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- !By Bruce T Goldman & Robert Braunwart
- !October events - Version 9.06
- B10--1928 Li Peng, PM of China (1987- )
- B10--1946 Kathy Dunn, actress (Pat-Our Private World)
- B10--1948 Jeramie Rain, WV, actress (Last House on the Left, Abductors)
- B10--1950 Nathalie Nell, Paris France, actress (L'Armour Violè)
- B10--1953 Corrine Alphen Wahl, Boston Mass, actress (Hot T-Shirts)
- B10011207 Henry III, king of England (1216-72)
- B10011685 Charles VI, Holy Roman emperor (1711-40)
- B10011746 John Mühlenberg, Lutheran pastor/general/congressman
- B10011760 William Beckford, British writer (Epsiodes of Vathek)
- B10011781 James Lawrence, naval hero (War of 1812-"Don't give up the ship!")
- B10011791 Sergey Aksakov, Russia, novelist (Chronicles of a Russian Family)
- B10011799 Rufus Choate, US, lawyer (Hall of Fame)
- B10011832 Caroline Lavinia Scott Harrison, 1st wife of Benjamin Harrison
- B10011835 William H "Red" Jackson, Brig Gen (7th Tennessee Cavalry)
- B10011847 Annie Besant, [Wood], England, philospher/thesophist
- B10011865 Paul Dukas, Paris France, composer (Velléda)
- B10011881 William Edward Boeing, founded aircraft co (Boeing)
- B10011885 Louis Untermeyer, NYC, poet/critic (Immortal Poems, Story Poems)
- B10011890 Stanley Holloway, London England, actor (Higgins-Our Man Higgins)
- B10011893 Faith Baldwin, New Rochelle NY, author/novelist (They Who Love)
- B100119-- Christine Andreas, Camden NJ, actress (Taylor-Another World)
- B100119-- David O'Brien, Chic Ill, actor (Dr Larson-Our Private World)
- B100119-- Robert Peirce, Santa Monica Calif, actor (Bingo-Joanie Loves Chachi)
- B10011903 "Slapsie" Maxie Rosenbloom, NYC, light-heavyweight box champ (1932-34)
- B10011904 Vladimir Horowitz, Kiev Ukraine, pianist (Carmen)
- B10011907 Hiram Fong, (Sen-Cal)
- B10011909 Sam Yorty, (Mayor-LA)
- B10011911 Edward P Boland, (Rep-D-Mass)
- B10011911 Irwin Kostal, Chicago Ill, orchestra leader (Garry Moore Show)
- B10011911 Richard Torriani, Switzerland, took 1948 Olympic oath
- B10011914 Daniel Boorstin, author (1974 Pulitzer Prize)
- B10011920 Lonny Chapman, Tulsa Okla, actor (Investigator, For the People)
- B10011920 Walter Matthau, NYC, actor (Odd Couple, Bad News Bears)
- B10011921 James Whitmore, White Plains NY, actor (Give 'em Hell Harry)
- B10011924 Jimmy Earl Carter, (D) 39th Pres (1977-1981)
- B10011924 William Rehnquist, Ws, Supreme Court (1972-86)/chief justice (1987- )
- B10011927 Tom Bosley, Chicago, actor (Howard-Happy Days, Murder She Wrote)
- B10011928 George Peppard, Detroit Mich, actor (Banacek, A-Team, Blue Max)
- B10011928 Laurence Harvey, actor (Alamo, Romeo & Juliet)
- B10011930 Richard Harris, actor (A Man Called Horse), singer (MacArthur Park)
- B10011935 Julie Andrews, England, actress/singer (Sound of Music, Mary Poppins)
- B10011936 Charles G Fullerton, Rochester, NY, astronaut (STS-3, 51F)
- B10011936 Edward Villella, US, ballet dancer (NYC Ballet)
- B10011936 Stella Stevens, Yazoo City Miss, actress (Girls! Girls!, Manitou)
- B10011945 Donny Hathaway, Chicago, singer/songwriter (Where is the Love)
- B10011945 Rod Carew, baseball slugger (AL Rookie of the Year 1967)
- B10011946 Eva Klobukowska, Poland, relay (Olympic-gold-1964)
- B10011947 Stephen Collins, Des Moines Iowa, actor (Star Trek I, Tattingers)
- B10011948 Ellen McIlwaine, Nashville, blues singer (Honky Tonky Angel)
- B10011949 Annie Leibovitz, photgrapher (Rolling Stones)
- B10011950 Randy Quaid, Houston Tx, actor (Midnight Express, Vacation, SNL)
- B10011953 Greta Waitz, Norway, marathon runner (NYC)
- B10011960 Elizabeth Dennehy, actress (Guiding Light)
- B10011962 Trevor Baxter, record holder for high jumping with a skateboard
- B10011963 Beth Chamberlin, Danville Vt, actress (Beth Spaulding-Guiding Light)
- B10011963 Mark McGwire, Oakland A's (AL rookie of year 1988)
- B10011968 Jay Underwood, actor (The Boy Who Could Fly)
- B10021800 Nat Turner, Virginia, leader of major slave rebellion
- B10021851 Ferdinand Foch, believed to be responsible for Allies winning WW I
- B10021869 Mahatma K Ghandi, Porbandar Kathiawad India, pacifist
- B10021871 Cordell Hull, US Sec of State (1933-44), lowered tariffs (Nobel 1945)
- B10021879 Wallace Stevens, Reading Pa, poet (Ideas of Order)
- B10021885 Ruth Bryan Rohde, US, (Rep), minister to Denmark
- B10021890 Groucho Martin, NYC, comedian (Marx Bros, You Bet Your Life)
- B10021891 H V Porter, basketball pioneer, created fan shape backboard
- B10021895 Bud Abbott, Asbury Pk NJ, comedian (Abbott & Costello)
- B10021899 Nat Turner, famous African
- B100219-- Avery Brooks, Evansville Ind, actor (Hawk-Spenser for Hire)
- B100219-- Betty Kennedy, Roswell NM, actress (Andrea-Ladies' Man)
- B100219-- Chip McAllister, St Louis Mo, actor (Luther-Better Days)
- B100219-- Lani O'Grady, Walnut Creek Calif, actress (Mary-8 is Enough)
- B100219-- Wesley Thompson, Chicago Ill, actor (Wardell-He's the Mayor)
- B10021904 Graham Greene, England, prolific novelist (Brighton Rock)
- B10021914 Charles Drake, Bayside NYC, actor (Air Force, Glenn Miller Story)
- B10021921 Robert Runcie, archbishop of Canterbury
- B10021928 Clay Felker, St Louis, journalist (NY Herald Tribune, Esquire)
- B10021928 Spanky McFarland, actor (Little Rascals)
- B10021929 Moses Gunn, St Louis Mo, actor (Amityville II, Good Times, Shaft)
- B10021932 Maury Wills, baseball shortstop (LA Dodgers, NL MVP 1962)
- B10021938 Rex Reed, Ft Worth Tx, movie critic/actor (Myra Breckinridge)
- B10021939 Yuri N Glazkov, cosmonaut (Soyuz 24)
- B10021945 Don McLean, singer/songwriter (American Pie, Vincent)
- B10021945 Neil Frances Tennant, rocker (Pet Shop Boy-West End Girl)
- B10021946 Roger Jett, Maryland, actor (Smithereens)
- B10021948 Donna Karan, Forest Hills NY, fashion designer (Coty Award-1977)
- B10021950 Persis Khambatta, Bombay India, actress (Star Trek, Megaforce)
- B10021951 Mike Rutherford, rocker (Genesis-Against All Odds, Mike & Mechanics)
- B10021951 Romina Power, LA Calif, actress (Justine)
- B10021951 Sting, AKA Gordon Sumner, rocker (Police-Roxanne)/actor (Dune)
- B10021952 George Meegen, England, walked 19,019 miles from Argentina to Alaska
- B10021954 Lorraine Bracco, actress (Someone to Watch Over Me, Dream Team)
- B10021957 Kimberly Herrin, Santa Barbara Calif, playmate (March, 1981)
- B10021960 Glenn Anderson, Vancouver, NHL (Edmonton Oilers)
- B10021961 Phil Oakey, rocker (Human League-Human)
- B10021961 Robbie Nevil, rocker (A Place Like This)
- B10021962 Esai Morales, actor (Bad Boys, La Bamba)
- B10021964 Sherry Arnett, St Louis Mo, playmate (Jan, 1986)
- B10021965 Jill Powell, Jacksonville Fla, actress (Marcy-As The World Turns)
- B10021970 Kelly Ripa, actress (Hayley Vaughan-All My Children)
- B10021971 "Tiffany" Renee Darwich, Norwalk Cal, singer (I Think We're Alone Now)
- B10021991 Beau Grayson, son of country singer Tanya Tucker
- B10031605 Li Tzu-ch'eng, Chinese revolutionary, dethroned last Ming emperor
- B10031728 Christian d'Oriola, France, foils (Olympic-gold-1952, 56)
- B10031800 George Bancroft, historian (Hall of Fame)
- B10031803 John Gorrie, inventor (cold-air process of refrigeration)
- B10031804 Townsend Harris, 1st Western consul to reside in Japan
- B10031814 Mikhail (Yurevich) Lermontov, Russia, romantic poet/novelist (Demon)
- B10031844 Sir Patrick Manson, "Father of tropical medicine"
- B10031854 William Crawford Gorgas, US, Surgeon-Gen, help cure yellow fever
- B10031859 Elenora Duse, Italy, actress (Hedda Gabler)
- B10031886 Henri Alain-Fournier, French novelist (Le Grand Meaulnes)
- B10031888 Carl von Ossietzky, Germany, journalist, pacifist (Nobel 1935)
- B10031899 Gertrude Berg, Harlem NYC, actress (Molly Goldberg-The Goldbergs)
- B100319-- Frank Hannon, rock guitarist (Tesla-Psychotic Supper)
- B10031900 Jay Irving, NYC, cartoonist (Draw Me a Laugh)
- B10031900 Thomas Wolfe, American novelist (Look Homeward Angel)
- B10031904 Charles Pedersen, UK, biochemist (Nobel 1987)
- B10031911 Michael Hordern, England, actor (Friar Domingo-Shogun)
- B10031923 Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Lwow Poland, conductor (Die Zauberflöte)
- B10031925 Gore Vidal, writer/playwright (Myra Breckinridge, Lincoln)
- B10031928 Erik Bruhn, Copenhagen Denmark, dancer (Natl Ballet of Canada)
- B10031934 Madlyn Rhue, Wash DC, actress (Bracken's World, Executive Suite)
- B10031935 Abdon Pamich, Italy, 50K walker (Olympic-gold-1964)
- B10031935 Charles M Duke Jr, Charlotte NC, Brig Gen USAF/astronaut (Apol 16)
- B10031936 Steve Reich, NYC, composer (My Name is)
- B10031937 Eli Jacobs, baseball owner (Baltimore Orioles)
- B10031938 Eddie Cochran, Okla City, rocker (C'Mon Everybody)
- B10031939 James Darren, Phila, actor/singer (Gidget, Diamond Head)
- B10031940 Jean Ratelle, NHL center (NY Rangers, Boston Bruins)
- B10031941 Chubby Checker, singer (The Twist)
- B10031945 Viktor Saneyev, USSR, triple jumper (Olympic-3 gold/1 silv-1968-80)
- B10031946 Bob Dotson, St Louis Mo, newscaster (Primetime Sunday)
- B10031947 Lindsey Buckingham, rocker (Fleetwood Mac-Rumours, Tusk)
- B10031950 Pamela Hensley, Glendale Calif, actress (Buck Rogers in 25th Century)
- B10031951 Dave Winfield, baseball outfielder (NY Yankee)
- B10031951 Kathryn D Sullivan, Paterson NJ, PhD/astro (STS 41-G, 28, 31, 45)
- B10031956 Hart Bochner, actor (Supergirl, Die Hard)
- B10031959 Jack Wagner, rocker/actor (General Hospital, Santa Barbara)
- B10031962 Tommy Lee, Greece, rock drummer (Motley Crüe), wed Heather Locklear
- B10031963 Patrick Flatley, Ontario, right winger (NY Islanders, Oly-4 gold-1988)
- B10031969 Shane Butterworth, actor (Timmy-Bad News Bears)
- B10031972 Denny Vaughn, orch leader (Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour)
- B10041289 Louis X (the Stubborn), king of France (1314-16)
- B10041626 Richard Cromwell, lord protector of England (1658-59)
- B10041822 Rutherford B Hayes, (R) 19th pres (1877-81)
- B10041850 John W McGraw, (Gov-R-Wash) (1893-97)
- B10041860 Sidney Paget, illustrated Sherlock Holmes adventures
- B10041861 Frederic Remington, US, artist/sculptor of the American West
- B10041880 Damon Runyon, writer (Guys & Dolls-based on his work)
- B10041889 John B Kelly, Olympic champion rower/father of Grace Kelly
- B10041892 Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian Fascist chancellor killed by Nazis
- B10041894 Cliff Hall, Bkln NY, actor (Crime Photographer)
- B10041895 Buster Keaton, actor (The Navigator, Steamboat Bill, Jr)
- B100419-- Bill Fagerbakke, actor (Dauber Dybinski-Coach)
- B100419-- Brynn Thayer, actress (One Life to Live)
- B100419-- Christopher Stone, Manchester NH, actor (Dave-Dallas, The Interns)
