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Historical Events

Results 101 - 200 of 1,007

Feb 6th - NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 17-3
Feb 7th - 21st American Music Award: Whitney Houston wins
Feb 7th - Howard Stern stops a would-be jumper on the George Washington Bridge
Feb 7th - Jim Nabors undergoes a liver transplant
Feb 8th - Jack Nicholson uses a golf club to attack a car
Feb 8th - Kapil Dev sets world record for Test Cricket wickets with 432
Feb 8th - Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee charge with possession of loaded firearm
Feb 9th - Israeli minister Shimon Perez signs accord with PLO's Arafat
Feb 11th - Lu Parker, (South Carolina), crowned 43rd Miss USA
Feb 11th - Space shuttle STS-60 (Discovery 18), lands
Feb 12th - 17th Winter Olympic games opens in Lillehammer, Norway
Feb 12th - 20th century premiere of 6 restored Haydn-sonatas in Boston
Feb 12th - Edvard Munch's painting "The Scream" stolen (in Oslo)
Feb 12th - Inna Lassovskaya jumps world record 14.90m
Feb 12th - Model Anna Nicole Smith hospitalized for drug overdose
Feb 13th - 44th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 127-118 at Minneapolis
Feb 13th - Inna Lassovskaya jumps world record 14.9m
Feb 13th - Johann Olav Koss skates world record 5000m 6:34,96
Feb 13th - Ship disaster near Ranong Thailand, kills 200
Feb 14th - Alexander Golubev skates Olympic record 500m (36.33)
Feb 14th - Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia (51) weds Deborah Koons
Feb 14th - Andrei Chikatilo, a Russian serial killer is executed by shooting.
Feb 15th - US asks Aristide to adopt a peace plan from Haiti
Feb 16th - 6.5 earthquake strikes SE Sumatra, kills 200
Feb 16th - Johann Olav Koss skates world record 1500m (1:51.29)
Feb 16th - Premier Alfonso Bustamente ends govt in Peru
Feb 18th - Actor Joe Pantoliano (41) weds model Nancy Sheppard (31)
Feb 18th - Dan Jansen skates world record 1000m (1:12.43)
Feb 18th - Shreveport Pirates join CFL as 4th US team
Feb 19th - Marta Figueras-Dotti wins Cup o' Noodles Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open
Feb 20th - 3 Afghans take 70 Pakistani children hostage
Feb 20th - Johann Olav Koss skates world record 10 km (13:30.55)
Feb 20th - Pope John Paul II demands juristic discrimination of homosexuals
Feb 22nd - "Les Miserables," opens at Chunichi Theatre, Nagoya
Feb 23rd - Indians owner Richard Jacobs announces he will pay $10 million to name baseball field (Jacobs Field) at Gateway (becomes official 3/23)
Feb 24th - Scoreboard is unveiled at new Cleve Indians' park (Jacobs Field)
Feb 25th - Israeli extremist Baruch Goldstein massacres 30 Palestinians in Hebron
Feb 25th - Peruvian Yak-40 crashes into mountain near Tingo Maria, kills 31
Feb 25th - Phil Rizzuto elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
Feb 26th - Actor Dolph Lundgren (34) weds Anette Qviberg in Stockholm
Feb 26th - St Louis Blues beat Ottawa Senators 11-1
Feb 27th - 17th Winter Olympic games closes in Lillehammer, Norway
Feb 27th - Maronite church near Beirut bombed, 10 killed
Feb 28th - 100 agents raid Branch Davidian compound at Waco Texas
Feb 28th - Brady Law, imposing a wait-period to buy a hand-gun, went into effect
Mar 1st - 36th Grammy Awards: I Will Always Love You, Toni Braxton wins
Mar 1st - Martti Ahtisaari inaugurated as president of Finland
Mar 1st - Senate rejectes a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution
Mar 2nd - Miami begins a latin walk of fame, 1st star for Gloria Estefan
Mar 2nd - William Natcher, (Rep-D-Ky), casts his 18,401 & last consecutive vote
Mar 2nd - Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh promises to surrender if taped statement is broadcasted, it is, but he doesn't
Mar 3rd - "Damn Yankees" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 510 performances
Mar 3rd - "Philoktetes Variations," with Ron Vawter, premieres in Brussels
Mar 3rd - IRS investigates Darryl Strawberry
Mar 4th - 4 Arab terrorist founded guilty of bombing the World Trade Center
Mar 4th - Space shuttle STS-62 (Columbia 16), launches into orbit
Mar 5th - Dottie Mochrie wins Chrysler-Plymouth Tournament of Golf Championship
Mar 5th - Largest milkshake (1,955 gallons of chocolate-Nelspruit S Africa)
Mar 5th - PBA National Championship won by David Traber
Mar 5th - Singer Grace Slick arrested for pointing a gun at a cop
Mar 6th - Colin Jackson runs world record 60m hurdles indoor (7.30 sec)
Mar 6th - United Arab Emirates beat Kenya by 2 wickets to win ICC Trophy
Mar 6th - Referendum in Moldova results in the electorate voting against possible reunification with Romania.
