| 1381 | * | Richard II comes to London and goes to the Tower. That evening the mob from Canterbury arrives, led by Wat Tyler. They have told royal messengers that they are comng to London to rescue the king and to destroy traitors. They ask to meet the king the next morning at Blackheath, where they camp. The rebels demand the heads of the Chancellor, the Treasurer, and Lancaster. | |
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| 1442 | * | Alfonso V of Aragon is crowned King of Naples. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1458 | * | In England, the College of St. Mary Magdalen was founded at Oxford University. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1665 | * | England installs municipal government in New York which had been under Dutch rule as New Amsterdam. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1701 | * | Act of Settlement gives English crown to Sophia, Princess of Hanover. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1744 | * | David Brainerd, 26, was ordained a missionary to the Indians in Colonial New England by the Society for Propagating Christian Knowledge (SPCK). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1776 | * | The Virginia Convention, still in session in Williamsburg, adopted the first Declaration of Rights in America. Based on George Mason's (1725-1792) draft, the Virginia Declaration had wide influence, notably on the later federal Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Rights of Man and of the Citizen during the French Revolution. (XDG, p 4A, 6/12/2000) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1787 | * | Law passes providing a senator must be at least 30 years old. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1806 | * | Thomas Lincoln, father of Abraham Lincoln, marries Nancy Hanks. (Ref) | |
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| 1807 | * | President Jefferson responds to the request that he submit letters that might aid in Burr's defense. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1838 | * | The Iowa Territory is organized. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1845 | * | George Abernethy becomes first governor of Oregon Country. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1867 | | Austro-Hungarian Empire forms. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1872 | * | The first railroad opens in Japan | Ref: 62 |
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| 1878 | * | A hardware store on Limestone Street in Jamestown [Greene County] OH burns down, taking one dwelling and an old hotel with it. (XDG, p 5A, 9/25/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1882 | * | The Xenia City Council authorized $12,000 in bonds to cover the cost of an electric light plant. | Ref: 55 |
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| 1897 | * | Possibly most severe quake in history strikes Assam India. Shock waves felt over an area size of Europe. Negligible death toll. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1898 | * | Philippine nationalists declares independence from Spain to US control. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1900 | | German Navy Law calls for massive increase in sea power. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1901 | * | Cuba agrees to become an American protectorate by accepting the Platt Amendment. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1903 | * | Niagara Falls, Ontario incorporated as a city. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1908 | * | (day unspecifed) Bartolomeo Vanzetti emigrates to the United States. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1917 | * | Secret Service extends protection of president to his family. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1920 | * | Farmer Labor Party organized (Chicago). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1920 | * | Republicans nominate Warren G. Harding for president and Calvin Coolidge for vice president. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1921 | * | President Warren Harding urges every young man to attend military training camp. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1926 | * | Brazil quits the League of Nations in protest over plans to admit Germany. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1931 | * | Gangster Al Capone and 68 of his henchmen are indicted for violating Prohibition laws. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1934 | * | Black-McKeller Bill passes causes Bill Boeing empire to break up into Boeing United Aircraft [Technologies] & United Air Lines. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1934 | * | (Scottsboro Boys) Judge Horton, who had faced no opposition in his previous race, is defeated in his bid for re-election. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1934 | | Political parties banned in Bulgaria. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1961 | * | With the new firehouse completed, the old fire bell on East Main Street in Xenia OH rings for the last time. By noon this day, the 1500-lb bell was en route to a mission at Tangub in the Philippines. (XDG, p 7A, 9/02/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1962 | * | Frank Morris and Joseph and Clarence Angelin escape from Alcatraz. No trace was ever found. They were assumed "at large". | Ref: 52 |
