| 1087 | * | The coronation of William II (of England) by Lanfranc at Westminster Abbey. | Ref: 16 |
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| 1143 | * | Pope Celestine II begins his reign as Catholic Pope. | Ref: 69 |
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| 1778 | * | (date approximate) In rapid succession, Simon Kenton is condemned to death by the Shawnee. Within hours of his execution he is identified as Simon Butler (a Kenton alias) by Simon Girty who makes an impassioned plea for his release; is released; and adopted (informally) by an old squaw who lost a son. Kenton's high standing among the Shawnee would not last. Kenton's "adoption" only assured him sanctuary in a particular wigwam, not across the Shawnee nation that adoption by a chief would warrant. | Ref: 58 |
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| 1786 | * | France and Britain sign a trade agreement in London. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1789 | * | Samuel Osgood is appointed first Postmaster. | Ref:77 |
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| 1789 | * | Jefferson appointed first Sec of State; John Jay 1st chief justice & Edmund J Randolph 1st Attorney General. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1809 | * | The Common Pleas Court has its first session in the new Greene County Courthouse on the southeast corner of Main and Greene Streets. (XDG, p 5, 4/22/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1814 | * | With over 1,000 delegates from 17 churches, the Flint River Association was established -- the first official Baptist organization of its kind in the history of AL. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1815 | | Emperors of Prussia and Austria form Holy Alliance. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1824 | * | Kapiolani defies Pele (Hawaiian volcano goddess) & lives. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1835 | * | The Suwanee Association was formed, in Florida. Comprised of eight member churches, it was the first official Baptist organization in Florida history. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1846 | * | Donner Party: The party reaches tthe junction with the California Trail about 7 miles west of modern Elko, Nevada. Travel along Humboldt River for the next two weeks. The Hastings Cutoff proves to be 125 miles longer and more treacherous than the proven trail. The Humbolt River is where the Hastings Cutoff and the proven trail come back together. Most immigrants have arrived in California by this time. | Ref: 28 |
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| 1862 | * | (Dakota Conflict) "Friendlies" release American captives. Col. Sibley enters Dakota camp and takes 1200 Dakota men, women, and children into custody. Over the next weeks, and additional 800 Dakota will surrender to American forces. In 37 days of fighting, the Dakota Conflict has claimed the lives of over 500 Americans and about 60 Dakota. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1890 | * | US stops minting $1 & $3 gold coin & 3¢ piece. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1901 | * | Leon Czolgosz, who murdered President William McKinley, is sentenced to death. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1907 | | New Zealand becomes a dominion. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1913 | | The first boat is raised in the locks of the Panama Canal. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1914 | * | Federal Trade Commission formed to regulate interstate commerce. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1933 | * | Indiana State Prison at Michigan City jailbreak. | Ref: 42 |
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| 1934 | * | Cunard Line's luxury liner Queen Mary launched. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1941 | * | The U.S. Army establishes the Military Police Corps. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1942 | * | At Groves' insistence the Manhattan Project is granted approval by the War Production Board to use the highest emergency procurement priority in existence (AAA) when needed. | Ref: 91 |
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| 1942 | * | SS begins cashing in possessions and valuables of Jews from Auschwitz and Majdanek. German banknotes are sent to the Reichs Bank. Foreign currency, gold, jewels and other valuables are sent to SS Headquarters of the Economic Administration. Watches, clocks and pens are distributed to troops at the front. Clothing is distributed to German families. By February of 1943, over 800 boxcars of confiscated goods will have left Auschwitz. | Ref: 35 |
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| 1944 | * | Loading uranium into the first full scale plutonium reactor, the B pile, at Hanford is completed. This reactor contains 200 tons of uranium metal, 1200 tons of graphite, and is cooled by 5 m^3 of water/sec. It designed to operate at 250 megawatts, producing some 6 kg of plutonium a month. Fermi supervises reactor start-up. | Ref: 91 |
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| 1945 | * | OSS Lieutenant Dewey is killed in Saigon, the first American to be killed in Vietnam. French and Vietminh spokesmen blame each other for his death. | |
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| 1947 | * | Transfer of personnel, bases, and material from the Army to USAF is ordered. | Ref: 50 |
