| 235 | * | Pope St. Pontian abdicates. (He is arrested and abdicates so another can be elected.) | Ref: 69 |
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| 855 | * | The Emperor Lothar dies in Gaul, and his kingdom is divided between his three sons. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1704 | * | A statute was enacted by the colony of Maryland, giving ministers the right to impose divorce on "unholy couples." | Ref: 5 |
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| 1768 | * | (Boston Massacre) Two regiments of British regulars land in Boston to deal with growing unrest. They are quartered in various public places throughout the city. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1787 | * | Congress sends Constitution to state legislatures for their approval. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1794 | * | The Anglo-Russian-Austrian Alliance of St. Petersburg, which is directed against France, is signed. | |
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| 1794 | * | The Anglo-Russian-Austrian Alliance of St. Petersburg, which is directed against France, is signed. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1808 | * | Andover Theological Seminary first opened in Massachusetts, under sponsorship of the Congregational Church. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1823 | * | Leo XII [Annibale Sermattei], Italian Pope (1823-29), begins his reign. | Ref: 69 |
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| 1838 | * | The Xenia (OH) Board of Education is organized. (Ref: Heckart, Barbara Hooper, "A History Of Xenia Schools", 1994) | |
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| 1850 | * | Flogging in US Navy & on merchant vessels abolished. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1850 | * | Brigham Young is named the Utah Governor. | |
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| 1862 | * | (Dakota Conflict) Colonel Henry Sibley appoints a five-member military commission to "try summarily" Dakota for "murder and other outrages" committed against Americans. Sixteen trials take place the same day. Ten Dakota are convicted and sentenced to be hanged, six are acquitted. Over the next six weeks, 393 Dakota are tried. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1867 | * | Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1874 | * | Colonel Ronald Mackenzie raids a war camp of Comanche and Kiowa at the Battle of Palo Duro Canyon, Texas, slaughtering 2,000 of their horses. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1879 | * | Sydney Australia innaugurates steam motor tram route. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1894 | * | Marks and Spencer first store opens in Manchester. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1895 | * | At a convention in Atlanta, three Baptist groups merged to form the National Baptist Convention. It is today the largest African-American denomination in America and the world. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1895 | * | The City of Xenia OH requests that the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St Louis Railway Company construct a bridge (later to be known as the 'viaduct') over the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks on South Monroe Street. (XDG, p 5A, 5/14/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1901 | * | Gillette safety razor company incorporated. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1904 | * | A woman is placed under arrest for smoking a cigarette on New York's Fifth Avenue. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1906 | * | US troops reoccupy Cuba, stay until 1909. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1922 | * | Mussolini marches on Rome. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1937 | * | FDR dedicates Bonneville Dam on Columbia River (Oregon). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1958 | * | Guinea votes for independence from France. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1961 | * | Richard Chamberlain played the part of handsome, young, Dr. Kildare for five years, beginning this day on NBC. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1961 | * | Hazel premiered on NBC-TV. The sitcom starred Shirley Booth in the title role, with Don DeFore as George Baxter and Whitney Blake as Dorothy Baxter (the family who Hazel adopted). She was their maid and housekeeper. Hazel was based on the Saturday Evening Post cartoon series by Ted Key. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1961 | | Syria withdraws from United Arab Republic. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | | Walter Washington elected first mayor of Washington, DC. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1972 | | Japan & Communist China agree to re-establish diplomatic relations. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1974 | * | First lady Betty Ford underwent a mastectomy at Bethesda Naval Medical Center in Maryland. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1978 | | Israeli Knesset endorses Camp David accord. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1980 | * | The U.N. Security Council unanimously adopts a resolution the Iraq and Iran should cease hostilities | Ref: 62 |
