| 451 | * | 10th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1322 | * | Jews are expelled from France. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1441 | * | Eton College founded by Henry VI. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1509 | * | Henry Tudor and Catherine of Aragon are coronated as King (Henry VIII) and Queen of England. (XDG, p 4A, 6/24/2000) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1527 | * | (Protestant Reformation) King Gustavus of Sweden assembled the Diet of Wester's, for the purpose of carrying through the Protestant Reformation in Sweden. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1540 | * | Henry VIII divorces his 4th wife, Anne of Cleves. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1647 | * | Margaret Brent, a niece of Lord Baltimore, was ejected from the Maryland Assembly after demanding a place and vote in that governing body. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1664 | * | The colony of New Jersey, named after the Isle of Jersey, is founded. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1778 | * | David Rittenhouse observes a total solar eclipse in Philadelphia. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1793 | * | The first republican constitution in France was adopted. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1817 | * | First coffee planted in Hawaii on Kona coast. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1836 | * | The first Xenia OH jail is built by Daniel Lewis for $4600. (XDG, 3/2/1984) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1841 | * | Fordham University (then St John's College), opens in the Bronx | Ref: 5 |
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| 1884 | * | John Lynch is first black elected chairman of Republican convention. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1885 | * | Woodrow Wilson, 28th US President, marries Ellen Louise Axson in Rome GA. (Braeman, John, "Wilson", 1972, ISBN 0-13-960260-7) | |
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| 1896 | * | Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to receive an honorary MA degree from Howard University. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1897 | * | Hail injures 26 in Topeka Kansas. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1901 | * | Jewish National Fund starts | Ref: 5 |
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| 1913 | | Greece and Serbia annul their alliance with Bulgaria following border disputes over Macedonia and Thrace. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1920 | | Chuvash Autonomous Region formed in RSFSR. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1931 | | The Soviet Union and Afghanistan sign a treaty of neutrality. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1939 | * | Pan Am's first US to England flight. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1940 | * | The FBI established a Special Intelligence Service (SIS) at President Roosevelt's request. In connection with the SIS, the Bureau dispatched Agents to countries throughout the Western Hemisphere (except Panama). FBI Agents in South and Central America gathered intelligence information and worked to prevent Axis espionage, sabotage, and propaganda efforts aimed against the US and its allies. Special Agents assigned to posts in Europe, Canada and Latin America began acting in an official liaison capacity. After President Truman closed the SIS in 1946 these Agent liaisons formed the basis of the FBI's Legal Attaché (Legat) Program. | Ref: 14 |
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| 1941 | * | The two-day Constitutional Assembly of the Nippon Kirisuto Kyodan opened, during which was formed the United Church of Christ in Japan. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1943 | * | Working with cyclotron produced plutonium, Emilio Segre determines that the spontaneous fission rate is 5 fissions/kg-sec. This is well within the assembly speed capability of a high speed gun. | Ref: 91 |
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| 1945 | * | Frisch confirms that the implosion core design is satisfactory after criticality tests. | Ref: 91 |
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| 1946 | * | 29.77 cm (11.72") of rainfall, Mellen, Wisc. (state 24-hr record). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1948 | * | Republican Natl Convention in Phila nominates NY gov Thomas Dewey. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1948 | | Communist forces cut off all land and water routes between West Germany and West Berlin, prompting the United States to organize the massive Berlin airlift. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1949 | * | Cargo airlines first licensed by US Civil Aeronautics Board | Ref: 5 |
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| 1953 | * | John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier announce their engagement. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1955 | * | Soviet MIG's down a U.S. Navy patrol plane over the Bering Strait. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1956 | * | Gamal Abdul Nasser elected president of Egypt. | Ref: 18 |