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| 1950 | | Because of forest fire in Br Columbia, blue moon appears in England. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1955 | * | The New York Stock Exchange suffers a $44 million loss, the worst price decline since 1929. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1957 | * | Dag Hammarskjold re-elected secretary-general of the UN. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1960 | * | The first of the presidential debates between hopefuls Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy took place. The debate, moderated by Howard K. Smith, reached more than 69 million people via TV and another 17 million on radio. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1960 | * | Longest speech in UN history (4 hrs, 29 mins, by Fidel Castro). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1962 | * | The House votes 384-7 to authorize the President to use force in Cuba to counter a Soviet-backed military buildup. (USA Today, p 5A, 10/08/2002) | Ref: 13 |
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| 1962 | * | Yemen Arab Republic proclaimed (National Day). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1966 | * | "Staten Island," first icebreaker to enter SF bay. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1972 | * | Richard M. Nixon meets with Emperor Hirohito in Anchorage, Alaska, the first-ever meeting of a U.S. President and a Japanese Monarch. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1972 | * | American Museum of Immigration dedicated. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1978 | * | RR clerks go on strike, halting more than 2/3s of rail service. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1980 | | The Cuban government abruptly closed Mariel Harbor, ending the freedom flotilla of Cuban refugees that began the previous April. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1981 | * | The twin-engine Boeing 767 made its maiden flight in Everett, Wash. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1984 | | Britain & China initial agreement return Hong Kong to China in 1997. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1984 | * | Pres Reagan vetoes sanctions against South Africa. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1986 | * | (US Supreme Court Justice) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Warren Burger retires. Ref | |
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| 1986 | * | (US Supreme Court Justice) Antonin Scalia joins the Supreme Court as its 103rd member. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1986 | * | (US Supreme Court Justice) William H. Rehnquist was sworn in as the 16th chief justice of the United States. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1988 | | Polish communist party picks propaganda chief Rakowski as new PM. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | | In Russia, the Supreme Soviet ended decades of religious repression with a new declaration, forbidding government interference in religious activities and giving citizens the right to study religion in homes and private schools. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1995 | * | (OJ Simpson) (and 27th) Clark and Darden deliver prosecution's closing arguments. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1996 | * | Richard Allen Davis, the killer of 12-year-old Polly Klaas, was sentenced to death in San Jose, CA. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1996 | * | (King) Judge Davies refuses to extend the sentences of Koon and Powell. He reimposes the thirty month sentence, effectively ending the case. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1996 | * | A bond trader at Japan's Daiwa Bank was charged with doctoring records to hide $1.1 billion in losses. | Ref: 6 |
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| 2000 | * | Slobodan Milosevic conceded that his challenger, Vojislav Kostunica, had finished first in Yugoslavia's presidential election and declared a runoff a move that prompted mass protests leading to Milosevic's ouster. | Ref: 70 |
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| 2000 | * | New Orleans, LA. Two students wounded with the same gun during a fight at Woodson Middle School. | Ref: 88 |
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| 2002 | * | WorldCom former controller David Myers pleaded guilty to securities fraud, saying he was told by "senior management" to falsify records in what became the largest corporate accounting scandal in U.S. history. | Ref: 70 |
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| 2003 | * | The Wall Street Journal today reports on page A3 that former Ernst & Young partner, Thomas C Trauger, 40, has been arrested on criminal charges of obstruction of justice, in one of the first cases of alleged document destruction brought under the 14-month old Sarbanes-Oxley Act. | Ref: 33 |
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| 1580 | * | Sir Francis Drake returns to Plymouth, England, aboard the Golden Hind, after a 33-month voyage to circumvent the globe. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1825 | * | George Stephenson's "Locomotion" pulls 85 tons at 8 mph. | |
