| 1714 | * | George I of England crowned. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1740 | * | Maria Theresa becomes the ruler of Austria, Hungary & Bohemia. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1774 | * | The new Continental Congress, the governing body of America’s colonies, passed an order proclaiming that all citizens of the colonies “discountenance and discourage all horse racing and all kinds of gaming, cock fighting, exhibitions of shows, plays and other expensive diversions and entertainment.” Since this proclamation included acting, dancing, singing, and the playing of music, all forms of entertainment and all theatre productions ceased. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1802 | * | Birth of Ernst W. Hengstenberg, German O.T. scholar. An outspoken defender of evangelical Christianity against the rationalism of his day, Hengstenberg's most significant writing was his four-volume "Christology of the Old Testament". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1803 | * | The US Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1813 | | German Kingdom of Westphalia abolished. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1818 | * | The United States and Britain establish the 49th Parallel as the boundary between Canada and the United States and agree to joint control of the Oregon Territory. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1870 | * | The Summer Palace in Beijing, China, is burnt to the ground by a Franco-British expeditionary force. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1892 | * | The city of Chicago dedicates the World's Columbian Exposition. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1898 | | NC Mutual & Provident Insurance Company forms. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1903 | * | The Joint Commission, set up on January 24 by Great Britain and the United States to arbitrate the disputed Alaskan boundary, rules in favor of the United States. The deciding vote is Britain's, which embitters Canada. The United States gains ports on the panhandle coast of Alaska. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1905 | * | Great General Strike in Russia begins; lasts 11 days. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1917 | * | Leon Trotsky and the Bolsheviks left Kerensky's Preliminary Parliament. | Ref: 90 |
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| 1922 | * | Kennelworth in the Bronx renamed Dwight Place. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1922 | * | Mussolini seizes power in Italy after march on Rome. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1929 | * | Bayshore Highway opens (SF). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1930 | * | British White Paper restricts Jews from buying Arab land. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1933 | * | (Scottsboro Boys) The Scottsboro cases are removed from Judge Horton's jurisdiction and transferred to Judge William Callahan's court. Subsequently, Haywood Patterson and Clarence Norris are tried for rape, convicted, and sentenced to death. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1935 | | Just over a year after the start of the Long March, Mao Zedong arrives in Hanoi in northwest China with 8,000 survivors. | Ref: 3 |
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| 1938 | * | Czechoslovakia, complying with Nazi policy, outlaws the Communist Party and begins persecuting Jews. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1942 | | "Durham Manifesto" calls for fundamental changes in race relations. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1945 | | Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon form the Arab League to present a unified front against the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1947 | * | The House Un-American Activities Committee opens public hearings on alleged communist infiltration in Hollywood. Among those denounced as having un- American tendencies are: Katherine Hepburn, Charles Chaplin and Edward G. Robinson. Among those called to testify is Screen Actors Guild President Ronald Reagan, who denies that leftists ever controlled the Guild and refuses to label anyone a communist. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1953 | * | Legendary journalist Edward R. Murrow found himself in a unique situation. On the CBS program, See It Now, Murrow focused on Lt. Milo Radulovich and sought to disprove the “guilty by association” position of Radulovich during the McCarthy hearings. The network and the program’s sponsors refused to promote the show because of the controversy. As a result, Murrow purchased his own ads to promote the program. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1956 | * | 58ø F (15ø C), Esperanza Station, Antarctica (Antarctic record high). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1960 | * | The New York Times was first published simultaneously in Paris and New York | Ref: 62 |