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| 1963 | * | Zanzibar granted internal self-government by Britain. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1964 | * | (Mississippi Burning) Prominent black leaders including James Farmer, John Lewis, and Dick Gregory meet with Neshoba County officials in Philadelphia. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1964 | * | The Federal Trade Commission announces that, starting in 1965, cigarette makers must include warning labels about the harmful effects of smoking. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1966 | | Period of relative peace following WW II exceeds that following WW I. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | "Resurrection City," a shantytown constructed as part of the Poor People's March on Washington DC, was closed down by authorities. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1968 | * | Deadline for redeeming silver certificate dollars for silver bullion. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1977 | * | IRS reveals Jimmy Carter paid no taxes in 1976. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1982 | * | Equal Rights Amendment goes down to defeat. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1985 | * | The wife of exiled Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn became a US citizen. Natalia Solzhenitsyn celebrated in her new home in Rutland, VT. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1986 | * | (US Supreme Court Justice) President Reagan nominates Antonin Scalia to the Supreme Court. | |
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| 1986 | * | Guy Hunt elected first Republican governor of Alabama in 112 years. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1986 | * | US Senate approves "tax reform". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | * | The US Supreme Court ruled the First Amendment did not shield news organizations from being sued when they publish the names of sources who had been promised confidentiality. | Ref: 6 |
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| 1994 | * | (OJ Simpson) Grand jury recused. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1996 | * | A jury ordered the city of Philadelphia to pay $1.5 million in damages for the bombing of MOVE headquarters in 1985 that killed eleven people. | Ref: 6 |
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| 1997 | * | Eighteen-year-old Melissa Drexler of Freehold, N.J., who gave birth during her prom, was charged with murder in the death of her baby. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1998 | * | AT&T announced that it was buying cable TV giant TCI for $31.7 billion. The deal let AT&T move closer to its goal of providing local phone and high speed Internet service to millions of US homes. | Ref: 4 |
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| 2000 | | After months of political violence, Zimbabweans crowded polling booths in the country's most competitive election since independence. | Ref: 6 |
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| 2000 | * | Revising an earlier plan, President Clinton proposed using $58 billion from the growing budget surplus to help senior citizens pay for prescription drugs in 2002. | Ref: 6 |
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| 1497 | * | The first recorded sighting of North America by a European took place as explorer John Cabot spotted land, probably in present-day Canada. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1797 | * | Charles Newbold patents the cast iron plow | |
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| 1881 | * | First photograph taken of a comet by A.A. Common in England and H. Draper in USA. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1930 | * | First radar detection of planes, Anacostia DC. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1947 | * | Looking skyward this night, Kenneth Arnold of Boise, Idaho reported seeing flying saucers over Mt. Rainier, Washington. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1963 | * | First demonstration of home video recorder, at BBC Studios, London. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1982 | * | Jean-Loup Chretien, first spacionaut, lifts off with two cosmonauts for an eight day visit to the Salyut 7 space station | Ref: 5 |
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| 1983 | * | 7th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 2 lands at Edwards AFB. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1985 | * | 18th Space Shuttle Mission (51-G)-Discovery 5 returns to Earth. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1985 | * | Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-F. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1997 | * | The Air Force released a report on the so-called "Roswell Incident," suggesting the alien bodies witnesses reported seeing in 1947 were actually life-sized dummies. (Go to article.) | Ref: 70 |
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| 1314 | * | The forces of Scotland's King Robert I defeated the English in the Battle of Bannockburn. Scotland regains independence from England. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1340 | * | The English fleet defeats the French fleet at Sluys, off the Flemish coast. (First major engagement of 100 years war.) | Ref: 2 |
