| 1180 | * | A non-aggression treaty signed between Philip Augustus of France and Henry II of England. | |
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| 1245 | * | First Council of Lyons (13th ecumenical council) opens. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1635 | * | The French colony of Guadeloupe established in the Caribbean. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1687 | * | First American knighted by King James II; William Phipps honored for discovery of treasure ship. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1762 | * | 1st reported counterfeiting attempt (Boston). | Ref: 51 |
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| 1770 | * | Quakers open a school for blacks in Philadelphia. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1820 | * | The tomato is proven to be nonpoisonous. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1832 | * | First cholera epidemic breaks out in U.S. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1838 | * | Britain's Queen Victoria was crowned in Westminster Abbey. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1839 | * | The Amistad departs Havana Cuba with 53 slaves as cargo. | Ref: 3 |
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| 1859 | | First dog show held (Newcastle-on-Tyne, England). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1869 | * | The first Surgeon General of the US Navy was appointed. He was R. W. Wood. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1874 | * | The Freedmen's Bank, created to assist former slaves in the United States, closes. Customers of the bank lose $3 million. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1880 | * | Australian bushranger and folk hero Edward "Ned" Kelly and his Kelly Gang take on the police at the Glenrowan Railway Station. The local schoolteacher manages to escape the town and was able to warn an approaching trainload of police officers of their pending derailment. Meanwhile Ned Kelly prepared for the shoot out he knew was sure to come. He put on the home made armour that he had hewn out of plough shares a helmet, breast plate and back plate. At about 3 am the police surrounded the township. They opened fire on the hotel and kept up a long assault. In the melee two children were killed and one wounded. Despite his armour, Ned Kelly was severely wounded. He soon took to the bush. His brother Dan is killed in the shootout, or may have committed suicide. Ref | |
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| 1894 | * | By an act of Congress, Labor Day became a federal holiday in the US The first Monday of September is when Labor Day is celebrated as a salute to working men and women across the country. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1902 | * | Congress passes the Spooner bill, authorizing a canal to be built across the isthmus of Panama. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1902 | * | Congress authorizes Louisiana Purchase Expo $1 gold coin. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1909 | * | First French air show, Concours d'Avation opens. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1910 | * | First Zeppelin airliner crashes. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1910 | * | Westminster Cathedral consecrated. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1911 | * | Samuel J. Battle becomes the first African-American policeman in New York City. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1918 | * | In Hawaii, the 1st inter-island flight | Ref: 5 |
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| 1919 | * | Elizabeth ‘Bess’ Wallace became Bess Truman when she married the future US President, Harry S Truman in Independence, MO. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1921 | * | Kurlansky testifies that Mrs. Andrews had once told him she could not identify the defendants but a government agent was forcing her to do so. Defense expert witnesses testify that Sacco's gun did not fire the bullet that killed Berardelli. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1921 | * | A coal strike in Britain is settled after three months. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1928 | * | NY Governor Alfred E. Smith was nominated for president at the Democratic national convention in Houston. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1928 | * | Friedrich Schmiedl attempted rocket mail in Austria (unsucessful). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1930 | * | More than 1,000 communists are routed during an assault on the British consulate in London. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1938 | * | Machines that dispense a hard boiled egg for a nickel are installed throughout Pennsylvania to dispose of egg surplus. | Ref: 62 |
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| 1938 | * | Congress creates the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) to insure construction loans. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1939 | * | Pan Am opens southern route transatlantic air service (Dixie Clipper). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1941 | * | Special Agents of the FBI arrested German spy Frederick Joubert "Fritz" Duquesne and 32 other German agents following a two-year investigation. Agents successfully filmed members of Duquesne's ring as they provided information to William Sebold, a confidential FBI informant. | Ref: 14 |
