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Important birthdays:
| 1598 | Claude Mellan, French engraver/cartoonist/painter, baptized |
| 1617 | Elias Ashmole, antiquary |
| 1620 | Pieter Neefs, the Younger, Flemish painter, baptized |
| 1644 | Thomas Eisenhut, composer |
| 1696 | Johann Caspar Vogler, composer |
| 1707 | Carolus Linn‘us, Sweden, biological classifier |
| 1710 | Fran‡ois-Gaspard Adam, French sculptor (garden sculptures) |
| 1718 | William Hunter, obstetrician/medal writer |
| 1729 | Giuseppe Parini, Italian priest/poet (Il Giorno) |
| 1734 | Friedrich Anton Mesmer, Austria, physician/hypnotist (Mesmerism) |
| 1735 | Charles Joseph, prince the Ligne, Belgian fieldmarshal/author |
| 1737 | Louis Fran‡ois Chambray, composer |
| 1741 | Andrea Lucchesi, composer |
| 1753 | Giovanni Battista Viotti, violonist/composer |
| 1754 | Andrea Appiana, Italian royal painter (Napoleon) |
| 1756 | Nicolas-Joseph Hullmandel, composer |
| 1759 | Antoinio da Silva Leite, composer |
| 1790 | Jules-S‚bastien-C‚sar Dumont d'Urville, explorer |
| 1794 | Isaak-Ignaz Moscheles, composer |
| 1795 | Charles Barry, architect |
| 1799 | Thomas Hood, English poet/composer (Song of the Shirt) |
| 1812 | Henri A Esquiros, French poet/writer (Les Vierges Folles) |
| 1813 | Mason Brayman, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1895 |
| 1820 | James Buchanan Eads, US, engineer/inventor (Eads Bridge-St Louis) |
| 1824 | Ambrose Everett Burnside, Major General (Union volunteers) |
| 1828 | Edward Hitchcock, America's 1st prof of physical ed (Amherst College) |
| 1832 | Pieter J B C R van der Aa, Dutch Indologist/geographer |
| 1837 | James Sanks Brisbin, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1892 |
| 1843 | Pedro Miguel Marques y Garcia, composer |
| 1844 | 'Abdu'l-Bah , early Bah '¡ leader ('Azamat 7, 1) |
| 1848 | Helmuth J L von Moltke, German general/chief of staff (WW I) |
| 1848 | Otto Lilienthal, pioneer aviator |
| 1849 | K roly earl Khuen-H‚derv ry, Premier of Hungary (1910-12) |
| 1851 | Antoni Stolpe, composer |
| 1862 | William "Dummy " Hoy, professional baseball player who lived to 99 |
| 1864 | Louis Glass, composer |
| 1866 | Gustav Aschaffenburg, German psychiatrist/criminalologist |
| 1871 | Sigurd Lie, composer |
| 1873 | Leo Baeck, rabbi/president (World Union for Progressive Judaism) |
| 1882 | James Gleason, NYC, writer/actor (Bishop's Wife, Flying Fool) |
| 1883 | Douglas Fairbanks, 1st & greatest of Hollywood's swashbucklers. |
| 1883 | Douglas Fairbanks, Denver CO, actor (Zorro/3 Musketeers/Robin Hood) |
| 1886 | Hermann Neiáe, writer |
| 1888 | Adrian Roland Holst, Dutch poet (Raged & Tired) |
| 1890 | Herbert Marshall, London, actor (Murder, Razor's Edge, Little Foxes) |
| 1890 | Virginia Eames, Ft Davis TX, entertainer |
| 1891 | P„r Lagerkvist, Sweden, novelist/dramatist (Barabbas, Nobel 1951) |
| 1898 | Frank McHugh, actor (Front Page, Gold Diggers 1935, Mighty Joe Young) |
| 1898 | Joseph Hazen, lawyer |
| 1901 | Edmund Rubbra, Northampton England, composer (Morning Watch) [or 3/23] |
| 1902 | Mark Lothar, composer |
| 1903 | Walter Reisch, US, screenwriter (Ninotchka, Gaslight, Titanic) |
| 1906 | Hellmuth Christian Wolff, composer |
| 1907 | Kenneth Allen, engineer |
| 1907 | Matthew Campbell, British senior civil servant |
