1971 Turkish Government of Demirel forced to resign by Army
1972 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Lady Eve Golf Open
1972 NHL great Gordie Howe retires after 26 seasons
1974 Bundy victim Donna Manson disappears, Evergreen SC, Olympia WA
1975 Vietcong conquer Ban me Thuot South Vietnam
1976 South African troops leave Angola
1977 Chile President Pinochet bans Christian-Democratic Party
1977 Egypt's Anwar Sadat pledges to regain Arab territory from Israel
1978 Eric Heiden skates world record 1000 meter (1:14.99)
1978 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sunstar Golf Classic
1980 Jury finds John Wayne Gacy guilty of murdering 33 in Chicago
1980 New York Islanders 3rd scoreless tie, vs Pittsburgh Penguins
1981 Soyuz T-4 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
1981 Stephen Sondheim's musical "Marry Me a Little" premieres in New York NY
1981 Walter R T Witschey installs world's largest sundial, Richmond VA
1982 1st-class debut of Courtney Walsh, Jamaica vs Leeward Islands
1982 PLO chief Yassar Arafat appears on "Nightline"
1983 Don Ritchie runs world record 50 mile (4 :1 :9)
1984 British ice dancing team, Torvill & Dean, become 1st skaters to receive 9 perfect 6.0s in world championships
1984 National Union of Mine Workers in England begin a 51 week strike
1985 Larry Bird scores Boston Celtic record 60 points
1986 210.25 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange
1986 Giotto encounters Comet Halley
1986 Susan Butcher wins 1,158 mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
1987 "Les Miserables" opens at Broadway/Imperial NYC for 4000+ performances
1987 David Robinson scores 50 points in a NCAA basketball game
1987 Federal judge dismisses lawsuits sought by Oliver North
1987 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1987 World Ice Dance Championship in Cincinnati won by Bestemianova & Bukin (USSR)
1987 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Cincinnati won by E Gordeeva & Grinkov (USSR)
1987 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Cincinnati won by Katarina Witt (German Democratic Republic)
1987 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Cincinnati won by Brian Orser (Canada)
1989 15th People's Choice Awards
1989 2 cyanide-contaminated Chilean grapes found (Philadelphia)
1989 Madagascar AREMA party wins parliamentary election
1990 Los Angeles Raiders announce they were returning to Oakland
1991 5th Soul Train Music Awards
1993 317 killed by bomb attacks in Bombay
1993 Cleveland radio station WMMS-FM/101.7 is bought by Disney
1993 Entertainment Tonight's 3,000th show
1993 Inkhata leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi begins 2½ week speech
1994 Church of England ordains 1st 33 women priests
1995 Congress party loses India national election
1995 Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA PING/Welch's Golf Championship
1995 Lara scores 139 in ODI vs Australia at Port-of-Spain
1995 Letitia Vriesde runs South America indoor record 800 meter (2 :0.35)
1995 World Ice Dance Championship in Birmingham UK won by Oksana Gritshuk & Evgeny Platov (Russia)
1995 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Birmingham UK won by Radka Kovarikova & Rene Novotny (Czechoslovakia)
1995 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Birmingham UK won by Chen Lu (China)
1995 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Birmingham UK won by Elvis Stojko (Canada)
1996 Leeward Islands beat Trinidad by 73 runs to win Red Stripe
TODAY IN HISTORY
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1973 "Irene" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 605 performances
1973 Syria adopts constitution
1974 Charles de Gaulle Airport opens near Paris France
1974 Glenn Turner scores twin tons for New Zealand's 1st win against Australia
1975 Bernard Slade's "Same Time, Next Year" premieres in New York NY
1977 Dennis Lillee takes 6-26, England all out 95 in Centenary Test
1978 Moluccans "suicide commandos" occupies Province house
1979 European Monetary System is established, ECU created
1979 Gairy dictatorship in Grenada overthrown by New Jewel Movement
1979 Isle's Mike Bossy's 5th career hat trick
1980 Eric Heiden skates world record 1000 meter (1:13.60)
1980 Ford Motor Co found innocent in death of 3 women in a fiery Pinto
1981 Attempt on Pope John Paul II by Mehemet Ali Agca
1981 NCAA St Joseph's upsets top seed DePaul
1982 World Ice Dance Championship in Copenhagen won by Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean (Great Britain)
1982 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Copenhagen won by Sabine Baess & Tassilo Thierbach (German Democratic Republic)
1982 World Ladies Figure Skate Championship in Copenhagen won by Elaine Zayak (USA)
1982 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Copenhagen won by Scott Hamilton (USA)
1983 "Woman of the Year" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 770 performances
1983 1st USFL overtime game-Birmingham Stallions beat Oakld Invaders 20-14
1984 Last day of 1st-class cricket for G Chappell, R Marsh, B Laird
1984 Western Australia beat Queensland by four wickets to win the Sheffield Shield
1985 Funeral services held for Konstantin Chernenko (Moscow)
1985 Michael Secrest (US) begins 24 hour ride of 516 miles, 427 yards
1986 Soyuz T-15 carries 2 cosmonauts to Soviet space station Mir
1986 Space probe Giotto encounters Halley's Comet
1987 John Gotti is acquitted of racketeering
1987 Washington Capitals score 5 goals against Toronto in 3 minutes & 3 seconds
1988 14th People's Choice Awards: Fatal Attraction, Bill Cosby win
1989 27th shuttle, Discovery 8, launched, 1st woman to do the countdown
1989 FDA orders recall of all Chilean fruit in US
1989 US space shuttle STS-29 launched
1990 Nicholoas Braithwaite elected premier of Grenada
1991 Exxon pays $1-billion dollars in fines & cleanup of Valdez oil spill (Prince William Sound, Alaska)
1992 570 die in a Turkish earthquake
1992 FCC rules companies can own 30 AM & 30 FM stations (formerly 12)
1992 Martina Navratilova & Judy Nelson settle their galamony suit
1993 Blizzard of '93 hits north-east US
1994 33.3% of Austria votes for ultra-right FPÖ
1994 Cuba Godding Jr (26) weds Sara Kapfer (26)
1994 Donna Andrews wins LPGA Ping Welch's Golf Championship
1994 Oil tank/airship crash at Bosporus (huge fire/15+ killed)
1994 President Mangope of Bophuthaswana deposed
1995 9th Soul Train Music Awards: Boyz II Men, Anita Baker win
1995 Anti fascist Kazakhstan anti-parliament forms
1995 Hungarian Forint devalued 9%
1995 Istanbul police shoot dead 16 Alawitische demonstrators
1996 Sri Lanka beat India in World Cup semi as riots stop play
1996 Thomas Hamilton kills 16 kindergardeners, their teacher & himself
1973 Syria adopts constitution
1974 Charles de Gaulle Airport opens near Paris France
1974 Glenn Turner scores twin tons for New Zealand's 1st win against Australia
1975 Bernard Slade's "Same Time, Next Year" premieres in New York NY
1977 Dennis Lillee takes 6-26, England all out 95 in Centenary Test
1978 Moluccans "suicide commandos" occupies Province house
1979 European Monetary System is established, ECU created
1979 Gairy dictatorship in Grenada overthrown by New Jewel Movement
1979 Isle's Mike Bossy's 5th career hat trick
1980 Eric Heiden skates world record 1000 meter (1:13.60)
1980 Ford Motor Co found innocent in death of 3 women in a fiery Pinto
1981 Attempt on Pope John Paul II by Mehemet Ali Agca
1981 NCAA St Joseph's upsets top seed DePaul
1982 World Ice Dance Championship in Copenhagen won by Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean (Great Britain)
1982 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Copenhagen won by Sabine Baess & Tassilo Thierbach (German Democratic Republic)
1982 World Ladies Figure Skate Championship in Copenhagen won by Elaine Zayak (USA)
1982 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Copenhagen won by Scott Hamilton (USA)
1983 "Woman of the Year" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 770 performances
1983 1st USFL overtime game-Birmingham Stallions beat Oakld Invaders 20-14
1984 Last day of 1st-class cricket for G Chappell, R Marsh, B Laird
1984 Western Australia beat Queensland by four wickets to win the Sheffield Shield
1985 Funeral services held for Konstantin Chernenko (Moscow)
1985 Michael Secrest (US) begins 24 hour ride of 516 miles, 427 yards
1986 Soyuz T-15 carries 2 cosmonauts to Soviet space station Mir
1986 Space probe Giotto encounters Halley's Comet
1987 John Gotti is acquitted of racketeering
1987 Washington Capitals score 5 goals against Toronto in 3 minutes & 3 seconds
1988 14th People's Choice Awards: Fatal Attraction, Bill Cosby win
1989 27th shuttle, Discovery 8, launched, 1st woman to do the countdown
1989 FDA orders recall of all Chilean fruit in US
1989 US space shuttle STS-29 launched
1990 Nicholoas Braithwaite elected premier of Grenada
1991 Exxon pays $1-billion dollars in fines & cleanup of Valdez oil spill (Prince William Sound, Alaska)
1992 570 die in a Turkish earthquake
1992 FCC rules companies can own 30 AM & 30 FM stations (formerly 12)
1992 Martina Navratilova & Judy Nelson settle their galamony suit
1993 Blizzard of '93 hits north-east US
1994 33.3% of Austria votes for ultra-right FPÖ
1994 Cuba Godding Jr (26) weds Sara Kapfer (26)
1994 Donna Andrews wins LPGA Ping Welch's Golf Championship
1994 Oil tank/airship crash at Bosporus (huge fire/15+ killed)
1994 President Mangope of Bophuthaswana deposed
1995 9th Soul Train Music Awards: Boyz II Men, Anita Baker win
1995 Anti fascist Kazakhstan anti-parliament forms
1995 Hungarian Forint devalued 9%
1995 Istanbul police shoot dead 16 Alawitische demonstrators
1996 Sri Lanka beat India in World Cup semi as riots stop play
1996 Thomas Hamilton kills 16 kindergardeners, their teacher & himself
In 1884,Congress adopted Eastern Standard Time for the District of Columbia.
In 1901,the 23rd president of the United States,Benjamin Harrison,died in Indianapolis.
In 1933, banks began to reopen after a "holiday"declared by President Roosevelt.
In 1947,the Lerner and Loewe musical "Brigadoon" opened on Broadway.
In 1901,the 23rd president of the United States,Benjamin Harrison,died in Indianapolis.
In 1933, banks began to reopen after a "holiday"declared by President Roosevelt.
In 1947,the Lerner and Loewe musical "Brigadoon" opened on Broadway.
