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Historical Events

Results 101 - 181 of 181

1960 - 42nd PGA Championship: Jay Hebert shoots a 281 at Firestone CC Akron
1961 - Beginning of a trend, a US commercial plane is hijacked to Cuba
1961 - Edwin Newman becomes news anchor of Today Show
1961 - Roger Maris hits 4 home runs, in a doubleheader
1963 - 124 Unification church couples wed in Korea
1963 - Dutch govt of Marijnen forms
1964 - -27) race riot in Rochester, New York, 4 killed
1965 - "Flora, the Red Menace" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 87 perfs
1965 - Bob Dylan release "Like a Rolling Stone"
1965 - Casey Stengel resigns as manager of NY Mets
1965 - Rock group "Animals" 1st time on British charts
1966 - 48th PGA Championship: Al Geiberger shoots a 280 at Firestone CC Akron
1966 - Gloria Ehret/Judy Kimball wins LPGA Yankee Women's Golf Open
1967 - 49th PGA Championship: Don January shoots a 281 at Columbine CC Colo
1967 - Beatles sign a petition in Times to legalize marijuana
1967 - Charles de Gaulle says 'Vive le Quebec libre! Long live free Quebec!'
1967 - Chinese army/air force/fleet repress uprising in Wuhan City
1967 - Norway requests European Common Market membership
1967 - Race riots in Cambridge Maryland
1967 - Race riots in Detroit force postponement of Tigers-Orioles game
1968 - Hoyt Wilhelm's 907th breaks Cy Young's record for pitching appearances
1969 - Apollo 11 returns to Earth
1969 - Hoyt Wilhelm pitches in a record 907th major league game
1969 - Muhammad Ali is convicted for refusing induction in US Army on appeal
1970 - Intl Law Tennis Assn institutes 9 point tie break rule
1970 - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1971 - WUHQ TV channel 41 in Battle Creek, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting
1972 - Jigme Singye Wangchuk becomes king of Bhutan at 16
1972 - Bugojno group is caught by Yugoslav security forces.
1973 - 44th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-1 at Royals Stadium, KC
1973 - All star MVP: Bobby Bonds (SF Giants)
1974 - Supreme Court unanimously rules Nixon must turn over Watergate tapes
1975 - Apollo 18 returns to Earth
1976 - John Naber is 1st to swin 200m backstroke under 2 minutes
1977 - 32nd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Hollis Stacy
1977 - Pete Rose passes Frankie Frisch as switch-hit leader with 2,881
1977 - Seattle's John Montague pitches 6 2/3 innings of perfect relief tying 2 game record of retiring 33 consecutive batsmen
1978 - "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" premieres in NYC
1978 - Margaret Gardiner, of South Africa, crowned 27th Miss Universe
1978 - Pete Rose ties NL hitting streak of 37 games
1978 - Billy Martin resigns as Yankee manager after "one is a born liar the other a convicted one" comment about Steinbrenner & Jackson
1979 - Pres Carter names Paul Volcker, pres of Federal Reserves
1979 - Red Sox Carl Yastrzemski hits his 400th HR
1981 - Mohammed Ali Rajai elected president of Iran
1982 - "Best Little Whorehouse in Tx" closes at E O'Neill NYC after 63 perfs
1982 - KHJ (LA) & KFRC (SF) become 2nd & 3rd stereo AM stations
1982 - Heavy rain causes a mudslide that destroys a bridge at Nagasaki, Japan, killing 299.
1983 - "Mame" opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 41 performances
1983 - 21st Tennis Fed Cup: Czech beats Germany in Zurich Switz (2-1)
1983 - Lauren Howe wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
1983 - Laurent Fignon wins Tour de France
1983 - Pine Tar Game: Brett's HR disallowed against Yanks (overturned)
1983 - Sonya Robinson, (Milwaukee), 23, crowned 16th Miss Black America
1984 - Steve Ballesteros wins British Open
1985 - Gandhi signs peace contract with Sikh leader Harchand Singh Longowai
1986 - SF Federal jury convicts navy radioman Jerry Whitworth of espionage
1987 - IBM-PC DOS Version 3.3 (updated) released
1987 - USSR performs underground nuclear Test
1988 - 43rd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Liselotte Neumann
1988 - US & Jamacia play scoreless tie, in 2nd round of 1990 world soccer cup
1989 - Paula Gwynn, 22, crowned 21st Miss Black America
1990 - Ms. Magazine hits newstands again after an 8 month hiatus
1990 - US warships in Persian Gulf placed on alert after Iraq masses nearly 30,000 troops near its border with Kuwait
1991 - Ottawa Rough Riders Board of Directors resign
1991 - U of Manchester scientist announce finding a planet outside of solar system
1992 - Faye Vincent reinstates Yankee owner George Steinbrenner (eff 3/1/93)
1992 - Vickers Viscount crashes, 70 die
1993 - Actor Richard Moll (Night Court) weds Susan Brown
1993 - Met Vince Coleman injures 3 when he throws cherry bomb at Dodger fans
1993 - NY Met Anthony Young loses record 27th straight
1993 - Night Court actor Richard Moll (50) weds Susan Brown (32)
1994 - 32nd Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats USA in Frankfurt Germany (3-0)
1994 - 49th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Patty Sheehan
1994 - Asociación de Estados del Caribe (AEC) forms
1994 - Bodo kills 37 Moslems in Bashbari NE India
1994 - Miguel Indurain wins Tour de France
1998 - Russell Eugene Weston Jr. bursts into the United States Capitol and opens fire killing two police officers. He is later ruled to be incompetent to stand trial.
2001 - Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria when he was a child, is sworn in as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, becoming the first monarch in history to regain political power through democratic election to a different office.
2002 - James Traficant is expelled from the United States House of Representatives on a vote of 420 to 1.
2005 - Lance Armstrong retires after winning a record seventh consecutive Tour de France victory
2007 - Libya frees all six of the Medics in the HIV trial in Libya.