| 1908 | Christian GK Ba‰ta, Togolese chairman (International Mission Council) |
| 1908 | John Bardeen, US, physicist (transistor, Nobel 1956, 1972) |
| 1908 | Max Abramovitz, US architect (Lincoln Center, UN Building) |
| 1909 | Edwin Arrowsmith, diplomat |
| 1910 | Artie Shaw, band leader and husband |
| 1910 | Artie Shaw, [Arthur Arshawsky], NYC, bandleader (Come'on my House) |
| 1910 | Franz Jozef Kline, US expressionist painter |
| 1910 | Hugh Casson CH, architect |
| 1910 | Scatman Crothers, [Benjamin], Terre Haute IN, actor (Zapped, Shining) |
| 1911 | Boris Kremenliev, composer |
| 1911 | Melvin M Payne, president (National Geographic Society) |
| 1912 | David Barran, CEO (Midland Bank, England) |
| 1912 | Jean Fran‡aix, Le Mans France, composer (Naked King) |
| 1912 | John Payne, Roanoke Va, actor (Restless Gun) |
| 1912 | Marius Goring, Isle of Wight, actor (Herr Palitz-Holocaust) |
| 1912 | Samuel Curran, vice chancellor (Strathclyde University) |
| 1913 | Ian Graeme, major-general |
| 1914 | Alec Dickson, founder (VSO) |
| 1914 | Barbara Ward, economist/writer (Only One Earth) |
| 1914 | Leo Lerman, actor/manager/critic (Dance Magazine) |
| 1914 | Travis Kemp, dancer/teacher |
| 1915 | Clyde Wiegand, physicist |
| 1916 | Margaret Hayden Rector, playwright (living legacy award 1995) |
| 1916 | M Jean Francaix, composer |
| 1918 | Bulent Arel, composer |
| 1918 | Bumps Blackwell, rocker |
| 1918 | Denis Compton, cricketer (England batsman 1938-56 & Arsenal forward) |
| 1919 | Betty Garrett, St Joseph Mo, actress (Irene-All in the Family) |
| 1919 | Robert KJE Antonissen, South African literary |
| 1920 | Helen O'Connell, Lima Ohio, singer (Green Eyes, Anapola) |
| 1920 | Sid Melton, Bkln NY, actor (Alf-Green Acres, Charlie-Danny Thomas) |
| 1921 | Humphrey Lyttelton, jazz musician/actor (It's Great to Be Young) |
| 1921 | James [Benjamin] Blish, US/UK, sci-fi author (Hugo, Star Trek Reader) |
| 1921 | Loren Tindall, OK, actor (Meet Me on Broadway, Girl of Limberlost) |
| 1921 | Montague Modlyn, broadcaster |
| 1921 | Sanderson Temple, circuit judge |
| 1922 | Dennis Compton, author/crickleter |
| 1923 | Alicia de Larrocha, Copenhagen Denmark, pianist (Orquesta Sinfonica) |
| 1923 | Nirode Chowdhury, Indian cricket pace bowler (1949-52) |
| 1924 | Desmond Carrington, British radio host (Jim-Calamity the Cow) |
| 1924 | Michael McCrum, master (Corpus Christi College Cambridge) |
| 1924 | V N Swamy, cricketer (one Test India v NZ 1955, DNB, 0-45) |
| 1928 | Nigel Davenport, Cambridge England, actor (Without a Clue, Masada) |
| 1928 | Nina Otkalenko, USSR, 800m runner (9 world records) |
| 1928 | Rosemary Clooney, Kentucky, singer/paper towels spokeswoman (Coronet) |
| 1929 | Joe Modise, South African commandant of Umkhonto we Sizwe (1965- ) |
| 1929 | Ulla Jacobson, Swedish actress (One Summer of Happiness) |
| 1930 | Richard Anuszkiewicz, Erie, Pa, painter |
| 1931 | Barbara Barrie, Chicago, actress (Breaking Away, Barney Miller) |
| 1931 | Jos‚ Telles Da Concei‡ao, Brazil, high jumper (Olympic-bronze-1952) |
| 1932 | James Lester, MP |
| 1932 | John Lyons, Cambridge England, Master (Trinity Hall) |
| 1933 | Bruce A Peterson, US test pilot (M2, HL-10) |
| 1933 | Gerrit J M Braks, Dutch minister of agriculture & land & fishing (CDA) |
| 1933 | Joan Henrietta Collins, London, actress (Alexis-Dynasty, Bitch) |
