| 523 | * | St Hormisdas ends his reign as Catholic Pope. | Ref: 5 |
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| 768 | * | [Constantine] ends his reign as Catholic Pope. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1100 | * | The coronation of Henry I (of England) by Maurice, bishop of London at Westminster Abbey. | Ref: 16 |
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| 1181 | * | Supernova observed by Chinese & Japanese astronomers. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1727 | * | French Ursuline nuns first arrived at New Orleans, where they set up the first Catholic charitable institution in America. It comprised an orphanage, a girl's school and a hospital. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1774 | * | English religious leader Ann Lee (1736-1784) and a small band of followers first arrived in America. Her sect called itself the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Coming, but to the rest of the world her followers came to be known as the "Shakers." | Ref: 5 |
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| 1787 | * | The Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia began to debate the articles contained in a draft of the United States Constitution. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1801 | * | The Great Religious Revival of the American West began at a Presbyterian camp meeting in Cane Ridge, Kentucky. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1806 | | The Holy Roman Empire went out of existence as Emperor Francis the First abdicated. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1815 | * | US flotilla ends piracy by Algiers, Tunis & Tripoli. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1825 | * | Bolivia gains independence from Peru (National Day). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1844 | * | The telegraph is used to announce the birth of Queen Victoria's second son, Alfred Ernest, at Windsor. Within 40 minutes the news is printed and distributed in London by The Times . | |
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| 1846 | * | Donner Party: The Party reaches the Weber River; find note from Hastings advising them not to follow him down Weber Canyon. The main body camps near modern Henefer, Utah, while James Reed, Charles Stanton, and William Pike go ahead to get Hastings' advice. They find him at the south shore of the Great Salt Lake. He accompanies Reed part way back to point out a route. Stanton and Pike remain with Hastings party until their exhausted horses are able to continue. Meanwhile, the Graves family has caught up with the Donner Party, which now numbers 87 people in 23 wagons. Reed returns with news about the route on August 10. | Ref: 28 |
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| 1854 | * | Congress passes Confiscation Act. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1861 | * | President Lincoln signs a law freeing slaves being used by the Confederates in their war effort. | |
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| 1870 | * | White conservatives suppresed black vote & captured Tenn legislature. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1870 | * | A force led by George Rogers Clark with Simon Kenton in attendence arrives at Old Chillicothe (about 3 miles north of modern Xenia OH) only to find it deserted and fired by the Shawnee who abandoned it when they heard of Clark's approach. | Ref: 58 |
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| 1889 | * | Savoy Hotel opens in London. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1896 | * | Madagascar declared a French Colony. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1917 | | Aleksander Fyodorovich Kerensky appointed Prime Minister of Russia. | |
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| 1921 | * | Clason Point, Bronx to College Point, Queens muni ferry system begins. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1927 | * | A Massachusetts high court hears the final plea from Sacco and Vanzetti, two Italians convicted of murder. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1930 | * | Joseph Crater, 41 years old and a NY Supreme Court Justice, mysteriously disappeared, never to be seen or heard from again. His wife, Estelle, declared Judge Crater to be legally dead in 1937. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1934 | * | US troops leave Haiti, which had been occupied since 1915. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1944 | * | The last Jewish ghetto in Poland, Lodz, is liquidated with 60,000 Jews sent to Auschwitz. | Ref: 35 |
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| 1945 | * | 0000: final briefing, the target of choice is Hiroshima. Tibbets is pilot, Lewis is co-pilot. | Ref: 91 |
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| 1945 | * | 0245: Enola Gay begins takeoff roll. | Ref: 91 |
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| 1945 | * | 0730: the bomb is armed. | Ref: 91 |
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| 1945 | * | 0850: Flying at 31,000 ft Enola Gay crosses Shikoku due east of Hiroshima. Bombing conditions are good, the aimpoint is easily visible, no opposition is encountered. | Ref: 91 |
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| 1945 | * | 0915:17: Little Boy is released at 31060 feet. | Ref: 91 |
