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Historical Events

Results 1 - 97 of 97

1st - "My Fair Lady" closes at Virginia Theater NYC after 165 performances
1st - "Rise & Fall of Little Voice" opens at Neil Simon NYC for 9 perfs
1st - -3] Tornado & hail storms hit Jiangxi China, 95 killed
1st - Charles Kuralt, retires as CBS newsman (On the Road)
1st - Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Sprint Senior Challenge Golf Tournament
1st - Sherri Steinhauer wins LPGA Sprint Golf Championship
2nd - Bus crashes into a tree at Gdansk Poland, 30 killed
2nd - Dr Kervokian found innocent on assisting suicides
2nd - Michael Bolton found plagurized Isley Bros "Love is Wonderful Thing"
2nd - in Poland bus disaster 32 people died.
3rd - 29th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks wins
3rd - D66/Dutch Liberal Party win Dutch 2nd Parliamentary election
3rd - US space probe Clementine launched
4th - Arsenal wins 34th Europe Cup II
4th - Courtney Love cleared of drug charges
5th - "Sally Marrand Her Escorts" opens at Helen Hayes NYC for 50 perfs
5th - Labour beats Conservatives in British local elections
5th - North-Yemen air force bombs Aden South Yemen
6th - Chunnel linking England & France officially opens
6th - Comedian Bobcat Goldthwait sets fire to the couch on Tonight Show
6th - House passes the assault weapons ban
6th - Lennox Lewis TKOs Phil Jackson in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
6th - Nelson Mandela & his ANC, finally confirmed winners in South Africa
7th - 120th Kentucky Derby: Chris McCarron on Go For Gin wins in 2:03.6
7th - Denver Nuggets become NBA's 1st #8 seed to beat a #1 seed (Seattle)
7th - Edvard Munchs painting "The Scream" recovered 3 months after stolen
7th - Gary Hart's girlfriend Donna Rice (36) weds Jack Hughes (42)
7th - Matlock actor Daniel Roebuck (30) weds Kelly Durst (24)
8th - "Rise & Fall of Little Voice" closes at Neil Simon NYC after 9 perfs
8th - 500th commentary by Andy Rooney on 60 Minutes
8th - Colorado Silver Bullets (all-female pro baseball team) 1st game
8th - Ernesto Perez Balladares elected president of Panama
8th - Jose Maria Figueres becomes president of Costa Rica
8th - Laura Davies wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic
8th - Pres Clinton announces US will no longer repatriate boat people
8th - Erling Kagge becomes the first person to complete the Three Poles Challenge.
9th - "Passion" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 280 performances
9th - Mass murderer Joel Rifkind found guilty in NY
10th - "Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public" opens at Lunt-Font NYC for 16 per
10th - Barbra Striesand's begins 1st concert tour in 30 years
10th - Drew Barrymore (19) files for divorce from Jeremy Thomas (31)
10th - Nelson Mandela sworn in as South Africa's 1st black president
10th - Silvio Berlusconi forms Italian govt with 5 neo-fascists
11th - "Grease," opens at Eugene O' Neill Theater NYC for 1,503 performances
11th - "Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult," released in France
11th - 6 white racists sentenced to death in South Africa
11th - Inter Milan wins 23rd UEFA Cup
12th - WIBC Bowling Queens won by Anne Marie Duggan
13th - Indians, begin a 18 home game hoome win streak at Jacobs Field
14th - Dave Winfield passes Frank Robinson for 12th on RBI list with 1,617
14th - FA cup final at Wembley Stadium London
14th - Mayflower Madame Sydney Biddle Barrows (42) weds Darnay Hoffman (46)
15th - 40th McDonald's LPGA Championship won by Laura Davies
16th - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Orlando FL on WTKS 104.1 FM
16th - Jacqueline Onassis admitted to the hospital for cancer treatment
16th - Joaquín Balaguer (86) elected president of Dominican Republic
16th - Tennis star Jennifer Capriati arrested on possession of marijuana
17th - Bakili Muluzi's UDF wins Malawi presidents/parliamentary election
18th - AC Milan wins Europe Cup 1: 4-0 against Barcelona
18th - Israel withdraws from the Gaza Strip
18th - Tropical Butterfly Garden at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo opens
19th - Final Episode of LA Law after 8 year run
19th - Omar Sharif suffers a mild heart attack
19th - Tennis star Jennifer Capriati (18), checks into a drug rehab center
20th - Bobcat Goldthwait charged with misdemeanors for fire on Tonight Show
20th - Miss India (Sushmita Sen) selected Miss Universe
20th - Sony Theaters & Cineplex (NYC) hike movie ticket prices to $8.00
21st - "Best Little Whorehouse" closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 16 perfs
21st - 120th Preakness: Pat Day aboard Tabasco Cat wins in 1:56.4
21st - Burger King spokesman Dan Cortese (26) weds Dee Dee Hemby (26)
21st - Country singer Trisha Yearwood (29) weds Robert Reynolds (32)
21st - Reds bat out of order against Dodgers in 2nd inning
21st - South Yemen secedes from Yemen
21st - Sushmita Sen, 18, of India, crowned 43rd Miss Universe
22nd - Elaine Crosby wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
22nd - Toronto NBA franchise unveils name "Raptors" & logo
23rd - 270 pilgrims dies in bustle round Mina Saudi-Arabia
23rd - Roman Herzog elected president of Germany
23rd - Star Trek The Next Generation, finale airs this week in syndication
24th - Poison singer Bret Michaels gets into a car crash
25th - Emmy 21st Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci not nominated
26th - Michael Jackson (35) weds Elvis' daughter Lisa Marie Presley (26)
27th - Alexander Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia after 20 years in exile
27th - Final broadcast of Arsenio Hall talk show
27th - Flintstones live action movie opens in theaters
27th - Larry King ended his radio show
27th - Radio conservative Rush Limbaugh (43) weds Marta Fitzgerald (35)
28th - "Cafe American," last airs on NBC-TV
28th - Twin's Dave Winfield passes Rod Carew into 15th hit list (3,054)
29th - "Joseph & the Amazing" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 223 perfs
29th - "Picnic" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 45 performances
29th - Al Unser Jr wins 78th Indianapolis 500 in 3:06:29.006 (255.89 kph)
29th - Beth Daniel wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
29th - Great comet-iceball seen above North sea
29th - Hungary's Socialist Party wins parliamentary election
29th - Patty Sheehan wins J C Penney/LPGA Skins Golf Game
31st - Padres scores 13 in 2nd vs Pirates