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| 1960 | * | The first fully mechanized post office opens in Providence, RI. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1963 | | S Africa begins trial of Nelson Mandela & 8 others on conspiracy. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | (Mississippi Burning) The all-white jury returns verdicts of guilty against seven conspirators, nine are acquitted, and the jury is unable to reach a verdict on three of the men charged. (XDG, p 4A, 10/20/2001) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1968 | * | Former first lady Jaqueline Kennedy, 39, marries Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, 68, on Greek island of Skorpios. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1970 | * | Norman Ernest Borlaug, credited with saving millions of people from starvation in the ‘Green Revolution’, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1973 | | Arab oil-producing nations ban oil exports to the United States, following the outbreak of Arab-Israeli war. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1973 | * | The Saturday Night Massacre. Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox is dismissed by Solicitor Gen Bork. AG Richardson & Deputy AG Ruckelshaus resign. Suspicions around Richard Nixon's complicity in the Watergate break-in mount. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1975 | * | The U.S. agrees to sell 6 to 8 million tons of grain to the Soviet Union annually. | Ref: 3 |
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| 1981 | * | 3 members of Weather underground arrested for armored truck robbery. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1983 | * | IBM-PC DOS Version 2.1 is released. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1983 | * | Subway vigilante Bernhard Goetz sentenced to 6 months in jail. | |
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| 1987 | * | Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz sentenced to 6 months in jail. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1988 | * | Britain ends suspects right to remain silent in crackdown on IRA. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1989 | * | The Senate votes to convict U.S. District Judge Alcee Hastings of eight articles of impeachment and remove him from office. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1990 | * | Antiwar protest marches begin in 20 US cities (US-Iraq). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | * | Hot wind gusts, called Diablo winds, twisted through the East Bay hills near Oakland, CA. The winds, coupled with drought-weary vegetation, sparked the Oakland Hills fire. The fire claimed 25 lives and destroyed more than 2,700 structures and 1500 acres. The blaze took three days to control and did more than $1 billion in property damage. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1995 | * | The U.N. asks the U.S. to pay up $1.25 billion in past dues. | Ref: 3 |
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| 1999 | * | Goliath, a 52-point buck, is kidnapped from a Rodney Miller's deer farm in Knox, PA. Goliath is worth several million dollars and will resurface as "Hercules" on July 29, 2003 at another deer farm in Reynoldsville PA, this one owned by Jeffrey Spence. (WSJ, p A1, 10/03/2003) | Ref: 33 |
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| 2000 | * | Egyptian-born Ali Mohamed, a U.S. citizen who'd served in the Army, pleaded guilty in NY to helping plan the deadly U.S. Embassy bombings in Africa in 1998 that killed 224 people, including 12 Americans. | Ref: 70 |
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| 2001 | * | Tests found traces of anthrax in a mail-bundling machine at a House office building a few blocks from the Capitol. | Ref: 70 |
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| 2003 | * | (DC Sniper) John Muhammed, to the surprise of his attorneys, elects to represent himself, denying all involvement in the shootings. After two days, his attorneys take over. (USA Today, p 3A, 11/25/2003) | Ref: 13 |
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| 1811 | * | Fulton’s steamboat, New Orleans, built in Pittsburgh, sailed down the Ohio and MS rivers to New Orleans. It was the first steamboat in western waters. Passage on the New Orleans was $30. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1906 | * | Dr Lee DeForest demonstrates his radio tube. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1911 | * | Roald Amundsen sets out on race to South Pole. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1958 | * | Zurich ALGOL report published | Ref: 62 |
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| 1991 | * | Windows 3.0 with Multimedia Extensions released. | Ref: 80 |
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| -480 | | -BC- The Greeks under General Themistocles defeat the Persians under Xerxes I in a naval battle at Salamis. (A date of 28 September has also been used.) | Ref: 2 |
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| 1587 | * | In France, Huguenot Henri de Navarre routs Duke de Joyeuse's larger Catholic force at Coutras. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1600 | | (or 21st) Tokugawa Ieyasu defeats his enemies in the Battle of Sekigahara and affirms his position as Japan's most powerful warlord (shogun). | Ref: 2 |
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| 1709 | | Marlborough and Eugene of Savoy take Mons in the Netherlands. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1805 | | Austrian general Karl Mac surrenders to Napoleon’s army at the battle of Ulm. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1827 | | During the Greek War for Independence, a combined Turkish and Egyptian armada is destroyed by an allied British, French, and Russian naval force at the Battle of Navarino. | Ref: 3 |
