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Important birthdays:
| 1589 | Honorat de Brueil seigneur de Racan, French playwright/poet |
| 1626 | Marie de Svign, Paris, letter-writer (Portrait in Letters) |
| 1662 | Giuseppi Vignola, composer |
| 1711 | Joseph Umstatt, composer |
| 1723 | John Witherspoon, clergyman/signed Declaration of Independence |
| 1732 | Nathanael Gottfried Gruner, composer |
| 1744 | John Jeffries, colonial physician/meteorologist |
| 1748 | Christian Gottlob Neefe, German composer/conductor/tutor of Beethoven |
| 1753 | Coert L van Beyma thoe Kingma, Frisian regent/patriot |
| 1770 | Alexandre Brongniart, Paris, mineralogist/geologist (Tertiary) |
| 1775 | Margaretha J de Neufville, author (Small Pligten) |
| 1778 | Robert Peel, British PM (1834-46)/founder (Tories) |
| 1779 | Frans van Campenhout, Belgian vocalist/composer (Brabanonne) |
| 1788 | Karoly Kisfaludy, Hungarian literary (A Tat rok Magyarorsz gon) |
| 1788 | Robert "Bobbie " Peel, British conservative premier/founder (Bobbies) |
| 1799 | John Lindley, English botanist (Elements of Botany) |
| 1804 | Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finland, poet |
| 1810 | Ole Bull, composer |
| 1833 | John Watkinson, founder of British Chess Magazine (oldest chess mag) |
| 1837 | Dwight Lyman Moody, US, evangelist (Student Volunteer Movement) |
| 1840 | John Boyd Dunlop, developed the pneumatic rubber tire. |
| 1840 | Hiram Stevens Maxim, inventor (automatic single-barrel rifle) |
| 1840 | John Boyd Dunlop, Scotland, developer (pneumatic rubber tire) |
| 1848 | Belle Starr [Myra Belle Shirley], US female outlaw (wild west) |
| 1848 | Joris-Karl Huysmans, France, writer (Against the Grain) |
| 1856 | Otto Brahm, German critic/founder (Neue Deutsche Rundschau) |
| 1860 | Jackson Showalter, 1st US chess champion (1888-92, 1895-97, 1906-0?) |
| 1862 | Felipe Villanueva y Gutirrez, Mexico, composer |
| 1863 | Armand Parent, composer |
| 1864 | Carl Tieke, composer |
| 1865 | Harvey Worthington Loomis, composer |
| 1866 | Arthur Keith, Scottish anthropologist |
| 1866 | Henri [Hendrik J] Hall, Dutch MP/comic (Put a Lid on it) |
| 1866 | Rossetter Gleason Cole, composer |
| 1867 | Casper A Lingbeek, vicar/Dutch MP (HSP, 1925..37) |
| 1868 | Lodewijk Mortelmans, composer |
| 1871 | Jovan Ducic, Serb poet (Blue Legends) |
| 1878 | Andre-Gustave Citroen, French automaker |
| 1878 | Andr-Gustave Citron, France, auto maker |
| 1879 | Edward Rigby, England, actor (Star Look Down, Young & Innocent) |
| 1881 | Frederick Leonard Lonsdale, British playwright (Balkan Princess) |
| 1882 | Felice Lattuada, composer |
| 1887 | A P Gtersloh, writer |
| 1889 | Elias Henry "Patsy " Hendren, cricketer (prolific England bat of 20's) |
| 1889 | Ernest Tyldesley, cricketer (1st Lancastrian to score 100 100's) |
| 1889 | Ioan Dumitru Chirescu, composer |
| 1891 | Elizabeth Ryan, Anaheim Calif, doubles tennis champ (6 time Wimbled) |
| 1891 | Karl L Schmidt, German/Swiss theologist (Urchristentum) |
| 1892 | George Saiko, writer |
| 1893 | Roman Ingarden, Polish philosopher (Studia philosophica) |
| 1897 | Dirk U Stikker, director (Heineken)/Dutch foreign minister/NATO |
| 1900 | Adlai E Stevenson, (Gov-D-Ill), pres candidate (D) (1952, 1956) |
| 1902 | Bronislaw Kaper, composer |
| 1903 | Ivan Galamian, Tabriz Persia, violinist |
| 1903 | Joan Whitney Payson, owner (NY Mets & horse stables) |
| 1903 | Nathaniel Owings, Indianapolis, architect (Oak Ridge, TN; Sears) |
