| 362 | * | Emperor Julian issues an edict banning Christians from teaching in Syria. | Ref: 2 |
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| 653 | * | St Martin I ends his reign as Pope is arrested and abdicates. | Ref: 69 |
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| 676 | * | Deusdedit III ends his reign as Catholic Pope. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1328 | * | King Edward III renounces all claims of sovereignty over Scotland. | Ref: 62 |
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| 1397 | * | Union of Kalmar established between Denmark, Sweden & Norway. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1579 | * | Sir Francis Drake in The Golden Hind anchors north of San Francisco Bay; claims land for England. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1700 | * | Massachusetts passes law giving Roman Catholic priests three months to leave the State. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1789 | * | The Third Estate in France declared itself a national assembly, and undertook to frame a constitution. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1799 | * | Napoleon Bonaparte incorporates Italy into his empire. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1822 | * | In New York City, the first elders of the newly founded African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Zion Church were ordained. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1846 | * | Iowa College was chartered in Davenport under the joint sponsorship of the Congregational and Presbyterian churches. The school changed location in 1859 and was later renamed Grinnell College. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1856 | * | Republican Party opens its first national convention in Philadelphia PA. John C Fremont and William L. Dayton (Sen-NJ) are nominated as the President and Vice-presidential candidates. Ref | |
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| 1863 | * | Travelers Insurance Co of Hartford chartered (1st accident insurer). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1871 | | Mr. and Mrs. Martin Bates were married. It turned out to be a tall order for the couple. He was 7’2" tall and she an even 7 feet (without her high heels). | Ref: 4 |
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| 1872 | * | George M. Hoover begins selling whiskey in Dodge City, Kansas--a town which had previously been "dry." | Ref: 2 |
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| 1876 | * | General George Crook's command is attacked and bested on the Rosebud River by 1,500 Sioux and Cheyenne under the leadership of Crazy Horse. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1894 | * | First US poliomyelitis epidemic breaks out, Rutland, VT. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1895 | * | US Ship Canal (W 225th St) in the Bronx completed; cutting Marble Hill off from Manhattan. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1897 | * | William Frank Powell, NJ educator, named minister to Haiti | Ref: 5 |
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| 1909 | * | (and 18th) The City of Dayton welcomes Wilbur and Orville Wright as the world's greatest aviators in a two-day celebration. | Ref: 46 |
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| 1912 | * | The German Zeppelin SZ 111 burns in its hanger in Friedrichshafen. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1914 | * | First transcontinental telephone line; U.S. telephone system wired from coast to coast. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1921 | * | Connolly, the officer who arrested Sacco and Vanzetti on the train, testifies that Sacco and Vanzetti reached for their guns when they were arrested. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1924 | * | The Fascist militia marches into Rome. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1926 | * | Spain threatens to quit the League of Nations if Germany is allowed to join. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1930 | * | The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Bill becomes law, placing the highest tariff on imports to the United States. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1931 | * | British authorities in China arrest Indochinese Communist leader Ho Chi Minh. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1932 | * | The U.S. Senate defeats the Bonus Bill as 10,000 veterans mass around the Capitol. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1936 | * | Heinrich Himmler is appointed chief of the German Police. | Ref: 35 |
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| 1938 | | America's first ski lift opens-Cannon Mountain Tramway at Franconia, N.H. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1944 | * | Republic of Iceland proclaimed at Thingvallir, Iceland. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1946 | * | SW Bell innaugurates mobile telephone commercial service, St Louis. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1953 | * | (Rosenberg) Supreme Court Justice Wm O Douglas stays executions of spies Julius & Ethel Rosenberg scheduled for the next day their 14th anniversary. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1953 | | Soviet tanks fight thousands of Berlin workers rioting against the East German government. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1954 | * | The conclusion of the Army-McCarthy hearings were conducted by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, did much to end the anticommunist witch hunt led by McCarthy. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1957 | * | Tuskegee boycott begins (Blacks boycotted city stores). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1963 | * | The Supreme Court struck down rules requiring the recitation of the Lord's Prayer or reading of Biblical verses in public schools. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1964 | * | (Mississippi Burning) Klan burns Mt. Zion Church to the ground. It is one of twenty black churches in Mississippi to be firebombed in the summer of 1964. FBI begins investigation into church bombing codenamed "MIBURN", for "Mississippi burning." | Ref: 87 |