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Birthdates which occurred on March 13:
1548 Sasbout Vosmeer Dutch Catholic theologist/apostole
1599 Johannes Berchmans Dutch Jesuit/saint
1615 Innocent XII [Antonio Pignatelli] Pope (1691-1700)
1696 Louis F A D Duke de Richelieu French marshal
1700 James Kent composer
1700 Michel Blavet composer
1712 Isfrid Kayser composer
1733 Joseph Priestly England, clergyman/scientist (discovered oxygen)
1741 Jozef II arch duke of Austria/Roman Catholic German emperor (1765-90)
1744 David Allan Scottish painter
1746 Maurus Haberhauer composer
1752 Josef Reicha composer
1764 Charles Earl Grey (Whig), British Prime Minister (1830-34)
1767 Heinrich Domnich composer
1768 Charles Louis WJ van Keverberg Dutch civil servant
1770 Daniel Lambert England, giant (weighed 739 lbs (334 kg) at death)
1779 Oliver Shaw composer
1781 Karl F Schinkel German architect/painter/writer (Schloss Tegel)
1798 Abigail Powers Fillmore 1st lady-Millard Fillmore (1850-53)
1818 Albion Parris Howe Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1897
1820 Louis Herbert Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1901
1822 Moritz Grave von Strachwitz German poet
1832 Alberto Randegger composer
1850 Emilio Serrano y Ruiz composer
1855 Percival "Percy" Lowell US astronomer (predicted discovery of Pluto)
1858 Maximilien Luce French painter
1859 Ivo Bligh cricketer [Lord Darnley] England captain vs Australia 1882-83
1860 Hugo Filipp Jakob Wolf Windisch-Gräz Austria, composer
1862 Vasily Mikhaylovich Metallov composer
1872 Oswald Garrison Villard American journalist
1875 Maria E G "Lizzy" Ansingh Dutch painter (Caught Sultane)
1881 Balthazar H Verhagen Netherlands/South African dramatist/writer
1883 Enrico Toselli composer
1884 Emanuel Stickelberger Swiss writer (Bluthochzeit)
1884 Oskar Loerke German writer (Longest Day-1926)
1884 Sir Hugh S Walpole New Zealand, novelist/critic/dramatist (Jeremy, Maradick at 40)
1886 Henri D Gagnebin Swiss organist
1886 John "Home Run" Baker hall of famer (hit 2 homeruns in 1911 world series)
1887 Carlos Isamitt composer
1890 Frank Thieß writer
1890 Michael Taube composer
1892 Alec Rowley composer
1892 Janet Flanner journalist (New Yorker)
1896 Dorothy Aldis writer
1897 Marcel Thiry Belgian poet (Statue of Fatigue)
1897 William Herald Australia, swimmer (Olympics-1920)
1898 Josie Sedgwick Texas, actress (Son of Oklahoma)
1899 Pancho Vladigerov composer
1901 Paul Fix Dobbs Ferry NY, actor (Rifleman)
1904 Henry Iliffe Cozens pilot
1907 Albert Hughes Williams teacher/historian
1907 Dona Maria Pia de Braganca pretender to the Portuguese throne
1907 Frank Wilcox DeSoto MO, actor (John-Beverly Hillbillies)
1907 Oscar Brink latinist
1908 Helen Sinclair Glatz musician
1908 Paul Stewart New York NY, actor (Top Secret USA, Deadline)
1908 Walter Annenberg Milwaukee WI, publisher (Triangle-TV Guide)
1909 Gilbert Inglefield Mayor of London (1967-68)
1910 Sammy Kaye Lakewood OH, orchestra leader (Sammy Kaye Show)
1911 Jose Ardevol composer
1911 L[aFayette] Ron Hubbard sci-fi writer/Scientologist (Dianetics)
1912 Ernst Hess composer
1912 Igor Youskevitch dancer
1912 James Friell political cartoonist
1913 Tessie O'Shea Cardiff Wales, actress (Entertainers)
1913 William J Casey headed CIA during Iran-contra scandal (1981-87)
1914 Carl-Olof Anderberg composer
1916 (Corinne) Lindy (Claiborne) Boggs (Representative-Democrat-LA, 1973- )
1917 Ina Ray Hutton Chicago IL, orchestra leader (Ina Ray Hutton Show)
1917 Maria Vlamynck Flemish author
1918 Faye Glenn Abdellan US government official (health services)
1918 George McAfee NFL halfback (Chicago Bears)
1920 Frans van der Elst Flemish attorney/MP (Volksunie)
1548 Sasbout Vosmeer Dutch Catholic theologist/apostole
1599 Johannes Berchmans Dutch Jesuit/saint
1615 Innocent XII [Antonio Pignatelli] Pope (1691-1700)
1696 Louis F A D Duke de Richelieu French marshal
1700 James Kent composer
1700 Michel Blavet composer
1712 Isfrid Kayser composer
1733 Joseph Priestly England, clergyman/scientist (discovered oxygen)
1741 Jozef II arch duke of Austria/Roman Catholic German emperor (1765-90)
1744 David Allan Scottish painter
1746 Maurus Haberhauer composer
1752 Josef Reicha composer
1764 Charles Earl Grey (Whig), British Prime Minister (1830-34)
1767 Heinrich Domnich composer
1768 Charles Louis WJ van Keverberg Dutch civil servant
1770 Daniel Lambert England, giant (weighed 739 lbs (334 kg) at death)
1779 Oliver Shaw composer
1781 Karl F Schinkel German architect/painter/writer (Schloss Tegel)
1798 Abigail Powers Fillmore 1st lady-Millard Fillmore (1850-53)
1818 Albion Parris Howe Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1897
1820 Louis Herbert Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1901
1822 Moritz Grave von Strachwitz German poet
1832 Alberto Randegger composer
1850 Emilio Serrano y Ruiz composer
1855 Percival "Percy" Lowell US astronomer (predicted discovery of Pluto)
1858 Maximilien Luce French painter
1859 Ivo Bligh cricketer [Lord Darnley] England captain vs Australia 1882-83
1860 Hugo Filipp Jakob Wolf Windisch-Gräz Austria, composer
1862 Vasily Mikhaylovich Metallov composer
1872 Oswald Garrison Villard American journalist
1875 Maria E G "Lizzy" Ansingh Dutch painter (Caught Sultane)
1881 Balthazar H Verhagen Netherlands/South African dramatist/writer
1883 Enrico Toselli composer
1884 Emanuel Stickelberger Swiss writer (Bluthochzeit)
1884 Oskar Loerke German writer (Longest Day-1926)
1884 Sir Hugh S Walpole New Zealand, novelist/critic/dramatist (Jeremy, Maradick at 40)
1886 Henri D Gagnebin Swiss organist
1886 John "Home Run" Baker hall of famer (hit 2 homeruns in 1911 world series)
1887 Carlos Isamitt composer
1890 Frank Thieß writer
1890 Michael Taube composer
1892 Alec Rowley composer
1892 Janet Flanner journalist (New Yorker)
1896 Dorothy Aldis writer
1897 Marcel Thiry Belgian poet (Statue of Fatigue)
1897 William Herald Australia, swimmer (Olympics-1920)
1898 Josie Sedgwick Texas, actress (Son of Oklahoma)
1899 Pancho Vladigerov composer
1901 Paul Fix Dobbs Ferry NY, actor (Rifleman)
1904 Henry Iliffe Cozens pilot
1907 Albert Hughes Williams teacher/historian
1907 Dona Maria Pia de Braganca pretender to the Portuguese throne
1907 Frank Wilcox DeSoto MO, actor (John-Beverly Hillbillies)
1907 Oscar Brink latinist
1908 Helen Sinclair Glatz musician
1908 Paul Stewart New York NY, actor (Top Secret USA, Deadline)
1908 Walter Annenberg Milwaukee WI, publisher (Triangle-TV Guide)
1909 Gilbert Inglefield Mayor of London (1967-68)
1910 Sammy Kaye Lakewood OH, orchestra leader (Sammy Kaye Show)
1911 Jose Ardevol composer
1911 L[aFayette] Ron Hubbard sci-fi writer/Scientologist (Dianetics)
1912 Ernst Hess composer
1912 Igor Youskevitch dancer
1912 James Friell political cartoonist
1913 Tessie O'Shea Cardiff Wales, actress (Entertainers)
1913 William J Casey headed CIA during Iran-contra scandal (1981-87)
1914 Carl-Olof Anderberg composer
1916 (Corinne) Lindy (Claiborne) Boggs (Representative-Democrat-LA, 1973- )
1917 Ina Ray Hutton Chicago IL, orchestra leader (Ina Ray Hutton Show)
1917 Maria Vlamynck Flemish author
1918 Faye Glenn Abdellan US government official (health services)
1918 George McAfee NFL halfback (Chicago Bears)
1920 Frans van der Elst Flemish attorney/MP (Volksunie)
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1954 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1954 NBA Baltimore Bullets end a 32 game road losing streak
1955 Prince Mahemdra becomes king of Nepal
1956 Satchel Paige signs with the Birmingham Black Barons (Negro League)
1957 Indonesian government of Sastroamidjojo resigns
1958 RIAA (Recording Industry Association of American)is created and certifies 1st gold record (Perry Como's Catch A Falling Star)
1958 South Africa government disallows ANC
1958 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1958 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1960 14 die in a train crash in Bakersfield CA
1960 Wilt Chamberlain (Philadelphia) sets NBA playoff record of 53 points
1961 George Weiss becomes president of New York Mets
1962 Disarmament conference opens in Geneva without France
1962 Gordie Howe (Detroit Red Wings) is 2nd NHLer to score 500 goals
1963 San Francisco's Guy Rodgers ties NBA record with 28 assists
1964 "Girl Who Came to Supper" closes at Broadway NYC after 112 performances
1964 Dallas jury sentences Jack Ruby to death for Lee Harvey Oswald murder
1965 Israeli cabinet approves diplomatic relations with West Germany
1967 1st NFL-AFL common draft, Baltimore Colts pick Bubba Smith
1967 JFK's body moved from temporary grave to a permanent memorial
1968 CBS TV suspends Radio Free Europe free advertising because RFE doesn't make it clear it is sponsored by the CIA
1968 POM performs atmospheric nuclear test at Maralinga Australia
1969 Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st woman jockey to win at Aqueduct
1969 Seymour Nurse scores 258 in his last Test Cricket innings, West Indies vs New Zealand
1971 Barbra Streisand appears on "The Burt Bacharach Special" on CBS TV
1971 South Vietnamese troops flee Laos
1971 The Rolling Stones leave England for France to escape taxes
1972 NBA's Cincinnati Royals announce they are moving to Kansas City
1973 Liam Cosgrave appointed president of Ireland
1976 Jockey Bill Shoemaker wins his 7,000th race
1976 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1978 Marines terminate Molukse action in Province house (1 dead)
1978 NFL permanently adds 7th official (side judge)
1980 3rd Emmy Sports Awards presentation
1980 Polish airliner crash kills all 87 aboard (22 are US amateur boxers)
1980 World Ice Dance Championship in Dortmund West Germany won by Krisztina Regoczy & Andras Sallay (Hungary)
1980 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Dortmund won by Marina Cherkasova & Sergei Shakhrai (USSR)
1980 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Dortmund won by Anett Potzsch
1980 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Dortmund won by Jan Hoffmann (German Democratic Republic)
1982 Sally Little wins LPGA Olympia Gold Golf Classic
1982 Sidath Wettimuny scores Sri Lanka's 1st Test Cricket century
1983 OPEC cut oil prices for 1st time in 23 years
1984 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 41-C mission
1985 11th People's Choice Awards: Bill Cosby wins 4 awards
1985 Michael Secrest (US) completes 24 hour ride of 516 miles, 427 yards
1986 European Space Agency's Giotto flies by Halley's Comet (605 km)
1987 New York Met Darryl Strawberry charges Red Sox pitcher Al Nipper during spring training exhibition game, causes bench clearing brawl
1987 Providence, with Billy Donovan's 25 points, beats Austin Peay 90-87
1987 Skier Piotr Fijas jumps record 194 meter
1990 4th Soul Train Music Awards: Soul II Soul, Janet Jackson
1990 Mikhail S Gorbachev becomes president of the Soviet Congress
1991 British Court of Appeal frees "Birmingham 6" who had been unjustly sentenced in August 1975 to life imprisonment
1991 Emir of Kuwait returns to Kuwait City, after the Iraqis leave
1991 World Ice Dance Championship in Munich won by Isabel & Phil Duchesnay (France)
1991 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Munich won by N Mishkutenok & A Dmitriev (USSR)
1991 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Munich won by Kristi Yamaguchi (USA)
1991 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Munich won by Kurt Browning (Canada)
1992 Farm Aid V
1992 New York Mets Daryl Boston, Vince Coleman & Dwight Gooden accused of rape
1992 Soviet newspaper "Pravda" suspends publication
1993 "Conversations with My Father" closes at Royale NYC after 462 performances
1993 "Face Value" closes at Cort Theater NYC after performances
1993 "Saint Joan" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 49 performances
1993 3,000th performance of "Nunsense"
1993 Johan Koss skates world record 5 km (6 :6.57)
1993 Meg Mallon wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship
1993 Ricky Ponting hits twin tons for Tasmania aged 18 years 84 days
1994 Mexican banker/billionaire Alfredo Harp Helu kidnapped
1994 Soyuz TM-21 launches with V Dezyurov, G Strekalov & N Thagard
1995 1st time 13 people in space
1996 Australia beat West Indies by 5 runs in amazing cricket World Cup semi
1996 Crufts show at NEC Birmingham, (1995 winner, Joshua, an Irish setter)
1997 68 year old Gordie Howe signs AHL contract with Syracuse Crunch
1997 Iranian military plane crashes, killing 80
1997 Olympics gold medalist Michael Johnson wins 67th James E Sullivan Award
1997 President Clinton trips & tears up his knee requiring surgery
1954 NBA Baltimore Bullets end a 32 game road losing streak
1955 Prince Mahemdra becomes king of Nepal
1956 Satchel Paige signs with the Birmingham Black Barons (Negro League)
1957 Indonesian government of Sastroamidjojo resigns
1958 RIAA (Recording Industry Association of American)is created and certifies 1st gold record (Perry Como's Catch A Falling Star)
1958 South Africa government disallows ANC
1958 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1958 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1960 14 die in a train crash in Bakersfield CA
1960 Wilt Chamberlain (Philadelphia) sets NBA playoff record of 53 points
1961 George Weiss becomes president of New York Mets
1962 Disarmament conference opens in Geneva without France
1962 Gordie Howe (Detroit Red Wings) is 2nd NHLer to score 500 goals
1963 San Francisco's Guy Rodgers ties NBA record with 28 assists
1964 "Girl Who Came to Supper" closes at Broadway NYC after 112 performances
1964 Dallas jury sentences Jack Ruby to death for Lee Harvey Oswald murder
1965 Israeli cabinet approves diplomatic relations with West Germany
1967 1st NFL-AFL common draft, Baltimore Colts pick Bubba Smith
1967 JFK's body moved from temporary grave to a permanent memorial
1968 CBS TV suspends Radio Free Europe free advertising because RFE doesn't make it clear it is sponsored by the CIA
1968 POM performs atmospheric nuclear test at Maralinga Australia
1969 Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st woman jockey to win at Aqueduct
1969 Seymour Nurse scores 258 in his last Test Cricket innings, West Indies vs New Zealand
1971 Barbra Streisand appears on "The Burt Bacharach Special" on CBS TV
1971 South Vietnamese troops flee Laos
1971 The Rolling Stones leave England for France to escape taxes
1972 NBA's Cincinnati Royals announce they are moving to Kansas City
1973 Liam Cosgrave appointed president of Ireland
1976 Jockey Bill Shoemaker wins his 7,000th race
1976 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1978 Marines terminate Molukse action in Province house (1 dead)
1978 NFL permanently adds 7th official (side judge)
1980 3rd Emmy Sports Awards presentation
1980 Polish airliner crash kills all 87 aboard (22 are US amateur boxers)
1980 World Ice Dance Championship in Dortmund West Germany won by Krisztina Regoczy & Andras Sallay (Hungary)
1980 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Dortmund won by Marina Cherkasova & Sergei Shakhrai (USSR)
1980 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Dortmund won by Anett Potzsch
1980 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Dortmund won by Jan Hoffmann (German Democratic Republic)
1982 Sally Little wins LPGA Olympia Gold Golf Classic
1982 Sidath Wettimuny scores Sri Lanka's 1st Test Cricket century
1983 OPEC cut oil prices for 1st time in 23 years
1984 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 41-C mission
1985 11th People's Choice Awards: Bill Cosby wins 4 awards
1985 Michael Secrest (US) completes 24 hour ride of 516 miles, 427 yards
1986 European Space Agency's Giotto flies by Halley's Comet (605 km)
1987 New York Met Darryl Strawberry charges Red Sox pitcher Al Nipper during spring training exhibition game, causes bench clearing brawl
1987 Providence, with Billy Donovan's 25 points, beats Austin Peay 90-87
1987 Skier Piotr Fijas jumps record 194 meter
1990 4th Soul Train Music Awards: Soul II Soul, Janet Jackson
1990 Mikhail S Gorbachev becomes president of the Soviet Congress
1991 British Court of Appeal frees "Birmingham 6" who had been unjustly sentenced in August 1975 to life imprisonment
1991 Emir of Kuwait returns to Kuwait City, after the Iraqis leave
1991 World Ice Dance Championship in Munich won by Isabel & Phil Duchesnay (France)
1991 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Munich won by N Mishkutenok & A Dmitriev (USSR)
1991 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Munich won by Kristi Yamaguchi (USA)
1991 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Munich won by Kurt Browning (Canada)
1992 Farm Aid V
1992 New York Mets Daryl Boston, Vince Coleman & Dwight Gooden accused of rape
1992 Soviet newspaper "Pravda" suspends publication
1993 "Conversations with My Father" closes at Royale NYC after 462 performances
1993 "Face Value" closes at Cort Theater NYC after performances
1993 "Saint Joan" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 49 performances
1993 3,000th performance of "Nunsense"
1993 Johan Koss skates world record 5 km (6 :6.57)
1993 Meg Mallon wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship
1993 Ricky Ponting hits twin tons for Tasmania aged 18 years 84 days
1994 Mexican banker/billionaire Alfredo Harp Helu kidnapped
1994 Soyuz TM-21 launches with V Dezyurov, G Strekalov & N Thagard
1995 1st time 13 people in space
1996 Australia beat West Indies by 5 runs in amazing cricket World Cup semi
1996 Crufts show at NEC Birmingham, (1995 winner, Joshua, an Irish setter)
1997 68 year old Gordie Howe signs AHL contract with Syracuse Crunch
1997 Iranian military plane crashes, killing 80
1997 Olympics gold medalist Michael Johnson wins 67th James E Sullivan Award
1997 President Clinton trips & tears up his knee requiring surgery
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1967 Marshal Arturo da Costa e Silva sworn in as President of Brazil
1967 WSJK TV channel 2 in Sneedville/Knoxville TN (PBS) 1st broadcast
1968 Bob Beamon sets indoor long jump record (27' 2.75")
1968 British minister of Foreign affairs George Brown resigns
1968 Diocese of Rome announces that it "deplored the concept", but wouldn't prohibit rock & roll masses at Church of San Lessio Falconieri
1968 LIFE magazine calls Jimi Hendrix "most spectacular guitarist in the world"
1968 Uprising in South Yemen
1968 US Mint stops buying & selling gold
1969 US Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigns
1969 Violent Chinese-Russian border dispute (100s dead)
1970 Expo '70 opens in Osaka, Japan
1970 Gary Geld & Peter Udell's "Purlie" premieres at Broadway Theater NYC for 689 performances
1971 CBS TV announces it is dropping "Ed Sullivan Show"
1971 Chatrooms make their debut on the Internet
1972 Assassination attempt on Governor George Wallace of Alabama
1972 Danish airliner hit mountain in Sheikdom of Oman killing 112
1972 NASA selects 3 part configuration for Space Shuttle
1974 Brazilian President Garastazu Médici resigns
1975 Bundy victim Julie Cunningham disappears from Vail CO
1975 Jevgeni Kulikov skates world record 500 meter (37.99 seconds)
1976 Failed coup in Nigeria
1977 "Eight is Enough" premieres on ABC-TV
1977 US House of Representatives begin 90 day test of televising its sessions
1978 A's trade Vida Blue to Giants for 7 players & $390,000
1978 Operation Litani: Israeli offensive in South Lebanon to rid area of Palestine guerrillas
1978 People's Rebublic of China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor People's Rebublic of China
1979 Apparat releases Newdos+ 2.1 for Radio Shack's TRS-80
1979 Isle's Bryan Trottier's 5th career hat trick
1979 Sarfraz takes 9-86 at MCG as Australia lose 7-5 to lose the Test
1981 "Broadway Follies" opens/closes at Nederlander Theater NYC
1981 Patty Hayes wins LPGA Sun City Golf Classic
1981 Suriname failed coup under Sergeant-Major Wilfred Hawker
1982 Actress Theresa Saladana, stabbed repeatedly by obsessed fan
1982 KGB-AM in San Diego CA changes call letters to KCNN (now KPOP)
1982 Nicaragua suspends their citizens rights for 30 days
1983 Karnataka beat Bombay on 1st innings to win cricket Ranji Trophy
1984 10th People's Choice Awards: Brooke Shields
1984 John Lennon's single "I'm Stepping Out" is released (4 years after his death)
1984 Tanzania adopts constitution
1985 Larry Holmes TKOs David Bey in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
1985 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1986 Funeral services held for Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme
1987 "Starlight Express" opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 761 performances
1987 "Sweet Charity" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 368 performances
1987 13th People's Choice Awards: Bill Cosby
1987 Last day in Test cricket for Larry Gomes & Joel Garner
1987 New Zealand beat West Indies by 5 wickets in Jeremy Coney's last Test Cricket
1987 US Davis Cup team loses to Paraguay
1988 Eugene Marino of Atlanta, appointed 1st African American archbishop
1988 NASA reports accelerated breakdown of ozone layer by CFK
1988 NFL's St Louis Cardinals officially move to Phoenix
1989 "Les Miserables" opens at Royal Alexandra Theatre Toronto
1989 Department of Veterans Affairs officially established as a Cabinet position
1989 New York Rangers retire goalie Eddie Giacomin's #1 uniform
1990 Fernando Collor de Mello sworn in as President of Brazil
1991 4 Los Angeles police are charged with beating Rodney King
1991 Sergei Bubka pole vaults record 20¼'
1991 Territories of Amapa & Roraima become states in Brazil
1992 Brandie Burton wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship
1992 UN officially embarks on its largest peacekeeping operation
1993 Vinod Kambli scores 227 vs Zimbabwe, his 2nd consecutive Test 200
1994 8th Soul Train Music Awards: Toni Braxton, Whitney Houston win
1994 Experts from American League certify Indian's Jacobs Field is properly lit
1997 Pittsburgh Penguins' Joe Mullen, is 1st American to score 500 NHL goals
1998 "Cabaret" opens at Club Expo Theater NYC
1998 Welch's/Circle K Golf Championship
1999 Pluto again becomes outermost planet
1967 WSJK TV channel 2 in Sneedville/Knoxville TN (PBS) 1st broadcast
1968 Bob Beamon sets indoor long jump record (27' 2.75")
1968 British minister of Foreign affairs George Brown resigns
1968 Diocese of Rome announces that it "deplored the concept", but wouldn't prohibit rock & roll masses at Church of San Lessio Falconieri
1968 LIFE magazine calls Jimi Hendrix "most spectacular guitarist in the world"
1968 Uprising in South Yemen
1968 US Mint stops buying & selling gold
1969 US Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigns
1969 Violent Chinese-Russian border dispute (100s dead)
1970 Expo '70 opens in Osaka, Japan
1970 Gary Geld & Peter Udell's "Purlie" premieres at Broadway Theater NYC for 689 performances
1971 CBS TV announces it is dropping "Ed Sullivan Show"
1971 Chatrooms make their debut on the Internet
1972 Assassination attempt on Governor George Wallace of Alabama
1972 Danish airliner hit mountain in Sheikdom of Oman killing 112
1972 NASA selects 3 part configuration for Space Shuttle
1974 Brazilian President Garastazu Médici resigns
1975 Bundy victim Julie Cunningham disappears from Vail CO
1975 Jevgeni Kulikov skates world record 500 meter (37.99 seconds)
1976 Failed coup in Nigeria
1977 "Eight is Enough" premieres on ABC-TV
1977 US House of Representatives begin 90 day test of televising its sessions
1978 A's trade Vida Blue to Giants for 7 players & $390,000
1978 Operation Litani: Israeli offensive in South Lebanon to rid area of Palestine guerrillas
1978 People's Rebublic of China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor People's Rebublic of China
1979 Apparat releases Newdos+ 2.1 for Radio Shack's TRS-80
1979 Isle's Bryan Trottier's 5th career hat trick