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| 1981 | * | Joseph Paul Franklin, avowed racist, sentenced to life imprisonment for killing 2 black joggers in Salt Lake City. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1988 | * | Bronx Museum for the Arts opens. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | The exiled emir of Kuwait visits the White House, where he tells President Bush the Iraqis were destryoing and looting his country. (XDG, p 4A, 9/28/2000) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1991 | * | Washington DC Mayor Marion Barry is sentenced to six months in jail for possession of crack cocaine. | Ref: 3 |
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| 1991 | * | NY Yankees set record of 75 games without a complete pitched game. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1995 | * | (King) The U. S. Supreme Court agrees to hear Koon's and Powell's appeal of the Ninth Circuit decision sending their case back to Judge Davies for imposition of a harsher sentence. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1995 | | Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat signed an accord to transfer much of the West Bank to the control of its Arab residents. | Ref: 70 |
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| 2000 | * | Capping a 12-year battle, the government approved use of the abortion pill RU-486. | Ref: 70 |
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| 2000 | | Ariel Sharon, leader of Israel's hard-line opposition, sparked new Israeli-Palestinian clashes by touring the Temple Mount. | Ref: 70 |
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| 2002 | * | Iraq rejected a U.S.-British plan for the United Nations to force President Saddam Hussein to disarm and open his palaces for weapons searches. | Ref: 70 |
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| 2003 | | Italy is hit with a blackout that affects most of its 57M residents. (WSJ, p A3, 9/29/2003) | Ref: 33 |
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| 1542 | * | Portuguese explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo landed his ship at what we now call San Diego Bay. The site is marked with a monument, the Cabrillo National Monument, and some folks in CA still celebrate Cabrillo day. There’s a reason for that. Cabrillo was the first to find CA. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1607 | * | Samuel de Champlain and his colonists return to France from Port Royal Nova Scotia. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1858 | * | Donati's comet becomes the first to be photographed. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1924 | * | Two U.S. Army planes landed in Seattle, Wash., having completed the first round-the-world flight in 175 days. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1928 | * | Juan de la Cierva makes 1st helicopter flight over English Channel. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1959 | * | Explorer VI reveals an intense radiation belt around the Earth. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1961 | * | USN Comdr Forrest S Petersen takes X-15 to 30,720 m. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1965 | * | Jack McKay in X-15 reaches 90 km. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1980 | * | Jaromir Wagner is first to fly the Atlantic standing on the wing. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1982 | * | NASA launches Intelsat V. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1983 | * | STS-9 vehicle moves to launch pad. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1985 | * | NASA launches Intelsat VA. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1066 | * | William, Duke of Normandy, soon to be known as William the Conqueror, lands in Pevensey, England. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1106 | * | King Henry of England defeats his brother Robert at the Battle of Tinchebrai and reunites England and Normandy. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1238 | | James of Aragon retakes Valencia, Spain, from the Arabs. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1781 | * | Siege of Yorktown begins, last battle of the Revolutionary War. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1826 | | Russia declares war against Persia beginning Russo-Persia War. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1864 | * | Union General William Rosecrans blames his defeat at Chickamauga on two of his subordinate generals. They are later exonerated by a court of inquiry. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1868 | | Battle of Alcolea, causes Queen Isabella 2 of Spain to flee to France. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1914 | * | German forces move into Antwerp Belgium (WW I). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1939 | * | Soviet-German treaty agree on 4th partition of Poland (WW II) & gives Lithuania to the USSR. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1942 | * | Scrap metal drive began in San Francisco. | Ref: 37 |