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| 1871 | * | Process for making cement patented by inventor David Oliver Saylor of Allentown, PA. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1887 | * | Gramophone patented by Emile Berliner in Washington D.C. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1908 | * | An ad for the Edison Phonograph appeared in The Saturday Evening Post. The phonograph offered buyers free records by both the Democratic and Republican U.S. presidential candidates. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1966 | * | Japan launches its first satellite in to space | Ref: 62 |
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| 1973 | * | Concorde flies from Washington DC to Paris in 3h33m. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1977 | * | Sir Freddie Laker begins cut-rate "Skytrain" service, London to NY. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1980 | * | Soyuz 38 returns to Earth. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1983 | * | Cosmonauts Titov and Strekalov are saved from their exploding Soyuz T-10 booster by the launch escape system | Ref: 5 |
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| 1988 | * | US space shuttle STS-26 launched. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | | A group of scientists, four men and four women began a two-year stay inside Biosphere 2, a sealed structure in Oracle, AZ. They had planned to have no contact with the outside world; to grow their own food and live peacefully together as future pioneers in a harsh and alien world. Unfortunately, the outside world had to intervene a few times; to get rid of an ant invasion, to pump in oxygen, to tend to a health emergencies, to bring in forgotten necessities like makeup. The scientific team managed to last out the term, but they were half-crazy and half-starved when U.S. marshals led them out two years later. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1687 | | Parthenon destroyed in war between Turks & Venetians. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1777 | * | The British army launches a major offensive, capturing Philadelphia. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1781 | * | The combined American and French forces assemble in Williamsburg. | |
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| 1826 | | The Persian cavalry is routed by the Russians at the Battle of Ganja in the Russian Caucasus. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1864 | * | General Nathan Bedford Forrest and his men assault a Federal garrison near Pulaski, TN. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1916 | * | Combles and Thiepval captured by British and French. | Ref: 38 |
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| 1917 | * | Zonnebeke, Polygon Wood and Tower Hamlets, east of Ypres, taken by British. | Ref: 38 |
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| 1918 | * | German Ace Ernst Udet shoots down two Allied planes, bringing his total for the war up to 62. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1918 | * | The Meuse-Argonne offensive opens; the greatest offensive of war for US forces. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1940 | * | During the London Blitz, the underground Cabinet War Room suffers a hit when a bomb explodes on the Clive Steps. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1944 | * | Estonia is occupied by the Soviets. | Ref: 36 |
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| 1950 | * | General Douglas MacArthur's American X Corps, fresh from the Inchon landing, links up with the U.S. Eighth Army after its breakout from the Pusan Perimeter. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1950 | * | United Nations troops recaptured the South Korean capital of Seoul from the North Koreans. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1967 | * | Hanoi rejects a U.S. peace proposal. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1977 | | Israel announces a cease-fire on Lebanese border. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1896 | * | Cleveland's Jesse Burkett gets three hits to finish the season at .410; the 'Crab' becomes the first player to hit .400 in consecutive seasons. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1906 | * | Pitts Lefty Leifield no-hits Phillies, 8-0 in 6 inning game. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1906 | * | After setting a major league record of being shutout for 48 consecutive innings, the A's finally score a run thanks to Harry Davis' two-run double. The Mackmen, however, still lose to Cleveland, 5-3. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1908 | * | Ed Reulbach pitches two shutouts in the same day whitewashing Brooklyn 5-0 on a five-hitter and 3-0 on a three-hitter. The entire doubleheader is played in less than three hours. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1919 | * | (Black Sox) Sullivan approaches Rothstein separately with the same proposal as Burns and Maharg. Rothstein shows interest because he has more respect for Sullivan. He sends Nat Evans, his associate, to find out if the players can be bought. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1926 | * | Shortest double header, Yanks lose 6-1 in 72 minutes & lose again 6-2 in 55 minutes to the Browns. Yanks had already clinched pennant. