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Historical Events

Results 101 - 200 of 207

1946 - US detonates underwater A-bomb at Bikini (5th atomic explosion)
1946 - At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team.
1947 - US Air Force, Navy & War Dept form US Dept of Defense
1947 - US Department of Army created
1949 - St Louis Cardinal Stan Musial hits for the cycle beating Bkln 14-1
1952 - Commonwealth of Puerto Rico created (Constitution Day)
1952 - Puerto Rico becomes a self-governing US commonwealth
1953 - NYC transit fare rises from 10 cents to 15 cents, 1st use of subway tokens
1954 - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Fort Wayne Golf Open
1956 - 38th PGA Championship: Jack Burke at Blue Hill CC Boston
1956 - Italian liner Andrea Doria sinks after colliding with the Stockholm
1956 - Jordan attacks UN Palestine force
1957 - Monarchy in Tunisia abolished in favor of a republic
1957 - Peter Loader takes a cricket hat-trick England v WI Headingley
1957 - US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1958 - The African Regroupment Party (PRA) holds its first congress in Cotonou.
1959 - SR-N1 hovercraft crosses the English Channel from Calais to Dover in just over 2 hours.
1960 - Company Industrielle et Forestere (Indufor) forms in Brussels
1960 - US Republican convention nominates Nixon as presidential candidate
1961 - Maris hits home runs 37, 38, 39 & 40 in a doubleheader
1961 - In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO.
1962 - House passes bill requiring equal pay for equal work regardless of sex
1963 - Belgian Senate accept Law on language regulations
1963 - US, Russia & England sign nuclear Test ban treaty
1964 - "Here's Love" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 338 performances
1964 - Beatles' "Hard Day's Night, A," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 14 weeks
1964 - Bob Simpson out for 311 at Old Trafford
1964 - Race riot in Rochester NY
1965 - Folk-rock begins, Dylan uses electricity at Newport Folk Festival
1965 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Tournament
1966 - Brian Jones final perfomance as a Rolling Stone
1966 - Eric Clapton records guitar tracks for Harrison's "While My Guitar..."
1966 - Mao Tse Tung swims Yangtse River
1966 - Supremes release "You Can't Hurry Love"
1966 - Yankee manager Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame
1967 - Construction begins on SF MUNI METRO (Market Street subway)
1968 - Pope Paul VI encyclical against On regulation of birth
1969 - 1st performance of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (Fillmore East, NY)
1969 - 70,000 attend Seattle Pop Festival
1969 - Edward Kennedy pleads guilty to leaving scene of an accident a week after the Chappaquiddick car accident that killed Mary Jo Kopechne
1970 - "(They Long to Be) Close to You" reaches #1
1971 - Judy Kimball wins LPGA O'Sullivan Ladies Golf Open
1972 - 43rd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-3 at Atlanta-Fulton County Stad
1972 - All star MVP: Joe Morgan (Cin Reds)
1972 - US health officials concede blacks were used as guinea pigs in 40 year syphilis experiment
1973 - George Harrison pays £1,000,000 tax on his Bangladesh concert & album
1973 - USSR launches Mars 5
1975 - "A Chorus Line," longest-running Broadway show (6,137), premieres
1976 - Annegret Richter runs 100m (11.01)
1976 - Susie Berning wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1978 - Bob Dylan booed off Newport Folk Festival for using electric guitar
1978 - Bob Lemon replaces Billy Martin as Yankee manager
1978 - Cin Red Pete Rose sets NL record hitting in 38 consecutive games
1978 - John Lydon forms rock group Public Ltd Image
1978 - The Cerro Maravilla Incident occurs.
1978 - Louise Brown, the world's first "test tube baby" is born.
1979 - 109 cm rainfall at Alvin Texas (state record)
1980 - Train crash at Winsum, 9 die
1980 - US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1981 - Voyager 2 encounters Saturn
1982 - 20th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats Germany in Santa Clara USA (3-0)
1982 - 37th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Janet Anderson
1982 - France performs nuclear Test
1983 - 1st non-human primate (baboon) conceived in a lab dish, San Antonio
1983 - Washington Public Power Supply System defaulted $2.25 billion
1984 - Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes 1st woman to walk in space
1985 - Spokeswoman for Rock Hudson confirmed he had AIDS
1985 - Steve Cram runs world record mile (3:46.32)
1985 - US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1985 - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1985 - Uganda suspends constitution following coup
1986 - Sikhs extremist kill 16 hindus in Muhktsar India
1987 - Sherri Martel beats Fabulous Moolah for WWF Woman's Championship Belt
1987 - USSR launches Kosmos 1870, 15-ton Earth-study satellite
1988 - Mindy Duncan, 16, of Oregon, crowned 6th Miss Teen USA
1988 - Pedro Delgado wins Tour de France
1989 - Brandi Sherwood, of Idaho, crowned 7th Miss Teen USA
1990 - "Les Miserables," opens at Princess Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver
1990 - KC Royal George Brett hits for the cycle
1990 - Nadezhda Ryashkina of USSR sets 10K walk woman's record (41:56.23)
1990 - Roseanne Barr sings National Anthem at San Diego Padre game
1990 - US Ambassador tells Iraq, US won't take sides in Iraq-Kuwait dispute
1990 - US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1991 - Howard Stern adds a 4th radio market (KLSX FM-97.1 Los Angeles)
1991 - Seattle Jay Buhner hits a 479' HR in Yankee Stadium
1991 - Pittsburgh Steelers guard Terry Long treated for an apparent suicide attempt after he learned he tested positive for steroid use
1992 - 25th Olympic Summer games opens in Barcelona, Spain
1992 - Army refused to overturn 127 year old conviction against Dr Mudd
1993 - 31st Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats Australia in Frankfurt Germany (3-0)
1993 - 48th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Lauri Merten
1993 - Designer Claude Montana (44) weds his model Wallis Franken (44)
1993 - Israeli offensive against terrorist bases in South Lebanon
1993 - Miguel Indurain wins his 3rd Tour de France
1993 - The St James Church massacre occurs in Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa.
1994 - Jordan & Israeli end 46 year state of war (Wash DC)
1995 - A gas bottle explodes in Saint Michel station of line B of the RER (Paris regional train network). Eight are killed and 80 wounded.
1996 - Kim LaPlante of Washington state crowned Mrs United States
1997 - Autumn Jackson, found guilty of trying to extort $40M from Bill Cosby
1997 - Carroll O'Connor found not guilty of slandering Harry Perzigian
1997 - Howard Stern is fired from radio station, KEGL Dallas

