| 253 | * | St Lucius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1115 | * | St. Bernard founded a monastery in Clairvaux, France. It afterward became a strategic center for the Cistercians, a religious order that flourished up until the Reformation. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1178 | * | Five Canterbury monks report something exploding on the Moon (only known observation). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1243 | * | Innocent IV, [Sinibaldo dei Fieschi], Pope (1243-54), begins his reign as Pope. | Ref: 69 |
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| 1580 | * | The German 'Book of Concord' was published, containing all the official confessions of the Lutheran Church. (English translations of the entire work were not available before 1851.). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1630 | * | The fork is introduced to American dining by Gov. Winthrop. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1658 | * | Aurangzeb proclaims himself emperor of the Moghuls in India. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1672 | * | First recorded monthly Quaker meeting in US held, Sandwich, Mass. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1744 | * | The first Methodist conference convened, in London. This new society within Anglicanism imposed strict disciplines upon its members, formally separating from the Established Church in 1795. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1749 | * | General fast because of drought in MA. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1767 | * | Mexican Indians riot as Jesuit priests are ordered home. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1788 | * | (new state) The state of Virginia ratified the US Constitution, becoming the 10th state. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1798 | * | US passes Alien Act allowing president to deport dangerous aliens. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1805 | * | Aaron Burr lands in New Orleans. He meets with wealthy merchant (and friend of Wilkinson), Daniel Clark. He is feasted with banquets and balls. Burr stays three weeks. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1835 | * | Pueblo founded with construction of 1st building (start of Yerba Buena, later to be called San Francisco). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1865 | * | English pioneer missionary J. Hudson Taylor founded the China Inland Mission. Its headquarters moved to the US in 1901, and in 1965 its name became Overseas Missionary Fellowship (OMF) International. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1868 | * | The U.S. Congress enacts legislation granting an eight-hour day to workers employed by the federal government. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1868 | * | Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina were readmitted to the Union. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1888 | * | Republican Convention, in Chicago, nominates Benjamin Harrison. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1910 | * | The US Congress authorized the use of postal savings stamps. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1910 | * | Congress passed the White Slave Traffic Act, also known as the Mann Act. The new law significantly increased the BOI's jurisdiction over interstate crime. | Ref: 14 |
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| 1921 | * | Samuel Gompers is elected head of the American Federation of Labor for the 40th time. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1925 | * | Edith Nourse Rogers, created Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps [1942]; member of U.S. House of Representatives [reelected 17 times: served from June 25, 1925 until her death on Sep 10, 1960], begins her 35 years as Congresswoman. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1929 | * | Pres Hoover authorizes building of Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1938 | * | The Wages and Hours (later Fair Labor Standards) Act is passed, banning child labor and setting the 40-hour work week. The Act went into effect in October 1940, and was upheld in the Supreme Court on 3 February 1941. | Ref: 59 |
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| 1938 | * | Federal minimum wage law guarantees workers 40¢ per hour. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1941 | * | FDR issues Executive Order 8802 forbidding discrimination. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1946 | * | Ho Chi Minh travels to France for talks on Vietnamese independence. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1948 | | The Soviet Union tightens its blockade of Berlin by intercepting river barges heading for the city. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1950 | * | Israeli airline El Al begins service. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1953 | * | 86ø F in Anchorage Alaska. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1957 | * | During a convention in Cleveland, Ohio, the United Church of Christ (UCC) was formed by a merger of the Congregational Christian Church and the Evangelical and Reformed Church. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1959 | | The Cuban government seizes 2.35 million acres under a new agrarian reform law. