| 326 | | Saint Helena, mother of Constantine the Great, discovers the "true cross.” | Ref: 10 |
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| 495 | * | Pope Gelasius asserts that his authority is superior to Emperor Enanstasius. | Ref: 2 |
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| 996 | * | Pope St. Gregory V is elected to the Papacy. | Ref: 69 |
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| 1294 | * | John II becomes duke of Brabant/Limburg. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1342 | * | Count Hartmann II becomes ruler of Vaduz (Liechtenstein). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1455 | * | Jews flee Spain. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1512 | * | The Fifth Lateran Council opened under Pope Julius II. Its twelve sessions lasting through 1517, the council continued under Leo X, following Julius' death in 1513. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1621 | * | Francis Bacon accused of bribery. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1640 | * | English Upper house accept Act of Attainder. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1654 | * | A bridge in Rowley MA is permitted to charge a toll for crossing animals while people crossed for free. (XDG, p 4A, 5/3/2000) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1662 | * | Royal charter granted Connecticut. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1675 | * | A Massachusetts law was enacted requiring church doors to be locked during the worship service. (Too many people were leaving before the long sermons were completed.) | Ref: 5 |
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| 1715 | * | Edmund Halley observes total eclipse phenomenon "Baily's Beads". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1738 | * | English revivalist George Whitefield, 23, first arrived in America. In all, Whitefield crossed the Atlantic thirteen times, and died in Massachusetts in 1770, during his seventh visit. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1747 | | Willem IV appointed viceroy of Holland/Utrecht. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1765 | * | First US medical college opens in Philadelphia; founded by John Morgan, the School of Medicine belonged to the College of Philadelphia (now the University of PA). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1798 | * | Navy department created in U.S. to attack French ships in West Indies. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1802 | * | Washington DC incorporates as a city. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1822 | * | Society for the Propagation of the Faith starts (Lyon, France). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1830 | * | First regular steam train passenger service starts. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1841 | * | New Zealand formally proclaimed British Colony. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1845 | * | First black lawyer (Macon B Allen) admitted to the bar (Massachusetts). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1855 | * | Antwerp-Rotterdam railway opens. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1855 | * | Macon B. Allen becomes the first African American to be admitted to the Bar in Massachusetts. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1865 | * | President Lincoln's funeral train arrives in Springfield IL. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1886 | * | A fight involving hundreds breaks out at McCormick Reaper in Chicago between locked-out unionists and the non-unionist workers McCormick hired to replace them. The Chicago police, swollen in number and heavily armed, quickly moved in with clubs and guns to restore order. They left four unionists dead and many others wounded. | Ref: 59 |
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| 1886 | * | M A Maclean elected first mayor of Vancouver British Columbia. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1895 | * | Rhodesia organised from British South Africa company territory South of Zambesi. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1898 | * | Camp Merriman established at Presidio (San Fransisco). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1901 | * | Fire destroyed 1,700 buildings in Jacksonville FL. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1906 | * | British-controlled Egypt takes Sinai peninsula from Turkey. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1920 | * | Andrea Salsedo, perhaps acting out of guilt, commits suicide by jumping out of the fourteenth-floor room. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1920 | * | Vanzetti takes a train to Sacco's house. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1921 | * | West Virginia imposed the first state sales tax. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1922 | | Salt layer find at Winterswijk. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1926 | * | British general strike-3 million workers support miners. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1929 | * | Prussia bans anti-fascists. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1930 | | Mahatma Gandhi is arrested by the British. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1933 | * | The United States Mint was under the direction of a woman for the first time. Mrs. Nellie Ross assumed command. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1936 | * | French People's Front wins elections. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1938 | * | Vatican recognizes Franco-Spain | Ref: 5 |
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| 1938 | * | Concentration camp at Flossenbürg goes into use. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1939 | * | Drastic anti-Jewish laws are introduced in Hungary. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1942 | * | Nazis require Dutch Jews to wear a Jewish star. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1946 | * | International military tribunal in Tokyo begins | Ref: 5 |
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| 1947 | | Japan forms a constitutional democracy. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1948 | * | The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks and other minorities were legally unenforceable. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1950 | * | The Chinese Communist government bans polygamy and the sale of women. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1960 | | Cyrus Eaton, US industrialist, is awarded the Lenin Peace Prize. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1963 | * | Martin Luther King Jr delivers his "I have a dream" speech. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1965 | * | Cambodia drops diplomatic relations with the US. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | Black students seize finance building at Northwestern University. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | The South African House of Assembly votes to abolish parliamentary representation for the nation's blacks. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1971 | * | Erich Honecker succeeds Walter Ulbricht as East German party leader. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1971 | * | James Earl Ray, Martin Luther King's assassin, is caught in a jail break attempt. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1972 | * | US Assistant Attorney General L Patrick Gray III, is named acting director of the FBI, succeeding J Edgar Hoover, who died May 2nd. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1973 | * | Chicago's Sears Tower, world's tallest building (443 meters or 1450 feet), topped | Ref: 5 |
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| 1978 | * | "Sun Day" solar energy events are held in US. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1979 | * | Conservative Party leader Margaret Thatcher is chosen to become Britain's first female prime minister as the Tories ousted the incumbent Labor government in parliamentary elections. (Xenia Daily Gazette, p 4A, 5/3/2000) | Ref: 2 |