| 1906 | John Carradine, Greenwich Village NY, actor (Grapes of Wrath, Howling) |
| 1907 | Jan Klaasesz, Dutch governor Suriname (1949-56) |
| 1907 | Norton Simon, business executive (Simon & Schuster) |
| 1907 | Pierre E J Pflimlin, premier France |
| 1909 | Grazyna Bacewicz, composer |
| 1910 | Martha van Och-Scholl, German/Dutch resistance fighter (WW II) |
| 1912 | Willard Parker, NYC, actor (Kiss Me Kate, What A Woman) |
| 1912 | Zoltan Pongracz, composer |
| 1913 | Rozelle Claxton, pianist/arranger |
| 1914 | Alan Hodgkin, British physicist (Nobel 1963) |
| 1914 | William S Burroughs, St Louis, novelist (Naked Lunch) |
| 1915 | Robert Hofstadter, US atomic physicist |
| 1917 | Zsa Zsa Gabor, [Zsa Sari], Budapest, actress (Queen of Outer Space) |
| 1918 | Charles J "Tim " Holt, US actor (Treasure of Sierra Madre) |
| 1918 | Kara Abulfazogli Karayev, composer |
| 1918 | Tim Holt, Beverly Hills CA, actor (Stagecoach, Hitler's Children) |
| 1919 | Andrea George Papandreou, Greek premier (1981-89, 93- ) |
| 1919 | Red Buttons, [Aaron Chwatt], Bronx NYC, comedian/actor (Sayonara) |
| 1921 | John M Pritchard, London England, conductor |
| 1922 | Bernard Kalb, spokesman (State Dept)/actor (Dave) |
| 1923 | Stephen J Cannell, TV producer/writer |
| 1924 | Robert Lynn, anarchist |
| 1926 | Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, NYC, publisher (NY Times) |
| 1927 | Robert Brown, Herbrides Is, actor (Here Come the Brides, Primus) |
| 1927 | Val Dufour, New Orleans LA, actor (Eugenie Grandet, Another World) |
| 1928 | Andrew M Greeley, author/reverend |
| 1928 | Pananayiotis Taki Vatikiotis, middle east scholar |
| 1929 | Fred Sinowatz, (SP), chancellor of Austria (1983-86) |
| 1933 | Jrn Donner, Helsinki Finland, director (Anna, Tenderness) |
| 1933 | Nick Georgiade, NYC, actor (Untouchables, Run Buddy Run) |
| 1933 | Ron Wilson, US percussionist (Joy of Cooking) |
| 1934 | Hank Aaron, baseball player (record 755 HRs, 1957 NL MVP) |
| 1935 | Alex Harvey, rocker (Just Visiting This Planet) |
| 1935 | John J "Jannie " Geldenhuys, supreme commander S Africa army 1980- ) |
| 1937 | Cocky van Oost, [Kommertje van Vliet], Dutch dancer (Sylphides) |
| 1937 | Gaston Roelants, Belgium, world cross-country champion |
| 1937 | Stuart Damon, Bkln NY, actor (Alan Quartermaine-General Hospital) |
| 1938 | Dick van Niehoff, Dutch vocalist (Fouryo) |
| 1938 | John Guare, US writer (6ų of Separation, Atlantic City, Taking Off) |
| 1939 | Brian Luckhurst, cricketer (England opener of 60's & early 70's) |
| 1939 | Jane Bryant Quinn, newscaster/financial writer (Everyone's Money Book) |
| 1940 | H R Giger, artist, special effects designer, (Alien) |
| 1941 | Barrett Strong, Detroit, vocalist (Money, That's What I Want) |
| 1941 | David Selby, Morganstown WV, actor (Falcon Crest, Flamingo Road) |
| 1941 | Rick Laird, jazz musician (Gerry Niewood & Timepiece) |
| 1941 | Stephen J Cannell, producer (Rockford Files) |
| 1942 | Cory Wells, Buffalo NY, rock vocalist (3 Dog Night-Joy to the World) |
| 1942 | Roger Staubach, NFL quarterback (Dallas Cowboys) |
| 1942 | Susan Hill, English playwright (Magic Apple Tree) |
| 1943 | Charles Winfield, Penn, rocker (Blood Sweat & Tears-Spinning Wheel) |
| 1943 | Craig Morton, Flint Mich, NFL quarterback (Dallas, Denver) |
| 1943 | Ivan Alexandrovich Tcherepnin, composer |
| 1943 | Larry Tamblyn, rock guitarist (Standells-Dirty Water) |
| 1943 | Michael Mann, Chicago IL, actor/director (Sexpot, Close Friends) |
