This Day in History for 16th October (Part 2)

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Historical Events

Events 101 - 184 of 184

1964 - China becomes world's 5th nuclear power
1964 - Harold Wilson's Labour party wins British election
1964 - Indians' directors vote to keep franchise in Cleveland, rejecting bids by Seattle, Oakland & Dallas
1965 - "Drat! - The Cat!" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 8 perfs
1966 - Joean Baez & 123 other ani-draft protestors arrested in Oakland
1967 - WETK TV channel 33 in Burlington, VT (PBS) begins broadcasting
1967 - WGNO TV channel 26 in New Orleans, LA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1968 - China reports removal of president Li Sjao-tji
1968 - Czechoslovakia & Russian "accord" rules allies Soviet forces
1968 - During Olympics Tommie Smith & John Carlos give black power salute
1968 - Milwaukee Bucks play their 1st game losing 89-84 to Chicago Bulls
1968 - Jim Dorey sets Toronto Maple Leaf penalty records (48 mins on 9 penalties in a game & 44 minutes on 7 penalties in a period)
1969 - 100-1 shot NY Mets beat Orioles 5-3 & win 66th World Series in 5
1969 - Soyuz 6 returns to Earth
1969 - Met Cleon Jones awarded 1st base when shoe polish on ball proves he is hit by a pitch, he scores on a HR in World Series
1970 - Anwar Sadat elected president of Egypt, succeeding Gamal Abdel Nasser
1971 - Amphitheater in McLaren Park is dedicated in SF
1972 - "Pacific Paradise" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 5 performances
1972 - Creedence Clearwater Revival breaks up
1973 - Israeli tanks under Gen Sharon move through Suez Canal
1973 - Kissinger & Le Duc Tho jointly awarded Nobel peace prize
1973 - Maynard Jackson elected 1st black mayor of Atlanta
1973 - Monks Heng Yo & Heng Ju, start 1000 mile SF to Seattle pilgrimage
1974 - A's Ken Holtzman, who hasn't batted all season, belts 3rd inning home run in Game 4 & gets the win, 5-2
1976 - Soyuz 23 returns to Earth
1976 - Toronto Maple Leaf Lanny McDonald scores a hat trick in 2 min 54 sec
1978 - Nobel prize for economy awarded to Herbert A Simon
264th Pope John Paul II 1978 - Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla elected supreme pontiff-John Paul II
1978 - Test debut of Kapil Dev, India v Pakistan at Faisalabad
1980 - "Brigadoon" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 133 performances
1980 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1981 - 2nd Dutch government of Van Agt resigns
1981 - Harvey Fierstein's "Torch Song Trilogy," premieres in NYC
1982 - Devils 1st road victory 6-5 over Penguins
1982 - Mt Palomar Observatory 1st to detect Halley's comet on 13th return
1982 - Shultz warns US will withdraw from UN if they vote to exclude Israel
1982 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1983 - "Zorba" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 362 performances
1983 - 25th Ryder Cup: US, 14½-13½ at PGA National Golf Club (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, US)
1983 - Balt Orioles beat Philadelphia Phillies, 4 games to 3 in 80th World Series
1984 - Baboon heart transplanted into a 15-day-old baby girl
1984 - Desmond Tutu, black Anglican Bishop, wins Nobel Peace Prize
1985 - Challenger vehicle moves to launch pad for STS 61A mission
1985 - Intel introduces 32-bit 80386 microcomputer chip
1985 - KC Royals & St Louis Cardinals win their league championships
1985 - Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Herbert Hauptman & Jerome Karle
1986 - "Raggedy Ann" opens at Nederlander Theater NYC for 5 performances
1986 - Armand Hammer returns to US with Jewish refusenik David Goldfarb
1986 - US government closes down due to budget problems
1986 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1987 - 175-kph winds cause blackout in London, much of southern England
1987 - 338,500,000 shares traded on NY stock exchange (record)
1987 - Dow Jones for 1st time falls more than 100 pts (108.35)
1987 - Jessica McClure rescued 58 hrs after falling 22' into a well shaft
Heavyweight Boxing Champion Mike Tyson 1987 - Mike Tyson TKOs Tyrell Biggs in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
1987 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1987 - Great Storm of 1987: hurricane force winds to hit much of the South of England killing 23 people.
1988 - "Smile Jamaica" concert for Hurricane Gilbert victims held in London
1988 - Orel Hirsheiser, 1st to pitch shutout in playoff & World Series
1989 - Bikenibau Paeniu installed as premier of Tuvalu
1989 - Jan Syse becomes premier of Norway
1990 - "Stand Up Tragedy" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 13 perfs
1990 - Reds Eric Davis is 22nd player to homer in his 1st World Series at bat
1990 - Reds beat A's 7-0, ending Oakland's 10-game post-season winning streak
1990 - US forces reach 200,000 in Persian Gulf
1991 - George Jo Hennard, 35, kills 23 & himself & wounds 20 in Texas
1991 - US Supreme Court begins to hear Joseph Doherty case
1991 - Dallas Mavericks Roy Tarpley becomes 7th to be banned from NBA for life under the league's anti-drug agreement
1991 - Jharkhand Chhatra Yuva Morcha is founded at a conference in Ranchi, India.
Comedian David Letterman 1992 - 1,700th David Letterman Show
1992 - 1964 "Gilligan's Island" TV pilot 1st shown on TV (TBS)
1993 - General Omar al-Bashir appointed Sudan president
1993 - IRA bomb attack on fish & chips restaurant in Belfast, 10 killed
1993 - Anti-Nazi riot breaks out in Welling in Kent, after police stop protesters approaching British National Party headquarters
1994 - Raul Julia, actor (Addams Family), suffers a stroke
1995 - Allan Donald takes 8-71 as South Africa defeat Zimbabwe
1995 - Brian Lara scores 169 in Sharjah ODI versus Sri Lanka
1995 - Million Man March held in Wash DC (over 800,000 black men attend)
1995 - ODI in Sharjah WI 7-333 in 50 overs beat Sri Lanka 329 all out
1996 - Eighty-four people are killed and more than 180 injured as 47,000 football fans attempt to squeeze into the 36,000-seat Estadio Mateo Flores in Guatemala City.
1997 - "Side Show," opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 91 performances
1998 - Former Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a warrant from Spain requesting his extradition on murder charges.
2002 - Bibliotheca Alexandrina in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria that was lost in antiquity, is officially inaugurated.
2012 - Conflict in Maiduguri, Nigeria, leads to 24 militant deaths and several structures set ablaze