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| 1883 | | Treaty of Ancon ends War of Pacific between Chile and Peru. Peru cedes Tarapaca to Chile. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1904 | | Bolivia and Chile sign a treaty ending the War of the Pacific. The treaty recognizes Chile's possession of the coast, but provides for construction of a railway to link La Paz, Bolivia, to Arica, on the coast. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1940 | * | German troops reach the approaches to Moscow. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1941 | * | Canada's prime minister Mackenzie King and war ministers commit two battalions to the defence of Hong Kong. | |
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| 1944 | * | The Yugoslav cities of Belgrade and Dubrovnik were liberated during World War II. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1944 | | Revolution by workers & students in Guatemala. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1944 | * | US first army wins battle of Aachen. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1944 | * | Gen. Douglas MacArthur stepped ashore at Leyte in the Philippines, 2 1/2 years after he'd said, "I shall return." | Ref: 70 |
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| 1952 | * | Mau Mau uprising in Kenya, East Africa against British rule begins, quickly suppressed. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1888 | * | Chicago & All America baseball teams play exhibition in Auckland, NZ. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1899 | | Columbia (US) beats Shamrock (England) in 11th America's Cup. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1910 | * | A baseball with a cork center is used in a World Series game for the first time. The Philadelphia Athletics (managed by Connie Mack) and the Chicago Cubs (managed by P.K. Wrigley) played for the championship. (Philadelphia wins the series 4 games to 1.) | Ref: 4 |
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| 1924 | * | Baseball’s first “colored World Series” is held in Kansas City, Mo. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1946 | * | Frank Seno returns kickoff 105 yd, Chicago Cards vs NY Giants. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1955 | * | Yanks begin 16-game exhibition in Japan. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1956 | | Hannes Lindemann begins journey across Atlantic in a 17' craft. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1960 | * | Ralph Houk replaces Casey Stengel as Yankee manager. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1963 | * | Jim Brown sets NFL single-season rushing record, 1,863 yds. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1964 | * | Johnny Keane, three days after resigning as manager of World Champion Cardinals, replaces Yogi Berra as the Yankee's field boss. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1965 | * | Boxing Hall of Famer Sugar Ray Robinson, at age 45, notched his 174th and final victory, a third-round knockout of Rudolph Bent. Robinson, who won the World Middleweight boxing title for the first time in 1951, announced his retirement on Dec 20, 1965. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1973 | * | Muhammad Ali defeats Rudy Lubbers in a 12-round decision in Djakarta, Indonesia. | Ref: 96 |
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| 1976 | * | NY Nets Julius "Dr J" Erving is sold to the Phila 76ers. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1982 | * | In an exciting World Series labeled the -Suds Series-, the Brewers and Cardinals played the full seven games with St. Louis earning the title of -World Champions- with a 6-3 victory in the series finale. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1982 | * | Billy Martin fired as manager of the Oakland A's. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1988 | * | The powerful Oakland Athletics had slugged their way to 104 regular season victories, then swept the Red Sox for the American League pennant. The Los Angeles Dodgers unexpectantly charged through the final months of the season, led by Orel Hershiser, who posted a record-breaking 59 consecutive scoreless innings. Unfortunately for Oakland, Hershiser’s pitching dominance continued through the World Series. With complete-game victories in Game Two and the deciding Game Five this day, Hershiser punctuated his remarkable season and pitched a four-hitter, giving the Dodgers a 5-2 victory over the A’s and the World Series title. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1988 | * | Gastineau sacks Jets, retires from football "for personal reasons". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1988 | | LA first to have both NBA & baseball champs as LA Dodgers beat Oakland A's, 4 games to 1 in 85th World Series. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | The Cincinnati Reds sweep heavily favored Oakland, four games to none, to claim the World Series. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1992 | * | In the first World Series game to be played outside the United States, the host Toronto Blue Jays beat the Atlanta Braves 3-2. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1994 | * | Receiving all 28 first votes, Raul Mondesi (.306, 16, 56) is named the National League's Rookie of the Year. The Los Angeles rightfielder, who easily outdistanced John Hudek and Ryan Klesko, is the third consecutive Dodger to win the award. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1999 | * | The Colorado Rockies introduce Buddy Bell as the franchise's third manager. | Ref: 86 |