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 3 of 3

4th - Alexander Gould, American actor
4th - Pauline Ducruet, daughter of HSH Princess Stéphanie of Monaco
21st - Tom Daley, English diver

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 98 of 98

1st - Ayrton Senna, Brazilian Grand prix driver, dies in crash at 34
2nd - Louis Calaferte, writer (Requiem of the Innocents), dies at 65
2nd - Wilson Charles Geoffery Baldwin, hero, dies at 75
3rd - Gustaaf AWC baron van Hemert Dingshof, mayor of Maarn, dies at 78
3rd - Haty Tegelaar-Boonacker, Dutch MP (CDA), dies at 63
3rd - Milford Dolliole, pioneer jazz drummer, dies at 90
3rd - Richard Scarry, author/illustrator of children's books, dies at 74
4th - Karl Francis Hettinger, onion Field survivor, dies at 59
5th - Hein Salomonson, architect, dies at about 83
5th - Joe Layton, director (Richard Pryor Live on Sunset Strip), dies at 63
6th - Fred Sadoff, actor (Quiet American), dies of AIDS at 67
6th - Haskell "Cool Papa" Sadler, blues singer/guitarist, dies at 59
6th - Helen Lessore, artist, dies at 86
6th - Montague Modlyn, broadcaster, dies at 72
6th - Moses Rosen, Romania's chief rabbi, dies at 81
7th - Clement Greenberg, US art critic (Art & Culture), dies at 85
7th - Margaret Skeete, oldest American, dies at 115
8th - Cobina W "Coby" Molenaar, peace activist, dies at 88
8th - George Peppard, actor (Breakfast at Tiffanys, A-Team), dies at 65
8th - Rupert Haselden, journalist/screenwriter, dies at 36
8th - Steven Keats, actor (Death Wish), dies of apparent suicide at 48
9th - Elias Motsoaledi, South African freedom fighter (b. 1924)
10th - John Wayne Gacy, mass murderer, executed in Illinois at 52
10th - Lucebert [J Swaanswijk], poet/cartoonist (PC Hooft 1967), dies at 69
10th - Phyllis Flowerdew, school Reading text author, dies at 81
11th - Alfred James Broomhall, methodist Missionary, dies at 82
11th - Danny Overbea, blues singer/guitarist, dies at 68
11th - Leonard Friedman, violinist, dies at 63
11th - Lewis B Puller, US writer (Pulitzer 1992), commits suicide at 48
11th - Timothy Carey, dies of stroke at 64
12th - Alfred Lane Beit, connoisseur, dies at 91
12th - David Brooks, psychologist, dies at 91
12th - Helen Lee Mai, Hong Kong actress, dies at 63
12th - John Smith, British Labour Party chairman (1992-94), dies at 55
12th - Xenophon Balaskas, cricketer (9 Tests for S Africa, 22 wkts), dies
13th - Arthur Basil Cotle, medievalist, dies at 77
13th - Duncan Hamilton, driver, dies at 74
13th - Ruth Gillette, actress (Wild Gold), dies of cancer at 88
14th - Leonard Teale, Australian actor/reciter (Homicide), dies
15th - Frederik baron van Pallandt, Danish singer (Nina & F), murdered at 61
15th - Gilbert Roland, Mexican/US actor (Armand in Camille), dies at 88
15th - Ronnie Potsdammer, singer/song/text writer/programmer, dies at 71
15th - Royal Dano, actor (Ghoulies 2), dies of a heart attack at 71
15th - [Henry] John Baker, resistance fighter/journalist (Slogan), dies at 79
16th - Alain Cuny, actor (Lovers, Emanuelle, Camille Claudel), dies
16th - Barbara Jean Jones, fictional character on General Hospital, dies at 7