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1926 | * | In his final day in a Tiger uniform, Ty Cobb watches his replacement in centerfield gets six hits in a twin bill with the Red Sox to become the new batting champs as Heinie Manush edges Babe Ruth 378 to .372 for the title. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1947 | * | Happy Chandler announces Ford & Gillette to sponsor World Series. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1948 | * | Boston Braves win first NL championship since 1914. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1952 | * | Yanks clinch pennant #19. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1958 | | Columbia (US) beats Sceptre (England) in 18th America's Cup. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1959 | * | SF Giants Sam Jones 2nd no-hitter, beats St Louis Cards, 4-0. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1961 | * | Yankee outfielder Roger Maris Yankees ties Babe Ruth's 34-year-old single season HR record with his 60th when he homers off Oriole Jack Fisher. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1961 | * | Under Manager Fred Hutchinson, the Reds clinch the National League pennant, their last flag at Crosley Field. The Reds then lost to the Roger Maris-Mickey Mantle led Yankees, four games to one. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1962 | * | First to steal 100 bases in a season (Maury Wills goes on to 104). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1964 | * | Vicente Saldivar stops Sugar Ramos in the 11th round in Mexico City, Mexico for the featherweight boxing title. | Ref: 97 |
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| 1965 | * | Twin hurler Jim Kaat stops the Senators in a 2-1 decision and Minnesota (formerly the original Senators) clinch their first pennant since 1933. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1968 | * | St Louis Cards' Bob Gibson's 13th shutout, ends with 1.12 ERA. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1973 | * | Wilt Chamberlain signs with ABA San Diego Conquistadors. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1973 | * | Milwaukee Brewer Jim Colborn hurls a one-hitter against Texas becoming the Brewers first 20-game winner. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1975 | * | By beating J.R. Richards and the Astros, 3-2, Burt Horton sets a Dodger record for starting pitchers by winning his twelfth consecutive game. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1975 | * | Phillies & NY Mets play a doubleheader that ends at 3:15 AM. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1976 | * | Phillies beat Expos in the first game of a doubleheader to clinch NL East title; after the second game, Dick Allen bolts from the team to protest Tony Taylor not being placed on the post-season roster. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1979 | * | 1984 summer LA Olympic coverage sold to ABC for $225 million. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1981 | * | At the Astrodome, Astro Nolan Ryan becomes the first pitcher to throw five no-hitters defeating the Dodgers, 5-0. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1981 | * | Dale Murphy of the Atlanta Braves, plays the first of 740 consecutive games. ("The 1999 ESPN Sports Almanac") | |
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| 1983 | | The longest winning streak in sports -- 132 years -- was broken. It was the America’s Cup race and the United States team expected to maintain their title; one they were defending for the 25th time. Challenger Australia II won! | Ref: 4 |
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| 1983 | * | Cardinal Bob Forsch pitches his second career no-hitter beating the Expos, 3-0. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1983 | * | Ali Haji-Sheikh kicks NY Giant record 56 yard field goal. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1984 | * | 5,251 turn out to see the Phillies play the NY Mets at Shea Stadium. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1988 | * | Canada`s Ben Johnson stripped of his 100-m gold failing drug test | Ref: 5 |
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| 1989 | * | The Chicago Cubs clinch NL East title with 3-2 win in Montreal. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1993 | * | The Colorado Rockies inaugural attendance is final: 4,483,350. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1993 | * | By striking out 13 A's in 10 innings of a 3-2, extra inning loss, Mariner Randy Johnson becomes the 12th pitcher this century to strike out 300 batters in a season. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1995 | * | The Tampa Bay Devil Rays sign their first player - Adam Sisk, a 6-4 right-handed pitcher from Edison Community College in Fort Myers, Florida. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1998 | * | David Cone sets a new major league record for the most years between 20-win seasons as the Yankees beat Devil Rays, 3-1. Cone, who was 20-3 in 1988 as a Met, passed the mark set by Jim Katt who won twenty in 1966 and 1974. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1998 | * | In a 5-2 loss to the Orioles at Fenway, Red Sox reliever Dennis Eckersley pitches in his 1,071st game breaking Hoyt Wilhelm's major league mark for the most career pitching appearance. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1998 | * | Rickey Henderson, 39, steals his 66th base of the season. The all-time stolen base leader is the oldest player to ever steal more than 50 bases in a season. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1999 | * | An estimated 8,000 fans jam the Bank One Ballpark Plaza to greet the Arizona Diamondbacks on their return home from their sweep of the Giants. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1999 | * | The Texas Rangers defeat Oakland, 10-3, to clinch the American League West Division title. | Ref: 86 |
