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Historical Events

Results 101 - 200 of 206

1948 - President Truman urges congress to adopt a civil rights program
1949 - 1st 45 RPM record released
1949 - Golfing champ Ben Hogan seriously injured in an auto accident
1950 - "Arms & the Girl" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 134 performances
1950 - 1st broadcast of "What's My Line," on CBS-TV
1951 - -35°F (-37°C), Greensburg, Indiana (state record until 1994)
1951 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1954 - Bevo Francis, Rio Grande College, scores 113 pts in basketball game
1954 - Pres Eisenhower reports detonation of 1st H-bomb (done in 1952)
1954 - Snow falls on Gibraltar
1955 - 1st presidential news conference on network TV-Eisenhower on ABC
1956 - Coasters sign with Atlantic Records
1957 - "Candide" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 73 performances
1957 - Liz Taylor's 3rd marriage (Mike Todd)
1957 - UN adopts a resolution calling for Israeli troops to leave Egypt
1958 - Fay Crocker wins LPGA Havana Biltmore Golf Open
1958 - Syria joins Egypt in United Arab Republic
1958 - WRIK (now WLUZ) TV channel 7 in Ponce, PR (PTC) begins broadcasting
1959 - Buddy Holly's last performance
1959 - Vince Lombardi signs a 5 year contract to coach Green Bay Packers
1960 - Michale Eufemia sinks 625 balls in pool match without a miss
1961 - Prince Bernhard opens new RAI building in Amsterdam
1962 - 1st pole vault over 16' (4.88m) (John Uelses-16', Melrose Games)
1962 - 8 of 9 planets align for 1st time in 400 years
1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1963 - Helen Shapiro begins tour (Beatles are part of undercard)
1964 - GI Joe, debuts as a popular American boy's toy
1964 - Sjoukje Dijkstra (Neth) wins Olympic gold for figure skating
1964 - Red Faber, Burleigh Grimes, Tim Keefe, Heinie Manush, John Montgomery Ward, & Miller Huggins are selected to Hall of Fame
1965 - Joe Ortons "Loot," premieres in Brighton
1966 - Pakistan suggests a six-point agenda with Kashmir dispute as number one item for the proposed Indo-Pak ministerial talks after 1965 war.
1967 - Bolivia adopts its constitution
1967 - Formation of American Basketball Association is announced
1968 - Springer Publishers in West Berlin, bombed
1969 - KMST TV channel 46 in Monterey-Salinas, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1969 - Stan Coveleski & Waite Hoyt are voted into baseball Hall of Fame
1970 - Pete Maravich becomes 1st to score 3,000 college basketball points
1971 - Idi Amin ousts Milton Obote to become dictator of Uganda
1972 - Lefty Gomez, Ross Youngs & William Harridge selected for Hall of Fame
1972 - Tom Stoppard's "Jumpers," premieres in London
1973 - "Midnight Special" rock music show debuts on NBC-TV
1973 - James R Schlesinger, becomes 9th director of CIA (until July)
1973 - Richath Helms, ends term as 8th director of CIA
1973 - Test Cricket debut of Richard John Hadlee, NZ v Pakistan, Wellington
1974 - Barbra Striesand's 1st #1 hit, "The Way We Were"
1974 - Pope Paul VI encyclical "To Honor Mary"
1974 - Smallest crowd at Cleveland Arena (Cavs vs Golden State-1,641)
1974 - The F-16 Fighting Falcon flies for the first time.
1975 - Army offensive against rebels in Eritrea Ethiopia
1975 - Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational
1975 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Dorothy Hamill
1975 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Gordon McKellen Jr
1976 - "Honeymooners Second Honeymoon" airs on TV
1976 - "Rich Little Show," debuts on NBC-TV
1976 - Roger Connor, Fred Lindstrom & ump Cal Hubbard elected to Hall of Fame
1977 - Burn up of Salyut 4 Space Station (USSR)
1977 - Radio Shack officially begins creating TRS-80 computer
1977 - Toronto's Ian Turnbull scores 5 goals, NHL REcord for a defenseman
1980 - FBI releases details of Abscam, a sting operation that targeted 31 elected & public officials for bribes for political favors
1982 - "Late Night with David Letterman" premieres on NBC
1982 - Govt troops & Moslem-fundamentalists battle in Hamah Syria
1982 - San Diego beats Miami 41-38 in OT after blowing a 24-0 lead
1982 - Hama Massacre: The government of Syria attacks the town of Hama and kills thousands of people.
1983 - Chicago Absp Joseph L Bernardin is among 18 new cardinals invested
1983 - Pope John Paul II names 18 new cardinals
1984 - 8th Soap Opera Digest Poll Awards
1984 - Lebanese army fight in Beirut
1985 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano
1986 - "Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood" closes at Ritz NYC after 13 perfs
1986 - Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic
1986 - Dalai Lama meets Pope John Paul II in India
1986 - NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 28-24
1986 - Oscar Arias Sanchez elected president of Costa Rica
1987 - KC Royal pitcher Dennis Leonard (3X 20 game winner), retires
1987 - Philippines adopts constitution
1988 - David Boon's 6th Test Cricket century, 184* v England at Sydney
1989 - 0°F (-18°C) or below in 15 US states
1989 - FW de Klerk replaces Botha as South Africa's National Party leader
1989 - NL announces Yanks' broadcaster Bill White will be 1st black president
1990 - Marina Ogilvy (daughter of Engl princess Alexandra) weds Paul Mowatt
1990 - South Africa's Pres FW de Klerk promises to free Nelson Mandela & legalizes ANC & 60 other political orgs
1991 - Aravinda De Silva scores 267 v NZ at Wellington
1991 - NH snaps its 32-game losing streak at home beating Holy Cross, 72-56
1991 - US postage is raised from 25 cents to 29 cents
1991 - Sting scores his second UK No.1 album with 'The Soul Cages'
1992 - Colleen Walker wins Oldsmobile LPGA Golf Classic
1992 - Danny Everett runs world record 400m indoor (45.02 sec)
1992 - David Boon's 13 Test Cricket century, 107 v India at Perth
1992 - IRS & Willie Nelson settle on $9M tax bill (of $16.7M)
1992 - Kieren Perkins swims world record 1500m freestyle (14:32.40)
1992 - NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 21-15
1993 - Frito Lay pays court ordered $2,500,000 to Tom Wait for using his song
1993 - Irina Privalova runs world record 50m indoor (6.05 sec)
1995 - "Moliere Comedies" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 56 performances
1995 - Henry Olonga no-balled for throwing in Zimbabwe-Pakistan Test Cricket
1995 - US space shuttle Discovery launched
1996 - Ali Landry, 22, (Louisiana), crowned 45th Miss USA
1997 - "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus" closes at Gershwin NYC
1997 - Mark O'Meara wins Pebble Beach National Golf Pro-am
1997 - NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 26-23 (OT)

