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Results 101 - 177 of 177

1961 - Max Frisch' "Andorra," premieres in Zurich
1962 - JFK announces Cuban missile bases were being dismantled
1963 - "Tambourines to Glory" opens at Little Theater NYC for 24 performances
1963 - Only 1st-class cricket game played in Uganda, MCC v E African XI
1964 - CBS purchases 80% of Yanks for $11,200,000, later buys remaining 20%
1964 - Faisal succeeds Saudi as king of Saudi Arabia
1966 - KHSD TV channel 11 in Lead, SD (ABC) begins broadcasting
1966 - The Cuban Adjustment Act enters force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States.
1968 - "Her First Roman" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 17 perfs
1969 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA River Plantation Women's Golf Open
1969 - NFL record of 12 passing touchdowns, New Orleans Billy Kramer & St L Charlie Johnson pass for 6 touchdowns each
1970 - Cleve Cavaliers lose by biggest margin-54 pts (Phila 141-87)
1971 - "Great Harp" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 7 performances
1971 - Orioles Pat Dobson no-hits Yomiuri Giants, 2-0
1972 - Construction begins on Kingdome, Seattle
1972 - Phillies' Steve Carlton wins unanimous NL Cy Young Award
1972 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1973 - "Barbra Streisand ...and Other Musical Instruments" airs on CBS TV
1973 - OLADE (Latin American Energy Organization) forms
1974 - Art Modell gets snowed in & misses his 1st Cleve Brown game in 33 yrs
1974 - Braves trade Hank Aaron to Milwaukee Brewers for OF Dave May
1974 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1974 - 78 die when the Time Go-Go Club in Seoul, South Korea burns down. Six of the victims jumped to their deaths from the seventh floor after a club official barred the doors after the fire started.
1975 - Ed Giacomin as a Red Wing returns to Mad Sq Garden beats Rangers 6-4
1975 - Summit in Houston opens - Rockets beat Milwaukee Bucks, 104-89
1976 - Jimmy Carter (D) defeats Gerald Ford (R) for president
1976 - NJ voters approve gambling for Atlantic City
1976 - SD Padre Randy Jones wins NL Cy Young
1977 - Phillies' Steve Carlton wins 2nd Cy Young Award
1978 - Crew of Soyuz 29 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 31
1978 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1978 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1979 - Peter Shaffers musical "Amadeus," premieres in London
1982 - Fire in Salung tunnel, Afghanistan, 1,000+ Russians die
1982 - Nayoko Yoshikawa wins LPGA Pioneer Cup Golf Tournament
1983 - President Reagan signed bill establishing Dr Martin Luther King Jr holiday
1983 - Abp Hickey conducts papal investigation of Abp Hunthausen, Seattle
1983 - Pres Reagan signs a bill establishing Martin L King day
1984 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1984 - Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.
1985 - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Cozzene, Life's Magic, Pebbles, Precisionist, Proud Truth, Tasso, Twilight Ridge
1986 - 16th NYC Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:28:06
1986 - 17th NYC Marathon won by Gianni Poli in 2:11:06
1986 - Ayako Okamoto wins Nichirei Ladies Cup US-Japan Team Golf Championship
1987 - Entertainer Lola Falona is diagnosed with multiple schlerosis
1987 - Harrison releases "Cloud 9" & McCartney releases "All the Best"
1988 - 1st Mrs America beauty pageant
1988 - Computers virus strikes Pentagon, SDI research lab & 6 universities
1988 - Mexican radio station erronously reports Mike Tyson dies in car crash
1988 - Walt Weiss wins AL rookie of year (3rd straight for Oakland A's)
1988 - The Morris worm, the first internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.
1989 - "Meet Me in St Louis" opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 253 perfs
1990 - 1st NBA game at Target Center, Minn Timberwolves beat Mavericks 98-85
1991 - Jermaine Jackson releases "Word to the Badd!!" anti Michael song
1991 - Nevada makes biggest comeback in NCAA football history, overcoming a 35-pt deficit in the 3rd quarter & rallying to beat Weber State 55-49
1991 - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Arazi, Black Tie Affair, Dance Smartly, Miss Alleged, Opening Verse, Pleasant Stage, Sheikh Albadou
1991 - Bartholomew I becomes the Patriarch of Constantinople.
1992 - 1st test flight of Airbus A330
1993 - 1st commemorative bricks are laid at Bob Feller Memorial
1993 - Actor Roger Moore (James Bond) has his enlarge prostate removed
1993 - Christie Todd Whitman (R) elected 1st woman governor of NJ
1993 - Dow Jones hits record 3697.64
1993 - Ehud Olmert elected mayor of Jerusalem
1993 - Rudolph Guliani (R) elected 107th mayor of NYC
1994 - Benzine explosion in Dronka Egypt, 400+ killed
1995 - "Busker Alley," premieres at St James Theatre, NY
1995 - "Sacrilege" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 21 performances
1995 - Spanish Broadcasting System buys NY radio station WPAT-FM for $83.5M
1996 - "Hughie," closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC
1997 - "Barrymore," closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 240 performances
1997 - 27th NYC Women Marathon won by Franziska Rochat-Moser of Switz 2:28:43
1997 - 28th NYC Marathon won by John Kagwe of Kenya in 2:08:12
1997 - Ralphs Senior Golf Classic
1997 - Toray Japan Queens LPGA Cup
1997 - Typhoon Linda kills at least 208 in southern Vietnam
1997 - USA beats Japan 23-13 at LPGA Nichirei International
2000 - The first crew arrives at the International Space Station.