1979 Sarfraz takes 9-86 at MCG as Australia lose 7-5 to lose the Test
1981 "Broadway Follies" opens/closes at Nederlander Theater NYC
1981 Patty Hayes wins LPGA Sun City Golf Classic
1981 Suriname failed coup under Sergeant-Major Wilfred Hawker
1982 Actress Theresa Saladana, stabbed repeatedly by obsessed fan
1982 KGB-AM in San Diego CA changes call letters to KCNN (now KPOP)
1982 Nicaragua suspends their citizens rights for 30 days
1983 Karnataka beat Bombay on 1st innings to win cricket Ranji Trophy
1984 10th People's Choice Awards: Brooke Shields
1984 John Lennon's single "I'm Stepping Out" is released (4 years after his death)
1984 Tanzania adopts constitution
1985 Larry Holmes TKOs David Bey in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
1985 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1986 Funeral services held for Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme
1987 "Starlight Express" opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 761 performances
1987 "Sweet Charity" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 368 performances
1987 13th People's Choice Awards: Bill Cosby
1987 Last day in Test cricket for Larry Gomes & Joel Garner
1987 New Zealand beat West Indies by 5 wickets in Jeremy Coney's last Test Cricket
1987 US Davis Cup team loses to Paraguay
1988 Eugene Marino of Atlanta, appointed 1st African American archbishop
1988 NASA reports accelerated breakdown of ozone layer by CFK
1988 NFL's St Louis Cardinals officially move to Phoenix
1989 "Les Miserables" opens at Royal Alexandra Theatre Toronto
1989 Department of Veterans Affairs officially established as a Cabinet position
1989 New York Rangers retire goalie Eddie Giacomin's #1 uniform
1990 Fernando Collor de Mello sworn in as President of Brazil
1991 4 Los Angeles police are charged with beating Rodney King
1991 Sergei Bubka pole vaults record 20¼'
1991 Territories of Amapa & Roraima become states in Brazil
1992 Brandie Burton wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship
1992 UN officially embarks on its largest peacekeeping operation
1993 Vinod Kambli scores 227 vs Zimbabwe, his 2nd consecutive Test 200
1994 8th Soul Train Music Awards: Toni Braxton, Whitney Houston win
1994 Experts from American League certify Indian's Jacobs Field is properly lit
1997 Pittsburgh Penguins' Joe Mullen, is 1st American to score 500 NHL goals
1998 "Cabaret" opens at Club Expo Theater NYC
1998 Welch's/Circle K Golf Championship
1999 Pluto again becomes outermost planet
In 1767,the seventh president of the United States,Andrew jackson was born in Waxhaw,S.C.
In 1820,Maine became the 23rd state.
In 1913,President Wilson held the first open presidential news conference.
In 1956,the Lerner and Loewe musical play "My Fair Lady" opened on Broadway.
In 1964,actress Elizabeth Taylor married actor Richard Burton in Montreal;it was her fifth marriage,his second.
In 1820,Maine became the 23rd state.
In 1913,President Wilson held the first open presidential news conference.
In 1956,the Lerner and Loewe musical play "My Fair Lady" opened on Broadway.
In 1964,actress Elizabeth Taylor married actor Richard Burton in Montreal;it was her fifth marriage,his second.
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1926 Richard Rodgers & L Hart's musical "Girl Friend" premieres in New York NY
1926 Spain & Brazil prevent Germany joining League of Nations
1927 US government doesn't sign league of Nations disarmament treaty
1929 General Motors acquires German auto manufacturer Adam Opel
1929 Spanish dictator Primo de Rivera closes university of Madrid
1931 Stalin throws Krupskaya Lenin out of Central Committee
1932 German police raid Hitler's Nazi-headquarter
1934 Dollfuss, Mussolini & Gömbös sign Donau Pact (protocols of Rome)
1935 KSO-AM in Des Moines IA call sign is given to KWCR
1941 National Gallery of Art, Washington DC opens
1942 Belzec Concentration Camp opens-30,000 Lublin Polish Jews transported
1942 General Doug MacArthur arrives in Australia to become supreme commander
1943 Aldemarin (Ned) & Fort Cedar Lake (US) torpedoed & sinks
1943 F Hugh Herbert's "Kiss & Tell" premieres in New York NY
1944 Actor Charlton Heston weds Lydia Clarke
1945 Allied ships bomb North-Sumatra
1950 Belgian government of Eyskens resigns
1950 Element 98 (Californium) announced
1951 Government of Drees takes power
1951 Test Cricket debut of Brian Statham, England vs New Zealand Christchurch
1953 Bill Veeck says he will sell his 80% of St Louis Browns for $2,475M
1953 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1953 WBAY TV channel 2 in Green Bay WI (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 WWLP TV channel 22 in Springfield MA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1955 Maurice "Rocket" Richard suspended, sparks 7 hour riot in Montréal
1956 8th Emmy Awards: Ed Sullivan Show, Phil Silvers Show & Lucy Ball
1957 Dutch ban on Sunday driving lifted
1957 Ramon Magsaysay, President of Philippines dies in a plane crash
1958 Navy launches Vanguard 1 into orbit (2nd US), measures Earth shape
1959 Australia & USSR restore diplomatic relations
1959 Dalai Lama flees Tibet for India
1960 Eisenhower forms anti-Castro-exile army under the CIA
1960 WSLA (now WAKA) TV channel 8 in Selma AL (CBS) begins broadcasting
1961 New York DA arrests professional gamblers who implicate Seton Hall players
1961 South Africa leaves British Commonwealth
1963 Bob Cousy plays his last NBA game
1963 Elizabeth Ann Seton of New York beatified (canonized in 1975)
1963 Eruptions of Mount Agung Bali, kills 1,500 Balinese
1965 Beatles announce their film is named "8 Arms to Hold on to You" (Help)
1966 South Africa government bans Defense & Aid Fund
1966 US sub locates missing H-bomb in Mediterranean
1968 2-tiered gold price negotiated in Washington DC by US & 6 European nations
1968 Kathie Whitworth wins LPGA St Petersburg Orange Blossom Golf Open
1969 Golda Meir becomes Israel's 4th Prime Minister
1969 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Open
1970 Peter O'Malley becomes CEO of Los Angeles Dodgers
1970 US casts their 1st UN Security Council veto (Support England)
1972 Ringo releases "Back off Bugaloo" in UK
1973 Queen Elizabeth II opens new London Bridge
1973 St Patrick's Day marchers carry 14 coffins commemorating Bloody Sunday
1974 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Bing Crosby Golf Classic International
1975 Valeri Muratov skates world record 1000 meter (1:16.92)
1976 Malikov skates world record 1000 meter (1:15.76)
1976 Rubin "Hurricane" Carter is retried
1976 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1977 Australia wins cricket Centenary Test by 45 runs, same result as 1877
1978 Ligeti's opera "Le Grand Macabre" premieres in Stockholm
1978 Reds don green uniforms for St Patricks Day
1979 World Ice Dance Championship at Vienna won by N Linichuk & G Karponosov USSR
1979 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship at Vienna won by Tai Babilonia & R Gardner (USA)
1979 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Vienna won by Linda Fratianne (USA)
1979 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Vienna won by Vladimir Kovalev (USSR)
1981 FC Lisse, Dutch soccer team forms
1982 4 Dutch TV crew members shot dead in El Salvador
1983 70th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy
1983 9th People's Choice Awards
1985 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
1985 Matti Nykanen of Finland set a world ski jump record of 623'
1986 Haemers gang robs gold transport in Belgium of 35 million BF
1987 IBM releases PC-DOS version 3.3
1987 Sunil Gavaskar ends his Test career with an inning of 96 vs Pakistan
1988 "Les Miserables" opens at Det Norske Teatret, Oslo Norway
1988 Highest scoring NCAA basketball game: Loyola-Marymnt 119, Wyoming 115
1988 Iran says Iraq uses poison gas
1989 "Chu Chem" opens at Ritz Theater NYC for 44 performances
1989 Dorothy Cudahy is 1st female grand marshal of St Patrick Day Parade
1990 PBA National Championship Won by Jim Pencak
1991 Irish Lesbians & Gays march in St Patrick Day parade
1991 John Robin Baitz' "Substance of Fire" premieres in New York NY
1991 New Jersey raises turnpike tolls 70%
1991 Penny Hammel wins Desert Inn LPGA Golf International
1991 USSR holds a referendum to determine if they should stay together; 9 of 15 Soviet representatives officially approve new union treaty
1992 "Death & the Maiden" opens at Brooks Atkinson NYC for 159 performances
1992 18th People's Choice Awards: Garth Brooks & Reba McEntire
1992 De Klerk wins a white only referendum
1992 Islamic Jihad truck bombs Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires Argentina killing 29
1992 Russian manned space craft TM-14, launches into orbit
1993 86 killed by bomb attack in Calcutta
1994 "Little More Magic" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 30 performances
1994 Iran transport aircraft crashes in Azerbaijan (32 killed)
1994 It is announced there is no smoking in Cleveland Indians new ballpark
1995 British £ hits 2.4545 to Dutch guilder (record)
1995 Sinn-Fein leader Gerry Adams visits White House
1995 US approves 1st chicken pox vaccine, Varivax by Merck & Co
1996 "Bus Stop" closes at Circle in Square Theater NYC after 29 performances
1996 "Getting Away With Murder" opens at Broadhurst NYC for 17 performances
1996 Aravinda De Silva gets 107 & 3-42 in cricket World Cup victory
1996 Liselotte Neumann wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship
1996 Mike Tyson beat Frank Bruno in 3rd round to gain Heavyweight title
1996 Montréal Canadien's 1st game in their new arena
1996 Sri Lanka beat Australia by 7 wickets to win the World Cup
1997 CNN begins Spanish broadcasts
1998 USA Women's Hockey Team beats Canada for 1st Olympics Gold medal
1926 Spain & Brazil prevent Germany joining League of Nations
1927 US government doesn't sign league of Nations disarmament treaty
1929 General Motors acquires German auto manufacturer Adam Opel
1929 Spanish dictator Primo de Rivera closes university of Madrid
1931 Stalin throws Krupskaya Lenin out of Central Committee
1932 German police raid Hitler's Nazi-headquarter
1934 Dollfuss, Mussolini & Gömbös sign Donau Pact (protocols of Rome)
1935 KSO-AM in Des Moines IA call sign is given to KWCR
1941 National Gallery of Art, Washington DC opens
1942 Belzec Concentration Camp opens-30,000 Lublin Polish Jews transported
1942 General Doug MacArthur arrives in Australia to become supreme commander
1943 Aldemarin (Ned) & Fort Cedar Lake (US) torpedoed & sinks
1943 F Hugh Herbert's "Kiss & Tell" premieres in New York NY
1944 Actor Charlton Heston weds Lydia Clarke
1945 Allied ships bomb North-Sumatra
1950 Belgian government of Eyskens resigns
1950 Element 98 (Californium) announced
1951 Government of Drees takes power
1951 Test Cricket debut of Brian Statham, England vs New Zealand Christchurch
1953 Bill Veeck says he will sell his 80% of St Louis Browns for $2,475M
1953 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1953 WBAY TV channel 2 in Green Bay WI (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 WWLP TV channel 22 in Springfield MA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1955 Maurice "Rocket" Richard suspended, sparks 7 hour riot in Montréal
1956 8th Emmy Awards: Ed Sullivan Show, Phil Silvers Show & Lucy Ball
1957 Dutch ban on Sunday driving lifted
1957 Ramon Magsaysay, President of Philippines dies in a plane crash
1958 Navy launches Vanguard 1 into orbit (2nd US), measures Earth shape
1959 Australia & USSR restore diplomatic relations
1959 Dalai Lama flees Tibet for India
1960 Eisenhower forms anti-Castro-exile army under the CIA
1960 WSLA (now WAKA) TV channel 8 in Selma AL (CBS) begins broadcasting
1961 New York DA arrests professional gamblers who implicate Seton Hall players
1961 South Africa leaves British Commonwealth
1963 Bob Cousy plays his last NBA game
1963 Elizabeth Ann Seton of New York beatified (canonized in 1975)