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| 2000 | * | The major league play-by-play broadcasters and color commentators select Carlos Delgado and Todd Helton as the Hank Aaron Award recipients. The new award, established last year, recognizes the Blue Jay and Rockies first basemen as the best overall hitters in each league. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2000 | * | Toronto signs Carlos Delgado to a record four-year $68 million contract. The Blue Jay first baseman's average salary of $17 million is the most in major league history. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2002 | * | Twenty-year old Venezuelan righthander Francisco Rodriguez becomes the youngest pitcher ever to win a World Series game. With just 15 days of major league experience, K-Rod throws 37 pitches retiring 9 consecutive batters in three innings to pick up the victory as the Angels outslug the Giants in Game 2, 11-10. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2003 | | Kirk Jones, 40, of Canton MI, is the first person known to survive a plunge over Niagra Falls (Canadian side) wearing just his clothes. Jones faces up to a $10,000 fine for illegally performing a stunt. (USA Today, p 3A, 10/22/2003) | Ref: 13 |
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| 1817 | * | The 1st Mississippi showboat leaves Nashville on its maiden voyage. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1822 | * | Sunday Times first published in England. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1873 | * | A Hippodrome was opened in New York City by showman Phineus T. (P.T.) Barnum. The impressive place was the new home of "The Greatest Show on Earth". | Ref: 4 |
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| 1930 | | One of the most memorable of all radio shows, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, was first heard on the NBC Red network. Its first entry, The Speckled Band, featured William Gillette in the role of the famous detective. Gillette introduced Holmes to NY audiences as early as 1899 ... on the stage, not the radio, of course. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1932 | | Journalist Robert Trout joined CBS. Trout became a household name to CBS listeners -- and they later became loyal viewers of Trout on CBS-TV. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1939 | | Frank Capra's film triumph "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" opens in NY starring Jimmy Stewart. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1939 | * | All the Things You Are was recorded by the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra -- for the Victor label. Jack Leonard was the featured vocalist. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1955 | * | "No Time for Sergeants" opens on Broadway starring Andy Griffith. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1955 | * | “Day-O. Day-ay-ay-ay-o!” One of the most popular of the Harry Belafonte hits was recorded -- for RCA Victor. Day-O didn’t make it to the pop charts for over a year (January 1957), however, after its name had been changed to The Banana Boat Song (Day-O). | Ref: 4 |
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| 1957 | * | Walter Cronkite hosted a weekly documentary beginning this (Sunday) night. The 20th Century reported on major events that had shaped modern world history. The show changed its focus and its title to The 21st Century in 1967. Cronkite was the only narrator of the program through its final show on January 4, 1970. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1962 | * | The musical, Mr. President, written by Irving Berlin, opened on Broadway. Mr. President ran for 265 performances. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1962 | * | Bobby “Boris” Picket and the Crypt Kickers reached the top of the charts this day (for two weeks) with "The Monster Mash". | Ref: 4 |
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| 1964 | * | Riot at Rolling Stones show in Paris (150 arrested). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1965 | * | The Beatles received a gold record for the single, "Yesterday". This song marked the first time a cello was used in a pop hit. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1971 | * | "Jesus Christ Superstar" opens at Mark Hellinger Theatre, NY. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1973 | * | William Shatner marries Marcy Lafferty. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1973 | * | Mariette Hartley appears on Bob Newhart in "Have You Met Miss Dietz". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1973 | * | The Family Station Inc buys shortwave Radio Station WNYW, changes calls to WYFR & moves station from NYC to Scituate Mass. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1973 | | Sydney Opera House opens in Australia. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1974 | | The Bard’s presentation of Richard III opened at the Lincoln Center in NY City. Michael Moriarty and Marsha Mason were featured in the William Shakespeare classic. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1979 | * | The John F Kennedy Library is dedicated in Boston. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1979 | * | Herb Alpert’s Rise, from the album, Rise, rose to number one on the Billboard Hot 100. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1984 | | World's largest aquarium at Monterey Bay, California opens for business. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1990 | * | 3 members of 2 Live Crew acquitted on obscenity charges in Florida. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | * | Actress Lisa Hartman weds country singer Clint Black | Ref: 5 |