| 1934 | Malcolm Gill, deputy head (Bank for Intl Settlements) |
| 1934 | Robert A Moog, inventor (Moog Synthesizer) |
| 1935 | Juliet Campbell, British ambassador (to Luxembourg) |
| 1935 | Lord Grenfell, head of External affairs European office, world bank |
| 1936 | Charles Kimbrough, actor (Murphy Brown) |
| 1936 | Douglas John Gorman, businessman |
| 1936 | Robert Sangster, horse owner/trainer |
| 1937 | John Mazza, horse trainer |
| 1938 | John R Miller, (Rep-R-WA, 1985- ) |
| 1938 | Peter Preston, editor (Guardian) |
| 1939 | Ron Stevens, horse trainer |
| 1941 | Jackson Hill, composer |
| 1943 | John Newcombe, Australia, tennis pro (Wimbledon 1967, 70, 71) |
| 1943 | Lars-Ake Nilsson, diplomat |
| 1943 | Norman Johnson, singer/songwriter |
| 1943 | Peter Kenilorea, PM Solomon Islands |
| 1944 | General George Norman Johnson, US singer (Down at the Beach Club) |
| 1944 | Giles Smith, TV journalist |
| 1944 | Olga Maitland, MP |
| 1944 | Ramon "Tiki " Fulwood, US drummer (Funkadelic, Knee Deep) |
| 1945 | Elliott Bernerd, English broker/multi-millionaire |
| 1945 | Lauren Chapin, actress (Kathy-Father Knows Best) |
| 1945 | Misty Morgan, country keyboardist (duo with Jack Blanchard) |
| 1946 | Tom Dorris, horse trainer |
| 1947 | Ann Hui, director (Boat People) |
| 1947 | Jonathan Pryce, North Wales, stage actor (Miss Saigon) |
| 1948 | Reggie Cleveland, baseball player |
| 1949 | Alan Garc¡a P‚rez, pres of Peru (1985-90) |
| 1950 | Linda Thompson, Memphis Tn, actress (Hee Haw) |
| 1951 | Anatoli Karpov, USSR, world chess champion (1975-85) |
| 1951 | Judy Rodman, Riverside Calif, country singer (Girls Ride Horses Too) |
| 1952 | Deborah Adair, actress (Tracey-Dynasty, Kate-Day of Our Life) |
| 1952 | James Mankey, rocker (Concrete Blonde) |
| 1952 | "Marvelous " Marvin Hagler, NJ, middleweight boxing champ (1982-83) |
| 1955 | John Stevens, MEP |
| 1957 | Jimmy McShane, Pop singer (Baltimora-Tarzan Boy) |
| 1958 | Shelly West, Cleve OH, country singer (Red Hot, West by West) |
| 1958 | Thomas Reiter, Germany, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-22) |
| 1959 | Linden Ashby, actor (Mortal Kombat) |
| 1959 | Marcella Mesker, Netherlands, tennis star |
| 1960 | Theo Vogelaars, pop bassist (Tr”ckener Kecks/Paid Love) |
| 1961 | Dave Babych, Edmonton, NHL defenseman (Vancouver Canucks) |
| 1961 | Drew Carey, Cleve Oh, actor/comedian (Drew-Drew Carey Show) |
| 1961 | Kevin Romine, baseball player |
| 1962 | Karen Duffy, [Duff], NYC, MTV VJ/actress (Meet Wally Sparks) |
| 1962 | Keith Brantley, Scott AFB Ill, marathoner (Olympics-96) |
| 1964 | Kenny Gattison, NBA forward (Orlando Magic) |
| 1964 | Staci Greason, Denver, actress (Isabella Toscando-Days of Our Lives) |
| 1965 | James Hasty, NFL cornerback (KC Chiefs) |
| 1965 | Lilian Drescher, Venezuela, tennis star |
| 1965 | Woorkeri Venkat Raman, cricketer (Indian slow left-arm all-rounder) |
| 1966 | Gary Roberts, North York, NHL left wing (Calgary Flames) |
| 1966 | Graeme Hick, cricketer (in Zimbabwe Massive run-scorer for Worcs) |
| 1966 | Helena Bonham Carter, London, actress (Ft Worth, Howards End) |
| 1967 | Craig John Monk, Auckland NZ, finn class yachter (Olympics-96) |
| 1968 | Daryl Hobbs, NFL wide receiver (Oakland Raiders) |