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| 1945 | * | (date given as late-June) LeMay estimates that the Twentieth Air Force will finish destroying the 60 most important cities in Japan by Oct. 1. | Ref: 91 |
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| 1945 | * | (date given as late-June) The T-5 group in the Los Alamos T (Theory) Division estimates the Trinity explosion yield at 4-13 Kt. | Ref: 91 |
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| 1945 | | Polish Provisional Govt of National Unity set up by Soviets. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1946 | * | Enrico de Nicola becomes first pres of Italy. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1947 | * | Last streetcar trolley retired in New York City. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1956 | * | First atomic reactor built for private research operates Chicago Ill. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1960 | * | 26.42 cm (10.40") of rainfall, Dunmor, Kentucky (state 24-hour record). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1962 | * | The Lutheran Church in America (LCA) was formed with the merger of four Lutheran synods: the United Lutheran Church in America, the Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church, the American Evangelical Lutheran Church and the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1964 | * | Organization for Afo-American Unity forms in NY by Malcolm X. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | George Harrison is fined œ6 for speeding. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | Daniel Ellsberg indicted for leaking Pentagon Papers. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1970 | * | First major Gay rights protest;thousands march from Greenwich Village to Central Park, NY. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1970 | * | Muhammed Ali [Cassius Clay] stands before the Supreme Court regarding his refusal of induction into the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1971 | * | Supreme Court overturns draft evasion conviction of Muhammad Ali | Ref: 5 |
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| 1971 | * | The U.S. Supreme Court declared that state underwriting of nonreligious instruction in parochial schools was unconstitutional. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1976 | * | Women entered the Air Force Academy for the first time on this day. President Gerald R. Ford had actually opened the door by signed legislation [Oct 7, 1975] allowing women to enter the nation’s military academies. The first Air Force Academy class with women graduated in May 1980. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1977 | * | Supreme Court allows Federal control of Nixon tapes papers. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1978 | * | The Supreme Court ordered the medical school at the University of California at Davis to admit Allan Bakke, a white man who argued he had been a victim of reverse racial discrimination. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1980 | * | NYC transit fare rises from 50¢ to 60¢. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1985 | * | A survey by the US Transportation Department indicated that 42 percent of drivers polled said that they drove faster than the legal 55 MPH speed limit. Three motorists out of four confessed to driving faster on the nation’s interstate highways. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1986 | * | Kenneth & Nellie Pike challenge Ala Dem runoff win by AG C Graddick. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1988 | * | Second Party Conference. New Congress of Peoples' Deputies with elected seats announced | Ref: 89 |
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| 1994 | * | Microsoft completes the acquisition of SOFTIMAGE Inc., the leading developer of high-performance 2-D and 3-D computer animation and visualization software. | |
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| 1994 | * | The US EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) announced it would begin experimenting with a UV (ultraviolet) Index, “To enhance public awareness of the effects of overexposure to the sun’s ultraviolet rays, and to provide the public with actions they can take to reduce harmful effects of overexposure, which may include skin cancer, cataracts and immune suppression.” | Ref: 4 |
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| 1995 | * | Webster Hubbell, the former No. 3 official at the Justice Department, was sentenced to 21 months in prison for bilking clients of the law firm where he and Hillary Rodham Clinton were partners. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1996 | * | The Citadel in SC, which had fought to keep one woman from enrolling as a cadet in its all-male military academy in 1993, abruptly ended its opposition to enrolling qualified female cadets. The change of policy happened after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled a similar all-male policy at the Virginia Military Institute was unconstitutional. The court said the school could not refuse to accept women while receiving federal or state tax dollars. Had the Citadel decided to retain its 153-year-old men-only policy, it would have lost public tax dollars. As usual, money talked. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1997 | * | Tajik Peace and National Reconciliation Accord signed in Moscow | Ref: 89 |