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 101 - 200 of 223

1930 - Carmen Sevilla, Spanish actress
1931 - Charles W Colson, Boston Massachusetts, presidential adviser (Watergate figure), (d. 2012)
1931 - Rosa Rosal, Filipino actress and humanitarian
1932 - Henry Jay Lewis, LA California, conductor/bass (LA Philharmonic 1955-59)
1932 - John Grant, British politician (d. 2000)
1935 - Sugar Pie DeSanto, US singer (Soulful dress)
1936 - Gerardo Gandini, composer
1936 - Andrei Chikatilo, Russian serial killer (d. 1994)
1936 - Akira Machida, Japanese judge
1936 - Peter Bowles, English actor
1937 - Emile Ford, rocker
1937 - Tony Anthony, Clarksburg WV, actor (Treasure of 4 Crowns)
1937 - Tom Monaghan, founder of Dominos pizza
1938 - Nico (born Christa Päffgen; singer-songwriter, fashion model, actress) (d. 1988)
1938 - Carl Gunter Jr, Louisiana State Representative (d. 1999)
1940 - Barry Corbin, actor (Maurice-Northern Exposure)
1940 - Dave DeBusschere, Detroit, NBA foward (NY Knick)/last ABA commissioner
1941 - Derek David Bourgeois, composer
1941 - Erkki Jokinen, composer
1941 - Tim McCarver, baseball catcher (Phils, Mets)/sportscaster (ABC, CBS)
1942 - Dave Lovelady, rocker
1943 - C Fred Turner, rock bassist/vocalist (Bachman-Turner Overdrive)
1944 - Bob Cottam, cricketer (England fast-medium on 2 India/Pakistan tours)
1944 - Johnny Washbrook, Toronto, actor (Ken-My Friend Flicka)
1945 - Paul Monette, writer
1946 - Suzanne Somers, San Bruno California, actress (3's Company, Step by Step)
1947 - Bob Weir, SF California, guitarist (Grateful Dead-Uncle Joe's Band)
1947 - David Zucker, Milwaukee WI, director (Airplane, Naked Gun, Top Secret)
1948 - Michael Tylo, Detroit, actor (Guiding Light, Blade-Young & Restless)
1948 - Leo Mazzone, American baseball coach
1948 - Hema Malini, Indian Actress
1951 - Alan Wheat, (Rep-D-Missouri, 1983- )
1951 - Daniel Gerroll, London, actor (Big Business)
1952 - Christopher Cox, (Rep-R-California)
1952 - Boogie Mosson, American musician (P Funk)
1952 - Ron Taylor, American actor (d. 2002)
1953 - Martha Smith, Cleve Ohio, actress (Animal House)/playmate (July 1973)
1953 - Susan Pedersen, US, 4 X 100m medley swimmer (Olympic-gold-1968)
1953 - Tony Carey, Fresno Ca, rocker
1953 - Paulo Roberto Falcão, Brazilian footballer
1954 - Stephen Mellor, American actor
1955 - Ellen Dolan, Monticello IO, actress (Guiding Light, Margo Hughes-ATWT)
1956 - James H Newman, Trust Territory of Pacific, PhD/Astronaut (STS 51, 69)
1956 - Johnny Chavis, American football coach
1958 - Tim Robbins, West Covina CA, actor (Bull Durham, Shawshank Redemption)
1958 - Eleftheria Arvanitaki, Greek singer
1959 - Gary Kemp, London, rock guitarist (Spandau Ballet-True)
1959 - Erkki-Sven Tüür, Estonian composer
1960 - Val Skinner, Hamilton MT, LPGA golfer (1995 Sprint Championship)
1960 - Bob Mould, American musician
1961 - Billy Taylor, Monticello FL, pitcher (Oakland A's)
1961 - Chris Doleman, defensive end (San Francisco 49ers)
1961 - Wilfried Brookhuis, soccer player (NEC)