Famous Birthdays

Results 101 - 200 of 300

1909 - Franc Albertson, Fergus Falls MN, actor (Psycho, Alice Adams)
1910 - Charlotte Auerbach, computer Pioneer/Mathematician
1910 - Hendrik H K Beernink, Dutch politician (CHU)
1911 - Jean-Jacques Grunenwald, French organist/composer
1911 - Johan J "Jussi" Bjorling, Swedish tenor
1912 - Burton Lane, Broadway composer (Finian's Rainbow)
1912 - Burton Lane, composer
1912 - Stefan Schnabel, German actor (Anna, Dracula's Widow, Firefox)
1912 - Millvina Dean, last living survivour of the RMS Titanic.
1913 - Poul Reichhardt, Danish actor (d. 1985)
1914 - Eric Kierans, Canadian politician and economist (d. 2004)
1915 - Evert Werkman, Dutch journalist (Het Parool)
1915 - Abba Eban, Israeli diplomat (d. 2002)
1915 - Stan Leonard, Canadian professional golfer (d. 2005)
1916 - Xuân Diệu, Vietnamese poet (d. 1985)
1918 - Hella [S Lelyveld-]Haasse, Dutch author (Cider for Poor People)
1919 - Allie Reynolds, NY Yankee pitcher (1952 AL ERA leader (2.07))
1919 - Lisa Debeljevic-della Casa, Swiss vocalist
1920 - An Wang, founder (Wang Labs, Wang Computers)
1923 - Al "Red" Schoendienst, baseball manager/2nd baseman (St Louis Cards)
1923 - Bonita Granville, NYC, actress (Hitler's Children, Lone Ranger)
1923 - James Dickey, Atlanta, poet/actor (Deliverance)
1923 - Mary Elizabeth "Liz" Smith, Tx, journlist/author (WNBC, NY Daily News)
1923 - Peter Fowler, physicist
1923 - Liz Smith, American gossip columnist
1924 - Tine Balder, [Clementine AL Cobbaut], Flemish actress (Antigone)
1924 - Elfi von Dassanowsky, Austrian-American producer and musician
1925 - David Abell Wood, priest
1925 - Michel Paul Philippot, composer
1926 - Elaine Stritch, Detroit Mich, actress (My Sister Eileen, Company)
1926 - Miguel Cardinal Obando y Bravo, 1st Cent American cardinal (Nicaragua)
1926 - Nydia M E Ecury, Arubian poet/actress (Kantika pa Mama Tera)
1926 - Wanda Lewis, Struther Ohio, actress (This is Music, Paul Dixon Show)
1926 - Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, French politician
1927 - Friedrich K Flick, German industrialist
1927 - Richard Ray, (Rep-D-GA, 1983- ) [or Jan 2]
1927 - Richard Vance Maxfield, composer
1927 - Stan Getz, Phila, jazz tenor saxophonist (Benny Goodman, Jimmy Dorsey)
1928 - Alan Fluck, musical educationalist
1928 - Howard Caine, Nashville Tn, actor (Californians)
1928 - Luigi Ciriaco De Mita, PM of Italy (1988-89)
1929 - Reiner Bredemeyer, composer
1931 - Andreas "Andries" van Agt, Dutch premier (CDA, 1977-82)
1931 - Dries van Agt, Dutch politician
1931 - Les Dawson, British comedian (d. 1993)
1931 - Judith Viorst, American author
1932 - Robert Mandan, Clever Mo, actor (Chester-Soap, James-3's a Crowd)
1933 - Than Shwe, ruler of Myanmar
1933 - Tony Jay, English actor (d. 2006)
1934 - [Clyde] Skip Batten, LA Calif, rocker (Byrds-Turn Turn Turn)