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| 1979 | * | Headquarters of the ruling Christian Democrats in Rome are bombed by the terrorist Red Brigade. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1982 | * | President Reagan begins 5 minute weekly radio broadcasts. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1983 | * | US bishops condemn nuclear weapons. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1983 | * | Soviet leader Andropov decreases nuclear weapons in Europe. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1987 | * | Miami Herald reports a woman spent Friday & Saturday with presidential candidate Gary Hart. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1988 | * | 4,200 kg Colombian cocaine in seized at Tarpon Springs FL. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1988 | * | The White House acknowledged that first lady Nancy Reagan had used astrological advice to help schedule her husband's activities. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1991 | * | Exxon Corporation and the state of Alaska withdrew from a one billion-dollar settlement of the "Exxon Valdez" oil spill (another settlement was reached later). | Ref: 6 |
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| 1991 | * | Swiss Banking Commission announces end to secret numbered bank accounts. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1994 | | D66/Dutch Liberal Party win Dutch 2nd Parliamentary election. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1995 | * | The federal government approves the use of the drug AZT to treat children infected with the AIDS virus. (XDG, p 4A, 5/3/2000) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1997 | * | A group of Texas separatists end a week-long standoff with authorities. Two armed followers escape into the woods. One is killed, the other eventually captured. (XDG, p 4A, 5/03/2002) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1998 | | "The Sevres Road," by 18-century landscape painter Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, is stolen from the Louvre. | |
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| 1999 | * | The Dow Jones industrial average closes above 11,000 just 24 days after passing 10,000. (XDG, p 4A, 5/3/2000) | Ref: 83 |
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| 2000 | * | A new company, SuperLetter.com Inc. announced that beginning this May, Internet users will be able to send mail to any physical address in the world from a PC for less than the cost of express mail service. The company's motto is "You Send E-Mail We Deliver Real-Mail - Around the Globe!" (Net-Happenings, 4 May 2000). | Ref: 75 |
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| 2000 | * | The trial of two alleged Libyan intelligence agents accused of blowing Pan Am Flight 103 out of the sky over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988 opened in the Netherlands. (Earlier, one of the defendants, Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, was convicted of murder; the other defendant, Lamen Khalifa Fhimah, was acquitted.) | Ref: 6 |
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| 2001 | * | The US loses its seat on the UN Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission was formed in 1947. | Ref: 70 |
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| 2002 | * | Pipe bombs exploded in six mailboxes in rural parts of Illinois and Iowa, injuring six people. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1494 | * | Jamaica discovered by Christopher Columbus; he names it "St Iago". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1624 | * | Spanish silver fleet sails to Panama. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1661 | * | Johannes Hevelius observes 3rd transit of Mercury ever to be seen. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1919 | * | America's 1st passenger flight (New York-Atlantic City) | Ref: 5 |
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| 1923 | * | First nonstop transcontinental flight (NY-San Diego) completed. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1927 | * | Francis E.J. Wilde of Meadowmere Park, NY patented the electric sign flasher. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1927 | * | A balloon soars over 40,000 feet for the first time. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1932 | * | 24 tourists begin first air-charter holiday (London-Basle, Switzerland). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1944 | * | Dr. Robert Woodward and Dr. William Doering produced the first synthetic quinine at Harvard University. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1949 | * | First firing of a US Viking rocket; reached 80 km. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1952 | * | The first airplane to land at the geographic location of the North Pole did so on this day. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1956 | * | A new range of mountains discovered in Antarctica (2 over 13,000'). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1965 | * | First use of satellite TV, Today Show on the Early Bird Satellite. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1976 | * | Panama 747SP lands after record flight around world (46:26). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1982 | * | NY Times reports that military will get 25% of NASA's budget. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1986 | * | In NASA's first post-Challenger launch, an unmanned Delta rocket loses power in its main engine shortly after liftoff, forcing safety officers to destroy it by remote control. (Xenia Daily Gazette, p 4A, 5/3/2000) | Ref: 5 |
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| 1994 | * | US space probe Clementine launched | Ref: 5 |
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| 1515 | | Persian Gulf: Portugese fleet occupies Ormuz. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1616 | * | Treaty of Loudun kills French civil war. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1629 | * | French huguenot leader duke De Rohan signs accord with Spain. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1660 | | Sweden, Poland, Brandenburg & Austria sign Peace of Oliva ending the Northern War. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1815 | | Battle at Tolentino: Austria beats king Joachim of Naples. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1846 | * | Méxican army surrounds fort in TX. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1859 | * | France, under Napolean III, declares war on Austria. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1861 | * | Lincoln asks for 42,000 Army Volunteers & another 18,000 seamen. | Ref: 3 |
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| 1861 | * | General Winfield Scott presents his Anaconda Plan. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1863 | * | Battle of Salem Church VA. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1863 | * | Elisha Franklin "Bull" Paxton US Confederate Brigadier-General, dies at 35. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1863 | * | The Battle of Chancellorsville rages for a second day. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1863 | * | Battle of Fredricksburg VA (Marye's Heights). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1864 | * | 3rd day in Battle at Alexandria LA: Confederate assault. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1864 | * | Union General Ulysses S. Grant's forces cross the Rapidan River and meet Robert E. Lee's Confederate army. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1915 | * | The Austrian army under Archduke Josef Ferdinand takes Tarnow as the Russians fall back from the Austro-German offensive in Galacia. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1919 | * | Afghánistán Emir Amanoellah begins war against Great Britain. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1926 | * | US marines land in Nicaragua (9-months after leaving), stay until 1933. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1941 | * | German air raid on Liverpool. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1942 | * | Luftwaffe bombs Exeter. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1942 | * | Japanese troop attack Tulagi, Gavutu & Tanambogo, Solomon Islands. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1942 | * | Gen. DeWitt issues evacuation instructions to persons of Japanese ancestry in Los Angeles. San Francisco blackout ordered because of an unidentified target that later turned out to be friendly. The 45-minute blackout was the eighth of the war. | Ref: 37 |
