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Historical Events

Results 1 - 62 of 62

1st - Irina Privalova runs world record 50m indoor (6.03 sec)
1st - Large meteorite falls near Kusaie, Pacific Ocean
3rd - "Les Miserables," opens at Kallang Theatre, Singapore
3rd - Actor Jean-Claude van Damme (32) weds Darcy Lapier (28) in Bangkok
3rd - Pres Bill Clinton lifts US trade embargo against Vietnam
3rd - STS-60 (Discovery) launches into orbit
4th - 10th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Live wins
4th - 20 die in armed assault on mosque in Khartum Sudan
4th - Merlene Ottey runs world record 50 m indoor (6.00 sec)
4th - Russian team beats ladies world record 4x800 m indoor (8:18.71)
5th - "Where On Earth Is Carmen San Diego," debuts on Fox TV
5th - Medgar Evers' murderer Byron De La Beckwith sentenced to life, in Jackson Miss, 30 years after the crime
6th - "Government Inspector" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 37 perfs
6th - Dawn Coe-Jones wins LPGA Healthsouth Palm Beach Golf Classic
6th - Jose Maria Figueres elected president of Costa Rica
6th - Leonid Voloshin triple jumps world record 17.77m
6th - Martti Ahtisaari elected president of Finland
6th - NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 17-3
7th - 21st American Music Award: Whitney Houston wins
7th - Howard Stern stops a would-be jumper on the George Washington Bridge
7th - Jim Nabors undergoes a liver transplant
8th - Jack Nicholson uses a golf club to attack a car
8th - Kapil Dev sets world record for Test Cricket wickets with 432
8th - Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee charge with possession of loaded firearm
9th - Israeli minister Shimon Perez signs accord with PLO's Arafat
11th - Lu Parker, (South Carolina), crowned 43rd Miss USA
11th - Space shuttle STS-60 (Discovery 18), lands
12th - 17th Winter Olympic games opens in Lillehammer, Norway
12th - 20th century premiere of 6 restored Haydn-sonatas in Boston
12th - Edvard Munch's painting "The Scream" stolen (in Oslo)
12th - Inna Lassovskaya jumps world record 14.90m
12th - Model Anna Nicole Smith hospitalized for drug overdose
13th - 44th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 127-118 at Minneapolis
13th - Inna Lassovskaya jumps world record 14.9m
13th - Johann Olav Koss skates world record 5000m 6:34,96
13th - Ship disaster near Ranong Thailand, kills 200
14th - Alexander Golubev skates Olympic record 500m (36.33)
14th - Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia (51) weds Deborah Koons
14th - Andrei Chikatilo, a Russian serial killer is executed by shooting.
15th - US asks Aristide to adopt a peace plan from Haiti
16th - 6.5 earthquake strikes SE Sumatra, kills 200
16th - Johann Olav Koss skates world record 1500m (1:51.29)
16th - Premier Alfonso Bustamente ends govt in Peru
18th - Actor Joe Pantoliano (41) weds model Nancy Sheppard (31)
18th - Dan Jansen skates world record 1000m (1:12.43)
18th - Shreveport Pirates join CFL as 4th US team
19th - Marta Figueras-Dotti wins Cup o' Noodles Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open
20th - 3 Afghans take 70 Pakistani children hostage
20th - Johann Olav Koss skates world record 10 km (13:30.55)
20th - Pope John Paul II demands juristic discrimination of homosexuals
22nd - "Les Miserables," opens at Chunichi Theatre, Nagoya
23rd - Indians owner Richard Jacobs announces he will pay $10 million to name baseball field (Jacobs Field) at Gateway (becomes official 3/23)
24th - Scoreboard is unveiled at new Cleve Indians' park (Jacobs Field)
25th - Israeli extremist Baruch Goldstein massacres 30 Palestinians in Hebron
25th - Peruvian Yak-40 crashes into mountain near Tingo Maria, kills 31
25th - Phil Rizzuto elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
26th - Actor Dolph Lundgren (34) weds Anette Qviberg in Stockholm
26th - St Louis Blues beat Ottawa Senators 11-1
27th - 17th Winter Olympic games closes in Lillehammer, Norway
27th - Maronite church near Beirut bombed, 10 killed
28th - 100 agents raid Branch Davidian compound at Waco Texas
28th - Brady Law, imposing a wait-period to buy a hand-gun, went into effect

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 7 of 7

3rd - Tallulah Belle Willis, 3rd daughter of Bruce Willis & Demi Moore
10th - Makenzie Vega, American actress
11th - Dominic Janes, American actor
14th - Paul Butcher, American actor
23rd - Dakota Fanning, American actress
26th - Creason Carbo Moss, daughter of US actor Ronn Moss
27th - Hou Yifan, Chinese chess player