Famous Birthdays

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1929 - Alfred Binns, West Indian cricket wicketkeeper (1953-56)
1929 - Hedda J Garza, writer/political activist
1929 - Peter Yates, director (Breaking Away, Bullitt)
1930 - Boris Nikolayevich Belousov, cosmonaut
1930 - Charles Hambro, English banker/multi-millionaire/CEO (Hambros)
1930 - Jacqueline Brookes, Montclair NJ, actress (Jack & Mike, Another World)
1931 - Ermanno Olmi, Italian director
1931 - Éric Tabarly, French sailor (d. 1998)
1932 - William D Ruckelshaus, headed Environmental Protection Agency
1933 - John Aniston, Crete, actor (Search for Tomorrow, Day of our Lives)
1933 - Doug Sanders, American golfer
1934 - Jimmy Holiday, US singer (How Can I Forget)
1934 - Thomas Ambler, CEO (Texaco)
1934 - Willie Davis, NFL defensive end (Cleveland Browns, Green Bay)
1934 - Sante Kimes, American convicted con artist and murderess
1935 - George Varnals, South African cricket batsman (England 1964-65)
1935 - Les Reed, songwriter (Heroin)
1935 - Pat Oliphant, Australia, cartoonist (7 Pres: The Art of Oliphant)
1935 - Trevor Chinn, CEO (Lex)
1936 - Mark Goddard, Lowell Mass, actor (Don West-Lost in Space)
1936 - Ruth Buzzi, Westerly RI, comedienne (Laugh-In, Margie-That Girl)
1937 - Baroness Blatch, British minister of state for Education
1937 - Barry Lloyd Vercoe, composer
1937 - Quinlan Terry, architect
1938 - Colin Southgate, CEO (Thorn EMI)
1938 - John Sparling, NZ cricket all-rounder (11 Tests 1958-64)
1938 - Mike Mainieri, rocker
1938 - Eugene J. Martin, American painter, artist
1939 - Barry [Norman] Malzberg, sci-fi author (Revelations, Beyond Apollo)
1939 - Bob Lilly, NFL defensive tackle (Dallas Cowboys)
1939 - Walter Bellamy, New Bern NC, NBA center (Knicks/Olympic-gold-1960)
1940 - Carroll A Campbell Jr, (Rep-R-SC, 1979-86)
1940 - Stanley Hauerwas, American theologian
1940 - Dan Hedaya, American actor
1941 - Barbara Love, rocker
1942 - Chris Sarandon, WV, actor (Child's Play, Dog Day Afternoon, Lipstick)
1942 - Heinz Burt, Hargin Germany, rock bassist (Tornados)
1943 - Henk Vos, chemical analyst/Dutch politician (PvdA) 2nd Chamber
1943 - Jim McCarty, rocker (Yardbirds)
1943 - Lyudmila Bragina, USSR, 1500m runner (Olympic-gold-1972)
1944 - Barbara Thompson, jazz musician/composer/bandleader
1944 - Jim Armstrong, rock guitarist (Them)
1945 - Azim Premji, Indian businessman
1946 - William "Junior" Campbell, singer/guitarist (Marmalade)
1947 - Geoffrey McQueen, TV Writer
1947 - M Jacques Fouroux, rugby player
1947 - Michael Coveney, drama critic
1947 - Neil McIntosh, CEO (VSO, Center for British Teaching)
1947 - Peter Serkin, NYC, pianist (Tashi)
1947 - Robert Hays, Bethesda Md, actor (Airplane!, Starman, Scandalous)
1947 - Zaheer Abbas, cricketer (probably Pakistan's finest batsman ever)