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1962 | * | The US Supreme Court ruled (5 to 4) that prayers in public schools violated the First Amendment to the Constitution regarding the separation of church and state. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1964 | * | President Lyndon Johnson orders 200 naval personnel to Mississippi to assist in finding three missing civil rights workers. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1973 | * | White House Counsel John Dean admits President Nixon took part in the Watergate cover-up. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1975 | * | Mozambique gains independence from Portugal (National Day). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1977 | * | Roy C Sullivan of VA is struck by lightening for 7th time!. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1977 | * | LBJ denies report he had a cancer during his presidency. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1981 | * | Microsoft reorganizes into a privately held corporation with Bill Gates as President and Chairman of the Board, and Paul Allen as Executive Vice President. Microsoft becomes Microsoft, Inc., an incorporated business in the State of Washington. | |
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| 1981 | * | Supreme Court upholds male-only draft registration, constitutional. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1982 | * | San Francisco holds its 1st County Fair | Ref: 5 |
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| 1982 | * | Sec of State Alexander Haig Jr resigns, replaced by Schultz. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1986 | * | Congress approves $100 million in aid to the Contras fighting in Nicaragua. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1987 | * | Pope John Paul II received Austrian President Kurt Waldheim at the Vatican, a meeting fraught with controversy because of allegations that Waldheim had hidden a Nazi past. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1989 | * | First US postmark dedicated to Lesbian & Gay Pride (Stonewall, NYC). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | The US Supreme Court upheld the right of an individual, whose wishes are clearly made, to refuse life-sustaining medical treatment. The 5-4 ruling upholding the right to die was made in the Curzan vs. Missouri case. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1990 | * | 120ø F in Phoenix Arizona. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | * | Slovenia & Croatia declare independence from Yugoslavia. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1993 | * | Canada elected its first woman as prime minister. Kim Campbell was Canada’s 19th prime minister, governing until October 25, 1993 when the Progressive-Conservative party was royally defeated. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1993 | * | Vice-President Gore cast the tie-breaking vote as the Senate approves a record deficit-reduction plan. (XDG, p 4A, 6/25/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1998 | * | Windows 98 was released. Microsoft used the slogan, “Works better. Plays better.” The company said the new operating system would bring an “increased computer experience by providing a rich feature set for a wider variety of users than ever before.” Interest in the new release was also increased by the publicity generated by the US Justice Department’s antitrust suit against Microsoft. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1998 | * | The Supreme Court rejected a line-item veto law as unconstitutional, and ruled that those infected with HIV are protected by the Americans With Disabilities Act. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1999 | * | Netomat: The Non-Linear Browser, by the NY artist Maciej Wisniewski, launched. The open-source software uses Java and XML technology to navigate the web in terms of the data (text, images and sounds) it contains, as opposed to traditional browsers (Mosaic, Lynx, Netscape, Explorer) which navigate the web's pages (Ciolek, notes, Jul 1999). | Ref: 75 |
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| 2000 | * | Philip Morris announced it was buying Nabisco for $14.9 billion. | Ref: 6 |
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| 2000 | * | Live-fire training resumed on the Vieques, Puerto Rico, range in the largest naval exercises since a fatal accident prompted a yearlong occupation by protesters. | Ref: 6 |
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| 2002 | * | I receive an email from Richard L. Pangburn of Blue Jacket. He provides additional insight and references, specifically on the fallicy of the DNA testing. [To see his email, click on Ref: 79] | Ref: 79 |
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| 2002 | * | A federal judge in Alexandria, Va., refused to accept a no-contest plea from Zacarias Moussaoui, accused of conspiracy in the Sept. 11 attacks, and instead entered an innocent plea on his behalf. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1638 | * | A lunar eclipse becomes the first astronomical event recorded in US. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1867 | * | Barbed wire patented by Joseph Farwell Glidden. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1903 | | Marie Curie announces her discovery of radium. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1919 | * | First advanced monoplane airliner flight (Junkers F13). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1925 | * | First car telephone demonstrated in Germany. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1953 | * | First passenger to fly commercially around the world < 100 hours. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1966 | * | Kosmos 122, first Soviet weather satellite, launched. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1984 | * | STS 41-D launch attempt scrubbed because of computer problem | Ref: 5 |
