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Historical Events

Results 101 - 187 of 187

1959 - Singapore adopts constitution
1961 - "Wildcat" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 172 performances
1961 - 93rd Belmont: Braulio Baeza aboard Sherluck wins in 2:29.2
1961 - JFK & Khrushchev meet in Vienna
1962 - Air France Boeing 707 crashes on takeoff from Paris, kills 130
1962 - Betsy Rawls & Kathy wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
1962 - Lee Harvey Oswald arrives by train in Oldenzaal Neth
1962 - WBKO TV channel 13 in Bowling Green, KY (ABC) begins broadcasting
1963 - A Northwest Airlines DC-7 crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of British Columbia, killing 101.
1964 - Ringo Starr collapses from tonsillitis & pharyngitis
1964 - Rolling Stones begin 1st US tour (with Bobby Goldsboro & Bobby Vee)
1965 - Gemini 4 launched; 2nd US 2-man flight (McDivitt & White)
1966 - European DX Council forms in Copenhagen (shortwave listeners)
1966 - Gemini 9 launched; 7th US 2-man flight (Stafford & Cernan)
1967 - 99th Belmont: Bill Shoemaker aboard Damascus wins in 2:28.8
1967 - Aretha Franklin's "Respect" reaches #1
1968 - Canada announces it will replace silver with nickel in coins
1968 - Poor Peoples March on Washington
1968 - Yanks turn 21st triple-play in their history lose 4-3 to Twins
1968 - Valerie Solanas, author of SCUM Manifesto, attempts to assassinate Andy Warhol by shooting him three times.
1969 - Last episode of Star Trek airs on NBC (Turnabout Intruder)
1970 - 1st artificial gene synthesized
1970 - Ray Davies of Kinks travels round trip NY-London to change 1 word in "Lola," (Coca-Cola to Cherry Cola) because of BBC coml reference ban
1971 - Chic Cub Ken Holtzman 2nd no-hitter beats Cin Reds, 1-0
1971 - Test Cricket debut of Imran Khan, v Engl at Edgbaston (5, 0-36, 0-19)
1972 - "Hot Rod Lincoln," by Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen hits #9
1972 - 1st female US rabbi installed, Sally J Priesand at 25
1972 - Sally J Priesand becomes 1st female US rabbi
1972 - Yanks score 8 times in 13th beating White Sox 18-10
1973 - "Smith" closes at Eden Theater NYC after 17 performances
1973 - At Paris air show, Tupolev 144, a Soviet supersonic airliner, crashes
1973 - Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Sealy-Faberge Golf Classic
1973 - Tupolev 144 crashes at Paris, 15 killed
1974 - Yitzhak Rabin forms a new Israeli government
1976 - Queen's "Bhoemian Rhapsody" goes gold
1976 - Test Cricket debut of Mike Brearley v West Indies (0 & 17)
1976 - US presented with oldest known copy of Magna Carta
1977 - Balt Orioles pull their 6th triple play (9-6-4-6-6 vs KC Royals)
1977 - Belgium govt of Tindemans forms
1977 - US & Cuba talk about diplomatic relations
1978 - Phillies Dave Johnson is 1st to hit 2 pinch hit grand slams in a year
1979 - "Madwoman of Central Park West" opens on Broadway
1979 - 33rd Tony Awards: Elephant Man & Sweeny Todd win
1979 - Ex-president Idi Amin of Uganda flees to Libya
1979 - Ixtoc I rig in Gulf of Mexico blows; 3 million bbl of oil spilled
1979 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Golden Lights Golf Championship
1979 - World's worst oil spillage occurred in the Gulf of Mexico
1980 - "It's So Nice to Be Civilized" opens at Martin Beck NYC for 8 perfs
1980 - Crew of Soyuz 36 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 35
1980 - ESPN begins televising college world series games
1980 - Jimmy Carter wins enough delegates for renomination
1980 - NY Mets draft Darryl Strawberry, 18, #1
1981 - Pope John Paul II released from hospital after assassination attempt
1982 - 55th National Spelling Bee: Molly Dieveney wins spelling psoriasis
1982 - Israeli ambassador Shlomo Argov seriously wounded by Palestinians
1984 - "Wiz" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 13 performances
1984 - 30th LPGA Championship won by Patty Sheehan
1984 - 38th Tony Awards: Real Thing & La Cage Aux Folles win
1985 - Brewers draft B J Surhoff #1
1985 - Massive anti-ETA demonstration in Basques
1986 - Battles in Beirut; 53 killed
1987 - "Little Shop of Horrors," released in France
1987 - "Pee-wee's Big Adventure," released in France
1987 - Cubs & Astro tie Oriole & Ranger record of 3 grand slams in a game
1988 - "Big," premieres in US
1988 - Margo Adams sues Red Sox 3rd baseman Wade Boggs for palimony
1989 - Chinese troops kill hundred of pro-democracy students in Beijing
1989 - Country singer Rebe McEntire weds her manager Narvel Blackstone
1989 - Houston Astros beat LA Dodgers, 5-4, in 22 innings (7:14:09)
1989 - Leaking pipe of Asha, USSR causes 2 trains to catch fire; 460 die
1989 - Nolan Ryan pitches his 2nd one-hitter this season & 11th overall
1990 - 3rd Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $894,560
1990 - 44th Tony Awards: Grapes of Wrath & City of Angels win
1990 - Cathy Gerring wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1991 - Mount Unzen erupts in Japan, worst eruption in Japanese history
1991 - NY Yankees selected 19-year-old Brien Taylor, #1 in amateur draft
1991 - Thomas Hearns captures WBA light-heavyweight title
1992 - Joan Lunden ordered to pay her ex-husband $18,000 a month support
1992 - World's largest environmental summit opens (Rio De Janeiro Brazil)
1993 - 66th National Spelling Bee: Geoff Hooper wins spelling kamikaze
1994 - 5.9 earthquake/floods SE Java (150+ killed)
1994 - Pearl Jam rocker Eddie Vedder (29) weds Beth Liebling (27)
1994 - WIIZ (98.7) FM goes off the air
1995 - Expos pitcher Pedro Martinez perfect game is broken up in 10th inning as San Diego's Bip Roberts leads off with a double, Mont wins 1-0
1998 - Eschede train disaster: an ICE high speed train derails in Lower Saxony, Germany, causing 101 deaths.
2006 - The union of Serbia and Montenegro comes to an end with Montenegro's formal declaration of independence.
2007 - USS Carter Hall (LSD-50) engaged pirates after they boarded the Danish ship Danica White off the coast of Somalia. (details)