- B100419-- Eric Kilpatrick, St Louis Mo, actor (Curtis-White Shadow)
- B100419-- Mary Lynn Blanks, actress (As the World Turns)
- B100419-- Meg Bennett, actress (Young & Restless)
- B10041917 Jan Murray, Bronx NY, comedian (Treasure Hunt, Who Killed Teddy Bear)
- B10041922 Malcolm Baldrige, Conn, US Secretary of Commerce (1981-87)
- B10041923 Charlton Heston, actor (10 Commandments, Ben Hur, Planet of the Apes)
- B10041929 Leroy Van Dyke, Spring Fork Mo, country singer (Walk on By)
- B10041931 Dick Tracy, comic strip crimestopper
- B10041932 Felicia Farr, Westchester NY, actress (Charley Varrick, Kotch)
- B10041934 Sam Huff, NFL linebacker (NY Giants, Washington Redskins)
- B10041935 Eddie Applegate, Wyncote Pa, actor (Richard-Patty Duke Show)
- B10041941 Jackie Collins, London, author (Bitch, Stud)
- B10041941 Lori Saunders, Kansas City Mo (Petticoat Junction, Dusty Trails)
- B10041943 Buddy Roemer, (Gov-D-La)
- B10041943 Owen Keir Davidson, Australia, 4 time Wimbeldon mix double champ
- B10041944 Patty LaBelle, singer (LaBelles-Lady Marmalade)
- B10041945 Clifton Davis, Chicago Ill, actor/singer (That's My Mama, Amen)
- B10041946 Susan Sarandon, [Tomaling], Jackson Hgts NY, actress (Bull Durham)
- B10041949 Armand Assante, NYC, actor (Private Benjamin, Unfaithfully Yours)
- B10041960 Jennifer Anglin, Adrian Mich, actress (Cheryl-General Hospital)
- B10041961 David W Harper, Abilene Tx, actor (Jim Bob-Waltons)
- B10041989 Dakota Johnson, son of Melanie Griffith & Don Johnson
- B10051703 Jonathan Edwards, US, theologian/philospher (Original Sin)
- B10051713 Denis Diderot, France, encyclopedist (Dictionnaire Encyclopédique)
- B10051830 Chester Alan Arthur, Fairfield Vt, (R) 21st Pres (1881-85)
- B10051840 John Addington Symonds, Brit historian/writer (Probs in Greek Ethics)
- B10051864 Louis Lumière, with brother Auguste made 1st motion picture in 1895
- B10051882 Robert Hutchings Goddard, Worcester Mass, rocket pioneer
- B10051887 René Cassin, pacifist (Nobel Peace Prize 1968)
- B100519-- Bever-Leigh Banfield, NYC, actress (Officer Edie-Open All Night)
- B100519-- Brian Johnson, rocker (AC/DC-Highway to Hell))
- B100519-- Shell Kepler, actress (Amy Vining-General Hospital)
- B100519-- Thom Christopher, actor (Carlo Hesser-One Life to Live)
- B100519-- Troy Luccketta, rock drummer (Tesla-Psychotic Supper)
- B10051902 Ray Kroc, Illinois, founder of MacDonalds/owner (San Diego Padres)
- B10051904 John Hoyt, Bronxville NY, actor (Gimme a Break, Tom Dick & Mary)
- B10051908 Joshua Logan, Broadway producer (South Pacific)
- B10051912 Tony Martin, Bkln NY, announcer (Arthur Godfrey)
- B10051919 Allen Ludden, Mineral Point Wisc, TV host (Password)
- B10051919 Donald Pleasence, Worksop England, actor (Fantastic Voyage, Halloween)
- B10051921 Bill Willis, AAFC, NFL guard (Cleveland Browns)
- B10051923 Glynis Johns, Pretoria South Africa, actress (Mary Poppins)
- B10051923 Philip Berrigan, militant priest (Chicago 7)
- B10051924 Bill Dana, Quincy Mass, comedian/actor (Jose Jimenez)
- B10051925 Gail Davis, Little Rock Ark, actress (Annie Oakley)
- B10051929 Richard F Gordon Jr, Seattle, Capt USN/astronaut (Gemini 11, Apol 12)
- B10051929 Skip Homeier, Chicago Ill, actor (Dan Raven, The Interns)
- B10051930 Pavel R Popovich, Ukraine, cosmonaut (Vostok 4, Soyuz 14)
- B10051930 Skip Homeier, Chicago, actor (Beachhead, Dakota Incident)
- B10051933 Diane Cilento, Australia, actress (Agony & Ecstasy, Wicker Man)
- B10051935 Peter Brown, NYC, actor (Lawman, Laredo, Bold & Beautiful)
- B10051937 Barry Switzer, football coach (Oklahoma)
- B10051941 Ricardo Hoffmann, marathon swimmer (299 miles)
- B10051943 Steve Miller, Milwaukee, rocker (Abracadabra, Space Cowboy)
- B10051948 Sal Viscuso, Bkln NY, actor (Soap, Montefuscos)
- B10051950 Jeff Conway, NYC, actor (Bobby-Taxi)
- B10051951 Bob Geldof, pop musician (Boomtown Rats, Band Aid)
- B10051951 Karen Allen, Illinois, actress (Cruising, Starman, Wanderers)
- B10051951 Leah Poulos-Mueller, US, speed skater (Olympic-gold-1980)
- B10051952 Clive Barker, producer (Hell Raiser)
- B10051954 Duncan Regehr, Alberta Canada, actor (Wizards & Warriors)
- B10051955 Leo Barnes, rocker (Hothouse Flowers-Don't Go)
- B10051957 Jeanne Evert, tennis player, Chris' sister
- B10051958 Brent W Jett Jr, Pontiac Mich, USN Lt Commander/astronaut
- B10051958 Lee Thompson, sax (Madness-Baggy Trousers)
- B10051962 Ken Noda, NYC, pianist (Rivalry)
- B10051962 Michael Andretti, Indy-car racer/Auto Hall of Fame (elected 1986)
- B10051965 Mario Lemieux, Montreal, Pitts Penguin (#66) high scorer
- B10051965 Penny Baker, Buffalo NY, playmate (January, 1984)
- B10051969 Karyn Parsons, actress (Hilary-Fresh Prince of Bel Air)
- B10051974 Douglas Emerson, Glendale Calif, actor (Robbie-Herbie The Love Bug)
- B10051975 Scott E Weinger, NYC, actor (Steve Taylor-The Family Man)
- B10052176 Winston Matthew Kyle, Perth, Australia (Star Trek)
- B10061820 Jenny Lind, Sweden, soprano/nightingale (Agathe-Der Freischultz)
- B10061824 Henry Chadwick, baseball pioneer, developed 1st rule book
- B10061831 Richard Dedekind, mathematician (Nature & Meaning of Numbers)
- B10061846 George Westinghouse, responsible for alternating current in US
- B10061849 Sir Basil Zaharoff, arms dealer, "merchant of death"
- B10061862 Albert Jeremiah Beveridge, US, politician/author (Progressive)
- B10061866 Reginald Aubrey Fessenden, broadcast 1st program of voice & music
- B10061882 Karol Szymanowski, Timoshovka Ukraine, composer (Stabatmater)
- B10061884 Lloyd Spooner, US, marksman (Olympic-4 gold/1 silver/2 bronze-1920)
- B10061887 Le Corbusier, Switzerland, architect/city planner/artist (Urbanisme)
- B10061887 Martín Luis Guzmán, Mexico, novelist (The Eagle & the Serpent)
- B10061888 Li Ta-chao, cofounder with Mao Tse-tung of Chinese Communist Party
- B10061895 Caroline Gordon, Kentucky, writer (Green Centuries)
- B10061897 Jerome Cowan, NYC, actor (Mr Dithers-Blondie, Tab Hunter Show)
- B100619-- Mike Tylo, actor (Guiding Light)
- B100619-- Tony Cavazo, rocker (Hurricane-I'm On To You)
- B10061905 Helen N Moody, tennis pro (8 Wimbeldon titles 1927-1938)
- B10061906 Janet Gaynor, Philadelphia, actress (Sunrise, A Star Is Born)
- B10061909 Carol Lombard, actress (My Man Godfrey, In Name Only)
- B10061914 Thor Heyerdahl, Norway, anthropologist/explorer (Kon Tiki, Aku-Aku)
- B10061925 Shana Alexander, NYC, journalist (60 Minutes)
- B10061926 Alan Copeland, LA Calif, orch leader/singer (Your Hit Parade)
- B10061927 Paul Badura-Skoda, Vienna Austria, pianist (Mozart Interpretation)
- B10061930 Hafez al Assad, president (Syria)
- B10061936 Anna Quayle, actress (Mistress Pamela)
- B10061940 Ellen Travolta, Englewood NJ, actress (Louise-Joanie Loves Chachi)
- B10061942 Britt Ekland, Stockholm Sweden, actress (Wicker Man, Asylum)
- B10061942 Fred Travalena, NYC, comedian/impressionist (Buy & Cell)
- B10061943 Michael Durrell, Bkln NY, actor (Shannon, V, Alice, Chiefs)
- B10061946 Gary Gentry, baseball player (NY Mets)
- B10061947 Klaus Dibiasi, Italy, platform diver (Olympic-gold-1968, 72, 76)
- B10061956 Stephanie Zimbalist, NYC, actress (Remington Steele, Centennial)
- B10061960 Jeffrey Trachta, Staten Island NY, actor (Thorne-Bold & Beautiful)
- B10061960 Richard Jobson, British TV person/rocker (Skids-Scared to Dance)
- B10071728 Caesar Rodney, Delaware, patriot, signed Declaration of Independence
- B10071746 William Billings, Boston Mass, hymn composer (Rose of Sharon)
- B10071849 James Whitcomb Riley, US, poet (The Raggedy Man)
- B10071866 Martha McChesney Berry, US, founded Berry School for Children
- B10071870 Uncle Dave Macon, entertainer
- B10071879 Joe Hill, Jevla Sweden, organizer (IWW)/songwriter (Union Scab)/martyr
- B10071879 Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary leader/writer (Diary in Exile)
- B10071885 Niels Bohr, Denmark, physicist, expanded quantum physics (Nobel 1922)
- B10071887 Jack Mulhall, Wappinger Falls NY, actor (Ken Murray Show)
- B10071888 Henry A Wallace, (D/P) 33rd VP, Progressive pres candidate
- B10071889 Clarence Muse, Balt Md, actor (Sam-Casablanca)
- B10071896 Elijah Muhammad, famous African
- B10071898 Alfred Wallenstein, Chicago Illinois, conductor (Chic Symph 1922-29)
- B100719-- Ann Curless, singer (Exposé-What You Don't Know)
- B100719-- Jill Larson, actress (Opal Cortlandt-All My Children)
- B100719-- John Loprieno, actor (Cord Roberts-One Life to Live)
- B100719-- Joseph Sirola, NYC, actor (Magician, Montefuscos)
- B100719-- Melinda Fee, LA Calif, actress (Dr Kate Westin-Invisible Man)
- B10071901 Frank X Boucher, Ottawa, All-star NHL center (Ottawa, NY Rangers)
- B10071904 Chuck Klein, Indianapolis In, Phila Phillies (43 HRs in 1929)
- B10071905 Andy Devine, [Jeremiah Schwartz], Flagstaff Az, actor (Andy's Gang)
- B10071906 James E Webb, head of NASA (1961-68)
- B10071911 Vaughn Monroe, Akron Oh, singer/orch leader (Vaughn Monroe Show)
- B10071914 Alfred Drake, singer/actor (Kiss Me Kate)
- B10071914 Sarah Churchill, actress (All Over Town, Royal Wedding)
- B10071916 Walt W Rostow, economist (Politics & Stages of Growth)
- B10071917 Helmut Dantine, Vienna Austria, actor (Shadow of the Cloak)
- B10071917 June Allyson, Bronx, actress (Till the Clouds Roll By, Vegas)
- B10071919 Erik Elmsäter, Sweden, 1st to compete in summer & winter Oly (1948)
- B10071919 Gabriel Dell, Barbados, actor (Steve Allen Show)
- B10071922 Martha Stewart, Bardwell Ky, singer/actress (Daisy Kenyon, Doll Face)
- B10071926 Diana Lynn, actress (Annapolis Story, Easy Come Easy Go)
- B10071927 Al Martino, Phila, singer (Here in My Heart)/actor (Godfather)
- B10071931 Desmond Tutu, Anglican Archbishop of S Afr (Nobel Peace Prize 1982)
- B10071933 Paul B Price, Cataret NJ, actor (Busting Loose)
- B10071934 Willie Naulls, NBA star (NY Knicks)
- B10071935 Thomas M Keneally, Australia, novelist (Blood Red Sister Rose)
- B10071938 Robert Drivas, Chicago, actor (Cool Hand Luke, Illustrated Man)
- B10071943 Oliver North, military man (contra hearings)
- B10071951 John Cougar Mellencamp, Seymour Indiana, rocker (Jack & Diane)
- B10071952 Ludmila Tourischeva, USSR, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1972)
- B10071953 Christopher Norris, NYC, actress (Summer of '42, Eat My Dust)
- B10071954 Tico Torres, drummer (Bon Jovi-You Give Love a Bad Name)
- B10071955 Yo-Yo Ma, Paris France, world famous Chinese cellist
- B10071956 James Van Patten, Bkln NY, actor (Bo-Chisholms)
- B10071958 Kim Morris, San Diego Ca, playmate (Mar, 1986)
- B10071961 Judy Landers, Phila, actress (Vega$, BJ & the Bear, Madame's Place)
- B10071974 Alexander Polinsky, SF Calif, actor (Adam-Charles in Charge)
- B10081869 J Frank Duryea, inventor (1st auto built & operated in the US)