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| 1945 | * | 0916:02: (8:16:02 Hiroshima time) Little Boy explodes at an altitude of 1850 feet, 550 feet from the aim point, the Aioi Bridge, with a yield of 12.5-18 Kt (best estimate is 15 Kt). | Ref: 91 |
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| 1946 | * | US officially submits to jurisdiction of World Court. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1962 | * | Jamaica became an independent dominion within the British Commonwealth. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1965 | * | President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act, outlawing the literacy test for voting eligibility in the South. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1974 | * | Explosion & fire destory Great Northern RR yard in Wenatchee, Wash. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1981 | * | Firefighters in Indpls returned from the scene of a false alarm to find their own firehouse ablaze! Station 14 was extensively damaged from a grease fire. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1984 | * | 203.05 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1989 | * | Pilot Union tells pilots okay to cross Eastern picket lines. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | | Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's goverenment was overthrown by the President of Pakistan | Ref: 62 |
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| 1990 | * | UN Security Council votes 13-0 (2 abstentions Cuba & Yemen) to place economic sanctions against Iraq | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | * | The Justice Department joined forces with the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue in fighting a federal judge's order to keep two abortion clinics in Wichita, KS, open. | Ref: 6 |
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| 1996 | * | Officials announced the Air Force had punished 16 officers in connection with the crash that killed Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and 34 others the previous April. | Ref: 6 |
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| 1997 | * | British Prime Minister Tony Blair shook hands with Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams in the first meeting in 76 years between a British leader and the IRA's allies. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1997 | * | Apple Computer and Microsoft agreed to share technology in a deal giving Microsoft a stake in Apple's survival. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1998 | * | Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky spent 8-1/2 hours testifying before a grand jury about her relationship with President Clinton. The House Government Reform and Oversight Committee voted to cite Attorney General Janet Reno for contempt of Congress for her refusal to turn over reports recommending that she seek an independent counsel to investigate campaign fund-raising. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1998 | * | A House committee voted to cite Attorney General Janet Reno for contempt of Congress for her refusal to turn over reports recommending that she seek an independent counsel to investigate campaign fund-raising. | Ref: 70 |
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| 2000 | * | Workers at Verizon, the nation's largest local telephone company, went on an 18-day strike over working conditions and union representation. | Ref: 6 |
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| 2003 | * | Page A4 of today's WSJ talks of a 2002 US Supreme Court decision whereby jurors, not judges, must weigh factors that determine capital punishment. Surprisingly, to date 83% of the juries have returned verdicts for capital punishment compared to 17% prior to the Supreme Court ruling. | Ref: 33 |
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| 2003 | * | (California Recall) Arnold Schwartzenegger declares his candidacy for governer of California. He announces his candidacy on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. | |
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| 2003 | * | (California Recall) Dianne Feinstein (Sen-D-CA) helps California Governor Gray Davis by eschewing a recall candidacy. Political pundit Arianna Huffington enters the race as an independent. (WSJ, p A4, 8/07/2003) | Ref: 33 |
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| 2003 | * | New York City grounded its corps of pigeon-fighting hawks after a hawk attacked a chihuahau (dog) in Bryant Park. The dog is expected to recover. (WSJ, p A1, 08/07/2003) | Ref: 13 |
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| 1497 | * | John Cabot returns to England after his first successful journey to the Labrador coast. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1762 | * | Earl of Sandwich invents the sandwich at 5 a.m. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1919 | * | First air flight over a major body of water in Australia (Harry Butler). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1961 | * | Gherman S Titov, 2nd Russian in space aboard Vostok 2 (17 orbits), first case of motion sickness in space reported. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | Mariner 5 is launched from Cape Kennedy on a flight that will take it past Venus. (XDG, p 4A, 6/14/2000) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1981 | * | NASA launches Fltsatcom-5, it failed. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1983 | * | BSD UNIX 4.2 released | Ref: 62 |