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| 2000 | | America won its first Ryder Cup since 1993 after trailing the European team 10-to-6 going into the final round. (To the anger of the Europeans, US players, along with caddies, officials and wives, stormed the green to congratulate Justin Leonard for a 45-foot putt that all but won the tournament for the Americans.) | Ref: 6 |
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| 2003 | * | Four students suffer minor injuries when some parents of the Xenia OH Athletic Booster Club discharge carbon dioxide fire extinguishers to create fog. Some of the football players trampled some of the band members, sending four students to the area hospital. (XDG, p 1A, 9/30/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1835 | * | The opera "Lucia di Lammermoor" is produced (Naples). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1892 | * | The ‘March King’ was introduced to the general public. John Philip Sousa and his band played the Liberty Bell March in Plainfield, New Jersey. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1896 | * | John Philip Sousa led band's first performance (Plainfield, NJ). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1955 | * | Debbie Reynolds married singing idol Eddie Fisher. The couple made it through four tempestuous years. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1957 | * | West Side Story opens in NY. The musical ran for 734 performances. The loose adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet produced several hit songs, including Maria and Tonight. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1961 | * | Nineteen-year-old Bob Dylan makes his NY singing debut at Gerde's Folk City. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1962 | * | “Come and listen to the story ’bout a man named Jed...” The Beverly Hillbillies aired on CBS-TV. U.S. audiences were enchanted with Jed, Ellie Mae, Granny, Jethro, Miss Jane and that banker feller. Enchanted, as in a trance, in fact, for 216 shows. Bluegrass stars Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs had the honor of composing and recording the theme song and hit record, The Ballad of Jed Clampett. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1964 | * | Gilligan’s Island began its 98-show run on CBS. The TV show starred Bob Denver in the title role, Jim Backus as Mr. Howell, Natalie Schafer as Lovey Howell, Alan Hale as the Skipper, Russell Johnson as the Professor and Dawn Wells and Tina Louise as Mary Ann and Ginger, respectively. (Brooks, Tim & Earl Marsh, "The Complete Directory to Prime Time TV Shows, 1946 - Present", (c) 1949, ISBN 0-345-31864-1) | |
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| 1968 | * | Hawaii Five-O debuts as an hourly program on CBS-TV. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | Theatre censorship ends in Britain; the US musical Hair opens tomorrow with nude characters. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1969 | * | The Beatles walked the road toward a hit LP for the last time, as Abbey Road was released in London. The 13th and last album for the ‘fab four’ zoomed quickly to the #1 spot on the charts and stayed there for 11 weeks. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1969 | * | The Brady Bunch, a typical 1970s scrubbed-face American family sitcom first airs. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1983 | * | Filmation's "He Man and the Masters of the Universe" premiered. | Ref: 73 |
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| 1984 | * | History was made at the Metropolitan Opera House in NY City. Neil Shicoff, lead tenor in the The Tales of Hoffmann, was unable to perform due to illness. His understudy, a chap named William Lewis, was a bit under the weather as well, and his voice began to falter during the performance. So, Kenneth Riegel was called in to sing the part from the orchestra pit while Mr. Lewis lip-synced the part on stage. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1984 | * | Liz Taylor starred in the season opener of the TV soap, Hotel. Despite incredibly biting bits from John Belushi on NBC’s Saturday Night Live regarding her plumpness at the time, viewers were quite amazed when Ms. Taylor appeared in a gown -- with a 24-inch waistline. Definitely no more, “I followed Liz Taylor to McDonald’s to watch the numbers change,” from Joan Rivers. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1986 | * | Dallas, on CBS-TV, smashed NBC’s Miami Vice in the overnight ratings. The episode, from Southfork Ranch, had Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy) returning from the dead -- in the shower, no less! Pam Ewing (Victoria Principal) was a bit perplexed. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1987 | * | Whitney Houston’s fifth consecutive #1 U.S. single hit the top. Didn’t We Almost Have It All was a cut from her LP, Whitney, which was number one on the album charts from June 27 to Sep 11 that year. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1988 | * | NYC's Rockefeller Center declared a national landmark. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | | The Motion Picture Association of America announced it had created a new rating, NC-17, designed to bar moviegoers under age 17 from certain films without the commercial stigma of the old X rating. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1991 | | The Motion Picture Association of America announced it had created a new rating, "NC-17," designed to bar moviegoers under the age of 17 from certain films without the commercial stigma of the old "X" rating. | Ref: 6 |
