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Historical Events

Results 101 - 191 of 191

1958 - J Pengel forms govt/Emanuels premier of Suriname
1958 - First ascent of Gasherbrum I, 11th highest peak on the earth.
1959 - Ben-Gurion's Israeli govt resigns
1959 - Indonesia restores constitution
1959 - Jack Gelber's "Connection," premieres in NYC
1960 - Mongolia adopts constitution
1961 - 80 die in collisions in Algiers
1961 - KUSD TV channel 2 in Vermillion, SD (PBS) begins broadcasting
1961 - St Louis Cardinal Bill White hits 3 HRs & a double
1962 - 96 murder at massacre in Oran, Algeria
1962 - Algeria gains independence after 132 years of French rule
1962 - Mantle hits 2 homers en route to 4 consecutive homers
1963 - 1st Beatle tune to hit US charts, Del Shannon "From Me to You" at #87
1966 - NYC transit fare rises from 15 cents to 20 cents
1966 - National Guard mobilizes in Omaha after 3rd night of rioting
1966 - Saturn I rocket launched at Cape Kennedy
1967 - Congo uprising under Belgian mercenary Jean Schramme
1968 - "Manifest of 1000 words" published in Prague
1968 - 82nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats Tony Roche (63 64 62)
1968 - John Lennon sells his psychedelic painted Rolls-Royce
1968 - Phila 76'ers trade Wilt Chamberlain to LA Lakers
1969 - 83rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats J Newcombe (64 57 64 64)
1969 - Rolling Stones play a free concert in London's Hyde Park
1970 - 25th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Donna Caponi Young
1970 - Air Canada DC-8 crashes 7 miles from Toronto's airport killing 109
1971 - 26th amendment certified (reduces voting age to 18)
1971 - Simon Gray's "Butley," premieres in London
1972 - Pierre Messmer appointed French premier
1973 - "Live & Let Die," James Bond film premieres
1973 - Isle of Man begins issuing their own postage stamps
1973 - Maj Gen Juvenal Habyarimana becomes president of Rwanda
1973 - Rwanda military coup under general-major Habyalimana
1973 - Test Cricket umpiring debut of H D "Dickie" Bird v NZ at Leeds
1974 - 81st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats Olga Morzova (60 64)
1975 - 89th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Arthur Ashe beats J Connors (61 61 57 64)
1975 - Cape Verde Is gain independence after 500 years of Portuguese rule
1977 - Pakistan's army, led by Gen Mohammad Zia ul-Haq, seizes power
1978 - Soyuz 30 spacecraft touches down in Soviet Kazakhstan
1978 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1980 - 87th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Evonne Goolagong beats C Evert (61 76)
1980 - 94th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats McEnroe (16 75 63 67 86)
1981 - 9th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Jan Stephenson
1981 - Premier Begin's Likud party wins Israeli elections
1981 - Rajan Mahadevan recites 31,811 digits of π (Pi) from memory
1981 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1982 - Challenger flies to Kennedy Space Center via Ellington AFB, Texas
1982 - ICC Trophy record p/ship, 257 Schoonheim/Liffman, Hol v Malay
1983 - France invades Algeria
1983 - NJ Devils purchase AHL Maine Mariners as their farm team
1983 - Woman gives birth to baby 84 days after brain death (Roanoke, VA)
1984 - Supreme Court weakens 70-year-old "exclusionary rule"-evidence seized with defective court warrants can now be used in criminal trials
1985 - Premier Mugabe wins Zimbabwe elections
1985 - Nicholas Mark Sanders (England) begins circumnavigation of globe, covering 13,035 road miles in 78 days, 3 hr, 30 min
1986 - 93rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats H Mandlikova (76 63)
1986 - Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway sets 10K woman's record (30:13.74)
1986 - Nancy Reagan cuts red, white & blue ribbon; reopens Statue of Liberty
1986 - Statue of Liberty is reopened after it is refurbished
1987 - 101st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Pat Cash beats Ivan Lendl (76 62 75)
1987 - A's Mark McGwire is 1st rookie to hit 30 HRs before All Star break
1987 - Jane Geddes wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic
1988 - Malcolm Marshall takes 7-22 at Old Trafford, England all out 93
1989 - Barry Bond's HR sets father-son (Bobby) HR record at 408
1989 - Mark McGwire's gets 100th HR, 2nd fastest (1400 at bats) (to Kiner)
1989 - Rod Stewart hits his head while on stage & knocks himself out
1989 - South-African Pres Pieter Botha visits ANC leader Nelson Mandela
1989 - Toronto Blue Jays are 10 games back in AL, & go on to win AL East
1990 - Zina Garrison upsets Steffi Graf in Wimbledon semi-finals
1991 - Colorado Rockies & Florida Marlins given final approval by owners
1991 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1991 - Lillian Cucuzza wins name Florida baseball team contest (Marlins)
1992 - 106th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Agassi beats Ivanisevic (67 64 64 16 64)
1992 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic
1992 - Sixto Durán Ballén elected president of Ecuador
1993 - A's Rickey Henderson is 2nd to hit leadoff homers in doubleheader
1993 - Kurd guerrilla's murder 32 villager in East Turkey
1993 - Richard Chelimo run world record 10 km (27:07.91)
1994 - Boxer Buster Douglas comes out of a diabetic coma
1994 - US changes refugee policy, by sending Haitian boat people back
1994 - The United States announced it would refuse further unrestricted immigration from Haiti.
1995 - Columbia U beats Hartferd College to be 1st US to win Henley Regatta
1996 - A's scores 13 in 1st vs Angels
1996 - NY Yank John Weteland ties Lee Smith's record of 19 consecutive saves
1997 - 104th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Martina Hingis beats Jana Novotna
1997 - NY Yanks withdraw Kenny Rogers & Mariano Duncon deal for SD Padre
1998 - 53rd US Women's Open Golf Championship at Blackwolf Run GC, Kohler WI
2003 - SARS is declared to be contained by the WHO.
2004 - First Indonesian presidential election by the nation.
2006 - North Korea launched at least two short-range Nodong-2 missiles, one SCUD missile and one long-range Taepodong-2 missile.
2006 - Emergency United Nations Security Council meeting held at the U.N in New York City because of the North Korean missile tests a day before.
2009 - Roger Federer wins a record 15th Grand Slam (tennis) in tennis, winning a five set match against Andy Roddick at Wimbledon.
2009 - Ethnic rioting broke out in Ürümqi, Xinjiang, People's Republic of China