Mar 7th - 8th American Comedy Award: Carrot Top wins
Mar 7th - Charles Taylor resigns as pres of Liberia
Mar 7th - David Platt appointed captain of English football team
Mar 7th - US Navy issues 1st permanent order assigning women on combat ship
Mar 7th - ANC chief Nelson Mandela rejects demand by white right-wingers for separate homeland in South Africa
Mar 7th - The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc.that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of fair use.
Mar 8th - 20th People's Choice Awards
Mar 8th - B737 collides with Ilyushin-86 in New Dehli, at least 8 killed
Mar 8th - Defense Department announces smoking ban in workplaces
Mar 8th - Train accident at Pinetown, Natal kills 47
Mar 9th - IRA launch 1st of 3 mortar attacks on London's Heathrow Airport
Mar 10th - 1 million Greeks attend Melina Mercouri's funeral
Mar 11th - Eduardo Frei succeeds Patricio Aylwin as president of Chile
Mar 12th - Church of England ordains 1st 33 women priests
Mar 13th - 33.3% of Austria votes for ultra-right Freedom Party
Mar 13th - Cuba Godding Jr (26) weds Sara Kapfer (26)
Mar 13th - Donna Andrews wins LPGA Ping Welch's Golf Championship
Mar 13th - Oil tank/airship crash at Bosporus (huge fire/15+ killed)
Mar 13th - President Mangope of Bophuthaswana deposed
Mar 14th - Mexican banker/billionaire Alfredo Harp Helu kidnapped
Mar 14th - Soyuz TM-21 launches with V Dezyurov, G Strekalov & N Thagard
Mar 14th - Timeline of Linux development: Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released.
Mar 15th - 8th Soul Train Music Awards: Toni Braxton, Whitney Houston win
Mar 15th - Experts from AL certify Indian's Jacobs Field is properly lit
Mar 16th - Moravcik forms Slovakia government
Mar 16th - Tonya Harding pleads guilty to felony attack on Nancy Kerrigan
Mar 17th - "Little More Magic" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 30 performances
Mar 17th - Iran transport aircraft crashes in Azerbaijan (32 killed)
Mar 17th - It is announced there is no smoking in Cleve Indians new ballpark
Mar 18th - South Africa Goldstone committee reveals existence of secret police
Mar 18th - Space shuttle STS-62 (Columbia 16), lands
Mar 18th - Zsa Zsa Gabor files for bankruptcy
Mar 19th - 2500 kilograms of cocaine intercepted in Zeewolde Neth
Mar 19th - Lara scores 167 for WI v England at Georgetown
Mar 19th - Largest omelet (1,383sq ft) made with 160,000 eggs in Yokohama Japan
Mar 19th - NJ Devils club record 41st win of the season
Mar 20th - "Cyrano - The Musical" closes at Neil Simon NYC after 137 perfs

Famous Birthdays

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Famous Deaths

Results 101 - 200 of 1,097

Feb 4th - Han Jansen, Dutch painter, dies at 62
Feb 4th - Harold Schneider, US producer (5 Easy Pieces, War Games), dies at 55
Feb 4th - Jan Veldkamp, Dutch geophysicist/director (KNMI), dies at 84
Feb 4th - Justinus Darmojuwono, Indonesian archbishop/cardinal, dies at 79
Feb 5th - Fred de Bruyne, Flemish cyclist/gang leader (Paris-Nice), dies at 63
Feb 5th - Hermann Abs, German banker to Hitler & Adenauer, dies at 92
Feb 5th - Kenneth "Buddy" Scott, blues guitarist/Singer, dies at 59