| 1943 | Nolan Bushnell, founder (Atari)/creator (Pong) |
| 1943 | Sven Johnson, rocker (Tangerine Dream |
| 1944 | Al Kooper, rock keyboards/vocalist (Blood Sweat & Tears-When I Die) |
| 1944 | Cory Wells, rocker |
| 1944 | J R Cobb, Birmingham Ala, rocker (Atlanta Rhythm Section, Classic IV) |
| 1946 | Charlotte Rampling, England, actress (Zardoz, Night Porter, Verdict) |
| 1947 | Claude King, singer |
| 1947 | David Ladd, LA Calif, actor (Raymie, Catlow, Misty, Deathline) |
| 1947 | Mary Louise Cleave, Southampton NY, PhD/astronaut (STS 61-B, STS 30) |
| 1948 | Barbara Hershey, [Herzstein], Atlanta, (Stuntman, Shy People) |
| 1948 | Christopher Guest, NYC, actor (SNL, Heartbeeps, This is Spinal Tap) |
| 1948 | David Denny, rock guitarist (Steve Miller Band-Abracadabra) |
| 1948 | Elco [LC] Brinkman, Dutch minister WVC (CDA) |
| 1948 | Nigel Tufnel, rocker (Spinal Tap) |
| 1949 | David Sullivan, English softporno/newspaper publisher (Sunday Sport) |
| 1949 | Maidarjabyn Ganzorig, Mongolia, cosmonaut (Soyuz 39 backup) |
| 1949 | Nigel Olsson, rock guitarist/drummer (Elton John Band) |
| 1950 | Ann Sexton, US vocalist (You're Gone too Long) |
| 1951 | Elizabeth Swados, Buffalo NY, composer/playwright (1972 TONY) |
| 1954 | Roseanne Katan, Jamacia, playmate (Sep, 1978) |
| 1955 | Debra Jo Fondren, Los Angeles Cal, playmate of year (September, 1977) |
| 1957 | Craig Wilson, Beeville TX, US water polo goalie (Olym-silver-84, 88) |
| 1958 | Jennifer Jason Leigh, [Morrow], LA Cal, actress (Single White Female) |
| 1959 | Glenn Dubis, Lincoln Neb, US 3x40 rifle (Olympics-1984, 88, 96) |
| 1960 | Jane Geddes, Huntington NY, LPGA golfer (1987 Women's Kemper Open) |
| 1960 | William John Readings, literary theorist |
| 1962 | Duff McKagan, [Michael], Seattle Wash, bassist (Guns & Roses) |
| 1962 | Tommy Skeoch, rock vocalist (Tesla-Psychotic Supper) |
| 1964 | Jim Pugh, Burbank CA, tennis star |
| 1965 | Ben Lee, Rangoon Burma, US badminton player (Olympic-92) |
| 1965 | James David McGovern, Teaneck NJ, PGA golfer (1993 Shell Houston Open) |
| 1965 | Tarik Benhabiles, Algeria, tennis star |
| 1966 | Jose Maria Olazabal, golfer |
| 1968 | Chris Barron, rocker (Spin Doctors) |
| 1968 | Regina Rajchitova, Czech, tennis star |
| 1968 | Roberto Alomar, Salinas Puerto Rico, infielder (Baltimore Orioles) |
| 1968 | Will Furrer, NFL quarterback (Houston Oilers, St Louis Rams) |
| 1969 | Bobby Brown, Roxbury Ma, vocalist (Ghostbusters, Don't Be Cruel) |
| 1970 | Darren Lehmann, cricketer (SA & Vic LHB Australian ODI 1996) |
| 1970 | Forey Duckett, NFL/WLAF cornerback/safety (Saints, Scot Claymores) |
| 1971 | Dennis Hall, Milwaukee, 125« lbs greco-roman wrestler (Oly-sil-92, 96) |
| 1971 | Dianne Norman, Sault Ste Marie Ontario, basketball forward (Oly-96) |
| 1971 | Marcus Redman, actor (Raymond-Doogie Howser) |
| 1971 | Peter "Chip " Cipollone, Ardmore Pa, rower (Olympics-1996) |
| 1972 | Chris Bailey, ice hockey defenseman (USA, Oly-98) |
| 1972 | Erin Phillips, Mexico Missouri, Miss America-Missouri (1996) |
| 1972 | Tony Johnson, tight end (New Orleans Saints) |
| 1973 | Diego Serrano, Quito Ecuador, actor (Tomas Rivera-Another World) |
| 1973 | Israel Raybon, defensive end (Carolina Panthers) |
| 1973 | Laura Espinoza-Watson, Torrance CA, female infielder (Silver Bullets) |
| 1973 | Richard Matvichuk, Ft Saskatchewan C, NHL defenseman (Dallas Stars) |
| 1974 | Adrienne Johnson, WNBA guard (Cleveland Rockers) |
