This Day in History for 5th November (Part 2)

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Historical Events

Events 101 - 179 of 179

1966 - Brigham Young QB Virgil Carter sets NCAA record of 599 yards gained
1966 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 - ATS-3 launched by US to take 1st pictures of full Earth disk
1967 - Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Corpus Christi Civitan Golf Open
1967 - New Orleans Saints 1st NFL victory, beat Philadelphia Eagles 31-24
1967 - US troops conquer Loc Ninh South Vietnam
1967 - Yemen president Sallal flees
1967 - The Hither Green rail crash in the United Kingdom kills 49 people. The survivors include Bee Gee Robin Gibb.
1968 - 1st AL pitcher to win MVP, Denny McLain (wins unanimously)
1968 - Nixon (R) beats VP Humphrey (D) & George C Wallace for presidency
1971 - Bolivia passes death penalty for political kidnapping
1971 - NBA's LA Lakers starts a 33 game consecutive victory streak
1972 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Lady Errol Golf Classic
1973 - BART starts SF-Daly City train shuttle service
1974 - Dmitri Sjotakovitch completes Michelangelo-liederen
1974 - Ella Grasso (Ct) elected 1st woman US gov not related to previous gov
1974 - Walter E Washington, becomes 1st elected mayor of Wash DC
1975 - British government sends troops to Belize
1975 - Sao Tome & Principe adopts constitution
1976 - Balt Jim Palmer wins AL Cy Young Award
1976 - New AL franchises in Seattle & Toronto fill up their rosters
1976 - Pirates trade Manny Sanguillen & $100,000 to A's for mgr Chuck Tanner
1976 - USSR performs nuclear test
1977 - NCAA passing record set at 571 yards (Marc Wilson, Brigham Young)
1978 - Iranian PM Jaafar Sharif-Emami resigns to Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
1978 - Khomeini followers attack British embassy/El Al office in Iran
1978 - Oakland Raider's John Madden becomes 13th coach to win 100 NFL games
1979 - Iran government of Bazargan resigns
1979 - Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini declares US "The Great Satan"
1981 - Charles Fuller's "Soldier's Play," premieres in NYC
1981 - Former Dolphin, Mercury Morris, is sentenced to 20 years for drug trafficing, conspiracy, & possession of cocaine
1982 - Cleveland Cavaliers lose 24th consecutive game (NBA record)
1982 - George Harrison releases "Gone Troppo" album
1983 - NY Rangers & Quebec Nordiques both score in 1st 14 secs of 3rd period
1983 - Orbiter Discovery (OV-103) moves overland to Dryden
1985 - "News" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 4 performances
1987 - "Into the Woods" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 764 performances
1987 - France performs nuclear test
1987 - Iceberg twice size of Rhode Island sighted in Antarctic
1987 - South Africa ANC-leader Govan Mbeki freed
1987 - Stephen Sondheim/James Lapine's musical "Into the Stars," premieres
1987 - Supreme Court nominee Douglas H Ginsburg admitted using marijuana
1988 - 1st NBA game at Bradley Center, Milw Bucks lose to LA Clippers 111-91
1988 - 1st NBA game at Miami Arena, Miami Heat loss to LA Clippers, 111-91
1988 - 1st NBA game at Palace of Auburn Hills, Pistons beat Hornets 94-85
1988 - Cornell confirms grad student source of worst computer sabotage
1988 - France performs nuclear test
1988 - Gulch wins Breeder's Cup
1988 - Japan beats MLB all stars 2-1 in Tokyo (Game 1 of 7)
1988 - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Alysheba, Gt Communicator, Gulch, Is It True, Miesque, Open Mind, Personal Ensign at Churchill Downs
1989 - "Threepenny Opera" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 65 perfs
1989 - 19th NYC Women's Marathon won by Ingrid Kristiansen in 2:25:30
1989 - 20th NYC Marathon won by Juma Ikangaa in 2:08:01
1989 - Browns' Bernie Kosar sets club record of 16 cons pass completions
1989 - Elaine Crosby wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
1989 - US plays El Salvador, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup
1991 - Kiichi Miyazawa elected premier of Japan
1991 - Richard J Kerr, ends term as acting director of CIA
1992 - "Show Off" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 45 performances
1992 - Bobby Fisher beats Boris Spassky to with Chess title in Belgrade
1993 - 1st NBA game in Alamodome, San Antonio Spurs beat Warriors 91-85
1994 - Space probe Ulyssus completes 1st passage behind the Sun
1994 - Tony Rominger bicycles world record time (55,291 km)
1994 - Yak-40 accident in north of Peru, 8 killed
1994 - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Barathea, Cherokee Run, Concern, Flanders, One Dreamer, Tikkanen, Timber Country
Boxing Champ George Foreman 1994 - George Foreman (45) KOs Michael Moorer to win boxing HW championship
1995 - STS 73 (Columbia 18), lands
1995 - Woo-Soon Ko wins LPGA Toray Japan Queens Cup Golf Tournament
1995 - 1st NBA game at General Motors Place, Vancouver Grizzlies beat Minn Timberwolves 100-98 in OT
1995 - André Dallaire attempts to assassinate Jean Chrétien; he is thwarted when the Prime Minister's wife locks the door.
1996 - Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter is the unanimous choice as AL Rookie of
1997 - 2 hours after Davey Johnson resigns, he is named AL Manager of Year
1997 - French court orders producer Jacques Charrier, ex-husband of Brigitte Bardot, to pay the former screen star $8,300 in damages
2000 - Emperor Haile Selassie I is given an Imperial funeral by the Ethiopian Orthodox church
2006 - Saddam Hussein, former president of Iraq, and his co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar are sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for the role in the massacre of the 148 Shi'as in 1982.
2007 - China's first lunar satellite, Chang'e 1 goes into orbit around the Moon.
2009 - US Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan allegedly killed 13 and wounded 43 at Fort Hood, Texas in the largest mass shooting ever at a US military installation.
2012 - 50 Syrian military personnel are killed by a suicide car bomb in Hama
2012 - Widespread flooding in Nigeria kills 363 people and displaces 2.1 million