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| 1964 | * | Nelson Mandela, South African antiapartheid leader, is sentenced to life imprisonment for conspiracy to overthrow the government. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | Race riot in Cincinnati Ohio (300 arrested). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | Supreme Court passes Living v. Virginia which makes State laws against interracial marriage illegal. (XDG, p 4A, 6/12/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1971 | * | Tricia Nixon and Edward F. Cox were married in the White House Rose Garden. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1978 | * | David Berkowitz was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for each of the six "Son of Sam" .44-caliber killings that had terrified New Yorkers. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1980 | * | President Reagan said he would submit to periodic medical tests. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1980 | * | The Senate passes bill that renews draft registration | Ref: 62 |
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| 1982 | * | A major political rally attracted the largest crowd ever to such an event in New York City’s Central Park. Entertainers Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen and Linda Ronstadt gathered before 750,000 to rally for the cause of nuclear disarmament. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1985 | | The US House of Representatives approves $27 million in aid to the Nicaraguan Contras. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1986 | | P W Botha declares South African national emergency and severely restricts news coverage. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1987 | * | President Ronald Reagan delivered a now-famous speech at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin, “General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” Destruction began November 9, 1989 on the Berlin Wall that had divided the city for some 28 years. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1990 | * | Congress of Peoples Deputies of RSFSR passes "Declaration of State Sovereignty of Russia" (Independence Day) | Ref: 89 |
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| 1991 | * | Boris Yeltsin becomes first democratically elected Russian President | Ref: 89 |
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| 1991 | * | Leningrad voters rename city St. Petersburg; symbolic last blow to Communism in Russia. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1993 | * | Reports surfaced that Judge Stephen Breyer, considered a likely candidate to the Supreme Court, had failed to pay Social Security taxes for a domestic employee. Although Breyer was passed over by President Clinton in favor of Ruth Bader Ginsberg, he was later nominated to serve on the nation's highest court. (XDG, p 4A, 6/12/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1996 | * | A panel of federal judges in Philadelphia blocked a law against indecency on the Internet, saying the 1996 Communications Decency Act would unlawfully chill adults' free-speech rights. | Ref: 6 |
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| 1996 | * | Senate Republicans overwhelmingly choose Trent Lott of Mississippi to succeed Bob Dole as majority leader. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1997 | * | The Treasury Department unveiled a new $50 bill meant to be more counterfeit-resistant. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1998 | * | A jury in Hattiesburg MS, convicted 17-year-old Luke Woodham of killing two students and wounding seven others at Pearl High School. | Ref: 70 |
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| 2000 | * | The Supreme Court, in a unanimous ruling, said patients cannot use a federal law to sue HMO's for giving doctors a financial incentive to cut treatment costs. | Ref: 6 |
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| 2003 | * | (Airport Security Breach) Police at Ancona Falconara airport in Italy find a seven-ounce package of explosives aboard an Alitalia flight. (WSJ, p B1, 9/03/2003) | Ref: 33 |
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| 2003 | * | Air France turns over the oldest of its Concordes to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC. (XDG, p 4A, 6/12/2004) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1667 | * | World's first blood transfusion in England; patient lived. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1792 | * | George Vancouver discovers site of Vancouver, BC. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1838 | * | Hopkins Observatory, dedicated in Williamstown, Mass. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1849 | * | Gas mask patented by Lewis Haslett, Louisville, Ky. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1897 | * | Swiss Army Knife patented by Karl Elsener, son of a Swiss hatmaker. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1962 | * | USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 56,270 m. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | USSR launches Venera 4 for parachute landing on Venus. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1979 | * | 26 year old cyclist Bryan Allen flew man-powered Gossamer Albatross over English Channel in a human-powered aircraft; flight took 2 hrs, 49 min | Ref: 5 |
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| 1998 | * | Space shuttle "Discovery" returns to Earth, bringing home the last American to live aboard "Mir" and closing out 3 years of US-Russian cooperation aboard the aging space station. (XDG, p 4A, 6/12/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1775 | * | First naval battle of Revolution-Unity (Am) captures Margaretta (Br). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1798 | * | French forces take Malta. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1812 | * | Napoleon Bonaparte and his army invade Russia. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1862 | * | Confederate General J. E. B. Stuart begins his ride around the Union Army outside of Richmond, Virginia. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1918 | * | The first airplane bombing raid by an American unit occurs in France. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1940 | * | Thailand and Japan sign a non-aggression pact. | |