- B10081872 John Cowper Powys, British writer (Wood & Stone)
- B10081873 Ejnar Hertzsprung, Denmark, astronomer (Hertzsprung-Russell diagram)
- B10081890 Eddie Rickenbacker, aviator "Ace of Aces" (WW I)
- B10081895 Juan Perón, Argentine Pres (1946-55, 1973-74)
- B10081895 King Zog I, of Albania (1928-1939)
- B10081897 Rouben Mamoulian, movie director/author (Mark of Zorro, Applause)
- B100819-- Michael Dudikoff, Redondo Beach Calif, actor (Star of the Family)
- B100819-- Roger Wilson, New Orleans LA, actor (Daniel-7 Brides for 7 Brothers)
- B10081903 Lina Radke, Germany, 800m runner (Olympic-gold-1928)
- B10081909 Bill Hewitt, NFL end (Chicago Bears, Phila Eagles)
- B10081913 Walter Schumann, NYC, choral director (Ford Show)/composer (Rhenish)
- B10081916 Spark Matsunaga, (D-Ha-Sen)
- B10081917 Danny Murtaugh, baseball manager (Pittsburgh Pirates)
- B10081918 Ron Randell, Sydney Australia, actor (The Vise, OSS)
- B10081920 Frank Herbert, sci-fi writer (Dune)
- B10081920 Maxie Herber, Germany, figure skater pairs (Olympic-gold-1936)
- B10081920 Ron Randell, Sydney Australia, actor (Loves of Carmen, I am a Camera)
- B10081924 Arkady Vorobyev, Middle heavyweight (Olympic-gold-1956, 60)
- B10081927 Gigi Durston, Balt Md, singer (Sonny Kendis Show)
- B10081927 Torbjörn Falkanger, Norway, took Olympic oath (1952)
- B10081930 James Olsen, actor (Andromeda Strain, The Spell)
- B10081930 Toru Takemitsu, Tokyo Japan, composer (Ki No Kyoko)
- B10081934 J Carter Brown, Providence RI, art director (Wash National Gallery)
- B10081936 David Carradine, Hollywood, actor (Kung-Fu, Boxcar Bertha, Young Guns)
- B10081936 Rona Barrett, NYC, gossip columnist (Tomorrow Show)
- B10081938 Penny Pitou, US, skier (Olympic-2 silvers-1960)
- B10081939 Paul Hogan, Australia, actor (Crocodile Dundee)
- B10081941 Jesse Jackson, (D) clergyman/presidential candidate
- B10081943 Chevy Chase, NYC, comedian/actor (SNL, Vacation, Fletch, Caddyshack)
- B10081946 Aleksandr Gorshlov, ice dancer (holds 6 titles)
- B10081948 Sarah Purcell, Richmond Ind, actress/TV hostess (Real People)
- B10081949 Sigourney [Susan Alexandra] Weaver, LA, actress (Alien, Working Girl)
- B10081950 Robert "Kool" Bell, rocker (Kool & the Gang-Joanna)
- B10081951 Johnny Ramone, LI, rock guitarist (Road to Ruin)
- B10081955 Bill Elliott, auto racer (Daytona-1978)
- B10081956 Scott Michael Pellaton, barefoot water ski champ
- B10081956 Stephanie Zimbalist, NYC, actress (Remington Steele, Centennial)
- B10081957 James DePaiva, actor (Max-One Life to Live)
- B10081959 Tony Eason, football quarterback (New England Patriots)
- B10081979 [Gregory] Chad Petree, Shawne Okla, rocker (PC Quest-Can You See)
- B10091547 Miguel de Cervantes, novelist (Don Quixote)
- B10091757 Charles X, reactionary king of France (1824-30); deposed
- B10091782 Lewis Cass, (Gov-Mich)
- B10091835 Camille Saint-Saëns, Paris France, composer (Ode á Sainte Cécile)
- B10091863 Alexander Siloti, Kharkov Russia, pianist/prof (Moscow Cons 1888-91)
- B10091884 Martin Elmer Johnson, explorer/photographer
- B10091888 Hank Patterson, Alabama, actor (Gunsmoke, Fred Ziffel-Green Acres)
- B10091890 Aimee Semple McPherson, Pentecostal evangelist/radio preacher
- B10091899 Bruce Catton, civil war historian
- B100919-- Brooke St James, Staten Island NY, rocker (Tyketto-Wings)
- B100919-- Ellen Wheeler, actress (Karen-All My Children)
- B100919-- Geoff Grayson, rocker (RU Ready)
- B100919-- Jason Wingreen, Bkln NY, actor (Harry-All in the Family)
- B100919-- John O'Hurley, actor (Jim-Young & Restless)
- B100919-- John Schubert, rocker (Electric Angels-I Believe, Whiplash)
- B10091900 Alastair Sims, actor (Christmas Carol, Stage Fright)
- B10091903 Walter O'Malley, owner (Dodgers)
- B10091904 Wally Brown, Malden Mass, actor (Jed Fame-Cimarron City)
- B10091906 Léopold Senghor, poet/president of Senegal (1960-80)
- B10091907 Klaes Karppinen, Findland, 4 X 10K relay (Olympic-gold-1936)
- B10091908 Jacques Tati, Pecq France, director (Traffic, Playtime, My Uncle)
- B10091908 James E Folsom, (Alabama-Gov, 1947-51, 1955-59)
- B10091910 Phil Hanna, River Forest Ill, singer (Once Upon a Tune)
- B10091914 Edward Andrews, Griffin Ga, actor (Broadside, Harry-Supertrain)
- B10091917 Kusuo Kitamura, Japan, 1500m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1932)
- B10091918 E Howard Hunt, Hamburg NY, involved in Watergate break-in
- B10091923 Donald Sinden, England, actor (Doctor at Large, Mogambo, Simba)
- B10091924 Robert Rushworth, pilot (X-15)
- B10091925 Robert Finch, actor (Academy Theater)
- B10091927 Daniele Delorme, Paris, actress (Pardon My Affair Too)
- B10091927 Robert Shaw, actor (From Russia with Love, Man for All Seasons)
- B10091928 Einojuhani Rautavaara, Helsinki Finland, composer (Kaivos)
- B10091930 David Rounds, Bronxville NY, actor (Terence-Beacon Hill)
- B10091940 Gordon Humphrey, (Sen-R-NH)
- B10091940 Joe Pepitone, baseball player (NY Yankee 1st baseman)
- B10091940 John Lennon, rocker/Beatle (Imagine)
- B10091944 John Entwistle, rocker (The Who-Tommy)
- B10091944 Peter Tosh, Jamaica, reggae musician (Mystic Man, Mama Africa)
- B10091945 Jeannie C Riley, Texas, singer (Harper Valley PTA, Hee Haw)
- B10091948 Dave Samuels, vibraphonist (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance)
- B10091948 Jackson Browne, Germany, rocker (Lawyers in Love)
- B10091949 Shep Messing, Israel, soccer goal tender (NY Cosmos)
- B10091950 Gary Frank, Spokane Wash, actor (Sons & Daughters, Family)
- B10091951 Richard Chaves, actor (Cease Fire, Predator)
- B10091951 Robert Wuhl, Union NJ, actor (Bull Durham, Good Morning Vietnam)
- B10091954 Scott Bakula, actor (Quantum Leap, Gung Ho)
- B10091955 Linwood Boomer, Vancouver, actor (Adam-Little House on the Prairie)
- B10091955 Steve Ovett, England, runner (Olympics-800m gold, 1500m bronze-1980)
- B10091959 Michael Paré, Bkln NY, actor (Greatest American Hero, Houston Knights)
- B10091959 Mike Singletary, NFL middle linebacker (Chicago Bears)
- B10091961 Arlene Boxhall, Zimbabwe, field hockey (Olympic-gold-1980)
- B10091961 Jean Sagal, LA Calif, actress (Kate-Double Trouble, Grease 2)
- B10091961 Liz Sagal, LA Calif, actress (Allison-Double Trouble, Grease 2)
- B10091967 Carling Bassett-Seguso, Canada, tennis player/actress (Spring Fever)
- B10091975 Sean Ono Lennon, John's son
- B10101731 Henry Cavendish, England, physicist/chemist (discovered hydrogen)
- B10101738 Benjamin West, painter (Death of General Wolfe)
- B10101813 Giuseppe Verdi, Italy, composed operas (Rigoletto, Aida, Otello)
- B10101825 Paulus Kruger, Pres of South African Republic (1883), Boer leader
- B10101830 Queen Isabella II, Queen of Spain (1833-68)
- B10101834 Aleksis Kivi, Finland, playwright (Kullervo, Seitsemän Veljestä)
- B10101861 Fridtjof Nansen, Norweg Arctic explorer/humanitarian (Nobel 1922)
- B10101892 Ivo Andric, Yugoslavia, novelist (Bridge on the Drina, Nobel '61)
- B10101895 Lin Yü-t'ang, China, writer (My Country & My People)
- B101019-- Alan Rachins, Cambridge Mass, actor (Douglas-LA Law)
- B101019-- Bert Kramer, San Diego Calif, actor (Sara, Mike-Fitzpatricks)
- B101019-- Dana Elcar, Ferndale Mich, actor (Baretta, Baa Baa Black Sheep)
- B101019-- Michael Bivens, rocker (New Edition-Heart Break)
- B101019-- Noah Keen, Cincinnati Ohio, actor (Det Lt Bone-Arrest & Trial)
- B10101900 Helen Hayes, Wash DC, actress (Cæsar & Cleopatra, Happy Birthday)
- B10101906 Paul Creston, [Giuseppe Guttoveggio], NY, composer (Creative Harmony)
- B10101908 John Green, NYC, composer (Body & Soul, Guy Lombardo's arranger)
- B10101910 Price Daniel, (Gov/Sen-D-Texas)
- B10101913 Johnny Downs, Bkln NY, actor (Manhattan Showcase)
- B10101918 Bobby Byrne, Columbus Ohio, orch leader (Club Seven)
- B10101918 Thelonious Monk, jazz pianist (Monk's Dream)
- B10101924 James Clavell, author (Tai Pan, Shogun) (or 1920)
- B10101926 Richard Jaeckel, NY, actor (3:10 to Yuma, Sands of Iwo Jima)
- B10101930 Adlai Stevenson III, (D-Sen-Ill)
- B10101930 Harold Pinter, England, playwright (Homecoming, Servant)
- B10101933 Daniel Massey, London, actress (Vault of Horror)
- B10101941 Laurence Henry Tribe, Shanghai China, Harvard Law professor
- B10101946 Ben Vereen, Miami Fla, actor/dancer (Pippin, Roots, Webster)
- B10101946 Charles Dance, England, actor (Plenty)
- B10101946 Peter Mahvolich, NHL star (Mont Canadiens)
- B10101950 Dennis Holmes, actor (Mike-Laramie)
- B10101953 Gus Williams, NBA guard (Golden State, Seattle, Washington)
- B10101953 Midge Ure, rocker (Dear God, Ultravox-We Came to Dance)
- B10101955 David Lee Roth, rock singer (Van Halen-Jump)
- B10101958 John M Grunsfeld, Chicago Ill, PhD/astronaut
- B10101958 Tanya Tucker, Seminole Tx, country singer/actress (Follow that Car)
- B10101959 Chris Lowe, rocker (Pet Shop Boys-Left to My Own Devices)
- B10101961 Martin Kemp, rocker (Spandau Ballet-True)
- B10101964 Maxi Gnauck, German DR, uneven parallel bars (Olympic-gold-1980)
- B10101966 Kevin Paige, vocalist (Don't Shut Me Out)
- B10101973 Mario Lopez, San Diego Calif, actor (Slater-Saved by the Bell)
- B10101982 Eddie J Peck, Lynchburg Pa, actor (Sutton-Wildside)
- B10111758 Wilhelm Olbers, discovered asteroids (Pallas & Vesta)
- B10111782 Steen Steensen Blicher, Denmk, poet/short-story writer (E Binddstouw)
- B10111821 Sir George Williams, England, founder YMCA
- B10111844 Henry John Heinz, founded prepared-foods company (57 varieties)
- B10111872 Harlan Fiske Stone, NH, Supreme Court (1925-41) Chief Justice (41-46)
- B10111884 Eleanor Roosevelt, 1st lady/crusader
- B10111885 François Mauriac, France, novelist/poet/playwright (Nobel 1952)
- B10111896 Roman Jakobson, linguist/Slavic scholar (Fundamentals of Language)
- B10111897 Gen Nathan F Twining, USAF (Neither Liberty nor Safety)
- B10111897 George Preston Marshall, NFL team owner (Washington Redskins)
- B101119-- Bill Randolph, Detroit Mich, actor (Comedy Zone, Trauma Center)
- B101119-- Brad Maule, actor (Dr Tony Jones-General Hospital)
- B101119-- Gail Brown, actress (Another World)
- B101119-- Mark Goodman, vee-jay (MTV)
- B10111900 Cal Hubbard, NFL tackle (Giants, Packers, Pittsburgh Pirates)
- B10111902 Leon Belasco, Odessa Russia, actor (Lucky Partners, My Sister Eileen)
- B10111906 Earl "Dutch" Clark, Colo, NFL hall of fame QB (Spartans, Detroit)
- B10111910 Joseph Alsop, political newspaper columnist (Men Around the President)
- B10111914 Edward J Day, US Postmaster General (1961)
- B10111918 Jerome Robbins, choreographer/composer (Tony-West Side Story)
- B10111919 Art Blakey, Pitts Pa, drummer (Billy Eckstine Band)
- B10111925 Elmore Leonard, American writer (Glitz, Mr Majestyk)
- B10111925 Nancy Guild, LA Calif, actress (Where Was I?)