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 101 - 200 of 206

1940 - Elke Sommer, [Elke Schletz], Berlin Germany, actress (A Shot in the Dark, The Oscar)
1941 - Patricia Harty, Wash DC, actress (Occasional Wife, Blondie)
1941 - Art Garfunkel, New York, American singer/actor (Sounds of Silence, Carnal Knowledge)
1943 - Pablo Gomez, rocker
1943 - Sam Shepard, Ill, actor/playwright (Frances, Crimes of the Heart)
1943 - Friedman Paul Erhardt (Chef Tell), German-born American TV chef (d. 2007)
1945 - Peter Pace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
1945 - Aleka Papariga, Greek politician
1946 - Gram Paarson, [Cecil Connor], Winter Haven Fl, rocker (Byrds)
1946 - Herman Brood, Dutch painter/singer/pianist (Sleepin' Bird)
1946 - Patricia K Kuhl, speech & hearing scientist
1947 - Oleg Antropov, USSR, volleyball player (Olympic-gold-1968)
1947 - Peter Noone, rocker (Herman-Herman's Hermits-Silhouttes)
1948 - Peter Hammill, English singer/songwriter (Patient)
1948 - Rick Cobb, rocker
1948 - Mel Ab-Owain, Welsh politician
1948 - Hridayananda dasa Goswami, ISKCON guru
1948 - Bernard-Henri Lévy, French public intellectual
1949 - Armin Shimerman, American actor
1949 - Jimmie Spheeris, American singer-songwriter (d. 1984)
1950 - Debbie Massey, Grosse Pointe MI, LPGA golfer (1979 Wheeling Classic)
1951 - Cindy Brooks, Gettysburg Pa, playmate (April, 1985)
1951 - Stuart Havelock Hollingdale, anthropologist
1952 - Bill Walton, NBA center (Portland Trailblazers, Boston Celtics)
1952 - Oleg Blokhin, Ukrainian footballer
1952 - Vandana Shiva, Indian physicist
1953 - Florentino V. Floro, Filipino dwarf judge
1953 - Joyce Maynard, American writer
1955 - Sylvester Louis Adams, murderer
1955 - Karan Thapar, Foremost Indian Journalist, Political Analyst & Commentator
1955 - Nestor Serrano, American actor
1956 - Mike Score, Liverpool England, rock guitarist (Flock Of Seagulls)
1956 - Rob Fisher, Bath England, rock keyboardist (Naked Eyes)
1957 - David Moyse, Adelaide Australia, rock vocalist (Air Supply)
1957 - Jon-Erik Hexum, Tenafly NJ, actor (Voyager, Cover-up)
1958 - Don Falcone, American musician and producer
1958 - Robert Patrick, American actor
Singer Bryan Adams (1959) 1959 - Bryan Adams, Vancouver BC Canada, singer (Heaven)
1960 - Mark West, NBA center (Detroit Pistons)
1960 - René Froger, Dutch singer (Everything Can Make a Man Happy)
1960 - Tilda Swinton, London England, actress (Orlando)
1961 - Charles O Hobaugh, Bar Harbor ME, Capt USMC/astronaut
1961 - Gina Mastrogiacomo, American actress (d. 2001)
1962 - Brian Wheat, rock bassist (Tesla-Psychotic Supper)
1962 - Abédi Pelé, Ghanaian footballer
1962 - Marcus J. Ranum, American computer/network security innovator
1963 - Andrea McArdle, Phila, actress (Annie)
1963 - Hans Gilhaus, soccer player (Vitesse)
1963 - Tatum O'Neal, LA Cal, Mrs John McEnroe (Paper Moon, Little Darlings)
1964 - Tim Blake Nelson, American actor
1965 - Famke Janssen, Dutch model and actress
1965 - Kubrat, Prince of Panagiurishte, titular Bulgarian royal family
Actress Tilda Swinton (1960) 1966 - Georgia Apostolou, Greek actress
1966 - Nayim, Spanish footballer
1967 - Frank Pollack, NFL tackle (SF 49ers)