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| 1985 | * | 19th space shuttle mission (51-F), Challenger 8, lands at Edwards AFB. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1986 | * | Phil Katz releases PKARC version 1.0, for the IBM | Ref: 5 |
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| 1989 | * | A team of computer scientists from Amdahl break the record for largest prime number with 391581 * 2^216193 - 1 after a year and a half of background computing | Ref: 62 |
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| 1996 | * | NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin announced the possibility that a primitive form of microscopic life may have existed on Mars more than three billion years ago. The evidence came from a fossil found on a meteorite in Antarctica believed to have come from Mars billions of years ago. | Ref: 4 |
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| 2002 | * | One-year old, co-joined twins, Maria Teresa Alvarez and Maria de Jesus Quiej-Alvarez, are separated by a team of 50 specialists in a 22-hour operation at Mattel Children Hospital at UCLA. They were joined at the head. Additional surgeries will be required to reconstruct the skulls. (USA Today, p. 2D, 8/13/2002) | Ref: 13 |
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| 1844 | * | The French war with Morocco begins. | Ref: 62 |
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| 1862 | * | CSA ironclad "Arkansas" is badly damaged in Union attack. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1863 | * | The CSS Alabama captures the USS Sea Bride near the Cape of Good Hope. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1864 | * | Rebels evacuate Ft Powell, Mobile Bay. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1904 | | The Japanese army in Korea surrounds a Russian army retreating to Manchuria. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1914 | * | The U.S.S. Tennessee sails to Europe with $6 million in gold to help American citizens stranded by the war. | |
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| 1914 | * | Austria Hungary declares war on Russia; Serbia declares war against Germany. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1915 | * | Gallipoli Peninsula campaign enters a second stage with the debarkation of a new force of British troops in Suvla Bay, on the west of the peninsula. | Ref: 38 |
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| 1942 | * | The Soviet city of Voronezh falls to the German army. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1942 | * | In the Atlantic ocean, RCN destroyer Assiniboine rams and sinks submarine U-210. | |
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| 1943 | * | Battle of Vella Gulf in the Solomon Islands. | |
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| 1945 | * | More than 200,000 civilians died from the explosion and/or radiation when an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay piloted by Paul Tibbets, dropped an atomic bomb over the center of Hiroshima, Japan. It was the first time an atomic bomb had been dropped over a populated place; and the first time a nuclear weapon had been used in warfare. | Ref: 62 |
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| 1945 | * | In Canada, McNaughton submits his resignation as Minister of Defence. | |
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| 1945 | * | Col. V.R. Miller, head of the crack Nisei regiment protested discrimination against veteran members of his outfit whose applications for membership in the VFW were rejected. His protest letter was printed in the Stars and Stripes. | Ref: 37 |
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| 2003 | * | Two soldiers are killed in Baghdad when the occupants of an Iraqi vehicle opens fire. (Time, p 33, 9/01/2003) | |
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| 1890 | * | Cy Young pitches & wins first game. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1906 | * | The Red Sox are shut out for the fourth consecutive time establishing a new American League record. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1908 | * | St Louis Card John Lush's 2nd no-hitter, beats Dodgers, 2-0 in 6 inn. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1926 | | Nineteen-year-old Gertrude Ederle from New York became the first woman to swim the English Channel and she picked this day to do it. She accomplished the feat in 14 hours and 31 minutes, breaking the mens record by two hours. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1937 | * | Indians overturn Yankees' 7-6 win by a protest. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1941 | * | Tiger pitcher Al Benton becomes the only major leaguer to have two sacrifice bunts in one inning as 17 batters come to bat in the third frame of a 11-2 rout of the Indians. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1948 | * | Seventeen-year-old Bob Mathias won the decathlon competition at the Olympic Games being held in London, England. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1948 | * | Fanny Blankers-Koen (Neth) is first women to win 3 golds at Olympics. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1949 | * | Chicago White Sox baseball star Luke Appling played in the 2,154th game of his 19-year, major-league career. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1952 | * | At the age of 47, Satchel Paige becomes the oldest pitcher ML history to hurl a complete-game shutout when he beats the Tigers in 12 innings, 1-0 . | Ref: 1 |