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| 1998 | * | The Cincinnati Enquirer apologized to the Chiquita banana company and retracted stories questioning the company's business practices; the paper agreed to pay more than $10 million to settle legal claims. | Ref: 70 |
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| 2000 | * | 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez returns to Cuba with his father after a seven-month legal battle by US relatives to keep him in the US. He was rescued off the coast of Ft. Lauderdale on November 25th, 1999. (CNN, 06/29/2000) | Ref: 9 |
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| 2000 | * | The Supreme Court ruled the Boy Scouts can bar homosexuals from serving as troop leaders. | Ref: 70 |
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| 2001 | * | Former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic was handed over by Serbia to the U.N. war crimes tribunal. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1861 | * | Leipzig Observatory discovers short-period (6.2 yrs) Comet d'Arrest. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1946 | * | Boeing signs a contract to develop the B-52. | |
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| 1983 | * | NASA launches Galaxy-A. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1985 | * | Discovery ferried back to Kennedy Space Center via Bergstrom AFB, TX. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1988 | * | Windows /286 and /386 versions 2.1 announced | Ref: 80 |
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| 1990 | * | Judge Keeton of the Federal District Court in Boston upheld the copyright of the Lotus 1-2-3 user interface. Ref | |
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| 1675 | | Frederick William of Brandenburg crushes the Swedes. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1709 | * | Russians defeat the Swedes and Cossacks at the Battle of Poltava. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1776 | * | Colonists repulse a British sea attack on Charleston SC. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1778 | * | "Molly Pitcher" (Mary Ludwig Hays) carried water to American soldiers at the Revolutionary War Battle of Monmouth, New Jersey. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1862 | * | Day 4 of the 7 Days-Battle of Savage's Station. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1863 | * | President Lincoln appoints Gen. George G. Meade as commander of the Army of the Potomac, replacing Hooker. Meade is the 5th man to command the Army in less than a year. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1919 | * | The Treaty of Versailles is signed in Hall of Mirrors at Versailles ending World War I. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1940 | * | Britain recognizes Gen. Charles de Gaulle as the Free French leader. | Ref: 36 |
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| 1940 | * | Romania cedes Bessarabia to Soviet Union. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1941 | * | The Germans capture Minsk. | Ref: 36 |
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| 1942 | * | German troops launch an offensive to seize Soviet oil fields in the Caucasus and the city of Stalingrad. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1945 | * | General Douglas MacArthur's headquarters announces the end of all Japanese resistance in the Philippines. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1949 | * | The last U.S. combat troops are called home from Korea, leaving only 500 advisers. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1950 | * | General Douglas MacArthur arrives in South Korea as Seoul falls to the North. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1954 | * | French troops begin to pull out of Vietnam's Tonkin province. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1965 | * | First US ground combat forces in Vietnam authorized by Pres Johnson | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | | Israel declared Jerusalem reunified under its sovereignty following its capture of the Arab sector in the June Six Day War. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1972 | * | Nixon announces that no new draftees will be sent to Vietnam. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1887 | * | Phillies most lopsided shut-out beating Indpls 24-0. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1892 | * | Phillies tie club record of 16 straight victories. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1907 | * | The Washington Senators stole 13 bases in a single baseball game against the NY Highlanders. The NY catcher, incidentally, fared far better as a baseball executive in later years. That catcher became baseball commissioner Branch Rickey. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1910 | * | Cub shortstop Joe Tinker steals home twice becoming the first major leaguer to accomplish the feat in the same game. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1913 | * | Due to the relocation of the Covington, Kentucky (formerly Cincinnati) franchise to Kansas City, organized baseball declares war on the new independent Federal League. Kansas City is considered territory of the American Association. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1919 | * | Red Sox submariner Carl Mays hurls two complete games beating the Yankees, 2-0, in the first game and losing the nightcap, 4-1. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1923 | * | Dodgers lost 7-0 lead, as Philles score 8 in bottom of 9th. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1937 | * | In a poll conducted by a NY City newspaper, players for the Giants, Yankees and Dodgers said they opposed the proposed baseball players’ union. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1939 | * | The Yankees set the major league record for homers in a game and in a doubleheader hitting 8 in the opener and another 5 in the night cap on their way to routing the A's 23-2 and 10-0 in a twin bill sweep at Shibe Park. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1948 | * | Football star Tom Harmon announced his retirement from professional football. Harmon later became one of the big names in sportscasting for ABC radio and TV. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1949 | * | Joe DiMaggio returns to the line-up after missing the first 69 games of the season due to an ailing heel. The Yankee Clipper will hit four HRs in a three-game sweep against the Red Sox. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1957 | * | After Cincinnati fans stuff the ballot box and vote eight starters onto the All-Star Team, the National League intervenes, pulling three Reds' players out of the starting lineup. George Crowe, Wally Post and Gus Bell are replaced as starters by Willie Mays, Henry Aaron and Stan Musial. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1959 | * | Phillies' Wally Post becomes the first major leaguer to throw out two runners from the outfield in one inning as the team lose to the Giants, 6-0. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1961 | * | Phils & SF set then record longest night game (5h11m) 7-7 15 inn tie. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | Bobby Bonds hits a grand slam home run in his third major league at bat in his first major league game. | Ref: 12 |
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| 1970 | * | The Pirates sweep a doubleheader from the Chicago Cubs, 3-2 and 4-1, in the final games at 61-year-old Forbes Field. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1973 | * | Lawsuit in Detroit challenges Little League's "no girls" rule. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1976 | * | Detroit Tiger pitcher Mark ‘The Bird’ Fidrych was called “...the most interesting player since Dizzy Dean” on ABC’s nationally televised coverage of a Tigers-Yankees match-up. The 21-year-old rookie sensation led the Tigers past the Yankees and made the All-Star team two weeks after the TV appearance. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1977 | * | Bill Hunter, in his 14th year as a coach with the Baltimore Orioles, takes over as manager of the Texas Rangers. He would guide the club to a 60-33 (.645) over the remainder of the season. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1979 | * | Billie Jean King defeated Linda Siegel with a first at the 102-year-old Wimbledon tennis championships. Not only did King defeat Siegel, but in an embarrassing moment, Siegel, wearing a plunging neckline tennis top became partly naked when the neckline plunged too far. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1981 | * | Jerry Pate won the Danny Thomas Memphis Classic after three years of disappointment on the men’s PGA tour. Pate celebrated with a birdie on the last hole. He was so excited, Pate handed his putter and his sun visor to his caddie and jumped into the lake that bordered the 18th green. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1984 | * | Dwight Evans game-ending home run gives the Red Sox an 11-inning 9-6 victory over the Mariners. The three-run shot also completes the cycle for the Bosox outfielder. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1987 | * | American League baseball hitters put their batting faces on as the league combined to hit a record 28 home runs in a seven-game day. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1987 | * | Don Baylor sets career hit-by-pitch mark at 244 (Pitcher Rick Rhoden) | Ref: 5 |
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| 1988 | * | Mike Tyson sues to break contract with manager Bill Cayton. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | * | The two leagues and the Major League Baseball Players Association compromise: AL teams will protect extra players in each draft round. Only eight AL teams will have to give up three players; the other six will give up players only in the first two rounds. With the agreement, a final expansion vote is scheduled for July 5. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1991 | * | In what would be his last fight before his legal problems, Mike Tyson defeats Razor Ruddock in a 12 round heavyweight bout. | Ref: 98 |
