| 0311 |
St Militiades begins his reign as Catholic Pope
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| 1140 |
Hartbert becomes bishop of Utrecht
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| 1214 |
Battle of La Roche-aux-Moines (Angers)
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| 1214 |
English king John begins siege around Lille France
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| 1298 |
Battle on Hasenbhl (Göllheim) between German kings Adolf & Albrecht I
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| 1576 |
Muitende Spanish soldiers conquer Zierik Sea
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| 1600 |
Battle at Newport: Earl Mauritius van Nassau beats Spanish Army
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| 1644 |
Battle of Marston Moor: Parliamentary forces defeat royalists
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| 1681 |
Earl of Shaftesbury arrested for high-treason
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| 1687 |
King James II disbands English parliament
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| 1776 |
NJ gave all adults who could show a net worth of 50œ right to vote
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| 1776 |
Continental Congress resolves "these United Colonies are & of right ought to be Free & Independent States"
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| 1777 |
Vermont becomes 1st American colony to abolish slavery
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| 1787 |
De Sade shouts from Bastille that prisoners are being slaughtered
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| 1794 |
2nd Battle of Seneffe: France-Austria
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| 1808 |
Simon Fraser completes his trip down Fraser R, BC, lands at Musqueam
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| 1843 |
An alligator falls from sky during a Charleston SC thunderstorm
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| 1847 |
Envelope bearing 1st US 10› stamps, still exists today
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| 1849 |
Garibaldi in Rome begins hunger strike
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| 1850 |
Benjamin Lane patents gas mask with a breathing apparatus
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| 1858 |
Partial emancipation of Russian serfs
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| 1861 |
Battle of Hoke's Run, WV - small Union victory
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| 1862 |
Lincoln signs act granting land for state agricultural colleges
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| 1863 |
Battle of Gettysburg (2nd day)
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| 1863 |
R Morgan's: Burksville, KY to Salineville, OH [->JUL 26]
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| 1864 |
Gen Early & Confederate forces reach Winchester en route to Wash DC
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| 1864 |
Statuary Hall in US Capitol forms
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| 1865 |
William Booth founds Salvation Army (Army of the Salvation)
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| 1867 |
1st US elevated railroad begins service, NYC
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| 1881 |
Pres Garfield shot by Charles J Guiteau a disappointed office-seeker
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| 1885 |
Canada's North-west Insurrection ends with surrender of Big Bear
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| 1890 |
Congress passes Sherman Antitrust Act
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| 1894 |
Government obtains injunction against striking Pullman Workers
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| 1900 |
Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin 1st airship LZ-1, flies
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| 1900 |
Sibelius' "Finlandia," premieres in Helsinki
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| 1901 |
Butch Cassidy & Sundance Kid rob train of $40,000 at Wagner Montana
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| 1902 |
John J McGraw becomes manager of NY Giants (stays for 30 years)
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| 1903 |
AL/NL batting champ Ed Delahanty, disappears, found dead days later
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| 1903 |
Pitcher Jack Doscher, 1 son of a major leaguer debuts with Cubs
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| 1906 |
Yanks win by forfeit, for their 1st time
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| 1916 |
Lenin says Imperialism is caused by capitalism
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| 1916 |
Russian offensive in Armenia
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| 1917 |
Riots in East St Louis Mo
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| 1921 |
41st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: B Tilden beats B Norton (46 26 61 60 75)
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| 1921 |
Jack Dempsey KOs George S Carpentier in 4 for heavyweight boxing title 1st million dollar gate ($1.7m) boxing match (Dempsey KOs Carpentier)
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| 1926 |
US Army Air Corps created; Distinguish Flying Cross authorized
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| 1927 |
40th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats L de Alvarez (62 64)
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| 1927 |
Earthquake hits Palestine
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| 1928 |
British parliament accept female sufferage
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| 1932 |
52nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Ellsworth Vines beats H Austin (64 62 60)
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| 1932 |
FDR makes 1st presidential nominating conventional acceptance speech
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| 1933 |
Carl Hubbell shuts-out Cards 1-0 in 18 innings without a walk
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| 1934 |
General Laz ro C rdenas elected president of Mexico
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| 1935 |
