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Historical Events

Results 101 - 196 of 196

1948 - "Look Ma, I'm Dancin'" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 188 perfs
1948 - Lydda Airfield captured by Israeli army
1949 - 1st practical rectangular TV tube announced-Toledo, Oh
1949 - WJAR TV channel 10 in Providence, RI (NBC) begins broadcasting
1950 - "Your Hit Parade" premieres on NBC (later CBS) TV
1951 - 18th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 8-3 at Briggs Stadium, Detroit
1951 - Armistice talks to end Korean conflict began at Kaesong
1953 - 82nd British Golf Open: Ben Hogan shoots a 282 at Carnoustie Dai Rees
1953 - Pravda reports arrest of Beria [affiliate of imperialist]
1956 - 23rd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-3 at Griffith Stadium, Wash DC
1956 - 650,000 US steel workers go on strike
1956 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
1958 - 1st parking meter installed in England (625 installed)
1958 - Ex-king Norodom Sihanoek appointed premier of Cambodia
1960 - Belgium sends troops to Congo
1960 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Youngstown Kitchens (Trumball Golf Open)
1962 - 32nd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 3-1 at D.C. Stadium, Washington
1962 - All star MVP: Maury Wills (LA Dodgers)
1962 - Martin Luther King Jr arrested during demonstration in Georgia
1962 - Telstar, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, launched
1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1964 - Jesus Alou is 1st Giant in 40 years to get 6 hits in a game
1964 - Moise Tsjombe becomes premier of Congo
1965 - Beatles' "Beatles' "VI," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 6 weeks
1965 - Rolling Stones score their 1st #1, "I Can't Get No Satisfaction"
1966 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Invitational
1966 - US launches Orbiter 1 to the Moon
1967 - Bobbie Gentry records "Ode to Billie Joe"
1967 - Uruguay becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1968 - NL announces break into 2 divisions for 1969
1969 - Chilean Association of Librarians created
1969 - NL votes to split into 2 divisions
1971 - 100th British Golf Open: Lee Trevino shoots a 278 at Royal Birkdale
1971 - Failed attempt on King Hassan II Shirat Morocco, 101 killed
1972 - Democratic convention opens in Miami Beach Florida (McGovern)
1972 - Herd of stampeding elephants kills 24, Chandka Forest India
1973 - Bahamas declares Independence from UK & adopts constitution
1974 - OPEC ends oil boycott against Netherlands
1974 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1975 - Cher files for divorce from Gregg Allman, 10 days after they married
1975 - Gladys Knight & Pips Summer Series premieres on NBC-TV
1975 - Test Cricket debut of Graham Gooch, v Australia, out for a pair
1976 - 105th British Golf Open: Johnny Miller shoots a 279 at Royal Birkdale
1976 - Chemical factory in Milan explodes (dioxane cloud)
1976 - The Seveso disaster occurs in Italy.
1976 - One American and three British mercenaries are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.
1977 - "Happy End" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 75 performances
1977 - Pat Bradley wins LPGA Bankers Trust Golf Classic
1978 - Bloodless military coup in Mauritania
1978 - Military coup in Mauritania, president Moktar flees
1978 - World News Tonight premieres on ABC.
1979 - Chuck Berry sentenced to 4 months for $200,000 in tax evasion
1980 - Ayatollah Khomeini releases Iran hostage Richard I Queen
1980 - Willie Jones hospitalized for heat stroke with record 46.5°C temp
1980 - Alexandra Palace burnt down for a second time.
1981 - CERN achieves 1st proton-antiproton beam collision (570 GeV)
1981 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1982 - Miguel Vasquez makes 1st public quadruple somersault on trapeze
1982 - Rangers Larry Parrish hits his 3rd grand slam of the week
1982 - Samuel Morses "Gallery of the Louvre" sells for $3,250,000
1982 - Zimbabwe beats Bermuda by 5 wickets to win ICC Trophy
1985 - Coca-Cola Co announces it will resume selling old formula Coke
1985 - French agents sink Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior in NZ
1985 - Playboy publishes full frontal nude pictures of Madonna
1988 - Terry-Jo Myers wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
1989 - Paula Ivan runs female world record 1 mile (4:15.61)
1990 - 61st All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 2-0 at Wrigley Field, Chicago
1990 - All star MVP: Julio Franco (Texas Rangers)
1990 - Andrew Dice Clay cries on Arsenio Hall Show
1990 - Last day of Test Cricket for Richard Hadlee
1991 - Boris Yeltsin sworn in as 1st elected president of Russian Rep
1991 - L'Express Airlines Beechcraft C-99 crashes in Alabama, killing 13
1992 - John Ellis becomes CEO of Seattle Mariners
1992 - Spaceship Giotto (Halley 1986) approaches comet Grigg-Skjellerup
1992 - SuriPop VII, Suriname Popular Song Festival
1992 - US Major Soccer League folds after 14 seasons
1993 - Melchior Ndadaye becomes 1st Hutu Burundi pres/Sylvie Kinigi, PM
1993 - Yobes Ondieki runs world record 10km (26:58.38)
1994 - "Hedda Gabler" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 33 performances
1994 - Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian weds Debbie Leavitt
1994 - Fred Norris (from the Howard Stern Show) marries Allison Furman
1994 - Kelly Robbins wins Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic by Owens-Corning
1994 - Nepal premier Girija Prasadkoirala resigns
1994 - Sonia O'Sullivan runs female world record 2K (5:25.36)
1997 - Hideki Irabu makes his debut as a NY Yankee, he beats Tigers 10-3
1997 - Louise Woodward's trial begins in Mass, Nanny murder trial
1997 - RJR Nabisco announces it will replace Joe Camel in new ads
1997 - Spain, Partido Popular member Miguel Ángel Blanco is kidnapped in the Basque city of Ermua by ETA members, sparking widespread protests.
1998 - Roman Catholic sex abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by former priest Rudolph Kos.
2000 - EADS, the world's second largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.
2000 - A leaking southern Nigerian petroleum pipeline explodes, killing about 250 villagers scavenging gasoline.
2002 - At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens' painting The Massacre of the Innocents is sold for £49.5million (US$76.2 million) to Kenneth, Lord Thomson.
2003 - A Neoplan bus, owned by Kowloon Motor Bus, collides with a truck, falls off a bridge on Tuen Mun Road, Hong Kong, and plunges into the underlying valley, killing 21 people. This is the deadliest traffic accident to date in Hong Kong.
2005 - Hurricane Dennis slams into the Florida Panhandle causing billions of dollars in damage.
2006 - Pakistan International Flight PK-688 crashes in Multan, Pakistan shortly after takeoff, killing all 45 people on board.
2008 - Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all charges by a UN Tribunal accusing him of war crimes.

