer (one of the 3 W's)
1928 - Monique Leyrac, French Canadian singer and actress
1930 - Lazar Berman, Leningrad Russia, pianist (Budapest 3rd place-1956)
1931 - Francisco Kroepfl, composer
1931 - Robert D Novak, Joliet Ill, news reporter (CNN-Evans & Novak)
1931 - Ally MacLeod, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 2004)
1932 - Johnny Cash, Kingsland Ark, country singer (I Hear the Train Coming)
1933 - Godfrey Cambridge, NYC, actor (Cotton comes to Harlem)
1933 - James Goldsmith, Paris France, corporate raider (Referendum Party)
1934 - Ron Gaunt, cricketer (Australian fast bowler late 50s early 60s)
1934 - Robert Novak, American political columnist
1936 - Eduard Ivanovich Buinovski, cosmonaut
1936 - Manmohan Desai, filmmaker
1937 - Hagood Hardy, Canadian musician and composer (d. 1997)
1938 - Jack Knight, Somerville Miss, actor (Mr Shamley-James at 15)
1938 - Evagoras Pallikarides, Cypriot freedom fighter (d. 1957)
1939 - Josephine Tewson, English actress
1941 - Keith Thomson, cricketer (batted in 2 Tests NZ v India 1968)
1941 - Tony Ray-Jones, British photographer (d. 1972)
1942 - Adriaan van Dis, author/TV-host (Nathan Sid, In Africa)
1942 - Joop van den Ende, director (Alsmeer Studio)
1943 - Bill Duke, actor (Bird on a Wire, Predator)
1943 - Bob "Bear" Hite, Calif, vocalist (Canned Heat-Going Up the Country)
1943 - Bob van Reeth, Flemish architect
1943 - Paul Cotton, LA Calif, rocker (Poco)
1943 - Dante Ferretti, Italian art director and costume designer
1944 - Marilyn Michaels, comedienne (ABC Comedy Hour)
1945 - Mitch Ryder, rocker (& Detroit Wheels-Devil With the Blue Dress)
1945 - Peter Brock, Australian motorsports champion (d. 2006)
1945 - Giannis Ioannidis, Greek basketball coach and politician
1946 - Bobby "Bingo" Smith, NBA star (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1946 - Phyllis Eisenstein, US, sci-fi author (Sorcerer's Son, Born to Exile)
1946 - Ahmed H. Zewail, Egyptian chemist, Nobel laureate
1947 - Sandi Shaw, [Sandra Goodrich], Essex, rocker (Girl Don't Come)
1947 - Sandie Shaw, English singer
1948 - Priscilla Lopez, Bronx NY, actress (In the Beginning, Kay O'Brien)
1949 - Emma Kirkby, British(?) soprano
1949 - Elizabeth George, American novelist
1950 - Jonathan Cain, Chicago, rock guitarist/keyboardist (Journey, Babys)
1953 - Bree Walker, news anchor (WNBC TV, KNBC TV)
1953 - Michael Bolton, Ct, rock vocalist (That's What Love Is All About)
1954 - John Bolger, actor (Capt Gabe McNamara-Another World)
1954 - Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Prime Minister of Turkey
1956 - Keisuke Kuwata, Japanese singer
1957 - Connie Carpenter-Phinney, Madison Wisc, 79k cyclist (Oly-gold-1984)
1957 - Keena Rothhammer, US, 800 m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1972)
1957 - David Muldrow Beasley, American politician
1958 - Jeff Fithian, actor (Trevor Nash-Please Don't Eat the Daisies)
1958 - Joe Fithian, actor (Tracey Nash-Please Don't Eat the Daisies)
1958 - Susan J Helms, Charlotte NC, Mjr USAF/Astronaut (STS 54, 64, 78)
1958 - Karen Berger, American comic book editor
1958 - Michel Houellebecq, French novelist
1958 - Greg Germann, American actor
1959 - Rolando Blackman, American basketball player
1960 - Jaz Coleman, British musician
1961 - Sophie Winter, actress (She's a Good Fighter)
1962 - Sheila Cornell, Encino Fla, softball infielder (Olympics-gold-96)
1964 - Mark Dacascos, American actor and martial artist
1965 - Alison Armitage, London England, actress (Acapulco HEAT)
1965 - Brittany York, London England, playmate (Oct, 1990)
1965 - Donald Narcisse, CFL receiver (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1965 - Matt Jackson, Birmingham Mich, Canadian Tour golfer (1994 Payless)
1966 - Jennifer Grant, actress (Celeste-Beverly Hills 90210)
1966 - Wesley Walls, NFL tight end (Carolina Panthers, SF 49ers, NO Saints)
1966 - Najwa Karam, Lebanese singer
1967 - David Howard, Sarasota FL, infielder (KC Royals)
1967 - Roman Fortin, NFL center (Atlanta Falcons)
1967 - Scott Service, US baseball pitcher (Cincinnati Reds)
1967 - Currie Graham, Canadian actor
1968 - Brendan Rogers, CFL linebacker (Toronto Argonauts)
1968 - Chris Green, NFL safety (Buffalo Bills)
1968 - J T Snow, Long Beach CA, infielder (NY Yankees, Calif Angels)
1968 - Leif Rohlin, Vasteras Swe, NHL defenseman (Vancouver Canucks)
1968 - René Groen, soccer player (SC Heerenveen)
1968 - Tim Commerford, American bass player (Rage Against the Machine)
1969 - Brandon Wilson, US baseball infielder (Chicago White Sox)
1969 - Hitoshi Sakimoto, Japanese composer
1970 - Ben Maruquin, Ventura Calif, field hockey sweeper (Olympics-96)
1970 - Katie O'Neill, LA Calif, actress (Together We Stand)
1970 - Meeno Peluce, Amsterdam Netherlands, actor (Bad News Bears)

Famous Deaths

Results 101 - 115 of 115

1998 - J T Walsh, actor (Good Morning Vietnam), dies at 54
2000 - George L. Street III American Navy Submariner and Medal of Honor recipient.(b. 1913)
2001 - Arturo Uslar Pietri, Venezuelan writer (b. 1906)
2002 - Lawrence Tierney, American actor (b. 1919)
2003 - Christian Goethals, Belgian racing driver (b. 1928)
2004 - Shankarrao Chavan, Indian politician (b. 1920)
2004 - Adolf Ehrnrooth, Finnish general (b. 1905)
2004 - Boris Trajkovski, President of the Republic of Macedonia (b. 1956)
2005 - Jef Raskin, American computer scientist (b. 1943)
2008 - Buddy Miles, American drummer (Band of Gypsies; b. 1947)
2008 - Dick Fletcher, Meteorologist (b.1942)
2008 - Glory Mukwati, Zimbabwean politician
2009 - Wendy Richard, English actress (b. 1943)
2009 - Norm Van Lier, Basketball player and broadcaster (b. 1947)
2009 - Johnny Kerr, Basketball player and Chicago Bulls broadcaster (b. 1932)