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| 1991 | * | Billy (Richard) Vaughn musician, orchestra leader: Melody of Love, The Shifting, Whispering Sands, Sail along Silver Moon; baritone singer with The Hilltoppers; music director: Dot Records; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1729 | * | Moses Mendelssohn philosopher/critic/Bible translator, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1774 | * | John Chapman [Johnny Appleseed], frontier nurseryman, is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1783 | * | Jane Taylor, children's writer best known as the author of Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1791 | * | Jean-Louis Gericault, French painter and lithographer, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1820 | * | Isvar Chandra Vidyasagar father of Bengali prose (Exile of Sita), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1849 | | Ivan Pavlov is born. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1862 | * | Arthur B. Davies, American painter, printmaker and tapestry designer, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1876 | * | Edith Abbott dean U of Chic Social Sciences, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1887 | * | Barnes Wallis, British aeronautical engineer who invented the "Bouncing Bombs" used to destroy German dams during World War II, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1888 | * | T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot, St Louis poet/dramatist/critic (Waste Land-Nobel 1948), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1889 | * | Martin Heidegger Germany, Philosopher/Existentialist (Being & Time), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1891 | * | Charles Munch Strasbourg, Alsatian conductor (French Legion D'Honeur), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1893 | * | Freda Kirchwey, American editor and publisher of "The Nation", is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1895 | * | George Raft (Ranft) actor: Scarface, Eighty Days, Some Like It Hot, Casino Royale; is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1895 | * | Fay Holden Birmingham England, actress (Mother-Andy Hardy films), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1897 | * | Birth of Giovanni Battista Montini. He was ordained in 1920, named a cardinal in 1958, and in June 1963 chosen successor to John XXIII as Pope Paul VI. He is the 262nd Roman Catholic pope (1963-78). His 15 years as pontiff saw a widening application of the decisions first made at the Vatican II Ecumenical Council (1962-65). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1898 | * | George Gershwin [Jacob Gershvin], composer (Rhapsody in Blue), is born in Brooklyn, NY. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1901 | * | Ted Weems (Wilfred Theodore Weymes) orchestra leader: Ted Weems Orchestra, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1901 | * | Donald Cook Portland Ore, actor (Too Young To Go Steady), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1902 | * | Albert Anastasia head of Murder Inc, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1907 | * | Ralph Michael London England, actor (Quest, Doctor in the House), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1914 | * | Jack LaLanne, fitness guru, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1919 | * | Barbara Britton (Brantingham), Long Beach, CA, actress (Young & Willing), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1925 | * | Marty Robbins (Robertson), Glendale Az, singer (Devil Woman, I Walk Alone), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1925 | * | Bobby (Robert Clayton) Shantz baseball: pitcher: Philadelphia Athletics [all-star: 1951, 1952/Baseball Writers’ Award: 1952], KC Athletics, NY Yankees [all-star: 1957/World Series: 1957, 1960], Pittsburgh Pirates, Houston Colt .45’s, SL Cardinals, Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1926 | * | Julie London (Peck), Santa Rosa CA, actress (Nurse McCall-Emergency), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1927 | * | Patrick O'Neal Ocala Fla, actor (Kaz, Alvarez Kelly, King Rat), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1930 | * | Fritz Wunderlich Kusel Germany, tenor (Stuttgart 1955-58), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1930 | * | Philip Bosco Jersey City, actor (Trading Places), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1931 | * | George Chambers musician: bass, singer: group: The Chambers Brothers, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1932 | * | Clifton C Williams Jr Mobile AL, Major USMC/astronaut, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1932 | * | Joyce Jameson Chicago Ill, comedienne (Spike Jones Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1933 | * | Donna Douglas [Dot Smith], Pride La, actress (Beverly Hillbillies), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1936 | * | Winnie Mandela political activist; married South African president Nelson Madela | Ref: 4 |