1936 - Duane Jones, American actor
1937 - Martina Arroyo, NYC, opera soprano (NY Met)
1937 - Tom Smothers, NYC, comedian (Smother Brother Show, Serial)
1937 - Don Buford, All-Star MLB outfielder
1937 - Remak Ramsay, American actor
1939 - Rachel English, London, author (My 1st 500)
1939 - Akbar Adibi, Iranian scientist, father of electronics in Iran (d. 2000)
1940 - Alan "Tea" Caddy, rock guitarist (Tornados-Globetrotter)
1940 - Martina Arroyo, NYC, soprano
1940 - Thomas M[ichael] Disch, US, sci-fi author (Genocides, 102 H-Bombs)
1940 - David Jason, English actor
1940 - Wayne Fontes, American football coach
1941 - Serge Alexandrovich Tcherepnin, composer
1942 - Barry Diller, founder (Fox-TV)
1942 - Bo Hopkins, Greenville SC, actor (Dynasty, Doc Elliot, Rockford Files)
1942 - Graham Nash, guitarist (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young-Southern Cross)
1943 - Peter MacBeth, rocker (Foundations)
1944 - Andrew Davis, Ashbridge, England, conductor (New Phil Orch-London)
1944 - Katherine Crawford, LA Calif, actress (Gemini Man, Captains & Kings)
1944 - Ursula Oppens, NYC, pianist/co-founder (Speculum Musicae-NYC)
1944 - Karen Foss, American broadcaster
1944 - Geoffrey Hughes, British actor
1945 - Ronnie Goodson, rocker
1946 - Farrah Fawcett, Texas, actress (Charley's Angels, Burning Bed)
1946 - Howard Bellamy, Darby Fla, vocalist (Bellamy Bros-Let Your Love Flow)
1946 - Alpha Oumar Konaré, ex-president of Mali
1947 - Aleksandr Medved, USSR, wrestler (Olympic-gold-1964, 68, 72)
1947 - Derek Shulman, rocker
1947 - Peter Lucia, rock drummer (Tommy James & Shondells-Crystal Blue)
1948 - Alan McKay, rocker (Earth Wind & Fire-Boogie Wonderland)
1948 - Jessica Savitch, Kennet Sq PA, news anchor (NBC)
1948 - Tony DeMeur, rocker (Fabulous Poodles-Anna Rexia, Suicide Bridge)
1949 - Jetty Weels, Surinamese/Dutch vocalist (Mai Tai)
1949 - Ross Valory, SF, rock bassist (Journey-Who's Crying Now, Open Arms)
1949 - Sherry Mathis, actress (Search for Tomorrow)
1949 - Tom Tripplehorn, rocker (Gary Lewis & Playboys-This Diamond Ring)
1949 - Brent Spiner, American actor
1949 - Francisco Maturana, Colombian football manager
1950 - Barbara Sukowa, Germany, actress (Zentropia, Sicilian, Voyager, Lola)
1950 - Osamu Kido, wrestler (NJPW/UWF)
1951 - Alphonso Johnson, jazz bassist
1951 - Kim Zimmer, Mich, actress (Guiding Light, Doctors, One Life to Live)
1952 - Simon MacCorkindale, Cambridge Engl, actor (Jaws 3, MacBeth) [or 2/12]
1952 - Genichiro Tenryu, Japanese professional wrestler
1953 - James Mndaweni, South African worker's union leader/president (NACTU)
1953 - Penny Pulz, LPGA golfer
1953 - Duane Chapman, American bounty hunter.
1954 - Christie Brinkley, [Ex-Mrs Billy Joel], model/actress (SI, Vacation)
1954 - Jayantha Amerasinghe, cricketer (2 Tests for Sri Lanka v NZ 1983)
1954 - Ina Garten, American author and TV personality

