| 0421 |
Flavius Constantine becomes emperor Constantine III of West Roman emp
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| 1526 |
Heavy storm strikes Dutch coast, many die
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| 1575 |
University of Leiden Neth opens
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| 1600 |
Vatican convicts scholar Giordano Bruno to death
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| 1601 |
Earl Robert Devereux of Essex armies draws into London
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| 1622 |
King James I disbands the English parliament
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| 1672 |
Isaac Newton reads 1st optics paper before Royal Society in London
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| 1690 |
French & Indian troops set Schenectady settlement NY on fire
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| 1690 |
Lord Halifax resigns as Lord Privy Seal
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| 1693 |
William & Mary college is 2nd college chartered in US
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| 1735 |
1st opera in US "Flora," opens in Charleston, SC
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| 1743 |
Comet C/1743 C1 approaches within 0.0390 AUs of Earth
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| 1744 |
French/Spanish fleet leaves Toulon
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| 1750 |
Minor earthquake in London
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| 1775 |
Leidse U 400th anniversary dinner
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| 1776 |
Wolfgang von Goethes' "Stella," premieres in Hamburg
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| 1802 |
Simon Willard patents banjo clock
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| 1807 |
Napoleon defeats Russians in battle of Eylau
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| 1809 |
Franz I of Austria declares war on France
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| 1837 |
1st VP chosen by Senate, Richard Johnson (Van Buren admin)
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| 1861 |
Confederate States of America organizes in Montgomery, Ala
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| 1862 |
Battle of Roanoke Island NC, Federals gain control of Pamlico Sound
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| 1862 |
Opera "Lily of Killarney," premieres in London
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| 1865 |
1st black major in US army, Martin Robinson Delany
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| 1883 |
Louis Waterman begins experiments to invents fountain pen
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| 1887 |
Aurora Ski Club of Red Wing, Minn became the 1st US ski club
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| 1887 |
Dawes Act passed (indians living apart from tribe granted citizenship)
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| 1889 |
Flood ravages Dutch coast
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| 1894 |
Enforcement Act repealed, making it easier to disenfranchise blacks
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| 1895 |
Tchaikovsky/Petipa's "Swan Lake," premieres in Petersburg
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| 1896 |
Georges Feydeaus' "Le Dindon," premieres in Paris
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| 1896 |
Western Conference forms of Midwestern U, later renamed Big 10 Conf
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| 1898 |
John Ames Sherman patents 1st envelope folding & gumming mach (Mass)
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| 1904 |
Russo-Japanese War begins
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| 1905 |
Cyclone hit Tahiti & adjacent islands, killing some 10,000 people
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| 1908 |
Wilhelmina '08 soccer team forms in Weert Neth
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| 1909 |
France & Germany sign treaty about Morocco
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| 1910 |
Boy Scouts of America incorporated & chartered (William D Boyce-Chic)
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| 1911 |
US helps overthrow Pres Miguel Devila of Honduras
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| 1911 |
Victor Herbert's opera "Natoma," premieres in NYC
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| 1912 |
1st eastbound US transcontinental flight lands in Jacksonville, Fla
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| 1914 |
General Zamon becomes president of Haiti
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| 1915 |
"Birth of a Nation" opens at Clune's Auditorium in LA
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| 1916 |
French cruiser "Admiral Charner" torpedoed off Syrian coast, kills 374
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| 1916 |
NL votes down Charlie Ebbets proposal to limit 25› seats
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| 1918 |
"Stars & Stripes," weekly US armed forces newspaper, 1st published
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| 1920 |
Swiss men vote against women's suffrage
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| 1922 |
Radio arrives at the White House
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| 1923 |
Coal mine explosion at Dawson, New Mexico kills 120
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| 1923 |
German NSDAP Volkischer Beobachter newspaper becomes a daily
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| 1924 |
1st coast-to-coast radio hookup: Gen John Joseph Carty speech in Chic
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| 1925 |
Kaufman & Berlin's "cocoanuts," premieres in NYC
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| 1925 |
Marcus Garvey enters federal prison in Atlanta
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| 1926 |
German Reichstag decides to apply for League of Nations membership
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| 1926 |
Sean O'Casey's "Plough & Stars" opens at Abbey Theater Dublin
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| 1926 |
Walt Disney Studios forms
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| 1927 |
Belgian-Swiss treaty signed
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| 1928 |
1st transatlantic TV image received, Hartsdale, NY
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| 1928 |
Scottish inventor J Blaird demonstrates color-TV
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| 1929 |
KOY-AM in Phoenix Arizona begins radio transmissions
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| 1930 |
"Happy Days Are Here Again" by Benny Mereoff hits #1
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| 1931 |
Gas explosion Fire in Fushun-coal mine, Manchuria kills 3,000
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| 1933 |