- B10111930 Harry Glass, German DR, 1st E German Olympic medalist (bronze-1956)
- B10111932 Dottie West, Tenn, country singer (Here Comes My Baby)
- B10111936 Charles Gordon Fullerton, Roch, USAF/ast (STS T-1, T-3, T-5, 3, 51F)
- B10111937 Ron Leibman, NYC, actor (Norma Rae, Where's Poppa?, Beauty & Beast)
- B10111943 Gene Watson, country singer (Heartaches, Love & Stuff)
- B10111944 Rodney Marsh, athlete
- B10111946 Felton Perry, actor (Magnum Force, Sudden Death)
- B10111946 Sawao Kato, Japan, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1968, 72, 76)
- B10111948 Daryl Hall, rocker/songwriter (Hall & Oates-Sara Smile)
- B10111950 Catlin Adams, LA Calif, actress (Ms Loomis-Square Pegs)
- B10111953 David Morse, Beverly Mass, actor (St Elsewhere, House, Inside Moves)
- B10111962 Joan Cusack, Evanston Ill, comedienne (SNL)
- B10111962 Leslie Landon, LA Calif, actress (Etta Plum-Little House on Prairie)
- B10111969 Prince Constantijn, of the Netherlands
- B10111971 Luke Perry, Mansfield Ohio, actor (Dillon-Beverly Hill 90210)
- B10111975 Kellie Martin, actress (Life Goes On)
- B10121537 Edward VI, king of England (1547-53)
- B10121798 Pedro I, 1st emperor of Brazil (1822-31), king of Portugal
- B10121840 Helena Modjeska, Poland, Shakespearian actress (Juliet)/anti-Russian
- B10121844 George W Cable, American writer (Northampton Years)
- B10121855 Arthur Nikisch, Szent-Miklós Hungary, conductor (Berlin Philharmonic)
- B10121860 Elmer A Sperry, inventor (gyrocompass)
- B10121866 Ramsay MacDonald, (L) British PM (1924, 1929-35)
- B10121872 Ralph Vaughan Williams, Down Amp England, composer (Hugh the Drover)
- B10121894 Dr Charles Hodge, Calif, NYU professor (Answers for Americans)
- B10121896 Eugenio Montale, Italy, poet/translator (Xenia-Nobel 1975)
- B101219-- Jeff Keith, rock vocalist (Tesla-Psychotic Supper)
- B101219-- Jim McKrell, Little Rock Ark, actor (Semi-Tough)
- B101219-- Julie McWhirter, Indianapolis Ind, comedienne (Rich Little Show)
- B101219-- Perle Mesta, hostess (Washington DC)
- B101219-- Ronalda Douglas, Opelousas La, actress (New Odd Couple)
- B10121906 Joe Cronin, baseball (Pirates, Red Sox, Senators, MVP 1930, AL Pres)
- B10121921 Jaroslav Drobny, Czech, hockey (Oly-gold-1948), tennis (Wimb-1954)
- B10121923 Jean Nidetch, Brooklyn, founded Weight Watchers
- B10121925 William Steinkraus, US, equestrian jumper (Olympic-gold-1968)
- B10121926 Hans Liebold, Germany, auto racer (Nardo, Italy)
- B10121929 Robert Coles, Milton Mass, author (Pulitzer 1973)
- B10121932 Dick Gregory, comedian/political activist/dietician (Bahamian Diet)
- B10121932 Dusan Makavejev, Belgrade Yugoslavia, director (Man is Not a Bird)
- B10121932 Jake Garn, (Sen-R-Ut)/astronaut (STS 51D)
- B10121935 Luciano Pavarotti, Moderna Italy, operatic tenor (Oh Giorgio)
- B10121936 Tony Kubek, shortstop (NY Yankees)/sportscaster (NBC-TV)
- B10121947 Chris Wallace, Chic Ill, newscaster (NBC Weekend News)
- B10121948 Rick Parfitt, rocker (Status Quo-The Wanderer)
- B10121950 Susan Anton, Oak Glen Calif, actress (Golden Girl, Spring Fever)
- B10121951 Bernie Ruoff, West Germany, CFL kicker (Winnipeg, Hamilton)
- B10121962 Sid Fernandez, Hawaii, pitcher (NY Mets)
- B10121964 Jo Ann Willette, actress (Constance-Just 10 of Us, Real Genius)
- B10121968 Adam Rich, NYC, actor (Nicholas-8 is Enough, Code Red, Gun Shy)
- B10121969 Kimberly Ann Grimm, Mt Lake Park Md, Miss Maryland-America (1991)
- B10121970 Kimberly Hoskins, Yuma Arizona, Miss Arizona-America (1991)
- B10121970 Kirk Cameron, Panorama City Calif, actor (Mike-Growing Pains)
- B10131769 Horace H Hayden, cofounded 1st dental college
- B10131853 Lillie Langtry, [Jersey Lily], vaudevillian actress
- B10131885 Harry Hershfield, Cedar Rapids Iowa, cartoonist (Can You Top This?)
- B10131889 Douglass Dumbrille, Hamilton Ont, actor (Mr Deed Goes to Town)
- B10131890 Conrad Richter, writer (The Light in the Forest)
- B10131891 Irene Rich, Buffalo NY, actress (Beau Brummell, Champ)
- B101319-- Brian McGovern, actor (Ryan's Hope)
- B101319-- Harry Cody, rocker (Shotgun Messiah-Second Coming)
- B101319-- Jack Colvin, Lyndon Ks, actor (Jack-Incredible Hulk)
- B101319-- William Jordan, Milan Indiana, actor (Project UFO, Beyond Westworld)
- B10131902 Arna Bontemps, Louisiana, black author (100 years of negro freedom)
- B10131902 Franco Giorgetti, Italy, cyclist (Olympic-gold-1920)
- B10131909 Herblock (Herbert L Block), political cartoonist
- B10131911 Ticker Freeman, Paterson NJ, pianist (Dinah Shore Show)
- B10131912 Hugo Weisgall, Ivancice Moravia, composer (4 Impressions)
- B10131915 Cornel Wilde, actor (High Sierra, 5th Musketeer)
- B10131917 Burr Tillstrom, Chic Ill, puppeteer (Kukla, Fran & Ollie)
- B10131917 Laraine Day, Roosevelt Utah, actress (Dr Kildaire, I've Got a Secret)
- B10131920 Albert Hague, Berlin Germany, actor (Mr Shorofsky-Fame)
- B10131920 Nipsey Russell, Atlanta Ga, comedian (Car 54, Barefoot in the Park)
- B10131921 Harper MacKay, Boston Mass, orch leader (NBC Follies)
- B10131921 Yves Montand, France, actor/singer (Z, Napoleon, Grand Prix)
- B10131922 Alan Scott, Haddonfield NJ, TV host/songwriter (Spin the Picture)
- B10131924 Terry Gibbs, Bkln NY, orch leader (Steve Allen Comedy Hour)
- B10131925 Frank Gilroy, American writer (Subject Was Roses)
- B10131925 Lenny Bruce, comedian, arrested on obsenity charges
- B10131925 Margaret Thatcher, (Tory) British PM (1979-90) Iron Lady
- B10131927 Anita Kerr, Memphis TN, singer (Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour)
- B10131931 Ed Matthews, Hall of Famer/Milwaukee Brave/HR hitter (512)
- B10131936 Cliff Gorman, Jamacia NY, actor (Boys in the Band, Angel)
- B10131938 Jim McMullan, Long Beach NY, actor (Dr McDaniel-Ben Casey)
- B10131939 Melinda Dillon, Hope Ark, actress (Close Encounters, Slap Shot)
- B10131942 Pamela Tiffin, Oklahoma City, actress (Viva Max!)
- B10131942 Paul Simon, Newark NJ, singer/actor (Kodachrome, 1 Trick Pony)
- B10131946 Demond Wilson, Valdosta Ga, actor (Sanford & Son, Baby I'm Back)
- B10131946 Lacy J Dalton, country singer (Blue Eyed Blues)
- B10131948 Leona Mitchell, Enid Okla, soprano (Musetta-La Bohéme)
- B10131949 Sammy Hagar, singer-musician (Van Halen-Jump)
- B10131959 Marie Osmond, Ogden Ut, singer/actress (Paper Roses, Goin' Coconuts)
- B10131960 Joey Belladonna, heavy metal vocalist (Anthrax-Protest & Survive)
- B10131961 Jerry Rice, NFL receiver (SF 49ers)
- B10131962 Kelly Preston, Hawaii, actress (Mischief, Twins, A Tigers Tale)
- B10131965 Cherelle, rocker (Affair-First Bite)
- B10131969 Cady McClain, Burbank Calif, actress (Dixie Martin-All My Children)
- B1014---- Grover, muppet (Sesame Street)
- B10141633 James II, king of England (1685-88)
- B10141644 William Penn, English Quaker & founder of PA
- B10141712 George Grenville, British PM (1763-65)
- B10141857 Elwood Haynes, auto pioneer, built one of 1st US autos
- B10141867 Masaoka Shiki, Japan, haiku & tanka poet/diarist (Salt Water Ballads)
- B10141869 Joseph Duveen, England, art connoisseur (Elgin marbles)
- B10141871 Alexander von Zemlinsky, Vienna Austria, composer (Der Schneeman)
- B10141873 Raymond C Ewry, Indiana, polio victim who won 10 Olympic golds
- B10141882 Eamon DeValera, NY, Pres of Ireland (1937-48, 51-54, 57-59)
- B10141888 Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand writer (Aloe, Garden Party)
- B10141890 Dwight D Eisenhower, Denison, Tx (R) 34th Pres (1953-1961)
- B10141894 e. e. cummings, Cambridge Mass, poet (Tulips & Chimneys)
- B10141896 Lillian Gish, silent film/stage actress (Birth of a Nation)
- B10141899 Alan Washbond, US, 2-man bobsled (Olympic-gold-1932)
- B101419-- Geoff Tate, rocker (Queensrÿche-The WArning)
- B101419-- Lee Lawson, actress (Guiding Light)
- B101419-- Rori King, LA Calif, actress (Becky-I'm a Big Girl Now)
- B101419-- Thomas Leopold, Miami Fla, actor (Ted Knight Show, Steve Allen Show)
- B101419-- Zakk Wylde, rocker (Ozzy Osbourne)
- B10141906 Benita Hume, London England, actress (Vicky-The Halls of Ivy)
- B10141906 Hannah Arendt, Germany, historian (Origins of Totalitarianism)
- B10141907 Pert Kelton, Great Falls Mont, actress (Cavalcade of Stars)
- B10141910 John Wooden, basketball coach (UCLA-10 national championships)
- B10141916 C Everett Koop, surgeon general (1981-89)
- B10141924 Robert Webber, Santa Ana Calif, actor (79 Park Avenue)
- B10141927 Roger Moore, London England, actor (Alaskans, Maverick, Saint)
- B10141928 Gary Graffman, NYC, pianist (Leventritt Award)
- B10141931 Rafael Puyana, Bogotá Colombia, baroque harpsichordist (NY debut 1957)
- B10141935 La Monte Young, Bern Idaho, composer (Compostion in 1990)
- B10141938 John Dean III, former White House counsel, Watergate figure
- B10141939 Ralph Lauren, fashion designer (Chaps)
- B10141940 Cliff Richards, [Harry Webb], England, rocker (Suddenly)
- B10141940 Pat Finley, Asheville NC, actress (Ellen Hartley-Bob Newhart Show)
- B10141943 Lance Rentzel, NFL reciever (Minn, LA)/ex-husband of Joey Heatherton
- B10141943 Noreen Corcoran, Quincy Mass, actress (Kelly-Bachelor Father)
- B10141944 Udo Kier, Germany, actress (Warhol Dracula, Warhol Frankenstein)
- B10141946 Justin Hayward, singer (Moody Blues-Nights in White Satin)
- B10141947 Charlie Joiner, Many La, NFL receiver (Houston, Cincinnati, San Diego)
- B10141950 Sheila Young Ockerwitz, US, 500m speed skater (Olympic-gold-1976)
- B10141952 Harry Anderson, Newport RI, actor (Judge Harry Stone-Night Court)
- B10141952 Nikolai Adrianov, USSR, gymnast (Olympic-4 gold/2 silver/bronze-1976)
- B10141953 Greg Evigan, South Amboy NJ, actor (BJ-BJ & the Bear)
- B10141956 Beth Daniel, Charleston SC, LPGA golfer (1980 player of the year)
- B10141958 Thomas Dolby, rocker (She Blinded Me With Science)
- B10141959 A.J. Pero, Staten Is, drummer (Twisted Sister-Not Gonna Take It)
- B10141961 Melanie Wilson, actress (Jennifer-Perfect Strangers)
- B10141961 Mike Tramp, Denmark, heavy metal rocker (White Lion-Mane Attraction)
- B10141967 Arleen Sorkin, actress (Day of Our Life, America's Funniest Videos)
- B1015 70 -BC- Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) Mantua, Italy (Æneid), poet
- B10151542 Akbar, Indian Mughal emperor (1556-1605)
- B10151674 Robert Herrick, Mass, British poet (Together)
- B10151785 José Miguel Carrera, president of Chile (1811-14)
- B10151829 Asaph Hall, discovered satellites of Mars, Phobos & Deimos
- B10151831 Helen Maria Hunt Jackson, author (Ramona)
- B10151844 Friedrich Nietzsche, Germany, philosopher/anti-semite (Übermensch)
- B10151858 John L Sullivan, Mass, heavyweight boxing champ (1882-92)
- B10151881 P.G. Wodehouse, British-American writer (Stiff Upper Lip Jeeves)
- B10151896 Melville Cooper, Birmingham England, TV panelist (I Got a Secret)
- B101519-- Chris De Burgh, rock singer (Lady in Red)
- B101519-- Dean Davidson, rocker (Blackeyed Susan-Electric Rattlebone)
- B101519-- Jere Burns, actor (Kirk-Dear John)
- B101519-- John Getz, Davenport Iowa, actor (Rafferty, MacGruder & Loud)
- B101519-- Mark Leonard, Chicago Ill, actor (Sarek-Star Trek)
- B101519-- Phil Varone, rock drummer (Saigon Kick-New World)
- B101519-- Robert Thaler, Cedar Rapids Iowa, actor (Renegrades)
- B10151900 Fritz Feld, actor (Jack Benny Show, At the Circus)
- B10151900 Mervyn Le Roy, movie producer (Devil at 4 O'Clock)
- B10151902 William Edmundson, Spokane Wash, vocalist (Southernaires)
- B10151905 C P Snow, England, novelist/scientist (Death Under Sail)
- B10151907 John Cardinal Dearden, US cardinal (1969-88)
- B10151908 John Kenneth Galbraith, writer (Affluent Society-1958 Hillman Award)
- B10151909 Robert Trout, Wake County NC, newscaster (ABC)
- B10151917 Arthur Schlesinger Jr, historian/author (1946 Pulitzer-Age of Jackson)
- B10151917 Jan Miner, Boston Mass, actress (Crime Photographer)
- B10151921 Mario Puzo, author (Godfather)
- B10151924 Colin Romoff, NYC, orch leader (Andy Williams Show)
- B10151924 Lee A Iacocca, CEO (Chrysler Corp)
- B10151926 Evan Hunter, [Ed McBain], American writer (Blackboard Jungle)
- B10151926 Jean Peters, actress (Viva Zapata!, Apache, Deep Waters)
- B10151930 Phillipe Leroy, Paris France, actor (Night Porter, Leonardo da Vinci)
- B10151932 Abby Dalton, Las Vegas, actress (Ellie-Joey Bishop Show, Falcon Crest)
- B10151934 Peter Haskell, Boston Mass, actor (Bracken's World, Rituals)
- B10151935 Bobby-Joe Morrow, US, 100m/200m dash (Olympic-gold-1956)
- B10151937 Barry McGuire, Oklahoma City, singer (Eve of Destruction)
- B10151937 Linda Lavin, Portland Maine, actress (Alice, Barney Miller)
- B10151939 Carmelo Bossi, Italy, light middleweight boxer (Olympic-silver-1960)