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| 1965 | * | 28.14 cm (11.08") of rainfall, Holly, Colorado (state 24-hour record). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | China becomes world's 4th thermonuclear (H-bomb) power. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1971 | * | The United States and Japan signed a treaty under which the U-S would return control of the island of Okinawa. | Ref: 6 |
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| 1972 | * | Security guard Frank Willis called Washington police to report a breakin at the Democratic National Committee Headquarters at the Watergate office building. The arrest of five men with ties to the Committee to Re-elect the President resulted in a scandal that led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon more than two years later. | Ref: 25 |
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| 1974 | * | The Concorde makes its first double Atlantic crossing in one day. (USA Today, p 2B, 4/11/2003) | Ref: 13 |
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| 1975 | * | Voters in Northern Mariana Is approve commonwealth status with US. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1981 | * | HP stock splits 2 for 1 at $94.13 a share | Ref: 62 |
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| 1981 | * | The US Navy's first Trident submarine, the USS Ohio, is launched at Groton CT. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1982 | * | President Galtieri resigns after leading Argentina to defeat (in the Falkand Islands War against the British). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1982 | * | The last issue of the Cleveland Press is published. | |
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| 1982 | * | Former US President Richard M. Nixon, rarely heard since resigning the presidency, is interviewed by Diane Sawyer on The CBS Morning News. The interview marked the 10th anniversary of the Watergate break-in. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1986 | * | (US Supreme Court Justice) President Ronald Reagan nominates William H. Rehnquist for Chief Justice. | |
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| 1986 | * | (US Supreme Court Justice) Chief Justice Warren Earl Burger resigns Antonin Scalia nominated. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1988 | * | Women sentenced to 90 years in first product tampering murder case | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | * | The Parliament of South Africa repealed the Population Registration Act. The law, the basis of all apartheid laws in South Africa, required all South Africans to be classified at birth. It was first implemented in 1950, and placed South Africans in separate categories of race: Caucasian, mixed, Asian and black. Other apartheid laws were enforced according to those categories. The Population Registration Act was the final apartheid law to be repealed, except for the one that prevented blacks from voting. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1994 | * | (OJ Simpson) About to be arrested for murder, Simpson slips out of Robert Kardashian's home. He is chased by police while riding in his white Ford Bronco, driven by friend A.C. Cowlings. When he returns to his home on Rockingham, Simpson is taken into custody. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1831 | * | The boiler of "Best Friend" explodes when a fireman ties down a noisy safety valve. Three people are injured, one seriously with a broken thigh. Ref | |
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| 1837 | * | Charles Goodyear obtains his first rubber patent. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1861 | * | President Abraham Lincoln witnesses Dr. Thaddeus Lowe demonstrate the use of a hot-air balloon. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1928 | * | Amelia Earhart leaves Newfoundland to become first woman to fly the Atlantic (as a passenger in a plane piloted by Wilmer Stultz). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1947 | * | First round-the-world civil air service leaves NYC. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1950 | * | Dr. Richard H. Lawler performed the first kidney transplant in a 45-minute operation in Chicago, IL. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1985 | * | 18th Space Shuttle Mission (51-G)-Discovery 5 launched. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1988 | * | Microsoft releases MS DOS 4.0 | Ref: 5 |
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| 1745 | * | American colonials capture Louisburg, Cape Breton Is from French. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1775 | * | Battle of Bunker Hill (actually it was Breed's Hill). British lose half their troops-1,054 men- but are still victorious. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1778 | * | A British peace offer is rejected by Congress. | Ref: 62 |
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| 1812 | * | The Senate votes 19-13 in favor of war against Great Britain. (USA Today, p 5A, 10/08/2002) | Ref: 13 |
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| 1843 | * | The Maori uprisings in New Zealand against the British begin. | Ref: 62 |
