| 0590 |
St Gregory I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
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| 1189 |
30 Jews are mnassacred at King Richard I (lion hearted) coronation
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| 1189 |
England's King Richard I (the Lion-Hearted) crowned in Westminster
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| 1260 |
Battle of Ain Djaloet, Palestine defeats Mongols army
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| 1483 |
Utrecht surrenders to Habsburgs army
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| 1543 |
Cardinal Beaton replaces earl Arran as regent for Mary of Scotland
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| 1632 |
Battle at Nrnberg: Duke wallenstein beats Sweden
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| 1650 |
Battle at Dunbar: England vs Scotland
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| 1651 |
Battle at Worcester-Oliver Cromwell destroys English royalists
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| 1658 |
Richard Cromwell succeeds his father as English Lord Protector
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| 1683 |
Turkish troops break through defense of Vienna
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| 1697 |
King William's War in America ends with Treaty of Ryswick
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| 1709 |
1st major group of Swiss/German colonists reaches NC/SC
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| 1725 |
England, France, Hannover & Prussia sign Covenant of Hannover
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| 1731 |
Willem KH Friso installed as viceroy of Friesland
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| 1752 |
This day never happened nor next 10 as England adopts Gregorian Calendar. People riot thinking the govt stole 11 days of their lives
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| 1752 |
US adopts Gregorian calender (becomes Sept 14)
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| 1779 |
Earl d'orvilliers (French/Spanish Armada) sails back to Brest
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| 1783 |
Treaty of Paris signed (ending US Revolutionary War)
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| 1791 |
French Constitution passed by French National Assembly
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| 1826 |
USS Vincennes leaves NY to become 1st warship to circumnavigate globe
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| 1832 |
Rebellious slaves set fire to Paramaribo Suriname
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| 1833 |
NY Sun begins publishing (1st daily newspaper)
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| 1838 |
Frederick Douglass escapes from slavery disguised as a sailor
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| 1849 |
Calif State Constitutional Convention convenes in Monterey
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| 1852 |
Anti Jewish riots break out in Stockholm
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| 1861 |
Confederate forces enter Kentucky, thus ending its neutrality
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| 1864 |
Battle of Berryville, VA
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| 1864 |
US, British, French & Dutch naval officer sails Staits of Simonoseki
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| 1865 |
Army commander in SC orders Freedmen's Bureau to stop seizing land
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| 1878 |
England's Princess Alice sinks; 645 die
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| 1881 |
1st US Mens Tennis: Richard D Sears beats William E Glyn (60 63 62)
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| 1881 |
Anton Bruckner completes his 6th Symphony
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| 1882 |
French/Vietnamese/Chinese battle at Hanoi, 100s die
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| 1888 |
East Africa Company political & commercial rights
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| 1888 |
Queen Victoria grants William Mackinnons Imperial British
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| 1890 |
Oliver S Campbell wins US Tennis Open
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| 1891 |
11th US Mens Tennis: Oliver S Campbell beats C Hobart (26 75 79 61 62)
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| 1891 |
Cotton pickers organize union & staged strike in Texas
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| 1891 |
John Stephens Durham, named minister to Haiti
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| 1895 |
1st pro football game played, Latrobe beats Jeanette 12-0 (Penn)
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| 1900 |
British annex Natal (South Africa)
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| 1901 |
Boer General Smuts enters Kiba Drift in Cape Colony
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| 1902 |
Pittsburgh Pirates, win earliest pennent (full season)
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| 1902 |
Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Illustrious Client"
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| 1903 |
Resolute beats Shamrock III (England) in 13th America's Cup
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| 1904 |
St Louis Olympics closes
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| 1906 |
Phila Giants win Negro Championship Cup in Phila before 10,000 fans
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| 1906 |
Yanks win 2nd game on a forfeit over A's; 2nd forfeit win
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| 1908 |
James Barries "What Every Woman Knows," premieres in London
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| 1911 |
31st US Mens Tennis: Wm A Larned beats Maurice E McLoughlin (64 64 62)
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| 1912 |
Arnold Schoenberg's "Fnf Orchesterstcke," premieres
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| 1912 |
World's 1st cannery opens in England to supply food to the navy
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| 1914 |
British expeditionary army/general Lanrezacs army attacks the Marne
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| 1914 |
Cardinal Giacome della Chiesa becomes Pope Benedict XV
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| 1914 |
French troops vacate Reims
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| 1914 |
Prince Wilhelm von Wied leaves Albania
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| 1916 |
Allies turned back Germans in WW I's Battle of Verdun
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| 1917 |
1st night bombing of London by German fighter planes
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| 1917 |
German troops over run Riga Latvia
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| 1917 |
Grover Cleveland Alexander pitches complete wins in a doubleheader
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| 1917 |