Famous Birthdays

Results 101 - 200 of 253

1925 - Thomas Winning, Roman Catholic archbishop (Glasgow)
1925 - Tony Curtis, [Bernard Schwartz], Bronx, NY, actor (Some Like It Hot)
1926 - Allen Ginsberg, Newark NJ, beat poet (Howl)
1926 - Carlos Veerhoff, composer
1926 - Colleen Dewhurst, Montreal Canada, actress (Maggie-Blue & Grey)
1926 - Hamilton Fish Jr, (Rep-R-NY, 1969- )
1926 - Janez Maticic, composer
1926 - Roscoe G Bartlett, (Rep-R-Maryland)
1927 - Boots Randolph, Paducah KY, saxophonist (Yakety Sax)
1928 - Donald Judd, US, sculptor (minimal art)
1928 - John Reid, cricketer (prolific NZ batsman 1949-65)
1928 - Sheila Faith, MP/MEP
1929 - Chuck Barris, Phila, TV game show producer/host (Gong Show) [or 6/2]
1929 - Howard Yanks, founder (Philadelphia folk festival)
1929 - Werner Arber, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
1930 - Marion [Eleanor] Zimmer Bradley [Breen], sci-fi author (Storm Queen)
1930 - Michael Melle, cricketer (South African pace bowler of early 1950's)
1930 - Dakota Staton, American jazz singer (d. 2007)
1930 - Ben Wada, Japanese television producers
1931 - Francoise Arnoul, actress/composer (French Cancan, Jacko & Lise)
1931 - Raúl Castro, Cuban statesman
1931 - Lindy Remigino, American athlete
1932 - Dakota Staton, [Rabia Aliyah], US jazz singer (In the Night)
1933 - Isa ibn Salman Al Khalifah, emir of Bahrain (d. 1999)
1934 - Jim Gentile, baseball player
1934 - Rolland D. McCune, American theologian
1935 - Edward McGrady, MP
1935 - Raoul Franklin, chancellor (City University London)
1936 - Colin Meads, New Zealand rugby player
1936 - David Nicholls, priest/theologian/political theorist
1936 - Harry Pitt, vice chancellor (Reading University)
1936 - Larry McMurtry, US scriptwriter (Lonesome Dove, Pulitzer 1986)
1936 - Philip J Attenborough, CEO/publisher (Hodder & Stoughton)
1936 - Jim Gentile, baseball player
1937 - Solomon P Ortiz, (Rep-D-TX, 1983- )
1939 - David Frederick Stock, composer
1939 - Phil Gallie, MP
1939 - Steve Dalkowski, baseball player
1940 - Richard Edwards, cricketer (WI pace bowler 1968-69 Aust/NZ tour)
1942 - Anita Harris, singer/actress (Follow that Camel)
1942 - Curtis Mayfield, Chicago, rock vocalist (Freddie's Dead, Superfly)
1942 - Duane Josephson, baseball player
1943 - Billy Cunningham, NBA/ABA (Phila 76ers, Carolina Cougers)
1943 - Eddie McGrady, MP
1943 - Mike Dennis, rocker (Dovells)
1944 - Edith McGuire, US 200m sprinter (Olympic-gold-1964)
1944 - Michael Clarke, NYC, rock drummer (Byrds-Turn! Turn! Turn!)
1944 - Eddy Ottoz, Italian athlete
1945 - Hale S Irwin, Joplin MO, PGA golfer (1974 US Open)
1946 - Anita Pollack, MEP (Labour)
1946 - Earl of Cromer, managing director (Inchcape (China) Ltd)
1946 - Eddie Holman, rocker
1946 - Ian Hunter, England, rocker (Mott the Hoople-All the Young Dudes)
1946 - Tristan Rogers, Australia, actor (Robert Scorpio-General Hospital)
1947 - Penelope Wilton, actress (Cry Freedom, Norman Conquests)
1947 - Timothy David, diplomat
1947 - Mickey Finn, British guitarist and percussionist (T. Rex) (d. 2003)
1947 - Mike Burgmann, Australian racing driver (d. 1986)