1963 Eruptions of Mount Agung Bali, kills 1,500 Balinese
1965 Beatles announce their film is named "8 Arms to Hold on to You" (Help)
1966 South Africa government bans Defense & Aid Fund
1966 US sub locates missing H-bomb in Mediterranean
1968 2-tiered gold price negotiated in Washington DC by US & 6 European nations
1968 Kathie Whitworth wins LPGA St Petersburg Orange Blossom Golf Open
1969 Golda Meir becomes Israel's 4th Prime Minister
1969 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Open
1970 Peter O'Malley becomes CEO of Los Angeles Dodgers
1970 US casts their 1st UN Security Council veto (Support England)
1972 Ringo releases "Back off Bugaloo" in UK
1973 Queen Elizabeth II opens new London Bridge
1973 St Patrick's Day marchers carry 14 coffins commemorating Bloody Sunday
1974 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Bing Crosby Golf Classic International
1975 Valeri Muratov skates world record 1000 meter (1:16.92)
1976 Malikov skates world record 1000 meter (1:15.76)
1976 Rubin "Hurricane" Carter is retried
1976 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1977 Australia wins cricket Centenary Test by 45 runs, same result as 1877
1978 Ligeti's opera "Le Grand Macabre" premieres in Stockholm
1978 Reds don green uniforms for St Patricks Day
1979 World Ice Dance Championship at Vienna won by N Linichuk & G Karponosov USSR
1979 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship at Vienna won by Tai Babilonia & R Gardner (USA)
1979 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Vienna won by Linda Fratianne (USA)
1979 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Vienna won by Vladimir Kovalev (USSR)
1981 FC Lisse, Dutch soccer team forms
1982 4 Dutch TV crew members shot dead in El Salvador
1983 70th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy
1983 9th People's Choice Awards
1985 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
1985 Matti Nykanen of Finland set a world ski jump record of 623'
1986 Haemers gang robs gold transport in Belgium of 35 million BF
1987 IBM releases PC-DOS version 3.3
1987 Sunil Gavaskar ends his Test career with an inning of 96 vs Pakistan
1988 "Les Miserables" opens at Det Norske Teatret, Oslo Norway
1988 Highest scoring NCAA basketball game: Loyola-Marymnt 119, Wyoming 115
1988 Iran says Iraq uses poison gas
1989 "Chu Chem" opens at Ritz Theater NYC for 44 performances
1989 Dorothy Cudahy is 1st female grand marshal of St Patrick Day Parade
1990 PBA National Championship Won by Jim Pencak
1991 Irish Lesbians & Gays march in St Patrick Day parade
1991 John Robin Baitz' "Substance of Fire" premieres in New York NY
1991 New Jersey raises turnpike tolls 70%
1991 Penny Hammel wins Desert Inn LPGA Golf International
1991 USSR holds a referendum to determine if they should stay together; 9 of 15 Soviet representatives officially approve new union treaty
1992 "Death & the Maiden" opens at Brooks Atkinson NYC for 159 performances
1992 18th People's Choice Awards: Garth Brooks & Reba McEntire
1992 De Klerk wins a white only referendum
1992 Islamic Jihad truck bombs Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires Argentina killing 29
1992 Russian manned space craft TM-14, launches into orbit
1993 86 killed by bomb attack in Calcutta
1994 "Little More Magic" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 30 performances
1994 Iran transport aircraft crashes in Azerbaijan (32 killed)
1994 It is announced there is no smoking in Cleveland Indians new ballpark
1995 British £ hits 2.4545 to Dutch guilder (record)
1995 Sinn-Fein leader Gerry Adams visits White House
1995 US approves 1st chicken pox vaccine, Varivax by Merck & Co
1996 "Bus Stop" closes at Circle in Square Theater NYC after 29 performances
1996 "Getting Away With Murder" opens at Broadhurst NYC for 17 performances
1996 Aravinda De Silva gets 107 & 3-42 in cricket World Cup victory
1996 Liselotte Neumann wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship
1996 Mike Tyson beat Frank Bruno in 3rd round to gain Heavyweight title
1996 Montréal Canadien's 1st game in their new arena
1996 Sri Lanka beat Australia by 7 wickets to win the World Cup
1997 CNN begins Spanish broadcasts
1998 USA Women's Hockey Team beats Canada for 1st Olympics Gold medal
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1985 "Spin Magazine" begins publishing
1985 New South Wales wins cricket Sheffield Shield by beating Queensland by 1 wicket
1985 Senate votes 55-45, to authorize production of the MX missile
1987 Bonnie Blair skates ladies world record 500 meter (39.43 seconds)
1987 Fred Currey acquires Greyhound Bus Company
1987 Hassanali inaugurated as President of Trinidad & Tobago
1987 PTL leader Jim Bakker resigns after sex scandal with Jessica Hahn
1987 Yvonne van Gennip skates ladies world record 3 km (4:16.85)
1988 2 British soldiers lynched in Belfast North Ireland
1988 Yvonne van Gennip skates un-official world record 10 km (15 :5.25)
1989 Boeing V-22 Osprey VTOL aircraft makes maiden flight
1989 Lori Garbacz wins Circle K LPGA Golf Open Tucson
1989 World Ice Dance Championship in Paris France won by M Klimova & S Ponomarenko (USR)
1989 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Paris France won by E Gordeeva & S Grinkov (USSR)
1989 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Paris France won by Midori Ito (Japan)
1989 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Paris France won by Kurt Browning (Canada)
1990 1st world ice hockey tournament for women held (Ottawa)
1991 Kansas City Royals announce they are putting Bo Jackson on waivers
1991 NFL owners strip Phoenix of 1993 Super Bowl game due to Arizona not recognizing Martin Luther King Day
1991 Sacramento Kings set NBA record of 29 consecutive road loses
1991 St Louis Blue Brett Hull is 3rd NHLer to score 80 goals in a season
1992 "Master Builder" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 45 performances
1992 British Prince Andrew & Princess Sarah Ferguson announce separation
1993 Supreme Court Justice Byron R White announced plans to retire
1993 World Ice Dance Championship in Prague won by M Usova & A Zhulin (Russia)
1993 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Prague won by I Brasseur & L Eisler (Canada)
1993 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Prague won by Oksana Baiul (Ukraine)
1993 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Prague won by Kurt Browning (Canada)
1994 2500 kilograms of cocaine intercepted in Zeewolde Netherlands
1994 Lara scores 167 for West Indies vs England at Georgetown
1994 Largest omelet (1,383² ft) made with 160,000 eggs in Yokohama Japan
1994 New Jersey Devils club record 41st win of the season
1995 "Translations" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 25 performances
1995 "Uncle Vanya" closes at Circle in Square Theater NYC after 29 performances
1995 5 die by poison gas in Japanese subway
1995 Arizona begins using new area code 520 outside of Phoenix
1995 Bonnie Blair skates female world record point total (156.450)
1995 Finland Social-Democratic Party wins parliamentary election
1995 Laura Davis wins LPGA Standard Register PING Golf Tournament
1995 Michael Jordan rejoins Chicago Bulls after 17 months, beats Pacers
1995 NBA New York Knicks beat New York Nets in 100th meeting (Knicks 53 Nets 47)
1995 Neil Marshall skates world record 3 km (3 :4.08)
1996 Winnie Mandela divorces Nelson after 38 years of marrage
1997 Major League Baseball announces 5 year/$50M deal with Pepsi
1997 Supreme Court hears Internet indecency arguments
1998 "Ah Wilderness!" opens at Vivian Beaumont theater
1985 New South Wales wins cricket Sheffield Shield by beating Queensland by 1 wicket
1985 Senate votes 55-45, to authorize production of the MX missile
1987 Bonnie Blair skates ladies world record 500 meter (39.43 seconds)
1987 Fred Currey acquires Greyhound Bus Company
1987 Hassanali inaugurated as President of Trinidad & Tobago
1987 PTL leader Jim Bakker resigns after sex scandal with Jessica Hahn
1987 Yvonne van Gennip skates ladies world record 3 km (4:16.85)
1988 2 British soldiers lynched in Belfast North Ireland
1988 Yvonne van Gennip skates un-official world record 10 km (15 :5.25)
1989 Boeing V-22 Osprey VTOL aircraft makes maiden flight
1989 Lori Garbacz wins Circle K LPGA Golf Open Tucson
1989 World Ice Dance Championship in Paris France won by M Klimova & S Ponomarenko (USR)
1989 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Paris France won by E Gordeeva & S Grinkov (USSR)
1989 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Paris France won by Midori Ito (Japan)
1989 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Paris France won by Kurt Browning (Canada)
1990 1st world ice hockey tournament for women held (Ottawa)
1991 Kansas City Royals announce they are putting Bo Jackson on waivers
1991 NFL owners strip Phoenix of 1993 Super Bowl game due to Arizona not recognizing Martin Luther King Day
1991 Sacramento Kings set NBA record of 29 consecutive road loses
1991 St Louis Blue Brett Hull is 3rd NHLer to score 80 goals in a season
1992 "Master Builder" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 45 performances
1992 British Prince Andrew & Princess Sarah Ferguson announce separation
1993 Supreme Court Justice Byron R White announced plans to retire
1993 World Ice Dance Championship in Prague won by M Usova & A Zhulin (Russia)
1993 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Prague won by I Brasseur & L Eisler (Canada)
1993 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Prague won by Oksana Baiul (Ukraine)
1993 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Prague won by Kurt Browning (Canada)
1994 2500 kilograms of cocaine intercepted in Zeewolde Netherlands
1994 Lara scores 167 for West Indies vs England at Georgetown
1994 Largest omelet (1,383² ft) made with 160,000 eggs in Yokohama Japan
1994 New Jersey Devils club record 41st win of the season
1995 "Translations" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 25 performances
1995 "Uncle Vanya" closes at Circle in Square Theater NYC after 29 performances
1995 5 die by poison gas in Japanese subway
1995 Arizona begins using new area code 520 outside of Phoenix
1995 Bonnie Blair skates female world record point total (156.450)
1995 Finland Social-Democratic Party wins parliamentary election
1995 Laura Davis wins LPGA Standard Register PING Golf Tournament
1995 Michael Jordan rejoins Chicago Bulls after 17 months, beats Pacers
1995 NBA New York Knicks beat New York Nets in 100th meeting (Knicks 53 Nets 47)
1995 Neil Marshall skates world record 3 km (3 :4.08)
1996 Winnie Mandela divorces Nelson after 38 years of marrage
1997 Major League Baseball announces 5 year/$50M deal with Pepsi
1997 Supreme Court hears Internet indecency arguments
1998 "Ah Wilderness!" opens at Vivian Beaumont theater
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1990 Singer Gloria Estefan breaks her collarbone in a bus accident
1991 Court awards Peggy Lee $3 million in contract violation suit against Disney
1991 Michael Jackson signs $65M six album deal with Sony records
1991 Supreme Court rules unanimously employers can't exclude women from jobs where exposure to toxic chemicals could potentially damage fetus
1991 US forgives $2 billion in loans to Poland
1992 Janice Pennington is awarded $1.3M for accident on Price is Right set
1992 Noriega's wife Felicidad arrested for stealing buttons from dresses
1993 Dan Jansen skates world record 500 meter (36.02 seconds)
1993 IRA-bomb kills 3 year old in Warrington England
1993 Morton Downey Jr weds Lori Krebs
1994 "Cyrano: The Musical" closes at Neil Simon NYC after 137 performances
1994 "Flowering Peach" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 41 performances
1994 "No Man's Land" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 61 performances
1994 14th Golden Raspberry Awards: Indecent Proposal wins