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| 1942 | * | Johan H Westerveld Lieutenant-Colonel/leader Order Service, executed. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1942 | * | The Battle of the Coral Sea commences. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1942 | * | The United States begins food rationing. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1942 | * | Nazis execute 72 OD'ers in reprisial in Sachsenhausen, Netherlands. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1943 | * | US first armour division occupies Mateur Tunisia. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1943 | * | Strike against obligatory labor camps ends, after 200 killed. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1944 | * | US wartime rationing of most grades of meats ended. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1945 | * | US troops land at Santa Cruz, Philippines. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1945 | * | Indian forces captured Rangoon, Burma, from the Japanese. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1945 | * | German ship "Cap Arcona" sinks in East Sea, 5,800 killed. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1945 | * | Allies arrests German nuclear physicist Werner Heisenberg. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1945 | * | First Polish armour brigade occupies Wilhelmshafen. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1945 | * | British troop join in Rangoon. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1950 | * | The first round of prisoner exchanges between Communist and UN forces in Korea ends. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1968 | * | After three days of battle, the US Marines retake Dai Do complex in Vietnam, only to find the North Vietnamese have evacuated the area. Dateline Vietnam. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1971 | * | Anti-war protesters calling themselves the Mayday Tribe began four days of demonstrations in Washington DC aimed at shutting down the nation's capital. 13,000 are arrested. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1982 | * | A British submarine sinks Argentina's only cruiser during the Falkland Islands War. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1810 | | Lord Byron swims 40 miles across Hellespont (now know as the Dardanelles) in 1 hr 10 min. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1900 | * | 26th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Boland aboard Lieut Gibson wins in 2:06¼. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1902 | * | 28th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Winkfield on Alan-a-Dale wins in 2:08.75. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1903 | * | AVC Heracles (SC Heracles '74) soccer team forms in Almelo. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1909 | * | 35th Kentucky Derby: Vincent Powers on Wintergreen wins in 2:08.2. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1922 | * | Mayor Hylan closes streets for building of Yankee Stadium. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1936 | * | The Yankees beat Browns 14-5, as Joe DiMaggio makes his major league debut with three hits. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1938 | * | Lefty Grove defeats Tigers 4-3 for first of record 20 consecutive wins at his home field Fenway Park; he doesn't lose there until May 12 1941. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1941 | * | Jockey Eddie Arcaro rode Whirl-A-Way to the winner’s circle in the Kentucky Derby. He was on his way to winning racing’s Triple Crown (the Kentucky Derby in Louisville, KY, the Preakness in Baltimore, MD and the Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park in NY). | Ref: 4 |
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| 1947 | * | 73rd Kentucky Derby: Eric Guerin aboard Jet Pilot wins in 2:06.8. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1950 | * | Yankee pitcher Vic Raschi balks four times in one game (season record is 6) due to his failure to comply to the new one-second stop with men on base. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1951 | * | In a 17-3 rout over the Browns at Sportman's Park, Gil McDougald ties a major league record with six RBIs in one inning. The Yankee rookie hits his first career home run, a grand slam and then adds a two-run triple as the Bronx Bombers break out for 11 runs in the ninth inning. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1952 | * | 78th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Hill Gail wins in 2:01.6. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1957 | * | Brooklyn Dodgers’ owner, Walter O’Malley, agreed to move the team from Flatbush to sunny Los Angeles. Initially, only exhibition games were held at the L.A. Coliseum. O’Malley said that a new stadium would have to be constructed before the Dodgers would even consider a move to Southern CA. He was right, so Dodger Stadium (in Chavez Ravine) was constructed with private investor money. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1958 | * | 84th Kentucky Derby: Ismael Valenzuela aboard Tim Tam wins in 2:05. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1959 | * | At Briggs Stadium, Charlie Maxwell hits four consecutive HRs in a doubleheader helping the 2-15 Tigers, under new manager Jimmy Dykes, sweep the Yankees 4-2 and 8-2. It was Dykes first day as skipper and he put Charlie back in the line-up even though 'Ole Paw Paw' was hitting only .136 at the time. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1959 | * | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Land of the Sky Golf Tournament. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1961 | * | Warren Spahn pitches a 2 hitter after pitching a no hitter. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1963 | * | Leslie Narum is the only Baltimore Oriole to homer on his first at bat. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1964 | * | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Clifford Ann Creed Golf Invitational. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1965 | * | 3rd Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yankees 2-1 in 10. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1969 | * | 95th Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack on Majestic Prince wins in 2:01.8. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1970 | * | 24th NBA Championship: NY Knicks beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 3. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1970 | * | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Golf Invitational. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1973 | * | Kansas City Royals' George Brett gets his first major league hit. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1975 | * | 101st Kentucky Derby: Jacinto Vasquez on Foolish Pleasure wins 2:02. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1975 | * | Christa Vahlensieck runs female world record marathon (2:40:15.8). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1979 | * | In a 6-1 defeat to the Brewers. Indian outfielder Bobby Bonds hits his 300th home run off Moose Haas to become only the second player in major league history to steal at least 300 bases (413) and hit 300 round trippers. Willie Mays was the first to accomplish the feat. (July 4,1961). | Ref: 1 |