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| 1944 | * | Battle of Arnhem, Germans defeat British airborne in Netherlands. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1892 | * | The first night football game is played in Mansfield, PA between Mansfield State Normal School and Wyoming Seminary. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1919 | * | The shortest shortest nine-inning game in major league history is played when it takes only 51 minutes for the New York Giants to beat the Philadelphia Phillies, 6-1. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1920 | * | (Black Sox) Eddie Cicotte confesses to the fix. Eight White Sox players are indicted. Comiskey sends a telegram notifying the players that they have been suspended indefinitely, causing the Sox pennant bid to collapse. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1923 | * | Setting an American League record, the Yankees bang out thirty hits in one game as they maul the Red Sox, 24-4. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1928 | * | Yanks clinch pennant #6. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1930 | * | In the last game of the season, 19-year-old Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean made his big league debut, pitching a complete game three-hitter in a St. Louis Cardinals win. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1930 | * | As a Yankee, Babe Ruth returns to the mound at Fenway park and pitches a complete game defeating the Red Sox, 9-3. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1930 | * | Chicago Cub Hack Wilson records RBIs Nos. 190 and 191-a major-league mark that still stands-in the Cubs' 13-11 win vs. Reds. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1930 | * | Lou Gehrig's errorless streak ends at 885 consecutive games. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1936 | * | Brooklyn & Boston play a penalty free NFL game. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1938 | * | Gabby Hartnett's "Homer in the Gloamin'" gives the Chicago Cubs 6-5 win vs. Pittsburgh en route to the pennant. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1940 | * | Michigan's Tom Harmon runs 72, 86 & 94 yard touchdowns. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1941 | * | On the final day of the season, Ted Williams collects 6 hits in 8 ABs to finish the season with a .406 BA; this is the last time a MLer has batted .400 for the season. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1941 | * | Phillies lose club record 111th game. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1942 | * | NY Americans NHL team folded. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1948 | * | A crowd of 60,405 attend Joe Early Night at Cleveland's Municipal Stadium. Early is a 26-year old night watchman who wrote Bill Veeck asking why an average fan never gets a 'Day', and the Indians' owner responded by giving the World War II veteran a day of his own. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1951 | * | In Game One of doubleheader vs. Boston at Yankee Stadium, Allie Reynolds tosses his second no-hitter of the season (he had previously no-hit the Indians at Municipal Stadium in Cleveland on July 12). | Ref: 86 |
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| 1951 | * | Norm Van Brocklin of the Rams passes for NFL-record 554 yards. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1955 | * | “The following program is brought to you in living color on NBC.” The World Series was seen in all its colorful glory for the first time this day. The NY Yankees beat the Brooklyn Dodgers in the first game, 6-5. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1958 | * | With 7 hits in his last 11 at-bats, Red Sox outfielder Ted Williams wins his sixth and final batting becoming the first 40-year old to lead the league in hitting. The 'Splendid Splinter's' .328 batting average beats out his teammate Pete Runnels, who goes 0-for-4 today and ends up with .322. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1960 | * | In his last major league at bat, Ted Williams hits home run #521 off of Orioles' Jack Fischer. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1963 | | Italy's Giuseppe Camtarella roller-skates a record 25.78 MPH for 440 yds. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1964 | * | Australia beats US in first clay court Davis Cup. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1965 | * | Red Sox hurler Dave Morehead faces and loses to the Angels for the tenth consecutive time since the start of his career (1963) establishing an American League record. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1968 | | Alberto Giolani of Italy roller skates record 23.133 miles in 1 hr. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | Atlanta Chiefs beat San Diego Toros 3-0 for NASL championship. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | Chuck Hixson (Southern Methodist) completes 37 of record 69 passes. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1970 | | Intrepid (US) beats Gretel II (Aust) in 22nd America's Cup. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1973 | * | Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds, plays the first of 678 consecutive games. ("The 1999 ESPN Sports Almanac") | |