1994 El Salvador's 1st Presidential election following 12-year-old civil war
1994 Laura Davies wins LPGA Standard Register Ping Golf Tournament
1994 Mashonaland U-24 beat Matabeleland on 1st inn to win Logan Cup
1994 Wrestlemania X at Madison Square Garden New York, Bret Hart pins Yokozuna to win WWF championship
1994 Zulu-king Goodwill Zwelithini founds realm in South Africa
1995 Beatles song, "Free As A Bird", with late John Lennon as lead singer, is released, 1st Fab Four single since their 1970 breakup
1995 Dow-Jones hits 4083.68 (record)
1995 Poison Gas released in Tokyo subway 12 killed, 4,700 injured
1996 "Love Thy Neighbor" opens at Booth Theater NYC
1996 Erik & Lyle Menendez found guilty of killing their parents
1996 UK admits humans can catch CJD (Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease aka Mad Cow Disease)
1997 "Play On!" opens at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC for 61 performances
1997 Liggett admits cigarettes are addictive
1991 Court awards Peggy Lee $3 million in contract violation suit against Disney
1991 Michael Jackson signs $65M six album deal with Sony records
1991 Supreme Court rules unanimously employers can't exclude women from jobs where exposure to toxic chemicals could potentially damage fetus
1991 US forgives $2 billion in loans to Poland
1992 Janice Pennington is awarded $1.3M for accident on Price is Right set
1992 Noriega's wife Felicidad arrested for stealing buttons from dresses
1993 Dan Jansen skates world record 500 meter (36.02 seconds)
1993 IRA-bomb kills 3 year old in Warrington England
1993 Morton Downey Jr weds Lori Krebs
1994 "Cyrano: The Musical" closes at Neil Simon NYC after 137 performances
1994 "Flowering Peach" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 41 performances
1994 "No Man's Land" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 61 performances
1994 14th Golden Raspberry Awards: Indecent Proposal wins
1994 El Salvador's 1st Presidential election following 12-year-old civil war
1994 Laura Davies wins LPGA Standard Register Ping Golf Tournament
1994 Mashonaland U-24 beat Matabeleland on 1st inn to win Logan Cup
1994 Wrestlemania X at Madison Square Garden New York, Bret Hart pins Yokozuna to win WWF championship
1994 Zulu-king Goodwill Zwelithini founds realm in South Africa
1995 Beatles song, "Free As A Bird", with late John Lennon as lead singer, is released, 1st Fab Four single since their 1970 breakup
1995 Dow-Jones hits 4083.68 (record)
1995 Poison Gas released in Tokyo subway 12 killed, 4,700 injured
1996 "Love Thy Neighbor" opens at Booth Theater NYC
1996 Erik & Lyle Menendez found guilty of killing their parents
1996 UK admits humans can catch CJD (Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease aka Mad Cow Disease)
1997 "Play On!" opens at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC for 61 performances
1997 Liggett admits cigarettes are addictive
In 1638,religious dissident Ane Hutchinson was expelled from the Mass. Bay Colony for defying Puritan orthodoxy.
In 1820,U.S. naval hero Stephen Decatur was killed in a duel with Commodore James Barron near Washington D.C.
In 1882,Congress outlawed polygamy.
In 1933,during Prohibition,President Roosevelt signed a measure to make wine and beer containing up to 3.2 percent alcohol legal.
In 1820,U.S. naval hero Stephen Decatur was killed in a duel with Commodore James Barron near Washington D.C.
In 1882,Congress outlawed polygamy.
In 1933,during Prohibition,President Roosevelt signed a measure to make wine and beer containing up to 3.2 percent alcohol legal.
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1969 Soviet weather satellite Meteor 1 launched
1970 "Minnie's Boys" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 80 performances
1970 500th nuclear explosion announced by the US since 1945
1970 Golden Gate Park Conservatory made city landmark
1970 Peter Yarrow (Peter, Paul & Mary) pleads guilty to "taking immoral liberties" with a 14 year old girl
1971 "Benny Hill Show" tops TV ratings
1971 "Cannon" with William Conrad premieres on CBS-TV
1971 Bangladesh (East Pakistan) declares its independence
1972 "Only Fools Are Sad" closes at Edison Theater NYC after 144 performances
1972 Betsy Cullen wins LPGA Sears Women's World Golf Classic
1972 Los Angeles Lakers broke NBA record by winning 69 of 82 games (69-13)
1973 35th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Memphis 81-76; this is UCLA's 7th consecutive NCAA basketball title
1973 Soap opera "The Young and the Restless" premieres
1973 Susan Shaw, is 1st woman in 171 years in London's Stock exchange
1974 George Foreman TKOs Ken Norton in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
1974 Romanian communist party names party leader Nicolae Ceausescu President
1975 "Tommy" premieres in London
1975 Washington Capitals play record NHL 37th road game without a win & NHL record of 17 straight losses
1976 American League approves purchase of Toronto franchise by LaBatt Brewing for $7M
1976 Wings release "Wings at the Speed of Sound" album
1977 Elvis Costello releases his 1st record "Less Than Zero"
1979 41st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Michigan State Spartans beat Indiana State Sycamores, 75-64 as Magic Johnson outscores Larry Bird, 24-19; this snaps Indiana State's 33-game win streak
1979 Camp David peace treaty between Israel & Egypt
1979 Padres & Giants announce plans to play exhibition series in Tokyo but Giant players reject it
1980 Bombay gets its 1st rock concert in 10 years (The Police)
1981 Police & Albanian demonstrators battle in Kosovo Yugoslavia
1981 Soyuz T-4 lands
1982 Ground-breaking in Washington DC for Vietnam Veterans Memorial
1982 Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder release "Ebony & Ivory" in the UK
1982 Soap opera "Capitol" premieres
1983 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1986 Geffen records signs Guns & Roses
1987 August Wilson's "Fences" premieres in New York NY
1987 Hyderabad beat Delhi on 1st innings to win Ranji Trophy
1987 NASA launches Fltsatcom-6, it failed to reach orbit
1987 National Federation of High School adopts college 3 point shot (21 feet)
1988 Janet B Evans swims 1500 meter freestyle female world record (15 :2.10)
1989 1st free elections in USSR: 190 M votes cast; Boris Yeltsin wins
1989 Allison Finney wins LPGA Standard Register Turquoise Golf Classic
1990 62nd Academy Awards: "Driving Miss Daisy", Daniel Day-Lewis, Jessica Tandy win
1991 Fuel pipe explodes under 58th street & Lexington Ave, New York NY
1991 Marc Camoletti's "Don't Dress for Dinner" premieres in London
1991 Orlando Thunder beats San Antonio Riders in their 1st WLAF game 35-34
1991 Victoria beat New South Wales by 7 wickets to win Sheffield Shield Final
1992 Mike Tyson sentenced to 10 years in rape of Desiree Washington
1992 NHL New York Rangers clinch 1st NHL regular season championship in 50 years
1994 Bonnie Blair skates world record 500 meter ladies (38.99 seconds)
1994 Gunda Niemann skates un-official world record 10 km ladies (14 :2.60)
1994 Gunda Niemann skates world record 5 km ladies (7 :3.26)
1994 Talk show hostess Ricki Lake weds Rob Sussman
1995 "Defending the Caveman" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 671 performances
1995 "Moliere Comedies" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 56 performances
1995 15th Golden Raspberry Awards: Color of Night wins
1995 24th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Nanci Bowen
1995 Mashonaland beat Mashonaland U-24 by 165 runs to win Logan Cup
1996 Last day of 1st-class cricket for Allan Border (Queensland vs Victoria)
1997 "Annie" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC
1997 NHL announce Might Ducks & Vancouver Canucks to open 1998 in Japan
1970 "Minnie's Boys" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 80 performances
1970 500th nuclear explosion announced by the US since 1945
1970 Golden Gate Park Conservatory made city landmark
1970 Peter Yarrow (Peter, Paul & Mary) pleads guilty to "taking immoral liberties" with a 14 year old girl
1971 "Benny Hill Show" tops TV ratings
1971 "Cannon" with William Conrad premieres on CBS-TV
1971 Bangladesh (East Pakistan) declares its independence
1972 "Only Fools Are Sad" closes at Edison Theater NYC after 144 performances
1972 Betsy Cullen wins LPGA Sears Women's World Golf Classic
1972 Los Angeles Lakers broke NBA record by winning 69 of 82 games (69-13)
1973 35th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Memphis 81-76; this is UCLA's 7th consecutive NCAA basketball title
1973 Soap opera "The Young and the Restless" premieres
1973 Susan Shaw, is 1st woman in 171 years in London's Stock exchange
1974 George Foreman TKOs Ken Norton in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
1974 Romanian communist party names party leader Nicolae Ceausescu President
1975 "Tommy" premieres in London
1975 Washington Capitals play record NHL 37th road game without a win & NHL record of 17 straight losses
1976 American League approves purchase of Toronto franchise by LaBatt Brewing for $7M
1976 Wings release "Wings at the Speed of Sound" album
1977 Elvis Costello releases his 1st record "Less Than Zero"
1979 41st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Michigan State Spartans beat Indiana State Sycamores, 75-64 as Magic Johnson outscores Larry Bird, 24-19; this snaps Indiana State's 33-game win streak
1979 Camp David peace treaty between Israel & Egypt
1979 Padres & Giants announce plans to play exhibition series in Tokyo but Giant players reject it
1980 Bombay gets its 1st rock concert in 10 years (The Police)
1981 Police & Albanian demonstrators battle in Kosovo Yugoslavia
1981 Soyuz T-4 lands
1982 Ground-breaking in Washington DC for Vietnam Veterans Memorial
1982 Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder release "Ebony & Ivory" in the UK
1982 Soap opera "Capitol" premieres
1983 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1986 Geffen records signs Guns & Roses
1987 August Wilson's "Fences" premieres in New York NY
1987 Hyderabad beat Delhi on 1st innings to win Ranji Trophy
1987 NASA launches Fltsatcom-6, it failed to reach orbit
1987 National Federation of High School adopts college 3 point shot (21 feet)
1988 Janet B Evans swims 1500 meter freestyle female world record (15 :2.10)
1989 1st free elections in USSR: 190 M votes cast; Boris Yeltsin wins
1989 Allison Finney wins LPGA Standard Register Turquoise Golf Classic
1990 62nd Academy Awards: "Driving Miss Daisy", Daniel Day-Lewis, Jessica Tandy win
1991 Fuel pipe explodes under 58th street & Lexington Ave, New York NY
1991 Marc Camoletti's "Don't Dress for Dinner" premieres in London
1991 Orlando Thunder beats San Antonio Riders in their 1st WLAF game 35-34
1991 Victoria beat New South Wales by 7 wickets to win Sheffield Shield Final
1992 Mike Tyson sentenced to 10 years in rape of Desiree Washington
1992 NHL New York Rangers clinch 1st NHL regular season championship in 50 years
1994 Bonnie Blair skates world record 500 meter ladies (38.99 seconds)
1994 Gunda Niemann skates un-official world record 10 km ladies (14 :2.60)
1994 Gunda Niemann skates world record 5 km ladies (7 :3.26)
1994 Talk show hostess Ricki Lake weds Rob Sussman
1995 "Defending the Caveman" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 671 performances
1995 "Moliere Comedies" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 56 performances
1995 15th Golden Raspberry Awards: Color of Night wins
1995 24th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Nanci Bowen
1995 Mashonaland beat Mashonaland U-24 by 165 runs to win Logan Cup
1996 Last day of 1st-class cricket for Allan Border (Queensland vs Victoria)
1997 "Annie" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC
1997 NHL announce Might Ducks & Vancouver Canucks to open 1998 in Japan
In 1804,the Louisiana Purchase was divided into the Territory of Orleans and the District of Louisiana.