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| 1980 | * | Giants first baseman Willie McCovey hits his 521st & final homerun. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1980 | * | 106th Kentucky Derby: Jacinto Vasquez on Genuine Risk wins in 2:02. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1980 | * | Texas Ranger Fergie Jenkins joins Cy Young, Jim Bunning and Gaylord Perry as the fourth pitcher in history to win 100 games in each league when he downs Baltimore, 3-2, at Arlington Stadium. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1981 | * | Sally Little wins LPGA CPC Women's Golf International. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1986 | * | Cubs 3rd baseman Ron Cey hits his 300th & 301 homerun. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1986 | * | Don Mattingly connects for three sacafrice flies in a 9-4 win over the Rangers. The Yankee first baseman is only the sixth player to accomplish this feat. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1986 | * | Horse racing legend Bill Shoemaker became the oldest jockey to win the the 112th Kentucky Derby. ‘The Shoe’ was atop Ferdinand for the win. Shoemaker was 54 years old. It had been 32 years since Shoemaker’s first Derby victory back in 1955. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1987 | * | Cindy Hill wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1992 | * | NY Met Eddie Murray is 24th to hit 400 homeruns. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1992 | * | Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Centel Senior Golf Challenge. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1992 | * | Baltimore's Gregg Olson, 25, is youngest to record 100 saves. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1992 | * | Danielle Ammaccapane wins LPGA Centel Golf Classic. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1992 | * | Ohio Glory wins first WLAF game (after 6 loses), beat Frankfurt 20-17. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1995 | * | David Bell debuts for the Indians (3rd generation player, Gus & Buddy). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1997 | | ABC Bud Light Masters Bowling Tournament won by Jason Queen. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1997 | * | Garry Kasparov begins chess match with IBM supercomputer Deep Blue. He wins the first games, but loses the match. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1997 | * | 123rd Kentucky Derby: Gary Stevens aboard Silver Charm wins in 2:02.3. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1998 | * | Mariners' backstop Dan Wilson hits the first inside-the-park grand slam in the franchise's history. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1999 | * | For the first time, Cuba faces a major league competition in the United States, and its national team defeats the struggling Baltimore Orioles, 12-6. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1999 | * | In a 12-11, 10-inning loss to the A¹s, Red Sox rookie Creighton Gubanich becomes only fourth player to hit a grand slam for his first major league hit. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2001 | * | Johnny Oates resigns as the Ranger manager and will be replaced by the team's third base coach Jerry Narron. A poor start of 11-17 due to a lack of pitching, and owner Tom Hicks high expectations after signing prized free agent Alex Rodriquez had led to speculation the Texas skipper would soon be fired. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2001 | * | Michael Orschlin becomes the third fan this season to jump onto field at Kauffman Stadium during the ninth inning of a Royals' loss. Orschlin, who jumped to win a $400 bet from a friend, delays the game for 15 minutes as he taken away on a stretcher as a result of broken foot, and the 22-year old will face a fine of $1,000 for trespassing. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1722 | | Pierre de Marivaux' "La Double Inconstance" premieres in Paris France. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1917 | * | First performance of Ernest Bloch's symphony "Israel". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1926 | * | Pulitzer prize awarded to Sinclair Lewis (Arrowsmith). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1937 | * | Margaret Mitchell wins Pulitzer Prize for "Gone With the Wind". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1938 | * | Viewers of W2XBS-TV (now WCBS-TV) watched the first book review show. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1939 | * | Belly up to the bar for this one. Beer Barrel Polka, one of the standards of American music, was recorded by The Andrews Sisters for Decca Records. Patti, Maxine and LaVerne turned this song into a giant hit. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1943 | * | Pulitzer prize awarded to Upton Sinclair (Dragon's Teeth). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1944 | * | "Meet Me in St Louis" opens on Broadway | Ref: 5 |
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| 1948 | * | Pulitzer prize awarded to James Michener & Tennessee Williams. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1951 | * | Festival of Britain opens in Battersea Park by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (at St. Pauls). | Ref: 10 |
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| 1952 | * | "Call Me Madam" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 644 performances. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1953 | | Westchester conference of American Library Association proclaims "Freedom to Read". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1954 | * | Pulitzer prize awarded to Charles A Lindbergh & John Patrick. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1954 | * | Bruce Catton receives a Pulitzer Prize for the final volume of his trilogy "Stillness at Appomattox". | Ref: 17 |
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| 1956 | * | Most Happy Fella, a musical by Frank Loesser, opened at the Imperial Theatre in New York City. The show, an adaptation of They Knew What They Wanted by Sidney Howard, ran for 676 performances on Broadway. Critics called the show a masterpiece, thanks to the outstanding performances of Robert Weede and Jo Sullivan. One must not forget Loesser’s music, which included such classics as Standing on the Corner, I Like Everybody, Joey, Joey, Joey, Big Acquaintance and Don’t Cry. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1958 | * | WINS suspends Alan Freed for causing a riot in Boston, he quits. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1960 | * | The play, The Fantasticks, opened at the Sullivan Playhouse in New York City. It would later become the longest-running off-Broadway play. Soon It’s Gonna Rain was one of the big hit tunes from the production. The show was the equivalent of London’s long-running play, The Mousetrap. Unfortunately, though the British were familiar with The Mousetrap and might have known of the similarities between the two plays, when The Fantasticks opened in London, it failed miserably and closed after only 44 performances. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1965 | * | Pulitzer prize awarded to Irwin Unger (Greenback Era). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1965 | * | Don Steele, begins a 40+ year radio career at KRTH (Los Angeles CA). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1969 | * | "Trumpets of the Lord" closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 7 performances. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1971 | | National Public Radio begins programming; 112 NPR stations premiere "All Things Considered". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1971 | * | Pulitzer prize awarded to John Toland (Rising Sun). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1976 | * | Pulitzer prize awarded to Saul Bellow (Humboldt's Gift). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1979 | | Martin Sherman's "Bent" premieres in London. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1981 | * | "Can-Can" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 5 performances. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1981 | * | "Moony, Shapiro Songbook" opens & closes at Morosco Theater NYC. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1982 | | ABC's All Talk network begins on radio (2 west coast stations). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1985 | * | Fiction: Date of $5 million check in "View to a Kill". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1987 | * | "Mikado" closes at Virginia Theater NYC after 46 performances. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1988 | | Jasper Johns' "Diver" sold for $4,200,000. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | * | Andy Williams weds Debbie Hass. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | * | 356th & final episode of CBS 2nd longest running series Dallas, 2nd only to Gunsmoke. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1992 | * | Beverly Hills 90210's Gabrielle Carteris marries Charles Isaacs. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1993 | * | "Kiss of the Spider Woman" opens at Broadhurst NYC for 906 performances. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1994 | * | 29th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks wins. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1995 | * | "My Thing of Love" opens at Beck Theater NYC for 16 performances. | Ref: 5 |
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| 2001 | * | ~3.4M tune in to watch Tennessee nurse Tina Wesson win "Survivor: The Australian Outback" on CBS-TV. (XDG, p 4A, 5/03/2002) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1446 | * | Margaretha English princess/duchess of Bourgondie, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1455 | * | Joâo II the perfect, King of Portugal (1481-95)/took in Spanish Jews, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1469 | * | Niccol Machiavelli, political advisor and writer (The Prince), is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1514 | * | Bartholomaeus a Martyribus [Fernandez], primate of Portugal, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1535 | * | Alessandro "Agnolo" Allori Italian painter/carpet designer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1647 | * | John A "Joannes" Antonides van der Goes poet (Bellone aen bant), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1649 | * | Johann Valentin Meder composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1691 | * | Carolus van der Abeele Flemish jesuit/author (Introduction à l'amour), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1692 | * | Jan J Mauricius Dutch Governor-General of Suriname (1742-51), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1708 | * | Johann Adolph Scheibe German music theorist/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1729 | * | Florian Leopold Gassmann composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1737 | * | Friedrich Schwindl composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1742 | * | -Jean-Baptiste Krumphultz composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1744 | * | Freidrich Wilhelm Weis composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1748 | * | Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes (Abbe Sieyes), French Revolutionary leader, one of the key figures in Napoleon's rise to power, is born. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1752 | * | Braz Francisco de Lima composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1764 | * | Elisabeth PMH princess of France/son of king Louis XVI, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1773 | | Giuseppe Acerbi Italian traveller/nature investigator/diplomat, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1791 | * | Count Henryk Rzewuski (J.Bejla), Polish novelist, is born. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1815 | * | Hermanus W Witteveen Dutch theologist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1816 | * | Montgomery Cunningham Meigs Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1892, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1819 | * | Nicola De Giosa composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1826 | * | Charles XV Louis E King of Sweden/Norway (1859-72)/poet, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1827 | * | John Hanning Speke, English explorer, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1844 | * | Edouard A Drumont French anti-semitic journalist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1844 | * | Richard D'Oyly Carte, England, opera impresario (Ivanhoe), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1848 | * | Francisco Teixeira de Queiroz, Portuguese short story writer, is born. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1849 | * | Jacob Riis Denmark, reporter (New York Tribune, New York Evening Sun), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1849 | * | Prince Bernhard von Bulow, Chancellor of Germany 1900-1909, is born. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1853 | * | E. W. Howe, American editor, essayist and novelist, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1859 | * | Andy Adams US writer (Log of a Cowboy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1860 | * | Vito Volterra, Italian mathematician, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1867 | * | Valère-Gille Belgian playwright (La Corbeille d'Octobre), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1873 | * | [Nicoline] Magdalene Anchor-Roll Norwegian author (Kvinnen og Denmark), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1873 | * | Nikolay N Tcherepnin St Petersburg, composer of ballets, songs, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1874 | * | François Coty Corsica, Corsican senator/perfume maker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1884 | * | Agnes Fay Morgan, American nutritionist and biochemist, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1886 | * | Marcel Dupré, French organist/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1890 | * | B Traven writer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1892 | * | Sir George Thomson, demonstrated electron diffraction (Nobel 1937), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1892 | * | Beulah Bondi Chicago IL, actress (It's a Wonderful Life), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1893 | * | Hope Landin Minneapolis MN, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1895 | * | Earnest Kantorowicz German/US historian (Laudes regiae), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1895 | * | Gabriel Chevallier French author (Le petit général), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1895 | * | Zoltan Korda Hungarian/British director (Jungle Book, 4 Feathers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1897 | | V K Krishna Menon India, nationalist/statesman, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1898 | * | Golda Meir [Meyerson] Kiev Ukraine, 4th Israeli PM (1969-74), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1898 | * | Septima Poinsette Clark, civil rights activist/educator, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1899 | * | Aline MacMahon McKeesport PA, actress (Backdoor to Heaven) | Ref: 5 |