1961 - Randy Vasquez, American actor
1961 - Marc Levy, French novelist
1962 - Flea, [Michael Balzary], bassist (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
1962 - Laura Coenen, Neenah Wisc, team handball goalie (Olymp-1988, 92, 96)
1962 - Manute Bol, NBA center (Golden State Warriors)
1962 - Tamara McKinney, Lexington KY, slalom skier (Olympic-4th-1984)
1962 - Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Russian baritone
1963 - Missy Hyatt, Atlanta Ga, wrestling manager (WCW, ECW)
1964 - Kay Cockerill, San Jose CA, LPGA golfer (1995 Friendly's Classic-32nd)
1965 - German Titov, Moscow Russia, NHL center (Calgary Flames, Oly-Silver-1998)
1965 - Lisa Bonder, Columbus Ohio, tennis star
1966 - Donovan Right, CFL linebacker (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1966 - Gerhard Puschnik, hockey forward (Team Austria 1998)
1967 - Joe Murphy, London, NHL right wing (Chicago Blackhawks)
1967 - Michael York, Australian field hockey fullback (Oly-silver-92, 96)
1967 - Davina McCall, British television presenter
1968 - Randall Batinkoff, actor (For Keeps)
1968 - Robert van Oosterom, cricket opening batsman (Holland 1996 World Cup)
1968 - Scott Donie, Vicenza Italy, diver (Olympics-4th-96)
1968 - Elsa Zylberstein, French actress
1969 - Darren McKenzie-Potter, Auckland NZ, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1969 - Doug Hocking, CFL linebacker (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1969 - Gregory Metcalf, Ellensburg Wash, 3k steeplechase
1969 - Spencer McLennan, CFL safety (Montreal Alouettes)
1969 - Wendy Wilson, Los Angeles Ca, rock vocalist (Wilson Phillips-Hold On)
1969 - Roy Hargrove, American jazz trumpeter
1969 - Terri J. Vaughn, American actress
1969 - Takao Ōmori, Japanese professional wrestler
1970 - Adrian Murrell, NFL running back/kick returner (NY Jets)
1970 - Mehmet Scholl, German footballer
1970 - Kazuyuki Fujita, Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial arts fighter
1971 - David Johnson, cricketer (Karnataka fast bowler, India 1996-)
1971 - Greg Jeffries, NFL cornerback (Detroit Lions)
1971 - Kathryn J Taylor, Miss USA-Kansas (1997)
1971 - Simon Shanks, NFL inside linebacker (Arizona Cardinals)
1971 - Toni Foster, WNBA forward/center (Phoenix Mercury)
1971 - Chad Gray, American singer
1972 - Darius Kasparaitis, Elektrenai Lit, NHL defenseman (Islanders, Pitts)
1972 - Darren Balmforth, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1972 - Kordell Stewart, NFL quarterback/wide receiver (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1972 - Stephen O'Connor, Irish amateur snooker champ (1990)
1973 - Peter Polaco, American professional wrestler
1973 - David Unsworth, English professional footballer
1974 - Jermaine Lewis, wide receiver (Baltimore Ravens)
1974 - Paul Kariya, Vancouver, NHL left wing (Anaheim Mighty Ducks, Oly-98)
1974 - Deo Grech, Maltese television presenter, songwriter
1975 - Jacques Kallis, cricketer (South African Test all-rounder v England 1995)