In 1892,post Walt Whitman died in Camden, N.J.
In 1911,playwright Tennessee Williams was born in Columbus,Miss.
In 1958,the U.S. Army launched America's third successful satellite,Explorer 3
In 1964,the musical play "Funny Girl" , opened on Broadway.
In 1892,post Walt Whitman died in Camden, N.J.
In 1911,playwright Tennessee Williams was born in Columbus,Miss.
In 1958,the U.S. Army launched America's third successful satellite,Explorer 3
In 1964,the musical play "Funny Girl" , opened on Broadway.
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1953 KCAU TV channel 9 in Sioux City IA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Tenley Albright
1953 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Hayes A Jenkins
1954 8th Tony Awards: Teahouse of the August Moon & Kismet win
1954 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Betsy Rawls Golf Open
1954 WKAQ TV channel 2 in San Juan PR (TM) begins broadcasting
1955 New Zealand cricket all out for 26 vs England at Eden Park
1957 1st National Curling Championship held
1959 11 days after Tibet uprising, China dissolves Tibet's government & installs Panchen Lama
1960 Pope John raises the 1st Japanese, 1st African & 1st Filipino cardinal
1960 Scotch factory explodes burying 20 firefighters (Glasgow Scotland)
1962 Devastating 8 for 6 spell by Gibbs gives West Indies cricket victory over India
1962 Military coup in Syria, President Nazim al-Kudsi flees
1963 AFL's New York Titans become the New York Jets
1965 Jo Ann Prentice wins LPGA All State Ladies' Golf Invitational
1967 "Sherry!" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 65 performances
1967 UN Secretary General U Thant makes public proposals for peace in Vietnam
1969 Pope Paul VI names JGM Willebrands cardinal
1970 1,086 die when 7.3 earthquake destroys 254 villages (Gediz Turkey)
1971 25th Tony Awards: Sleuth & Company win
1972 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1972 Wilt Chamberlain plays his last pro basketball game
1974 Rock group Raspberries break up
1975 Washington Capitals win 1st game on road after 37 straight road losses also sets own team record with 17 straight losses
1977 39th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Marquette beats North Carolina 67-59
1977 49th Academy Awards: "Rocky", Peter Finch & Faye Dunaway win
1977 Morarji Desai forms government in India
1979 British government of Callaghan falls
1979 Lazarus & Vosburgh's "Day in Hollywood & night in Ukraine" premieres
1979 Major nuclear accident at 3 Mile Island, Middletown PA (no deaths)
1981 Christa Rothenburger skates ladies world record 500 meter 40.18 seconds)
1981 France performs nuclear test
1981 Gabi Schönbrunn skates ladies world record 3 km (4 :1.70)
1981 Viv Richards scores century in the 1st Test at his home Antigua
1981 Yevgeni Kulikov skates world record 500 meter (36.91 seconds)
1982 12th Easter Seal Telethon raises $19,500,000
1982 1st NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Louisiana Tech beats Cheney 76-62
1982 Amy Alcott wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
1982 JN Duartes christian-democrats win elections in El Salvador
1985 International Cometary Explorer measures solar wind ahead of Halley's Comet
1985 Neil Simon's "Biloxi Blues" premieres in New York NY
1985 STS 51-D vehicle moves to launch pad
1986 Extremist Sikhs kill 13 hindus in Ludhiana India
1986 John N McMahon, ends term as deputy director of CIA
1987 Stacking of Discovery's SRBs gets underway
1989 New Zealand wins America's Cup over Stars & Stripes, in a New York court
1990 Bengal beat Delhi in rained-out cricket Ranji Trophy final on quotient
1990 Michael Jordan scores 69 points, 4th time he scores 60 points in a game
1990 President Bush awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal
1991 Mike Tyson admits paternity to Kimberly Scarborough's son
1992 6th American Comedy Awards: Cathy Ladman, Judy Watkins, Billy Crystal
1992 Ann Transon runs female world record 50k (3 :5 :1)
1992 PBA National Championship Won by Eric Forkel
1993 13th Golden Raspberry Awards: Shining Through wins
1993 22nd Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Helen Alfredsson
1993 Conservatives win French parliamentary election
1993 Type II supernova detected in M81 (NGC 3031)
1994 Armed Zulus demonstrate in Johannesburg, over 53 killed
1994 Italy's right-wing alliance under Silvio Berlusconi wins election
1995 Julia Roberts & Lyle Lovett split-up
1995 Queensland beat South Australia to win 1st ever cricket Sheffield Shield
1995 World's largest bank-Japan's Mitsubishi Bank & Bank of Tokyo merge
1996 "Seven Guitars" opens at Walter Kerr Theater NYC
1996 Katie Beam, 17, of Oklahoma, crowned 35th Miss Teenage America
1997 "City" soap opera's final episode on ABC-TV
1999 18th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Purdue beats Duke 62-45 in San Jose CA
1953 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Tenley Albright
1953 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Hayes A Jenkins
1954 8th Tony Awards: Teahouse of the August Moon & Kismet win
1954 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Betsy Rawls Golf Open
1954 WKAQ TV channel 2 in San Juan PR (TM) begins broadcasting
1955 New Zealand cricket all out for 26 vs England at Eden Park
1957 1st National Curling Championship held
1959 11 days after Tibet uprising, China dissolves Tibet's government & installs Panchen Lama
1960 Pope John raises the 1st Japanese, 1st African & 1st Filipino cardinal
1960 Scotch factory explodes burying 20 firefighters (Glasgow Scotland)
1962 Devastating 8 for 6 spell by Gibbs gives West Indies cricket victory over India
1962 Military coup in Syria, President Nazim al-Kudsi flees
1963 AFL's New York Titans become the New York Jets
1965 Jo Ann Prentice wins LPGA All State Ladies' Golf Invitational
1967 "Sherry!" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 65 performances
1967 UN Secretary General U Thant makes public proposals for peace in Vietnam
1969 Pope Paul VI names JGM Willebrands cardinal
1970 1,086 die when 7.3 earthquake destroys 254 villages (Gediz Turkey)
1971 25th Tony Awards: Sleuth & Company win
1972 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1972 Wilt Chamberlain plays his last pro basketball game
1974 Rock group Raspberries break up
1975 Washington Capitals win 1st game on road after 37 straight road losses also sets own team record with 17 straight losses
1977 39th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Marquette beats North Carolina 67-59
1977 49th Academy Awards: "Rocky", Peter Finch & Faye Dunaway win
1977 Morarji Desai forms government in India
1979 British government of Callaghan falls
1979 Lazarus & Vosburgh's "Day in Hollywood & night in Ukraine" premieres
1979 Major nuclear accident at 3 Mile Island, Middletown PA (no deaths)
1981 Christa Rothenburger skates ladies world record 500 meter 40.18 seconds)
1981 France performs nuclear test
1981 Gabi Schönbrunn skates ladies world record 3 km (4 :1.70)
1981 Viv Richards scores century in the 1st Test at his home Antigua
1981 Yevgeni Kulikov skates world record 500 meter (36.91 seconds)
1982 12th Easter Seal Telethon raises $19,500,000
1982 1st NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Louisiana Tech beats Cheney 76-62
1982 Amy Alcott wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
1982 JN Duartes christian-democrats win elections in El Salvador
1985 International Cometary Explorer measures solar wind ahead of Halley's Comet
1985 Neil Simon's "Biloxi Blues" premieres in New York NY
1985 STS 51-D vehicle moves to launch pad
1986 Extremist Sikhs kill 13 hindus in Ludhiana India
1986 John N McMahon, ends term as deputy director of CIA
1987 Stacking of Discovery's SRBs gets underway
1989 New Zealand wins America's Cup over Stars & Stripes, in a New York court
1990 Bengal beat Delhi in rained-out cricket Ranji Trophy final on quotient
1990 Michael Jordan scores 69 points, 4th time he scores 60 points in a game
1990 President Bush awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal
1991 Mike Tyson admits paternity to Kimberly Scarborough's son
1992 6th American Comedy Awards: Cathy Ladman, Judy Watkins, Billy Crystal
1992 Ann Transon runs female world record 50k (3 :5 :1)
1992 PBA National Championship Won by Eric Forkel
1993 13th Golden Raspberry Awards: Shining Through wins
1993 22nd Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Helen Alfredsson
1993 Conservatives win French parliamentary election
1993 Type II supernova detected in M81 (NGC 3031)
1994 Armed Zulus demonstrate in Johannesburg, over 53 killed
1994 Italy's right-wing alliance under Silvio Berlusconi wins election
1995 Julia Roberts & Lyle Lovett split-up
1995 Queensland beat South Australia to win 1st ever cricket Sheffield Shield
1995 World's largest bank-Japan's Mitsubishi Bank & Bank of Tokyo merge
1996 "Seven Guitars" opens at Walter Kerr Theater NYC
1996 Katie Beam, 17, of Oklahoma, crowned 35th Miss Teenage America
1997 "City" soap opera's final episode on ABC-TV
1999 18th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Purdue beats Duke 62-45 in San Jose CA
In 1834,the U.S. Senate voted to censure President Jackson for the removal of federal deposites from the Bank of the United States.