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| 1435 | * | Andrea Della Robbia Florence, sculptor, nephew of Luca, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1632 | * | Architect, astronomer, mathematician, architect, Sir Christopher Wren, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1784 | | Lord Palmerston (Henry John Temple) is born. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1812 | * | Austin Flint 19th century heart research pioneer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1823 | * | Thomas Hughes England, author (Tom Brown's School Days), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1825 | * | Daniel Edgar Sickles is born in New York City. His grandfather, who was of Knickerbocker stock, retained the name of Van Sickles, but the father of Gen. Sickles dropped the Dutch prefix. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1828 | * | Birth of American lawyer Horatio Gates Spafford. In 1873, upon learning of the drowning of his four daughters following a ship collision in the Atlantic, Spafford penned the lines to the hymn, "It is Well With My Soul". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1854 | * | Jean Nicholas Arthur Rimbaud, French poet, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1854 | * | Arthur Rimbaud France, poet/adventurer (Illuminations), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1856 | * | Lawyer; U.S. Congressman: author of the Mann Act aka the "White Slave Traffic Act" in 1910, James Mann, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1859 | * | John Dewey psychologist, philosopher: The School and Society, The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology, How We Think, Experience and Nature, Art as Experience; educator: Univ. of Michigan, Univ. of Minnesota, Univ. of Chicago, Columbia Univ. is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1874 | * | Charles Ives Pulitzer Prize-winning composer: The Third Symphony [Camp Meeting]: 1947; The Concord Sonata; author: Essays Before A Sonata; is born in Danbury CT. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1874 | * | Viscount Palmerston (Whig) British PM (1855-65), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1882 | * | Bela Lugosi (Blasko) actor: Dracula, One Body Too Many, The Ghost of Frankenstein, Murders in the Rue Morgue, Night Monster, Chandu the Magician, The Ape Man, The Body Snatcher; is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1887 | * | Addison Richards Zanesville Ohio, actor (Col-Pentagon), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1889 | * | Margaret Dumont actress-Marx Brothers' foil, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1891 | * | Sir James Chadwick, physicist who won the Nobel Prize for discovering the neutron, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1892 | * | Birth of Harry Dixon Loes, sacred music educator. A writer of gospel songs and choruses, it was Loes who composed the hymn tune REDEEMER ("Up Calvary's Mountain, One Dreadful Morn"). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1896 | * | Nat Holman basketball coach (CCNY), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1900 | * | Wayne Morse (Sen-R/D-Ore) is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1901 | * | Adelaide Hall, cabaret singer, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1904 | * | Dame Anna Neagle, English actress and dancer, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1905 | * | Mystery Author Ellery Queen (Frederic Dannay) is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1908 | * | Actress, "What's My Line" panelist, Arlene Francis (Kazanjian) is born in Boston MA. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1908 | * | Birth of Stuart Hamblen, country songwriter who flourished during the 1950s. His best-remembered Christian songs include "Known Only to Him," "Beyond the Sunset," and "It Is No Secret." | Ref: 5 |
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| 1911 | * | Will Rogers Jr. actor: The Story of Will Rogers, Pall Mall Playhouse; TV host: The Pioneers; lecturer; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1913 | * | Barney Phillips St Louis Mo, actor (Dragnet, Felony Squad), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1913 | * | "Grandpa" Louis M Jones, Niagra KY, country singer/banjoist (Hee Haw), is born. (Also TWA, 1986) | Ref: 5 |
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| 1917 | * | Jean-Pierre Melville Paris France, director (Un Flic), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1918 | * | Anton Diffring Koblenz Germany, actor (Assignment Vienna), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1921 | * | Pierre Laporte Canada, journalist/statesman (Revolution Script), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1922 | * | John Anderson Clayton Ill, actor (Virgil-Legend of Wyatt Earp), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1923 | * | Herschel Bernardi actor: Peter Gunn, Arnie, Love with the Proper Stranger, Irma La Douce; voice: Charlie Tuna TV commercials, The Jetsons characters; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1923 | * | Robert Craft Kingston, NY, conductor, Stravinsky-follower, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1925 | * | Art Buchwald Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper columnist [prize for commentary: 1982]; author, is born in Mt Vernon NY. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1926 | * | Ursula Happe Germany, 200m backstroke swimmer (Olympic-gold-1956), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1928 | * | Dr. Joyce Brothers (Bauer) NYC, pop psychiatrist ($64,000 question winner), is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1931 | * | Mickey (Charles) Mantle ‘The Commerce Comet’: Baseball Hall of Famer: NY Yankees [World Series: 1951-1953, 1955-1958, 1960-1964/all-star: 1952-1965, 1967, 1968]; World Series records: most home runs [18], most RBIs [40], most walks [13], most strikeouts [54]; three-time MVP; is born in Spavinaw, Oklahoma. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1932 | * | William Christopher actor: Father Mulcahy-M*A*S*H, Aftermash, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., With Six You Get Eggroll, is born in Evanston IL. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1932 | * | Roosevelt Brown Pro Football Hall of Famer: NY Giants offensive tackle; 8 time All Pro, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1932 | * | Michael McClure, beat poet, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1934 | * | Timothy West Yorkshire England, actor (Masada), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1935 | * | Jerry Orbach actor: Tony Award-winning actor: Promises, Promises [1969]; Law and Order, Dirty Dancing, Straight Talk, Brewster’s Millions; voice of candelabra: Beauty and the Beast, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1936 | * | Political activist, cofounder of the Black Panthers Bobby Seale is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1937 | * | Juan (Antonio Sanchez) ‘Manito’ Marichal Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher: SF Giants [World Series: 1962/all-star: 1962-1969, 1971], Boston Red Sox, LA Dodgers, is born in Laguna Verde, Dominican Republic. (Sports Encyclopedia: Baseball 2000, ISBN 0-312-20437-X) | |
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| 1937 | * | Wanda Jackson singer: Right or Wrong, Let’s Have a Party, In the Middle of a Heartache; songwriter: [Let’s Stop] Kickin’ Our Hearts Around, is born in Maud OK. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1939 | * | Jay Siegel singer: groups: The Tokens: Tonight I Fell in Love, The Lion Sleeps Tonight; Cross Country: In the Midnight Hour, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1940 | * | Robert Pinsky, former U.S. Poet Laureate. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1942 | * | Earl Hindman actor: Home Improvement, The Ballad of the Sad Café, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1945 | * | Ric Lee musician: drums: group: Ten Years After, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1946 | * | Lewis Grizzard, American columnist, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1946 | * | Connie Chung Washington DC, news anchor (NBC, CBS), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1948 | * | Andrei Suraikin USSR, pairs figure skater (Olympic-silver-1972), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1949 | * | Valery Borzov USSR, 100m/200m dash (Olympic-gold-1972), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1949 | * | Wayne Collett US, 400m runner (Olympic-silver-1972), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1950 | * | Isaac Curtis football: Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver: Super Bowl XVI, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1950 | * | Tom Petty singer: group: The Traveling Wilburys; Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers: Don’t Come Around Here No More, Don’t Do Me Like That, Refugee, Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around [w/Stevie Nicks]; in film: Made in Heaven, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1950 | * | Finola Hughes London, actress (Anna Devane-General Hospital), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1951 | * | Al Greenwood musician: keyboard: group: Foreigner, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1952 | * | Dave McClelland hockey: Des Moines Capitols, Vancouver Canucks, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1952 | * | Dave (David S.) Collins baseball: California Angels, Seattle Mariners, Cincinnati Reds, NY Yankees, Toronto Blue Jays, Oakland Athletics, Detroit Tigers, SL Cardinals, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1952 | * | Melanie Mayron, Philadelphia PA, actress (30 Something, Car Wash, Missing), is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1953 | * | Tom Petty, Gainesville Fla, singer (Heartbreakers-Refugee), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1953 | * | Keith Hernandez baseball: first base: SL Cardinals [all-star: 1979, 1980/Baseball Writers’ Award: 1979/World Series: 1982], NY Mets [all-star: 1984, 1986, 1987/World Series: 1986], Cleveland Indians, is born in San Francisco CA. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1958 | * | Mark King musician: bass, singer: group: Level 42, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1958 | * | Eric Scott actor: The Waltons, is born in Hollywood CA. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1958 | * | Ivo Pogorelich Belgrade Yugoslavia, pianist (1978 Casagrande winner), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1966 | * | Fred Coury Johnston NY, rocker (Cinderella-Heartbreak Station), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | Susan Tulley British actress (Michelle-EastEnders), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1970 | * | Tiffany [Renee Darwisch], rocker (I Think We are Alone Now) | Ref: 5 |