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| 1958 | * | Glenn Davis sets record of 49.2 in 400-meter hurdles. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1960 | * | Pitt Steelers (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 43-16 in Toronto. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1966 | * | Mohammed Ali KOs Brian London in the 3rd round in London, England to retain the Heavyweight Boxing title. | Ref: 96 |
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| 1967 | * | Brooks Robinson hits into his fourth career triple play setting a major league record. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1967 | * | Dean Chance of the Minnesota Twins pitched five innings of perfect baseball, leading his team to victory over the Boston Red Sox. Chance was only the third player to pitch a shortened, perfect game. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1969 | * | Twin manager Billy Martin punches Dave Boswell sending his pitcher to the hospital to get twenty stitches. The incident happened after a scuffle between Boswell and teammate Bob Allison | Ref: 1 |
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| 1969 | * | Willie Pops Stargell of the Pittsburgh Pirates hit the first fair ball to sail completely out of Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. Stargells blast measured 506 feet from home plate. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1969 | * | Balt Orioles pull their 3rd triple play (5-4-3 vs KC Royals). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1972 | * | Hitting his 660th and 661st career homers, Hank Aaron breaks Yankee legend Babe Ruth's record for most home runs with one team. Hammerin' Hank's' second homer of the day is a 10th inning blast which enables the Braves to beat the Reds, 4-3 | Ref: 1 |
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| 1973 | * | Roberto Clemente becomes the first Latin-born player to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1974 | * | 6th time Phils get just 1 assist in game; no other team did it twice. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1980 | * | University adm declares 5 Pac-10 schools ineligible for conference titles & post-season play due to transcript & curriculum abuses. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1981 | * | The players approved a split-season format necessitated by seven-week strike . The Yankees, A's, Phillies and Dodgers are declared the first-half champions and will be automatically qualified for the divisional series. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1981 | * | Golfing legend Lee Trevino was disqualified from the PGA Championship in Duluth, GA when the Super Mex had his scorecard signed by Tom Weiskopf instead of himself. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1982 | * | The Yankees trade 1978 play-off hero Bucky Dent to the Rangers for outfielder /first baseman Lee Mazzilli. In spite of hitting just .169, the popular Yankee infielder nearly was elected to the All-Star game by the fans. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1983 | * | Minn Vikings beat St Louis Cards 28-10 in London, England (NFL expo). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1984 | * | Carl Lewis wins 2nd (long jump) of 4 gold medals in Summer Olympics. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1986 | * | Ranger infielder Toby Harrah hits a second inning grand slam and Larry Sheets and Jim Dwyer both go deep for grand slams in the Orioles' nine-run fourth as Texas beats Baltimore, 13-11 establishing a new record for bases-full homers in one game. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1988 | * | Pirate relief pitcher Jim Gott balks three times in the eighth inning bringing home to the winning run in a 5-3 loss to the Mets. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1988 | * | Jose Canseco became the 11th player in major league history to hit 30 homers and steal 30 bases in a season. The A's outfielder, with 31 homers, joins the 30-30 club stealing second base with one out in the ninth inning for his 30th as Oakland beat the Mariners, 5-4. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1988 | * | Cub reliever Goose Gossage becomes the second player in major league history to record 300 career saves as he retires one batter in a 7-4 victory over the Phillies. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1989 | * | Boston Red Sox retire Carl Yastrezemski's #8. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | NY Yankee Kevin Mass sets record with 11th HR in first 86 at bats | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | * | The Anaheim Angels retire Rod Carew's uniform #29. | Ref: 29 |
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| 1993 | * | Raising his average to .348, Padre outfielder Tony Gwynn singles off Rockie hurler Bruce Ruffin for his 2000th career base hit . | Ref: 1 |
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| 1993 | * | By a 2-1 vote, the Indiana Court of Appeals upholds boxer Mike Tyson's conviction. | Ref: 98 |
