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Historical Events

Results 101 - 191 of 191

1958 - SF Giants Hank Sauer & B Schmidt are 2nd to hit consecutive pinch HRs
1961 - Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Western Golf Open
1962 - Lee Harvey Oswald departs Rotterdam on SS Maasdam to US
1963 - 1st transmission of "Pop Go the Beatles" on BBC radio
1963 - British Minister of War John Profumo resigns due to Christine Keeler
1964 - Beatles "World Tour" begins in Copenhagen Denmark
1964 - LA Dodger Sandy Koufax 3rd no-hitter beats Phil Phillies, 3-0
1964 - Maldives adopts constitution
1964 - Test Cricket debut of Geoff Boycott v Australia at Trent Bridge, 48
1965 - Rolling Stones release "Satisfaction"
1966 - "Batman & His Grandmother" by Dickie Goodman hits #70
1966 - -10] Hurricane Alma, kills 51 in Honduras
1966 - 98th Belmont: William Boland aboard Amberoid wins in 2:29.6
1967 - 19th Emmy Awards: Mission Impossible, Monkees, Don Knotts & Lucy Ball
1967 - KTVN TV channel 2 in Reno, NV (CBS) begins broadcasting
1967 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA St Louis Women's Golf Invitational
1967 - Monkees take home an Emmy for their Outstanding comedy Series
1967 - Curt Flood's record 568 straight chances without an error ends (227 straight games)
1967 - Stockport Air Disaster: British Midland flight G-ALHG crashes in Hopes Carr, Stockport, killing 72 passengers and crew.
1968 - Don Drysdale pitches his 6th straight shutout, en route to 58 innings
1969 - Beatles release Ballad Of John & Yoko/Old Brown Shoe, in US
1969 - Nicky Hopkins quits rock & rolls, Jeff Beck Group
1969 - 22-year-old man sneaks into wheel pod of a jet parked in Havana & survives 9-hr flight to Spain despite thin oxygen levels at 29,000 ft
1970 - 43rd National Spelling Bee: Libby Childress wins spelling croissant
1970 - SD Padres draft Mike Ivie #1
1970 - Tonga (formerly Friendly Islands) declares independence from UK
1970 - WSMW TV channel 27 in Worcester, MA (IND) begins broadcasting
1970 - Yanks Horace Clarke breaks up a no-hitter in the 9th for the 1st of 3 times in 28 days
1971 - J Luns appointed secretary-general of NATO
1971 - Oakland A's beat Wash Senators, 5-3, in 21 innings
1971 - Zaheer Abbas scores Cricket 274 at Edgbaston, 544 minutes 38 fours
1972 - Angela Davis, black activist, acquitted of killing a white guard
1972 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
1972 - Record 8 shutouts pitched in 16 major league games (AL=5, NL=3)
1973 - 43rd French Womens Tennis: Margaret Court beats C Evert (67 76 64)
1973 - A patent for the ATM is granted to Don Wetzel, Tom Barnes and George Chastain.
1974 - NFL grants franchise to Seattle Seahawks
1974 - Never repeated 10 cent Beer Night at Cleveland, unruly fans stumble onto field & cause Indians to forfeit the game to Rangers with score tied 5-5 in 9th
1975 - Oldest animal fossils in US discovered in NC
1977 - Apple II, the 1st personal computer, goes on sale
1977 - Violence during Puerto Rican Day in Chicago kills 2
1978 - "Working" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 25 performances
1978 - 32nd Tony Awards: Da & Ain't Misbehavin' win
1978 - 6th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): JoAnne Carner
1978 - Liberal Julio Turbay Ayola wins Colombia elections
1979 - South-African pres Vorster resigns due to scandal
1979 - Sri Lanka forfeit ICC Trophy game vs Israel for political reasons
1981 - 54th National Spelling Bee: Paige Pipkin wins spelling sarcophagus
1982 - "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan," released in USA
1982 - Israel attacks targets in south Lebanon
1983 - 53rd French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats Mima Jausovec (61 62)
1984 - 18th Music City News Country Awards: Statler Brothers
1984 - Arnold Palmer fails to make US Open golf tournament 1st time in 32 yrs
1984 - Bruce Springsteen releases "Born in the USA"
1984 - DNA is successfully cloned from an extinct animal
1984 - NY Mets draft Shawn Abner, 17, #1
1985 - STS 51-G vehicle moves to launch pad
1985 - Supreme Court strikes down Alabama "moment of silence" law
1986 - Jonathan Pollard, spy for Israel, pleads guilty in US court
1987 - Danny Harris beats Edwin Moses, ends streak of 122 cons hurdle wins
1988 - "Cabaret" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 262 performances
1988 - 42nd Tony Awards: M Butterfly & Phantom of the Opera win
1988 - 58th French Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats N Zvereva (60 60)
1988 - Longest game in Balt Memorial Stadium (5:46) 14 inn (beat NY 7-6)
1988 - Rickey Henderson steals 2 bases for record 249 as a NY Yankee
1989 - 2nd Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $770,000
1989 - 43rd Tony Awards: Heidi Chronicles & Jerome Robbin's Broadway win
1989 - Beijing cop shoots & wounds Chinese priemer Li Ping
1989 - Eastern Europe's 1st somewhat free election in 40 years held in Poland
1989 - Gas explodes near 2 passenger trains in USSR, kills 100s
1989 - Largest parade in Bronx history honors 350th anniversary
1989 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Rochester Golf International
1989 - Red Sox lead Blue Jays 10-0 in 7th, but lose 12-11 in 12 for Blue Jays 12th consecutive victory at Fenway
1990 - 24th Music City News Country Awards: R Van Shelton & Patty Loveless
1990 - Greyhound Bus files bankruptcy
1990 - LA Dodger Ramon Martinez strikes out 18 Atlanta Braves
1990 - NY Telephone company announces that it wants Bronx area code 917
1990 - Dr Jack Kevorkian assisted an Oregon woman to commit suicide, beginning a national debate over the right to die
1991 - 1st post WW II non-communist government in Albania
1991 - Lesbian priest Elizabeth Carl is ordained in Episcopal Church
1991 - Pope John Paul II compares abortion with nazi murders
1991 - Robert Strauss becomes US ambassador to Soviet Union
1992 - San Jose voters reject Giants plan to build a new stadium
1992 - USPO announces young Elvis beats old Elvis stamp
1994 - Haile Gebre Selassie runs world record 5 km (12:56.96)
1995 - "Jackie Mason: Politically Incorrect" closes at Golden NYC at 347 perf
1995 - 49th Tony Awards: Love! Valour! Compassion! & Sunset Boulevard win
1995 - 8th Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $1,331,000
1995 - Dale Eggeling wins LPGA Oldsmobile Golf Classic
1998 - Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
2001 - Gyanendra, the last King of Nepal, ascends to the throne after the massacre in the Royal Palace.