Famous Birthdays

Results 101 - 200 of 213

1931 - Cornelis P van Dijk, Dutch minister of the Interior
1932 - Gibson N Kente, composer
1932 - Paul Joseph Weitz, Erie Pennsylvania, astronaut (Skylab 2, STS 6)
1934 - Claude Zidi, French film director and screenwriter
1935 - Adnan Khashoggi, Saudi businessman/billionaire/arms dealer
1935 - Barbara Harris, [Sandra Mankwitz], actress (Plaza Suite, Family Plot)
1935 - Laurent Terzieff, Paris, actor (Pharoah-Moses the Law Giver) [or 6/25]
1935 - Larry Sherry, American baseball player (d. 2006)
1935 - Lars Werner, Swedish communist leader
1936 - Gerry Ashmore, British racing driver
1936 - Glenn Murcutt, Australian architect
1937 - Colin Renfrew, English archeologist
1939 - Richard Akre Trythall, composer
1940 - John Pennel, pole vaulter (James E Sullivan Award-1963)
1941 - Nate Thurmond, NBA star (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1941 - Raul Ruiz, Puerto Mott Chile, actor (Lexot, Capitolo 66)
1941 - Peter Suschitzky, Polish-British cinematographer
1941 - Emmett Till, American murder victim (d. 1955)
1942 - Felix Ph Ingold, writer
1943 - Janet Margolin, NYC, actress (Take the Money & Run, David & Lisa)
1943 - Jim McCarty, Liverpool, rock drummer (Yardbirds-For Your Love)
1943 - Roy Acuff Jr, rocker
1944 - Helga I "Mijanou" van Baarzel, Dutch actress (Klaverweide-Alicia)
1944 - Molly Bennett Aiken, founder (riding for the handicapped)
1944 - Tom Dawes, rocker
1945 - Donna Theodore, Broadway singer (Hollywood Talent Scouts)
1946 - John Gibson, American media host
1948 - Brian M[ichael] Stableford, UK, sci-fi author (Day of Wrath)
1948 - Steve Goodman, Chicago, singer/songwriter (Somebody Elses Trouble)
1950 - Mark Clarke, rocker (Uriah Heep)
1951 - Vanessa, [Conny Witteman], Dutch model/singer
1951 - Verdine White, US bassist (Earth, Wind & Fire)
1952 - "Gorgeous" Jimmy Garvin, [Williams], NWA/WCW/AWA wrestler
1954 - Ken Greer, rock guitarist (Red Rider)
1954 - Lynn Frederick, Middlesex England, actress (Schizophrenia)
1954 - Walter Payton, NFL running back (Chicago Bears)
1955 - Bantubonke Holomisa, minister of Defense of Transkei (1988- )
1955 - Kike Elomaa, Finnish bodybuilder
1956 - Iman, [Abdulmajid], Mogadishu Somalia, model/actress (Star Trek 6)
1957 - Bogdan Musiol, German DR, bobsled (Olympic-bronze-1980)
1957 - Daniel W Bursch, Bristol PA, Lt Cmdr USN/Astronaut (STS 51, 68, 77)
1957 - Ray Billingsley, comic strip cartoonist (Curtis)
1957 - Roger Clinton, singer, President Clinton's half-brother
1958 - Henk Wanders, Dutch bassist (Frank Boeijen Group)
1958 - Thurston Moore, US guitarist/songwriter (Sonic Youth)
1960 - Alain Robidoux, Canadian snooker player
1961 - Katherine Kelly Lang, LA Calif, actress (Brooke-Bold & Beautiful)
1961 - Bobbie Eakes, American actress
1962 - Doug Drabek, Victoria TX, pitcher (Houston Astros, NY Yankees)
1962 - Mike Buncic, Patterson NJ, discus thrower
1963 - Denis Coderre, French Canadian politician
1963 - Julian Hodgson, English chess player
1964 - Jose Bautista, Bani Dom Rep, pitcher (SF Giants)