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| 1998 | * | Kevin McClatchy's vision of a new baseball-only stadium starts to becomes more of a reality as PNC Bank strikes a deal with the Pirates calling the Bucs' new home PNC Park. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1999 | * | After Padre Tony Gwynn singles off of Expo rookie right-hander Dan Smith in the first inning to get his 3000th career hit, first base ump Kerwin Danley, Gwynn's college teammate, Vendella Gwynn, his mother celebrating her 64th birthday, and 13,540 Olympic Stadium fans help to celebrate the right fielder's milestone. The Los Angeles native finishes the night 4-for-5 passing Roberto Clemente into 21st place on the all-time career hit list. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2001 | * | The Hall of Fame Veterans Committee comprised of five former players, five media members and five former executives, which was established in 1953, is to be replaced by a 90-member group made up of the members of the Hall of Fame (61), the recipients of the J.G. Taylor Spink award for writers (13), the Ford C. Frick award for broadcasters (13) and current Veterans Committee members (3). The new committee will be able elect players only once every two years and executives, umpires and managers only once every four years. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2002 | * | Protecting the Giants' 11-10 lead over the Cubs, 32-year old reliever Robb Nen becomes the 16th and youngest closer to record the 300th save of his career. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1926 | | You would have paid $10 a seat to see the first talking picture, Don Juan, starring John Barrymore. The movie was shown at NYs Warner Theatre in glorious black and white. The sound system was Warner Brothers "Vitaphone" sound-on-disc movie system. Bear in mind that $10.00 in 1926 would have almost bought a small theatre. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1928 | | One of radios first serials was heard as Real Folks debuted on NBC. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1935 | * | Nazis force Jewish performers/artists to join Jewish Cultural Unions. | Ref: 35 |
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| 1939 | | After becoming a success with Ben Bernie on network radio, Dinah Shore started her own show on the NBC Blue radio network. Dinah sang every Sunday evening. Dinah also had a successful TV career spanning over two decades. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1940 | | Columbia Records cut the prices of its 12-inch classical records. The records were priced to sell at $1. Within two weeks, RCA Victor did the same and ended a record-buying slump brought on by disinterested consumers. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1965 | * | Beatles release "Help" album in UK | Ref: 5 |
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| 1970 | * | Hippies and Radical Yippies try to take over Disneyland. 750 infiltrate the park, take over the Wilderness fort, raise the Vietcong flag and pass reefers out to passersby. Later, when the radicals marched in a Main Street parade, they sang thier own lyrics to Zipadee Doo Dah ("Ho, Ho, HoChi Mihn is going to win..."). More conservative park guests tried to drown them out by singing America the Beautiful. Suddenly, as the confrontation heated up toward a flash point, a platoon of Anahiem Police officers in full riot gear poured into the park from backstage areas. A riot was adverted,and for many years afterward Disneyland selectively enforced a "dress code" at the park, occasionally refusing admission to "long-haired hippies". The 1970 incident is the only time an outside security force made a full-blown public appearance in The Happiest Place on Earth. | Ref: 73 |
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| 1973 | * | Stevie Wonder came close to losing his life, following a freak auto accident. Wonder, one of Motowns most popular recording artists, was in a coma for 10 days. Miraculously, he recovered and was back in the recording studio in less than eight weeks. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1973 | * | After one of the biggest promotional blitzes in TV history, writer/reporter Sally Quinn joined Hughes Rudd as co-host of the CBS Morning News. Not long after her TV debut, Quinn found that she wasnt suited so much for TV and went back to writing for The Washington Post. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1981 | * | Stevie Nicks first solo album, Bella Donna, was released. The lead singer for Fleetwood Mac scored a top-three hit with Stop Draggin My Heart Around (9/05/81) from the album. Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers were featured on the track. Nicks went on to record a total of 11 hits for the pop-rock charts through 1988. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1986 | | Timothy Dalton became the fourth actor to be named Bond ... James Bond. Dalton, 38, and his studio, United Artists, ended months of speculation as to who would star as Agent 007 in the 15th James Bond film. The character of Bond was created by writer Ian Fleming. Other stars to play the role of the suave, debonair and deadly double agent include: Roger Moore, Sean Connery and George Lazenby, with Pierce Brosnan as the James Bond for the 1990s. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1651 | * | Birth of Francois Fanelon, French priest and scholar. His 1697 writing, "Christian Perfection," provided a reasoned defense of mystical spirituality, though it afterward brought him into disfavor with the pope. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1697 | * | Charles VII Holy Roman emperor (1742-45), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1697 | * | Niccolo Salvi, Italian sculptor, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1809 | * | Alfred Lord Tennyson, English poet laureate (1850), wrote "The Charge of the Light Brigade, is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1821 | * | Birth of Edward H. Plumptre, Anglican theologian. He served on the Old Testament committee for the 1881 English Revised Version of the Bible. Today, he is better remembered as author of the hymn, "Rejoice, Ye Pure in Heart." | Ref: 5 |