| 1968 | Tiffany Rochelle-Anderson, Laguna Beach Ca, WPVA (Nationals-13th-1995) |
| 1969 | Pat Hurst, San Leandro CA, LPGA golfer (1995 Rolex Rookie of the Year) |
| 1969 | Ramon Caraballo, baseball player |
| 1970 | Grahae Hick, cricketer |
| 1970 | Ricky Gutierrez, Miami FL, infielder (Houston Astros) |
| 1971 | Issac Booth, NFL cornerback/safety (Cleve Browns) |
| 1971 | Joseph Rogers, CFL receiver (Winnipeg Blue Bombers) |
| 1971 | Marshall Boze, San Manual AZ, pitcher (Milwaukee Brewers) |
| 1972 | Isabelle Fijalkowski, WNBA center/forward (Cleveland Rockers) |
| 1972 | Marco van Hoogdalem, Dutch soccer player (Roda JC) |
| 1972 | Rene Ingoglia, running back (Buffalo Bills) |
| 1972 | Shannon Brown, NFL defensive tackle (Atlanta Falcons) |
| 1973 | Verna Vasquez, Miss Universe-best swimsuit (Curacao, 1997) |
| 1974 | Duane Clemons, linebacker (Minnesota Vikings) |
| 1974 | Jewel [Kilcher], Alaska, folk/rock vocalist (Pieces of You) |
| 1974 | Kimber West, Atlanta GA, playmate (Feb 1997) |
| 1975 | Vincent Goossens, soccer player (Dordrecht '90) |
| 1976 | Kelly Marie Monaco, Phila PA, playmate (April, 1997) |
| 1976 | Melanie Joyce Bell, Vernon New Jersey, Miss America-New Jersey (1997) |
| 1980 | Sarah Louise Catherwood, Christchurch NZ, 4x200m swimmer (Oly-96) |
| 1984 | Adam Wylie, actor (Picket Fences) |
Historial events:
| 1059 | Henri I crowns his son compassionate King Philip I of France |
| 1275 | King Edward I of Engld orders cessation of persecution of French Jews |
| 1420 | Jews of Syria & Austria expelled |
| 1421 | Jews of Austria imprisoned & expelled |
| 1430 | Joan of Arc is captured at Compiegne & sold to the British |
| 1493 | King Charles VIII & Maximilian I of Austria signs Peace of Senlis |
| 1533 | King Henry VIII & Catherine of Aragon marriage declared null & void |
| 1536 | Pope Paul III installs Portugese inquisition |
| 1544 | German emperor Charles V recognizes king Christian III of Denmark |
| 1555 | Giampietro Caraffa elected Pope Paul IV |
| 1568 | Battle at Heiligerlee: Dutch rebels beat Spanish, 100s killed |
| 1576 | Tycho Brahe given Hveen Island to build Uraniborg Observatory |
| 1611 | Matthias von Habsburg chosen king of Bohemia |
| 1618 | 2nd Defenestration of Prague; beginning of 30 Years War |
| 1618 | Imperial civil servants thrown out a window of Prague Castle |
| 1644 | Johan Mauritius van Nassau resigns as head of Civil rights activists |
| 1647 | Willem II sworn in as viceroy of Holland |
| 1660 | King Charles II returns from exile sails from Scheveningen to England |
| 1667 | King Afonso VI of Portugal flees |
| 1706 | Battle of Ramillies-Marlborough defeats French; 17,000 killed |
| 1750 | Carlo Goldoni's "Il Bugiardo, " premieres in Mantua |
| 1774 | Chestertown tea party occurs (tea dumped into Chester River) |
| 1785 | Benjamin Franklin announces his invention of bifocals |
| 1788 | SC becomes 8th state to ratify US constitution |
| 1844 | Declaration of B b (Bah '¡ festival) ('Azamat 7, 1) |
| 1853 | Buenos Aires gains independence from Argentina (reunited 1859) |
| 1861 | 3 fleeing slaves enter Fort Monroe Virginia |
| 1861 | Virginia citizens vote 3 to 1 in favor of secession |
| 1862 | Battle at Front Royal, Virginia |
| 1862 | Valley Campaign-Stonewall Jackson takes Ft Royal, Virginia |
| 1864 | Battle of Dallas, GA |
| 1864 | Battle of North Anna, Va, 1st of 3 days of fighting |