Great Britain boxers beat US team in 1st intl Golden Gloves
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| 1937 |
57th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Don Budge beats G von Cramm (63 64 62)
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| 1937 |
Amelia Earhart & Fred Noonan disappear over Pacific Ocean
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| 1938 |
51st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Helen Jacobs (64 60)
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| 1940 |
Dutch PM Colijn publishes "Borders of 2 Worlds" (German victory)
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| 1940 |
Hitler orders invasion of England
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| 1940 |
Lake Washington (Seattle) Floating bridge dedicated
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| 1940 |
PM Churchill meets gen-mjr B Montgomery
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| 1941 |
DiMaggio breaks Willie Keeler's 44 game hitting streak (45th of 56)
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| 1941 |
Earthquake hits Palestine
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| 1941 |
Nazi mass murder in Lvov/Lemberg (7,000 dead)
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| 1941 |
Noel Coward's "Blithe Spirit," premieres in London
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| 1943 |
Gulf of Biskaje: Liberator bombers sinks U-126
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| 1943 |
Indians score 12 runs in 4th inning & beat Yankees 12-0
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| 1943 |
Lt Charles Hall, becomes 1st black pilot to shoot down Nazi plane
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| 1944 |
Marshal von Kluge replaces General von Rundstedt
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| 1946 |
Dutch Beel govt forms
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| 1946 |
Harbor workers end strike at Rotterdam & Amsterdam
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| 1947 |
Military coup discovered in France
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| 1948 |
62nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Falkenburg beats Bromwich (75 06 62 36 75)
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| 1949 |
"High Button Shoes" closes at Century Theater NYC after 727 perfs
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| 1949 |
"Red Barber's Clubhouse" sports show premieres on CBS (later NBC) TV
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| 1949 |
56th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: L Brough beats M duPont (10-8 16 10-8)
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| 1950 |
Indian Bob Feller, wins his 200th game, 5-3 over Detroit
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| 1951 |
Bill Veeck buys St Louis Browns from Bill & Charlie DeWitt
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| 1951 |
Bob & Ray show premieres on NBC radio
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| 1951 |
Hugo Yarnold stumps 6 at Dundee, Worcester v Scotland
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| 1951 |
Island advisor of Curaçao installed
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| 1951 |
Leidse astronomers discover radio signal out of Milky Way system
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| 1952 |
Princess Beatrice opens miniature city of Madurodam
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| 1952 |
Zulu-leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi marries Irene Mzila
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| 1954 |
68th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: J Drobny beats K Rosewall (13-11 46 62 97)
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| 1954 |
Denis Compton scores 278 in 290 minutes v Pakistan
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| 1955 |
"7th Heaven" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 44 performances
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| 1955 |
"Almost Crazy" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 16 performances
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| 1955 |
"Lawrence Welk Show" premieres on ABC
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| 1955 |
10th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Fay Crocker
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| 1955 |
62nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Louise Brough beats B Fleitz (75 86)
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| 1955 |
Desmond Tutu marries Leah Nomalizo Shinxani
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| 1956 |
Elvis Presley records "Hound Dog" & "Don't Be Cruel"
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| 1956 |
US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)
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| 1957 |
1st submarine designed to fire guided missiles launched, Grayback
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| 1957 |
Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Le pèlerinage De Lourdes
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| 1958 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
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| 1959 |
"Plan 9 From Outer Space," one of the worse films ever, premieres
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| 1959 |
Prince Albert marries Princess Paola in Brussels
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| 1960 |
"Once Upon a Mattress" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 460 perfs
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| 1961 |
Maris hits 29th & 30th en route to 61 homers
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| 1962 |
Cubans minister of Foreign affairs Ra£l Castro arrives in Moscow
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| 1962 |
Fidel Castro visits Moscow
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| 1963 |
Giant Willie Mays' HR in 16th inning gives them a 1-0 win over Braves
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| 1963 |
Juan Marichal (Giants) beats Warren Spahn (Braves), 1-0 in 16 innings
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| 1964 |
