| -8239 | * | -BC- Presumed origin of Mayan Era of Creation. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1661 | * | Isaac Newton admitted as a student to Trinity College, Cambridge. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1771 | * | Marmaduke Van Swearingen and his brother Charley are captured by a Shawnee hunting party. Charley is released. Marmaduke goes with the Shawnee to be adopted. He is already given his Shawnee name: Blue Jacket. | Ref: 57 |
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| 1779 | * | The Virginia House of Delegates passes an act moving the capital from Williamsburg to Richmond. The Senate agrees on June 12. | |
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| 1794 | * | Congress passed the Neutrality Act, which prohibited Americans from enlisting in the service of a foreign power. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1805 | * | First recorded tornado in "Tornado Alley" (Southern IL). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1806 | | Batavian Republic becomes the Kingdom of Holland. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1806 | * | Louis Bonaparte becomes King of newly formed kingdom of Holland. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1833 | * | Ada Lovelace (future first computer programmer) meets Charles Babbage. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1849 | | Danish National Day-Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1854 | * | Cleveland and Ohio City merge. | |
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| 1855 | * | Anti-foreign anti-Roman Catholic Know-Nothing Party's first convention. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1860 | * | The Scandinavian Evangelical Lutheran Augsburg Synod in North America was founded in Wisconsin. In 1962, the Augsburg Synod became one of four branches in American Lutheranism that merged to form the Lutheran Church in America (LCA). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1865 | * | The first safe-deposit vault was opened in NY City. Depositors paid $1.50 per year for each $1,000 stored within. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1872 | * | The Republican National Convention, the first major political party convention to includes blacks, commences in Philadelphia. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1873 | * | Sultan of Zanzibar bans slave markets and slave exports. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1875 | * | Pacific Stock Exchange formally opens. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1876 | * | For one thin dime, visitors to Philadelphia’s Centennial Exposition were able to buy foil-wrapped bananas, a popular taste treat in the United States. We tried one as an experiment for lunch today -- and heartily agree! It is especially interesting how the aluminum foil creates a kind of buzzing feeling on your teeth as the banana gets chewed up! | Ref: 4 |
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| 1877 | * | New York state passes Oleomargarine tax. (2¢ Margarine tax of 1886 made it a federal issue.) | Ref: 10 |
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| 1880 | * | Wild woman of the west Myra Maybelle Shirley marries Sam Starr even though records show she was already married to Bruce Younger. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1915 | * | Danish women get the vote | Ref: 62 |
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| 1920 | * | First rivet driven on Bank of Italy headquarters at 1 Powell in San Francisco. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1933 | * | The United States went off the gold standard. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1934 | * | First formal meeting of The Baker Street Irregulars (NYC) | Ref: 5 |
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| 1943 | * | The LA Zoot Suit riots | Ref: 62 |
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| 1944 | * | After visiting the uranium enrichment pilot plan at the Naval research Laboratory, a team of Manhattan Project experts recommends that a thermal diffusion plant be built to feed enriched material to the electromagnetic enrichment plant at Oak Ridge. | Ref: 91 |
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| 1944 | * | King Victor Emmanuel III abdicates rule of Italy in favor of son Prince Humbert. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1946 | * | The first medical sponges were offered for sale in Detroit, MI. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1947 | * | Secretary of State George C. Marshall gave a speech at Harvard University in which he outlined an aid program for Europe that came to be known as the Marshall Plan. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1950 | * | US Supreme Court undermines legal foundations of segregation. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1953 | | Denmark adopts a new constitution. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1956 | * | Premier Nikita Khrushchev denounces Josef Stalin to the Soviet Communist Party Congress. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1956 | * | Fed court rules racial segregation on Montgomery buses unconstitutional. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1960 | * | John XXIII published his motu proprio, 'Superno Dei Nutu,' which created the necessary committees and organizational structure for the upcoming Vatican II Ecumenical Council (1962-65). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | Murderer Richard Speck sentenced to death in the electric chair. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1969 | * | Race riot in Hartford Connecticut. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1972 | * | UN Conference on the Human Environment opens in Stockholm. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1973 | * | Doris A. Davis becomes the first African-American woman to govern a city in a major metropolitan area when she is elected mayor of Compton, CA. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1975 | | Egypt reopens the Suez Canal to international shipping eight years after it was closed because of the 1967 war with Israel. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1981 | * | The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that five homosexuals in Los Angeles had come down with a rare kind of pneumonia; they were the first recognized cases of what became known as AIDS. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1984 | | Indira Gandhi orders attack on Sikh's holiest site (Golden Temple) | Ref: 5 |
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| 1987 | * | Ted Koppel and guests discussed the topic of AIDS for four hours on ABC-TV’s Nightline. It is believed that this was a record for the longest live-TV broadcast, other than of space coverage and political conventions. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1989 | * | Microsoft Creates Multimedia Division. | |
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| 1990 | * | Authorities in Oakland County, MI move to prevent further use of a Dr. Jack Kevorkian's suicide device that Janet Adkins, an Oregon woman diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, had used a day earlier to take her own life. (XDG, p 4A, 6/5/2000) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1991 | * | Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev delivered his delayed Nobel Peace lecture in Oslo, Norway, warning that Western failure to heed his call for economic aid could dash hopes for a peaceful new world order. | Ref: 64 |
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| 1996 | * | Joseph Waldholtz, the ex-husband of US Rep. Enid Greene, R-Utah, pleaded guilty to providing his wife false information for her taxes and to falsifying spending reports from her congressional campaign. | Ref: 64 |
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| 2000 | * | President Clinton visited the former Soviet republic of Ukraine, the last stop in his weeklong European tour, where he dispensed $80 million in American aid to help entomb the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, scene of the world's worst nuclear accident. | Ref: 64 |
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| 2000 | * | Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count under an agreement that dropped murder charges in the stabbing deaths of two men outside a Super Bowl party in Atlanta. | Ref: 64 |
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| 2002 | * | (Elizabeth Smart) Mary Katherine Smart, 9, tells her parents that her sister Elizabeth, 14, was taken from their bedroom in Salt Lake City UT, between 1 AM and 2 AM. (USA Today, p 3A, 3/13/2003) | Ref: 13 |
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| 2003 | * | Donald "Randy" Person accepts the position of police chief and Jeffrey Leaming accepts the position of fire chief for Xenia OH, following announcements of their respective predecessor's retirements. (XDG, p1, 6/06/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 2003 | * | (Grasso) The New York Stock Exchange reappoints Dick Grasso as its Chairman. (WSJ, p 1, 9/18/2003) | Ref: 33 |
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| 1783 | * | Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier publicly demonstrated their hot-air balloon in a 10-minute flight over Annonay, France, reaching an altitude of approximately 1500 feet. . | Ref: 4 |
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| 1940 | * | First synthetic rubber tire exhibited Akron OH. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1977 | * | First personal computer, the Apple II, goes on sale. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1980 | * | Soyuz T-2 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | * | The space shuttle Columbia (STS 40) blasted off with seven astronauts on a nine-day mission. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1099 | * | Members of the First Crusade witness an eclipse of the moon and interpret it as a sign they will recapture Jerusalem. They lay siege slaughtering 70,000 including women & children. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1568 | | Ferdinand, the Duke of Alba, crushes the Calvinist insurrection in Ghent. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1595 | | Henry IV's army defeats the Spanish at the Battle of Fontaine-Francaise. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1827 | | Athens falls to Ottoman forces. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1856 | * | US Army troops in the Four creeks region of CA, head back to quarters, officially ending the Tule River War. Fighting, however, will continue for a few more years. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1863 | * | The Confederate raider CSS Alabama captures the Talisman in the Mid-Atlantic. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1864 | * | Gen William E "Grumble" Jones killed at Piedmont. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1900 | * | British troops under Lord Roberts seize Pretoria from the Boers. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1912 | * | US marines invade Cuba (3nd time). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1916 | * | Kitchener, British Secretary of War, loses his life when the cruiser Hampshire, on which he was voyaging to Russia, is sunk off the Orkney Islands, Scotland. | Ref: 38 |