- B10151942 Penny Marshall, Bronx NY, actress (Odd Couple, Laverne & Shirley)
- B10151945 Jim Palmer, NYC, Oriole pitcher/sportscaster/jockey underwear salesman
- B10151946 Richard Carpenter, New Haven Ct, vocalist (Carpenters-Close to You)
- B10151951 Roscoe Tanner, tennis player (Wimbeldon Finals 1979)
- B10151953 Tito Jackson, singer (Jackson 5-ABC, Never Can Say Goodbye)
- B10151955 Tanya Roberts, [Leigh], Bronx NY, actress (Charlie's Angels, Sheena)
- B10151958 Jayne Modean, Hartford Ct, actress (Nurse Hooter-Trauma Center)
- B10151959 Sarah Ferguson, [Fergie], Duchess of York
- B10151966 Jeffrey Jacquet, Bay City Texas, actor (Mork & Mindy, Whiz Kids)
- B10151991 Owen Joseph Kline, son of Phoebe Cates & Kevin Kline
- B10161708 Albrecht von Haller, Switz, experimental physiology (Acad of Science)
- B10161758 Noah Webster, lexicographer (Webster's Dictionary)
- B10161792 Francisco Morazán, (L) president of Central America (1830-40)
- B10161827 Arnold Böcklin, Switzerland, landscape/allegory painter
- B10161849 Geoirge Washington Williams, famous African
- B10161851 James Ten Eyck, champion rower/coach (Ten Eyck Trophy namesake)
- B10161854 Oscar Wilde, [Fingal O'Flahertie Wills], Dublin, (Pic of Dorian Gray)
- B10161863 Sir Austen Chamberlain, British Foreign Secretary (Nobel 1925)
- B10161886 David Ben-Gurion, Plonsk Poland, 1st PM of Israel (1948-53, 55)
- B10161888 Eugene O'Neill, NYC, dramatist (Desire Under the Elms-Nobel 1936)
- B10161890 Paul Strand, NYC, photographer (Native Land-1942)
- B10161898 Arthur H Dean, lawyer/advisor to FDR
- B10161898 William O Douglas, Maine, US supreme court justice (1939-75)
- B101619-- Angela Baur, (fictional character on "Who's the Boss")
- B101619-- Flea, rock bassist (Red Hot Chili Peppers-Blood Sugar Sex Magik)
- B101619-- Jim Youngs, Old Bethpage NY, actor (Secret of Midland Heights)
- B101619-- Morgan Stevens, Knoxville Tn, actor (David-Fame, Bare Essence)
- B10161900 Leon (Goose) Goslin, baseball hall of famer (AL bat champ 1928)
- B10161900 Lloyd Corrigan, SF, actor (Papa Dodger-Willy, Prof McKillup-Hank)
- B10161905 Rex Bell, Chicago, cowboy (Cowboys & Injuns)
- B10161906 George Martin Lott Jr, tennis champ (1931 US Open runner-up)
- B10161908 Enver Hoxha, post-war leader of Albania (1944-85)
- B10161913 Alice Pearce, NYC, comedienne/actress (Gladys Kravitz-Bewitched)
- B10161921 Linda Darnell, Dallas, Tx, actress (Unfaithfully Yours, 2nd Chance)
- B10161921 Michael Conrad, Washington Hgts NY, actor (Delvecchio, Hill St Blues)
- B10161922 Max Bygraves, London, actor (Tom Brown's School Days)
- B10161925 Angela Lansbury, London England, actress (Jessica-Murder She Wrote)
- B10161927 Günter Grass, Germany, novelist/poet (The Tin Drum)
- B10161927 Lee Montague, London England, actor (Uncle Sasha-Holocaust)
- B10161931 Charles W Colson, presidential adviser, Watergate figure
- B10161932 Henry Lewis, LA Calif, conductor/bass (LA Philharmonic 1955-59)
- B10161937 Tony Anthony, Clarksburg WV, actor (Treasure of 4 Crowns)
- B10161940 Dave DeBusschere, Detroit, NBA foward (NY Knick)/last ABA commissioner
- B10161941 Tim McCarver, baseball catcher (NY Mets)/sportscaster (ABC, CBS)
- B10161944 Johnny Washbrook, Toronto, actor (Ken-My Friend Flicka)
- B10161946 Suzanne Somers, San Bruno Calif, actress (3's Company, Step by Step)
- B10161947 Bob Weir, guitarist (Grateful Dead-Uncle Joe's Band)
- B10161951 Daniel Gerroll, London, actor (Big Business)
- B10161953 Susan Pedersen, US, 4 X 100m medley swimmer (Olympic-gold-1968)
- B10161955 Ellen Dolan, Iowa, actress (Guiding Light, Margo Hughes-ATWT)
- B10161958 Tim Robbins, actor (Bull Durham, Cadillac Man)
- B10161959 Gary Kemp, rocker (Spandau Ballet-True)
- B10161962 Manute Bol, NBA center (Golden State Warriors)
- B10161969 Wendy Wilson, singer (Wilson-Philips-Hold On)
- B10161978 Abel Talamantez, Texas, singer (Menudo-Cannonball)
- B10171711 Jupiter Hammon, 1st American black to publish poetry (Complete Works)
- B10171817 Samuel Ringgold Ward, Maryland, minister/abolitionist/author
- B10171835 Alexandrine-Pieternella-Françoise Tinné, explored the White Nile
- B10171848 William "Candy" Cummings, created the curve ball
- B10171859 William "Buck" Ewing, hall of fame catcher (NY Giants, Cin Reds)
- B10171864 Elinor Glyn, British novelist (3 Weeks)
- B10171886 Spring Byington, Colo Springs, actress (Lily Ruskin-December Bride)
- B101719-- Zulu, [Gilbert Kauhi], Hilo Hawaii, actor (Det Kono-Hawaii 5-0)
- B10171903 Irene Ryan, El Paso Texas, actress (Granny-Beverly Hillbillies)
- B10171903 Jerry Colona, Boston Mass, comedian (Jerry Colona Show)
- B10171903 Nathanael West, American novelist (Day of the Locusts)
- B10171905 Jean Arthur, NYC, actress (Shane, Mr Smith Goes to Washington)
- B10171912 John Paul I, 263rd Roman Catholic pope (1978)
- B10171915 Arthur Miller, playwright (Death of a Salesman, The Crucible)
- B10171917 Marsha Hunt, Chicago Ill, actress (Jennifer-Peck's Bad Girl, Jigsaw)
- B10171919 Rita Hayworth, NY (Alzheimer victim), actress (Gilda, Pal Joey)
- B10171920 Montgomery Clift, actor (From Here to Eternity)
- B10171921 Maria Gorokhovskaya, USSR, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1952)
- B10171921 Tom Poston, Columbus Ohio, actor (Steve Allen Show, Newhart)
- B10171926 Beverly Garland, Santa Cruz Calif, actress (My 3 Sons)
- B10171926 Julie Adams, Waterloo Iowa, actress (Yancy Derringer, Code Red)
- B10171926 Karl G Henize, Cincinnati Ohio, astronaut (STS 51F)
- B10171927 Tom Poston, comedian (Newhardt, Steve Allen Show)
- B10171928 James "Junior" Gilliam, Dodgers (NL rookie of year 1953)
- B10171928 Julie Adams, Iowa, actress (Away All Boats, Black Rose)
- B10171930 Jimmy Breslin, Queens NYC, columnist (NY Post, News, Newsday)
- B10171932 Paul Anderson, US, light super heavyweight lifter (Olympic-gold-1956)
- B10171933 William A Anders, Hong Kong, Maj Gen, USAF/astronaut (Apollo 8)
- B10171938 Robert "Evel" Knievel, motorcycle daredevil
- B10171941 James Seals, Sidney Tx, singer (Seals & Crofts-Summer Breeze)
- B10171942 Gary Puckett, vocalist (& the Union Gap-Woman Woman, Young Girl)
- B10171943 Susan Davenny Wyner, New Haven Ct, soprano (Walter Naumberg Prize)
- B10171944 Carol Cole, West Medford Mass, actress (Ellie-Grady)
- B10171945 Dave Cutler, CFL place kicker (Edmonton Eskimos)
- B10171946 Bob Seagren, Pomona Calif, actor (Soap)/pole vaulter (Olympic-gold-68)
- B10171947 Charles A Ingene, macromarketing researcher
- B10171947 Michael McKean, NYC, actor (Lenny-Laverne & Shirley, Grand)
- B10171948 George Wendt, Chicago Ill, actor (Norm-Cheers)
- B10171948 Margot Kidder, Yellowknife, actress (Lois Lane, Amityville Horror)
- B10171949 Bill Hudson, Portland Ore, comedians (Bonkers, Hudson Brothers Show)
- B10171949 Timothy Bottoms, Santa Barbara Calif, actor (Adam-East of Eden)
- B10171952 Howard E Rollins Jr, Balt Md, actor (Bannister-Wildside)
- B10171955 Sam Bottoms, actor (Prime Risk, Savages)
- B10171956 Mae C Jemison, Decatur Alabama, MD/astronaut (Sked:STS 47)
- B10171957 Vincent Van Patten, Belrose NY, actor (Apple's Way, 3 for the Road)
- B10171958 Alan Jackson, rocker (Don't Rock the Jukebox, Here in the Real World)
- B10171959 Dolph Lundgren, actor (Rocky 4, Masters of the Universe)
- B10171965 Connie Ann Hearn, Anchorage Alaska, actress (New Kind of Family)
- B10181697 Canaletto, Venetian painter (Venicei A Regatta on Grand Canal)
- B10181777 Heinrich von Kleist, Germany, dramatist/poet (Penthesilea)
- B10181785 Thomas Love Peacock, English author (Headlong Hall)
- B10181859 Henri Bergson, France, philosopher (Creative Evolution-Nobel 1927)
- B10181877 Florence Dahl Walrath, humanitarian, founded Cradle society
- B10181878 James Truslow Adams, historian (Pul-1921-Founding of New England)
- B10181889 Fannie Hurst, novelist (1019?)
- B10181893 Sir Sidney Holland, NZ, PM of New Zealand (1949-57)
- B10181898 Lotte Lenya, Vienna Austria, actor/singer (Appointment, Semi-Tough)
- B101819-- Mark LaMura, actor (All My Children)
- B10181915 Victor Sen Yung, SF Calif, actor (Bonanza, Bachelor Family)
- B10181918 Bobby Troup, Harrisburg Pa, pianist/actor (Emergency, Acapulco)
- B10181919 Pierre Elliot Trudeau, (L) 15th Canadian PM (1968-79, 1980-84)
- B10181921 Jesse Helms, (Sen-R-NC) right-wing
- B10181922 Little Orphan Annie, comic strip character
- B10181922 Richard Stankiewicz, US sculptor (1974 Akston Award, 1966 Brandeis)
- B10181924 Allyn Ferguson, San Jose Calif, orch leader (Andy Williams Show)
- B10181925 Melina Mercouri, Athens Greece, actress/politician (Never on a Sunday)
- B10181926 Chuck Berry, St Louis, rocker (Roll over Beethoven)
- B10181926 George C Scott, Wise Va, actor (Patton, Bible, Taps, Hardcore)
- B10181927 Katherine Fanning, Chicago, editor (Christian Science Monitor-1983)
- B10181928 Keith Jackson, Carrolton Ga, sportscaster (ABC Monday Night Football)
- B10181930 Frank Carlucci, National Security Adviser/Sec of Defense (1987-89)
- B10181933 Forrest Gregg, NFL tackle (Green Bay Packers, Dallas Cowboys)
- B10181933 Peter Boyle, Phila, actor (Joe, Candidate)
- B10181934 Inger Stevens, Stockholm Sweden, actress (Katy-Farmer's Daughter)
- B10181935 John B Coleman, Boston, hotel magnate (Ritz Carlton)
- B10181939 Lee Harvey Oswald, JFK assassin, born
- B10181939 Mike Ditka, coach/tight-end (Bears, Cowboys, NFL rookie year 1961)
- B10181942 Willie Horton, baseball slugger (Detroit Tigers)
- B10181947 Joe Morton, NYC, actor (Hal-Grady)
- B10181947 John Johnson, NBA (Seattle SuperSonic)
- B10181947 Laura Nyro, Bronx, singer/songwriter (Eli's Coming, Stoney End)
- B10181950 Merry Martin, Camden Mich, actress (Leslie-Peter Loves Mary)
- B10181951 Pam Dawber, Detroit, actress (Mindy-Mork & Mindy, My Sister Sam)
- B10181956 Martina Navratilova, Prague Czech, tennis (Wimbeldon 1989,79,82-87)
- B10181958 Jean-Claude Van Damme, Belgium, actor (Kickboxer, No Retreat)
- B10181960 Emily Arth, Evanston Ill, playmate (Jun, 1988)
- B10181961 Erin Moran, Burbank Calif, actress (Happy Days, Joanie Loves Chachi)
- B10181961 Wynton Marsalis, New Orleans La, jazz trumpeter (Grammy 1983)
- B10181962 Vincent Spano, Brooklyn NY, actor (Alphabet City, Maria's Lovers)
- B10181966 Angela Visser, Miss Universe (1989)
- B10181971 Karen J McNenny, Missoula Montana, Miss Montana-America (1991)
- B10181977 Chris McKenna, Queens NY, actor (Joey-One Live to Live)
- B10181981 Richard Vuu, actor (Last Emperor)
- B10191605 Sir Thomas Browne, British writer (Garden of Cyrus)
- B10191784 John McLoughlin, Hudson's Bay Co pioneer in Oregon Country
- B10191784 Leigh Hunt, British writer (Lord Byron)
- B10191862 Auguste Lumière, made 1st movie (Workers Leaving Lumière Factory)
- B10191863 John Huston Finley, Ill, editor (NY Times (1937-38))
- B10191868 Bertha Landes, 1st woman elected mayor of a major US city (Seattle)
- B10191876 Mordecai (3 finger) Brown, hall of fame pitcher
- B10191882 Vincas Kreve-Mickievicius, Lithuania, poet/philologist/playwright
- B10191889 Uncle Art Satherly, entertainer
- B10191895 Louis Mumford, cultural historian/city planner/writer
- B10191899 Miguel Asturias, Guatemala, poet/novelist/diplomat (Nobel 1967)
- B10191901 Arleigh A Burke, US, admiral (WW II)
- B10191909 Robert Beatty, actor (Amorous Mr Pawn)
- B10191910 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, India, physicist (Nobel 1983)
- B10191911 George Cates, NYC, orch leader (Lawrence Welk Show)
- B10191913 Jean Urruty, France, Jai-Alai champion
- B10191916 David Lewis, Pitts Pa, actor (Edward Quartermaine-General Hospital)
- B10191916 Emil Gilels, Odessa Russia, pianist (Brussels Competition-1938)
- B10191920 LaWanda Page, Cleve Ohio, actress (Aunt Esther-Sanford & Sons)
- B10191921 George Nader, Pasadena Calif, actor (Robot Monster, Away All Boats)
- B10191921 Gunnar Nordahl, Sweden, soccer players (Olympic-gold-1948)
- B10191922 Jack Anderson, newspaper columnist (Wash Post)
- B10191925 Bernard Hepton, Bradford England, actor (6 Wives of Henry VIII)
- B10191927 Piere Alechinsky, Belgium, artist (Les Hautes herbes)
- B10191928 Buff Cobb, Florence Italy, actress (Masquerade Party)
- B10191929 Balbir Singh, India, field hockey player (Olympic-gold-1948-56)
- B10191931 John Le Carré, England, spy novelist (Little Drummer Girl)
- B10191932 Lloyd Haynes, South Bend Indiana, actor (Pete Dixon-Room 222)
- B10191932 Robert Reed, Highland Park Ill, actor (Mike-Brady Bunch, Nurse)
- B10191933 Wilfried Dietrich, German FR, super-heavyweight (Olympic-gold-1960)
- B10191936 Tony Lo Bianco, Brooklyn NY, actor (Ann Jillian Story, Hizzoner!)