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| 1848 | | Austrian General Alfred Windischgratz crushes a Czech uprising in Prague. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1854 | | The Red Turban revolt breaks out in Guangdong, China. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1863 | * | Battle of Aldie, Confederates fail to drive back the Union in Virginia. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1863 | * | On the way to Gettysburg, Union and Confederate forces skirmish at Point of Rocks, Maryland. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1913 | * | U.S. Marines set sail from San Diego to protect American interests in Mexico. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1917 | * | The Russian Duma meets in secret session in Petrograd and votes for an immediate Russian offensive against the German Army. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1918 | * | Last German air raid on Britain in World War I | Ref: 62 |
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| 1940 | * | France asked Germany for terms of surrender in World War II. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1940 | * | The Soviet Union occupies Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1942 | * | The Army weekly newspaper, Yank, coined the term “G.I. Joe” in a comic strip drawn by Dave Breger. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1942 | * | First WW II American expeditionary force lands in Africa (Gold Coast). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1944 | * | French troops land on the island of Elba in the Mediterranean. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1944 | * | British cities bombed for first time by jets with no pilots. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1965 | * | 27 B-52s hit Viet Cong outposts, but lose two planes in South Vietnam. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1970 | * | North Vietnamese troops cut the last operating rail line in Cambodia. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1866 | * | The New York City Athletic Club was formed. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1876 | * | First to hit 2 HRs; & score 5 runs in 9 inn NL game (George Hall, A's). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1880 | * | John Monte Ward tossed the second perfect game in major-league history as he and Providence blanked Buffalo 5-0. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1912 | * | Talk about long shots: Wishing Ring won at Latonia race track in Kentucky. Most people didn’t even notice because the horse had been a non-performer until then. A $2 wager to win paid an incredible $1,885.50 for a few, very lucky ticket holders. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1913 | * | A Chicago Cubs pitcher set a baseball record for the longest appearance by a reliever in a game. George ‘Zip’ Zabel came in from the bull pen with two outs in the first inning of a game at Ebbets Field in NY. George kept pitching until the 19th inning when the Cubs finally beat the Dodgers 4-3. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1915 | * | After pitching the longest relief stint ever, 18 1/3 innings, Cub Zip Zabel beats the Dodgers 4-3 in the 19th inning. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1930 | * | Chuck Klein sets Phillies hitting streak at 26 straight games. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1943 | * | Red Sox player-manger Joe Cronin pinch-hit homers in both ends of a doubleheader against the Philadelphia A's. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1948 | * | Joe Cronin pinch hit HRs in both ends of a doubleheader. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1954 | * | Rocky Marciano successfully defended his heavyweight boxing title by defeating former champion Ezzard Charles. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1960 | * | At Cleveland's Municipal Stadium, Ted Williams hits his 500th career home run off of Wayne Hawkins. 'Teddy Ballgame's two-run blast proves to be difference as the Red Sox beat the Indians, 3-2. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1962 | * | Brazil Beats Czechosolakia in soccer's 7th World Cup at Santiago. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1969 | * | Boris Spasky became chess champion of the world after checkmating former champion Tigran Petrosian in Moscow. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1971 | * | Cub Don Kessinger goes 6 for 6 (5 singles and a double) as the Cubs best the Cardinals in 10 innings, 7-6. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1973 | * | Johnny Miller won his first major golf title by defeating the field at the prestigious United States Open. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1976 | * | ABA (Nets, Pacers, Nuggets & Spurs) merges into the NBA. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1978 | * | Yankee southpaw Ron Guidry strikes out 15 Angels in six innings and finishes with 18 Ks establishing a new American League mark for left-handers. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1979 | * | Tony Perez, Gary Carter and Ellis Valentine hit the first back-to-back-to-back home runs in Expos' history. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1988 | * | Robin Givens and her family go public with tales of beatings at the hands of Mike Tyson. | Ref: 98 |
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| 1989 | * | US beats Guatemala 2-1, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup | Ref: 5 |