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| 1941 | * | The first Canadian bomber mission is carried out. | |
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| 1942 | * | American bombers strike the oil refineries of Ploesti, Rumania for the first time. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1942 | * | In Canada, the Chemical Warfare Inter-Service Board develops a set of rules governing use of troops in war gas experiments. | |
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| 1942 | * | Four German saboteurs led by George John Dasch landed from a U-boat on the beach near Amagansett, Long Island, New York. Five days later, a second team of 4 German saboteurs, led by Edward Kerling, landed at Ponte Vedra Beach in Florida. Dasch turned himself in at the New York Field Office two days after landing. Within two weeks, the FBI captured all 8 saboteurs. | Ref: 14 |
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| 1944 | * | Rosenberg orders Hay Action the kidnapping of 40,000 Polish children aged ten to fourteen for slave labor in the Reich. | Ref: 35 |
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| 1972 | * | At a hearing in front the of a US House of Representatives committee, Air Force General John Lavalle defends his orders on engagement in Vietnam. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1999 | | Thousands of NATO peacekeeping troops poured into Kosovo by air and by land; in a surprising move, a Russian armored column entered Pristina before dawn to a hero's welcome from Serb residents. | Ref: 70 |
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| 2003 | | Israel kills 7 Palestinians in its third rocket attack in 24 hours. (XDG, p 4A, 6/12/2004) | Ref: 83 |
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| 2003 | * | US fighter jets bomb a suspected terrorist camp and troops storm through Sunni Muslim towns in Iraq seeking Sadam Hussein loyalists in one of the biggest military assaults since the war began. (XDG, p 4A, 6/12/2004) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1839 | * | According to legend, Abner Doubleday, who later became a major name in book publishing, created the game we know as baseball. It happened in Cooperstown, NY which, coincidentally, is the present home of the Baseball Hall of Fame. The name Doubleday is also associated with the current ownership of the NY Mets of the National League. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1880 | * | John Richmond, Worcester, pitches a perfect game against Cleveland (NL) winning 1-0. (2003 Sports Illustrated Almanac, ISBN 1-929049-55-2) | |
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| 1907 | * | The Yankees commit eleven errors and lose to the Tigers,14-6. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1912 | * | Christy Mathewson records his 300th win defeating the Cubs 3-2. | |
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| 1922 | * | St Louis gets record 10 hits in a row & beats Phillies 14-8. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1925 | * | William DeHart Hubbard of US, sets long jump record at 25' 10 3/4". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1928 | * | Lou Gehrig collects fourteen total bases to lead the Yankees to a 15-7 win over the White Sox; the NY first baseman blasts two triples and two homers. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1930 | * | Max Schmeling defeats Jack Sharkey in a 4 round bout at Yankee Stadium to win the heavyweight boxing title. | Ref: 97 |
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| 1939 | * | In front of a record crowd of 23,864 fans at Ruppert Stadium, Lou Gehrig plays his last game as a Yankee during an exhibition game against the Kansas City Blues, their AA farm team. Playing only three innings and batting eighth, the' Iron Horse' grounds out weakly to second base in his only at-bat. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1939 | * | The Baseball Hall of Fame was formally dedicated at Cooperstown, NY. The shrine to major league baseball still stands in honor of baseball greats of the past. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1940 | * | In a trade which stuns the baseball world, the Dodgers obtain Ducky Medwick and pitcher Curt Davis from the Cardinals for outfielder Ernie Koy, pitcher Carl Doyle, two minor leaguers and $125,000; the deal signals the emergence of Brooklyn as a serious contender. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1941 | * | The Braves break up the Waners' brother act sending Lloyd to the Reds for pitcher Johnny Hutchings; ŒBig Poison¹ Paul will stay in Boston. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1947 | * | Babe Didrikson is first American to win Br Women's Amateur Golf Champ. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1948 | * | Ben Hogan won his first US Open golf classic on this day. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1948 | * | Eddie Arcaro becomes first jockey to win the triple crown twice. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1954 | * | The Indians (35-17) move into first place as Bob Feller gets his 2,500th career strikeout and beats the Red Sox. Cleveland will eventually set the single season AL record for the most victories with 111. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1954 | * | Braves' hurler Jim Wilson pitches the season's only no-hitter as he blanks the Phillies, 2-0 | Ref: 1 |