Famous Birthdays

Results 101 - 200 of 226

1936 - Shirley Knight, Goessei Kansas, actress (Endless Love, Secrets)
1936 - James Mirrlees, Scottish economist, Nobel Prize laureate
1937 - Brooke Hayward, LA Calif, author (Haywire)
1937 - Frouwke J Laning-Boersema, Dutch politician (CDA) 2nd Chamber
1937 - Nita M Lowey, (Rep-D-New York)
1938 - Stanley Joel Silverman, composer
1939 - Booker Edgerson, American football player
1940 - Karen Shepherd, (Rep-D-Utah)
1940 - Chuck Close, American painter and photographer
1941 - Barbara Frischmuth, writer
1942 - Ada J Bas-Jansen, Dutch MP (CDA)
1942 - Johannes Löhr, German footballer and trainer
1943 - Curt Blefary, American baseball player (d. 2001)
1944 - Robbie Robertson, [Jamie], Toronto Canada, rock guitarist (Band)
1945 - Curtis Blefary, baseball player (1965 AL rookie of year)
1945 - Dick Scoppettone, rocker
1945 - Jeffrey Kramer, NYC, actor (Ted Stein-Struck by Lightning)
1945 - Humberto Benítez Treviño, Mexican Politician and Attorney General of México.
1946 - Pierre-Marc Johnson, Québécois lawyer, physician and politician
1946 - Paul Smith, British fashion designer
1946 - Gerardus 't Hooft, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laurete
1948 - Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Wash DC, daughter of Richard Milhaus
1948 - William Hootkins, American actor (d. 2005)
1949 - Benny Stolovitz, fictional character on LA Law
1950 - Gary Matthews, baseball player (1973 NL rookie of year)
1950 - Huey Lewis, rocker
1950 - Michael Monarch, LA Calif, rock guitarist (Steppenwolf)
1951 - Geert Jan Hessing, Dutch rock drummer (Catapult)
1951 - Huey Lewis [Hugh Cregg], NYC, vocalist (& the News-Need a New Drug)
1951 - Richard "Goose" Gossage, relief pitcher (Yankees, Padres, A's)
1951 - Rich Gossage, American baseball player
1951 - Keiko Fuji, Japanese enka singer
1952 - David Dreier, (Rep-R-Calif, 1981- )
1952 - Michael Don McNabb, composer
1952 - Terence Tom Henricks, Bryan Oh, USAF/astronaut (STS 44, 55, 70, 78)
1954 - John Wright, NZ cricketer (opening batsman 1978-92)
1954 - Leni Björklund, Swedish politician
1954 - Jimmy Crespo, American guitarist (Aerosmith)
1955 - Michael Gismondi, rock saxophonist (Michael Stanley Band)
1956 - James Lofton, NFL wide reciever (Bills, Packers, Raiders)
1956 - Patsy Pease, American actress
1957 - David Hanson, politician
1957 - David Pinkney , British Touring Car Racer
1957 - Doug Wilson, Canadian hockey player
1958 - Meredith Ann Pierce, US, sci-fi author (Darkangel)
1958 - Patsy Pease, Winston-Salem NC, actress (Kimberly-Days of Our Lives)
1958 - Tzipi Livni, Israeli politician
1958 - Paul Daniel, British opera and symphony conductor
1958 - Bill Watterson, American cartoonist
1959 - Marc Cohn, singer (Walking in Memphis)