Feb 6th - Ignace Strasfogel, Polish/US pianist/conductor/composer, dies at 84
Feb 6th - Jack Kirby, cartoonist (X-Men, Spiderman, Hulk), dies at 76
Feb 6th - Joseph Cotten, actor (Citizen Kane), dies at 88
Feb 6th - Norman Del Mar, conductor/writer (Conducting Brahms), dies at 74
Feb 7th - Maarten Vrolijk, Dutch soc-dem minister (CRM 1965-66), dies at 74
Feb 7th - Richard Bissell, US under director of CIA (Pig's Bay), dies at 84
Feb 7th - Witold Lutosławski, Polish composer (b. 1913)
Feb 8th - Jacob Firet, Dutch theologist (Agogic Moment), dies at 70
Feb 8th - Ken Hall, Australian director/producer (Kokoda front line), dies at 92
Feb 8th - Raymond Scott, composer (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm), dies at 85
Feb 9th - Arnold Smith, Brit 1st sec-gen of Commonwealth (1965-75), dies at 79
Feb 9th - Jarmila Novotna, Czech/US soprano (Madame Butterfly), dies at 86
Feb 9th - Louis Kaufman, US violinist/conductor (Gone with the Wind), dies at 88
Feb 9th - Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (b. 1934)
Feb 11th - Antonio Martin, Spanish cyclist, dies in cycling accident at 23
Feb 11th - Sorrell Brooke, actor (Mayor Hogg-Dukes of Hazzard), dies at 64
Feb 11th - William Conrad, actor (Cannon), dies of a heart attack at 73
Feb 12th - Donald Judd, US furniture maker/architect/artist, dies at 65
Feb 12th - Sue Rodriguez, Canadian assisted suicide advocate (b. 1950)
Feb 13th - Jack Kirby, cartoonist (Marvel Comics), dies at 76
Feb 13th - Michael Francis Morris Lindsay, orientalist, dies at 84
Feb 13th - Theo Bitter, Dutch painter/set designer, dies at 79
Feb 14th - Christopher Lasch, author (Culture of Narcissism), dies at 61
Feb 14th - Gary "BB" Coleman, blues vocal/guitarist/producer, dies at 47
Feb 15th - Andrei Tsjikatilo, [Rostov Ripper], Russian mass murdered, executed
Feb 15th - Tiger Haynes, US actor (Moscow on the Hudson, Cosby Show), dies at 79
Feb 17th - Randy Shilts, US journalist (& the band played on), dies of AIDs at 41
Feb 18th - Peter Caddy, founder of the Findhorn Community, dies at 76
Feb 19th - Derek Jarman, actor/director (Tempest), dies of AIDS at 52
Feb 19th - Georges Watin, Algerian/French officer (OAS), dies at 71
Feb 19th - Renske Vellinga, Dutch speed-skater, dies in auto-accident at 19
Feb 20th - Derek Jarman, English director (Last of England), dies at 52
Feb 20th - Manuel F "Garincha" dos Santos, soccer player (Brazil), dies at 49
Feb 21st - Frederick Edward Nicklin, architect, dies at 68
Feb 21st - William Elgin Swinton, child Psychiatrist, dies at 54
Feb 22nd - "Papa" John Creach, US jazz musician (Papa Blues), dies at 76
Feb 23rd - Stuart Berger, doctor (Immune Power Diet), dies from obesity at 40
Feb 24th - Dinah Shore, singer (Chevrolet), dies of cancer at 76
Feb 24th - Donald Phillips, pianist/composer, dies at 80
Feb 24th - Jean Sablon, crooner, dies at 87
Feb 24th - Knut Anders Haukfield, SOE Operative, dies at 83
Feb 24th - Lores Bonney, aviator, dies at 96
Feb 25th - Baruch Goldstein, physician/murderer (53 in mosque), lynched at 42
Feb 25th - Hugh Tayfield, cricketer (170 wickets for S Afr in 37 Tests), dies