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| 1997 | * | An unmanned cargo ship crashed into Russia's Mir space station, knocking out half of the station's power and rupturing a pressurized laboratory. | Ref: 70 |
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| 841 | | Charles the Bald and Louis the German defeat Lothar at Fontenay. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1862 | * | The Seven Days Battles as Lee attacks McClellan near at Oak Grove near Richmond, resulting in very heavy losses for both armies. McClellan then begins a withdrawal back toward Washington. The battle ends July 1. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1864 | * | Union troops surrounding Petersburg, Virginia, begin building a mine tunnel underneath the Confederate lines. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1920 | | The Greeks take 8,000 Turkish prisoners in Smyrna. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1940 | * | While en route from St-Jean-de-Luz, France, to Plymouth, England, RCN Fraser collides in the Bay of Biscay with British cruiser Calcutta, and sinks, killing 47 men. 46 RCN and 13 RN sailors die. | |
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| 1941 | * | Finland declares war on the Soviet Union. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1942 | * | Eisenhower arrives in London. | Ref: 36 |
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| 1942 | * | Some one-thousand British Royal Air Force bombers raided Bremen, Germany, during World War Two. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1943 | * | Newly built gas chamber/crematory III opens at Auschwitz. With its completion, the four new crematories at Auschwitz have a daily capacity of 4,756 bodies. | Ref: 35 |
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| 1950 | * | The Korean War begins when North Korean forces launched an invasion across the 38th parallel into South Korea. | Ref: 25 |
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| 1961 | * | Iraq announces that Kuwait is a part of Iraq (Kuwait disagrees). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1898 | * | 'Jumbo' Davis makes five errors in a 10-3 loss. The KS City Blues (AA) player during the season will commit100 errors in 628 chances. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1903 | * | Yanks & White Sox end deadlocked at 6-6 in 18. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1921 | * | Jack Hutchinson becomes first American to win golf's British Open. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1924 | * | Pirate relief pitcher Emil Yde's double ties the score in the ninth inning and his triple in 14th beats the Cubs. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1928 | * | NY Giant Fred Lindstrom ties record of 9 hits in a doubleheader. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1934 | * | In an 11-2 victory over White Sox, Lou Gehrig hits for the cycle. Although pitcher John Broaca ties a major league record by striking out five consecutive times he gets the 'W' for the Yankees . | Ref: 1 |
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| 1935 | * | Joe Louis defeats Primo Carnera at Yankee Stadium. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1937 | * | Switch-hitter Augie Galan becomes the first National Leaguer to hit a homer from each side of the plate helping the Cubs beat the Dodgers, 11-2. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1937 | * | Ed ‘The Strangler’ Lewis was a little angry. He denounced the idea of lady wrestlers in the ring. Lewis said that women ’rasslers threatened to turn the sport of professional wrestling into a burlesque show. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1937 | | Ed ‘Strangler’ Lewis was a little angry. He denounced the idea of lady wrestlers in the ring. Lewis said that women ’rasslers threatened to turn the sport of professional wrestling into a burlesque show. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1941 | * | Breaking the record set by Wee Willie Keeler in 1897, Joe DiMaggio runs his hitting streak to 45 consecutive games, with a home run off of Red Sox hurler Heber Newsome. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1948 | * | Joe Louis KO’s Jersey Joe Walcott in 11 rounds to retain the world heavyweight boxing crown. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1950 | * | Hank Sauer's two HRs and two doubles helps the Cubs defeat the Phillies, 11-8. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1952 | * | Joey Maxim successfully defends his light-heavyweight title against Sugar Ray Robinson in a 13-round bout in 104º heat in Yankee Stadium. | Ref: 97 |