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| 1994 | * | Kenny Rogers, Texas, pitches a perfect game against California. The score was 4-0. (2003 Sports Illustrated Almanac, ISBN 1-929049-55-2) | |
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| 1996 | * | Darryl Strawberry's 300th career round-tripper is a dramatic ninth inning, two-run dinger which gives the Yankees a come-from-behind 3-2 win over the Royals. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1997 | * | The "Bite" Fight. Mike Tyson is disqualified after the third round of his rematch with Holyfield after he bites Holyfield twice, once on each ear. Tyson claims he was retaliating for a head butt inflicted by Holyfield that opened up a gash above his right eye. Referee Mills Lane ruled the butt was accidental. | Ref: 98 |
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| 1999 | * | In an 8-7 win over the Rockies at The Q, San Diego Padres steal a club-record 9 bases, 5 by Damian Jackson to equal the franchise best. | Ref: 86 |
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| 2000 | * | Jeff Cirillo hits three homers, doubles, drives in six runs and scores five times as the Rockies beat the Giants, 17-13. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2000 | * | The Rockies draw their 20 millionth fan to one ballpark faster than any other team in major league history. Taking less than six years, Colorado eclipses the Dodgers' mark of taking nine years in two stadiums to reach the milestone. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2001 | * | After 20 seasons in San Diego, Padre outfielder Tony Gwynn announces he'll retire at the end of the season. The future Hall of Famer has the highest lifetime batting average (.338) among all active players. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1940 | | As a summer replacement for blind, piano virtuoso Alec Templeton, the Quiz Kids was first heard on radio. The show continued on NBC until 1953. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1942 | * | Dumont TV network begins (WABD NY). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1943 | | The Dreft Star Playhouse debuted on NBC radio. Jane Wyman (the former Mrs. Ronald Reagan) starred in the first broadcast, titled Bachelor Mother. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1944 | | The Alan Young Show debuted on NBC radio. It was a summer replacement for the popular Eddie Cantor. The show became a regular in the fall NBC lineup. Young, incidentally, made the switch to TV in 1961. He became a CBS star with a talking horse, of course, of course, named Mister Ed. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1951 | * | A TV version of the radio program "Amos 'N' Andy" premiered on CBS. (While criticized for racial stereotyping, it was the first network TV series to feature an all-black cast.) | Ref: 5 |
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| 1971 | | Titian's "The Death of Actaeon"16th Century masterpiece sold to Getty Museum for $4,032,000. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1973 | * | Black Sports Hall of Fame forms: Paul Robeson, Elgin Baylor, Jesse Owens, Jim Brown, Wilma Rudolph, Joe Louis & Althea Gibson elected. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1974 | * | Wings release "Band on the Run" & "Zoo Gang" in UK. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1975 | * | David Bowie releases "Fame". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1975 | * | Golfer Lee Trevino is struck by lightning at Western Open (Ill). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1978 | * | UNICEF chooses rock group Kansas as ambassadors of goodwill. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1981 | | Variety, the movieland trade paper, reported that the biggest single weekend in box-office history saw American moviegoers spending a blockbusting $56,101,095 at the box office. The popular movies bringing in the bucks were Superman II with Christopher Reeve, Raiders of the Lost Ark with Harrison Ford and The Great Muppet Caper with Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1988 | * | Founder Berry Gordy Jr. sold Motown Records to MC A Records and Boston Ventures, an investment firm, for $61 million. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1988 | * | ”Dans La Prairie"("In the Meadow”) by Claude Monet sold for $24.59 million at Sotheby's London. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1990 | * | 17th annual Daytime Emmy Awards | Ref: 5 |
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| 1476 | * | Pope Paul IV (pope 1555-59) is born. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1490 | * | Albert Margrave of Brandenburg, cardinal (attacked by Luther), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1491 | * | Henry VIII King of England [1509-1547]; Henry’s six wives: Catherine of Aragon [divorced], Anne Boleyn [beheaded], Jane Seymour [died], Anne of Cleaves [divorced], Catherine Howard [beheaded], Catherine Parr [survived]; plagued by illness brought on by overeating, Henry died Jan 28, 1547 | Ref: 68 |