1959 - Patricia Pease Jeffers, NC, actress (Kimberly-Days of our Life)
1959 - Tim Shaw, cricketer (South African ODI slow lefty 1991)
1959 - Veronica Guerin, journalist
1960 - James M. Kelly, American politician
1960 - Brad Loree, Canadian actor and stunt performer
1961 - Isabelle Poulenard, French soprano
1963 - Edie Falco, American actress
1963 - Russ Lorenson, American singer and actor
1964 - Mark H Lascells, grandson of English princess Mary
1964 - Salim Raza, UAE cricket all-rounder (1996 World Cup)
1965 - Lucy Han, Hartford, Conn, WPVA volleyballer (Nationals-7th-1994)
1965 - Eyran Katsenelenbogen, Israeli jazz pianist
1966 - Kathryn Erbe, American actress
1966 - Susannah Doyle, British actress
1966 - Gianfranco Zola, Italian footballer
1967 - Tim Worrell, Pasadena Calif, pitcher (San Diego Padres)
1967 - Silvia Ziche, Italian comics artist
1968 - Molly Brock, Berkeley Calif, rower (Olympics-96)
1968 - Nate Singleton, NFL wide receiver (SF 49ers)
1968 - Shahid Anwar, cricketer (Pakistani all-rounder 1996 England tour)
1968 - Ken Akamatsu, Mangaka
1968 - Kenji Ito, Japanese composer
1968 - John Ruskin a.k.a. Nardwuar the Human Serviette, Canadian journalist
1968 - Alex Zülle, Swiss cyclist
1969 - Haylea Petrie, Australian softball outfielder (Olympics-bronze-96)
1969 - John Leclair, St Albans VT, NHL forward (Team USA, Philadelphia)
1969 - John Oostendorp, Iowa City Iowa, 220 lbs greco-roman wrestler (Oly-96)
1969 - Joshua Crayton, Redondo Beach Calif, kayak (alt-Olympics-96)
1969 - RZA, American rapper (Wu-Tang Clan)
1969 - Jenji Kohan, American television writer and producer
1970 - Doug Bochtler, West Palm Beach FL, pitcher (San Diego Padres)
1970 - Maureen Lee, Melbourne Australia, golfer
1970 - Mac Dre, American rapper (d. 2004)
1971 - Donna Faber, East Orange NJ, tennis star
1971 - Derek McInnes, Scottish footballer
1972 - Michael Bays, Enrico Calif, actor (Bronx Zoo, Days of Our Live)
1972 - Robert Esmie, Jamaica, Canadian 4X100m runner (Olympics-gold-96)
1972 - Tatsuhito Takaiwa, wrestler (NJPW)
1972 - Letha Weapons, porn actress
1973 - Christy Rowe, St Paul Minn, soccer defender (Olympics-96)
1973 - Michael Sykora, Pardubice CZE, NHL defenseman (Sharks, Oly-gold-98)
1973 - Marcus Allbäck, Swedish footballer
1973 - Bengt Lagerberg, Swedish musician (The Cardigans)
1973 - Róisín Murphy, Irish musician
1973 - René Spies, German bobsledder
1974 - Márcio Amoroso, Brazilian footballer
1975 - Ai Sugiyama, Tokyo Japan, tennis star
1975 - Chris Gratton, Brantford, NHL center (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1975 - Christoph Brandner, hockey forward (Team Austria 1998)
1975 - Todd Macdonald, Charlestown, NHL goalie (Florida Panthers)

Famous Deaths

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