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| 1535 | * | Anabaptists Protestants conquerered & disbanded. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1662 | | Dutch invasion of Macau repulsed (Macau Day). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1675 | * | King Philip's War begins; colonists at Plymouth massacred by Indians under Wampanoag leader Philip. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1812 | * | Napoleon crosses the Nieman River and invades Russia. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1813 | * | Battle of Beaver Dam-British & Indian forces defeat US forces. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1821 | | Battle of Carabobo; Bol¡var defeats royalists outside of Caracas. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1859 | * | At the Battle of Solferino, also known as the Battle of the Three Sovereigns, the French army, led by Napoleon III, defeats the Austrian army under Franz Joseph I. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1861 | * | Federal gunboats attack Confederate batteries at Mathias Point, Virginia. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1861 | * | Tennessee becomes 11th (& last) state to secede from US. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1862 | * | U.S. intervention saves the British and French at the Dagu forts in China. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1863 | * | Long barrelled Spencer repeating rifles are first used in combat by Col John T Wilder's mounted infantrymen at Hoover's Gap. (History Channel Magazine, p 24, May/June 2003) | |
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| 1898 | * | American troops, drive Spanish forces from La Guasimas Cuba. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1910 | * | The Japanese army invades Korea. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1917 | * | Mutiny at Sebastopol by the Russian Black Sea Fleet | Ref: 62 |
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| 1932 | | Coup ends absolute monarchy in Thailand. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1940 | * | France signed an armistice with Italy during World War II. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1941 | * | President Franklin Roosevelt pledges all possible support to the Soviet Union. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1943 | * | Royal Air Force Bombers hammer Muelheim, Germany, in a drive to cripple the Ruhr industrial base. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1944 | * | (or the 25th?) Royal Canadian Air Force sinks German submarine U-1225. Flight Lieytenant David Hornell later (posthumously) receives the Victoria Cross for his efforts. | |
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| 1970 | * | Senate votes overwhelmingly to repeal Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1882 | * | NL expells umpire Richard Higham for dishonesty. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1894 | * | Decision to begin modern Olympics every 4 years. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1908 | * | Yanks replace Clark Griffith with Kid Elberfeld as manager who is destined to have worse won-lost pct of any Yankee mgr 27-71 (.276). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1909 | * | Best 72 holes of golf at US open (George Sargent-290). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1911 | * | John McDermott becomes first American to win US open golf tournament | Ref: 5 |
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| 1922 | * | The American Professional Football Association took on a new name. They decided to name themselves the National Football League. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1936 | * | Yankee rookie Joe DiMaggio hits two home runs in the fifth inning in an 18-4 rout of the St. Louis Browns. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1947 | * | In 4-2 win over Pittsburgh, Jackie Robinson steals home. It is the first of 19 times the Dodger rookie will accomplish the feat in his career. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1950 | * | Wes Westrum hits three home runs and a triple helping the Giants defeat the Reds, 12-2. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1952 | * | Eddie Arcaro set a thoroughbred racing record for American jockeys by winning his 3,000th horse race. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1953 | * | Al Kaline signed with the Detroit Tigers this day (following his graduation from high school). The future all-star of the Tigers was 18 years old. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1953 | * | The Braves sign 17-year old Joey Jay making him the first Little League player to make it to the major leagues. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1955 | * | In a 18-7 loss to the Tigers, Senator 18-year old rookie third baseman Harmon Killebrew hits his first major league home run of Billy Hoeft. 'Killer' will finish his 22-year Hall of Fame career with 573 homers. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1962 | * | Baseball’s longest extra-inning game (to that time) was played. The 22-inning contest went on and on and on and on for seven hours. The NY Yankees finally edged the Detroit Tigers, 9-7 on Jackl Reed's home run. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1968 | * | Jim (James Thomas) Northrup, of the Detroit Tigers, hits two grand slam home runs in the same game. (2003 Sports Illustrated Almanac, ISBN 1-929049-55-2) | |