- B10191937 Sean Garrison, NYC, actor (Up Periscope, Splendor in the Grass)
- B10191939 Benita Valente, Delano Calif, soprano (Pamina-Die Zauberflöte)
- B10191940 Jerzy Kulej, Poland, light welterweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1964, 68)
- B10191945 John Lithgow, actor (Harry & the Hendersons)
- B10191955 Lonnie Shelton, NBA forward (NY Knick, Seattle Supersonics)
- B10191955 Pat Klous, Hutchinson Ks, actress (Marcy-Flying High, Judy-Love Boat)
- B10191956 Sue Barker, tennis pro (French Open 1976)
- B10191960 Jennifer Holiday, singer/actress (Dream Girls)
- B10191960 Woody, rocker (Voice of the Beehive-Let it Bee)
- B10191962 Evander Hollyfield, Heavyweight boxing champ (1990- )
- B10191965 Maria Lee Ostapiej, La Mess Calif, Miss Calif-America (1991)
- B10191966 Amy Linker, Bkln NY, actress (Lewis & Clark, Lauren-Square Pegs)
- B10191966 Anna Clark, San Francisco Ca, playmate (Apr, 1987)
- B10191966 Sinitta, rocker (Omn Sinitta)
- B10191967 Amy Carter, Pres Carter's daughter/peace activist
- B10201435 Andrea Della Robbia, Florence, sculptor, nephew of Luca
- B10201632 Sir Christopher Wren, England, astronomer/great architect
- B10201812 Austin Flint, 19th century heart research pioneer
- B10201819 Mirza Ali Mohammad, [The Báb], forerunner of Bahá'u'lláh
- B10201823 Thomas Hughes, England, author (Tom Brown's School Days)
- B10201854 Arthur Rimbaud, France, poet/adventurer (Illuminations)
- B10201859 John Dewey, philosopher, educational theorist/writer (Learn by doing)
- B10201874 Charles Edward Ives, Danbury Ct, composer (Holliday Quick Step)
- B10201874 Viscount Palmerston, (Whig) British PM (1855-65)
- B10201887 Addison Richards, Zanesville Ohio, actor (Col-Pentagon)
- B10201889 Margaret Dumont, actress-Marx Brothers' foil
- B10201896 Nat Holman, basketball coach (CCNY)
- B102019-- Brandon Williams, Paramount Calif, actor (Greatest American Hero)
- B102019-- Gwyda Donhowe, Oak Park Ill, actress (Astrid-Executive Suite)
- B102019-- Jeff MacKay, Dallas Tx, actor (Mac-Magnum PI)
- B102019-- William Zabka, actor (Back to School, Karate Kid II)
- B10201900 Wayne Morse, (Sen-R/D-Ore)
- B10201905 Frederic Dannay, ½ of Ellery Queen & Barnaby Ross (Cat of Many Tales)
- B10201908 Arlene Francis, Boston Mass, radio/TV hostess (What's My Line?)
- B10201911 Will Rogers Jr, actor (Down to Earth)
- B10201913 Barney Phillips, St Louis Mo, actor (Dragnet, Felony Squad)
- B10201917 Jean-Pierre Melville, Paris France, director (Un Flic)
- B10201918 Anton Diffring, Koblenz Germany, actor (Assignment Vienna)
- B10201921 Pierre Laporte, Canada, journalist/statesman (Revolution Script)
- B10201922 John Anderson, Clayton Ill, actor (Virgil-Legend of Wyatt Earp)
- B10201923 Herschel Bernardi, actor (Arnie, Voice of Charlie the Tuna, The Front)
- B10201923 Robert Craft, Kingston, NY, conductor, Stravinsky-follower
- B10201925 Art Buchwald, Mt Vernon NY, columnist/author (Have I Ever Lied to You)
- B10201926 Ursula Happe, Germany, 200m backstroke swimmer (Olympic-gold-1956)
- B10201930 "Grandpa" Louis M Jones, Niagra Ky, country singer/banjoist (Hee Haw)
- B10201931 Mickey Mantle, NY Yankee, home run slugger (1956 Triple Crown)
- B10201932 Roosevelt Brown, Virginia, NFL hall of fame tackle (NY Giants)
- B10201932 William Christopher, Evanstown Ill, actor (Father Mulcahy-M*A*S*H)
- B10201934 Martin Landau, actor (Mission Impossible, Space 1999, Tucker)
- B10201934 Timothy West, Yorkshire England, actor (Masada)
- B10201935 Jerry Orbach, actor (Promises! Promises!, Dirty Dancing)
- B10201937 Juan Marichal, baseball pitcher (SF Giants)
- B10201937 Wanda Jackson, Maud Okla, country singer (Let's Have a Party)
- B10201946 Connie Chung, Washington DC, news ancher (NBC, CBS)
- B10201948 Andrei Suraikin, USSR, pairs figure skater (Olympic-silver-1972)
- B10201949 Valery Borzov, USSR, 100m/200m dash (Olympic-gold-1972)
- B10201949 Wayne Collett, US, 400m runner (Olympic-silver-1972)
- B10201950 Finola Hughes, London, actress (Anna Devane-General Hospital)
- B10201952 Melanie Mayron, Phila, actress (30 Something, Car Wash, Missing)
- B10201953 Keith Hernandez, SF Calif, NY Met 1st baseman (9 golden gloves)
- B10201953 Tom Petty, Gainesville Fla, singer (Heartbreakers-Refugee)
- B10201958 Eric Scott, Hollywood Calif, actor (Ben-Waltons)
- B10201958 Ivo Pogorelich, Belgrade Yugoslavia, pianist (1978 Casagrande winner)
- B10201958 Mark King, bass/vocalist (Level 42-Standing in the Light)
- B10201966 Fred Coury, Johnston NY, rocker (Cinderella-Heartbreak Station)
- B10201967 Susan Tulley, British actress (Michelle-EastEnders)
- B10201970 Tiffany, [Renee Darwisch], rocker (I Think We are Alone Now)
- B10211772 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, England, poet (Rime of the Ancient Mariner)
- B10211790 Alphonse-Marie Louis de Lamartine, Macon France, writer (René)
- B10211833 Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Stockholm, created dynamite & Peace Prizes
- B102119-- Julie Parrish, Middlesboro Ky, actress (Good Morning World, Capitol)
- B102119-- Steve Malone, rock bassist (Every Mother's Nightmare-Hard to Hold)
- B102119-- William Bell Sullivan, Balt Md, actor (Gary Swanson-Guiding Light)
- B10211908 Alexander Schneider, Vilna Russia, violinist (Budapest String Quartet)
- B10211912 Sir Georg Solti, Budapest Hungary, conductor (Fidelio)
- B10211914 Martin Gardner, Scientific American math & puzzles columnist
- B10211917 Dizzy Gillespie, trumpeter, a creator of modern jazz
- B10211921 Malcolm Arnold, Northampton Engld, composer (Bridge over River Kwai)
- B10211925 Joyce Randolph, Detroit Mich, actress (Trixie-Honeymooners)
- B10211926 Leonard Rossiter, Liverpool England, actor (Britannia Hospital)
- B10211928 Edward "Whitey" Ford, hall of fame pitcher (NY Yankees)
- B10211929 Ursula LeGuin, American writer (Lathe of Heaven)
- B10211933 Georgia Brown, actress (Study in Terror, The Fixer)
- B10211940 Frances FitzGerald, NYC, journalist/author (Fire in the Lake)
- B10211940 Manfred Mann, rocker (The Mighty Quinn)
- B10211940 Osamu Watanabe, Japan, featherweight (Olympic-gold-1964)
- B10211942 Elvin Bishop, Okla, rocker (Fooled Around & Fell in Love)
- B10211943 Paula Kelly, Jacksonville Fla, dancer/actress (Liz-Night Court)
- B10211945 Kathy Young, rocker (Thousand Stars in the Sky)
- B10211950 Ronald E McNair, Lake City SC, astr (STS 41B, 51L-Challenger disaster)
- B10211953 Charlotte Caffey, singer (GoGos-Our Lips are Sealed)
- B10211956 Carrie Fisher, Beverly Hills, actress (Star Wars-Princess Lelia)
- B10211957 Julian Cope, rocker (My Nation Underground)
- B10211959 George Bell, Dom Rep, outfielder (Blue Jays, 1987 AL MVP)
- B10211971 Jade Jagger, daughter of Mick Jagger
- B10211976 Jeremy Miller, West Covina Calif, actor (Ben-Growing Pains)
- B10221811 Franz Liszt, Raiding, Hungary, romantic composer/virtuoso pianist
- B10221845 Sarah Bernhardt, France, silent film actress (Camille, Queen Elizabeth)
- B10221870 Ivan Bunin, Russia, poet/novelist (Gentleman from SF-Nobel 1933)
- B10221880 Joe Carr, Ohio, NFL hall of famer/NFL president (1921-39)
- B10221885 Giovanni Martinelli, Montagnana Italy, opera singer (NY Met)
- B10221887 John Reed, journalist who reported on Mexican, Russian revolutions
- B10221896 Charles Glenn King, biochemist (discovered vitamin C)
- B10221898 Damaso Alonso, Spanish poet (Hijos de la ira)
- B102219-- Barrie Youngfellow, Cleve Ohio, actress (Jan-It's a Living)
- B102219-- Bobby Blotzner, rock drummer (Ratt-Round & Round)
- B102219-- Judith Blazer, actress (As the World Turns)
- B10221905 Constance Bennett, actress (Easiest Way, Ladies in Love)
- B10221905 Karl Jansky, discovered cosmic radio emissions in 1932
- B10221906 Sidney Kingsley, author (Darkness at Noon)
- B10221907 Jimmy Foxx, baseball HR hitter (Detroit Tigers)
- B10221915 Harry Hickox, Big Springs Tx, (Herb-Please Don't Eat the Daisies)
- B10221916 Sid Miller, Shenandoah Pa, actor (Donald O'Connor Texaco Show)
- B10221917 Joan Fontaine, Tokyo Japan, actress (Gunga Din, Ivanhoe, Rebecca)
- B10221919 Doris Lessing, novelist (Golden Notebook)
- B10221920 Mitzi Green, NYC, actress (Little Orphan Annie, So This is Hollywood)
- B10221920 Timothy Leary, Harvard prof, LSD taker
- B10221922 John Chafee, (Sen-R-RI)
- B10221923 Pete Pihos, NFL end (Phil Eagles)
- B10221925 Robert Rauschenberg, US, painter (Gloria)
- B10221929 Dory Previn, pop singer (Love Be My Cover)
- B10221933 Donald H Peterson, Winona Mississippi, Col USAF/astronaut (STS 6)
- B10221934 Donald McIntyre, Auckland NZ, Bass-Baritone (Wotan-Das Rheingold)
- B10221935 Judy Devlin Hashman, 10 time badminton champ (1957-67)
- B10221938 Christopher Lloyd, Stamford Ct, actor (Taxi, Back to the Future)
- B10221938 Derek Jacobi, London England, actor (Lanner-Strauss Family)
- B10221939 Tony Roberts, NYC, actor (Annie Hall, Edge of Night, Lucie Arnaz Show)
- B10221942 Annette Funicello, Utica NY, actress (Mickey Mouse Club)
- B10221943 Catherine Deneuve, [Dorleac], Paris, actress (Repulsion, Hunger)
- B10221943 Paul Zukofsky, Brooklyn NY, violinist (Cappricio)
- B10221945 Leslie West, [Weinstein] rocker (Mountain-Mississippi Queen)
- B10221947 Lee Meredith, [Judith Lee Sauls], River Edge NJ, actress (Producers)
- B10221948 John Peterson, US, Middleweight (Olympic-gold-1976)
- B10221952 Jeff Goldblum, Pitts Pa, actor (The Fly, Thank God it's Friday)
- B10221952 Patti Davis, aka Patricia Ann Reagan, 1st daughter (House of Secrets)
- B10221961 Barbara Potter, Ct, tennis player (changed shirt on Wimbeldon Court)
- B10221961 Leonard Marshall, NFL defensive end (NY Giants)
- B10221963 Brian Boitano, US, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1988)
- B10221963 Cherie Witter, Everett Wash, playmate (February, 1985)
- B10221966 Valeria Golino, Naples Italy, actress (Rain Man, Little Flames)
- B1022198- Michael Fishran, actor (DJ-Roseanne)
- B10231752 Nicolas Appert, inventor (food canning, bouillon tablet)