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| 1974 | * | At Anaheim Stadium, Angel Nolan Ryan strikes out 15 batters as he no-hits the Twins, 4-0. It is the third of seven the Alvin, Texas native will toss during his career. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1975 | * | Oakland A's Vida Blue, Glenn Abbott, Paul Linblad & Rollie Fingers, no-hit CA Angels 5-0. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1976 | * | Muhammad Ali retains heavyweight boxing championship in a close 15-round decision over Ken Norton at Yankee Stadium. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1979 | * | Larry Holmes (retain championship) KOs Earnie Shavers in 11 rounds. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1986 | * | Jay Bell of the Cleveland Indians hits a home run in his first major league at bat on the first pitch. | Ref: 12 |
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| 1986 | * | Record 23,000 start in a marathon (Mexico City). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1987 | * | Royals' Kevin Seitzer becomes the first rookie in 23 years to collect 200 hits in a season. Dick Allen and Tony Oliva both accomplished the feat in 1964. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1988 | * | In his last start of the regular season, Dodger Orel Hershiser tosses 10 shutout frames to extend his streak to 59 breaking Don Drysdale record of 58 consecutive scoreless innings. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1996 | * | Rockies' Ellis Burks becomes the fourth player to hit 40+ home runs and swipe 30 bases in a single season. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1997 | | Europe held off the U.S. in the Ryder Cup, 14 1/2-13 1/2. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1997 | * | The Toronto Blue Jays announce coaches Nick Leyva, Gene Tenace, Alfredo Griffin and Willie Upshaw will not return for the 1998 season. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1997 | * | With his 40th home runs, catcher Mike Piazza sets a single season Los Angeles Dodger record. Duke Snider holds the franchise record slugging 43 round-trippers for Brooklyn in 1956. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1998 | * | The Chicago Cubs capture the NL wild-card postseason berth with 5-3 win vs. Giants in a one-game playoff. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1998 | * | The Colorado Rockies relieve the only manager in club history, Don Baylor, of his duties one day after the regular season. | Ref: 86 |
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| 2000 | * | The Brewers play the last game at Milwaukee County Stadium bowing to the Reds, 8-1 as Warren Spahn throws the ceremonial first pitch to Del Crandall, his battery on Opening Day 48 years ago in 1953 when the Spahn and the Braves beat the Cardinals in 10 innings, 3-2. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2000 | * | Troy Glaus, who leading the American League with 45 home runs, hits his 44th playing the hot corner breaking the league record for homers by a third baseman set in 1953 by Al Rosen. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2001 | * | In the first home game at Wrigley since the terrorist attacks on America, Sammy Sosa, after hitting his 59th home run of the season, pulls out a small American flag and waves it as he circles the bases. After scoring and making a curtain call from the dugout, the Cub slugger continues to wave Old Glory. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2001 | * | Ranger infielder Alex Rodriguez becomes the 20th player and first shortstop in major league history to hit 50 home runs season. The milestone blast is given up by Angel hurler Ismael Valdes in the first inning in at Edison Field in an 11-2 Texas win. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2001 | * | Angel infielder David Eckstein breaks Frank Robinson's rookie record for getting hit by a pitch. The Halos' shortstop is struck by Rangers hurler Aaron Mayette's fifth inning pitch making it the 21st time he been plunked this season. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2001 | * | On a night he hits his 68th round tripper of the season in quest of Mark McGwire's single season home run record, Barry Bonds is walked for the 163rd time breaking 'Big Mac's' 1998 National League record for bases on balls. The major league record is 170 walks held by Babe Ruth. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1678 | | "Pilgrim's Progress" is published. | Ref: 62 |
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| 1745 | * | British National Anthem 'God Save King' sung for the first time at the Drury Lane Theatre. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1829 | * | Walker's Appeal, racial antislavery pamphlet, published in Boston. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1912 | * | W.C. Handy's "Memphis Blues" is published. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1928 | * | Glen Gray’s orchestra recorded Under a Blanket of Blue, with Kenny Sargeant on vocals. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1934 | * | The first issue of "The Sword of the Lord" was published. Founded by Baptist evangelist John R. Rice, 39, it became the largest independent Christian weekly for years, and was recognized by liberals as the "voice of fundamentalism." | Ref: 5 |