In 1898, the Supreme Court,in United States v. Wong kim Ark,ruled that a child born in the United Staes to Chinese immigrants was a U.S. citizen.
In 1969,the 34th president of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower,died in Washington at age 78.
In 1898, the Supreme Court,in United States v. Wong kim Ark,ruled that a child born in the United Staes to Chinese immigrants was a U.S. citizen.
In 1969,the 34th president of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower,died in Washington at age 78.
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Religious History
1523 German reformer Martin Luther wrote in a letter: 'There has never been a great revelation of God's Word unless God has first prepared the way by the rise and the flourishing of languages and learning, as though these were forerunners, a sort of John the Baptist.'
1638 The first Swedish colonists in America established a Lutheran settlement at Fort Christiana in the Colony of Delaware.
1832 The Kentucky Baptist Convention was organized in Frankfort with delegates representing nine congregations within the state.
1847 Birth of Winfield Scott Weeden, American sacred chorister and hymnwriter. During his life he led music and singing schools for the YMCA and Christian Endeavor. Of his several musical compositions, Weeden is best remembered today for the hymn, "I Surrender All."
1882 The Knights of Columbus, founded by Father Michael J. McGivney, was chartered by the General Assembly of Connecticut. Established as a lay fraternal society, the K of C encourages benevolence, patriotism and racial tolerance among its members
1523 German reformer Martin Luther wrote in a letter: 'There has never been a great revelation of God's Word unless God has first prepared the way by the rise and the flourishing of languages and learning, as though these were forerunners, a sort of John the Baptist.'
1638 The first Swedish colonists in America established a Lutheran settlement at Fort Christiana in the Colony of Delaware.
1832 The Kentucky Baptist Convention was organized in Frankfort with delegates representing nine congregations within the state.
1847 Birth of Winfield Scott Weeden, American sacred chorister and hymnwriter. During his life he led music and singing schools for the YMCA and Christian Endeavor. Of his several musical compositions, Weeden is best remembered today for the hymn, "I Surrender All."
1882 The Knights of Columbus, founded by Father Michael J. McGivney, was chartered by the General Assembly of Connecticut. Established as a lay fraternal society, the K of C encourages benevolence, patriotism and racial tolerance among its members
In 1790,the 10th president of the United States,John Tyler,was born in Charles City County,Va.
In 1882,the Khights of Columbus was chartered in Connecticut.
In 1951,Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage.(They were executed in June 1953.)
In 1962,Jack Paar hosted NBC's Tonight show for the final time.
In 1882,the Khights of Columbus was chartered in Connecticut.
In 1951,Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage.(They were executed in June 1953.)
In 1962,Jack Paar hosted NBC's Tonight show for the final time.
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1969 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Port Malabar Golf Invitational
1970 Miles Davis Bitches Brew released
1970 Soap opera "Somerset" premieres
1970 Strouse, Adams, Comden & Green's musical "Applause" premieres at Palace Theater NYC for 900 performances
1970 USSR wins its 8th straight world hockey championship
1972 "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" opens at Lunt-Fontanne NYC for 156 performances
1972 North Vietnamese troops enter South Vietnam
1972 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1973 Ellsworth Bunker resigns as US ambassador to South Vietnam
1975 Ron Lalonde scores the 1st hat trick by a Washington Capital
1976 Israel kills 6 Palestinians protesting land confiscation
1978 "History of the American Film" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 21 performances
1980 Mark Medoff's "Children of a Lesser God" premieres in New York NY
1980 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
1981 43rd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana beats North Carolina 63-50
1981 President Reagan shot & wounded by John W Hinckley Jr
1982 3rd space shuttle mission-Columbia 3 lands at White Sands NM
1982 John Pielmeier's "Agnes of God" premieres in New York NY
1983 Ray Cooney's "Run for your Wives" premieres in London
1983 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1984 US ends participation in multinational Lebanon peace force
1986 "Tango Argentino" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 198 performances
1986 5th NCAA Women Basketball Championship: Texas beats Southern California 97-81
1987 59th Academy Awards: "Platoon", Paul Newman & Marlee Matlin win
1987 Vincent van Gogh's "Sunflowers" sells for record £22.5M ($39.7 million)
1988 2nd Soul Train Music Awards
1988 Tamil Nadu beat Railways by inns & 144 to win Ranji Trophy
1990 Jack Nicklaus made his debut in the "Seniors" golf tournament
1991 "Speed of Darkness" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 36 performances
1991 1st exhibition baseball games at Joe Robbie Stadium (Yankees-Orioles)
1991 44th NCAA Ice Hockey Chanmpionship: Northern Michigan beats Boston University 8-7; Northern Michigan's 1st NCAA hockey title
1991 Last issue of Dutch Newspaper "Vrÿe Folk" (Free People)
1991 PBA National Championship Won by Mike Miller
1991 William Kennedy Smith allegedly rapes a woman
1991 William Kennedy Smith allegedly rapes a woman (found not guilty)
1992 64th Academy Awards (Silent of the Lambs sweeps with Best Picture, Anthony Hopkins as Best Actor and Jodie Foster as Best Actress)
1992 CBS TV premieres overnight news program "Up To The Minute"
1992 Man accidentally backs into A's Jose Canseco's $225,000 Lamborghini
1992 PJ Patterson, resigns as 6th Prime Minister of Jamaica
1992 WNSR-FM (105.1) changes callsign to WMXV-FM (New York NY)
1993 French government of Balladur forms
1993 Jamaican premier Percival Patterson wins parliamentary election
1993 Lanford Wilson's "Redwood Curtain" premieres at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC for 40 performances
1993 New South Wales beat Queensland by eight wickets to win Sheffield Shield
1993 Punjab beat Maharashtra by 120 runs to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy
1994 ABC Masters Tournament won by Hobo Boothe
1994 Bombay beat Bengal by 8 wickets to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy
1994 England Cricket all out for 46 at Port-of-Spain
1995 "Arcadia" opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC for 204 performances
1996 Lara hits 146 cricket not out in ODI vs New Zealand at Port-Of-Spain
1996 New York Mets beats New York Yankees 5-3 in an exhibition game
1996 Prince Edward & girl-friend Sophie Rhys-Jones visited Greystoke Castle
1997 16th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Tennessee beats Old Dominion 68-59
1997 26th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Betsy King
1997 Southwestern Bell Dominion Senior Golf
1997 Steve Elkington wins Golf's Players Championship
1998 60th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: at Alamodome San Antonio, Kentucky beats Utah 78-69
1970 Miles Davis Bitches Brew released
1970 Soap opera "Somerset" premieres
1970 Strouse, Adams, Comden & Green's musical "Applause" premieres at Palace Theater NYC for 900 performances
1970 USSR wins its 8th straight world hockey championship
1972 "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" opens at Lunt-Fontanne NYC for 156 performances
1972 North Vietnamese troops enter South Vietnam
1972 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1973 Ellsworth Bunker resigns as US ambassador to South Vietnam
1975 Ron Lalonde scores the 1st hat trick by a Washington Capital
1976 Israel kills 6 Palestinians protesting land confiscation
1978 "History of the American Film" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 21 performances
1980 Mark Medoff's "Children of a Lesser God" premieres in New York NY
1980 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
1981 43rd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana beats North Carolina 63-50
1981 President Reagan shot & wounded by John W Hinckley Jr
1982 3rd space shuttle mission-Columbia 3 lands at White Sands NM
1982 John Pielmeier's "Agnes of God" premieres in New York NY
1983 Ray Cooney's "Run for your Wives" premieres in London
1983 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1984 US ends participation in multinational Lebanon peace force
1986 "Tango Argentino" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 198 performances
1986 5th NCAA Women Basketball Championship: Texas beats Southern California 97-81
1987 59th Academy Awards: "Platoon", Paul Newman & Marlee Matlin win
1987 Vincent van Gogh's "Sunflowers" sells for record £22.5M ($39.7 million)
1988 2nd Soul Train Music Awards
1988 Tamil Nadu beat Railways by inns & 144 to win Ranji Trophy
1990 Jack Nicklaus made his debut in the "Seniors" golf tournament
1991 "Speed of Darkness" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 36 performances
1991 1st exhibition baseball games at Joe Robbie Stadium (Yankees-Orioles)
1991 44th NCAA Ice Hockey Chanmpionship: Northern Michigan beats Boston University 8-7; Northern Michigan's 1st NCAA hockey title
1991 Last issue of Dutch Newspaper "Vrÿe Folk" (Free People)
1991 PBA National Championship Won by Mike Miller
1991 William Kennedy Smith allegedly rapes a woman
1991 William Kennedy Smith allegedly rapes a woman (found not guilty)
1992 64th Academy Awards (Silent of the Lambs sweeps with Best Picture, Anthony Hopkins as Best Actor and Jodie Foster as Best Actress)
1992 CBS TV premieres overnight news program "Up To The Minute"
1992 Man accidentally backs into A's Jose Canseco's $225,000 Lamborghini
1992 PJ Patterson, resigns as 6th Prime Minister of Jamaica
1992 WNSR-FM (105.1) changes callsign to WMXV-FM (New York NY)
1993 French government of Balladur forms
1993 Jamaican premier Percival Patterson wins parliamentary election
1993 Lanford Wilson's "Redwood Curtain" premieres at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC for 40 performances
1993 New South Wales beat Queensland by eight wickets to win Sheffield Shield
1993 Punjab beat Maharashtra by 120 runs to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy
1994 ABC Masters Tournament won by Hobo Boothe
1994 Bombay beat Bengal by 8 wickets to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy
1994 England Cricket all out for 46 at Port-of-Spain
1995 "Arcadia" opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC for 204 performances
1996 Lara hits 146 cricket not out in ODI vs New Zealand at Port-Of-Spain
1996 New York Mets beats New York Yankees 5-3 in an exhibition game
1996 Prince Edward & girl-friend Sophie Rhys-Jones visited Greystoke Castle
1997 16th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Tennessee beats Old Dominion 68-59
1997 26th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Betsy King
1997 Southwestern Bell Dominion Senior Golf
1997 Steve Elkington wins Golf's Players Championship
1998 60th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: at Alamodome San Antonio, Kentucky beats Utah 78-69