1964 - Tony Granato, Downers Grove, NHL left wing (LA Kings)
1965 - Illeana Douglas, Mass, actress (Picture Perfect, To Die For, Hacks)
1965 - Marty Brown, Owensboro Ky, country singer (Wildest Dreams)
1965 - Tom Dvorak, Braunschwieg GER, Canada equestrian dressage (Olympics-96)
1965 - Torey Lovullo, Santa Monica CA, infielder (Oakland A's)
1966 - Elke Jeinsen, Hanover Germany, playmate (May, 1993)
1966 - Maureen Herman, American bassist
1966 - Lynda Lemay, French Canadian singer
1966 - Christine C. Quinn, American politician
1967 - Dave Jareckie, Mexico City Mexico, US biathelete (Olympics-1994)
1967 - Ed Sprague, Castro Valley CA, infielder (Toronto Blue Jays)
1967 - Matt LeBlanc, actor (Joey Tribbiani-Friends)
1967 - Wendy Raquel Robinson, American actress
1967 - Tommy Skjerven, Norwegian football referee
1969 - Andrea Wieland, Atlanta GA, field hockey goaltender (Olympics-96)
1969 - Angela Melini, Saigon, Vietnam, playmate (Jun, 1992)
1969 - Jon Barry, NBA guard (LA Lakers, Golden State Warriors)
1969 - Kevin Smith, NFL tight end (Oakland Raiders)
1969 - Trevor Peres, US, metal guitarist (Obituary-The End Complete)
1970 - Nicholas CEJ Windsor, son of English prince Edward, duke of Kent
1971 - Billy Wagner, Marion VA, pitcher (Houston Astros)
1971 - Pedro Martinez, Manoguayabo Dom Rep, pitcher (Montreal Expos)
1971 - Stacy Dawn Cenedese, Miss USA-Wyoming (1997)
1971 - Tracy Murray, NBA forward (Toronto Raptors, Wash Wizards)
1971 - Roger Creager, American country music singer-songwriter
1972 - Craig Howard, Redding California, Canadian Tour golfer (1989 Rolex)
1972 - Kevin Roberts, cricketer (NSW middle-order batsman since 1994-95)
1973 - Dani Filth, British singer (Cradle of Filth)
1973 - David Denman, American actor
1973 - Kevin Phillips, English footballer
1973 - Mur Lafferty, American podcaster and writer
1974 - Lysa Jackson, Miss South Carolina USA (1996)
1974 - Todd Fuller, NBA center (SF Warriors)
1974 - Kenzo Suzuki, Japanese professional wrestler
1975 - Jay R Ferguson Jr, Dallas Tx, actor (Taylor Newton-Evening Shade)
1975 - Jean-Claude Darcheville, French footballer
1976 - Jovica Tasevski-Eternijan, Macedonian poet
1976 - Tera Patrick, American pornographic actress
1976 - Javier Vázquez, Puerto Rican baseball player
1977 - Kenny Thomas, American basketball player
1978 - Caroline Nicole Brigman, Miss South Carolina Teen USA (1997)
1978 - Louise Joy Brown, Oldham England, world's 1st "test tube baby",,19820725::"Brad Renfro, actor (Client)
1978 - Gerard Warren, American football player
1979 - Amy Adams, American singer
1979 - Allister Carter, English professional snooker player
1980 - Toni Vilander, Finnish racing driver
1980 - Diam's, French rapper

Famous Deaths

Results 101 - 104 of 104

2008 - Randy Pausch, American professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, known for his "Last Lecture" (b. 1960)
2008 - Tracy Hall, American inventor (b. 1919)
2008 - Jeff Fehring, Australian rules footballer (b. 1955)
2009 - Harry Patch, the last surviving soldier to have served in the Trenches in World War I, dies aged 111. (b. 1898)