| 1865 | -24] Victory parade in Washington, DC (Grand Review) |
| 1865 | Flag flown at full staff over White House, 1st time since Lincoln shot |
| 1865 | Grand Review begins in Washington DC |
| 1867 | Jesse James-gang rob bank in Richmond Missouri (2 die, $4,000 taken) |
| 1873 | 1st Preakness: G Barbee aboard Survivor wins in 2:43 |
| 1873 | Canada's North West Mounted Police Force (RCMPF) forms |
| 1873 | Postal cards sold in SF for 1st time |
| 1876 | 1st NL no-hitter (Joe Borden, Boston) |
| 1878 | Atty John Henry Smyth named minister to Liberia |
| 1882 | 6 " of snow falls in eastern Iowa |
| 1883 | 9th Kentucky Derby: William Donohue aboard Leonatus wins in 2:43 |
| 1883 | Baseball game between one-armed & one-legged players |
| 1884 | 12th Preakness: S Fisher aboard Knight of Ellerslie wins in 2:39« |
| 1887 | 1st transcontinental train arrives in Vancouver, BC |
| 1894 | William Love hosts ground breaking ceremonies for Love Canal |
| 1898 | 1st Phillipine Expeditionary Troops sail from San Francisco. |
| 1898 | 1st Philippine Expeditionary Troops sail from SF |
| 1900 | Associated Press News Service forms in NY |
| 1901 | 35th Belmont: H Spencer aboard Commando wins in 2:21 |
| 1901 | Indians score 9 runs after 2 outs in 9th to beat Senators 14-13 |
| 1901 | Ottawa Mint Act receives Royal Assent |
| 1901 | US captures leader of Philippine rebels, Emilio Aguinaldo |
| 1903 | 1st automobile trip across US from SF to NY, ended April 1 |
| 1903 | 1st direct primary election law in US adopted, by Wisconsin |
| 1908 | Dirigible explodes over SF Bay, 16 passengers fall, none die. |
| 1908 | Dirigible explodes over SF Bay, 16 passengers fall, none die |
| 1908 | Part of Great White Fleet arrives in Puget Sound, Wash |
| 1911 | NY Public Library building at 5th Avenue dedicated by Pres Taft |
| 1915 | Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary & Germany during WW I |
| 1916 | Heavy battles at Fort Douaumont Verdun |
| 1917 | Dutch 2nd Chamber okays 1908 conscription draft |
| 1918 | King Oil/Shell refinery on Cura‡ao officially opens |
| 1920 | Pope Benedictus XV publishes encyclical Pacem Dei |
| 1921 | "Shuffle Along " 1st black musical comedy, opens in NYC |
| 1922 | "Abie's Irish Rose " 1st of over 2,500 performances |
| 1922 | Harry Greb gave Gene Tunney his only professional boxing defeat |
| 1922 | Walt Disney incorporates his 1st film company Laugh-O-Gram Films |
| 1923 | 1st flight of Sabena: Brussel-Lympne, Great Britain |
| 1926 | Hack Wilson is 1st to hit a home run off Wrigley Field scoreboard |
| 1926 | Lebanese constitution forms under French mandate |
| 1928 | Bomb attack on Italians embassy in Buenos Aires, 22 die |
| 1931 | Whipsnade Zoo opens in Whipsnade Beds England |
| 1932 | Sir Hubert Ferdinand Opperman sets 24 hr record of 860 mi, 367 yds |
| 1934 | Wallace Carothers manufactures 1st nylon (polymeer 66) |
| 1935 | 1st scheduled night game, postponed due to rain (Cincinnati) |
| 1939 | British decoration, George Cross, 1st presented |
| 1939 | British parliament plans to make Palestine independent by 1949 |
| 1939 | Dmitri Shostakovitch appointed professor at conservatory of Leningrad |
| 1939 | Hitler proclaims he wants to move into Poland |
| 1939 | Submarine Squalis sank off Portsmouth NH, 26 die |