Utrecht soccer team Holland forms
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| 1918 |
38th US Mens Tennis: R L Murray beats William T Tilden (63 61 75)
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| 1918 |
5 soldiers hanged for alleged participation in Houston riot of 1917
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| 1918 |
Allies forced Germans back across Hindenburg Line
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| 1921 |
16th Davis Cup: USA beats Japan in New York (5-0)
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| 1921 |
KPB, Communist Party of Belgium forms
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| 1923 |
Dorothys Donelly's "Poppy," premieres in NYC
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| 1924 |
Civil war breaks out in China (Gen Tsi moves to Shanghai)
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| 1924 |
L Stallings & M Anderson's "What Price Glory?," premieres in NYC
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| 1925 |
1st international handball match held
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| 1925 |
Dirigible "Shenandoah" crashed near Caldwell Ohio, 13 die
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| 1928 |
Baseball Hall of Famer Ty Cobb got his 4,191th & final career hit
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| 1929 |
Dow Jones hits a record peak of 381.17
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| 1930 |
Hurricane kills 2,000, injures 4,000 (Dominican Republic)
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| 1932 |
Ellsworth Vines beats Henri Cochet for US Tennis title
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| 1932 |
Jimmie Foxx of A's hits 50th & 51st HRs to become 3rd to hit 50
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| 1934 |
Tunisia began its move for independence
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| 1935 |
1st automobile to exceed 300 mph, Sir Malcolm Campbell (301.337 mph)
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| 1935 |
Andrew Varipapa sets bowling record of 2,652 points in 10 games
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| 1936 |
3rd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 7, Detroit 7 (76,000)
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| 1938 |
1940 Olympic site changed from Tokyo Japan to Helsinki Finland
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| 1939 |
German U-boat sinks British passenger ship Athenia
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| 1939 |
Great Britain & France declare war on Germany after invasion of Poland
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| 1939 |
Yanks beat Red Sox on a forfeit, their 4th forfeit win
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| 1939 |
Britain declares war on Germany. France follows 6 hours later quickly joined by Australia, NZ, South Africa & Canada
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| 1940 |
1st showing of high definition color TV
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| 1940 |
39.4 CM rainfall at Sapulpa Oklahoma (state record)
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| 1940 |
Hitler orders invasion in England on Sept 21 (Operation-Seelöwe)
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| 1940 |
Neth govt in exile of Gerbrandy forms London
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| 1940 |
Sicherheits police bans Free masons, Rotary & Red Cross
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| 1940 |
US gives Britain 50 destroyers in exchange for Newfoundland base lease
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| 1941 |
1st use of Zyclon-B gas in Auschwitz (on Russian prisoners of war)
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| 1941 |
KYW TV channel 3 in Philadelphia, PA (NBC) begins broadcasting
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| 1943 |
British 8th army lands in South Italy (Messina)
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| 1943 |
General Castellano signs cease fire treaty in Sicily
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| 1944 |
58th US Womens Tennis: P Betz beats Margaret Osborne duPont (63 86)
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| 1944 |
68th & last transport of Dutch Jews (Anne Frank) leaves to Auschwitz
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| 1944 |
Canadian troops liberate Abbeville, France
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| 1944 |
Frank Parker beats Bill Talbert for US Tennis title
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| 1944 |
French troops liberate Lyon
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| 1944 |
Last transport from Westerbork to Auschwitz
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| 1944 |
Prince Bernhard appointed supreme commander of Neth Domestic Arm Force
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| 1944 |
Tank division of British Guards free Brussels
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| 1945 |
65th US Mens Tennis: Sgt Frank A Parker beats Wm Talbert (14-12 61 62)
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| 1945 |
Japanese forces in Philippines surrender to Allies
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| 1947 |
Phila A's Bill McCahan no-hits Wash Senators, 3-0
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| 1947 |
Yanks get 18 singles to beat Red Soxs 11-2
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| 1948 |
W Gomulka deposed as general secretary of Polish Worker's party
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| 1949 |
Fire in Chiang-king, China, destroys 7,000 lives
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| 1951 |
TV soap opera "Search for Tomorrow" debuts on CBS
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| 1953 |
French minister François Mitterrand, resigns due to colonial policy
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| 1954 |
China begins artillery bombing on Quemoy & Amoy
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| 1954 |
Espionage & Sabotage Act of 1954 signed
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| 1954 |
Pope Pius X canonized a saint
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| 1955 |
KTBS TV channel 3 in Shreveport, LA (ABC) begins broadcasting
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| 1956 |
Tanks are deployed against racist demonstrators in Clinton, Tennessee
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| 1957 |
Dodgers play last game in Jersey City (11-4 in NJ)
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| 1957 |
KTCA TV channel 2 in St Paul-Minneapolis, MN (PBS) begins broadcasting
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| 1957 |
Warren Spahn sets record for a lefty pitcher with 41st shut-out
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| 1962 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Spokane Golf Open
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| 1964 |
US attorney general Robert Kennedy resigns
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| 1964 |