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| 1961 | * | The Orioles and the Angels set a major league record by using 16 pitchers, eight by each side as Ron Hansen's 14th-inning homer gives Baltimore the victory, 9-8. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1961 | * | Yankee's Roger Maris hits his 40th of 61 HRs. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | In his third at-bat, Bobby Bonds hits a grand slam in his first major league game off Dodger John Purdin. The 22-year old Giant outfielder joins Philadelphia National pitcher Bill Duggelby (1898 first AB) as the only other player to hit a base-loaded HR in his major league debut. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1969 | * | Longest tennis match in Wimbeldon history, Pancho Gonzalez beats Charles Pasarell in 112 game (5hr 12m) marathon. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1972 | * | After a legal battle, Beatrice Gera finally becomes the first woman professional umpire as she works a minor game in Geneva, New York. Auburn manager Nolan Campbell argues a close call which brings the new arbitrator reportedly to tears, and she will resign after the game. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1973 | * | Udo Beyer of East Germany puts the shot a record 20.47 m. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1976 | * | Texas Ranger shortstop Toby Harrah plays a complete doubleheader without handling a chance in the field, a major league record. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1978 | * | Argentina beats Holland 3-1 in soccer's 11th World Cup at Buenos Aires. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1980 | * | Miami Dolphins quarterback Bob Griese announced his retirement from professional football after 14 years in South Florida. Griese had some impressive statistics: 193 touchdown passes, 25,200 yards passing and the winner of two (out of three) Super Bowls. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1983 | * | Udo Beyer of East Germany sets record for shot put, 22.22 m | Ref: 5 |
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| 1984 | * | Dodger infielder Bill Russell plays his 1,953rd game to become the team's leader in games played. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1985 | * | Due to bat boy Butch Wynegar being hit by a line drive foul ball, Yankees officials enact a new rule mandating the team¹s bat boys wear protective helmets during all games. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1985 | * | A new lineup graced ABC’s Monday Night Football. Frank Gifford, in the broadcast booth, was joined by Joe Namath and O.J. Simpson. The trio was out to regain some of the show’s sagging ratings after Howard Cosell and Don Meredith exited the broadcast. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1988 | * | At Fenway Park, Oriole shortstop Cal Ripken reaches a major milestone playing in his 1,000th consecutive game. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1991 | * | Defeating the Phillies, 5-1, the Mets play a nine inning game without recording an assist joining the 1945 Indians as the only teams to ever accomplish the feat. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1995 | * | Andres Galarraga ties a Major League record by hitting a home run in three consecutive innings, becoming the fourth player in Colorado Rockies' team history to accomplish the feat. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1996 | * | In Oakland, A's first baseman Mark McGwire hits his 300th career HR off of Tiger hurler pitcher Omar Olivares. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1998 | * | Cub Sammy Sosa breaks the major league record for homers in a month, hitting his 19th dinger in June passing the mark set by Tiger Rudy York in August of 1937. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1999 | * | Entering the game with an 6+ ERA, Jose Jimenez faces only 28 batters and no-hits the Diamondbacks,1-0. The Cardinal hurler is the first NL rookie since 1972 and the first Cardinal since 1983 to throw a hitless game. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1999 | * | The San Antonio Spurs earned their first NBA (National Basketball Association) title in their 26-year history by beating the NY Knicks 78-to-77. That gave the Spurs the series 4 games to 1. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1999 | * | Baltimore reliever Jesse Orosco sets the record for most relief apperances as the veteran pitches in his 1,051st game. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2000 | * | Juli Inkster became the first player in 16 years to successfully defend the LPGA Championship. | Ref: 6 |
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| 2001 | * | In the first professional baseball game in Brooklyn after a 44-year absence, the short season class A minor league Cyclones win their home opener at Keyspan Park defeating the Scrappers 3-2 in 10 innings. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2002 | * | In game which is broadcast throughout Latin America, skippers Luis Pujols of the Tigers and Tony Pena of the Royals become the first major league managers born in the Dominican Republic to oppose each other in a game. The president of the Dominican Republic, Hipolito Mejia, is on hand to watch Raul Ibanez’s double, triple and home run and four RBIs lead the hometown Royals to an 8-6 comeback victory over Detroit. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1857 | | Gustave Flaubert goes on trial for public immorality regarding his novel, Madame Bovary. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1870 | * | The opera "Die Walkere" is produced (Munich). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1886 | * | Nineteen-year-old Arturo Toscanini moved from the cello section to the conductor’s stand of the Rio de Janeiro Orchestra. The maestro conducted Aida this day. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1910 | * | Igor Stravinsky's ballet score for "The Firebird"first performed at Paris Opera. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1942 | | The first broadcast of It Pays to Be Ignorant was aired on WOR Radio and the Mutual Broadcasting System. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1951 | * | The first commercial color TV program was seen. It was a four-hour-long Arthur Godfrey Show presented on CBS and carried in NY City, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston and Washington, D.C. Arthur Godfrey, Faye Emerson, Sam Levenson and Ed Sullivan starred in the TV milestone. An interesting side note to this event is that the public didn’t own any color TVs at the time and CBS, itself, owned only about three dozen sets. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1961 | * | Pat Boone spent this day at number one for one last time with Moody River. Boone, a teen heart-throb in the 1950s, had previously walked his way up the music charts, wearing white buck shoes, of course, with these other hits: Ain’t That a Shame, I Almost Lost My Mind, Don’t Forbid Me, Love Letters in the Sand and April Love. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1966 | * | Beatles' "Paperback Writer," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1966 | * | Dark Shadows began its popular run as a daily serial on ABC-TV. The show became a popular late-afternoon favorite for several seasons, then reappeared as a prime-time revival for a short, two-month run in 1991. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1967 | * | 400 million watch Beatles "Our World" TV special. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1969 | * | The Guess Who from Canada received a gold record for their hit single, These Eyes. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1970 | | The US Federal Communications Commission handed down legislative ruling 35 FR 7732, making it illegal for radio stations to put telephone calls on the air without the permission of the person being called. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1970 | * | The U.S. Federal Communications Commission handed down legislative ruling 35 FR 7732, making it illegal for radio stations to put telephone calls on the air without the permission of the person being called. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1982 | * | Porn star John Holmes acquitted on murder charges. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1982 | * | Porn star John Holmes acquitted on murder charges. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | NBC decides to air episodes of "Quantum Leap" for 5 straight days | Ref: 5 |
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| 2002 | | Picasso nude 'Nu au Collier' sells for year's record of £15.95 million at Christies, London. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1852 | * | Antonio y Cornet Gaudi, Spanish architect (Sagrada Familia, Barcelona), is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1864 | * | Walther Hermann Nernst Prussian physical chemist (Nobel 1920), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1865 | * | Robert Henri, US painter, leader of the Ashcan school, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1869 | * | Edward Holyoke, American educator; president of Harvard University (1737-69), is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1874 | * | Illustrator, author, doll designer, inventer of the Kewpie Doll, Rose O’Neill is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1881 | * | Crystal Eastman, suffragist, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1885 | * | Benito Lynch, Argentine novelist and short story writer | Ref: 70 |
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| 1886 | * | Henry ‘Hap’ Arnold military: US General and commander of the Army Air Force: WWII; first five-star general of the US Army Air Force; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1887 | * | George Abbott, American playwright, director and producer (Three Men on a Horse, Damn Yankees), is born in Forestville NY. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1893 | * | Charlotte Greenwood Phila, actress (Oklahoma, Moon over Miami), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1894 | * | Hermann Oberth Germany, founded modern astronautics, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1900 | * | Lord Louis Mountbatten of Burma, royal relative, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1903 | * | Author Eric Arthur Blair (a.k.a. George Orwell) is born in Motihari India. | Ref: 24 |
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| 1903 | * | Anne Revere Tony Award-winning actress: Toys in the Attic [1960]; Academy Award winner [1944]: National Velvet; A Place in the Sun, Gentlemen’s Agreement, Forever Amber, The Song of Bernadette, The Howards of Virginia; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1903 | * | Arthur Tracy street singer (Vincent Lopez Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1906 | * | Roger Livesey actor (Drums, Life & Death of Col Blimp), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1907 | * | J Hans D Jensen Germany, physicist (atomic nuclei-Nobel 1963), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1911 | * | William H. Stein, American Nobel Prize-winning biochemist (1972) | Ref: 70 |