Famous Birthdays

Results 101 - 200 of 239

1923 - Jean Kerr, Scranton Pa, novelist (Please Don't Eat the Daisies)
1923 - G. A. Kulkarni, Indian (Marathi) writer (d. 1987)
1923 - John Bradley, United States Navy corpsman, one of six who raised flag on top of Mt. Suribachi(see Iwo Jima) (d. 1994)
1924 - Bobo Brazil, American professional wrestler (d. 1998)
1924 - Johnny Bach, American basketball coach
1925 - Dorothea Hochletiner, Austria, giant slalom (Olympic-bronze-1956)
1926 - Carleton Carpenter, Bennington Vt, actor (Up Periscope, Summer Stock)
1926 - Fred Gwynne, NYC, actor (Car 54 Where Are You, Munsters)
1927 - David Norman Dinkins, (1st black Mayor-D-NYC, 1990-93)
1927 - Don Revie, English soccer coach (Leeds, National team)
1927 - William Smithers, Richmond Va, actor (Witness, Peyton Place, Attack!)
1927 - Grigory Barenblatt, Russian mathematician
1927 - Suzanne Cloutier, Canadian film actor (d. 2003)
1928 - Jack Nel, cricketer (South African opening bat in 6 Tests 1949-57)
1928 - Moshe Greenberg, American-Israeli Bible scholar
1928 - Alejandro de Tomaso, Argentine-Italian racing driver and car manufacturer (d. 2003)
1928 - Bernard Buffet, French painter (d. 1999)
1929 - Moe Norman, Kitchener Ont, Canadian Tour golfer (1966 Quebec Open)
1929 - Winnie Ewing, Scottish politician
1930 - Jacques Klein, Brazilian pianist
1931 - Alice Munro, author (Dance of the Happy Shades)
1931 - Del Insko, harness racer (toothpick in mouth, 1969 money leader)
1931 - Julian May, US, sci-fi author (Golden Torc, Magnificat)
1931 - Nick Adams, Nanticoke Pa, actor (Johnny Yuma-Rebel)
1932 - Jorgen Becker, writer
1932 - Carlo Mario Abate, Italian racing driver
1933 - Chuan-Kwang Yang, Taiwan, decathlete (Olympic-silver-1960)
1933 - Jerry Herman, Broadway composer (Hello Dolly)
1934 - Munir Malik, Pakistani cricket pace bowler (3 Tests 1959-62)
1934 - Jerry Nelson, American puppeteer
1935 - Tura Satana, American actress
1936 - Barbara B Kennelly, (Rep-D-Connecticut, 1982- )
1936 - Jan Wincenty Hawel, composer
1937 - Sandy Stewart, Phila Pa, singer (Sing Along With Mitch, Mr President)
1938 - Paul Andreu, French architect
1938 - Lee Morgan, American hard-bop trumpeter
1939 - Lawrence Pressman, Ky, actor (Man From Atlantis, Hellstrom Chronicle)
1939 - Ahmet Taner Kışlalı, Turkish politician, journalist, and educator (d. 1999)
1940 - Dawid J "Dawie" de Villiers, S African minister of energy (1989- )
1940 - Keith Stackpole, cricketer (aggressive Australian opener 1966-74)
1940 - Mills Watson, Oakland Calif, actor (Harper Valley PTA, BJ & Bear)
1940 - Helen Donath, American soprano
1940 - Tom Farmer, Scottish entrepreneur
1941 - Ian Whitcomb, England, rocker (You Turn Me On)
1941 - Pyotr Ilyich Klimuk, Poland, cosmonaut (Soyuz 13, 18B, 30)
1941 - Robert Pine, Scarsdale NY, actor (Joe Getraer-CHiPs)
1941 - David G. Hartwell, American editor and anthologist
1942 - Ronnie James Dio, American musician
1943 - Arthur Ashe, tennis pro (1968 US Open, 1975 Wimbledon)
1943 - Jerry Miller, Tacoma Wa, rock guitarist (Moby Grape)
1944 - Beaky, rocker
1945 - Ron Glass, Evansville IN, actor (Harris-Barney Miller, Frank's Place)
1945 - [Sarah] Virginia Wade, England, tennis star (Wimbledon 1977)