Famous Deaths

Results 101 - 143 of 143

1987 - Castilho, Brazilian footballer (b. 1927)
1987 - Alistair MacLean, Scottish novelist (b. 1922)
1988 - Clive Epstein, brother of Brian Epstein, dies at 51
1988 - G Mennen Williams, Supreme Court justice, dies at 76 in Detroit
1989 - John Cassavetes, US actor (Rosemary's Baby)/director, dies at 59
1989 - Ondrej Nepela, Slovak figure skater (b. 1951)
1990 - Joel Fluellen, actor (Man Friday, Burning Cross), dies at 79
1990 - Joe Erskine, Welsh boxer (b. 1934)
1992 - Bert Parks, [Jacobson], TV host (Miss America), dies at 77
1992 - Jack [John T] Aitken, British anatomist, dies at 78
1992 - Maurice J Hill, writer (Track of Thunder), dies of pneumonia at 89
1992 - Maurice L Kusell, dies
1994 - John Wesley Funchess Littlejohn, blues guitarist/singer, dies at 62
1994 - Stephen Barclay, actor (Pride of the Plains), dies at 75
1994 - Willie Mae Ford Smith, gospel Singer/Songwriter, dies at 89
1994 - Zilner T Randolph, jazz Trumpeter/ Arranger, dies at 95
1995 - Alexis d'Anjou de Bourbon-Condé, French prince/Russian, dies at 47
1995 - Andre Frossard, French publicist (Defense of Pope), dies at 80
1995 - David Kindersley, alphabet Designer/Cutter, dies at 79
1995 - Donald Pleasance, English actor (Halloween), dies at 75
1995 - Fred Perry, English tennis star (Wimbledon 1934-36), dies at 85
1995 - Phillip Borsos, Tasmanian/Canadian director (Mean Season), dies
1995 - Robert L Haller, coon Dog Trainer, dies at 32
1996 - Gene Kelly, actor/dancer (Singing in the Rain), dies at 83
1996 - Ray McIntire, chemical engineer, dies at 77
1996 - Shamus Culhane, animator, dies at 87
1997 - Chico Science Francisco Franca, musician, dies at 40
1997 - Godfrey Baseley, British radio executive, dies at 92
1997 - Erich Eliskases, Austrian chess player (b. 1913)
1997 - Sanford Meisner, American actor (b. 1904)
1999 - David McComb, Australian musician (The Triffids) (b. 1962)
2002 - Paul Baloff, American singer (Exodus) (b. 1960)
2002 - Claude Brown, American writer (b. 1937)
2003 - Lou Harrison, American composer (b. 1917)
2004 - Bernard McEveety, American film director (b. 1924)
2005 - Max Schmeling, German boxer (b. 1905)
2007 - Vijay Arora, Indian film and television actor (b. 1944)
2007 - Filippo Raciti, Italian police officer (b. 1967)
2007 - Masao Takemoto, Japanese gymnast (b. 1919)
2007 - Billy Henderson, American singer (The Spinners) (b. 1939)
2007 - Joe Hunter, American pianist and bandleader of The Funk Brothers (b. 1927)
2007 - Eric von Schmidt, American folk/blues singer-songwriter (b. 1931)
2008 - Katoucha, Guinean model and activist (b. 1960)