-23°F (-31°C), Seminole, Texas (state record)
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| 1933 |
1st flight of all-metal Boeing 247
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| 1934 |
Export-Import Bank organizes in Washington, DC
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| 1934 |
Gaston Doumergue forms new French govt
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| 1935 |
1st NFL draft; Jay Berwanger of U Chicago is 1st pick (by Eagles) He never plays in NFL
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| 1936 |
1st NFL draft, Eagles select Heisman Trophy winner Jay Berwanger
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| 1936 |
1st ski jumping tournament, Red Wing, Minn
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| 1936 |
1st successful Toronto Maple Leaf penalty shot, Conacher vs Rangers
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| 1936 |
Pandit Jawaharlal follows Gandhi as chairman of India Congress Party
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| 1937 |
Maxwell Anderson's "Masque of Kings," premieres in NYC
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| 1940 |
Lewis & Hamilton's musical "Two for the Show," premieres in NYC
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| 1940 |
Lodtz, 1st large ghetto established by Nazis in Poland
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| 1941 |
Japanese armored barges cross Strait of Johore to attack Singapore
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| 1941 |
NSB'er Max Blokzijl begins nazi propaganda on Dutch radio
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| 1942 |
Stravinsky's "Danses Concertantes," premieres in Los Angeles
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| 1942 |
Congress advises FDR that, Americans of Japanese descent should be locked up en masse so they wouldn't oppose the US war effort
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| 1943 |
Red Army recaptures Kursk
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| 1944 |
1st black reporter accredited to White House, Harry McAlpin
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| 1944 |
U-762 sunk off Ireland
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| 1945 |
Allied air attack on Goch/Kleef/Kalkar/Reichswald
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| 1946 |
Béla Bart•ks 3rd Concert for piano/orchestra premieres in Phila
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| 1946 |
Premier Salazar of Portugal forbids opposition parties
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| 1947 |
Jan van der Hoorn wins 8th Dutch 11-cities skating race (10:51)
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| 1947 |
KSD (now KSDK) TV channel 5 in St Louis, MO (NBC) begins broadcasting
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| 1948 |
5th Winter Olympic games close at St Moritz, Switzerland
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| 1949 |
Hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty sentenced to life in prison
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| 1952 |
"RCA Victor Show Starring Dennis Day," debuts on NBC TV
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| 1953 |
Betty Jameson wins LPGA Serbin Golf Open
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| 1953 |
WLVA (now WSET) TV channel 13 in Lynchburg-Roanoke, VA (ABC) begins
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| 1955 |
Malenkov resigns as USSR premier, Bulganin replaces him
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| 1956 |
Mine disaster in Quaregnon Belgium, 8 die
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| 1957 |
SF Public Library's bookmobile initiated in front of City Hall
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| 1958 |
Edgar Whitehead succeeds Garfield Todd as premier of South Rhodesia
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| 1958 |
French planes bomb Sakiet Tunisia, 75 die
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| 1958 |
KIRO TV channel 7 in Seattle, WA (CBS) begins broadcasting
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| 1960 |
Boston Celtic Bill Russell becomes 1st NBAer with 50 rebounds (51)
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| 1960 |
Congress opens hearings looking into payola
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| 1962 |
KACB TV channel 3 in San Angelo, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
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| 1962 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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| 1963 |
1st transmission of Clandestine Voice of Iraqi People (Communist)
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| 1963 |
AFL's Dallas Texans become KC Chiefs
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| 1963 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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| 1964 |
Peter Shaffer's "Royal Hunt of the Sun," premieres in London
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| 1964 |
Rep Martha Griffiths address gets civil rights protection for women being added to the 1964 Civil Rights Act
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| 1965 |
Eastern DC-7B crashes into Atlantic off Jones Beach NJ, kills 84
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| 1965 |
Supremes release "Stop In the Name of Love"
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| 1967 |
Longest losing streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (10 games)
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| 1967 |
Peter (Asher) & Gordon (Waller) discontinue their singing partnership
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| 1967 |
Pirate Radio UKGM (England) closes down
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| 1967 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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| 1968 |
Officers kill 3 students demonstrating in SC State (Orangeburg)
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| 1969 |
Last edition of Saturday Evening Post
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| 1969 |
Meteorite weighing over 1 ton falls in Chihuahua, México
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| 1971 |
Pedro Morales beats Ivan Koloff in NY, to become WWF wrestling champ
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| 1971 |
South Vietnamese troops invade Laos
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| 1972 |
Josh Gibson & Buck Leonard selected to Hall of Fame
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| 1973 |
Jean Kerrs "Finishing Touches," premieres in NYC
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| 1973 |
Mushtaq & Asif Iqbal make 350 stand for 4th wicket v NZ
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| 1973 |
Senate names 7 members to investigate Watergate scandal