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| 1972 | * | Snoop Doggy Dogg (Cordozar Broadus) rapper, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1847 | | Little William Nelman poisons his grandpa. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1870 | * | Michael Balfe, Irish singer and composer; wrote "The Bohemian Girl", dies at age 62. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1880 | * | Lydia Child writer: Hobomok, The Rebels, The Frugal Housewife, The Mother’s Book, [w/husband] An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans; newspaper publisher [w/husband]: The National Antislavery Standard; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1890 | * | Sir Richard Burton, English explorer, writer, discoverer of Lake Tanganyika, dies at age 69. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1896 | * | Felix Tisserand, French astronomer, dies at age 51. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1906 | * | William "Buck" Ewing hall of fame catcher (NY Giants), dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1926 | * | Eugene (Victor) Debs politician: founded Social Democratic Party of America; Socialist Party nominee for U.S. President [1904, 1908, 1912, 1920]; dies at age 70. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1936 | * | Anne Sullivan Macy, the American teacher who helped educate the blind, deaf and mute Helen Keller, dies. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1944 | * | East Ohio Gas Explosion claims 130 lives. 30 blocks of Cleveland OH burn. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
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| 1949 | * | Jacques Copeau, French actor/critic/director, dies at age 70. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1950 | * | Henry Stimson, United States Secretary of War during World War II, dies. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1964 | * | Herbert (Clark) Hoover, 31st US President, dies in New York at age 90. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
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| 1966 | * | Harry Flood Byrd, Jr, US Governor of VA, 1926-30, US Senator, 1933-65, dies. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1968 | * | Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux TV preacher, dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1972 | * | Harlow Shapley discoverer of the Sun's position in the galaxy, dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1973 | * | Norman Chandler, American publisher of the Los Angeles Times, dies at age 74. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1976 | * | George Prince: Mississippi River ferry rammed by Norwegian tanker Frosta near Luling, La.; 77 dead. | Ref: 85 |
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| 1977 | * | Three members of the rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, including Ronnie Van Zandt, were killed in the crash of a chartered plane near McComb, Miss. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1982 | * | Soccer disaster in Moscow during Soviet vs. Dutch crushes 340 fans; Affair hushed up for 7 years. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1982 | * | (Green River Killer) (date given as "between Oct 20 and Nov 7") Shirley Marie Sherrill, 22, is last seen. She is the 13th of 48 women Gary Ridgway admits killing. (USA Today, p 3A, 11/06/2003) | Ref: 13 |
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| 1983 | * | Merle Travis songwriter: 16 Tons, Smoke, Smoke, Smoke That Cigarette, Petal from a Faded Rose, Cincinnati Lou, Information Please; singer: Re-enlistment Blues in From Here to Eternity, John Henry Junior, Barbara Allen; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1987 | * | Ten die as Air Force jet crashed into a Ramada Inn near Indianapolis. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1988 | * | Man armed with explosives blows self up in 125 St subway station (NYC). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1988 | * | Reggie Rogers, Det Lion's # 1 pick, kills 3 by driving intoxicated. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1989 | * | Sir (John) Anthony Quayle actor: The Bourne Identity, The Eagle Has Landed, MacKenna’s Gold, QB VII, 21 Hours at Munich, Anne of a Thousand Days, Lawrence of Arabia, The Wrong Man, The Guns of Navarone; dies at age 76. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | Joel (Albert) McCrea actor: Ride the High Country, The Oklahoman, Four Faces West, Buffalo Bill, Barbary Coast, Wichita Town; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1993 | * | James (Leo) Herlihy actor: Four Friends; writer: Midnight Cowboy, All Fall Down, Season of the Witch; dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1994 | * | Burt Lancaster Academy Award-winning actor: Elmer Gantry, [1960]; Trapeze, From Here to Eternity, The Bird Man of Alcatraz, The Unforgiven, Atlantic City, Local Hero, Field of Dreams, The Phantom of the Opera, The Rainmaker, The Rose Tattoo, Scorpio, Tough Guys, Airport, Come Back Little Sheba, Gunfight at the OK Corral, Judgment at Nuremberg; circus acrobat; dies in Los Angeles at age 80. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1997 | * | Henry Vestine musician: guitar: group: Canned Heat: On the Road Again, Going Up the Country; sideman for Frank Zappa; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1999 | * | Calvin Griffith baseball owner: Washington Senators, Minnesota Twins; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1999 | * | Jack Lynch, Irish politician; prime minister of Ireland (1966-73, 1977-9), dies at age 82. | Ref: 70 |
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| 2003 | * | Character actor Jack Elam dies in his home in Ashland OR at age 84. (USA Today, p 1D, 10/23/2003) | Ref: 13 |
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