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| 1901 | * | Gino Cervi Bologna Italy, actor (Les Miserables, Naked Maja), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1902 | * | Walter Slezak Vienna, actor (Bedtime for Bonzo, Inspector General), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1902 | * | Hugo Friedhofer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1902 | * | Jack Larue New York NY, actor (Lights Out, Mouthpiece, My Favorite Brunette), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1902 | * | Seton I Miller Chehalis WA, writer (Pete's Dragon, Istanbul), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1902 | * | Alfred Kastler, French physicist, (Nobel-physics, 1966), is born. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1904 | * | Charles "Red" Ruffing NY Yankee pitcher, hitter (1930-46), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1904 | * | Harry Lillis 'Bing' Crosby is born at home, 1112 North J Street, Tacoma, Washington, fourth child of Harry Lowe Crosby and Catherine Helen 'Kate' (nee Harrigan) Crosby. Young Harry's date of birth was usually incorrectly given as May 2, 1904 (sometimes 1901) from 1933 onwards. May 2 was used from childhood so that a younger sister, Mary Rose would have a birthday to herself. Ref | |
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| 1904 | * | John Breeden San Fransisco CA, actor (Salute, Madame Racketeer, Joy Street), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1905 | * | Albrecht Luitpold G Ferdinand Michael Wittelsbach duke of Bavaria, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1905 | * | Sebastian Lewis Shaw actor (High Season, Ace of Spades, Caste), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1906 | * | Mary Astor Quincy IL, actress (Maltese Falcon, Dinky, Across the Pacific), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1907 | * | Earl Wilson Rockford OH, columnist (Midnight Earl), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1910 | * | Alceo Galliera composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1910 | * | Norman Lewis Corwin radio writer/director/producer: We Hold These Truths, On a Note of Triumph, Columbia Workshop, Twenty-Six by Corwin, An American in England, Columbia Presents Corwin; NPR series: More By Corwin; professor: Univ. of Southern California, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1911 | * | John Rhea "Yank" Lawson trumpeter, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1912 | * | May Sarton, poet and writer, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1912 | * | Virgil Fox organ virtuoso: credited for bringing the organ “to the forefront among classical concert instruments.”; died Oct 25, 1980 | Ref: 4 |
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| 1913 | * | Earl Blackwell Atlanta GA, author (Celebrity Register), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1913 | * | William M Inge, US playwright (Picnic-Pulitzer 1953), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1915 | * | Evencio Castellanos composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1916 | * | Henry Barbosa Gonzalez San Antonio TX, (Representative-D-TX, 1961- ), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1916 | * | Pierre Emmanuel French poet (Sodome), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1917 | * | James Penberthy composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1919 | * | Pete Seeger NY NY, folk singer (Weaver, Goodnight Irene), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1919 | * | Betty Comden (Cohen), Brooklyn NY, song writer (Comden & Green-Bells are Ringing)/dramatist, is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1920 | * | John Lewis, jazz pianist, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1921 | * | Joe Ames singer (of The Ames Brothers) is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1921 | * | Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves Portuguese leftist colonel, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1921 | * | Sugar Ray Robinson (Walker Smith, Jr.), American boxer; world champion six times between 1946 and 1960, is born in Detroit MI. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1922 | * | Marina Svetlova ballerina/choreographer (Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1923 | * | Ralph M Hall (Representative-D-TX, 1981- ), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1924 | * | Mary Carver Los Angeles CA, actress (Cecilia-Simon & Simon), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1925 | * | Nina Bara Buenos Aires Argentina, actress (Tonga-Space Patrol), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1926 | * | Jimmy Cleveland composer, musician: trombone: group: Jay & Kai Octet, played with Quincy Jones, Thelonious Monk, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1928 | * | Jeanne Bal Santa Monica CA, actress (Pat-Love & Marriage), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1928 | * | Thomas Kinsella, Irish poet, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1928 | * | Dave Dudley (Pedruska) country singer: groups: The Dave Dudley Trio, The Country Gentlemen, The Roadrunners: Six Days On the Road, Mad, Truck Drivin’ Sun of a Gun, Vietnam Blues, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1929 | * | Hendrik L van Beek Dutch Vice-Admiral, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1929 | * | Jaharna Imam Bangladeshi writer/political activist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1930 | * | David Evatt Tunley composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1931 | * | Alex Cord actor (The Dead are Alive), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1931 | * | Joseph Layton (Lichtman) choreographer: Thoroughly Modern Millie; director: Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip, The Littlest Angel, Androcles and the Lion; died May 5, 1994 | Ref: 68 |
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| 1933 | * | Steven Weinberg, US physicist, (Nobel-physics, 1979), is born. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1934 | * | Georg Kroll composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1934 | * | James Brown The Godfather of Soul is born in Augusta GA. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1934 | * | Henry Cooper, English boxer, is born in London, England. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1935 | * | Donald P Hodel Portland OR, US Secretary of Interior (1985-89), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1936 | * | Engelbert Humperdinck [Arnold George Dorsey] Madras India, singer (After The Lovin', Release Me, Quando, is born in Madras India. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1937 | * | Frankie Valli [Castelluccio] Newark NJ, singer (Four Seasons-Sherry), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1939 | * | Jonathan David Harvey English composer (Bhakti, Music of Stockhausen), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1939 | * | José Torres US, boxer (Olympics), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1939 | * | Amos Oz, Israeli novelist (The Black Box, TheThird State), is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1941 | * | Nona Gaprindasvili USSR, world women's chess champion (1962-78), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1942 | * | Lynn Farleigh Bristol England, actress (Lovers of Their Time), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1942 | * | Vera Càslavskà-Odlozilova Czechoslovakia, gymnast (Olympics-gold-1964, 68), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1943 | * | John Costello historian, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1944 | * | Ian Peter Leslie Smith journalist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1944 | * | Peter Staples rocker (Troggs-Wild Thing), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1946 | * | Greg Gumbel sportscaster (CBS TV, WFAN), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1946 | * | Davey Lopes baseball: LA Dodgers [World Series: 1974, 1977, 1978, 1981/all-star: 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981], Oakland Athletics, Chicago Cubs, Houston Astros, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1947 | * | Doug Henning, Fort Garry Manitoba, magician (Broadway play-Magic), is born | Ref: 5 |