| 1940 | 1st great dogfight between Spitfires |
| 1941 | Joe Louis beats Buddy Baer on DQ in 7 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1941 | Rudolf Harbig runs world record 1k (2:21.5) |
| 1943 | -24] 826 Allied bombers attack Dortmund |
| 1943 | In Dr Faustus, Serenus Zeitblom begins his bio of Adrian Leverkhn |
| 1943 | Thomas Mann begins writing his novel Dr Faustus |
| 1944 | British/Canadian troops occupy Pontecorvo Italy |
| 1944 | Chinese counter offensive at Hunan front |
| 1944 | Operation-Buffalo: Allied jailbreak out Anzio-bridgehead |
| 1944 | Polo Grounds host 1st NYC night game since 1941 |
| 1945 | British milt police arrest Admiral Karl Doenitz |
| 1945 | German island of Helgoland in North Sea surrenders to British |
| 1945 | Heinrich Himmler, German Nazi leader & Chief of Police, committed suicide |
| 1945 | Lord Haw-Haw arrested at Danish boundary |
| 1945 | Winston Churchill resigns as British PM |
| 1947 | PC Hooft prize forms for literature |
| 1948 | Joe DiMaggio hits 3 consecutive HRs |
| 1948 | Ramat Rahel gateway to Jerusalem is repossessed by Israel |
| 1949 | Federal Republic of [West] Germany proclaimed (Republic Day) |
| 1951 | Peter Ustinov's "Love of Four Colonels, " premieres in London |
| 1953 | 79th Preakness: Eric Guerin aboard Native Dancer wins in 1:57.8 |
| 1953 | Schools 1st use Cliff's Notes |
| 1953 | WHIZ TV channel 18 in Zanesville, OH (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1955 | Presbyterian Church begins accepting women ministers |
| 1956 | World Trade Center dedicated in Ferry Building, SF |
| 1958 | Mao Tse tung start "Great leap forward " movement in China |
| 1959 | "Party with Comden & Green " closes at John Golden NYC after 44 perfs |
| 1959 | Presbyterian church accepts women preachers |
| 1960 | "Finian's Rainbow " opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 12 performances |
| 1960 | "Got A Girl " by The Four Preps hits #24 |
| 1960 | Israel announces capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina |
| 1960 | WGTV TV channel 8 in Athens-Atlanta, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1960 | WKBM TV (now WLII) channel 11 in Caguas/San Juan, PR 1st broadcast |
| 1960 | WRCA radio changes call letters back to WNBC (NYC) |
| 1962 | Joe Pepitone 2nd Yankee to hit 2 HRs in 1 inning (Joe DiMaggio) |
| 1962 | OAS leader general Raoul Salan sentenced to life |
| 1962 | Scott Carpenter orbits Earth 3 times in US Aurora 7 |
| 1963 | NBC purchases 1963 AFL championship game TV rights for $926,000 |
| 1964 | Dale Greig runs female marathon world record (3:27:45) |
| 1965 | Franz Jonas elected president of Austria |
| 1965 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open |
| 1965 | Pontoon ferry overturned on Shire River Malawi, kills 150 |
| 1966 | Beatles release "Paperback Writer " 43904 "S |
| 1968 | AC Milan wins 8th Europe Cup II in Rotterdam |
| 1968 | Beatles open 2nd Apple Boutique at 161 New Kings Road, London |
| 1969 | BBC orders 13 episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus |
| 1969 | Lauwerszee Dike in Holland closes |
| 1969 | Who release rock opera "Tommy " 43910 "S |
| 1970 | SD Padres beat SF Giants 17-16 in 15 innings |
| 1970 | USSR performs nuclear test (underground) |
| 1971 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Suzuki Golf Internationalionale |