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| 1917 | * | Registration day for new draft army in United States; about 10 million American men began registering for the draft in World War I. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1940 | * | The German army begins its offensive in Southern France. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1942 | * | SS report 97,000 persons have been "processed" in mobile gas vans. | Ref: 35 |
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| 1942 | * | The turning point in the war occurs with a decisive victory for the U.S. against Japan in the Battle of Midway as squadrons of U.S. torpedo planes and dive bombers from ENTERPRISE, HORNET, and YORKTOWN attack and destroy four Japanese carriers, a cruiser, and damage another cruiser and two destroyers. U.S. loses the aircraft carrier Yorktown. | |
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| 1942 | * | Germans besiege Sevastopol. | Ref: 36 |
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| 1942 | * | Elwood Ordnance Plant near Joliet Illinois kills 54. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1944 | * | (4:15 AM) Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight Eisenhower approves the D-Day launch of June 6. (evening) Over 1,000 aircraft drop over 5,000 tons of bombs on French coastal batteries. None are destroyed. (9:15 PM) BBC radio broadcasts a message directed at the French, telling them to listen for important instructions to follow soon. This alerts the Germans, but little is done. | |
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| 1944 | * | Two companies of the 1st Regiment of the Special Service Force enter the city limits of Rome, Italy, making them the first Allied troops in Rome; American forces take Rome. | Ref: 36 |
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| 1944 | * | The first mission by B-29 Superfortress bombers occurs as 77 planes bomb Japanese railway facilities at Bangkok, Thailand; 1 plane lost due to engine failure. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1944 | * | Formations of the US 5th Army seize the Tiber bridges, beginning the fall of Rome. | |
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| 1945 | * | USA, UK, USSR, France declare supreme authority over Germany. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | | Ongoing political problems (control and reunification of Jerusalem, access through the strait of Tiran, control of the West Bank of the Jordan River, etc.) came to a head, causing a major outbreak of hostilities (later referred to as the Six Day War) between Israel and Egypt. The Israelis, who had at first met strong Egyptian resistance, destroyed 50 of Egypt’s tanks and stormed through Gaza, and this was only Day One; the beginning of a quick and ferocious victory for the Israeli ground and air forces, led by Defense Minister Moshe Dayan; and a humiliating defeat for Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser. Both sides are still blaming the other for firing the first shot. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1977 | | Coup in Seychelles (National Day). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1806 | * | First trotter to break 3 minute mile (Yankee). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1869 | * | 3rd Belmont Stakes, Fenian wins. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1900 | * | Pirate first baseman Duff Cooley has only two putouts in a 6-5 defeat to the Phillies. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1920 | * | Citing the abolition of spitball as the reason for the dramatic HR increase, A's veep Tom Shibe denies the baseballs are livelier this season. Mr. Schibe is also a member of the company which makes the baseballs. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1926 | * | Indians triple-play Yankees & win 15-3. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1927 | | Johnny Weissmuller set a pair of world records in swimming events. Weissmuller, who would soon become Tarzan in the movies, set marks in the 100-yard, and 200-yard, free-style swimming competition. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1948 | * | At Wrigley Field, Phillie outfielder Richie Ashburn extends his consecutive hitting streak to 23 games tying the major league rookie record. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1952 | * | ‘Jersey’ Joe Walcott defended his heavyweight-boxing title by out-pointing Ezzard Charles in Philadelphia, PA. Jersey Joe would lose the heavyweight crown four months later to Rocky Marciano. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1957 | * | NY narcotics investigator, Dr Herbert Berger, urges AMA to investigate use of stimulating drugs by athletes. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | New franchises in the National Hockey League were awarded to the Minnesota North Stars, the CA Golden Seals and the Los Angeles Kings. The North Stars moved to Dallas in the mid-1990s and the Golden Seals are now nonexistent. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1973 | * | The first hole-in-one in the British Amateur golf championship was made this day -- by Jim Crowford of Winston-Salem, NC. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1977 | * | On Old Timer's Day, the Dodgers retire former manager Walt Alston's uniform number 24 | Ref: 1 |