Famous Birthdays

Results 101 - 200 of 238

1937 - Mortimer B Zuckerman, CEO (US News & World Report, NY Daily News)
1937 - Freddy Fender, American musician (d. 2006)
1937 - Robert Fulghum, American author
1937 - Gorilla Monsoon, American professional wrestler (d. 1999)
1938 - Art Mahaffey, baseball player
1939 - Phil Linz, baseball shortstop (NY Yankees)
1940 - Dorothy Rudd Moore, composer
1940 - Gerrit H Terpstra, economist/Dutch 2nd Chamber member (CDA)
1940 - Ludwig Schwarz, Austrian bishop
1943 - Sandra Haynie, Ft Worth TX, LPGA golfer (1974 US Women's Open)
1943 - Joyce Meyer, American religious leader
1944 - Charlie Whitney, rock guitarist (Family)
1944 - Michelle Phillips, Long Beach CA, singer/actress (Mamas & Papas)
1944 - Roger Ball, Scotland, saxophonist (Average White Band)
1945 - Anthony Braxton, jazz musician
1945 - Daniel Topolski, writer/photographer/rowing coach
1945 - Gordon Waller, Scotland, singer (Peter & Gordon-World Without Love)
1945 - Ivan "Ironman" Stewart, Mickey Thompson off-road champ (1983, 84, 90)
1945 - Margaret Impert, Horseheads NY, actress (Maggie, Spencer's Pilots)
1946 - Bettina Gregory, correspondent/journalist (ABC-TV)
1947 - Viktor Klima, Chancellor of Austria
1948 - Bob Champion, horse trainer/jockey
1948 - Rosemary Joyce, model/actress (Daphne Draper-Search For Tomorrow)
1948 - Sandra Post, LPGA golfer
1949 - Gabriel Arcand, French Canadian actor
1950 - Brian Rose, cricketer (England batsman in 9 Tests 1977-81)
1950 - Dagmar Krause, West Germany, singer (Henry Cow, Art Bears)
1950 - Wayne Powers, New Rochelle NY, actor (Laverne & Shirley, 13 East)
1951 - David Yip, actor (Ping Pong)
1951 - Yvonne MCT van Rooy, Dutch Secretary of State Secretary (CDA)
1951 - Charles Dickinson, American author
1951 - Wendy Pini, American comic book writer and artist
1952 - Carlene Watkins, Hartford CT, actress (Tough Enough)
1952 - Catherine Watkins, Hartford Ct, actress (It's Not Easy, Mary)
1952 - Parker Stevenson, Phila Pa, actor (Falcon Crest, Stroker Ace)
1953 - Susumu Ojima, Japanese entrepreneur (Huser)
1953 - Paul Samson, British guitarist (Samson) (d. 2002)
1955 - Paul Stewart, English writer
1955 - Mary Testa, American stage actress
1956 - John Treacy, marathonr (Olympics-silver-1984)
1956 - Terry Kennedy, baseball player
1956 - Martin Adams, English darts player
1956 - Keith David, American actor
1956 - John Hockenberry, American journalist
1957 - Tony Pena, Monte Cristi Dom Rep, catcher (Cleveland Indians)
1958 - Julie Gholson, Birmingham Ala, actress (Where the Lilies Bloom)
1958 - Tony Pigott, cricketer (England pace bowler in a Test v NZ 1984)
1959 - Lord Rayleigh, agri-businessman (Lord Rayleigh Farms)
1959 - Paul Taylor, rocker (Winger-17)
1959 - Rod Connop, CFL corner (Edmonton Eskimos)
1960 - Bradley Walsh, British actor
1961 - Cathy Marino, LPGA golfer
1961 - El Debarge, Grand Rapids Mich, rocker (Debarge-All this Love)