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| 1828 | * | Andrew Taylor Still, American founder of osteopathy, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1861 | * | Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt 2nd wife of Theodore Roosevelt, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1868 | * | Paul Claudel France, diplomat/poet (L'Otage-1909), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1869 | * | Frank Cobb, American journalist and editor of the New York World, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1880 | * | Leo Carrillo, the actor who portrayed Pancho on the Cisco Kid, is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1881 | * | Sir Alexander Fleming Nobel Prize-winning bacteriologist [1945] discoverer of penicillin, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1881 | * | Louella Parsons (Oettinger) gossip columnist: competed in print and on radio with nemesis Hedda Hopper; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1883 | * | Scott Nearing sociologist and natural-food advocate, author [w/wife]: Living the Good Life; Nearing lived to 100 years [died Aug 24, 1983], is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1889 | * | Major General George Kenney, commander of the US Fifth Air Force in New Guinea and the Solomons during World War II, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1892 | * | Hoot (Edmund Richard) Gibson actor: Death Valley Rangers, Frontier Justice, The Marshals Daughter, The Prairie King, Sonora Stagecoach, Wild Horse, Roaring Ranch, Fighting Parson; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1893 | * | Guthrie McClintic Seattle Wash, Broadway producer/dir (Winterset), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1902 | * | Dutch Schultz, American bootlegger, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1906 | * | Ken Strong NFL, AFL halfback (Staten Island, NY Yanks, NY Giants), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1908 | * | Helen Hull Jacobs tennis champion: Wimbledon [1936], U.S. Open [1932, 1933, 1934, 1935]; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1910 | * | Charles Crichton director (Battle of Sexes), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1911 | * | Lucille Ball Jamestown NY, comedienne/actress (I Love Lucy, Mame), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1914 | * | Ronald Duncan, English playwright, poet and writer, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1916 | * | Mike (Michael E.) Burke baseball: Cincinnati Reds; head of NY Yankees; CBS executive; is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1916 | * | 54 Richard Hofstadter 8/6/1916 10/24/1970 American historian | Ref: 70 |
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| 1917 | * | Robert Mitchum Bridgeport Ct, actor (Winds of War, North & South), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1921 | * | Buddy (William) Collette musician: reeds, piano, composer: LPs: Now and Then, Blockbuster, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1921 | * | Ella Raines Sinoqualmie Falls Wash, actress (Janice Dean RN), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1922 | * | Doug Ford golf champion: Masters [1957], PGA [1955], is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1922 | | Sir Freddie Laker entrepreneur (Laker airlines), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1923 | * | Jack Parnell London England, orch leader (Englebert Humperdick Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1923 | * | Jackie Kelk Brooklyn NY, actor (Homer-Aldrich Family), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1923 | * | William B Williams Babylon NY, DJ (WNEW, Sammy & Company), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1924 | * | Actor Wally (Wallace Maynard) Cox is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1925 | * | Barbara Bates Denver Colo, actress (Kathy-It's a Great Life), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1926 | * | Jackie Presser, American Teamsters Union leader (1983-88), is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1927 | * | Film maker, pop artist Andy Warhol is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1927 | * | William David Ford (Rep-D-Mich), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1928 | * | Janice Lee York Romary US, fencer (Olympics-1952-68), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1929 | * | Anneliese Kuppers German FR, equestrian dressage (Oly-silver-1956), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1930 | * | Abbey Lincoln (Wooldridge) actress: For Love of Ivy, Mo Better Blues, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1934 | * | John Storey Bonington UK, mountain climber (Annapurna I in 1970), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1937 | | Barbara Windsor, is born. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1938 | * | Paul Bartel writer, director, actor: Eating Raoul; writer, director: Not for Publication, Cannonball; director, actor: Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills; director: The Longshot, Lust in the Dust, The Secret Cinema, Death Race 2000, Private Parts; actor: The Usual Suspects, The Jerky Boys, Number One Fan, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Rock n Roll High School, Hollywood Boulevard; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1938 | * | Bert Yancey golf: Charlie Bartlett Award: 1978; died Aug 26, 1994 | Ref: 4 |