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| 1977 | * | Trailblazers beat 76ers for NBA championship, 4 games to 2. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1979 | * | Mariner Wille Horton becomes the 43rd major league player to hit 300 career home runs. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1981 | * | Astro hurler Nolan Ryan passes Early Wynn as the all-time walk leader (1,777) issuing two walks in a 3-0 win over the Mets. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1982 | * | In a game at Minnesota, Cal Ripken's record streak of 8,243 consecutive innings begins and will last for 904 games. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1982 | * | Conquistador Cielo wins Belmont Stakes by 14 lengths. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1983 | * | Yannich Noah becomes first Frenchman to win French Open since WW II. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1985 | * | Steve Cauthen rode Slip Anchor to the winner’s circle. He was the first American jockey in 79 years to win the Epsom Derby, Great Britain’s premier flat racing event. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1989 | * | SkyDome becomes the new home of the Blue Jays. The retractable roof stadium is considered the world's most advanced ballpark for its time and will be a big factor in Toronto's excellent attendance, however the Blue Jays lose 5-3 to the Milwaukee Brewers in the club's first game at their new stadium. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1989 | * | Billy Smith, last original NY Islander, retires. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1992 | * | At Three Rivers Stadium, Mets first baseman Eddie Murray drives in two runs passing Yankee legend Mickey Mantle [1,509] as the all-time RBI leader among switch-hitters. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2000 | * | For the first time, the Florida Marlins have the first overall pick in the first-year player draft and select first baseman Adrian Gonzalez, a 16-year-old native of Bonita, California. The Eastlake High School product agrees to terms with the Marlins that day. | Ref: 86 |
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| 2001 | * | The Tampa Bay Devil Rays select right-handed pitcher Dewon Brazelton with the #3 overall pick in the First-Year Player Draft. Brazelton went 13-1 with a 1.44 ERA in 14 starts during his junior season at Middle Tennessee State. The six-foot-four-inch, 215 pound right-hander struck out 148 batters while walking just 22 over 119 innings. He also went 6-0 with a 0.65 ERA for Team USA. | Ref: 86 |
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| 2001 | * | In a 18-inning game that lasts 5 hours, 52 minutes, Manny Ramirez is intentionally walked four times tying an American League record. Yankee outfielder Roger Maris was passed intentionally four times by the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1962. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2001 | * | By homering in his team's 57th game, Barry Bonds becomes the fastest player ever to hit 30 home runs. In 1928, it took Babe Ruth 63 games to reach the same mark. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2002 | * | Houston renames Astros Field to Minute Maid Park. The original name of the stadium, Enron Field, was dropped in February when the team officials made a deal to pay the debtors of the bankrupt energy corporation the sum of $2.1 million to regain the naming rights. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2002 | * | Ranger designated hitter Juan Gonzalez becomes the 34th major leaguer and the first from Puerto Rico to hit the 400 career home runs. The Juan Gone's milestone is hit off Anaheim hurler Jarrod Washburn's first pitch in the second inning during a 7-5 extra inning loss to the Angels. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2002 | * | Hitting his 587th home run, Barry Bonds passes Frank Robinson becoming fourth on the all-time career home run list. The historic homer, a grand slam believed to be one of the longest homers ever hit in the 34-year history of the stadium now called Qualcomm Stadium, puts the Giants' left fielder, who also holds single-season home run record with 73, exactly 73 behind Willie Mays (660) for third on the career list. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2003 | * | In the second game of double-header loss to the Brewers, Mets southpaw John Franco pitches an inning of relief to become the eighth pitcher to make 1000 career appearances. The last time Milwaukee swept a doubleheader on the road occurred on July 5, 1992 the Brewers of the American League beat the Royals, 8-7 and 5-3. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2003 | * | Tony Clark changes his number from 00 to 52. The Mets' reserve player wanted to give the team's mascot, Mr. Met, his identity back as he and the Mascot shared double ought. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2003 | * | Xenia resident Charles "Fred" Smith has been selected as a member of Team USA, Great Lakes Division of the Special Olympics World Summer Games in Dublin Ireland. (XDG, p 1, 6/05/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1851 | * | Harriet Beecher Stow publishes the first installment of Uncle Tom's Cabin in The National Era. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1865 | * | Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould listened quietly and with pride as his composition, Onward Christian Soldiers, was presented for the first time in Horbury, England. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1940 | * | American Negro Threater organizes. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1941 | * | Roy Eldridge was featured on trumpet and vocal as drummer Gene Krupa and his band recorded After You’ve Gone for Okeh Records. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1942 | * | Sammy Kaye and his orchestra recorded the classic "I Left My Heart at the Stage Door Canteen" for Victor Records. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1956 | * | Elvis Presley made his second appearance on Milton Berle’s Texaco Star Theatre. Presley sang Heartbreak Hotel, his number one hit. The TV critics were not kind to Elvis’ appearance on the show. They panned him, saying his performance looked “like the mating dance of an aborigine.” | Ref: 4 |
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| 1959 | * | Bob Zimmerman graduated from high school in Hibbing, MN. Zimmerman was known as a greaser to classmates in the remote rural community, because of his long sideburns and leather jacket. Soon, Zimmerman would be performing at coffee houses at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, and later, in Greenwich Village in New York City. He would also change his name to Bob Dylan (after poet Dylan Thomas, so the story goes). | Ref: 4 |
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| 1964 | * | Davie Jones & King Bees debut "I Can't Help Thinking About Me", group disbands but Davie Jones goes on to success as David Bowie. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | | The American Film Institute formed. | Ref: 73 |
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| 1972 | * | Maureen McGovern quit her job as a full-time secretary for a new career as a full-time singer. Maureen was part of a trio before recording as a solo artist in July, 1973. Her first song, The Morning After, from the movie, The Poseidon Adventure, was a million-seller. She also sang the theme, Different Worlds, from ABC-TV’s Angie, and Can You Read My Mind from the movie, Superman. Ms. McGovern starred in Pirates of Penzance for 14 months on Broadway. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1972 | | "If You Had Wings" opens. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1981 | | "U.S. Today" (a newspaper) ran for the 1st time. | Ref: 62 |
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| 1981 | * | George Harrison releases "Somewhere in England". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1981 | | TODAY/PC runs for first time. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1989 | * | Paul McCartney releases "Flowers in the Dirt" | Ref: 5 |
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| -468 | * | Socrates (trad) 468 or 470 BC | Ref: 10 |
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| 1718 | * | Thomas Chippendale England, furniture maker (baptized), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1723 | * | Adam Smith philosopher and author: An Enquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, is born in Kirkcaldy, Scotland. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1819 | * | John Couch Adams, English mathematician and astronomer co-discover (Neptune), is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1823 | * | George Thorndike, Angell Mass, lawyer (ASPCA), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1825 | * | Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry Georgia, educator (Rep-Ala, 1857-61), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1850 | * | Pat Garrett is born in Chambers County, Alabana, one of seven children, the son of John Lumpkin Garrett and Elizabeth Ann Jarvis Garrett, farmers. Ref | |
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| 1878 | * | Francisco "Pancho" Villa, Mexican revolutionary and guerrilla leader, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1883 | * | John Maynard Keynes, the British economist whose studies of unemployment and recession revolutionized 20th-century economics, is born in Cambridge, England. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1884 | * | Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett, British author, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1887 | * | Ruth Benedict US, anthropologist (Patterns of Culture), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1895 | * | William Boyd (Hopalong Cassidy: actor: in 66 films through 1948 [he bought the rights to the character in 1945, then starred as Hopalong in the successful TV series in the 1950s]; is born in Ohio. died Sep 12, 1972) | Ref: 4 |
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| 1897 | | Madame Chiang Kai-Shek is born. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1898 | * | Federico Garcia Lorca, Spain, poet/dramatist (Blood Wedding), is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1898 | * | 74 William Boyd 6/5/1898 9/12/1972 American motion-picture and television actor | Ref: 70 |
