| 0816 |
Frankish emperor Louis grants archbishop Salzburg immunity
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| 1428 |
King Alfonso V, orders Sicily's Jews to attend conversion sermons
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| 1488 |
Roman catholic German emperor Maximilian I caught in Belgium
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| 1512 |
French troops under Gaston de Foix rescues Bologna
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| 1556 |
Kings Henri I & Philip II sign Treaty of Vaucelles
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| 1572 |
Beggars assault Oisterwijk Neth, drive nuns out
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| 1576 |
Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours
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| 1631 |
Rhode Island, founder, Roger Williams arrives in Boston from England
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| 1644 |
1st US livestock branding law passed, by Connecticut
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| 1649 |
Prince of Wales becomes king Charles II
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| 1663 |
Earthquake in Canada
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| 1679 |
German emperor Leopold I signs peace with France
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| 1736 |
Methodists John & Charles Wesley arrive in Savannah, Georgia
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| 1777 |
Georgia becomes 1st US state to abolish both entail & primogeniture
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| 1778 |
Articles of Confederation ratified by 1st state, South Carolina
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| 1782 |
Spanish take Minorca (western Mediterranean) from English
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| 1783 |
Earthquakes ravage Calabria, killing 30,000
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| 1783 |
Sweden recognizes US independence
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| 1795 |
Zealand Neth surrenders to French general Michaud
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| 1816 |
Rossini's Opera "Barber of Seville," premieres in Rome
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| 1817 |
1st US gas co incorporated, Baltimore (coal gas for street lights)
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| 1825 |
Hannah Lord Montague of NY creates 1st detachable shirt collar
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| 1831 |
Jan van Speijk blows up his gunboat in Antwerp, killing about 30
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| 1846 |
"Oregon Spectator" is 1st newspaper to be published on the West Coast
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| 1850 |
Adding machine employing depressible keys patented, New Paltz, NY
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| 1855 |
British govt of Palmerston forms
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| 1861 |
1st moving picture peep show machine is patented by Samuel Goodale
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| 1861 |
Kinematoscope patented by Coleman Sellers, Phila
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| 1861 |
Louisiana delegation except Mr Bouligny withdraws from Congress
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| 1864 |
Federals occupy Jackson, Mississippi
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| 1865 |
Battle of Hatcher's Run, VA (Armstrong's Mill, Dabney's Mill)
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| 1870 |
1st motion picture shown to a theater audience, Philadelphia
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| 1879 |
Joseph Swan demonstrates light bulb using carbon glow
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| 1881 |
Phoenix, Az incorporates
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| 1885 |
News of fall of Khartoum reaches London
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| 1887 |
Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Otello" premieres at La Scala in Italy
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| 1887 |
Snow falls on SF
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| 1893 |
Alfred Naess skates world record 500m (49.4 sec)
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| 1894 |
Female suffrage organization in Amsterdam forms
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| 1897 |
Marcel Proust meets Jean Lorrain in a pistol duel
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| 1900 |
British troops under Gen Buller occupy Vaal Krantz, Natal
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| 1901 |
Loop-the-loop centrifugal RR (roller coaster) patented by Ed Prescot
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| 1901 |
Pierpont Morgan forms US Steel Corp
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| 1904 |
American occupation of Cuba ends
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| 1907 |
Arnold Schönberg's 1st string quartet premieres in Vienna
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| 1911 |
Society of Dutch Composers forms in Amsterdam
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| 1916 |
Enrico Caruso recorded "O Solo Mio" for the Victor Talking Machine Co
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| 1917 |
Congress overrides Wilson's veto, curtailing Asian immigration
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| 1917 |
Morosco Theater opens at 217 W 45th St NYC (demolished 1982)
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| 1917 |
Present Mexican constitution adopted
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| 1918 |
1st US pilot to down an enemy airplane, Stephen W Thompson
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| 1918 |
Separation of church & state begins in USSR
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| 1919 |
NL pres John Heydler dismisses charges that Hal Chase bet against his team & threw games in collusion with gamblers
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| 1921 |
Yankees purchase 20 acres in Bronx for Yankee Stadium
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| 1922 |
Reader's Digest magazine 1st published
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| 1923 |
General mine strike against wage cuts in Saar
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| 1923 |
Mass arrests of socialists & communists in Italy
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| 1927 |
Buster Keaton's movie "The General" released & bombed
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| 1929 |
Jimmy Hatlo's "They'll Do It Every Time" cartoon debuts in SF
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| 1930 |
5th Aliyah to Israel begins
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| 1931 |