- B10231835 Adlai Stevenson, (D) 23rd VP (1893-97), US amb to UN
- B10231844 Louis Riel, Manitoba, leader of insurrection of Métis
- B10231844 Robert Bridges, poet laureate of England (The Testament of Beauty)
- B10231868 Rama V, [Chulalongkorn], leader of Thailand (-1910)
- B102319-- Albert Stratton, Hubbard Ohio, actor (Paul-Perry Mason, Martin-Sara)
- B102319-- Augusta Dabney, Beverly Calif, actress (Robert Montgomery Presents)
- B102319-- Warren Burton, actor (Guiding Light)
- B102319-- Wolf Muser, actor (Capitol)
- B10231905 Felix Bloch, US physicist (Nobel 1952)
- B10231906 Gertrude Ederle, US, swimmer (Olympic-gold-1924)
- B10231910 Hayden Rorke, Bkln NY, actor (Dr Bellows-I Dream of Jeannie)
- B10231912 Ilse Dörffeldt, Germany, sprint relay (Olympic-1936)
- B10231914 Frank (Bruiser) Kinard, NFL, AAFC tackle (Bkln, NY Yankees)
- B10231917 Robert Bray, Kalispell Mont, actor (Corey-Lassie, Stagecoach West)
- B10231918 James Daly, Wisc, actor (Medical Center)
- B10231922 Coleen Gray, Staplehurst Nebraska, actress (Apache Drums)
- B10231923 Frank Sutton, Clarksville Tenn, actor (Sgt Carter-Gomer Pyle USMC)
- B10231923 Ned Rorem, Richmond Indiana, composer/author (Sky Music)
- B10231925 Johnny Carson, Corning Iowa, comedian (Tonight Show, Who Do You Trust)
- B10231927 Dezsö Gyarmati, Hungary, water polo player (Olympic-gold-1956, 60, 64)
- B10231931 Diana Dors, England, actress (Berserk!, Steaming)
- B10231931 Jim Bunning, Phillies pitcher (perfect Game against Mets 1965)
- B10231932 Dimitra Arliss, actress (Rich Man Poor Man II)
- B10231935 Chi Chi Rodriguez, golfer (PGA Seniors-1987)
- B10231938 John Heinz, (Sen-R-Pa)
- B10231938 Jordan Christopher, Youngstown Ohio, actor (Secrets of Midland Heights)
- B10231940 Edison Pelé, Brazil, soccer player extraordinaire (NY Cosmos)
- B10231940 Jordan Christopher, Youngston Oh, actor (Return of the 7)
- B10231941 Greg Ridley, bassist (Spooky Tooth-It's All About)
- B10231942 Michael Crichton, US novelist (Andromeda Strain, Congo, Looker)
- B10231946 Miklos Nemeth, Hungary, javelin thrower (Olympic-gold-1976)
- B10231951 Michael Rupert, Denver Colo, actor (Pasadena Playhouse)
- B10231956 Darrell Place, US, archer (Olympic-gold-1976)
- B10231956 Dwight Yoakum, country singer (If There Was a Way)
- B10231959 "Weird Al" Yankovic, parody singer (Eat It, UHF, Naked Gun)
- B10231962 Doug Flute, WFL/NFL QB (Generals, Bears, Patriots)
- B10231963 Katherine Hushaw, Anaheim Ca, playmate (Oct, 1986)
- B10231969 Brooke Theiss, Calif, actress (Wendy-Just the 10 of Us, Good & Evil)
- B10231974 Kaleena Kiff, Santa Monica Calif, actress (Patti-Love Sidney)
- B10241632 Antony van Leeuwenhoek, Hol, naturalist (Philosophical Transactions)
- B10241788 Sarah Josepha Hale, author (Mary Had a Little Lamb)
- B10241882 Dame Sybil Thorndike, England, actress (Saint Joan)
- B10241890 Chicago Mainbocher, uniform designer (Red Cross, Girl Scouts, Waves)
- B102419-- Doug Davidson, actor (Paul-The Young & the Restless)
- B102419-- Glenn Tipton, rocker (Judas Priest-Breakin' the Law)
- B102419-- James Whitmore Jr, NYC, actor (Hunter, Baa Baa Black Sheep)
- B102419-- Karen Austin, Welch WV, actress (Carrie-Quest, Lana-Night Court)
- B102419-- Maggie Pierce, Detroit Mich, actress (Barbara-My Mother the Car)
- B102419-- Ron Tomme, Chicago Ill, actor (Charles-Dallas, Love of Life)
- B102419-- Teri Keane, actress (Loving)
- B10241904 Moss Hart, Bronx NY, playwright (You can't Take it With You, Act 1)
- B10241911 Clarence M Kelley, FBI head
- B10241923 Denise Levertov, American poet/essayist (Joy Beneath the Skin)
- B10241925 Luciano Berio, Oneglia Italy, composer (Chemins)
- B10241926 YA Tittle, AAFC, NFL QB (Baltimore, SF, NY Giants, MVP 1963)
- B10241929 George Crumb, Charleston WV, composer (Pulitzer 1968-Echoes of Time)
- B10241929 James Brosnan, baseball player/writer (The Long Season)
- B10241936 Bill Wyman, England, rocker (Rolling Stones-Under My Thumb)
- B10241936 David Nelson, NYC, actor (Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet)
- B10241938 Fred E Finn, SF Calif, pianist (Mickie Finn's)
- B10241940 F Murray Abraham, actor (Amadeus, Mad Man)
- B10241947 Kevin Kline, St Louis, actor (Sophie's Choice, Big Chill)
- B10241951 Todd Crespi, Frankfurt Germany, actor (The Magician)
- B10241953 James di Donato, twin who swam the butterfly 406 miles
- B10241953 Jonathan di Donato, twin who swam the butterfly 406 miles
- B10241972 Louis Michael Anthony Sassin, Boston, rocker (4 Fun-Unbelievable Fun)
- B10251759 Baron Grenville, (Whig) British PM (1806-07)
- B10251800 Thomas Babington Macaulay, England, poet/historian (Ivry, Naaseby)
- B10251825 Johann Strauss (the younger), composer (Waltz King)
- B10251838 Georges Bizet, France, composer (Carmen)
- B10251843 Gleb Uspensky, Russia, author (Power of the Soil)
- B10251869 John Heisman, pioneering football coach/trophy namesake
- B10251877 Henry Norris Russell, astronomer (Hertzsprung-Russell diagram)
- B10251881 Pablo Picasso, Spain, artist (3 Dancers, Guernica)
- B10251884 Eduardo Barrios, Chile, novelist (The Love-Crazed Boy)
- B10251888 Richard E Byrd, Virginia, admiral/polar explorer (1926)
- B102519-- Asher Brauner, Chicago, actor (Officer Donovan-B.A.D. Cats)
- B102519-- John Leven, rocker (Europe-The Final Countdown)
- B102519-- Laura Malone, actress (Another World)
- B102519-- Marc L Taylor, Houston Tx, actor (Conrad-House Calls)
- B102519-- Matthias Jabs, rock guitarist (Scorpions-Wind of Change)
- B102519-- Paul Regina, Bkln NY, actor (Joe-Joe & Valerie)
- B102519-- Shelley Smith, Princeton NJ, actress (Scruples, Associates)
- B10251902 Henry Steele Commager, Pitts Pa, historian (Atlas of the Civil War)
- B10251909 Philleo Nash, US Bureau of Indian Affairs (1961-67)
- B10251909 Whit Bissel, NYC, actor (Time Machine, General Kirk-Time Tunnel)
- B10251912 Jack Kent Cooke, NFL team owner (Washington Redskins)
- B10251912 Minnie Pearl, [Sarah Ophelia Colley] Tenn, (Grand Old Opry, Hee-Haw)
- B10251914 John Berryman, American poet (Friends & Associates)
- B10251914 John Reed King, Atlantic City NJ, TV host (Why?, Let's See)
- B10251923 Bobby Thomson, HR hitter (The Giants win the pennent)
- B10251924 Billy Barty, Millsboro Pa, 3'9" actor (Under the Rainbow, Foul Play)
- B10251925 Yakov Rylskly, USSR, sabre team (Olympic-bronze-1956)
- B10251926 Biff McGuire, New Haven Ct, actor (Serpico, Heart is Lonely Hunter)
- B10251926 Galina Vishnevskaya, Russia, soprano (Madama Butterfly)
- B10251927 Barbara Cook, Atlanta Ga, stage singer/actress (Music Man)
- B10251927 Franklin "Bud" Held, javelin world champ (1949, 51, 53-55)
- B10251928 Anthony Franciosa, NYC, actor (Jeff-Name of the Game)
- B10251928 Jeanne Cooper, Minneapolis, actress (Kay-Young & Restless)
- B10251928 Marion Ross, Albert Lea Mn, actress (Marion-Happy Days, Bkln Bridge)
- B10251928 Tony Franciosa, actor (Long Hot Summer, Name of Game, Death Wish 3)
- B10251931 Annie Giradot, Paris France, actress (Gypsy, Jacko & Lise)
- B10251935 Russell "Rusty" L Schweickart, Neptune NJ, astronaut (Apollo 9)
- B10251940 Bob Knight, college basketball coach (Indiana, Olympic-gold-1984)
- B10251941 Anne Tyler, American writer (Accidental Tourist)
- B10251941 Helen Reddy, Melbourne Australia, singer (I Am Woman)
- B10251944 Kathy "Taffy" Danoff, Wash DC, vocalist (Starland Vocal Band)
- B10251948 Dave Cowens, NBA forward (Boston Celtics, Milwaukee Bucks)
- B10251949 Brian Kerwin, Chicago Ill, actor (Chisholms, King Kong Lives, Lobo)
- B10251950 John Matuszak, Milwaukee Wisc, NFLer (Raiders)/actor (Hollywood Beat)
- B10251951 Ransom Wilson, Tuscaloosa Alabama, flutist (Soliste NY)
- B10251958 Kornelia Ender, German DR, 100m/200m freestyle (Olympic-gold-1976)
- B10251960 Scott Anthony Haneline, Indianapolis, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
- B10251960 Tom Eplin, actor (Jake-Another World)
- B10251963 Tracy Nelson, Calif, actress (Glitter, Square Pegs, Father Dowling)
- B10251965 Nick Thorpe, rocker (Curiosity Killed the Cat-Keep Your Distance)
- B10251967 Julia Roberts, Smyma Georgia, actress (Mystic Pizza, Pretty Woman)
- B10251968 Lisa Trusel, Cal, actress (Lizette-Father Murphy, Days of our Lives)
- B10261466 Desiderius Erasmus, Holland, scholar/author (In Praise of Folly)
- B10261685 Domenico Scarlatti, Naples Italy, composer/harpsichordist
- B10261759 Georges Danton, France, revolutionary leader
- B10261791 Charles Sprague, Boston, banker/poet (Curiosity)
- B10261855 Charles Post, who had a way with breakfast cereals
- B10261861 Richard D Sears, Boston, 1st to win US amateur national tennis match
- B10261873 Thorvald Stauning, Denmark, PM (1924-26, 1929-42)
- B10261879 Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary (pres of 1st Soviet)
- B10261894 John S Knight, WV, publisher (Knight-Rider)
- B102619-- James Pickens Jr, actor (Another World)
- B10261910 John Cardinal Krol, former archbishop of Philadelphia
- B10261911 Mahalia Jackson, New Orleans, gospel singer (Whole World in his Hands)
- B10261911 Sid Gillman, NFL coach (LA, San Diego, Houston)
- B10261914 Jackie Coogan, LA Calif, actor (Uncle Fester-Addams Family)
- B10261916 François Mitterand, Jarnac France, President of France (1981- )
- B10261917 Felix the Cat, cartoon character
- B10261919 Edward W Brooke, 1st black senator in over 80 yrs (Sen-R-Mass)
- B10261919 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Aryamehr, Shah of Iran (1941-79)
- B10261931 Hank Garrett, Monticello NY, actor (Car 54 Where Are You)
- B10261932 Chinadorai Deshmutu, India, field hockey player (1952)
- B10261933 Suzy Parker, San Antonio Tx, model/actress (Chamber of Horrors)
- B10261936 Bruce Belland, Chicago, singer (Tim Conway Hour)
- B10261939 John Arden, England, novelist/playwright (Left Handed Liberty)
- B10261940 Mario Orosco, 1st victim of NYC's Zodiac killer (survives)
- B10261941 Harald Nielsen, Denmark, soccer player (Olympic-silver-1960)
- B10261942 Bob Hoskins, Suffolk England, actor (Brazil, Who Killed Roger Rabbit?)