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| 1993 | * | Baseball owners vote overwhelming, 26-2, in favor of expanding the playoffs for the first time since 1969. The new system, which will begin in 1994, will double the number teams that qualify to eight by realigning each league to three divisions with two teams qualifying as wildcards. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1994 | * | 1994 World Cup soccer match begins. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1919 | * | "Barney Google" cartoon strip, by Billy De Beck, premiers. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1937 | * | Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" opens in NY. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1941 | * | WNBT-TV, channel 4 in New York City, was granted the first construction permit to operate a commercial TV station in the United States. (WNBT signed on the air on July 1, 1941 at 1:29 p.m.). | Ref: 4 |
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| 1942 | | Suspense, known as radio’s outstanding theatre of thrills, debuted on CBS radio. The program kept millions of loyal listeners in suspense for the next 20 years. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1964 | | The first Universal Studios tram tour. | Ref: 73 |
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| 1965 | * | Kinks arrive in NYC beginning their first US tour. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | Barbra Striesand: A Happening in Central Park performed. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1969 | | The raunchy musical review "Oh! Calcutta!" opened in New York. | Ref: 6 |
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| 1969 | * | Jazz musician Charles Mingus came out of a two-year, self-imposed retirement to make a concert appearance at the Village Vanguard in NY City. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1971 | * | Valerie Suldo becomes Disneyland's 100,000,000th guest. (Ref: "Disney, The First 100 Years", 1999, ISBN 0-7868-6442-7) | |
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| 1972 | * | Looking Glass releases "Brandy" | Ref: 5 |
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| 1978 | * | Shadow Dancing, by Andy Gibb, reached the number one spot on the pop music charts for the first of seven weeks. Gibb had two other number one hits: I Just Want to Be Your Everything and (Love is) Thicker than Water. Gibb, the youngest of the Gibb brothers who made up the Bee Gees, hosted TV’s Solid Gold in 1981-82. Andy scored nine hits on the pop music charts in the 1970s and 1980s. He died of an inflammatory heart virus in Oxford, England in 1988. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1985 | * | Judy Norton-Taylor, who played the role of Mary Ellen on The Waltons, saw her good-girl image tarnished as she was photographed nude for Playboy magazine. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1988 | * | Bruce Springsteen seperates from Juliette Phillips. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | * | Country entertainer Minnie Pearl suffers a stroke at 78 | Ref: 5 |
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| 1239 | * | Edward I (Longshanks), King of England (1272-1307), is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1682 | * | Charles XII, King of Sweden (1697-1718), is born. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1703 | * | John Wesley, English evangelist and theologian, founder of the Methodist movement, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1742 | * | (Declaration of Independence) William Hooper, lawyer, signer of the Declaration of Independence, is born in Boston, MA. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1811 | * | Jon Sigurdsson Iceland, leader/collects Icelandic legends, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1818 | * | Charles Gounod, composer, is born in Paris, France. (Also: Cross, Milton, "Encyclopedia of the Great Composers and Their Music", Doubleday & Co, 1953) | Ref: 5 |
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| 1821 | * | E. G. Squier, American newspaper editor, diplomat and archaeologist, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1832 | * | Sir William Crookes chemist/physicist; discovered thallium, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1858 | * | Eben Sumner Draper former MA Gov, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1859 | * | Birth of J. Wilbur Chapman, Presbyterian pastor and evangelist who authored a number of hymns, including 'One Day When Heaven Was Filled with His Praises.' | Ref: 5 |
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| 1867 | * | John Robert Gregg Ireland, inventor (shorthand), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1870 | * | George Cormack created "Wheaties" cereal, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1871 | * | James Weldon Johnson, African-American poet and novelist (The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man), lawyer, first black admitted to Florida Bar, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1880 | * | Carl Van Vechten, writer, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1881 | * | Heavyweight boxing champion Tommy Burns is born in Noah Brusso, Ontario CN. | Ref: 97 |