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| 1577 | * | Sir Peter Rubens artist: Elevation of the Cross, Coronation of Marie de Medicis; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1703 | * | John Wesley religious leader: founder of ‘Methodism’ [forerunner of Methodist church]; writer: A Plain Account of Christian Perfection; is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1712 | * | Jean Jacques Rousseau France, social contractor (Confessions), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1787 | * | Sir Henry G W Smith leader of British-Indian forces, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1819 | * | Carlotta Grisi, Italian ballerina, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1824 | * | Paul Broca France, brain surgeon/anthro (located speech center), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1831 | * | Joseph Joachi, Kittsee Germany, violinist (Hungarian Concerto), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1851 | * | Birth of Eliza E. Hewitt, American Presbyterian church worker and devotional author. Four of her hymns still endure: 'Will There Be Any Stars?', 'More About Jesus I Would Know,' 'When We All Get to Heaven' and 'Sunshine in the Soul.'. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1858 | * | Otis Skinner, American actor, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1867 | * | Luigi Pirandello, Italy, writer (6 Characters-Nobel 1934), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1871 | | Luisa Tetrazzini is born. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1873 | * | Alexis Carrel France, surgeon/sociologist/biologist (Nobel 1912), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1876 | * | Clara Maass nurse: victim of yellow fever medical experiments; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1883 | * | Pierre Laval, French politician; led Vichy government, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1887 | * | Floyd Dell, American novelist and journalist, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1891 | * | Esther Forbes, author (Johnny Tremain), is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1891 | * | Carl Spaatz, American first chief of staff of the Air Force, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1892 | * | E. H. Carr, English political scientist and historian, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1894 | * | Lois Wilson Pitts Pa, actress (Alice-Aldrich Family) | Ref: 5 |
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| 1902 | * | Richard Rodgers Academy Award-winning composer: half of Rodgers and (Lorenz) Hart and Rodgers and (Oscar) Hammerstein: is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1902 | * | John Dillinger, bank robber, is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1902 | * | Pierre Brunet France, figure skater pair (Olympic-gold-1928, 32), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1903 | * | Alan Bunce Westfield NJ, actor (Albert-Ethel & Albert), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1905 | * | Ashley Montague author, anthropologist: “Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.”; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1906 | * | Maria Goeppert Mayer Nobel Prize-winning physicist [w/J. Hans Jensen & Eugene Wigner 1963]: nuclear shell theory; first American woman to win Nobel Prize; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1909 | * | Eric Ambler suspense author (Epitaph for a Spy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1914 | * | Lester Flatt country musician (Flatt & Scruggs-Ballad of Jed Clampett, Rocky Top), is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1914 | * | Birth of Lester Roloff, American evangelist. In his later years he founded the 'City of Refuge,' a work specializing in reforming children who came from broken homes. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1920 | | A.E. Hotchner is born. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1923 | * | Pete (Walter) Candoli musician: trumpet: Superman with a Horn, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1925 | * | Actor Charles Chaplin Jr., son of Charlie Chaplin and Lita Grey, is born. | Ref: 24 |
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| 1925 | * | George Morgan singer: Candy Kisses, Rainbow in My Heart, Room Full of Roses, Crybaby Heart, I’m in Love Again; DJ: WSM, Nashville; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1926 | * | Mel Brooks (Kaminsky) director, actor: Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie, High Anxiety, The Producers; comedy writer: Your Show of Shows, Get Smart; Broadway producer: The Producers, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1932 | * | Pat (Noriyuki) Morita actor: Happy Days, Karate Kid, Babes in Toyland, Thoroughly Modern Millie, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1936 | * | Cathy Carr singer: Ivory Tower, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1937 | * | George Knudson golf: champ: 5 CPGA titles, 12 PGA victories [1961-1972]; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1940 | | Pele is born. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1941 | * | Al (Alphonso Erwin) Downing baseball: pitcher: NY Yankees [World Series: 1963, 1964/all-star:1967], Milwaukee Brewers, Oakland Athletics, LA Dodgers [World Series: 1974], is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1942 | * | Sjoukje Dijkstra Holland, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1964), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1943 | * | Gary Veneruzzo hockey: NHL: St. Louis Blues, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1945 | * | David Knights bassist (Pocol Harum), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1946 | * | Gilda Radner, Detroit MI, Emmy Award-winning comedienne, actress: Saturday Night Live [1977-78]; Haunted Honeymoon [w/husband Gene Wilder]; is born. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1946 | * | Bruce Davison actor (Willard, High Risk), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1946 | * | John "Mike" Lounge Denver Colo, astr (STS 51-I, STS 26, STS 35), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1947 | * | Mark Helprin, novelist (Winter's Tale), is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1947 | * | Patrick Kincaid who wrote the TODAY program; send him a card, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1948 | * | Kathy Bates Academy Award-winning actress: Misery [1990]; Fried Green Tomatoes, Home of Our Own, Prelude to a Kiss, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1949 | * | Don Baylor baseball: manager: Colorado Rockies; California Angels MVP [1979], is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1949 | * | Don Nottingham football: Miami Dolphins running back: Super Bowl VIII, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1949 | * | Clarence Davis football: Oakland Raiders running back: Super Bowl XI, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1950 | * | Chris (Edward) Speier baseball: SF Giants [all-star: 1972, 1973, 1974], Montreal Expos, Minnesota Twins, SL Cardinals, Chicago Cubs, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1954 | * | Alice Krige actress: Star Trek: First Contact, Joseph, Sharpe’s Honour, Sleepwalkers, Barfly, Chariots of Fire, A Tale of Two Cities, In the Company of Spies, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1954 | * | Ava Barber Knoxville Tn, country singer (Lawrence Welk Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1955 | * | Nikolai Simyatov USSR, nordic skier (Olympic-3 golds-1976), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1958 | * | Sergei Shakrai USSR, champion figure skater, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1960 | * | John Elway football: Denver Broncos quarterback: Super Bowl XXI, XXII, XXIV, XXXII, XXXIII: MVP, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1961 | * | Jay Schroeder NFL quarterback (Wash Redskins, LA Raiders), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1961 | * | Jeff Malone NBA guard (Washington Bullets), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1963 | * | Andy Cousin rocker (All About Eve-All About Scarlet & Other Stories), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1964 | * | Mark (Eugene) Grace baseball: San Diego State Univ, Chicago Cugs, Arizona Diamondbacks, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1966 | * | John Cusack actor (Stand By Me, Sure Thing, Better Off Dead), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1966 | * | Mary Stuart Masterson Houston TX, actress (Some Kind of Wonderful), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | Gil Bellows actor: The Shawshank Redemption, Ally McBeal, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1969 | * | Danielle Brisebois Bkln NY, actress (Archie's Place, Big Bad Mama 2), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1969 | * | Tichina Arnold NYC, actress (Ryan's Hope, Sharla-All My Children), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1970 | * | Jack Stephen Burton actor (Chris-Out of this World, Days of Our Life), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1971 | * | Tichina Arnold actress: Little Shop of Horrors, Martin, Big Momma’s House, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1971 | * | Aileen Quinn actress (Annie) | Ref: 5 |
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| 1972 | * | Alessandro Nivola actor: Jurassic Park III, Face/Off, Timecode | Ref: 4 |
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| 1982 | * | Prince Chuck & Lady Di name their baby "William". | Ref: 5 |
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| 767 | * | St Paul I ends his reign as Catholic Pope. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1776 | * | Thomas Hickey American sergeant convicted of treason, hanged. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1836 | * | The fourth president of the United States (1809-17), James Madison, dies in Montpelier VA at age 85 | Ref: 68 |
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| 1861 | * | John Cuppy Jr is the last Revolutionary War soldier to die in Greene County, OH. | Ref: 56 |