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 73 of 73

1st - Fouad Fram al-Boustani, Lebanese historian (Rawaeaa), dies at 88
1st - Olan Soule, radio voice (Super Friends), dies of lung cancer at 83
2nd - John Wesley Funchess Littlejohn, blues guitarist/singer, dies at 62
2nd - Stephen Barclay, actor (Pride of the Plains), dies at 75
2nd - Willie Mae Ford Smith, gospel Singer/Songwriter, dies at 89
2nd - Zilner T Randolph, jazz Trumpeter/ Arranger, dies at 95
4th - Han Jansen, Dutch painter, dies at 62
4th - Harold Schneider, US producer (5 Easy Pieces, War Games), dies at 55
4th - Jan Veldkamp, Dutch geophysicist/director (KNMI), dies at 84
4th - Justinus Darmojuwono, Indonesian archbishop/cardinal, dies at 79
5th - Fred de Bruyne, Flemish cyclist/gang leader (Paris-Nice), dies at 63
5th - Hermann Abs, German banker to Hitler & Adenauer, dies at 92
5th - Kenneth "Buddy" Scott, blues guitarist/Singer, dies at 59
6th - Ignace Strasfogel, Polish/US pianist/conductor/composer, dies at 84
6th - Jack Kirby, cartoonist (X-Men, Spiderman, Hulk), dies at 76
6th - Joseph Cotten, actor (Citizen Kane), dies at 88
6th - Norman Del Mar, conductor/writer (Conducting Brahms), dies at 74
7th - Maarten Vrolijk, Dutch soc-dem minister (CRM 1965-66), dies at 74
7th - Richard Bissell, US under director of CIA (Pig's Bay), dies at 84
7th - Witold Lutosławski, Polish composer (b. 1913)
8th - Jacob Firet, Dutch theologist (Agogic Moment), dies at 70
8th - Ken Hall, Australian director/producer (Kokoda front line), dies at 92
8th - Raymond Scott, composer (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm), dies at 85
9th - Arnold Smith, Brit 1st sec-gen of Commonwealth (1965-75), dies at 79
9th - Jarmila Novotna, Czech/US soprano (Madame Butterfly), dies at 86
9th - Louis Kaufman, US violinist/conductor (Gone with the Wind), dies at 88
9th - Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (b. 1934)
11th - Antonio Martin, Spanish cyclist, dies in cycling accident at 23
11th - Sorrell Brooke, actor (Mayor Hogg-Dukes of Hazzard), dies at 64
11th - William Conrad, actor (Cannon), dies of a heart attack at 73
12th - Donald Judd, US furniture maker/architect/artist, dies at 65
12th - Sue Rodriguez, Canadian assisted suicide advocate (b. 1950)
13th - Jack Kirby, cartoonist (Marvel Comics), dies at 76
13th - Michael Francis Morris Lindsay, orientalist, dies at 84
13th - Theo Bitter, Dutch painter/set designer, dies at 79
14th - Christopher Lasch, author (Culture of Narcissism), dies at 61
14th - Gary "BB" Coleman, blues vocal/guitarist/producer, dies at 47
15th - Andrei Tsjikatilo, [Rostov Ripper], Russian mass murdered, executed
15th - Tiger Haynes, US actor (Moscow on the Hudson, Cosby Show), dies at 79
17th - Randy Shilts, US journalist (& the band played on), dies of AIDs at 41
18th - Peter Caddy, founder of the Findhorn Community, dies at 76
19th - Derek Jarman, actor/director (Tempest), dies of AIDS at 52
19th - Georges Watin, Algerian/French officer (OAS), dies at 71
19th - Renske Vellinga, Dutch speed-skater, dies in auto-accident at 19
20th - Derek Jarman, English director (Last of England), dies at 52
20th - Manuel F "Garincha" dos Santos, soccer player (Brazil), dies at 49
21st - Frederick Edward Nicklin, architect, dies at 68
21st - William Elgin Swinton, child Psychiatrist, dies at 54
22nd - "Papa" John Creach, US jazz musician (Papa Blues), dies at 76
23rd - Stuart Berger, doctor (Immune Power Diet), dies from obesity at 40
24th - Dinah Shore, singer (Chevrolet), dies of cancer at 76
24th - Donald Phillips, pianist/composer, dies at 80
24th - Jean Sablon, crooner, dies at 87
24th - Knut Anders Haukfield, SOE Operative, dies at 83
24th - Lores Bonney, aviator, dies at 96
25th - Baruch Goldstein, physician/murderer (53 in mosque), lynched at 42
25th - Hugh Tayfield, cricketer (170 wickets for S Afr in 37 Tests), dies
25th - Jersey Joe Walcott, boxer, dies at 80
25th - Wladyslaw Sila Lawyer Adviser to Solidarity-Nowicki, dies at 80
25th - Yann Piat, French MP (FN/PR), murdered at 44
26th - Avery Fisher, US audio manufacturer (1st hi-fi), dies at 87
26th - Leopold "Hans" Kohr, Austrian social philosopher, dies at 84
26th - William "Bill" M Hicks, comedian, dies at 32
27th - Harold Acton, English/Italian historian/art collector, dies at 84
27th - Karl I Pelgrom, Dutch sculptor, dies at 66
27th - Laurence "Bill" Craigie, jet pioneer, dies at 92
27th - Leopold "Hans" Kohr, Austria social philosopher/economist, dies at 84
28th - Aisin Giorro Pu Chieh, brother of Last Emperor of China, dies at 86
28th - Buster Holmes, chef/restaurateur, dies at 88
28th - Elbert "Skippy" Williams, tenor Sax player, dies at 77
28th - George Osborne Sayles, historian, dies at 92
28th - Leopoldina Poldi Feichtegger Gerhard, dies at 90
28th - Pu Yi, brother of last Chinese emperor, Pu Yi, dies at 87