Wilderness Act signed into law by President Lyndon B Johnson
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| 1965 |
Curt Flood's record of 568 straight chances without an error begins
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| 1965 |
Garcia Godoy forms govt in Dominican Republic
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| 1965 |
Jim Hickman becomes 1st NY Met to hit 3 HRs in a game
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| 1965 |
Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Mysterium Fidei
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| 1965 |
Preparing a move to Anaheim, Angels change their name from LA to Calif
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| 1966 |
24th World SF Convention honors Gene Roddenberry
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| 1966 |
Donovan hits #1 with "Sunshine Superman"
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| 1967 |
Final episode of "What's My Line?," hosted by John Charles Daly
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| 1967 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Ladies' World Series of Golf
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| 1967 |
Last broadcast of "What's My Line" on CBS TV
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| 1967 |
Nguyen Van Thieu elected pres of S Vietnam under a new constitution
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| 1967 |
Sweden begins driving on right-hand side of road
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| 1967 |
WJPM TV channel 33 in Florence, SC (PBS) begins broadcasting
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| 1968 |
Chicago White Sox set AL record of 39 loses by 1 run
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| 1970 |
After NL record 1,117 consec games, Billy Williams asks to sit out
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| 1970 |
Bill Halley & Comets reject $30,000 for 15 date tour of Australia
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| 1970 |
Indonesian president Suharto visits Netherlands
|
| 1971 |
John Lennon leaves UK for NYC, never to return
|
| 1971 |
Manlio Brosio resigns as sect-gen of NATO
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| 1971 |
Qatar regains complete independence from Britain
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| 1971 |
Watergate team breaks into Daniel Ellsberg's doctor's office
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| 1973 |
General Walters, ends term as acting director of CIA
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| 1973 |
Jerry Lewis' 8th Muscular Dystrophy telethon
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| 1974 |
Giants John Montefusco makes his major league debut
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| 1974 |
NBA guard Oscar Robinson retires
|
| 1974 |
US & German DR establish diplomatic relations
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| 1975 |
Chartered 707 crashes in Atlas Mts of Morocco, 188 die
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| 1975 |
Steve Garvey begins his NL record 1,207 consecutive game streak
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| 1976 |
Viking 2 soft lands on Mars (Utopia), returns photos
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| 1977 |
Japan's Sadaharu Oh hits 756th HR to surpass Hank Aaron's total
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| 1977 |
Last broadcast of "Mary Tyler Moore Show" on NBC-TV
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| 1978 |
Crew of Soyuz 31 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 29
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| 1978 |
Leonid Mossejev becomes European marathon champ (2:11:57.5)
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| 1978 |
Pope John Paul I officially installed as 264th supreme pontiff
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| 1979 |
Hurricane David, a strong Atlantic storm kills over 1,000
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| 1979 |
Iran army conquerors Mahabad
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| 1979 |
Jerry Lewis' 14th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $30,000,000
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| 1979 |
Jo Ann Washam wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
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| 1981 |
Gerald P Remy of Boston gets 6 hits in a baseball game
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| 1981 |
Longest game in Fenway Park, suspended in 19, Mariners-7, Red Sox-7
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| 1982 |
Jörgensen govt in Denmark resigns
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| 1984 |
28 year old Chicagoan wins $40 million in Illinois state lottery
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| 1984 |
Bruce Sutter breaks NL record for saves in a season with his 38th
|
| 1984 |
Cindy Hill wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
|
| 1984 |
Jerry Lewis' 19th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $32,074,566
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| 1984 |
South Africa adopts constitution
|
| 1985 |
20th Space Shuttle Mission (51-I)-Discovery 6-returns to Earth
|
| 1985 |
England regain Cricket Ashes by beating Australia at The Oval
|
| 1985 |
NY Met Gary Carter hits 3 consecutive HRs in a game
|
| 1986 |
Alan Ayckbourn's "Woman in Mind," premieres in London
|
| 1986 |
Astros & Cubs use a record 53 players in an 18 inning game
|
| 1987 |
Coup in Burundi suspends constitution
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| 1988 |
Dennis Eckersley sets A's record with his 37th save en route to 45
|
| 1989 |
"Into the Woods" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 764 perfs
|
| 1989 |
Iljushin-62 crashes down on residential area of Havana, 170 die
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| 1989 |
Chris Evert defeats 15-year-old Monica Seles for her 101st & last US Tennis Open singles victory
|
| 1990 |
9th no-hitter of 1990: Blue Jay Dave Steib beats Cleve 3-0
|
| 1990 |
Beth Daniel wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
|
| 1990 |
Helen Hudson sings national anthem in 26th park of year (San Diego)
|
| 1990 |
Jerry Lewis' 25th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $44,172,186
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| 1990 |
White Sox reliever Bobby Thigpen sets save record at 47 en route to 57
|
| 1992 |
Jerry Lewis' 27th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $45,759,368
|
| 1994 |
Circulation of Neth Telegraph/News of the Day reaches 800,000
|
| 1995 |
Carolina Panthers lose their 1st NFL game (Atlanta-23 Carolina-20 OT)
|
| 1995 |
Jacksonville Jaguars lose their 1st NFL game (Houston-10, Jaguars-3)
|
| 1995 |
NY Yankee Tony Fernandez hits for the cycle
|
| 1995 |
Soyuz TM-22, launched into orbit
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| 1996 |
Slowinski & Gage discovers 2^1257787-1 (34th known Mersenne prime)
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