16th - Phani Majumdar, film director, dies at 82
16th - Vasek Simek, Czech/US actor (Green Card, Mistress), dies at 66
17th - Alain Cuny, [René X Marie], French actor (La Dolce Vita), dies at 85
17th - Andrew Brown, film Producer, dies at 55
17th - Donald Keith Falkner, singer, dies at 94
17th - Willian Noel Moffat, architect, dies at 82
19th - Henry Morgan, TV panalist (To Tell the Truth), dies of cancer at 74
19th - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, 1st lady (1961-63), dies of cancer at 64
19th - Jacques Cesar Ellul, writer, dies at 82
19th - Luis Ocana, Span cyclist (Tour de France 1973), commits suicide at 48
20th - Dallas Pratt, collector, dies at 79
20th - Ronald Russell, actor/manager (We Are Angels), dies at 83
20th - Vivien John, artist, dies at 79
21st - Cliff Wilson, snooker player, dies at 60
21st - Forsyth Hardy, documentary film pioneer, dies at 84
21st - Giovanni Goria, PM of Italy (1987-88), dies
21st - John Henry Weidner, Dutch/US resistance fighter, dies at 81
21st - John Weidner, war hero, dies at 71
22nd - Frederick Hemming McClintock, criminologist, dies at 68
22nd - Mitacq, [Michel Tacq], Belg comic strip artist (Beaver Patrol), dies
23rd - Carl Althoff, German circus director, dies at 82
23rd - Joe Pass, US jazz guitarist (The Trio), dies at 65
23rd - Ray Candy, American professional wrestler (b. 1951)
24th - Jean-Pierre E Plooij, Dutch writer (Bird House), dies at 48
24th - John Barrington Wain, author, dies at 69
24th - Sandor Lakatos, Hungarian violist/orchestra leader, dies at 69
24th - Yehuda Mor-Mirkovsky, Israeli kibbutz-founder, dies at 96
25th - Eric Gale, guitarist, dies at 55
26th - George Wildman Ball, under minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 84
26th - Sonny Sharrock, US free-jazz guitarist, dies at 53
26th - Warren Harding "Sonny" Sharrock, jazz Guitarist, dies at 53
27th - Norman Cook, British museum curator, dies at 87
27th - Red Rodney, [Albino Red/The Red Arrow], bebop-trumpeter, dies at 66
27th - Theo Swagemakers, portrait painter, dies at 95
28th - Julius Boros, pro golfer (US Open 1952), dies of heart attack at 74
28th - Rita Gillespie, tV Director, dies at 65
29th - Erich Honecker, president of German DR (1971-89), dies in Chile at 81
29th - Ezra Taft Benson, min of Agr/leader of mormon (1985-94), dies at 94
29th - Harry Levin, literary Scholar, dies at 81
29th - Jose Bohr, actor (El Traidor, Sueno de Amor), dies at 92
29th - Joseph Janni, producer, dies at 78
29th - Oliver "Bops Junior" Jackson, drummer, dies at 61
30th - Baron Marcel Bich, inventor (Bic Pen), dies at 79
30th - Ezra Taft Benson, 13th head of Mormon Church, dies at 94
30th - Jean Gattegno, translator/scholar, dies at 58
30th - Juan Carlos Onetti, Uruguayan writer (La vida breve), dies at 85
30th - Marcel Bich, Italian/French baron/pen manufacturer (Bic), dies at 79
30th - Agostino Di Bartolomei, Italian footballer (b. 1955)
31st - Doug Freeman, cricketer (2 Tests of leg-spin for NZ 1933), dies
31st - Emmanuel "Manny" Klein, trumpeter, dies at 86
31st - Herva Nelli, soprano, dies at 85
31st - Sidney Gilliat, British screenwriter/director, dies at 86