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| 1948 | * | Garfield Heard basketball: Univ. of Oklahoma, Phoenix Suns; Asst Coach: Philadelphia 76ers, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1949 | * | Albert Sacco Jr Boston MA, PhD/astronaut (STS 73), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1949 | * | Ron Wyden (Representative-D-OR, 1981- ), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1949 | * | Graham Swift, British novelist (The Sweet Shop Owner, Out of this World). | Ref: 2 |
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| 1950 | * | Mary Hopkin South Wales, singer (Those Were the Days), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1951 | * | Christopher Cross [Geppert] San Antonio TX, singer (Sailing, Arthur's Theme), is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1952 | * | Allen Wells England, 100 meter dash (Olympics-gold-1980), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1953 | * | Bruce Hall Champaign IL, rock bassist (Reo Speedwagon), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1953 | * | Van McLain rocker (Shooting Star), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1955 | * | Steve Jones English pop guitarist (Sex Pistols-Mercy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1957 | * | Cactus Moser Montrose CO, country singer (Highway 101-Cry Cry Cry), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1957 | * | Rod Langway Formosa, NHL defenseman (Montréal Canadiens, Washington Capitals), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1959 | * | Ben Elton London UK, actor (Stark, Friday Night Live), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1959 | * | David Ball musician: keyboards: group: Soft Cell: Tainted Love, Bed Sitter, Torch, What, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1962 | * | Anthony Gilligan Penrith New South Wales, Australasia golfer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1963 | * | Jeff Hornacek NBA guard (Utah Jazz), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1964 | * | Ron Hextall Winnipeg, NHL goalie (Philadelphia Flyers, New York Islanders), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1966 | * | Paul Stevenson Victoria Australia, badminton player (Olympics-96), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | Deborah Caprioglio Miestre Italy, actress (Big Game Hunter), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | Jay Darlington London England, keyboardist (Kula Shaker), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1969 | * | Karen Kraft San Mateo CA, rower (Olympics-silver-96), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1970 | * | Alexia Dechaume-Ballert La Rochelle France, tennis star (1992 Australia), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1970 | * | Ted Crowley Concord MA, US hockey defenseman (Olympics-1994), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1971 | * | James Roberson defensive end (Tennessee Oilers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1972 | * | Brett Hayman Australian rower (Olympics-96), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1972 | * | Josh Taves defensive end (New England Patriots), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1972 | * | Vyacheslav Kozlov Voskresensk Russia, NHL forward (Detroit Red Wings), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1973 | * | Dominique Monami Verviers Belgium, tennis star, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1973 | * | Michel Traveller soccer player (Ajax), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 115 | * | (date and circumstances speculative) Pope St. Alexander I is martyred. | Ref: 69 |
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| 685 | * | St. Benedict II Italian Pope (683-85), dies | Ref: 69 |
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| 1010 | * | Ansfried 9th bishop of Utrecht (995-1010)/saint, dies at about 69. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1294 | * | Jan I duke of Brabant/Limburg/poet, dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1410 | * | Alexander V [Petros Philargi], Kreta's Pope (1409-10), dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1442 | * | Engelbert I Earl of Nassau-Dillenburg, dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1481 | * | Mohammed II [Fâtih], sultan of Turkey (1451-81), dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1567 | * | Leonhard Paminger composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1568 | * | French forces in Florida slaughter hundreds of Spanish. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1614 | * | Sasbout Vosmeer Roman Catholic theologist/apostole vicar, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1654 | | François van Kinschot treasurer-general/chancellor of Brabant, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1678 | * | French conquering fleet at Curaçao, 1200 die. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1703 | * | Eglon van de Down still-life painter, dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1704 | * | Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber Austrian violist/composer, dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1707 | * | Michiel de Swaen South Netherlands physician/poet, dies at 53. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1737 | * | Abraham Patras Governor-General of East-Indies (1735-37), dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1758 | * | Benedict XIV [Prospero L Lambertini] Pope (1740-58), dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1764 | * | Francesco Algarotti Italian earl/encyclopedist, dies at 53. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1774 | * | Heinrich A Fouqué Prussian general (7 year war), dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1783 | * | Pieter Valck(x) South Netherlands sculptor, dies at 49. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1792 | * | Carlo Zuccari composer, dies at 87. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1839 | * | Ferdinando Paer composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1841 | | Cornelis T Elout Dutch minister of Finance/Navy/Colonies, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1845 | * | Fire kills 1,600 in popular theater in Canton China. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1845 | * | Thomas Hood, English poet/composer (Song of the Shirt), dies at age 45. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1851 | * | Most of San Fransisco is destroyed by fire; 30 die, 2500 buildings destroyed, $12M in damage. | Ref:77 |
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| 1854 | * | William Beale composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1856 | * | Adolfo Fumagalli composer, dies at 27. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1856 | * | Adolphe Charles Adam French composer/critic (Giselle), dies at 52. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1861 | * | Anthony Philip Heinrich composer, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1868 | * | Olof Wilhelm Udden composer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1878 | * | Death of William Whiting, 53, Anglican poet and music instructor. He is known to have written only one hymn during his life, but its popularity has endured: "Eternal Father, Strong to Save." | Ref: 5 |
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| 1881 | * | Josip Jurcic Slovic writer (Schone Vida), dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1893 | * | Josef Rudolf Zavrtal composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1902 | * | David R Capriles, Curaçaos director of psychiatry, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1914 | * | Daniel Sickles dies at 9:10 PM at his home, 23 Fifth Avenue at age 91. |