1947 - John Dykstra, American special effects supervisor
1949 - David Evenett, MP (Conservative)
1949 - Stephen Ruppenthal, composer
1950 - Marlene Elejarde, Havana Cuba, 4x100m runner (Olympic-silver-1968)
1950 - Suzi Quatro[cchio], Detroit, singer (Stumblin')/actress (Happy Days)
1950 - Melissa Mathison, American screenwriter
1950 - Christos Verelis, Greek politician
1951 - David Ogilvie, cricketer (5 Tests for Australia 1977-78)
1951 - Deniece Williams, [Chandler], IN, singer (Love Wouldn't Let Me Wait)
1952 - Billy Powell, keyboards (Lynyrd Skynyrd-That Smell, Freebird)
1952 - David Richards, CBE, British motor racing entrepreneur
1954 - Cindy Ferro, LPGA golfer
1954 - Dan Hill, rocker (Sometimes When We Touch)
1954 - Wally Weir, Quebec ice hockey player
1956 - Danny Wilde, rocker (Rembrandts)
1956 - Suren Nalbandyan, USSR, lightweight (Olympic-gold-1976)
1956 - George Burley, Scottish football player and manager
1957 - Horst-Ulrich Hänel, German field hockey player
1958 - Ann Wilson, Brisbane Qld, golfer (1985 R/U NSW Open)
1958 - Ibrahim Hussein, marathoner, (Boston Marathon-1988, 91, 92)
1958 - Scott Valentine, actor (Nick-Family Ties, My Demon Lover)
1959 - Sam Mills, NFL linebacker (Carolina Panthers, Green Bay Packers)
1959 - Tom Arnold, former husband of Rosanne Barr/actor (True Lies, Stupids)
1960 - Barry Lyons, baseball player
1960 - Carl Rackemann, cricketer (Queensland & Australian quickie)
1960 - Jack Daugherty, baseball player
1960 - Steve Lyons, baseball player
1961 - Kevin Arnott, cricketer (Zimbabwe batsman, 101* v NZ 1992)
1961 - Peter Glen Vidmar, LA Calif, gymnist (Olympic-2 gold/silver-1984)
1961 - Lawrence Lessig, American lawyer and author
1962 - Connie Price-Smith, St Charles MO, discus thrower (Oly-5th-96)
1962 - Susannah Constantine, British fashion guru
1963 - Deb Richard, Abbeville LA, LPGA golfer (1991 Women's Kemper Open)
1963 - Sabrina Goles, Yugoslavia, tennis star
1963 - Yuri Yuriyevich Krikun, Russia, cosmonaut
1963 - Rudy Demotte, Belgian politician
1963 - Toshiaki Karasawa, Japanese actor
1964 - Nelson Liriano, Puerto Plata Dom Rep, infielder (Pitts Pirates)
1964 - Kerry King, American musician (Slayer)
1964 - Doro Pesch, German singer
1964 - James Purefoy, British actor
1965 - Suzan Kaminga, Austin TX, bodybuilder

Famous Deaths

Results 101 - 112 of 112

1996 - Tito Okello, Ugandan general, dies at 81
1997 - Dennis James, American television personality (b. 1917)
1998 - Poul Bundgaard, Danish actor and singer (b. 1922)
2001 - Anthony Quinn, Mexican-born actor (b. 1915)
2003 - Felix de Weldon, Austrian sculptor (b. 1907)
2004 - Frances Shand Kydd, mother of Diana, Princess of Wales (b. 1936)
2004 - Quorthon, Swedish musician (Bathory) (b. 1966)
2005 - Harold Cardinal, Cree political leader, writer, and lawyer (b. 1945)
2006 - Johnny Grande, original accordion/piano/keyboard player for Bill Haley's Comets (b. 1932)
2009 - David Carradine, American actor (b. 1936)
2009 - Koko Taylor, American blues musician, popularly known as the "Queen of the Blues." (b. 1928)
2009 - Sam Butera, American jazz musician (b. 1927)