1961 - Ferenc Gyurcsány, Hungary prime minister
1962 - Zenon Jaskuła, Polish cyclist
1962 - John P. Kee, American Gospel singer
1963 - Carey Nelson, Canada, marathoner (Olympics-96)
1963 - Jim Lachey, NFL tackle (Washington Redskins)
1963 - Mossimo Giannulli, fashion designer (hot)
1963 - Xavier McDaniel, NBA forward (Seattle SuperSonics)
1964 - Chris Kavanagh, rocker (Sigue Sigue Sputnik-Love Missile F-111)
1964 - Steve Searcy, baseball player
1964 - Eva Fampas, Greek guitarist
1965 - Andrea Jaeger, Chicago, tennis player (retired as a teenager)
1965 - Beau Allred, baseball player
1965 - Jonathan Canter, LA Cal, tennis star
1965 - Kurt Stillwell, Glendale CA, infielder (Texas Rangers)
1965 - Tim Perry, NBA forward (NJ Nets)
1965 - Mick Doohan, Australian motorcycle racer
1966 - Nick Kypreos, Toronto, NHL left wing (Toronto Maple Leafs)
1966 - Cecilia Bartoli, Italian mezzo-soprano
1966 - Vladimir Voevodsky, Russian mathematician
1967 - Rick Wilkins, Jacksonville FL, catcher (Houston Astros)
1967 - Scott Servais, La Crosse Wisc, catcher (Chic Cubs)
1967 - Simon Sheldon-Collins, Australian baseball pitcher (Olympics-1996)
1968 - Scott Wolf, Boston Mass, actor (Broken Arrow, Party of 5)
1968 - Stacy Leigh Arthur, Naperville Ill, playmate (Jan, 1991)
1968 - Al B. Sure, American R&B singer
1969 - Regi Blinker, soccer player (Feyenoord)
1969 - Robert Perez, Bolivar Venezuela, outfielder (Toronto Blue Jays)
1969 - Tine Moberg-Parker, Oslo Norway, Canada Europe class yachter (Oly-96)
1969 - Horatio Sanz, Chilean-born comedian
1970 - Gary Lynagh, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1970 - Ronnie Harris, NFL wide receiver (Seattle Seahawks)
1970 - Richie Hawtin, Canadian musician
1970 - David Pybus, British musician
1971 - Noah Wyle, Hollywood Calif, actor (Dr John Carter-ER)
1971 - Patrick Scott, NFL/WLAF linebacker (Pitts Steelers, Frankfurt Galaxy)
1971 - Roy Janse, Edmonton Alberta, tornado yachter (Olympics-96)
1971 - Tanya Beyer, St Paul Minn, playmate (Feb, 1992)
1971 - Joseph Kabila, Congolese politician
1971 - James Callis, British actor
1971 - Shoji Meguro, Japanese composer
1972 - Derian Hatcher, Sterling Heights MI, NHL defenseman (Dallas Stars)
1972 - Nikka Costa, American singer
1972 - Rob Huebel, American comedian
1973 - Antonio Anderson, defensive tackle (Dallas Cowboys)
1973 - Corey Walker, running back (Philadelphia Eagles)
1973 - Doug Colman, linebacker (NY Giants)
1973 - Sir Mawn Wilson, NFL wide reciever (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)

Famous Deaths

Results 101 - 105 of 105

2007 - Bill France Jr., NASCAR pioneer (b. 1933)
2007 - Sotiris Moustakas, Greek actor (b. 1940)
2007 - Freddie Scott, American singer and songwriter (b. 1933)
2007 - Craig L. Thomas, United States Senator (b. 1933)
2008 - Nikos Sergianopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1952)