Famous Birthdays

Results 101 - 200 of 223

1929 - Rachel Ames, Portland Oregon, actress (Line Up, Audrey-Gen Hospital)
1930 - Denis Gerald Barrington, artist
1932 - Henri Namphy, Cap Hatien Haiti, President of Haiti (1986-88)
1932 - Romano L Mazzoli, (Rep-D-KY, 1971- )
1934 - Ken Rosewall, Sydney Australia, tennis star (US Open 1956)
1934 - Bill Gothard, American speaker
1935 - Mohammad Munaf, cricketer (Pakistani pace bowler in 4 Tests 1959-62)
1936 - Rose Elizabeth Bird, California Supreme Court Justice
1936 - Abdullah the Butcher, wrestler
1937 - Earl "Speedoo" Carroll, NYC, rocker (Cadillacs, Coasters)
1938 - Jay Traynor, rocker (Jay & The Americans)
1938 - Patrick Buchanan, conservative political columnist
1938 - Ria Beckers-de Bruijn, Dutch MP (PPR)
1938 - Jay Black, American singer (Jay and the Americans)
1938 - Queen Sofia of Spain
1939 - Howard Wolpe, (Rep-D-MI, 1979- )
1939 - Pauline Neville-Jones, English diplomat
1939 - Richard Serra, American sculptor and video artist
1940 - Gigi Proletti, Italian entertainer
1941 - Bruce Welch, [Cripps], rocker (Shadows Bognor Regis)
1941 - David Knapp Stockton, San Bernardino CA, PGA golfer (1970 PGA)
1942 - Shere Hite, St Joseph Missouri, sex therapist (Hite Report)
1942 - Stefanie Powers, Hollywood Ca, actress (Girl From UNCLE, Hart to Hart)
1943 - Oldrich Pelcak, Czechoslovakia, cosmonaut
1944 - Jeffrey Alan Hoffman, Bkln, PhD/astronaut (STS 51-D, 35, 46, 61, 75)
1944 - Liesel Westermann, German FR, discus thrower (Olympic-silver-1968)
1944 - Patrice Chereau, actress (Danton)
1946 - Alan Jones, Australia, auto racer (1980 World Champion)
1946 - Giuseppe Sinopoli, Venice Italy, conductor/composer (Sunnyata)
1947 - Dave Pegg, British pop bassist (Jethro Tull-Crest of a Wave)
1947 - David Anthony Ahern, composer
1948 - Rich Gooch, rock bassist (Quarterflash)
1949 - Simon Augustini, Albanian politician
1951 - Kathy Hammond, US, 400m runner (Olympics-bronze-1972)
1951 - Thomas Mallon, American novelist and critic
1951 - Lindy Morrison, Australian musician (The Go-Betweens)
1952 - Kate Linder, Pasadena Ca, actress (Esther Valentine--Young & Restless)
1952 - Maxine Nightingale, English soul singer
1953 - Alfre Woodard, Tulsa Okla, actress (St Elsewhere, Extremities)
1954 - Pat Croce, American entrepreneur
1955 - Frank Gilligan, Queens NY, singer (Mason Dixon-Karen Comes Around)
1955 - Mark Reynolds, San Diego Calif, star yachter (Olymp-8th-1988, 92, 96)
1955 - Chris Burnett, American musician
1956 - Peter Mullan, Scottish actor
1957 - Rita Crockett, San Antonio Tx, volleyball player (Olympic-silver-1984)
1957 - Carter Beauford, American drummer (Dave Matthews Band)
1958 - Willie McGee, SF CA, outfielder (St Louis Cardinals, NL MVP-1985)
1960 - Adam Lingner, NFL center (Buffalo Bills)
1960 - Bruce Baumgartner, Haledon NJ, wrestler (Oly-gold/br-84, 88, 92, 96)
1960 - Mardi Jacquet, Chateauroux Calif, playmate (October, 1980)