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| 1957 | | Paul Anderson of US back-lifts a record 2850 kg (6,270 lbs). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1957 | * | Stan ‘The Man’ Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals, set a major-league baseball record by appearing in his 823rd consecutive ball game. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1959 | * | In spite off giving up a hit in the sixth, Giant Mike McCormick was credited with a no-hitter when the game is rained out later in that same inning. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1967 | * | The Washington Senators beat the Chicago White Sox, 6-5, in 22 innings. The game lasted six hours, 38 minutes and ended at 2 43 a.m., causing the league to adopt a curfew stating that no inning may start after 1 00 a.m. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1970 | * | Pittsburgh Pirate Dock Phillip Ellis Jr pitches a 2-0 no-hitter against the San Diego Padres in the first game of a twin bill, allegedly while tripping on LSD. (Ref: Gear Magazine, 5/2002, p. 128) | |
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| 1971 | * | Padre Clay Kirby one-hits the Giants; the no-hitter is spoiled by a Willie McCovey homer. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1973 | * | Yanks trade wife swapper Mike Kekich for Lowell Palmer. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1979 | | Kevin St Onge throws a playing card a record 185'. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1981 | * | Major league baseball players began a 49-day strike over the issue of free-agent compensation. (The season did not resume until August tenth.) | Ref: 1 |
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| 1981 | * | Larry Holmes, 31, defended his heavyweight boxing title by earning a third-round TKO (technical knockout) over Leon Spinks in Detroit, MI. Spinks, who had lost his two front teeth in previous bouts, was understandably discouraged at being beaten so early and was quoted as having said, “Thith ith weely, weely a thame, youth know? Like, I wuth weddy, weely weddy, but, I got whupped up pwetty badth, I gueth.” | Ref: 4 |
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| 1983 | * | Hall of Famers Charlie Gehringer and Hank Greenberg have their uniform numbers retired by Detroit in a ballpark ceremony. The digits 2 and 5, respectively, will join Al Kaline's #6 (1980) as the only numbers retired by the Tigers. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1985 | * | The National Hockey League Celebration of Excellence recognized ‘The Great One’, hockey star Wayne Gretsky, by awarding him his sixth Hart Trophy. The honor is earned by the Most Valuable Player in the NHL each year. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1988 | * | Robin Yount becomes only the third player in Milwaukee Brewers history to hit for the cycle as he accomplished the feat against Chicago in a 16-2 win. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1989 | * | Ben Johnson, Canadian Olympian, admits using steroids. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | NY Mets beat Chicago Cubs 19-8 at Wrigley Field, Cubs outfielder Doug Dazcenzo pitched a scoreless 9th inning. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | Oakland A's Rickey Henderson becomes 2nd to steal 900 bases. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | Cal Ripken plays in his 1,308th consecutive game moving into second-place on the all-time list ahead of former Yankee and Red Sox shortstop Everett Scott (1918-1925). | Ref: 1 |
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| 1990 | * | NY Yankee reliever Dave Righetti becomes 9th to record 200 saves. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | * | The Chicago Bulls won their first N-B-A championship, defeating the Los Angeles Lakers four games to one. | Ref: 6 |
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| 1991 | * | (and 13th) Major League owners meet in Santa Monica, CA and an ownership committee unanimously approves the two ownership groups. National League owners informally ratify Denver and South Florida. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1995 | * | The Cleveland Indians go on a sellout streak that will last 455 games, to April 4th, 2001. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1996 | * | Due to questionable comments about Hitler, Reds owner Marge Schott is forced to relinquish her role as managing general partner for two years. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1997 | * | After 126 years of major league play, the first interleague games in history are played as the Giants defeat the Rangers, 4-3, at the Ballpark inTX. Glenallen Hill becomes the NL's first regular season designated hitter. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1999 | * | In a 22-1 inter-league rout of the Braves, Cal Ripken becomes the first Oriole to go 6-for-6 as Baltimore score the most runs in their franchise history. The team, as the St. Louis Browns, had set the previous mark on Aug. 18, 1951 tallying twenty times. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2001 | * | The pitching poor Rangers trade backup backstop Doug Mirabelli to the Red Sox for Double-A Trenton right-handed pitcher Justin Duchscherer (6-3, 2.44). Mirabelli will help fill the void created last week when Boston's starting catcher Jason Varitek broke his right elbow. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2002 | * | The Los Angeles Lakers finished off the New Jersey Nets in four games, winning their third straight NBA title. (XDG, p 4A, 6/12/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1851 | * | Victor Hugo fined and imprisoned for writing an article condemning capital punishment. | Ref: 62 |