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| 1968 | * | Canadian Sandra Post becomes first non-US & 1st rookie LPGA winner. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | Joe Frazier TKOs Manda Ramos for world heavyweight boxing title. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1970 | * | In the last game ever played at Crosley Field, Lee May and Johnny Bench hit back-to-back home runs in the eighth to give the Reds a 5-4 win. After the game home plate is presented to Mayor Eugene Ruehlman and is flown by helicopter to the Reds' new home, Riverfront Stadium. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1970 | * | Bobby Murcer ties record of 4 consecutive HRs. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1971 | * | The National Basketball Association modified its four-year eligibility rule to allow for collegiate hardship cases. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1972 | * | Baseball’s first woman umpire, Mrs. Bernice Gera, called the balls and strikes in her first game and resigned just a few hours after it was over. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1973 | | Marlene Raymond (15), limboes under a flaming bar at 6 1/8". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1980 | * | Affirmed wins $500,000 Hollywood Cup, first horse to win $2 million. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1983 | * | Milwaukee Brewer Don Sutton fanned Alan Bannister in the eighth inning of a contest vs Cleveland recording his 3,000th career strikeout. He became the eighth pitcher in Major League history to reach this feat. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1984 | * | Joe Morgan sets career HR mark for 2nd basemen with #265. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1985 | * | The 1983 Heisman Trophy winner, Mike Rozier, jumped from the United States Football League to the Houston Oilers of the NFL. Rosier signed for more than two million dollars over a four-year period. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1988 | * | Cleve pitcher Doug Jones sets record of 14 consecutive saves | Ref: 5 |
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| 1992 | * | Portland, Oregon became the first city outside of NY to host the NBA (National Basketball Association) draft. At the Portland Memorial Coliseum, the first overall pick went to the Orlando Magic who picked 7'1" center Shaquille O’Neal of LSU. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1999 | * | The Colorado Rockies host An Evening of Stars and Fireworks at Coors Field, a celebrity softball game involving several local pro athletes. More than 25,000 attend the contest, with proceeds benefiting the prevention of youth violence. | Ref: 86 |
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| 2000 | * | In a heavyweight boxing match against Lou Savarese. Mike Tyson knocks the referee down in order to keep punching Savarese after the bout was stopped. | Ref: 98 |
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| 1901 | * | Spanish artist Pablo Picasso opens first exhibit in Paris at Ambroise Vollard gallery. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1940 | * | TV cameras were used for the first time in a political convention as the Republicans convened in Philadelphia, PA. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1949 | * | The movie features of Hopalong Cassidy premiered on TV. The films were edited to thirty and sixty-minute versions starring William Boyd as Hopalong and Edgar Buchanan as his sidekick, Red Connors. Eventually, all 66 original films were shown on TV, so Boyd produced more Hopalong Cassidy episodes just for TV. (Brooks, Tim & Earl Marsh, "The Complete Directory to Prime Time TV Shows, 1946 - Present", (c) 1949, ISBN 0-345-31864-1) | |
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| 1960 | | The Romance of Helen Trent was heard for the last time on radio. Helen and her boy-toy, Gil Whitney, were about to be married, but the loving couple never made it to the altar -- just in case the show would ever be renewed. Helen Trent and her romance aired for 27 years -- a total of 7,222 episodes -- on the CBS radio network. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1961 | * | Beatles record "If You Love Me Baby". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1970 | | Raquel Welch starred in the movie Myra Breckinridge, which premiered in NY City. Movie reviewers headed for the exits and gave the movie not only “thumbs down,” but “fists down.” Audiences, however, thought the movie was pretty nifty and made it a box office smash, despite the fact that critic Rex Reed was also featured in the film. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1972 | * | I Am Woman, by Helen Reddy, was released by Capitol Records. The number one tune (December 9, 1972) became an anthem for the feminist movement. Reddy, from Australia, made her stage debut when she was only four years old. She had her own TV program in the early 1960s. Reddy came to NY in 1966 and has appeared in the films Airport 1975, Pete’s Dragon and Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Reddy also had four million-sellers: I Am Woman, Delta Dawn, Leave Me Alone (Ruby Red Dress) and Angie Baby. She had a total of 14 hits on the pop music charts. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1985 | | The motion picture Cocoon, directed by Ron Howard, grossed some $7.9 million during its opening weekend across the country. Cocoon, which had a brilliant cast, including screen legend Don Ameche, beat out Rambo: First Blood, Part II starring Sylvester Stallone, in first-weekend receipts. Howard first became famous as a child star (Opie) on the Andy Griffith Show; and then later, as Richie Cunningham on Happy Days. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1989 | | Warner Brothers movie "Batman."grosses $14.6 million in one day-a record. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1994 | * | Lion King is released to theaters. (Ref: "Disney, The First 100 Years", 1999, ISBN 0-7868-6442-7) | |