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| 1889 | * | Maria Mitchell astronomer: first woman to be elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; 1st U.S. woman to become a professor of astronomy; dies at age 71. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1904 | * | Daniel Decatur Emmett composer: Dixie [Dixie’s Land]; dies at age 88. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1909 | * | Israel Durham, Phillies president dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1914 | * | Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand, 50, and his wife, Sofia, were assassinated in Sarajevo by a Serb nationalist -- the event which triggered World War One. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1921 | * | Charles Bonaparte, American politician; U.S. attorney general (1906-09), dies at age 70. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1924 | * | Tornado strikes Sandusky Ohio & Lorain Ohio, killing 93. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1925 | * | Christian Michelsen, Norwegian prime minister; separated Norway from Sweden in 1905, dies at age 68. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1954 | * | Red deer dies in Milwaukee Zoo at 26; oldest known deer. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1956 | | Riots break out in Poznan Poland, 38 die. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1962 | * | Mickey Cochrane baseball hall of fame catcher, dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1963 | * | Frank "Home Run" Baker (hit 2 HRs in 1911 world series) dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1964 | * | King Calder actor (Lt Grey-Martin Kane Private Eye), dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | Oskar Maria Graf, German novelist and poet, dies at age 72. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1967 | * | 14 people are shot during race riots in Buffalo, New York. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1971 | * | Joseph Colombo mobster, shot dead at 48. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1974 | * | Actor Frank Sutton (Sgt Carter on "Gomer Pyle, USMC") dies at 55. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1974 | * | Vannevar Bush, American electrical engineer and government administrator in World War II, developed first electronic analogue computer, dies at age 84. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1974 | * | Fall of earth & rocks kill 200. (Quebrada Blanca Canyon, Columbia). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1975 | * | Rod (Edwin Rodman) Serling scriptwriter: The Twilight Zone, Requiem for a Heavyweight, Planet of the Apes, Seven Days in May; dies at age 60. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1976 | * | Stanley Baker actor: The Guns of Navarone, Knights of the Roundtable; dies. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1980 | * | José Iturbi musician, pianist, conductor: Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1980 | | Helen Gahagan Douglas dies. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1980 | * | Herbie Faye comedian (Doc, Phil Silvers Show), dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1980 | * | José Iturbi musician, pianist, conductor: Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra; died June 28, 1980 | Ref: 4 |
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| 1981 | * | Terry Fox Marathon of Hope runner: 22 yr.-old cancer-victim with artificial leg completed 3,328 miles of 5,200 planned miles, raising $24 million for cancer research; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1983 | * | Bridge section along I-95 in Greenwich, Ct collapsed kills 3. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1985 | * | James Craig (Meador) actor: The Devil’s Brigade, The Human Comedy; dies of lung cancer at 74 | Ref: 4 |
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| 1992 | * | A very strong earthquake shook the high desert of Southern CA at 4:57 a.m. The M7.3 earthquake was centered on the eastern side of the San Bernardino Mountains near the town of Landers. The quake was the largest to strike CA since the Kern County M7.7 earthquake in 1952. Vigorous rocking and rolling was felt 100 miles away in L.A. and the quake was felt as far away as Central CA and Las Vegas, NV. Property damage: $56 million, including collapsed buildings, ruptured utility lines and widespread nonstructural damage. Human toll: One killed, 25 seriously injured, 372 treated for some sort of earthquake-related injuries, millions awakened with nightmares for weeks. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1992 | | Mikhail Tal dies. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1994 | * | Fredi (Fredericka Carolyn) Washington actress: Imitation of Life, Ouanga, One Mile From Heaven; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 2000 | * | Bert Hunter, 53, was apparently the first inmate in Missouri history put to death without a jury trial. When his case came to trial in 1989, Hunter was clinically depressed and suicidal. He pleaded guilty and asked the judge for the death sentence. (CNN, 6/28/2000) | Ref: 9 |
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