| 1975 | Giovanni van Bronckhorst, Dutch soccer player (Feyenoord) |
| 1975 | Jan l'Ami, Dutch soccer player (Willem II) |
| 1976 | Nancy Feber, Antwerp Belgium, tennis star (1995 Puerto Rico) |
| 1978 | Kristina Cherina, Miss Croatia Universe (1997) |
Historial events:
| 816 | Frankish emperor Louis grants archbishop Salzburg immunity |
| 1428 | King Alfonso V, orders Sicily's Jews to attend conversion sermons |
| 1488 | Roman catholic German emperor Maximilian I caught in Belgium |
| 1512 | French troops under Gaston de Foix rescues Bologna |
| 1556 | Kings Henri I & Philip II sign Treaty of Vaucelles |
| 1572 | Beggars assault Oisterwijk Neth, drive nuns out |
| 1576 | Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours |
| 1631 | Rhode Island, founder, Roger Williams arrives in Boston from England |
| 1644 | 1st US livestock branding law passed, by Connecticut |
| 1649 | Prince of Wales becomes king Charles II |
| 1663 | Earthquake in Canada |
| 1679 | German emperor Leopold I signs peace with France |
| 1736 | Methodists John & Charles Wesley arrive in Savannah, Georgia |
| 1777 | Georgia becomes 1st US state to abolish both entail & primogeniture |
| 1778 | Articles of Confederation ratified by 1st state, South Carolina |
| 1782 | Spanish take Minorca (western Mediterranean) from English |
| 1783 | Earthquakes ravage Calabria, killing 30,000 |
| 1783 | Sweden recognizes US independence |
| 1795 | Zealand Neth surrenders to French general Michaud |
| 1816 | Rossini's Opera "Barber of Seville, " premieres in Rome |
| 1817 | 1st US gas co incorporated, Baltimore (coal gas for street lights) |
| 1825 | Hannah Lord Montague of NY creates 1st detachable shirt collar |
| 1831 | Jan van Speijk blows up his gunboat in Antwerp, killing about 30 |
| 1846 | "Oregon Spectator " is 1st newspaper to be published on the West Coast |
| 1850 | Adding machine employing depressible keys patented, New Paltz, NY |
| 1855 | British govt of Palmerston forms |
| 1861 | 1st moving picture peep show machine is patented by Samuel Goodale |
| 1861 | Kinematoscope patented by Coleman Sellers, Phila |
| 1861 | Louisiana delegation except Mr Bouligny withdraws from Congress |
| 1864 | Federals occupy Jackson, Mississippi |
| 1865 | Battle of Hatcher's Run, VA (Armstrong's Mill, Dabney's Mill) |
| 1870 | 1st motion picture shown to a theater audience, Philadelphia |
| 1879 | Joseph Swan demonstrates light bulb using carbon glow |
| 1881 | Phoenix, Az incorporates |
| 1885 | News of fall of Khartoum reaches London |
| 1887 | Snow falls on San Francisco. |
| 1887 | Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Otello " premieres at La Scala in Italy |
| 1887 | Snow falls on SF |
| 1893 | Alfred Naess skates world record 500m (49.4 sec) |
| 1894 | Female suffrage organization in Amsterdam forms |
| 1897 | Marcel Proust meets Jean Lorrain in a pistol duel |
| 1900 | British troops under Gen Buller occupy Vaal Krantz, Natal |
| 1901 | Loop-the-loop centrifugal RR (roller coaster) patented by Ed Prescot |
| 1901 | Pierpont Morgan forms US Steel Corp |
| 1904 | American occupation of Cuba ends |
| 1907 | Arnold Schnberg's 1st string quartet premieres in Vienna |
| 1911 | Society of Dutch Composers forms in Amsterdam |
| 1916 | Enrico Caruso recorded "O Solo Mio " for the Victor Talking Machine Co |
| 1917 | Congress overrides Wilson's veto, curtailing Asian immigration |
| 1917 | Morosco Theater opens at 217 W 45th St NYC (demolished 1982) |