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| 1997 | * | World record for watercolour painting Van Gogh's 'La Moisson en Provence' 1888 sells for $8 mil. | Ref: 10 |
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| 2002 | * | Nymphease Monet's waterlillies - sells for £13.48 million at Sotheby's-short of £18m '98 record. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1340 | | John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster is born. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1519 | * | Birth of Theodore Beza, French-born Swiss theological reformer. Beza became the acknowledged leader of the Swiss Calvinists, following John Calvin's death in 1564. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1532 | * | Robert Dudley Leicester, English favorite of Queen Elizabeth I, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1542 | * | Saint John of the Cross, Spanish mystic and poet, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1650 | | Duke of Marlborough is born. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1771 | * | E I Du Pont France, chemist/scientist (Du Pont), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1783 | * | Johann Heinrich von Thonen economist/geographer/farmer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1797 | * | John Hughes archbishop, founded Fordham University in the Bronx, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1803 | * | Birth of George J. Webb, American church organist. He compiled several collections of sacred music during his lifetime, and also composed the melody to the hymn, 'Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus.'. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1813 | * | Henry Ward Beecher Litchfield Ct, clergyman/orator (The Independent), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1824 | * | Ambrose Bierce, journalist, is born in Meigs County OH. (TWA, 1958) | Ref: 95 |
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| 1839 | * | Gustavus Franklin Swift founded Swift & Co, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1842 | * | Ambrose Bierce, Ohio, writer (Nuggets & Dust), is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1848 | * | Brooks Adams, American historian, son of Charles Francis Adams (The Law of Civilization and Decay), is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1850 | * | Horatio Herbert Kitchener England, original Order of Merit member, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1883 | * | Victor Francis Hess, Austrian-born Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1936), is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1893 | * | Roy O Disney, brother of Walt, is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1895 | * | Jack (William Harrison) Dempsey boxer: ‘The Manassa Mauler’: world heavyweight boxing champion [1919-1926]; NY restaurateur; is born in Manassa CO. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1899 | | Chief Dan George is born. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1901 | * | Chuck Taylor basketball; Converse sneaker spokesperson [his name was/is on their high-top canvas basketball sneakers [“Chucks”: over 500 million pairs sold since 1917]; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1901 | * | Harry Partch Oakland Calif, composer (Oedipus), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1903 | * | Phil Harris singer/actor (Anything Goes), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1904 | * | Phil Harris, cartoon voice actor and bandleader, born. | Ref: 73 |
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| 1909 | * | Milton Katims NYC, conductor/violist (WOR-NYC), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1910 | * | Irving Kaufman judge: first amendment, civil rights, antitrust cases: US vs. N.Y. Times, Taylor vs. Board of Education; sentenced Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to death for espionage; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1915 | * | Norman Cousins, journalist: Anatomy of an Illness; is born. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1915 | * | Sir Fred Hoyle cosmologist, proposed steady-state universe theory, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1916 | * | John Ciardi poet/critic (translated Dante), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1919 | * | Al Molinaro actor: Happy Days, Joanie Loves Chachi, The Odd Couple, The Family Man, is born in Kenosha Wisc. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1922 | * | Manny Albam composer: Drum Suite, La Vie en Rose, Afro-Dizzyac, Country Man; music educator: Eastman School of Music, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1922 | * | Roy Elihu Travis NYC, composer (Passion of Dedipus), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1922 | * | Sibohan McKenna Ireland, stage actress (Saint Joan), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1923 | * | Jack Carter (Chakrin) comedian, host: The Jack Carter Show, Cavalcade of Stars, American Minstrels of 1949, is born in Brooklyn NY. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1930 | * | Claude Chabrol, French film director (The Cousins, Madame Bovary). | Ref: 2 |