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| 1900 | * | Dennis Gabor inventor (holography (3D laser photography), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1905 | * | Art Donovan NFL defensive tackle (Balt, NY Yanks, Dallas), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1905 | * | John Abbott London, actor (Smogasboard), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1912 | * | Josef Neckermann German FR, equestrian dressage (Olympic-gold-1968), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1914 | * | Stan Jones Douglas Az, actor (Sheriff of Cochise), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1915 | * | Alfred Kazin, critic and editor (A Walker in the City), is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1916 | * | Eddie (Edwin David) Joost baseball: Cincinnati Reds [World Series: 1940], Boston Braves, Philadelphia Athletics [all-star: 1949, 1952], Boston Red Sox, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1919 | * | Richard Scarry, Children's author and illustrator, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1919 | * | Akeo Watanabe Tokyo Japan, conductor (Nippon Phil Orch 1956-68), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1920 | * | Marion Motley AAFC, NFL fullback (Cleveland Browns, Pittsburgh), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1920 | * | Cornelius Ryan, WWII journalist, is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1922 | * | Gordon ‘Specs’ Powell musician: bongos: LP: Movin’ In; CBS staff musician, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1923 | * | Daniel Pinkham Lynn Massachusetts, composer (Signs of Zodiac), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1925 | * | Bill Hayes, actor and singer (The Ballad of Davy Crockett, Wringle, Wrangle) is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1925 | * | Art Donovan Pro Football Hall of Famer: Baltimore Colts [defensive tackle], New York Yanks, Dallas Texans, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1925 | * | Bill Hayes singer, entertainer: The Ballad of Davy Crockett, Wringle, Wrangle; actor: Days of Our Lives, is born in Harvey IL. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1925 | * | Dorothy Claire LaPorte Ind, singer (Winchell & Mahoney), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1926 | * | Bill Hayes Illinois, actor, (Your Show of Shows, Days of our Life), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1926 | * | David Wagoner, poet and novelist (The Escape Artist), is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1928 | * | Tony Richardson England, director (Delicate Balance, Hotel NH), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1929 | * | Robert Lansing (Brown) actor: Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, The Equalizer, 87th Precinct, Twelve O’Clock High, Under the Yum Yum Tree, The Man Who Never Was, The Grissom Gang, Namu the Killer Whale; is born in San Diego CA. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1931 | * | Jacques Demy France, director (Lola, Magic Donkey), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1932 | * | Christy Brown Dublin, novelist (My Left Foot, Down All the Days), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1932 | * | Pete Jolly (Cragioli) musician: pianist: in films: I Want to Live!, The Wild Party, This World, Then the Fireworks; group: Pete Jolly Trio, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1934 | * | Bill Moyers Emmy Award-winning journalist: CBS News, PBS: Bill Moyers Journal; author: Healing and the Mind, is born in Hugo OK. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1934 | * | F Curtis Michel LaCrosse Wisconsin, astronaut, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1937 | * | Waylon Jennings Littlefield TX, country singer (Dukes of Hazzard), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1938 | * | Marion Chapman smallest known premature baby to survive (280 g), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1939 | * | Charles ‘Joe’ Clark, 16th Prime Minister of Canada [1979-1980]: the youngest to hold that post | Ref: 4 |
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| 1939 | * | Ken Follett, spy author (Eye of the the Needle), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1939 | * | Margaret Drabble, author (The Needle's Eye), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1941 | * | Floyd Butler singer: groups: The Hi-Fis, Fifth Dimension, Friends of Distinction: Grazing in the Grass; died in 1990, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1941 | * | Spalding Gray actor: Diabolique, Beyond Rangoon, Bad Company, King of the Hill, Our Town, Beaches, Swimming to Cambodia, True Stories, The Killing Fields, Hard Choices; screenwriter, actor: Monster in a Box, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1941 | * | Duke (Duane B) Sims baseball: catcher: Cleveland Indians, LA Dodgers, Detroit Tigers, NY Yankees, Texas Rangers, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1941 | * | Martha Argerich Buenos Aires Argentina, pianist (debut 1949), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1944 | * | Tommie Smith US sprinter (Olympic-gold-1968); gave black power salute, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1945 | * | Don Reid Va, country singer (Statler Bros-Flowers on the Wall), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1945 | * | John Carlos track star (Olympic bronze 1968); gave black power salute, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1946 | * | Stefania Sandrelli Viareggio Italy, actress (The Key), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1946 | * | Freddie Stone (singer: group: Sly and the Family Stone: Everyday People, Thank You [Falettinme be Mice Elf Agin]), is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1947 | * | Don Herrmann football: New York Giants, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1947 | * | David Hare, British playwright and director (A Map of the World, Slag), is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1947 | * | Laurie (Laura) Anderson (singer: O Superman, Language is a Virus from Outer Space, LPs: Big Science, Mr. Heartbreak, United States, Home of the Brave), is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1949 | * | Ken Follett, novelist (Eye of the Needle, On The Wings of Eagles). | Ref: 2 |