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| 1938 | * | Peter Bonerz Portsmouth NH, actor (Jerry-Bob Newhart Show, 9 to 5), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1940 | * | Louise Sorel LA Calif, actress (BS I Love You, Crimes of Passion), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1941 | * | Ray (Raymond Leonard) Culp baseball: pitcher: Philadelphia Phillies [all-star: 1963], Chicago Cubs, Boston Red Sox [all-star: 1969], is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1943 | * | Michael Anderson Jr London, actor (Clayt-The Monroes), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1943 | * | Ray Buktenica Greenwich Village NYC, actor (Rhoda, House Calls), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1944 | * | Ed Sneed golf: PGA champ: 1973 Kaiser International [1973], 1974 Greater Milwaukee Open [1974], 1977 Tallahassee Open [1977], Michelob-Houston Open [1982], is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1944 | * | Swoosie Kurtz actress (Vice Versa, World According to Garp), is born. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1945 | * | Andy (John Alexander) Messersmith baseball: pitcher, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1945 | * | Ken Norton heavyweight boxer (or 0809), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1947 | * | Ken Riley football: Cincinnati Bengals cornerback: Super Bowl XVI, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1947 | * | Sally Eaton Ill, actress, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1950 | * | Dorian Harewood Dayton Ohio, actor (Earl-Glitter, Trauma Center), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1950 | * | Nathan Purdee actor (Nathan-Young & Restless), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1950 | * | Winston E Scott Miami Fla, USN Commander/astronaut, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1951 | * | Catherine Hicks Scottsdale Az, actress (Star Trek IV, Child's Play), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1952 | * | Carl C Perkins (Rep-D-Ky), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1952 | * | Pat MacDonald musician: groups: Essentials, Barbara K, Cats Away, Timbuk 3: The Futures So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades, All I Want for Christmas, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1952 | * | Wojiech Fortuna Poland, ski jumper (Olympic-gold-1972), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1956 | * | Stephanie Kramer LA Calif, actress (Claudia-We Got it Made, Hunter), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1956 | * | Vinnie Vincent heavy metal rocker (Solo-Ashes to Ashes), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1958 | * | Randy DeBarge musician: bass, vocals: group: DeBarge: Rhythm of the Night, I Like It, All this Love, Time Will Reveal, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1959 | * | Joyce Sims rocker (All & All), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1962 | * | Michelle Yeoh actress: Tomorrow Never Dies, Jackie Chan: My Story, Moonlight Express, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1963 | * | Kimberley Conrad Hefner Moulton Al, playmate of year (Jan, 1988), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1964 | * | Moosie Drier, Chic Ill, actor (Laugh-in), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1965 | * | X-rated film actor Marc Davis is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1965 | * | David Robinson Olympic Gold Medalist: 1992 basketball Dream Team; San Antonio Spurs center: NBA Rookie of the Year [1990], is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1972 | * | Geri Halliwell singer: group: Spice Girls: is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1973 | * | X-rated film actress Asia Carrera is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1976 | * | Melissa George actress: Home and Away, Dark City, Hollyweird, Sugar & Spice, Mulholland Drive, Thieves, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1976 | * | Soleil Moon Frye actress: Punky Brewster, The Liars Club, The St. Tammany Miracle, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 258 | * | Pope Sixtus II is martyred. | Ref: 69 |
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| 1221 | | St. Dominic dies. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1272 | | King Steven V Hungary dies. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1458 | * | Pope Callistus III dies. | Ref: 69 |
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| 1623 | * | Anne Hathaway, Shakespeare's wife, dies at age 67 in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1637 | * | Ben Johnson actor: The Poetaster, Satiromastix; poet: Song: To Celia; playwright: Every Man in His Humour, Every Man Out of His Humour, Cynthias Revels, War of the Theatres, Sejanus, His Fall, The Masque of Owles, The Alchemist, The Devil is an Ass; died Aug 6, 1637 | Ref: 4 |