| 1971 | Rock group Iron Butterfly disbands |
| 1974 | Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1974 | Italian Red Brigade officer Mario Sossi freed |
| 1976 | Amy Alcott wins '76 LPGA Golf Classic |
| 1977 | Benin adopts its constitution |
| 1977 | Supreme Court refuses to hear appeals of Watergate wrong doers H R Halderman, John Ehrlichman & John Mitchell |
| 1977 | Moluccan extremists hold 105 schoolchildren & 50 others hostage on a hijacked train in Neth, children released May 27, siege ends June 11 |
| 1978 | AL approves transfer of Red Sox to Jean Yawkey for $15M |
| 1978 | General strike in Peru |
| 1979 | "Kids Are All Right " premieres |
| 1979 | 1st edition of "Wisden Cricket Monthly " 43925 "S |
| 1979 | Rocker Tom Petty files chapter 11 bankruptcy |
| 1979 | West-Germany elects Karl Carstens president |
| 1980 | ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Neil Burton |
| 1981 | Barcelona fascists take 200 people hostage |
| 1981 | NASA launches Intelsat V |
| 1982 | BBC warns Britain will bomb Argentina |
| 1982 | Cathy Morse wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Charity Golf Classic |
| 1982 | Colin Wilson rides a surfboard 294 miles |
| 1982 | Pope John Paul II declares "Peerke " Donders divine |
| 1983 | Radio Moscow announcer Vladimir Danchev praises Afghanistan Muslims standing up to Russia; he is removed from the air |
| 1984 | Anderlecht wins 13th UEFA Cup at London |
| 1984 | Detroit Tigers win AL record tying 16th straight road game |
| 1986 | US & West Europeans veto heavier sanctions against South Africa |
| 1988 | Maryland stops sale of cheap pistols on Jan 1, 1990 |
| 1989 | 3rd American Comedy Award: Paula Poundstone |
| 1989 | Angela Visser, 22, of Holland, crowned 38th Miss Universe |
| 1989 | Lincoln Square in Bronx named |
| 1989 | Cleve loses & drop to 21-22, this is the latest a sub .500 team is in 1st place (AL East) |
| 1990 | A C Milan wins 35th Europe Cup 1 at Vienna |
| 1990 | Cost of rescuing savings & loan failures is put at up to $130 billion |
| 1990 | Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,856.26 |
| 1990 | NY Yankees hit 6 home runs to beat Minn Twins 12-0 |
| 1991 | Last Cubans troops leave Angola |
| 1991 | Phillie Tommy Greene no-hits Mont Expos, 2-0 |
| 1991 | San Diego Sockers win 4th consecutive Major Soccer League championship |
| 1991 | US Supreme Court bars subsidized clinics from discussing abortion |
| 1992 | NY Yankees play in their 4th straight extra inning game |
| 1992 | Pres Bush orders Coast Guard to intercept boats with Haitian refugees |
| 1993 | Val Skinner wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
| 1994 | 270 pilgrims dies in bustle round Mina Saudi-Arabia |
| 1994 | Roman Herzog elected president of Germany |
| 1994 | Star Trek The Next Generation, finale airs this week in syndication |
| 1995 | 47th time opposing pitchers hit HRS, K Foster (Cubs)/M Freeman (Rocks) |
| 1996 | Fred Norris of the Howard Stern show changes his name legally to Eric |
| 1997 | "King David, " closes at New Amsterdam Theater NYC |
| 1997 | Mel Karmazin replaces Peter Lund as CEO of CBS TV |
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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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