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Historical Events

Results 201 - 300 of 426

1948 - Britain nationalizes its railways
1948 - General Agreement on Tariffs & Trade effective
1948 - Italy adopts constitution
1948 - Orissa province accedes to India
1948 - British railways are nationalised to form British Rail.
1948 - After partition, India declines to pay the agreed share of Rs.550 million in cash balances to Pakistan.
1948 - The Constitution of Italy comes into force.
1949 - KPRC TV channel 2 in Houston, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
1949 - KTTV TV channel 11 in Los Angeles, CA (MET) begins broadcasting
1949 - Tokelau (Union) Islands declared part of New Zealand
1950 - Dutch Govt raises all wages 5%, minimally fl. 5 per week
1950 - Ho Chi Minh begins offensive against French troops in Indo China
1950 - The state of Ajaigarh is ceded to the Government of India.
1951 - Massive Chinese/North Korean assault on UN-lines
1952 - Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 5th string quartet
1953 - Ernest Blochs "Suite Hebraique," premieres
1953 - WBRE TV channel 28 in Wilkes-Barre Scranton, PA (NBC) 1st broadcast
1954 - KSLA TV channel 12 in Shreveport, LA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 - Rose & Cotton Bowl are 1st sport colorcasts
1954 - WWTV TV channel 9 in Cadillac-Traverse City, MI (CBS) 1st broadcast
1954 - Yugoslav parliament chairman/VP Milovan Djilas criticize communism
1955 - Bhutan issues its 1st postage stamps
1955 - WEAT (now WPEC) TV channel 12 in West Palm Beach, FL (CBS) begins
1956 - Elvis Presley records Heartbreak Hotel for RCA in Nashville
1956 - KHAS TV channel 5 in Hastings, NB (NBC) begins broadcasting
1956 - KOSA TV channel 7 in Odessa, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
1956 - Sudan (Anglo-Egyptian Sudan) declares independence from Egypt & UK
1956 - WREC (now WREG) TV channel 3 in Memphis, TN (CBS) begins broadcasting
1956 - A new year event causes panic and stampedes at Yahiko Shrine, Yahiko, central Niigata, Japan, killing at least 124 people.
1957 - Benjamin Britten's ballet "Prince & the Pauper," premieres in London
1957 - France returns Saar to becomes the 10th state of German Federal Rep
1957 - International Geophysical Year begins; ends 6/30/1958 (18-mo year)
1957 - George Town, Penang becomes a city by a royal charter granted by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
1957 - An Irish Republican Army (IRA) unit attacks Brookeborough RUC barracks in one of the most famous incidents of the IRA's Operation Harvest.
1958 - BOAC Britannia flies London to NY in a record 7h57m
1958 - European Economic Community (Common Market) starts operation
1958 - Sammy Davis Jr marries Loray White
1958 - Treaties establish European Economic Community (Common Market)
1958 - WMBD TV channel 31 in Peoria, IL (CBS) begins broadcasting
1959 - Castro leads Cuba to victory as Fulgencio Batista flees to Dom Rep
1959 - Chad becomes autonomous republic in French Community
1959 - Rohan Kanhai completes 256 v India at Calcutta
1960 - Bank of France issues new franc, worth 100 times the value of existing francs
1960 - Cameroon (French Cameroon) gains independence from France
1960 - Johnny Cash plays 1st of many free concerts behind bars
1960 - Montserrat adopts constitution
1961 - Briggs Stadium is renamed Tigers Stadium
1961 - Houston Oilers beat LA Chargers 24-16 in AFL championship game