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| 1950 | * | Laurie (Laura) Anderson singer: O Superman, Language is a Virus from Outer Space, LPs: Big Science, Mr. Heartbreak, United States, Home of the Brave, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1950 | * | Adrian Cosma Romania, team handball (Olympic-silver-1976), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1951 | * | Wayne Wood hockey: WHL: Vancouver Blazers, Calgary Cowboys, Toronto Toros, Birmingham Bulls, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1956 | * | Richard ‘Butler Rep’ Butler singer, songwriter: group: Psychedelic Furs: We Love You, Love My Way, Heaven, Pretty in Pink, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1956 | * | Kenny G saxophonist (Duotones), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1959 | * | Michael Winans gospel singer (The Winans), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1964 | * | Mags rocker (Fuzzbox-Into Rescue), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1971 | * | Mark Wahlberg musician: guitar, singer: group: Marky Mark and The Funky Bunch: Good Vibrations; actor: Renaissance Man, Calvin Klein commercials | Ref: 4 |
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| 1974 | * | Chad Allen Lazzari, Cerritos Cal, actor (David-Our House, My 2 Dads), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1974 | * | Chassity Lazzari, Cerritos Cal, actress | Ref: 5 |
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| -221 | * | -BC- Chu Yuan China's poet drowns. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1316 | * | Louis X (the Stubborn), King of Navarre (1305-14) and king of France (1314-16), dies at age 26. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1637 | * | American settlers in New England massacre a Pequot Indian village. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1826 | * | Carl Weber, German composer: Der Freischutz, Euryanthem Oberon, Invitation to the Dance; began the era of German romantic music, dies at age 39. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1900 | * | Stephen Crane, the American writer best known for his novel "The Red Badge of Courage," dies. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1910 | * | O. Henry, (William Sydney Porter), short story writer who wrote "The Gift of the Magi," and "The Last Leaf., dies at age 47. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1916 | * | Horatio H Kitchener British General (Sudan), dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1946 | * | Fire at LaSalle Hotel cocktail lounge kills 61 (Chicago Ill). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1953 | * | Bill Tilden, US tennis player, first American to win a Wimbleton singles title, dies at age 60. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1967 | * | Murderer Richard Speck sentenced to death in the electric chair. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated after claiming victory in CA's Democratic presidential primary. Gunman Sirhan Bishara Sirhan was immediately arrested. Kennedy dies the next day. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
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| 1970 | * | Jay Irving cartoonist (Draw Me a Laugh), dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1976 | * | The earthen Teton Dam North of Idaho Falls collapses flooding a large valley and killing over 100 people. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1988 | * | Clarence M Pendleton chairman of comm on Civil Rights (1981-88) dies | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | * | Larry Kert actor, singer, dancer: West Side Story original cast [1957]; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1992 | * | Max Lerner, American educator and columnist, dies at age 89. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1992 | * | Carl E. Stotz, the founder of Little League, dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1993 | * | Conway Twitty (Harold Lloyd Jenkins) songwriter: Walk Me to the Door; singer: It’s Only Make Believe, Danny Boy, Lonely Boy Blue, What Am I Living For, Next In Line, Hello Darlin’, 15 Years Ago, You’ve Never been this Far Before, Don’t Cry Joni; CMA Male Vocalist of the Year [1975], Grammy Award-winner [w/Loretta Lynn]: After the Fire is Gone [1971]; owns ooking agency, music publishing company, Twitty Burgers, Twitty City theme park; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1994 | * | Ish Kabibble (Merwyn Bogue) (comic singer: Three Little Fishies; sang and played trumpet with Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge; big bandleader; combo: The Shy Guys), dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1997 | * | J. Anthony Lukas Pulitzer Prize-winning author: Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1999 | * | Jazz and pop singer Mel Torme died in Los Angeles at age 73. (TWA, 2000) | Ref: 95 |
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| 2002 | * | Dee Dee Ramone (Douglas Colvin) musician: drums: group: The Ramones: dies. | Ref: 4 |
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