1949 - Marjanne Sint, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1949 - Michael Richards, LA Calif, comedian (Fridays, Kramer-Seinfeld)
1950 - Dan Hedaya, actor (Cheers, Marvin's Room, Clueless)
1950 - Goutam Ghose, director (Patang, Voyage Beyond, Paar)
1950 - Sam Behrens, actor (Jake Meyer-General Hospital, Sunset Beach, LA Law)
1951 - Chris Smith, MP (Labour)
1951 - Lynda Carter, Phoenix Az, Miss USA (1973)/actress (Wonder Woman)
1952 - Vin Weber, (Rep-R-MN, 1981- )
1952 - Gus Van Sant, American film director
1953 - Jon Faddis, jazz trumpeter
1953 - Julian Brazier, MP
1953 - Steve Grogan, NFL QB (New England Patriots)
1953 - Claire McCaskill, American politician, junior senator from Missouri
1954 - Philippe Alliot, race driver (grand prix)
1955 - Lubov Odinokova, USSR, team handball (Olympic-gold-1976, 80)
1956 - Charles Crist, Governor of Florida
1957 - Dorothy Mays, Baltimore MD, playmate (Jul, 1979)
1957 - Pam Tillis, Plant City Fla, country singer (Melancholy Child)
1957 - Robbie Grey, rocker
1958 - Mick Karn, rocker
1958 - Pam Tills, Country music artist
1959 - Brian Fogt, Dayton OH, Nike golfer (1992 Ft Wayne Open-7th)
1959 - Edward Liddie, Union Ga, Judo fighter (Olympic-bronze-1984)
1961 - Kerry Dixon, English footballer
1962 - Kevin Butler, NFL kicker (Chic Bears)
1963 - Julie Krone, Benton Harbor Mich, jockey (1st female to win Belmont-93)
1963 - Karl Malone, Summeerfield LA, NBA forward (Utah, Oly-2 gold-92, 96)
1963 - Paul Geary, Boston Mass, heavy metal drummer (Extreme-More Than Words)
1964 - Barry Bonds, Riverside CA, left fielder (Pirates, SF Giants, 3X MVP)
1964 - Erminia Russo, Kelowna BC, volleyball player (Olympics-96)
1964 - Teri Schroeder, Newport Beach Ca, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-13-1993)
1964 - Banana Yoshimoto, Japanese author
1965 - Andrew Gaze, Australian basketball player (Olympics-1984, 88, 92, 96)
1965 - Brian Blades, NFL wide receiver (Seattle Seahawks)
1965 - Joe Oliver, Memphis TN, catcher (Cin Reds)
1965 - Kadeem Hardison, New York, American actor (A Different World, The Sixth Man)
1965 - Doug Liman, American film director
1966 - Martin Keown, English footballer
1967 - Jasper Teule, Dutch rock singer/bassist (Pilgrims-Once to Everything)
1968 - John P Navin Jr, Phila, actor (Joey Elliot-Jennifer Slept Here)
1968 - Mark Gunn, NFL defensive end (Phila Eagles)
1968 - Kristin Chenoweth, American singer and actress
1968 - Colleen Doran, American comic book writer and artist
1968 - Malcolm Ingram, Canadian director
1969 - Chris King, NBA forward (Vancouver Grizzlies)
1969 - Rick Fox, NBA guard/forward (LA Lakers, Boston Celtics)
1969 - Steve Jennings, Wash DC, field hockey midfielder (Olympics-96)
1969 - Jennifer Lopez, actress and pop singer (Selena)
1970 - Blaine Bishop, NFL safety (Houston Oilers)

Famous Deaths

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