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| 1936 | | Bachelor’s Children debuted on CBS radio (at 9:45 a.m.) in addition to its schedule on the Mutual Network (at 10:15 a.m.). The show’s theme song, Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life, opened the 15-minute, critically acclaimed, daily serial. Bachelor’s Children became very popular because of its natural dialogue which made folks think they were hearing a real event. Bachelor’s Children ... brought to you by Old Dutch Cleanser, Palmolive-Peet Soap, Colgate Toothpaste and Wonder Bread. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1939 | | The final broadcast of The Fleischmann Hour was heard on radio. The star of the show, Rudee Vallee, wrapped things up after a decade of entertaining radio. The Fleischmann Hour was sponsored by Fleischmann’s Yeast. What else? | Ref: 4 |
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| 1942 | * | Lillian Hellman's anti-Nazi drama, Watch on the Rhine, starring Paul Lucas, opens at the Curran Theatre. | Ref: 37 |
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| 1944 | * | WABD in NY City telecast the first full-length comedy written for TV. Ray Nelson was in the director’s chair for The Boys from Boise. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1961 | * | "Purlie Victorious," a farce by Ossie Davis, opens on Broadway. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | The Beatles rode the nearly seven-minute-long Hey Jude to the top of the charts for a nine week-run starting this day. Talk about your microgroove recording! Copies of this Apple release were shipped by the dozen to radio stations because the platters wore out after just a few plays. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1974 | * | John Lennon appears as guest DJ on WNEW-FM (NYC). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1984 | * | Saluting his 34 years in television, Bob “If There’s an Honor I’ll Be There” Hope showed outtakes of his years in television on (where else?) NBC. When he began in television’s infancy, back in 1950, Hope said he got into the new medium “...because the contract was so delicious, I couldn’t turn it down.” | Ref: 4 |
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| 1990 | * | Marvin Gaye gets a star on Hollywood's walk of fame. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | * | Garth Brooks, big ol’ black hat and all, hit number one with his album Ropin’ the Wind. He was the first country artist to debut an album at #1 on both the Billboard album chart and country album chart. | Ref: 4 |
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| -551 | | -BC- Confucius (as celebrated in Taiwan), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| -106 | | -BC- Pompey (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus) Rome, warrior, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1573 | * | Caravaggio Italy, painter, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1698 | * | Pierre-Louis Maupertuis, French mathematician, biologist and astronomer, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1785 | * | David Walker Wilmington NC, a black born free, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1803 | * | Prosper Merimee, French dramatist, historian, archaeologist and short story writer, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1824 | * | Francis Turner, Palgrave Eng, poet (Golden Treasury)/prof (Oxford), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1839 | * | Frances Willard founded Women's Christian Temperance Union, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1841 | * | (Dreyfus) Georges Clemenceau France, statesman/PM (defended Dreyfuss), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1849 | * | Dudley Allen Sargent US, physician/educator (Harvard U gymnasium), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1852 | * | Henri Moissan France, chemist; isolated fluorine (Nobel 1906), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1856 | * | Kate Douglas (Smith) Wiggin writer: Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Timothy’s Quest, The Bird’s Christmas Carol; organized first free kindergarten in San Francisco, established CA Kindergarten Training School; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1856 | * | Edward Thompson US archeologist who explored Mayan ruins, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1870 | * | Florent Schmitt Blƒmont France, composer (Fr‚d‚gonde), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1880 | * | Ralph Edward Flanders Barnet VT, (Sen-VT), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1882 | * | Jack Fournier 2nd baseman (1917-18 NY Yankees), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1885 | * | Wilbur 'Lefty' Good pitcher (NY Yankees, 1905), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1887 | * | Avery Brundage AAU & International Olympic Committee president, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1892 | * | Elmer Rice, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright: Street Scene [prize for drama: 1929]; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1895 | * | Lawton Whitey Witt outfielder (NY Yankees, 1922-25), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1901 | * | William S Paley, founder & chairman of CBS, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1902 | * | Ed Sullivan TV variety show host/gossip columnist (Ed Sullivan Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1905 | * | Boxer, heavyweight chamption, Max (Maximillian Adolph Otto Siegfried) Schmeling is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1905 | * | William Northam Austria, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1964), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1907 | * | Glen (Turk) Edwards NFL tackle (Boston/Washington Redskins), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1907 | * | Heikki Savolainen Finland, pommel horse gymnast (Olympic-gold-1948), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1909 | * | Cartoonist created the "Li'l Abner" comic strip, Al Capp (Alfred Gerald Caplin) is born in New Haven Ct. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1910 | * | Fran Lee NYC, actress (Ms Wong-Major Dell Conway), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1911 | * | Henry Ellsworth Vines Jr tennis (US Open 1931,32)/golf player, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1913 | * | Alice Marble tennis player (US Open 1936, 1938-40), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1913 | * | Vivian Fine Chicago Ill, composer (Women in the Garden), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1914 | * | Harold Taylor Canada, educator (Art & the Future), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1915 | * | (Rosenberg) Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg, who, with her husband Julius, became one of the first American civilians executed for espionage, is born. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1916 | * | Peter Finch (Frederick George Peter Ingle-Finch) Academy Award-winning actor: Network [1976]; Flight of the Phoenix, Raid on Entebbe, Elephant Walk; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1917 | * | Michael Somes England, ballet dancer (Royal Ballet in London), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1919 | * | (Heisman Trophy 1940) Tom Harmon football: University of Michigan [Heisman Trophy: 1940], AFL: NY Americans [1941], NFL: LA Rams [1946-1947]; broadcaster: ABC Sports; World War II fighter pilot [Silver Star, Purple Heart]; father of actor Mark Harmon; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1922 | * | Joe Silver Chicago Ill, actor (Mr I Magination, Fay), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1923 | * | Fred Robbins Balt Md, DJ (Coke Time with Eddie Fisher, Robbins Nest), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1923 | * | William Windom NYC, actor (Farmer's Daughter, Murder She Wrote), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1924 | * | Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni (Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastrojanni) is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1925 | * | Seymour Cray, inventor of the Cray I computer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1925 | * | Arnold Stang Mass, comedian/actor (Broadside, Milton Berle, Top Cat), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1926 | * | Jerry Clower, Amite County Miss, country comedian (Nashville on Road), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1930 | * | Tommy Collins (Leonard Sipes) singer, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1933 | * | Madeleine M Kunin Switzerland (Gov-D-Vt), first Jewish gov of VT, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1934 | * | Brigitte Bardot (Camille Javal) Paris France, sex kitten (And God Created Women), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1935 | * | Bruce Crampton golf: best PGA year: 1973: won four times and finished second five times; 10 holes-in-one in pro career, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1936 | * | Robert Hogan NYC, actor (Peyton Place, Operation Petticoat), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1938 | * | Singer, songwriter Ben E. King (Benjamin Earl Nelson) is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1938 | * | Koko Taylor, blues singer. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1940 | * | Alexander S Ivanchenkov cosmonaut (Soyuz 29, T-6), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1941 | * | Charley Taylor NFL wide receiver/running back (Wash Redskin), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1942 | * | Grant (Dwight ‘Buck’) Jackson baseball: pitcher: Philadelphia Phillies [all-star: 1969], Baltimore Orioles [World Series: 1971], NY Yankees [World Series: 1976], Pittsburgh Pirates [World Series: 1979], Montreal Expos, KC Royals, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1943 | * | J.T. Walsh (James Patrick Walsh) is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1943 | * | Gertrud "Traudl" Hecher Austria, downhill skier (Olympic-bronze-1960), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1943 | * | Joel Higgins Bloomington Ill, actor (Salvage 1, Silver Spoons), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1946 | * | Helen Shapiro singer, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1946 | * | Fiona Lewis Westcliff England, actress (Stunts, Lisztomania), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1946 | * | Herbert Jefferson Jr Jersey City NJ, actor (Battlestar Galactica), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1946 | * | Larry Breeding Winchester Ill, actor (Who's Watching the Kids?), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1947 | * | Jeffrey