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| 1931 | * | Billy Casper golf champion: Masters [1970], U.S. Open [1959, 1966]; PGA Player of the Year [1966, 1968, 1970], is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1932 | | David McTaggart cofounded Greenpeace, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1933 | * | Sam Jones Basketball Hall of Famer: Boston Celtics: 10 championship teams; NBA Silver Anniversary Team [1971]; coach: Federal City College, North Carolina A&T U, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1935 | * | Ron Kramer football: Green Bay Packers tight end: Associated Press All-Pro [1962]; College Football Hall of Famer, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1935 | * | Pete Hamill journalist (NY Post), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1935 | * | Terry Riley Colfax Calif, composer (Spectra), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1938 | * | Boris Lagutin USSR, light-middleweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1964, 68), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1938 | * | Walter Willison Monterrey Park Calif, actor (McDuff the Talking Dog), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1942 | * | Musician Mick Fleetwood is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1942 | * | Michele Lee LA Calif, actress/singer (Karen-Knots Landing, Love Bug), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1943 | * | Georg Stanford Brown Havana Cuba, actor (Terry Webster-Rookies), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1944 | * | Arthur Brown (Wilton) singer: group: The Crazy World of Arthur Brown: Fire; actor: Tommy, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1944 | * | John ‘Charlie’ Whitney musician: guitar: group: Family: Hung Up Down, The Weaver’s Answer, No Mule’s Fool, In My Own Time, Burlesque, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1944 | * | Bruce Johnston rocker (Beachboys-Surfin' Girl), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1944 | * | Jeff Beck Surrey England, singer/songwriter (Jeff Beck Group), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1945 | * | Betty Stove Netherlands, tennis player (US Doubles 1972), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1945 | * | Colin Blunstone rocker (Zombies-Never Even Thought), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1946 | * | Ellison S Onizuka Hawaii, Mjr USAF/ast (STS 51C, 51L-Chal disaster), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1947 | * | Peter Weller actor (Robocop, first Born, Of Unknown Origin), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1949 | * | John Illsley musician: bass: group: Dire Straits: Sultans of Swing, Romeo & Juliet, Tunnel of Love, Skateaway, Telegraph Road, Private Investigation, Money for Nothing, Walk of Life, The Man’s Too Strong, Goin’ Home, Smooching, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1950 | * | Nancy Allen NYC, actress (Carrie, 1941, Robocop, Dress to Kill), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1951 | * | Ivar Formo Norway, 50K cross country skier (Olympic-gold-1976), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1952 | * | Dave Lapham football: Cincinnati Bengals guard: Super Bowl XVI, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1956 | * | Joe Penny actor (Jake & the Fatman), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1957 | * | Astro rocker (UB40-Red Red Wine), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1958 | * | Victor Manuel Gerena is born in New York NY. He is being sought in connection with the armed robbery of approximately $7M from a security company in Connecticut. He allegedly took two security employees hostage at gunpoint and then handcuffed, bound and injected them with an unknown substance in order to further disable them. (March, 1984) | Ref: 14 |
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| 1959 | * | Andy McCluskey singer: group: Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark: Electricity, Red Frame, White Light, Messages, Enola Gay, The More I See You, Souvenir, Joan of Arc, Genetic Engineering, Talking Loud & Clear, Telsa Girls, Forever [Love & Die], is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1961 | * | Iain Glen actor: Silent Scream, The Young Americans, Tomb Raider, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1961 | * | Curt Smith musician: bass, singer: group: Tears For Fears: Suffer the Children, Mad World, Change, Pale Shelter, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1961 | * | Natalya Shaposhnikova USSR, sidehorse vaulter (Olympic-gold-1980), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1965 | * | Danielle Spencer Bronx, actress (Dee Thomas-What's Happening), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | Jeff Cease musician: guitar: group: The Black Crowes, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1967 | * | Sherry Stringfield actress: N.Y.P.D. Blue, ER, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1969 | * | Melissa Gurney Calif, tennis player (Virginia Slims of SD, 1986), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1970 | * | Glenn Medeiros singer: [w/Bobby Brown]: She Ain’t Worth It, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1065 | | King Ferdinand I Castile & Leon is born. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1322 | | Matteo Visconti,Italian head of the Milanese Visconti dynasty, dies at age 71. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1519 | * | Lucrezia Borgia, Italian Renaissance noblewoman of the Borgia family, dies at age 39. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1533 | | Mary Tudor dies. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1604 | * | Edward de Vere b. Oxford, English poet and patron of the Oxford's Men acting company, dies at age 54. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1803 | * | (Declaration of Independence) Matthew Thornton, physician, signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
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| 1817 | * | (Declaration of Independence) Thomas McKean, American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independece, dies. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
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| 1860 | * | Jerome Bonaparte, French King of Westphalia and marshal of France, dies at age 75. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1881 | * | 200 drown as train runs off bridge near Cuautla Mexico. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1894 | * | French President Sadi Carnot is assassinated by the anarchist Santo Caserio. | Ref: 52 |
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| 1908 | * | The 22nd and 24th president of the United States, Grover Cleveland, died in Princeton, New Jersey, at age 71. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1909 | * | Sarah Orne Jewett, author (Tales of New England, The Country of the Pointed Firs), dies. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1915 | * | 800 die as excursion steamer Eastland capsizes in Chicago. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1917 | * | Death of Orville J. Nave (born 1841), U.S. Armed Services chaplain and compiler of the popular 'Nave's Topical Bible.' | Ref: 5 |
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| 1922 | * | Dr Walter Rathenau, German foreign minister is killed by anti-semites at age 54. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1922 | * | William Rockefeller, American industrialist and financier; helped to establish Standard Oil with his brother, dies at age 81. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1966 | * | Bombay-NY Air India flight crashes into Mont Blanc (Switz), 117 die. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1969 | * | Westbrook Pegler, 1940s journalist, columnist: anti-communist McCarthyist newspaper man and syndicated columnist: awareded Pulitzer Prize for expose on union racketeering [1940]; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1969 | * | Frank King, American comic-strip artist; created "Gasoline Alley", dies at age 86. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1971 | * | Kenneth Washington actor (Sgt Baker-Hogan's Heroes), dies at 53. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1975 | * | 113 people are killed when an Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 crashed while attempting to land during a thunderstorm at NY's John F. Kennedy International Airport. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
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| 1976 | * | Imogen Cunningham, American photographer of plants and portraits, dies at age 93. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1984 | * | William Keighley actor, dies of a stroke at 94. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1986 | * | Rex Warner, English novelist, poet and critic, dies at age 81. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1987 | * | ‘The Great One’, Jackie (Herbert John) Gleason, dies at the age of 71 at his home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Gleason was one of TV’s biggest stars in the 1950s and 1960s. He started on the DuMont Television Network, became a celebrated fixture on CBS-TV, and later, a movie star. He starred in honored films such as, Gigot and The Hustler. He also starred in Smokey and the Bandit. Jackie Gleason is best remembered from TV, however, as bus driver Ralph Kramden in The Honeymooners, which still ranks as one of TV’s greatest sitcoms. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1993 | * | Archie Williams Olympic Gold Medalist: 400 meters in 46.5 seconds [1936], disputing Hitler’s theory of Aryan superiority, dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1997 | * | Brian Keith (Robert Keith Richey, Jr.) actor: Family Affair, Hardcastle & McCormick, Heartland, The Westerner, Crusader, Centennial, The Brian Keith Show, Walter and Emily, Nevada Smith, The Loneliest Runner, The Parent Trap, The Young Philadelphians, Young Guns; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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