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| 1916 | * | Irish nationalist Padraic Pearse and two others are executed by the British for their roles in the Easter Rising. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1925 | * | Clément Ader French engineer (steam engine airplane), dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1926 | * | Oscar Solomon Straus, American member of President Wilson's cabinet, dies at age 75. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1926 | * | Napoleon V Bonaparte, French pretender to the throne, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1931 | * | Frank Hoyt Losey composer, dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1931 | * | Otto Winter-Hjelm composer, dies at 93. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1932 | * | Anton Wildgans Austrian writer (Dies Irae)/director Burgtheater, dies at 51. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1935 | * | Jessie Willcox Smith, American painter and illustrator, dies at age 71. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1939 | * | [Karl Eduard] Wilhelm Groener German general, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1940 | * | Grace, sister of Australian bushranger and folk hero Edward "Ned" Kelly, dies. Ref | |
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| 1943 | * | Leslie Heward composer, dies at 45. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1945 | | Louis L H de Visser Dutch MP (CPN), dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1955 | * | Philips C Visser explorer/ambassador to Moscow, dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1961 | * | Maurice [Jean Jacques] Merleau-Ponty French philosopher, dies at 53. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1962 | * | Express train crashed into wreckage of a commuter train and a freight, killing 163, injuring 400 (Tokyo, Japan). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1965 | * | Howard Spring British author (Heaven Lies About Us), dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1965 | * | Otto Forst de Battaglia Austrian diplomat/genealogist, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1966 | * | Wylie Watson dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | Leonid Leonidovich Sabaneyev composer, dies at 86. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1969 | * | Imre Vincze composer, dies at 42. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1970 | * | Candelario Huizar composer, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1972 | * | Bruce Cabot actor (Diamonds are Forever), dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1972 | * | Dan Blocker actor (Hoss-Bonanza), dies at 43. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1972 | * | Les Harvey rocker, dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1975 | | Samuel Gonard chairman (International Red Cross), dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1976 | * | Ernie Nevers college fullback (Stanford), dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1976 | * | David Bruce dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1978 | * | Wim van Doorne Dutch auto manufacturer (DAF), dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1979 | * | Erin O'Brien-Moore actress (Nurse Choate-Peyton Place), dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1982 | * | Helmut Dantine actor (Shadow of the Cloak), dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1982 | * | Hugh Beaumont actor (Ward-Leave it to Beaver), dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1983 | * | Vaughn Taylor actor (Jailhouse Rock), dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 72. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1983 | * | (Green River Killer) Carol Christensen, 21, is last seen. She is the 22nd of 48 women Gary Ridgway admits killing. (USA Today, p 3A, 11/06/2003) | Ref: 13 |
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| 1986 | * | Air Lanka crashes, killing 22. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1986 | * | Robert Alda actor (Dan Lewis-Supertrain), dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1987 | * | Yolande Christina Dalida dies at 54. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1988 | * | Milton Caniff cartoonist: Terry and the Pirates, Steve Canyon; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1988 | * | Milton Caniff cartoonist: Terry and the Pirates, Steve Canyon; died May 3, 1988 | Ref: 4 |
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| 1989 | * | Christine Jorgensen first transsexual, dies at 62 | Ref: 5 |
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| 1989 | * | Muriel Ostriche dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | Pimen [Sergei Irzyekov] patriarch of Russian-orthodox church, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | * | Gerrit Mik child psychiatrist/Dutch MP (D66), dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | * | Jerzy Kosinski, Polish-American novelist (Painted Bird, Being There), commits suicide at age 57. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | * | Margaret Tallichet actress (Stranger on the 3rd Floor), dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1992 | * | Elizabeth Lennox radio singer, dies of heart seizure at 98. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1992 | * | George Murphy (Senator-R-CA, 1965-71)/actor, dies of Leukemia at 89. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1992 | * | George (Lloyd) Murphy actor: This is the Army, Little Miss Broadway, For Me and My Gal; politician: U.S. Senator; dies at age 89. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1992 | * | Peter Bruni dies of heart failure at 60. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1994 | | Gustaaf baron van Hemert Dingshof mayor of Maarn, dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1994 | | Haty Tegelaar-Boonacker Dutch MP (CDA), dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1994 | * | Milford Dolliole pioneer jazz drummer, dies at 90. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1994 | * | Richard Scarry author/illustrator of children's books, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1996 | * | Jack Weston actor (Ishtar, Rad, Cuba), dies of lymphoma at 71. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1996 | * | Timothy Gullikson tennis player/coach, dies at 45 | Ref: 5 |
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| 1996 | * | Alex (Alexander Raymond) Kellner baseball: pitcher: Philadelphia Athletics [all-star: 1949], KC Athletics, Cincinnati Redlegs, St. Louis Cardinals; dies. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1998 | * | Gene Raymond (Raymond Guion) (actor: Hit the Deck, Flying Down to Rio; host: TV’s Reader’s Digest, Hollywood Summer Theatre, Fireside Theatre; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1999 | * | Joe (Joseph Wilbur) Adcock baseball: Cincinnati Reds, Milwaukee Braves [record for total bases in a game: 18, 4 home runs, 1 double: 7/31/54, dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1999 | * | The Carolina Hurricanes (of the NHL) defenseman Steve Chiasson dies in a one-car accicent. (USA Today, p 3C, 2/02/2004) | Ref: 13 |
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| 2000 | * | The archbishop of NY, Cardinal John O'Connor, died at age 80. (TWA, 2001) | Ref: 95 |
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| 2002 | * | Salahuddin 2: overloaded ferry capsized in storm on Meghna River in southern Bangladesh; estimated death toll 300. | Ref: 85 |
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| 2002 | * | Tornados kill 43 in Oklahoma and Kansas. (USA Today, p.1A, 11/12/2002) | Ref: 13 |
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| 2003 | * | Suzy Parker (Cecelia Anne Renee Parker) model, actress: The Interns, The Best of Everything, Ten North Frederick, Funny Face; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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