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| 1912 | * | Lillian Russell, famed theatrical actress, married for the fourth time on this day and said that she was retiring from the stage. Marriage will sometimes do that to people. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1913 | | "The Dachshund" by Pathe Freres, early animated cartoon, released. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1914 | * | The first edition of A.T. Robertson's monumental 'Grammar of the Greek New Testament' was released. Its 1400+ pages make it the largest systematic analysis of the original New Testament language ever published. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1923 | | Harry Houdini, while in a straitjacket, suspended 40 feet in the air, amazed a large and quite disbelieving audience as he freed himself of the constraints. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1932 | | The first documentary film, "Nanook of the North", was first shown | Ref: 62 |
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| 1935 | * | Ella Fitzgerald recorded her first sides for Brunswick Records. The tunes were Love and Kisses and I’ll Chase the Blues Away. She was featured with Chick Webb and his band. Ella was 17 at the time and conducted the Webb band for three years following his death in 1939. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1936 | | First 50 KW US radio station (Pittsburgh Pa) | Ref: 5 |
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| 1942 | * | Paul Whiteman and his orchestra recorded Travelin’ Light on Capitol Records of Hollywood, California. On the track with Whiteman’s orchestra was the vocal talent of ‘Lady Day’, Billie Holiday. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1947 | | People gathered around the radio to listen to Sergeant Preston of The Yukon for the first time. The show, with the Canadian Mountie and his trusty dog, King, continued on the radio until 1955 (and on TV from 1955-1958). Sgt. Preston was created by George W. Trendle and Fran Striker, who also created The Lone Ranger and The Green Hornet. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1955 | | The first network radio show to be produced with no script, The University of Chicago Round Table, was heard for the final time after 24 years on NBC radio. The program was the first network radio program to win the coveted George Foster Peabody Award. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1956 | | “This is Monitor, a weekend program service of NBC Radio,” was heard for the first time. Notables such as Bill Cullen, Ed McMahon, Hugh Downs, and Dave Garroway recited this line. It was a network cue to NBC radio stations across the nation who carried the long form news, entertainment and variety broadcast from NY City. Stations and listeners who were “on the Monitor beacon” were entertained for six hours or more each Saturday and Sunday night for nearly two decades. NBC’s Monitor was one of the last live network radio programs on the air. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1963 | * | Elizabeth Taylor starred in the $40,000,000 film epic, Cleopatra. The movie certainly gave ticket buyers their money’s worth. It lasted for four hours, three minutes. Cleopatra opened at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City on this day. Richard Burton starred as Marc Antony, Rex Harrison played Julius Caesar, Hume Cronyn played Sosigines, Carroll O’Connor was Casa and Roddy McDowell appeared as Octavian. We were at a loss, however, to find the name of the asp that bit Cleopatra. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1965 | * | The Queen of England announced that The Beatles would receive the coveted MBE Award. The Order of the British Empire recognition had previously been bestowed only upon British military heroes, many of whom were so infuriated by the news, they returned their medals to the Queen. In fact, John Lennon wasn’t terribly impressed with receiving the honor. He returned it (for other reasons) four years later. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1965 | * | Rolling Stones release "Satisfaction". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1972 | * | John Lennon's political "Sometime in NYC" released including "Woman is the Nigger of the World" "Attica State" & "Luck of the Irish" | Ref: 5 |
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| 1977 | * | Ground-breaking ceremonies for Pres Kennedy library. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1994 | * | Tony Awards: "Angels In America" wins best play; "Passion" wins best musical. (XDG, p 4A, 6/12/2004) | Ref: 83 |
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| 445 | * | The Roman emperor Maximus born. | Ref: 62 |
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| 1519 | * | (Cosimo I) Cosmos de Medici, Italian duke of Florence and Tuscany, art patron (Accademia del Disegno), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1519 | * | Cosimo I, Italian duke of Florence and Tuscany, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1720 | * | Birth of Isaac Pinto, translator of the first Jewish prayerbook published in America. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1771 | * | Patrick Gass Falling Springs PA, sgt of Lewis & Clark Expedition, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1802 | * | Harriet Martineau, English essayist and novelist, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1806 | * | John Roebling, civil engineer, pioneer in designing suspension bridges, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1819 | * | Charles Kingsley England, clergyman/novelist (Westward Ho!), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1829 | * | Johanna Spyri Switzerland, writer (Heidi), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1851 | * | Oliver Joseph Lodge England, early radio pioneer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1859 | * | Thomas Walsh, American politician; U.S. senator from Montana (1913-33), is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1885 | * | Werner Josten Elberfeld Germany, composer (Jungle), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1897 | * | Alexandre Tansman Lodz Poland, composer (Dyptique), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1897 | * | Anthony Eden Earl of Avon ©, British PM (1955-57), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1899 | * | Fritz Lipmann, German-born American biochemist, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1909 | * | Archie Bleyer Corona NY, orch leader (Arthur Godfrey), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1910 | * | Bill Naughton, Irish-born English playwright, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1911 | * | Milovan Djilas, Yugoslav political writer, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1912 | * | Russell "Lucky" Hayden Chico Calif, actor (Judge Roy Bean), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1914 | * | William Lundigan Syracuse NY, actor (Climax), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1915 | * | David Rockefeller banker: chairman: Chase Manhattan Bank; modern-art lover: trustee/chairman: Museum of Modern Art; chairman: Rockefeller University, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1915 | * | Priscilla Lane (Mullican) actress: Varsity Show, Million Dollar Baby, Arsenic and Old Lace; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1916 | * | Irwin Allen disaster-movie producer (Towering Inferno), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1916 | * | Ivan Tors producer, director: Flipper, Zebra in the Kitchen, Namu, the Killer Whale, Gentle Ben, Salty; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1917 | * | Priscilla Lane US, actress (Arsenic & Old Lace), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1919 | * | Uta (Thyra) Hagen, Germany, actres (Boys From Brazil)/teaches acting, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1919 | * | Vera Hruba Ralston actress (Dakota, Accused of Murder), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1920 | * | Peter Jones England, actor (From a Bird's Eye View), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1921 | * | James Houston Toronto, author/filmmaker (Tikta'Liktak), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1924 | * | George Herbert Walker Bush ® 43rd VP (1981-89) 41st Pres (1989-1993), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1927 | * | Al Fairweather jazz musician: groups: Al Fairweather-Ralph Laing All Stars, Fairweather-Brown all Stars, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1927 | * | Henry Slesar Brooklyn NY, headwriter (Edge of Night), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1928 | * | Vic Damone [Vito Farinola], Bkln, singer (the Street Where You Live), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1929 | * | Anne Frank, victim of the Holocaust, whose World War II diary was so famous, was born | Ref: 5 |
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| 1930 | * | Innes Ireland auto racer: champ: American Grand Prix [1961]; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1930 | * | Barbara Harris famous African, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1932 | * | Jim Nabors, Sylacauga Al, actor/singer (Gomer Pyle), is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1932 | * | Rona Jaffe author: The Last Chance, Class Reunion; films: The Best of Everything, Mazes and Monsters, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1941 | * | Chick Corea Chelsea Mass, jazz musician (Delhpi I, Toy Dance), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1941 | * | Roy Harper Manchester, rocker (Folkjokeopus), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1942 | * | Len Barry (Leonard Borisoff) singer: 1-2-3, Like a Baby; group: The Dovells: The Bristol Stomp, You Can’t Sit Down, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1943 | * | Marv Albert (Marv Philip Aufrichtig), NYC, "Yes!" sportscaster (NBC-TV), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1943 | * | Reg Presley rock vocalist (Troggs-Wild Thing), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1944 | * | Cornelius Johnson football: Baltimore Colts guard: Super Bowl III, V, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1944 | * | Reg Presley singer: group: Troggs: Wild Thing, Give It to Me, Love is All Around, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1944 | * | Linda Foster Lancaster England, actress (Doris-Hank), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1947 | * | John Clifford choreographer: New York City Ballet, Artistic Director of LA Ballet, ballet master/repetiteur for George Balanchine Trust, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1947 | * | Steve Kiner football: Dallas Cowboys linebacker: Super Bowl V, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1951 | * | Brad Delp guitarist (Boston-More Than a Feeling), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1951 | * | Bun Carlos (Brad Carlson) musician: drums: group: Cheap Trick: I Want You to Want Me, Ain’t That a Shame, Dream Police, Voices, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1952 | * | Ben E Carlos drummer (Cheap Trick-Dream Police), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1952 | * | Dale Krantz singer (Crossings-Collis Band), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1952 | * | Oliver Knussen Glasgow Scotland, composer (Chicara), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1952 | * | Seigfried Brietzke German DR, coxless rower (Oly-gold-1972, 76, 80), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1952 | * | 420th kitten (record) born to cat named Dusty, Bonham, TX. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1953 | | Grace Jones Kingston Jamacia (she claims but actually 5/19/48), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1953 | * | Rebecca Holden Austin TX, actress (April-Knight Rider), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1953 | * | Rocky Burnette Memphis, rocker (Towing the Line), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1957 | * | Jim Morris impressionist/comedian (Ronald Reagan, George Bush), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1957 | * | Timothy Busfield East Lansing Mich, actor (Elliot-30 Something), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1958 | * | Rory Sparrow basketball: Villanova Univ., New York Knicks, Chicago Bulls [SI Sportsman of the Year: 1987 co-recipient], Miami Heat, Sacramento Kings; NBA Player Programs Director, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1959 | * | Jenilee Harrison Glendale Calif, actress (Cindy-3's Company, Dallas), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1962 | * | Michael Link Provo Utah, actor (Earl-Julia) | Ref: 5 |
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| 1963 | * | Mark Henry pro wrestler/actor: Raw is War, Wrestlemania XIV, Sunday Night Heat, WWF Judgement Day, WWF Smackdown!, Armageddon, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1963 | * | Jerry Lynn pro wrestler/actor: ECW Hardcore TV, Extreme Championship Wrestling, Raw Is War, Sunday Night Heat, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1964 | * | Paula Marshall actress: The Wonder Years, Snoops, Cupid, Spin City, Chicago Sons, The Single Guy, Seinfeld, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1971 | * | Mark Henry pro wrestler/actor: Raw is War, Wrestlemania XIV, Sunday Night Heat, WWF Judgement Day, WWF Smackdown!, Armageddon, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 816 | * | St Leo III ends his reign as Catholic Pope. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1778 | * | (Declaration of Independence) Philip Livingston, merchant, signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
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| 1870 | * | Sophia Smith, American philanthropist; founded Smith College, dies at age 73. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1878 | * | William Cullen Bryant poet: Thanatopsis, To a Waterfowl, A Forest Hymn, The Prairies; editor: NY Evening Post; dies at age 83. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1885 | * | Roof collapse kills 30 at murder trial in France. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1889 | * | Single tornado kills 119, injures 146 (New Richmond Wisc). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1900 | * | Lucretia Hale, American novelist and writer of children's books, dies at age 79. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1937 | * | Eight of Stalin's generals are sentenced to death during purges in the Soviet Union. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1942 | * | Tornado kills 35 in Oklahoma City. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1952 | * | Michael von Faulhaber, German cardinal and archbishop of Munich, dies at age 83. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1957 | * | Jimmy Dorsey, American musician and orchestra leader, dies at age 53. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1963 | * | NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers, 37, is murdered in the doorway of his home in Jackson, MS. In 1994 Byron DeLaBeckwith was convicted of his murder and sentenced to life in prison. DeLaBeckwith died in 2001.Ref | |
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| 1972 | * | Saul David Alinsky radical writer (John L Lewis), dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1972 | * | Edmund Wilson, American essayist and literary critic, dies at age 77. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1980 | * | Milburn Stone actor (Doc-Gunsmoke), dies at 75 | Ref: 5 |
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| 1983 | * | Norma Shearer, Academy Award-winning acctress, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1986 | * | Tony Desimone combo leader (Ernie in Kovacsland), dies at 66 | Ref: 5 |
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| 1989 | * | Robin Howard, English balletomane; promoted modern dance in Britain, dies at age 65. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1989 | * | Lou Monte singer: Pepino the Italian Mouse, Lazy Mary, At the Darktown Strutter’s Ball; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1992 | * | Randy (Randolph Edward) Moore baseball: Chicago White Sox, Boston Braves, Brooklyn Dodgers, SL Cardinals; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1994 | * | (OJ Simpson) Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are stabbed to death. Their bodies found in the front courtyard of the Nicole's condominium in Brentwood. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1994 | * | Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, leader of the Lubavaticher Hassidic Jewish sect in Brooklyn NY, dies at age 92 in New York City. (TWA, 1995) | Ref: 95 |
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| 2002 | * | Fashion designer Bill Blass dies in Washingon CT at age 79. | Ref: 70 |
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| 2003 | * | (Eldred) Gregory Peck Academy Award-winning actor: To Kill a Mockingbird [1962]; The Keys of the Kingdom, The Yearling, Duel in the Sun, Gentleman’s Agreement, Twelve O’Clock High, David and Bathsheba, Captain Horatio Hornblower, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Roman Holiday, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, Moby Dick [1956], The Guns of Navarone, Marooned, MacArthur, The Boys from Brazil, Moby Dick [TV: 1998]; Jean Hersholt Humanitarian (Academy) Award [1968]; dies at age 87. | Ref: 4 |
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