| 1917 | Present Mexican constitution adopted |
| 1918 | 1st US pilot to down an enemy airplane, Stephen W Thompson |
| 1918 | Separation of church & state begins in USSR |
| 1919 | NL pres John Heydler dismisses charges that Hal Chase bet against his team & threw games in collusion with gamblers |
| 1921 | Yankees purchase 20 acres in Bronx for Yankee Stadium |
| 1922 | Reader's Digest magazine 1st published |
| 1923 | General mine strike against wage cuts in Saar |
| 1923 | Mass arrests of socialists & communists in Italy |
| 1927 | Buster Keaton's movie "The General " released & bombed |
| 1929 | Jimmy Hatlo's "They'll Do It Every Time " cartoon debuts in SF |
| 1930 | 5th Aliyah to Israel begins |
| 1931 | Maxine Dunlap becomes 1st US women to earn a glider pilot license |
| 1933 | Marinus van der Lubbe passes Dutch/German boundary |
| 1936 | National Wildlife Federation forms |
| 1937 | 1st Charlie Chaplin talkie, "Modern Times, " released |
| 1937 | FDR proposes enlarging Supreme Court, "court packing " plan failed |
| 1938 | Hans Engnestangen skates world record 500m (41.8 sec) |
| 1940 | Gen Winckelman replaces Gen Reijnders as Dutch supreme commander |
| 1940 | Glenn Miller & his Orchestra record "Tuxedo Junction " 56391 "S |
| 1942 | "Woman of the Year, " starring Hepburn & Tracy opens at Radio City |
| 1942 | Braves get Tommy Holmes from Yanks for Buddy Hassett & Gene Moore |
| 1943 | Amsterdam resistance group CS-6 shoots nazi general Seyffardt |
| 1943 | Clandestine Radio Atlantiksender, Germany, 1st transmission |
| 1944 | 358 RAF-bombers attack Stettin |
| 1945 | Big Racket becomes fastest race horse at 69t.6 kph (440 yd/20.8 s) |
| 1945 | British premier Churchill arrives in Yalta, the Krim |
| 1945 | US troops under General Douglas MacArthur enter Manilla |
| 1947 | Bolewet Beirut becomes president of Poland |
| 1948 | "Nature of Things " science show premieres on NBC prime time |
| 1948 | Dick Button becomes 1st US figure skating Olympic champion |
| 1948 | Gretchen Fraser becomes 1st US woman Olympic slalom champion |
| 1949 | Huaso sets official world equestrian high-jump record, 2.47 m, Chic |
| 1953 | Walt Disney's "Peter Pan " released |
| 1953 | "Peter Pan " by Walt Disney opens at Roxy Theater, NYC |
| 1953 | 5th Emmy Awards: I Love Lucy, Thomas Mitchell & Helen Hayes wins |
| 1954 | WCDC TV channel 19 in Adams, MA (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1956 | 7th Winter Olympic games close at Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy |
| 1956 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA Havana Golf Open |
| 1956 | NY Mayor Robert Wagner & Bkln Boro Pres Frank Cashmore sponsor a bill to create a $30M Brooklyn Sports Center Authority to build |
| 1957 | Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 2nd Piano Concert |
| 1958 | Clifton R Wharton confirmed as 1st US black foreign minister (Romania) |
| 1958 | Gamel Abdel Nasser nominated 1st president of United Arab Republic |
| 1958 | Test Cricket debut of Lance Gibbs, WI v Pakistan, Port-of-Spain |
| 1958 | Vanguard TV-3 back-up launches into Earth orbit; reaches 6 km |
| 1959 | "Redhead " opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 455 performances |
| 1959 | Australia regain the Ashes with a 10 wicket victory at Adelaide |
| 1962 | French President de Gaulle calls for Algeria's independence |
| 1962 | Suit to bar Englewood NJ from "racial segregated " schools, filed |