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| 1882 | * | Igor (Fedorovich) Stravinsky composer: The Firebird, Petrouchka, The Rite of Spring, The Wedding, The Soldier’s Tale; is born in Oranienbaum, Russia. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1888 | * | Aleksandr Friedmann, Russian mathematician and physical scientist, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1898 | * | M. C. Escher, Dutch graphic artist, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1900 | * | Martin Bormann, German Nazi party leader, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1902 | * | Sammy Fain (Samuel Feinberg) Oscar-winning musician, composer: Secret Love [1953], Love is a Many-Splendored Thing [1955]; April Love, A Certain Smile, A Very Precious Love, Tender is the Night, I’ll Be Seeing You, I Can Dream Can’t I, Let a Smile be Your Umbrella [most w/Irving Kahal]; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1904 | * | Ralph (Rexford) Bellamy, Chicago, actor (Air Mail, Dive Bomber, Trading Places), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1910 | * | Red (Clyde Julian) Foley, Blue Lick Ky, country singer (Mr Smith Goes to Washington), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1912 | * | Don Gillis Cameron Missouri, composer (Symphony #5«), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1914 | * | John (Richard) Hersey author: A Bell for Adano, Hiroshima; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1915 | * | Stringbean [David Akeman], Ky, banjoist/comedian (Hee Haw), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1917 | * | Charles Eames, American designer and architect, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1917 | * | Dean Martin (Dino Crocetti) straight man of comedy-team: Martin and Lewis; singer: Memories are Made of This, Return to Me, Everybody Loves Somebody, The Door is Still Open to My Heart, Houston; actor: My Friend Irma, Hollywood or Bust, Airport, Bells are Ringing, The Caddy, Cannonball Run, Ocean’s 11, Rio Bravo; died Dec 25, 1995 | Ref: 4 |
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| 1919 | * | Kingman Brewster, college president (Yale), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1920 | * | Francois Jacob France, biologist/bacteriologist (Nobel 1965), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1920 | * | Beryl Reid, actress (Joseph Andrews, Psycho Mania, Yellowbeard), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1922 | * | Jerry Fielding Pitts Pa, orch leader (Lively Ones), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1923 | * | Elroy (Crazylegs) Hirsch AAFC, NFL halfback, end (LA Rams), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1925 | * | Keith Larsen Salt Lake City Utah, actor (The Hunter, Brave Eagle), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1928 | * | James Brown rocker (Hot Pants), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1929 | * | Tigran Petrosyan US, world chess champion (1963-69), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1929 | * | Bud Collins International Tennis Hall of Famer: champ: U.S. Indoor Mixed Doubles Championship [w/partner Janet Hopps: 1961]; sports writer: Boston Herald, Boston Globe; sportscaster: NBC; author: Bud Collins’ Modern Encyclopedia of Tennis, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1931 | * | Virginia McKenna London, actress (Born Free, Gathering Storm), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1932 | * | Peter Lupus actor: Mission: Impossible [TV], Think Big, Pulsebeat, Escapist, More! Police Squad, Muscle Beach Party, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1939 | * | Dickie Doo (Gerry Granahan) singer: group: Dickie Doo and The Don’ts: Click Clack, No Chemise Please, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1940 | * | Bobby Bell, Pro Football Hall of Famer: Univ. of Minnesota [All-America tackle], Kansas City Chiefs linebacker/defensive end [25 interceptions for 479 yards, six TDs], is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1942 | * | Norman Kuhlice England, rocker (Swinging Blue Jeans-You're No Good), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1942 | * | Rod Padgett, poet, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1943 | * | Steve Clark swimmer: Olympic Gold medalist [1964]; broke nine world swimming records from 1960-65 in short-course times, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1943 | * | Newt Gingrich, one-time Republican Speaker of the House, is born in Harrisburg PA. (TWA, 1994) | Ref: 95 |
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| 1944 | * | Randy Johnson football: Atlanta Falcons QB, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1945 | * | Eddy Merckx Belguim, cyclist (5 time winner of Tour de France), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1946 | * | Barry Manilow (Barry Alan Pincus) Grammy Award-winning singer: I Write the Songs [1975]; Mandy, Looks Like We Made It, Can’t Smile Without You, Copacabana, is born in New York City. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1948 | * | David Concepcion Venezuela, all star shortstop (Cincinatti Reds), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1948 | * | Phylicia Allen Ayers Rashad, Houston TX, actress (Cosby), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1951 | * | Joe Piscopo Passaic NJ, comedian (SNL, Miller Lite commercials), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1951 | * | Dave Fortier hockey: NHL: Toronto Maple Leafs, NY Islanders, Vancouver Canucks, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1953 | * | Mark Linn-Baker, actor, is born in St Louis MO. (TWA, 1998) | Ref: 95 |