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| 1941 | * | Joe Bauer musician: drums: group: The Youngbloods, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1942 | * | Kent McCord (McWhirter), LA CA, actor (Officer Jim Reed-Adam 12), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1945 | * | Brian Ferry England, rocker (Roxy Music-Let's Stick Together), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1945 | * | Dave (David Edwin) Duncan baseball: catcher: KC Athletics, Oakland Athletics [all-star: 1971/World Series: 1972], Cleveland Indians, Baltimore Orioles, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1946 | * | Mary Beth Hurt Iowa, actress (Garp, Change of Seasons), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1947 | * | Richard Roth US, 400m swim medley (Olympic-gold-1964), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1947 | * | Graham Faulkner London, actor (Brother Sun Sister Moon), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1947 | * | Lynn Anderson ND, country singer (I Never Promised you a Rose Garden), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1948 | * | Vladimir Remek first Czechoslovakian space traveler (in Soyuz 28), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1948 | * | (year questionable) Mary Beth Hurt actress: Six Degrees of Separation, The Age of Innocence, Compromising Positions, The World According to Garp, A Change of Seasons, Interiors, Working It Out, Tattingers, is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1948 | * | Olivia Newton-John Cambridge England, singer (I Honestly Love You, Physical), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1949 | * | Jane Smiley, novelist (A Thousand Acres, Moo), is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1949 | * | John Roche basketball: Univ. South Carolina, Denver Nuggets [record: 7 three-pointers in a quarter, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1951 | * | Dave Casper football: Oakland Raiders tight end: Super Bowl XI, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1952 | * | Garry Howatt hockey: NHL: NY Islanders, Hartford Whalers, NJ Devils, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1952 | * | James Keane Buffalo NY, actor (Willis Bell-Paper Chase), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1954 | * | Craig Chaquico musician: guitar, singer: group: Jefferson Starship, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1955 | * | Carlene Carter singer: I Fell in Love, Every Little Thing, Do It in a Heartache; June Carter’s daughter, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1956 | * | Linda Hamilton actress: Terminator series, Beauty and the Beast, Children of the Corn, is born in Salisbury Md. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1962 | * | Melissa Sue Anderson Cal, actress (Little House on the Prairie), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1962 | * | Tracey Thorn rocker (Everything But the Girls), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1963 | * | Lysette Anthony London, actress (Angelique-Dark Shadows, Switch), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1964 | * | Ty Miller Granada Hills CA, actor (The Kid-The Young Riders), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | Martha Nix Orange County CA, actress (Serena-Waltons), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1972 | * | Shann Stockman [Slim], Phila Pa, rapper (Boyz II Men) | Ref: 5 |
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| 1974 | * | Hopeton Eric Brown is born in Montego Bay, Jamaica. He is being sought in the US for his alleged involvement in drug-related activities, as well as for the murder of a man and the attempted murder of a woman in March of 1997 in St. Paul MN. He is also wanted by authorities in Jamaica for allegedly committing two murders in Montego Bay in January of 2001. (March 2001) | Ref: 14 |
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| 1981 | | Serena Williams is born. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1985 | * | Shamu, aka Kalina, is born at Sea World in Orlando, Florida. She is the first killer whale to be born in captivity and survive. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1534 | * | Pope Clement VII dies. | Ref: 69 |
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| 1820 | * | The legendary frontiersman Daniel Boone dies quietly at the Defiance, Mo., home of his son Nathan, at age 85. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1889 | * | 86 Martin Heidegger 9/26/1889 5/26/1976 German philosopher | Ref: 70 |
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| 1902 | * | Levi Strauss (creator of blue jeans or Levi’s) dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1904 | * | Lafcadio Hearn multinational author, dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1925 | * | Italian sub "Sebastiano Veniero" lost off Sicily with 54 dead | Ref: 5 |