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| 1660 | * | Diego Velazquez, Spanish 17th-century painter, dies at age 61. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1817 | * | Pierre du Pont, French economist, dies at age 77. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1838 | * | James Galloway Sr, an early settler and a leading citizen of Xenia OH, dies and is buried ~4 miles NE of Xenia. | Ref: 54 |
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| 1867 | * | Faustin-lie Soulouque emperor of Haiti, dies (birth date unknown). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1888 | * | Martha Turner is murdered by an unknown assailant, believed to be Jack the Ripper, in London, England. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1890 | * | Convicted murderer William Kemmler became the first person to be executed in the electric chair as he was put to death at Auburn State Prison in New York. (TWA, 1958) | Ref: 95 |
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| 1914 | * | Ellen Louise Wilson, the first wife of the 28th US president, Woodrow Wilson, dies of Barite's disease at age 54. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1917 | * | Andrew Taylor Still, American founder of osteopathy, dies at age 89. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1931 | * | (Leon) Bix Beiderbecke young man with a horn: jazz cornetist: groups: Wolverine Orchestra: Fidgety Feet, Jazz Me Blues; Bix Beiderbecke and His Rhythm Jugglers: Davenport Blues; Charlie Straight Orchestra; Breeze Blowers; Jean Goldkette Orchestra; Frankie Trumbauer and his Orchestra: Singin the Blues, Clarinet Marmalade, Clementine; Bix Beiderbecke and His Gang: At the Jazz Band Ball, Royal Garden Blues; Adrian Rollini and the New Yorkers; Paul Whiteman Orchestra: From Monday On, China Boy, Oh, Miss Hannah; jazz pianist: In A Mist, Candlelights, Flashes, In the Dark; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1946 | * | Poosh Em Up Tony (Anthony Michael) Lazzeri Baseball Hall of Famer: NY Yankees [World Series: 1926-1928, 1932, 1936, 1937/all-star: 1933/A.L. single game record: 11 RBIs: May 24, 1936], Chicago Cubs [World Series: 1938], Brooklyn Dodgers, NY Giants; .300 hitter 5 times, drove in over 100 runs 7 times; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1951 | * | Typhoon floods kill 4,800 in Manchuria | Ref: 5 |
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| 1959 | | Preston Sturges dies. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1959 | * | Preston Sturges, American film director, screenwriter and playwright dies at age 60. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1964 | * | Sir Cedric (Webster) Hardwicke actor: The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Stanley and Livingstone, Richard III, The Ten Commandments, dies at age 71. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1965 | * | Everett Sloane actor: Citizen Kane, Marjorie Morningstar, The Enforcer; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1965 | * | Nancy Carroll actress (Alice-Aldrich Family), dies at 60. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | William Kiplinger, journalist, founder of Kiplinger Washington Letters, dies. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1973 | * | Fulgencio Batista, Cuban dictator, dies at age 72. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1976 | * | Gregor Piatigorsky Russian-born cellist: performed worldwide; teacher: Univ. Southern California; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1978 | * | Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini) 262nd pope of the Roman Catholic Church [1963-1978]; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1978 | * | Edward Durell b. Stone, American architect, dies at age 76. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1979 | * | Kurt Kaszner actor (Cmdr Fitzhugh-Land of the Giants), dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1980 | * | Marino Marini, Italian artist, dies at age 79. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1986 | * | William J Schroeder (world's longest-survivor with permanent artificial heart, dies after 620 days with Jarvik VII man-made pump). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1989 | * | Hubert Beuve-Mry, French publisher and editor of "Le Monde", dies at age 87. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1991 | * | TV newsman Harry Reasoner (of "60 Minutes") dies in Norwalk, Connecticut, at age 68. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1997 | * | A Korean Air 747, Flight 801, plowed into a hillside short of the Guam International Airport, killing 226 of the 254 aboard. The impact had broken the fuselage into six pieces. The tail, with its distinctive Korean Air logo, was the only part of the plane still recognizable. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1998 | * | Jack (John Beasley) Brickhouse Chicago Radio Hall of Famer: WGN, Mutual Broadcasting System, DuMont Television Network; dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 2001 | * | Larry Adler, US-born harmonica virtuoso (Harmonicats), dies at age 87 in London England. (TWA, 2002) | Ref: 95 |
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