| 1962 | Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter & Saturn within 16ų |
| 1963 | Maarten Schmidt discovers enormous red shifts in quasars |
| 1963 | Soviet lunar probe failure |
| 1965 | Beursschouwburg opens in Brussels |
| 1966 | BBC opens a relay radio station on Ascension Island |
| 1967 | "Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour " premieres on CBS (later ABC, NBC) |
| 1967 | Anastasio Somoza elected president of Nicaragua |
| 1967 | Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Robert Penn Warren |
| 1968 | KDTV TV channel 39 in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX (IND) begins broadcasting |
| 1968 | Skater Kees Verkerk wins olympic gold in the 1500m |
| 1969 | "Turn-On, " debuts & cancelled by ABC after flopping so badly |
| 1969 | US population reaches 200 million |
| 1969 | Vince Lombardi, becomes part owner, vp, gm & head coach of Redskins |
| 1970 | 1st Test Cricket ton of Barry Richards, 126, 164 balls, 20 fours 1 six |
| 1970 | Test Cricket debut of John Traicos, South Africa v Australia, Durban |
| 1970 | US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1970 | WSCV TV channel 51 in Ft Lauderdale, FL (IND) suspends broadcasting |
| 1971 | Apollo 14, 3rd manned expedition to moon, lands near Fra Mauro |
| 1971 | Apollo 14, 3rd US manned Moon expedition, lands near Fra Mauro Alan Shepard & Edward Mitchell (Apollo 14) walk on Moon for 4 hrs |
| 1972 | "Another Puff " by Jerry Reed peaks at #65 |
| 1972 | Bob Douglas is 1st black elected to Basketball Hall of Fame |
| 1972 | US airlines begin mandatory inspection of passengers & baggage |
| 1973 | Comic strip "Hagar The Horrible " debuted |
| 1973 | Funeral for LC William Nolde, last US soldier killed in Vietnam War |
| 1973 | Juan Corona sentenced to 25 consecutive life terms for 25 murders |
| 1974 | Mariner 10 takes first close-up photos of Venus' cloud structure |
| 1974 | British mine strike |
| 1974 | Mats Wermelin, Sweden, scores all points in 272-0 basketball win |
| 1974 | Maximum speed on Autobahn reduced to 100 kph |
| 1974 | Patty Hearst kidnapped |
| 1974 | US Mariner 10 returns 1st close-up photos of Venus' cloud structure |
| 1976 | Australia complete 5-1 series drubbing of West Indies |
| 1976 | Last day of Test Cricket for Lance Gibbs & Ian Redpath |
| 1977 | "CB Savage " by Rod Hart peaks at #67 |
| 1977 | "Dis-Gorilla (part 1) " by Rick Dees peaks at #56 |
| 1977 | "In The Mood " by Henhouse 5 Plus Too (Ray Stevens) peaks at #40 |
| 1977 | "Turn Loose On My Leg " by Jim Stafford peaks at #98 |
| 1977 | "Up Your Nose " by Gabriel Kaplan peaks at #91 |
| 1977 | General Mills Adventure Theater premieres on CBS radio |
| 1977 | Sugar Ray Leonard beats Luis Vega in 6 rounds in his 1st pro fight |
| 1977 | US female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne |
| 1977 | US male Figure Skating championship won by Charles Tickner |
| 1978 | Fred Newman makes 88 consecutive basketball free throws blindfolded |
| 1979 | According to Census Bureau, US population reaches 200 million |
| 1979 | Costliest single periodical ad, $3.2 million, Gulf + Western in Time |
| 1979 | Sears Radio Theater premieres on CBS |
| 1980 | 32nd NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 6-3 at Detroit |
| 1980 | Egyptian parliament votes to end boycott of Israel |
| 1981 | "Piaf " opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 165 performances |