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| 1954 | * | Mark Linn-Baker, St Louis, actor (Larry Appleton-Perfect Strangers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1957 | * | Stephen Shellen actor: Casual Sex?, Murder One, Counterstrike, A River Runs Through It, The Bodyguard, Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde, Gone in Sixty Seconds, La Femme Nikita, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1958 | * | Dan McVicar, Independence Mo, actor (Clarke-Bold & Beautiful), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1961 | * | Thomas Haden Church actor: Wings, Tombstone, George of the Jungle, One Night Stand, Goosed, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1963 | * | Greg Kinnear actor: What Planet Are You From?, Talk Soup, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1964 | * | Michael Gross West Germany, swimmer (Olympic-2 world records-1984), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1965 | * | Kami Cotler Long Beach Calif, actress (Elizabeth-The Waltons), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1966 | * | Christy Canyon actress: X-rated films, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1966 | * | Jason Patric (Miller) actor: The Journey of August King, Geronimo: An American Legend, Rush, Frankenstein Unbound, The Beast, The Lost Boys, Solarbabies, Toughlove, Speed 2: Cruise Control, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1967 | * | Tori Welles actress: X-rated films, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1969 | * | Kevin Thornton vocalist (Color Me Badd-I Want to Sex You Up), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1975 | * | Joshua Leonard actor: The Blair Witch Project, Men of Honor, Deuces Wild, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1975 | * | Frederick Koehler Queens NY, actor (Chip-Kate & Allie), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1977 | * | Jason Miller Silver Springs Md, actor (New Mickey Mouse Club) | Ref: 5 |
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| 1980 | * | Venus Williams tennis: champ: doubles title: U.S./French Opens w/sister Serena [1999]; Grand Slam singles: Wimbledon [2000], U.S. Open [2000, 2001]; doubles: w/sister Serena: Wimbledon [2000]; fastest serve in WTA history [127 mph], is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1678 | * | Giacomo Torelli, Italian stage designer and engineer, dies at age 69. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1696 | * | King John III Sobieski of Poland dies. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1719 | * | Joseph Addison essayist: periodicals: The Spectator, The Tatler, The Guardian, The Freeholder; author: Cato; dies at age 47. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1775 | * | Joseph Warren, American Revolutionary general, physician, dispatched Paul Revere and William Dawes to Lexington to warn of the British approach, is killed at Bunker Hill. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1850 | * | Paddle-wheeler "G P Griffith" burns off Mentor Ohio (206 die). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1882 | * | Tornado kills 130 in IA | Ref: 5 |
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| 1887 | * | Mark Hopkins educator: Williams College president: U.S. President Garfield said, “All that is needed for a superior education is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.”; dies at age 85. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1888 | * | Aleksandr Friedmann, Russian mathematician and physical scientist, dies at age 37. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1905 | * | Maximo G˘mez Cuban general, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1939 | * | Last public guillotining in France; Eugene Weidmann dies for murder of American female dancer. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1947 | * | Maxwell Perkins, American editor, dies at age 62. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1948 | * | A United Air Lines DC-6 crashed near Mount Carmel, PA, killing all 43 people on board. | Ref: 6 |
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| 1948 | * | Earl Carroll, American theatrical producer and director, dies at age 54. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1956 | * | Bob Sweikert auto racer: Indpls 500 winner [1955]; is killed in race at Salem IN. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1957 | * | Dorothy Miller Richardson, English novelist, dies at age 84. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1959 | * | Eugene Meyer, American publisher of The Washington Post (1933-46), dies at age 83. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1961 | * | Jeff Chandler (Ira Grossel) actor: Merrill's Marauders, Return to Peyton Place, Broken Arrow; dies at age 40. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1973 | * | Luis Van Rooten actor (One Man's Family), dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1974 | * | Pamela Britton actress (Blondie, My Favorite Martian), dies at 50. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1978 | * | Cully Richards actor (Don't Call Me Charlie), dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1979 | * | Lou Frizzel actor (Dusty Rhoades-Bonanza), dies at 58. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1984 | * | Chet Allen actor (Jerry-Bonino, Slats-Troubleshooter), dies at 51. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1984 | * | Swale Kentucky Derby winner, collapses & dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1986 | * | Kate Smith singer (God Bless America), dies in Raleigh NC at 78. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1987 | * | Dick (Richard Dalton) Howser baseball: KC Athletics [all-star: 1961], Cleveland Indians, NY Yankees; manager: NY Yankees, KC Royals:: 404-365 record [.525], 2 division titles, World Championship [1985], uniform [#10] was first number retired by Royals retired by Royals; dies at 51 of brain cancer. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1989 | * | David S Griggs astronaut, dies in crash of WW II vintage plane | Ref: 5 |
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| 1989 | * | Hy Gardner journalist: Miami, NY radio/TV: Hy Gardner Calling; dies. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1989 | * | John Matusek Oakland Raider/actor, dies at 38 of a heart attack. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | Palmira Henry fashion designer, dies at 44 of cerebral hemorrhage | Ref: 5 |
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