1967 - Grant Leury, Melbourne VIC Australia, canoeist (Olympics-96)
1967 - Percy Snow, WLAF linebacker (Rhein Fire)
1967 - Steve Wagner, Phila, field hockey goalkeeper (Olympics-96)
1968 - Bob Dahl, NFL guard/tackle (Cleveland Browns)
1968 - Cary Blanchard, NFL kicker (Indianapolis Colts)
1968 - Chris Gray, Perth WA, Australasia golfer
1968 - Malcolm Frank, CFL cornerback (Edmonton Eskimos)
1968 - Sam Rockwell, American film actor
1968 - Judy Reyes, Dominican American actress
1968 - Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Spanish actress
1969 - Jennifer Guthrie, Willimantic Conn, actress (Dawn-General Hospital)
1970 - Javier Lopez, Ponce Puerto Rico, catcher (Atlanta Braves)
1970 - Ryan Wetnight, NFL tight end (Chic Bears)
1970 - Javy López, baseball player
1970 - Tamzin Outhwaite, English actress
1971 - Corin "Corky" Nemec, Little Rock, actor (Tucker, Parker Lewis)
1971 - Erick Walder, Mobile Alabama, triple jumper
1971 - Sergei Berezin, Voskrensensk Russia, NHL forward (Team Russia, Oly-Si-98)
1971 - Todd Collins, NFL quarterback (Buffalo Bills)
1971 - Dana Jacobson, ESPN's First Take hostess
1971 - Rob Jones, English footballer
1971 - Jonny Greenwood, guitarist (Radiohead)
1971 - Edmond Leung, Hong Kong singer
1972 - Tracy Greene, NFL tight end (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1973 - Alexei Yashin, Sverdlovsk Russia, NHL center (Team Russia Olympics-Silver-1998, Ottawa Senators)
1973 - James Collins, NBA guard (LA Clippers)
1973 - Johnny Damon, Ft. Riley Kansas, baseball outfielder (Kansas City Royals)
1973 - Kate Anderson, Australian 1.5k/3k/5k runner (Olympics-96)
1973 - Rupert Grant, NFL fullback (NE Patriots)
1973 - Daniella Westbrook, English actress
1974 - Conrad Hamilton, cornerback (NY Giants)
1974 - Jerry Stackhouse, NBA guard/forward (Detroit Pistons, Phila 76ers)
1974 - Dado Pršo, Croatian footballer
1974 - Angela Gossow, German vocalist (Arch Enemy)
1974 - Ryan Adams, American musician
1977 - Jodi Webb, Miss Utah Teen USA (1996)
1977 - Tuula Puputti, ice hockey goalie (Finland, Oly-98)
1977 - Richard Wright, English footballer
1979 - Mihalis Hatzigiannis, Greek-Cypriot songwriter and singer
1980 - Christoph Metzelder, German footballer
1980 - Jaime Camara, Brazilian racing driver
1980 - Eva González, Spanish model and beauty queen
1983 - Mike Hanke, German footballer
1983 - Andrew Hayden-Smith, TV presenter and actor
1984 - Nick Folk, American football player

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Famous Weddings

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Famous Deaths

Deaths 101 - 108 of 108

2009 - Félix Luna, Argentine historian (b. 1925)
2010 - Adrian Păunescu, Romanian poet and politician (b. 1943)
2010 - Jill Clayburgh, American actress (b. 1944)
2010 - Shirley Verrett, American operatic mezzo-soprano (b. 1931)
2011 - Bhupen Hazarika, Indian singer, composer, lyricist, music director, and filmmaker from Assam (b. 1926)
2012 - Charles V Bush, African-American pioneer, dies from colon cancer at 72
2012 - Elliott Carter, American composer, dies from natural causes at 103
2012 - Stalking Cat [Dennis Avner], American body modifier, dies at 54