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Famous Divorces

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Famous Deaths

Deaths 101 - 139 of 139

1991 - Tennessee Ernie Ford, country singer (16 Tons), dies at 72
1991 - Tonny Huurdeman, singer/actress (Frills), dies
1992 - Shirley Booth, actress (Hazel), dies of natural causes at 94
1993 - John Bowles, president (Rexall Drugs), dies at 76
1994 - William Henry Swinburne, music teacher, dies at 87
1995 - John Walker, museum director, dies at 88
1995 - Linda Goodman, astrologer, dies
1995 - Murdo Alexander MacLeod, minister, dies at 60
1995 - Thomas Augustine Martin, academic, dies at 59
1996 - Anthony Griffin, sailor, dies at 75
1996 - Eric Lawson Malpass, writer, dies at 85
1996 - Ismond Rosen, psychoanalyst/artist, dies at 82
1996 - James Wild, music teacher, dies at 68
1996 - Jason Bernard, actor (judge-Liar Liar), dies of heart attack at 58
1997 - Audra Lindley, actress (Helen Roper-3's Company, Ropers), dies at 79
1997 - James Mitchner, author (Hawaii), dies of kidney failure at 90
1997 - James Michener, American writer (b. 1907)
1998 - Jon Postel, American Internet pioneer (b. 1943)
1999 - Jean Shepherd, American writer and actor (b. 1921)
2000 - Mel Carnahan, American politician (b. 1934)
2002 - Angela Dawson, American murder victim
2003 - Avni Arbas, Turkish artist (b. 1919)
2003 - Stu Hart, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1915)
2003 - László Papp, Hungarian boxer (b. 1926)
2004 - Pierre Salinger, John F. Kennedy's White House Press Secretary (b. 1925)
2005 - "Len" Dresslar, American singer and voice actor (b. 1925)
2005 - Eugene "Porky" Lee, American child actor (b. 1933)
2005 - David Reilly, American singer (God Lives Underwater) (b. 1971)
2006 - Valentín Paniagua Corazao, Ex President of Peru (b. 1936)
2006 - Ross Davidson, British actor (b. 1949)
2006 - Tommy Johnson, American tubist (b. 1935)
2006 - Lister Sinclair, Canadian broadcaster and playwright (b. 1921)
2007 - Deborah Kerr, Scottish actress (b. 1921)
2007 - Toše Proeski, Macedonian music star (b. 1981)
2007 - Barbara West, Second to last living Titanic survivor.
2010 - Barbara Billingsley, American actress (b. 1915)
2010 - Eyedea, American rapper (Eyedea & Abilities) (b. 1981)
2011 - Dan Wheldon, English auto racer (b. 1978)
2012 - Eddie Yost, American MLB player, dies from cardiovascular disease at 86