1945 - John Motson, British sports (football) commentator
1945 - Jean-Marie Poiré, French film director
1945 - Peter Michalica, Slovak violinist
1946 - Sue Lyon, Davenport Iowa, actress (Lolita, Night of the Iguana)
1947 - Arlo Guthrie, Bkln, singer (Alice's Restaurant, City of New Orleans)
1947 - Jeff Hanna, Detroit, country singer (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) [or 8/11]
1947 - John Trevor Key, photographer
1949 - Dave Smally, rocker (Raspberries)
1949 - Mark Shera, Bayonne NJ, actor (SWAT, Barnaby Jones)
1949 - Ronnie James Dio, rocker (Dio-Holy Diver, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath)
1949 - Sunil Gavaskar, Indian cricket player (opener, 10122 Test runs)
1949 - Wally Bryson, NC, rock guitarist/vocalist (Fotomaker, Raspberries)
1949 - Greg Kihn U.S. pop musician & radio personality.
1949 - John Whitehead, American singer and record producer
1950 - Willie Ford, US R&B-singer (Dramatics-Me & Mrs Jones)
1950 - Prokopis Pavlopoulos, Greek politician
1951 - Phyllis Smith, American actress
1951 - Cheryl Wheeler, American singer and songwriter
1952 - Ludmilla Tourischeva, Russian gymnast
1952 - Kim Mitchell, Canadian guitarist/singer
1952 - Peter van Heemst, Dutch politician
1953 - Rik "The Rocket" Emmett, Toronto, rock vocalist (Triumph)
1954 - Andre Dawson, Miami Fla, outfielder (Expos, Cubs, 1987 NL MVP)
1954 - Gene Holder, rocker
1954 - Neil Francis Tennant, rocker (Pet Shop Boys-Left to My Own Devices)
1955 - Pamela Theresa Jiles, NO LA, 4X400m relayer (Olympic-silver-1976)
1956 - Tom McClintock, American politician
1957 - Cindy Sheehan, American anti-war/political activist
1958 - Béla Fleck, American musician
1958 - Fiona Shaw, Irish actress
1960 - Roger Craig, NFL reciever (SF 49ers)
1961 - Jacky Cheung, Hong Kong singer and actor
1962 - Mike Saxon, NFL punter (Minn Vikings)
1964 - Felipe Martinez, jockey
1964 - Urban Meyer, American football coach
1964 - Wilfried Peeters, Belgian cyclist
1965 - Buddy Groom, Dallas TX, pitcher (Oakland A's)
1965 - Scott Michael McCarron, Sacramento CA, PGA golfer (1995 Las Vegas-3rd)
1965 - Alec Mapa, Filipino-American actor and comedian
1965 - Ken Mellons, American singer
1965 - Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark
1966 - Alvoid Mays, NFL cornerback (Pitts Steelers)
1966 - Johnny Grunge, wrestler (d. 2006)
1967 - Alfred Jackson, NFL cornerback (Minn Vikings)
1967 - Virgil Breedveld, soccer player (Dordrecht '90)
1967 - Tom Meents, American monster truck driver
1968 - Hassisba Boulmerka, Algeria, 1500m (Olympics-gold-92)

Famous Deaths

Results 101 - 109 of 109

2005 - Freda Wright-Sorce, American radio performer (b. 1955)
2005 - Freddy Soto, American comedian and actor (b. 1970)
2005 - Jimmy Franklin and Bobby Younkin, airshow performers
2006 - Shamil Basayev, Chechen rebel (b. 1965)
2007 - Abdul Rashid Ghazi, radical Pakistani cleric (b. 1951)
2007 - Doug Marlette, American cartoonist (b. 1949)
2007 - Zheng Xiaoyu, director of the State Food and Drug Administration of the People's Republic of China (b. 1944)
2008 - Hiroaki Aoki, founder of Benihana (b. 1938)
2008 - Mike Souchak, professional golfer (b. 1927)