1961 - Largest check issued, Natl Bank of Chicago to Sears ($960.242 billion)
1961 - Russia introduces a new ruble worth $1.11
1962 - Beatles' Decca audition is unsuccessful
1962 - Rwanda granted internal self-government by Belgium
1962 - Western Samoa gains independence from New Zealand Susuga Malietoa Tanumafili II becomes co-chief of Western Samoa
1962 - United States Navy SEALs established.
1963 - G Woods succeeds Eugene Black as president of the World Bank
1963 - WTEV (now WLNE) TV channel 6 in Providence RI begins broadcasting
1964 - Federation of Rhodesia & Nyasaland dissolved
1964 - KNMT TV channel 12 in Walker, MN (CBS) begins broadcasting
1964 - KTVS TV channel 3 in Sterling, CO (CBS) begins broadcasting
1965 - International Cooperation Year begins
1965 - Palestinian al-Fatah organization forms
1965 - The People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan is founded in Kabul.
1966 - 12 day transit worker strike shuts down NYC subway
1966 - Milt coup by Col Jean-Bédell Bokassa in Central African Republic
1966 - Simon & Garfunkel's "Sounds of Silence" reaches #1
1966 - All US cigarette packs have to carry "Caution Cigarette smoking may be hazardous to your health"
1967 - CRU becomes the CAFA & turns over the Grey Cup trophy to the CFL
1967 - Day's play in the Calcutta Test v W Indies cancelled by riots
1967 - FCC requires AM-FM sister stations to be at least 50% different
1967 - Green Bay Packers beat Dallas Cowboys 34-27 in NFL championship game
1967 - KC Chiefs beat Buffalo Bills 31-7 in AFL championship game
1967 - St Helena adopts constitution
1967 - Tonga revises constitution
1967 - WABW TV channel 14 in Pelham, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 - ABC radio splits into 4 networks (Info, Entertainment, Contemp & FM)
1968 - Evel Knievel fails in his attempt to jump Caesar's Palace Fountain
1968 - Netherlands gets color TV
1968 - WDCO TV channel 15 in Cochran, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1969 - Jack Kent Cooke, owner of NHL's LA Kings, fines each player $100 for "NOT" arguing with the referee
1970 - "The Epoch" (Time 0 for UNIX systems, Midnight GMT)
1970 - Afro-American Historical Calendar Series Established
1970 - Charles "Chub" Feeney becomes president of baseball's National League
1970 - Neth Christian Workers Union (NCW) forms
1970 - Revised calendar for Western (RC) Church goes into effect
1971 - Cigarette advertisements banned on TV
1972 - "Company" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 690 performances
1972 - "On the Town" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 65 performances
1972 - "Promises Promises" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 1281 perfs
1972 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1972 - International Book Year begins
1972 - KDSD TV channel 16 in Aberdeen, SD (PBS) begins broadcasting
1973 - 47th Australian Women's Tennis: Margaret Court beats Goolagong (64 75)
1973 - Britain, Ireland & Denmark become 7th-9th members of Common Market
1973 - West African Economic Community formed (Benin, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Upper Volta)
1974 - Lee MacPhail takes over as AL president, succeeding Joe Cronin
1974 - NBC radio begins on the hour news 24 hours a day (following CBS lead)
1974 - World Population Year begins
1975 - Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell & Mardian convicted of Watergate crime
1975 - International Women's Year begins
1975 - Sweden adopts constitution