Cilla Black records Beatle's "Its For You," McCartney plays piano
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| 1964 |
Grand jury indicts Beckwith in murder of Medger Evers
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| 1964 |
Pres Johnson signs Civil Rights Act & Voting Rights Act into law
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| 1965 |
79th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Roy Emerson beats Fred Stolle (62 64 64)
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| 1966 |
1st France nuclear explosion on Mururoa atoll
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| 1966 |
73rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Billie J King beats Frasier (63 36 61)
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| 1966 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
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| 1967 |
22nd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Catherine Lacoste
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| 1967 |
Catherine Lacoste becomes youngest (22), 1st foreigner (France) & 1st amateur to US Women's open golf tournament
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| 1969 |
Ireland bowl out WI for 25 at Londonderry, win by 9 wkts
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| 1969 |
Leslie West & Felix Pappalardi form rock group Mountain
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| 1970 |
1st Boeing 747 to land in Amsterdam & Brussels
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| 1970 |
NY Yankees Horace Clarke breaks up a no-hitter in the 9th for 3rd time in 28 days
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| 1971 |
78th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Evonne Goolagong beats M Smith (64 61)
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| 1971 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test
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| 1972 |
"Fiddler on the Roof" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 3242 perfs
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| 1972 |
27th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Susie Maxwell Berning
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| 1972 |
Bob Seagren pole vaults world record 5.63m
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| 1972 |
India & Pakistan sign peace accord
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| 1973 |
James R Schlesinger, ends term as 9th director of CIA
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| 1973 |
Nation Black Network begins operation on radio
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| 1974 |
Fernando Mameda of Portugal sets record for 10,000 m (27:13.81)
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| 1976 |
83rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats E Goolagong (63 46 86)
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| 1976 |
Formal reunification of North & South Vietnam
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| 1976 |
Supreme Court rules death penalty not inherently cruel or unusual
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| 1977 |
91st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Björn Börg beats Connors (36 62 61 57 64)
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| 1978 |
Pitcher Ron Guidry sets Yankee record of 13-0 start
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| 1979 |
Susan B Anthony dollar is issued, 1st US coin to honor a woman
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| 1980 |
Grateful Dead's Bob Weir & Mickey Hart are arrested for incitement
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| 1980 |
Julie Marie Bryan, 18, of Georgia, crowned America's Young Woman of Yr
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| 1982 |
Larry Walters using lawn chair & 42 helium balloons, rose to 16,000'
|
| 1982 |
Soyuz T-6 returns to Earth
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| 1983 |
90th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats A Jaeger (60 63)
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| 1985 |
Andrei Gromyko appointed president of USSR
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| 1985 |
European Space Agency launches Giotto (Halley's Comet Flyby)
|
| 1986 |
After 14 wins, Roger Clemens suffer his 1st loss of year
|
| 1986 |
General strike against Pinochet regime in Chile
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| 1986 |
Supreme Court upholds affirmative action in 2 rulings
|
| 1987 |
Jim Eisenreich, comeback after nervous disorder in 1984
|
| 1988 |
95th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Navratilova (57 62 61)
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| 1989 |
10th US Seniors Golf Open: Orville Moody
|
| 1989 |
17th du Maurier Golf Classic: Tammie Green
|
| 1990 |
Imelda Marcos & Adnan Khashoggi found not guilty of racketeering
|
| 1990 |
Panic in tunnel of Mecca: 1,426 pilgrims trampled to death
|
| 1991 |
Riot at Guns N' Roses concert in St Louis
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| 1992 |
Braniff Airlines goes out of business
|
| 1993 |
Boat sinks at Bocaue Philippines, 325 die
|
| 1993 |
F-28 crashes at Sorong Irian Barat, 41 die
|
| 1993 |
Kansas Royals rename stadium Ewing Kaufman Stadium after founder
|
| 1993 |
Moslem fundamentalists in Sivas Turkey, set hotel on fire, kill 36
|
| 1993 |
NY Met Anthony Young loses a record 25th straight game (goes to 27)
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| 1993 |
Pope John Paul II hospitalized for Cat Scan test
|
| 1994 |
101st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: C Martinez beats Navratilova (64 36 63)
|
| 1994 |
37 dies in US Air DC-9 crash in NC
|
| 1994 |
John Wayne Bobbitt & Kristina Elliot arrested for domestic battery
|
| 1994 |
Richard Johnson takes 10-45 for Middlesex against Derbyshire
|
| 1994 |
US Air DC-9 crash in NC, 37 killed
|
| 1995 |
"Rose Tattoo" closes at Circle in the Square NYC after 80 perfs
|
| 1995 |
16th US Seniors Golf Open: Tom Weiskopf
|
| 1995 |
Michelle McGann wins Youngstown-Warren LPGA Golf Classic
|
| 1995 |
Thailand: Banharn Silpa-Archa's party wins election
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