1960 - Robert Harold Lohr, Cincinnati OH, PGA golfer (1988 Walt Disney)
1960 - Rosalyn Nideffer, Durban S Afr, tennis star (1993 Futures-Midland MI)
1960 - Saïd Aquita, Morocco, 5K runner (Olympic-gold-1984)
1960 - Tihomir Blaškić, Croatian war criminal
1961 - k.d. lang, [Kathy Dawn], Consort Alberta, country singer
1961 - K.D. Lang, Canadian musician
1962 - Andrew Elt, singer (Sleeze Beez)
1962 - Donna Spangler, LA Calif, wrestler (Coal Miner's Daughter-GLOW)
1962 - David Brock, American political commentator, pundit
1962 - Mireille Delunsch, French soprano
1962 - Simon Hill, English-Australian Football commentator
1963 - Ines Diers, German DR, 400m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1980)
1963 - Susie Scott, San Diego Ca, playmate (May, 1983)
1963 - Bobby Dall American rocker (Poison-Every Rose Has a Thorn)
1963 - Craig Saavedra, American filmmaker
1964 - Kevin Gogan, NFL guard (Oakland Raiders, SF 49ers)
1964 - Michael D'Asaro II, Bkln NY, fencer-sabre
1964 - Britta Lejon, Swedish politician
1965 - Chuck Klingbeil, NFL nose tackle (Miami Dolphins)
1965 - Shahrukh Khan, Indian actor
1966 - Orlando Merced, Hato Rey Puerto Rico, outfielder (Pitts Pirates)
1966 - Rosalyn Fairbank, South Africa, tennis player
1966 - Sean Kanan, actor (AJ-Gen Hospital, Rich Girl, Karate Kid Part 3)
1966 - Tim Kirkman, American filmmaker
1966 - Khaled Abol Naga, Egyptian actor
1967 - Chris Port, NFL guard/tackle (NO Saints)
1967 - Darla Michele Pruett, Canton Georgia, Miss Georgia-America (1991)
1967 - Derek Porter, Belfast Ireland, Canadian rower (Oly-gold/silver-92/96)
1967 - Marc van Roon, Dutch improvising musician
1968 - Brandi Brandt, Santa Clara Calif, playmate (October, 1987)
1968 - Helle Michaelsen, Alborg Denmark, playmate (Aug, 1988)
1968 - Melissa Evridge, Lexington Ky, playmate (Aug, 1990)
1968 - Ultra Naté, American musician
1969 - Dwayne Gordon, NFL linebacker (SD Chargers, NY Jets)
1969 - Reginald Arvizu, American bassist (KoЯn)
1970 - Corbin Lacina, NFL guard (Buffalo Bills)
1970 - Sharmell Sullivan, American professional wrestling valet
1971 - Pete Vordenberg, Rota Spain, US cross country skier (Olympics-1994)
1971 - Ricky Martin, PR, rocker (Menudo)/actor (Gen Hospital) [or Dec 24]
1972 - Alfred Schreuders, soccer player (RKC)
1972 - Jeni Stephens, Memphis Tennessee, Miss America-Tennessee (1997)
1972 - Marie Josee Gibeau, Lachine Quebec, kayaker (Olympics-96)
1972 - Samantha Janus, British entertainer
1972 - Darío Silva, Uruguayan footballer
1973 - Jason Smith, Calgary, NHL defenseman (NJ Devils)
1973 - Marisol Nichols, American actress
1974 - Alex Tanaka, actor (Saja-Swan's Crossing)
1974 - Jaroslav Spacek, NHL defenseman (Team Czech Oly-Gold-1998, (Sweden)
1974 - Ruslan Salei, NHL defenseman (Belarus, Oly-98, Anaheim)
1974 - Orlando Cabrera, Colombian baseball player

Famous Deaths

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