Famous Birthdays

Results 201 - 300 of 359

1935 - Valentin Nikolaevich N Benderov, Russia, cosmonaut
1935 - B. Kliban, American cartoonist (d. 1990)
1936 - Eve Queler, NYC, conductor
1936 - Willye B White, US jumper (Olympics-silver-1956)
1936 - James Sinegal, American businessman
1937 - Adam Wiśniewski-Snerg, Polish author (d. 1995)
1938 - Bill Emerson, (Rep-R-MO, 1981- )
1938 - Robert Jankel, British coachbuilder (d. 2005)
1939 - Michèle Mercier, French actress
1940 - Frank Langella, Bayonne NJ, actor (Dracula, Diary of a Mad Housewife)
1940 - Jack Kiefer, Columbia PA, PGA golfer (1994 Ralphs Senior Classic)
1940 - Laszlo Sary, composer
1940 - Richard Henry Orton, composer
1942 - Country Joe McDonald, Calif, rock guitarist/vocalist (& the Fish)
1942 - Don Novello, [Father Guido Sarducci], Ashtabula Oh, comedian (SNL)
1942 - Gennadi Vassilyevich Sarafanov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 15)
1942 - George Couroupos, composer
1942 - Martin Frost, (Rep-D-TX, 1971- )
1942 - Alassane Ouattara, Former Prime Minister of Ivory Coast
1942 - Judy Stone, Australian pop singer
1943 - Jerilyn Britz, Minneapolis MN, LPGA golfer (1979 US Women's Open)
1943 - Raghunath Anant Mashelkar, Indian scientist
1943 - Tony Knowles, 9th Governor of Alaska
1943 - Don Novello, American actor
1944 - Charlie Davis, cricketer (WI batsman in 15 Tests 1968-73)
1944 - Jimmy Hart, American wrestling manager
1944 - Zafarullah Khan Jamali, Pakistani politician
1945 - Jacques Ickx, Belgium, Le Mans auto race (6-time winner)
1945 - Peter Duncan, Australian politician
1946 - Manfred Stengl, Austria, 2 man lugist (Olympic-gold-1960)
1946 - Carl B. Hamilton, Swedish economist and politician
1946 - Rivelino, Brazilian football player
1947 - Alexei Ivanovich Bobrov, Russia, cosmonaut
1947 - Gary "BB" Coleman, blues vocal/guitarist/producer
1947 - Peter Lankhorst, Dutch MP (PPR)
1947 - Vladimir Georgiyevich Titov, Rus cosmonaut (Soyuz T-8, TM-4, STS 63)
1947 - Jon Corzine, American politician
1947 - Paula Tsui, Hong Kong singer
1948 - Pavel Grachev, Russian general
1949 - Nikolai Tikhonovich Moskalenko, Russia, cosmonaut
1949 - Peter Dormer, arts writer
1949 - Daniel E Gawthrop, American composer
1950 - Morgan Fisher, rock keyboardist (British Lions)
1950 - Svetlana Georgievna Beregovkina, Russia, cosmonaut
1950 - Yevgeni Vladimirovich Saley, cosmonaut
1951 - Frans Kellendonk, author (Ruin, The Good for Nothing)
1951 - Jaco Pastorius, rocker
1951 - Ashfaq Hussain, Urdu poet
1951 - Nana Patekar, Indian film and stage actor
1951 - Hans-Joachim Stuck, German race car driver
1953 - Alpha Blondy, [Seydou Kone], Ivory coast, reggae singer (Jerusalem)
1953 - Kevin Hangon, composer
1953 - Rochelle S Abramson, violinist
1953 - Greg Carmichael, British guitarist (Acoustic Alchemy)
1954 - Fr David, Paris France, rocker
1954 - Bob Menendez, American politician
1955 - Michael James Sullivan, Gary IN, PGA golfer (1980 Southern Open)
1956 - Anatoli Borisovich Polonsky, Russia, lt-colonel/cosmonaut
1956 - Sergei Vasiliyevich Avdeyev, Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-15, SK:TM-28)
1956 - Mark R. Hughes, American entrepreneur (d. 2000)
1956 - Kôji Yakusho, Japanese actor
1957 - Ewa Kasprzyk, Polish actress
1957 - Evangelos Venizelos, Greek lawyer, professor and politician
1958 - Grandmaster Flash, [Joseph Saddler], NYC, rocker (Message)
1958 - Ren Woods, Portland Oregon, actress (Fanta-Roots)
1959 - Abdul Ahad Mohmand, Afghanistan, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-6)
1959 - Azali Assoumani, Comorian president
1960 - Michael David Morrison, actor (Caleb Snyder-As the World Turns)
1961 - Irv Eatman, NFL tackle (Houston Oilers)
1961 - Marcia Cross, actress (Melrose Place)
1961 - Fiona Phillips, British television presenter
1961 - Mark Wingett, British actor
1962 - Ravshanbek Aliyev, Kirgiz, cosmonaut
1962 - Ari Up, German musician (The Slits)
1963 - Glenn Trimble, cricketer (son of Sam Two ODI's for Australia 1986)
1963 - Lance Smith, NFL guard (NY Giants)
1963 - Lina Kačiušytė, Lithuanian swimmer
1964 - DeDee Pfeiffer, actress (Cybill)
1964 - Juliana Donald, American actress
1965 - Andrew O Valmon, Brooklyn NY, 400m runner
1965 - Harry Galbreath, NFL guard (Green Bay Packers)
1965 - Mark Dewey, US baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1966 - Mika Nieminen, Tampere FIN, hockey forward (Team Finland, Oly-br-1998)
1966 - Rawley Valberde, Oceanside Calif, actor (Amado-Santa Barbara)
1967 - Andy Heck, NFL tackle (Seattle Seahawk, Chicago Bears)
1967 - Derrick Thomas, NFL linebacker (KC Chiefs)
1967 - Juanma Bajo Ulloa, Spanish film director
1967 - John Digweed, English DJ
1967 - Tim Dog, American rapper
1968 - John de Visser, soccer player (SC Heerenveen)
1968 - Sandy Beasley, Richmond BC, softball outfielder (Olympics-96)
1968 - Davor Šuker, Croatian footballer
1968 - Miki Higashino, Japanese composer
1969 - Morris Chestnut, actor (Boyz N the Hood)
1969 - Reemt Pyka, Bremerhaven GER, hockey forward (Team Germany)
1969 - Sophie Okonedo, British actress
1969 - Christi Paul, American news anchor
1969 - Verne Troyer, American actor
1969 - Nicolle Dickson, Australian actress
1970 - Brian Morton, Wollongong Australia, canoeist (Olympics-96)

Famous Deaths

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