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| 1974 |
"Good Times," debuts on CBS TV
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| 1974 |
Ringo releases "You're 16"
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| 1974 |
Skylab 4's astronauts land
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| 1974 |
Soap opera "Secret Storm" ends a 20 year run
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| 1975 |
1800 Unification church couples' wed in Korea
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| 1975 |
Caps only got one shot in a period against Islanders
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| 1976 |
Hua Guofeng becomes premier of China PR
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| 1976 |
Jan Stephens wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Naples Golf Classic
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| 1976 |
Largest crowd at Cleveland Coliseum (Cavs vs Wash-21,130)
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| 1977 |
Earthquake in SF, at 5.0, strongest since 1966
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| 1977 |
Hustler publisher Larry Flynt sentenced due to
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| 1978 |
Crown Prince Sad Abdallah al-Salim Al Sabah becomes PM of Kuwait
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| 1979 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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| 1981 |
"5 O'Clock Girl" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 12 perfs
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| 1981 |
"Brigadoon" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 133 performances
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| 1981 |
Sally Little wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic
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| 1981 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Elaine Zayak
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| 1981 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton
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| 1982 |
Dodgers trade Davey Lopes to A's breaking up the longest-playing infield (Cey-Russell-Lopes-Garvey)
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| 1983 |
35th NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 9-3 at NY Islander
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| 1983 |
Baseball orders Mickey Mantle to sever ties with Claridge Casino
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| 1983 |
Eric Peters sets transatlantic sailboat record (E-W)-46 days
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| 1983 |
Tina Howe's "Painting Churches," premieres in NYC
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| 1983 |
Wayne Gretzky sets NHL all star record of 4 goals in 1 period
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| 1983 |
Champion thoroughbred Shergar kidnapped in Ireland; never found Lloyds of London pays $10.6 million insurance
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| 1984 |
14th Winter Olympic games opens in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
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| 1984 |
1st time 8 people in space
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| 1984 |
A's take Yankees pitcher Tim Belcher as Type A free agent compensation
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| 1984 |
Soyuz T-10 launches with crew of 3 to Salyut 7
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| 1985 |
1st-class cricket debut of Jimmy Adams (age 17), Jamaica v Barbados
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| 1985 |
Bruce Morris, Marshall Univ, makes a 92' 5¬" basketball shot
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| 1985 |
Michael Gross swims world record 800m freestyle (7:38.75)
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| 1985 |
Opposition leader Kim Dae Jung returns to South-Korea
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| 1986 |
5' 7" Spud Webb of Atlanta Hawks wins NBA Slam Dunk Competition
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| 1986 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano
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| 1987 |
37th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 154-149 (OT) at Seattle
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| 1987 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic
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| 1988 |
NASA launches DOD-2
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| 1989 |
5 cm of snow falls in outskirts of Los Angeles
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| 1989 |
Jockey Chris Antley begins record of 64 consecutive winning days
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| 1989 |
US Boeing 707 crashes into Santa Maria mountain, 145 die
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| 1990 |
David Hares "Racing Demon," premieres in London
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| 1990 |
"60 Minutes" commentator Andy Rooney suspended by CBS for racial remarks attributed to him by a gay magazine
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| 1991 |
Roger Clemens signs record $5,380,250 per year Red Sox contract
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| 1992 |
"I'm Too Sexy" by Right Said Fred peaks at #1
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| 1992 |
16th Winter Olympic games opens in Albertville, France
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| 1992 |
Ulysses spacecraft passes Jupiter
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| 1993 |
Suchoi-24 crashes into Tupolev passenger flight, 134 die
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| 1993 |
GM sues NBC, alleging that "Dateline NBC" program had rigged 2 car-truck crashes to show that 1973-87 GM pickups were prone to fires
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| 1994 |
Jack Nicholson uses a golf club to attack a car
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| 1994 |
Kapil Dev sets world record for Test Cricket wickets with 432
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| 1994 |
Mötley Cre drummer Tommy Lee charge with possession of loaded firearm
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| 1995 |
6.4 earthquake at Trujillo, Colombia (46+ killed)
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| 1996 |
NFL & Cleveland allows Art Modell to move his NFL franchise to Balt but he had to leave the Browns' name behind
|
| 1998 |
1st female ice hockey game in Olympic history Finland beats Sweden 6-0
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| 1998 |
48th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 135-114 at NYC
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| 1998 |
NHL stops season until Feb 24th to accomodate the Olympics
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