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| 1912 | * | Milton Shapp governor of Pennsylvania; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1915 | * | Peter Lind Hayes SF Calif, comedian/singer (Peter Lind Hayes Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1922 | * | Johnny Smith jazz musician: guitar: Moonlight in Vermont, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1923 | * | Dorothy Gilman author: The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax, Incident at Madamya, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1924 | * | Sidney Lumet Phila, director (Group, Pawnbroker, Fail Safe), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1925 | * | Actress from "Lassie", "Lost in Space" June Lockhart is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1925 | * | Clifton Chenier blues singer (Bayou Blues, Bon Ton Roulet), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1925 | * | Robert Venturi US, architect (Levittown NY, Las Vegas), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1925 | * | Ziggy Talent Manchester NH, singer (Vaughn Monroe Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1933 | * | Gary Crosby Calif, actor (Bill Dana Show, Adam 12, Chase), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1935 | * | Eddie Floyd singer: group: Falcons: You’re So Fine; solo: Bring It on Home to Me, Knock on Wood, I’ve Never Found a Girl [To Love Me like You Do], is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1935 | * | Laurent Terzieff Paris, actor (Head Over Heels, Milky Way), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1940 | * | Thomas Koehler German DR, luger (Olympic-gold-1964, 68), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1940 | * | Clint Warwick (Eccles) musician: bass: The Moody Blues: Go Now, LP: The Magnificent Moodies, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1942 | * | Patrick Michael Mitchell Ottawa, one of FBI's most wanted, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1942 | * | Willis Reed basketball hall-of-famer center (NY Knicks), is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1944 | * | Al Beauchamp football: Cincinnati Bengals, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1945 | * | Carly Simon NYC, singer (Anticipation, You're So Vain), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1946 | * | Allen Lanier musician: guitar, keyboards: group: Blue Oyster Cult: Don’t Fear the Reaper, LPs: Revolution by Night, Fire of Unknown Origin, Cultosaurus Erectus, Spectres, Secret Treaties, Agents of Fortune, ETI, Some Enchanted Evening, On Your Feet or on Your Knees, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1946 | * | Ian McDonald musician: instrumentalist: group: Foreigner: Feels like the First Time, Cold as Ice, Long Long Way from Home, Double Vision, Hot Blooded, Blue Morning Blue Day, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1948 | * | Clay (Clayton Laws) Kirby baseball: pitcher: SD Padres, Cincinnati Reds, Montreal Expos, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1948 | * | Michael Lembeck Bkln, actor (Max-One Day at a Time), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1949 | * | Jimmie Walker Bronx NY, comedian (JJ-Good Times, At Ease), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1949 | * | Phyllis George-Brown Denton TX, Miss America (1971)/sportscaster, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1949 | * | Brenda Sykes Shreveport La, actress (Ozzie's Girls, Getting Straight), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1949 | * | Kene Holliday NYC, actor (Tyler-Matlock, Carter Country), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1950 | * | Tatyana Averina US, speed skater 1K, 3K (Olympic-gold-1976), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1950 | * | Belinda Montgomery Winnipeg Manitoba, actress (Man From Atlantis), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1952 | * | Tim Finn (Te Awamutu) musician: keyboard, singer: group: Split Enz, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1954 | * | David Paich musician: keyboards, singer: group: Toto: Hold the Line, Make Believe, Roseanna, Africa | Ref: 4 |
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| 1963 | * | Doug Gilmour hockey: NHL: SL Blues, Calgary Flames, Toronto Maple Leafs, NJ Devils, Chicago Blackhawks, Buffalo Sabres, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1963 | * | George Michael (Yorgos Panayiotou) singer: duo: Wham!: Wake Me Up before You Go-Go; Ivor Novello Songwriter of the Year Award [1985]; solo: Careless Whisper, Faith, A Different Corner, I Want Your Sex, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1966 | * | Dikembe Mutombo basketball: Georgetown Univ, Denver Nuggets, Atlanta Hawks, Philadelphia 76ers; Dikembe Mutombo Foundation to help people in the Congo, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1975 | * | Linda Cardellini actress: Good Burger, Dead Man on Campus, Sins of the Father, Scooby-Doo, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1212 | * | Simon de Montfort a leader of the crusades, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1767 | * | Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer of the late Baroque period, dies at age 86. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1830 | * | Ephraim McDowell surgeon (pioneered abdominal surgery), dies. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1848 | * | Paris uprising army kills 3,000 insurgents on Rue St. Maur; first news photo taken by Thibault. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1876 | * | Indian Chief Crazy Horse won the two-hour Battle of Little Bighorn, Montana, wiping out the army of Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer. Custer, who led the battle against the Sioux Indian encampment, was among the 200+ casualties. Ironically, the only survivor of Custer’s forces was a horse, Comanche. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1876 | * | George Armstrong Custer, American cavalry officer, dies at age 36. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1879 | * | Sir William Cooke, English inventor; helped develop electric telegraphy, dies at age 73. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1889 | * | 1st lady: wife of 19th U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes, Lucy Ware Webb Hayes, dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1903 | * | Paul Joseph Martin, Canadian politician and diplomat, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1906 | * | A love triangle came to a violent end atop NY's Madison Square Garden as architect Stanford White, the building's designer, was shot to death by Harry Thaw, the jealous husband of Evelyn Nesbit. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1907 | * | James Edward Meade, English Nobel Prize-winning economist (1977), is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1916 | * | Thomas Eakins, American realist painter, dies at age 71. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1918 | * | James Douglas, Canadian industrialist, dies at age 80. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1939 | * | Dick Seaman British auto racer; is killed in racing crash. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1950 | * | Tommy (Thomas William) ‘Corky’ Corcoran baseball: Pittsburgh Burghers, Philadelphia Athletics, Brooklyn Bridegrooms, Cincinnati Reds, NY Giants; minor league umpire; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1957 | * | (thru the 30th) More than 500 people were killed when Hurricane "Audrey" slammed through coastal Louisiana and TX. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
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| 1959 | * | Charles Starkwether is executed | Ref: 5 |
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| 1960 | * | Tommy (Thomas William) ‘Corky’ Corcoran baseball: Pittsburgh Burghers, Philadelphia Athletics, Brooklyn Bridegrooms, Cincinnati Reds, NY Giants; minor league umpire; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1960 | * | Walter Baade astronomer, dies | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | | Tony Hancock suicide | Ref: 10 |
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| 1969 | * | Frank King cartoonist: creator of Gasoline Alley cartoon strip; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1976 | * | Johnny (John Herndon) Mercer Academy Award-winning composer, lyricist: On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe [1946], In the Cool Cool Cool of the Evening [w/Hoagy Carmichael] [1951], Moon River [1961], Days of Wine and Roses [1962]; Autumn Leaves, One for My Baby, Charade, Satin Doll, You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby, Come Rain or Come Shine, Hooray for Hollywood, Jeepers Creepers, I?m An Old Cowhand, Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive; wrote or co-wrote over a thousand songs; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1979 | * | Philippe Halsman, photographer, dies. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1980 | * | Esther Cleveland, daughter of U.S. President and Mrs. Grover Cleveland; first child of a U.S. President to be born at the White House, dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1985 | * | Fireworks factory near Hallett, OK explodes (21 die) | Ref: 5 |
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| 1988 | * | American-born Mildred Gillars, better known during World War Two as "Axis Sally" for her Nazi propaganda broadcasts, died in Columbus, Ohio, at age 87. (Gillars had served 12 years in prison for treason.) (TWA, 1989) | Ref: 95 |
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| 1989 | * | Onoe Shoroku II, Japanese actor and interpreter of kabuki plays, dies at age 76. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1991 | * | 3,000 dead as Huai River in China floods wiping out Anhui agricultural region. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1995 | * | (US Supreme Court Justice) Warren (Earl) Burger, the 15th chief justice of the United States (1969-86), dies in Washington at age 87. (TWA, 1996) | Ref: 95 |
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| 1996 | * | A truck bomb killed 19 Americans and injured hundreds at a US military housing complex in Saudi Arabia. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
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| 1997 | * | Jacques-Yves Cousteau marine explorer: PBS-TV producer; co-inventor of Aqua-Lung; dies at age 87. | Ref: 68 |
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| 2002 | * | Derrek Dickey basketball: Golden State Warriors; TV color analyst: Chicago Bulls, Sacramento Kings; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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