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| 1936 | * | Harriet Monroe poet: founder of magazine: Poetry; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1937 | * | Bessie Smith, ‘Empress of the Blues’: blues singer: sang with Louis Armstrong in 1925: early version of St. Louis Blues, My Man’s Blues, Dixie Flyer Blues, I Ain’t Got Nobody, A Good Man is Hard to Find, Poor Man’s Blues; dies of injuries sustained in car crash in Mississippi. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1937 | * | Edward Filene, American department-store entrepreneur and philanthropist, dies at age 77. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1938 | * | Graham Taylor, US clergyman, founder of the forerunner of the University of Chicago School of Social Work, dies. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1945 | * | Bela Bartok composer: Mikrokosmos, Concerto for Orchestra, Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste, Solo Sonata for Violin, Concerto No. 2 for Violin and Orchestra; dies. (Also: Cross, Milton, "Encyclopedia of the Great Composers and Their Music", Doubleday & Co, 1953) | Ref: 4 |
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| 1947 | * | Hugh Lofting, English/American author, dies at age 61. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1952 | * | George Santayana philosopher/writer: Three Philosophical Poets, Character and Opinion of the United States, The Sense of Beauty, The Interpretations of Religion and Poetry, The Life of Reason, Scepticism and Animal Faith, Realms of Being, The Last Puritan; “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”; dies at age 88. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1954 | * | Toya Maru: more than 1,000 killed when commercial ferry sank in Tsugaru Strait, Japan. | Ref: 85 |
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| 1954 | * | Typhoon strikes Kakodate Bay Japan, killing over 1,600. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1955 | * | Extinction of Euler's Flycatcher; last two surviving birds killed in hurricane in Jamaica. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1957 | * | Albert Anastasia, American gangster, dies at age 55. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1959 | * | PM Solomon Bandaranaike of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) is assassinated by a Buddhist monk. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1959 | * | (and 27th) Typhoon Vera, hits Japanese island of Honshu, kills nearly 5,000. | Ref: 72 |
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| 1961 | * | Robert Eichelberger, American general during World War II, dies at age 75. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1964 | * | Calvin Thomas actor (Judge Hunter-One Man's Family), dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1966 | | Helen Kane dies. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1972 | * | Charles Correll creator with Freeman Gosden of: Amos ’n’ Andy; voice of Andy (Brown) on radio; dies at age 82. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1973 | * | Anna Magnani, Italian actress, The Rose Tattoo, The Miracle, The Fugitive Kind, Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema; , dies at age 65. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1982 | * | Ralph Baldwin horse trainer, driver: won Trotter Triple Crown: horse: Speedy Scot [1963]; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1982 | * | (Green River Killer) Linda Jane Rule, 16, is last seen. She is the 10th of 48 women Gary Ridgway admits killing. (USA Today, p 3A, 11/06/2003) | Ref: 13 |
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| 1984 | * | Shelly Manne composer, musician: drummer: Peter Gunn score; actor: Man with the Golden Arm; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1988 | * | Billy Carter, brother of 39th U.S. President Jimmy Carter, dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1990 | * | Alberto Moravia Italian writer (Woman in Red), dies at 82 | Ref: 5 |
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| 1996 | * | Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson, English Nobel Prize-winning chemist (1973), dies at age 75. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1997 | * | An Indonesian Airbus A-300 crashed while approaching Medan Airport in north Sumatra, killing all 234 people aboard. (TWA, 1998) | Ref: 95 |
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| 1998 | * | Betty Carter (Lillie Mae Jones) jazz singer: toured with Lionel Hampton & Miles Davis; dies in NY. | Ref: 4 |
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| 2000 | * | Richard Mulligan Emmy Award-winning actor: Soap [1979-1980], Empty Nest [1988-1989]; S.O.B., The Hero, The Group, Little Big Man, Diana; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 2002 | * | Sengal's state-owned ferry, Joola, capsizes in a storm off the coast of Gambia. The death toll is expected to reach 970 from a ferry designed to carry only 550. There is no explanation as to why the ferry was so overloaded. (USA Today, p. 6A, 9/30/2002) | Ref: 13 |
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| 2003 | * | Robert Palmer singer, guitarist: Sneakin’ Sally through the Alley, Hey Julia, Addicted to Love, Every Kinda People, I Didn’t Mean to Turn You On, It Could Happen To You; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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