| 1981 | Largest Jell-O made (9,246 gallons of watermelon-flavor) in Brisbane |
| 1981 | Milt jury in NC convicts Robert Garwood of collaborating with enemy |
| 1982 | Chin A Sen ends term as president of Suriname |
| 1982 | DEA announces seizure of 3,192 tons of marijuana, 495 people |
| 1982 | Laker Airways collapse owing 270M ($351M) |
| 1982 | Suriname pres Chin A Sen resigns & flees to Neth |
| 1983 | Former Nazi Gestapo official Klaus Barbie brought to trial |
| 1984 | NZ beat England (82 & 93) by an innings in 3 days |
| 1984 | Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic |
| 1986 | Corazon Aquino & Ferdinand Marcos appear on "Nightline " 56476 "S |
| 1987 | Soyuz TM-2 launches |
| 1988 | 1st prime-time wrestling match in 30 yrs-Andre beats Hulk Hogan |
| 1988 | Arizona House of Reps vote to impeach Republican Gov Evan Mecham |
| 1988 | Panamanian Gen Manuel Noriega indicted by US grand jury for drugs |
| 1989 | Kareem Abdul-Jabar becomes 1st NBA player to score 38,000 points |
| 1990 | Notre Dame becomes 1st team to sell its game to a major network (NBC) |
| 1991 | A Michigan court bars Dr Jack Kevorkian from assisting in suicides |
| 1991 | All American Bowl ends after 14 years |
| 1991 | Big East Football conference forms |
| 1991 | Joni Mitchel inducted into the Canadian Hall of Fame |
| 1991 | LA King Dave Taylor becomes 29th NHler to score 1000 points |
| 1991 | Howard Stern kisses NY Giant Leonard Marshall's ass over bet, Stern lost claiming the Giants would lose the Superbowl |
| 1992 | Jury selection begins in the LA cops beating Rodney King case |
| 1992 | Last day of Test Cricket cricket for Dilip Vengsarkar |
| 1992 | Mike Whitney career-best 7-27 at WACA in Test Cricket win v India |
| 1993 | Grenade explodes in Sarajevo, killing 63 & injuring 160 |
| 1993 | R James Woolsey, becomes 16th director of CIA |
| 1994 | "Where On Earth Is Carmen San Diego, " debuts on Fox TV |
| 1994 | Medgar Evers' murderer Byron De La Beckwith sentenced to life, in Jackson Miss, 30 years after the crime |
| 1995 | Japan's Shinshinto Party wins local elections |
| 1995 | NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 41-13 |
| 1995 | Sandra Vlker swims female European record 50m backstroke: 27.77 |
| 1997 | 3 Swiss banks create $70 million Holocaust fund |
| 1997 | Brook Lee, Hawaii, crowned 46th Miss USA (en route to Miss Universe) |
| 1998 | Alberto Acciarito convicted of harassing his ex-wife Ingrid Rossellini |
| 1998 | Author Tom Clancy confirms he signed agreement to purchase Minn Vikings for slightly more than $200 million, an NFL franchise record |
| 1998 | Nancy Kerring & Tonya Harding talk on FOX (Taped Dec 22nd) |
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- 1983: US troops invade Grenada
American forces seize control of the Caribbean island of Grenada less than a week after a left-wing coup in which the prime minister, Maurice Bishop, was killed. - 1964: President Kaunda takes power in Zambia
Zambia is the ninth African state to gain independence from the British crown. - 1984: Europe grants emergency aid for Ethiopia
The EEC is donating £1.8 million to help combat the famine in Ethiopia. - 1976: Queen opens National Theatre in London
The Queen has officially opened the National Theatre on the South Bank in London after years of delays. - 2001: Crime rates lowest for 20 years
British Crime Survey reveals the chances of being a victim of crime are lowest for 20 years.
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