Feb 25th - Jersey Joe Walcott, boxer, dies at 80
Feb 25th - Wladyslaw Sila Lawyer Adviser to Solidarity-Nowicki, dies at 80
Feb 25th - Yann Piat, French MP (FN/PR), murdered at 44
Feb 26th - Avery Fisher, US audio manufacturer (1st hi-fi), dies at 87
Feb 26th - Leopold "Hans" Kohr, Austrian social philosopher, dies at 84
Feb 26th - William "Bill" M Hicks, comedian, dies at 32
Feb 27th - Harold Acton, English/Italian historian/art collector, dies at 84
Feb 27th - Karl I Pelgrom, Dutch sculptor, dies at 66
Feb 27th - Laurence "Bill" Craigie, jet pioneer, dies at 92
Feb 27th - Leopold "Hans" Kohr, Austria social philosopher/economist, dies at 84
Feb 28th - Aisin Giorro Pu Chieh, brother of Last Emperor of China, dies at 86
Feb 28th - Buster Holmes, chef/restaurateur, dies at 88
Feb 28th - Elbert "Skippy" Williams, tenor Sax player, dies at 77
Feb 28th - George Osborne Sayles, historian, dies at 92
Feb 28th - Leopoldina Poldi Feichtegger Gerhard, dies at 90
Feb 28th - Pu Yi, brother of last Chinese emperor, Pu Yi, dies at 87
Mar 1st - Eliseo Diego, Cuban poet, dies at 74
Mar 1st - Jacob "Jimmy" Herman Huizinga, journalist/writer, dies at 75
Mar 1st - Manmohan Desai, filmmaker, dies at 57
Mar 1st - Timothy Andrew James Souster, composer Musician, dies at 51
Mar 1st - Walter Kent, US composer (I'll Be Home for Christmas), dies at 82
Mar 2nd - Donald McKenzie MacKinnon, philosopher, dies at 80
Mar 2nd - Tengiz Abuladze, filmmaker, dies at 70
Mar 3rd - Anita Morris, actress (Nine), dies of cancer at 50
Mar 3rd - Bob Crisp, cricketer (9 Tests for S Afr, 20 wickets at 37 35), dies
Mar 3rd - Karel Kryl, folk singer, dies at 49
Mar 4th - Guus Verstraete Sr, Dutch actor/dir (2 Drops of Water), dies at 79
Mar 4th - John Candy, actor (SCTV, Uncle Buck), dies from a heart attack at 43
Mar 5th - Abdullah Al-Sallal, pres of Yemen (1962-67), dies
Mar 5th - Joe Daley, jazz tenor/clarinet/flute player, dies at 75
Mar 5th - Paul Vincze, medallist, dies at 86
Mar 6th - Leighton Noble, singer/Bandleader, dies at 81
Mar 6th - Max Schubert, winemaker, dies at 89
Mar 6th - Melina Mercouri, Greek actress (Never on a Sunday), dies at about 68
Mar 6th - Moses Rascoe, blues singer, dies at 77
Mar 6th - Tengis Abuladze, Georgia SSR MP (Penalty), dies at 71
Mar 8th - John Ewart, Sydney Australia, dies of cancer at 55
Mar 8th - Joop C Swart, publisher/founder (World Press Photo), dies at 69
Mar 8th - Knut Haukelid, Norway/US resistance fighter (Rjukan 1943), dies at 82
Mar 9th - Charles Bukowski, author/poet, dies of leukemia at 73
Mar 9th - Fernando Rey, Spanish actor (French Connection), dies of cancer at 76
Mar 9th - John Harrison, South African correspondent (BBC), dies at 48
Mar 9th - Lawrence E Spivak, journalist (Meet the Press), dies at 93
Mar 9th - Louis Freeman, band leader, dies at 100
Mar 9th - Maurice "Moe" Purtill, jazz drummer, dies at 77
Mar 9th - Eddie Creatchman, Canadian wrestler manager (b. 1928)
Mar 10th - Cecil Rolph Hewitt, journalist/policeman, dies at 92
Mar 10th - Charles Bukowski, German/US writer (Barfly, Hollywood), dies at 73
Mar 10th - Robert Shea, author, dies of cancer