Jones actor: The Avenging Angel, Houseguest, Stay Tuned, The Hunt for Red October, Who’s Harry Crumb?, Beetlejuice, Howard the Duck, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Amadeus, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1948 | * | Comedian from Saturday Night Live, Phil Hartman is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1948 | * | Helen Shapiro London England, rocker (Straighten Up), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1948 | * | Marielle Goitschel France, slalom (Olympic-gold-1968), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1951 | * | Christian Marlowe LA CA, actor (Bram-Highcliffe Manor), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1951 | * | Dave Rajsich pitcher (NY Yankees), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1952 | * | Anthony Davis football: Univ. of Southern CA All-American, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Houston Oilers, LA Rams, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1952 | * | Sylvia Kristel Holland, actress (Emmanuelle, Priv School for Girls), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1954 | * | Steve Largent Pro Football Hall of Famer: Seattle Seahawks wide receiver; seven Pro Bowls; NFL record holder: most consecutive games with a reception [177], most yards on receptions [13.089], most touchdown passes [100]; member of U.S. House of Representatives [Oklahoma], is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1958 | * | Lory Del Santo Verona Italy, (Miss Italy-1980), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1961 | * | Anne White Charleston WV, tennis (Wore spandex in '85 Wimbledon), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1962 | * | Luis Enrique spanish singer (Luces del Alma), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1964 | * | Janeane Garofalo actress: The Larry Sanders Show, The Ben Stiller Show, Saturday Night Live, TV Nation, The Truth About Cats, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1967 | * | Moon Unit Zappa actress: Dark Side of Genius, Heartstopper, Spirit of ’76, The Boys Next Door; daughter of singer Frank Zappa, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1967 | * | Mira Sorvino Academy Award-winning supporting actress: Mighty Aphrodite [1995], is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1968 | * | Carr‚ Otis SF CA, actress (Wild Orchid), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1972 | * | Gwyneth Paltrow Academy Award-winning actress, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1973 | * | Actress Gwyneth Paltrow is born. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
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| -48 | | -BC- Pompey The Great (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus), Roman statesman and general of the Roman Republic, dies in Egypt at age 57. | Ref: 70 |
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| -48 | * | -BC- On landing in Egypt, Pompey, Roman warrior, is murdered on the orders of Ptolemy. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1197 | | Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI dies. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1530 | * | Andrea Del Sarto, Italian painter and draftsman, dies at age 44. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1833 | * | Lemuel Haynes Revolutionary War veteran, dies at 88. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1859 | * | Carl Ritter, German geographer, dies at age 80. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1868 | * | Opelousas Massacre at St Landry Parish Louisiana (200 blacks killed). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1891 | * | Herman Melville author: Moby Dick, Redburn, Typee, Omoo, White-Jacket; dies at age 72. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1895 | * | Louis Pasteur chemist, scientist: developed pasteurization process, rabies vaccination; dies at age 72. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1898 | * | Thomas Francis Bayard, American statesman, diplomat and lawyer, dies at age 69. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1912 | * | Corporal Frank S. Scott became the first enlisted fatality in Signal Corps Aviation. | Ref: 50 |
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| 1912 | * | "Kiche Maru" sinks off Japan, killing 1,000. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1913 | * | Race riots in Harriston, Mississippi, kill 10 people. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1914 | * | R.W. Sears, American merchant and founder of Sears, Roebuck retail company, dies at age 50. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1927 | * | Willam Einthoven, Dutch physiologist and developer of the electrocardiograph; won Nobel Prize (1924), dies at age 67. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1938 | * | Charles Edgar Duryea, the inventor who built the 1st auto in the US, dies at age 76. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1948 | * | Gregg Toland, American motion-picture cinematographer, dies at age 44. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1953 | * | Edwin Powell Hubble astronomer: pioneer in extragalactic research; dies at age 63. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1954 | * | Bert Lytell actor (Henry-One Man's Family), dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1956 | * | William Boeing, American engineer, dies at age 74. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1957 | * | Albert Ascoli Italian developed anti-tuberculosis vaccine, dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1961 | * | Michael Shepley actor (Dick & the Duchess), dies at 54. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1964 | * | Actor, comedian, musician Harpo (Adolph) Marx, of the Marx Brothers, dies at 75. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1965 | * | Lava flows kill at least 350 (Taal Phillipines). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1966 | * | Eric Fleming actor (Gil-Rawhide), dies at 41. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1969 | * | Joe Kapp football: Minnesota Vikings quarterback: Super Bowl IV; shares NFL Individual Record for touchdowns thrown in a game [7]: Vikings vs. Baltimore Colts. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1970 | * | John Dos Passos, American writer/journalist, dies at age 74. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1970 | * | Nasser Egyptian President, dies of a heart attack at 52. He is replaced by Anwar Sadat. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1973 | * | W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: The Age of Anxiety [1948]; Poems, The Orators, an English Study, The Dog Beneath the Skin, Look, Stranger!, The Double Man, Nones, Enchafed Flood, Forewords and Afterwords, Thanksgiving for a Habitat; Bollingen Poetry Prize [1954]; National Medal for Literature [1967]; dies/ | Ref: 4 |
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| 1973 | * | Norma Crane actress (Rayola-Mr Peepers), dies at 42. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1975 | * | Sidney Fields comedian (Abbott & Costello), dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1978 | * | Neil Johnston Basketball Hall of Famer: Philadelphia Warriors center [1951-1959], coach [1960]; 4-time NBA all-star; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1978 | * | Albino Luciani Pope John Paul I: 263rd pope of the Roman Catholic Church [Aug 26, 1978 to Sep 28, 1978]; dies of a massive heart attack in his sleep. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1979 | * | Jimmy McCulloch, guitarist of Wings, dies at 26. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1982 | * | The first of seven deaths was reported in the Chicago area from Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide. Later, Johnson and Johnson introduced a triple sealed, tamper resistant Tylenol bottle. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1982 | * | Larry Breeding (Who's Watching the Kids?), dies on 36th birthday. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1982 | * | Mabel Albertson actress, dies of Alzheimer's disease at 81. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1983 | * | (Green River Killer) Maureen Sue Feeney, 19, is last seen. She is the 33rd of 48 women Gary Ridgway admits killing. (USA Today, p 3A, 11/06/2003) | Ref: 13 |
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| 1989 | * | Ferdinand (Edralin) Marcos President of the Philippines [1966-1986]; dies in exile in Hawaii at age 72. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1990 | * | Lawrence F O'Brien, former head of U.S. Postal Service, N.B.A. commissioner (1975-84), Watergate conspirators broke into his office, dies at age 73. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1991 | * | Jazz musician Miles (Dewey) Davis III, dies at 65 from pneumonia in Santa Monica CA. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1992 | * | William Douglas-Home, English playwright, dies at age 80. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1993 | * | Peter De Vries, American editor and novelist, dies at age 83. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1994 | * | Estonia: passenger ferry capsized off coast of southwest Finland and sank in a stormy Baltic Sea. Only about 140 of the estimated 1,040 passengers aboard survived. | Ref: 85 |
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| 2000 | * | Pierre Elliott Trudeau, the prime minister of Canada from 1968 to 1979 and from 1980 to 1984, dies in Montreal at age 80. | Ref: 70 |
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| 2002 | * | Rep. Patsy Mink, a 12-term Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii, died in Honolulu at age 74. | Ref: 70 |
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| 2003 | * | Tennis legend, Wimbleton's first black tennis champion, Althea Gibson dies at age 76 from complications of long-term respiratory illness. (XDG, p 3A, 9/30/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 2003 | * | Director/writer Eliz Kazan ("On The Waterfront", "A Streetcar Named Desire"), criticized for naming names during the McCarthy hearings in the 1950s, dies at age 94 in his Manhattan home. (XDG, p 3A, 9/30/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 2003 | * | Yukichi Chuganji, a retired silkworn breeder and claimant to the title of the world's oldest man, dies of natural causes in his home in Japan at age 114. (XDG, p 3A, 9/30/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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