Maxine Dunlap becomes 1st US women to earn a glider pilot license
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| 1933 |
Marinus van der Lubbe passes Dutch/German boundary
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| 1936 |
National Wildlife Federation forms
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| 1937 |
1st Charlie Chaplin talkie, "Modern Times," released
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| 1937 |
FDR proposes enlarging Supreme Court, "court packing" plan failed
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| 1938 |
Hans Engnestangen skates world record 500m (41.8 sec)
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| 1940 |
Gen Winckelman replaces Gen Reijnders as Dutch supreme commander
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| 1940 |
Glenn Miller & his Orchestra record "Tuxedo Junction"
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| 1941 |
Dutch Premier De Geer returns from Lisbon to Netherlands
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| 1942 |
"Woman of the Year," starring Hepburn & Tracy opens at Radio City
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| 1942 |
Braves get Tommy Holmes from Yanks for Buddy Hassett & Gene Moore
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| 1943 |
Amsterdam resistance group CS-6 shoots nazi general Seyffardt
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| 1943 |
Clandestine Radio Atlantiksender, Germany, 1st transmission
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| 1944 |
358 RAF-bombers attack Stettin
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| 1945 |
Big Racket becomes fastest race horse at 69t.6 kph (440 yd/20.8 s)
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| 1945 |
British premier Churchill arrives in Yalta, the Krim
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| 1945 |
US troops under General Douglas MacArthur enter Manilla
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| 1947 |
Bolewet Beirut becomes president of Poland
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| 1948 |
"Nature of Things" science show premieres on NBC prime time
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| 1948 |
Dick Button becomes 1st US figure skating Olympic champion
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| 1948 |
Gretchen Fraser becomes 1st US woman Olympic slalom champion
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| 1949 |
Huaso sets official world equestrian high-jump record, 2.47 m, Chic
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| 1953 |
"Peter Pan" by Walt Disney opens at Roxy Theater, NYC
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| 1953 |
5th Emmy Awards: I Love Lucy, Thomas Mitchell & Helen Hayes wins
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| 1954 |
WCDC TV channel 19 in Adams, MA (ABC) begins broadcasting
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| 1956 |
7th Winter Olympic games close at Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy
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| 1956 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA Havana Golf Open
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| 1956 |
NY Mayor Robert Wagner & Bkln Boro Pres Frank Cashmore sponsor a bill to create a $30M Brooklyn Sports Center Authority to build
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| 1957 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 2nd Piano Concert
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| 1958 |
Clifton R Wharton confirmed as 1st US black foreign minister (Romania)
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| 1958 |
Gamel Abdel Nasser nominated 1st president of United Arab Republic
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| 1958 |
Test Cricket debut of Lance Gibbs, WI v Pakistan, Port-of-Spain
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| 1958 |
Vanguard TV-3 back-up launches into Earth orbit; reaches 6 km
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| 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
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| 1962 |
Suit to bar Englewood NJ from "racial segregated" schools, filed
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| 1962 |
Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter & Saturn within 16°
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| 1963 |
Maarten Schmidt discovers enormous red shifts in quasars
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| 1963 |
Soviet lunar probe failure
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| 1965 |
Beursschouwburg opens in Brussels
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| 1966 |
BBC opens a relay radio station on Ascension Island
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| 1967 |
"Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" premieres on CBS (later ABC, NBC)
|
| 1967 |
Anastasio Somoza elected president of Nicaragua
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| 1967 |
Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Robert Penn Warren
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| 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 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
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| 1972 |
Bob Douglas is 1st black elected to Basketball Hall of Fame
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| 1972 |
US airlines begin mandatory inspection of passengers & baggage
|
| 1973 |
Comic strip "Hagar The Horrible" debuted
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| 1973 |
Funeral for LC William Nolde, last US soldier killed in Vietnam War
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| 1973 |
Juan Corona sentenced to 25 consecutive life terms for 25 murders
|
| 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
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| 1977 |
Sugar Ray Leonard beats Luis Vega in 6 rounds in his 1st pro fight
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| 1977 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne
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| 1977 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Charles Tickner
|
| 1978 |
Fred Newman makes 88 consecutive basketball free throws blindfolded
|
| 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
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| 1982 |
DEA announces seizure of 3,192 tons of marijuana, 495 people
|
| 1982 |
Laker Airways collapse owing œ270M ($351M)
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| 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"
|
| 1987 |
Dow Jones avg closes above 2,200 for 1st time
|
| 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 Völker 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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