- B10261945 Pat Conroy, American writer (Great Santini, Prince of Tides)
- B10261946 Pat Sajak, Chicago, TV host (Wheel of Fortune, Pat Sajak Show)
- B10261947 Jaclyn Smith, Houston Tx, actress (Charlie's Angel, Nightkill)
- B10261948 Marshall Colt, New Orleans La, actor (Eric-Lottery)
- B10261950 Chuck Foreman, NFL running back (Minnesota Vikings)
- B10261951 Bootsy Collins, Cin, rocker (Parliaments-We Got the Funk)
- B10261953 Julian Keith Stockland, drummer (B-52's-Rock Lobster)
- B10261954 Lauren Tewes, actress (Love Boat, Eyes of a Stranger)
- B10261962 Cary Elwes, actor (Glory, Princess Bride)
- B10261963 Kerri Lynne Rosenberg, Burlington Ia, Miss Iowa-America (1991-top 10)
- B10261966 Olga Bicherova, gymnastics (won title at 15yrs 33 days)
- B10271728 James Cook, captain/explorer, discovered Sandwich Islands
- B10271782 Niccolò Paganini, Genoa It, composer/violin virtuoso (Princess Lucca)
- B10271811 Issac Merrit Singer, inventor (1st practical home sewing machine)
- B10271844 Klas Arnoldson, Sweden, politician/pacifist (Nobel 1908)
- B10271858 Theodore Roosevelt, (R) 26th Pres (1901-09) (Nobel 1906)
- B10271872 Emily Post, authority on social behavior, writer (Etiquette)
- B10271889 Enid Bagnold, novelist (1956 Award of Merit)
- B102719-- K.K. Downing, rocker (Judas Priest-Breakin' the Law)
- B102719-- Russ Anderson, actor (One Life to Live)
- B102719-- Ted Wass, Lakewood Ohio, actor (Danny Dallas-Soap)
- B102719-- Tina Johnson, actress (Search for Tomorrow)
- B10271910 Fred de Cordova, film/TV producer (The Tonight Show)
- B10271910 Jack Carson, Manitoba Canada, actor (Star is Born, Mildred Pierce)
- B10271911 Leif Erickson, Calif, actor (Invaders from Mars, On the Waterfront)
- B10271912 Conlon Nancarrow, Texarkana Arkansas, composer (Soundings 4)
- B10271914 Dylan Thomas, Swansea, Wales, poet (Child's Christmas in Wales)
- B10271917 Oliver Tambo, leader of African National Congress
- B10271918 Paul Dixon, Earling Iowa, Ohio talk show host (Paul Dixon Show)
- B10271918 Teresa Wright, NYC, actress (Pride of the Yankees)
- B10271920 Nanette Fabray, San Diego Calif, actress (One Day at a Time)
- B10271922 Ralph Kiner, HR hitter (Pitts Pirates)/sportscaster (NY Mets)
- B10271923 Roy Lichtenstein, US, Pop art painter; painted comic book panels
- B10271923 Ruby Dee, Cleve Ohio, actress (Raisin in the Sun, Cat People)
- B10271925 Jane Connell, Oakland Calif, actress (Jane-Stanley, Bridget-Dumpling)
- B10271925 Mary Kay Steans, Glendale Calif, actress (Mary Kay & Johnny)
- B10271926 HR Haldeman, former White House Chief of Staff-Watergate figure
- B10271927 Dominick Argento, York Penn, composer (Colonel Jonathan the Saint)
- B10271928 Kyle Rote, football half-back (NY Giants 1951-61)
- B10271930 Bill George, NFL linebacker (Chicago Bears, LA Rams)
- B10271932 Jean-Pierre Cassel, Paris France, actor (The Trout)
- B10271932 Sylvia Plath, American poet (Bell Jar)
- B10271933 Floyd Cramer, La, cowboy singer (Last Date, On the Rebound)
- B10271939 John Cleese, comedian/actor (Monty Python, Fawlty Towers)
- B10271940 Lee Greenwood, country singer (God Bless the USA)
- B10271945 Carrie Snodgress, Park Ridge Ill, actress (Diary of Mad Housewife)
- B10271946 Peter Martins
- B10271946 Steven R Nagel, Canton Ill, USAF/astr (STS 51-G, STS 61-A, STS 37)
- B10271946 Terry J Hart, Pittsburgh Penn, astronaut (STS 41C)
- B10271947 Terry Anderson, AP correspondent/US hostage held in Lebanon (1984-)
- B10271951 Jayne Kennedy, Wash DC, actress (Penitentary)
- B10271953 Michael A Baker, Memphis Tenn, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut (STS 43)
- B10271953 Peter Firth, Bradford England, actor (Equus, Lifeforce, Tess)
- B10271958 Hazell Dean, rocker (Always Doesn't Mean Forever)
- B10271958 Simon Le Bon, rocker (Duran, Duran-Hungry Like the Wolf)
- B10271963 Deborah Moore, London England, actress (Danielle=-Day of Our Lives)
- B10271963 Marla Maples, Dalton Ga, model/Donald Trumps main squeeze
- B10271968 Kata Karkkainen, Helsinki Finland, playmate (Dec, 1988)
- B10281017 Henry III, Holy Roman emperor (1046-56)
- B10281585 Cornelius Otto Jansen, France, Roman Catholic reform leader
- B10281810 Brig Gen Adley H Gladden, La, killed at Shiloh
- B10281818 Ivan Turgenev, Russia, novelist/poet/playwright (Fathers & Sons)
- B10281842 Anna Elizabeth Dickinson, orator (Joan of Arc of the Civil War)
- B10281846 Auguste Escoffier, king of chefs & chef of kings
- B10281896 Howard Hanson, Wahoo Nebraska, composer/conductor (Nordic)
- B102819-- Dennis Parker, [Wade Nichols] actor/porno star (Edge of Night)
- B102819-- Rose Alaio, actor (Guiding Light)
- B10281902 Elsa Lanchester, Lewisham London, actress (Bride of Frankenstien)
- B10281903 Evelyn Waugh, London, author (Brideshead Revisited)
- B10281907 Edith Head, fashion designer (MGM)
- B10281907 Lew Parker, actor (Lou Marie-That Girl)
- B10281910 Marie Dollinger, Germany, dropped bataan in 1936 Olympic sprint
- B10281914 Dr Jonas Salk, NYC, medical reseacher, made polio a fear of the past
- B10281915 Dody Goodman, Columbus Ohio, comedienne (Mary Hartman)
- B10281926 Bowie Kuhn, baseball commissioner (1969-1984)
- B10281927 Cleo Laine, Middlesex England, singer (Flesh to a Tiger)
- B10281929 Dody Goodman, Columbus Ohio, actress (Mary Hartman!, Max Duggan)
- B10281929 Joan Plowright, England, actress (Brimstone & Treacle)
- B10281934 Jim Beatty, track runner (1st sub 4 minute indoor mile)
- B10281936 Charlie Daniels, country music star (Devil Went Down to Georgia)
- B10281937 Lenny Wilkins, NBA player, coach (Seattle, Cleveland)
- B10281939 Jane Alexander, Mass, actress (The Betsy, Kramer vs Kramer)
- B10281940 Gennadi M Strekalov, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-3, T-8, T-11)
- B10281944 Coluche France, comedian/actor (My Best Friend's Girl)
- B10281944 Dennis Franz, Maywood Ill, actor (Norman Buntz-Hill Street Blues)
- B10281945 Wayne Fontana, Manchester England, rocker (Groovy Kind of Love)
- B10281947 Tom Fitzsimmons, SF Calif, actor (Franklin-The Paper Chase)
- B10281948 Telma Hopkins, Louisville, singer (Tony Orlando, Family Matters)
- B10281949 Bruce Jenner, US, decathalete (Olympic-gold-1976)
- B10281952 Annie Potts, Nashville TN, actress (Mary Jo-Designing Women)
- B10281953 Lauren Tewes, Trafford Pa, actress (Julie McCoy-Love Boat)
- B10281955 William Gates, billionaire CEO (Microsoft)
- B10281957 Stephen Morris, rocker (New Order-Round & Round)
- B10281959 Neville Henry, rocker (Blow Monkeys-Wicked Ways)
- B10281959 Walther Bauersfeld, 1919 inventor (1st modern projection planetarium)
- B10281960 Mark Derwin, Park Forest Ill, actor (AC Mallet-Guiding Light)
- B10281962 Daphne Zuniga, actress (Gross Anatomy, Fly II, Spaceballs)
- B10281963 Veronica Gamba, Buenos Aires Arg, playmate (November, 1983)
- B10281965 Jami Gertz, Chicago, actress (Less the Zero, Crossroads, Solarbabies)
- B10281966 Lauren Holly, actress (All My Children)
- B10281974 Leaf Phoenix, PR, actor (Russkies, Space Camp)
- B10291656 Sir Edmund Halley, astronomer (Halley's Comet)
- B10291740 James Boswell, Scotland, Samuel Johnson's biographer
- B10291859 Charles Ebbets, (namesake of Ebbets Field, Brooklyn)
- B10291873 Guillermo Valencia, Colombia, poet/translator/statesman
- B10291875 Marie, queen consort of Ferdinand I of Romania (1914-27)
- B10291882 Jean Giraudoux, Bellac France, playwright (Églantine, Provinciales)
- B10291884 Bela Lugosi, horror actor (Dracula, Body Snatcher)
- B10291891 Fanny Brice, singing comedienne (Ziegeld Follies, Baby Snooks)
- B10291897 Hope Emerson, Hawarden Iowa, actress (I Married Joan, Peter Gunn)
- B10291897 Paul Joseph Goebbels, Nazi propagandist
- B102919-- Laura Bonarrigo, actress (Cassie Callson-One Life to Live)
- B102919-- Scott Jacek, actor (Santa Barbara)
- B10291906 Fredric Brown, American writer (US Army in Transition)
- B10291910 Alfred J Ayer, England, Neopositivist philosopher/logician
- B10291917 Henry Carlsson, Sweden, soccer (Olympic-gold-1948)
- B10291921 Bill Mauldin, political cartoonist
- B10291921 Ed Kemmer, Reading Pa, actor (Buzz Corey-Space Patrol)
- B10291921 William Henry Mauldin, US, political cartoonist (Pulitzer-1945, 59)
- B10291922 Neal Hefti, Hastings Neb, orch leader (Kate Smith Show)
- B10291925 Geraldine Brooks, NYC, actr (Faraday & Co, Dumplings, Act of Murder)
- B10291926 Jon(athan Stewart) Vickers, Prince Albert, Canada, tenor
- B10291934 Robert E Hughes, NYC, orch leader (Rich Little Show)
- B10291937 Michael Ponti, Freiburg Germany, pianist (Boston Competition 1964)
- B10291945 Melba Moore, NYC, singer/actress (Ellis Island)
- B10291947 Richard Dreyfuss, Bkln NY, actor (Jaws, Nuts)
- B10291948 Kate Jackson, Birmingham Ala, actress (Rookies, Charlie's Angels)
- B10291953 Denis Potvin, Ottawa Ontario, NY Islander defenseman (Norris trophy)
- B10291959 Jesse Barfield, Ill, outfielder (Blue Jays, Yankees, 1986 HR leader)
- B10291960 Finola Hughes, actress (Anna-General Hospital, Staying Alive)
- B10291961 Randy Jackson, rocker (Jacksons-ABC)
- B10291965 Steven Sweet, Wadsworth Ohio, heavy metal artist (Warrant-Cherry Pie)
- B10291971 Winona Ryder, [Horowitz], Mn, actress (Heathers, Edward Scissorhand)
- B10301632 Richard Brinsley Sheridan, playwright (School for Scandal) (or 1751)
- B10301735 John Adams, Braintree, Mass (F) 2nd pres (1797-1801)
- B10301821 Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoevski, Russian novelist & short-story writer
- B10301830 John S Bowen, Major-General (Confederate)
- B10301871 Paul Valéry, France, poet/essayist/critic (La Jeune)
- B10301873 Francisco Madero, Mexico, revolutionary, president (1911-13)
- B10301885 Ezra Pound, Hailey, Idaho, poet (Cantos)
- B10301887 Eduardo Ciannelli, Italy, actor (Waldo-Johnny Staccato)
- B10301893 Charles Atlas, body builder
- B10301896 Ruth Gordon, Mass, actress (Rosemary's Baby, Harold & Maude)
- B103019-- Danny Goldman, NYC, actor (Nick-The Good Life)
- B103019-- Kristina Malandro, actress (Felicia Jones-General Hospital)
- B10301907 György Ránki, Budapest Hungary, composer (Hóemberek)
- B10301907 Renzo Cesana, Rome Italy, TV host (First Date, Continental)
- B10301914 Marion Ladewig, Mich, bowler (9 time woman bowler of year 1950-63)
- B10301917 Ruth Hussey, Providence RI, actress (Another Thin Man, Phila Story)
- B10301918 Ted Williams, Red Sox hitter (AL MVP '46, '49; Trip Crown '42, '47)
- B10301919 Jane Randolph, singer, backup for Tony Orlando (Dawn)
- B10301923 Herschel Bernardi, NYC, actor (Lt Jacoby-Peter Gunn, Arnie)
- B10301924 Hannelore Weygrand, German FR, equestrian dressage (Oly-silver-1956)
- B10301928 Ernest Flatt, choreographer (Carol Burnett Show)
- B10301928 William Campbell, Newark NJ, acotr (Jerry-Cannonball, Luke-Dynasty)
- B10301931 Dick Gautier, LA Calif, actor (Hymie-Get Smart, Mr Terrific)
- B10301932 Louis Malle, France, director (Atlantic City, Black Moon, Viva Maria)
- B10301934 Hamilton Camp, London, actor (Andrew-He & She)
- B10301936 Jim Perry, pitcher (Cy Young Award 1970)
- B10301937 Claude Lelouch, movie director (A Man & A Woman, Cat & Mouse, Bolero)
- B10301939 Grace Slick, Chicago, rock vocalist (Jefferson Airplane-White Rabbit)
- B10301940 Ed Lauter, Long Beach NY, actor (Sheriff Cain-BJ & the Bear)
- B10301943 Joanna Shimkus, Halifax NS, actress (Marriage of a Young Stockbroker)
- B10301945 Henry Winkler, NYC, actor (Fonz-Happy Days, Night Shift)
- B10301946 Andrea Mitchell, NYC, newscaster (NBC-TV, Summer Sunday USA)
- B10301946 Lynne Marta, Phila Pa, actress (Love American Style)
- B10301946 Robert L "Hoot" Gibson, Cooperstown NY, USN/ast (STS 41B, 61C, 27)
- B10301950 Phil Chenier, NBA guard (Wash Bullets)
- B10301951 Harry Hamlin, Pasadena Calif, actor (Michael Kuzak-LA Law)
- B10301953 Kathleen Cody, Bronx NY, actress (Charley & the Angel)
- B10301954 JoAnne Russell, Miami Fla, tennis player (Wibeldon Double 1977)
- B10301965 Charnele Brown, East Hampton NY, actress (Kim-A Different World)
- B10301969 Brittany Gae Thompson, Portland Oregon, Miss Oregon-America (1991)
- B10311620 John Evelyn, British diarist (Life of Mrs Godolphin)
- B10311632 Jan Vermeer, Holland, painter (Procuress, The Astronomer)
- B10311795 John Keats, London, England, romantic poet (Ode to a Grecian Urn)
- B10311815 Karl Weierstrass, Germany, mathematician (theory of functions)
- B10311860 Juliette Gordon Low, Girl Scout founder
- B10311887 Chiang Kai-shek, Chekiang Province, China, pres of Nationalist China
- B10311887 Edouard Lalonde, Canada, NHLer (Mont Candiens)/lacrosse player
- B10311888 Sir George Hubert Wilkins, Aust, polar explorer (Flying the Arctic)
- B10311893 Sara Allgood, Dublin Ireland, actress (Jane Eyre, Spiral Staircase)
- B10311896 Ethel Waters, Chester Pa, actress (Beulah)/singer (Stormy Weather)
- B10311897 Wilbur (Pete) Henry, NFL tackle (Canton, NY Giants, Pottsville)
- B103119-- Bobby Ellerbee, Upson County Ga, actor (In the Beginning)
- B103119-- Brian Mitchell, Seattle Wash, actor (Trapper John MD)
- B103119-- Lynda Goodfriend, Miami Fla, actress (Lori Beth-Happy Days)
- B10311902 Eduard Franz, Milwaukee Wisc, actor (Zorro)
- B10311902 Willie Shaw, race car driver (Indy 500-1937, 39, 40)
- B10311906 Louise Talma, Arcachon France, composer (Summer Sounds)
- B10311912 Dale Evans, Uvalde Tx, cowgirl (Roy Rogers Show)
- B10311920 Dick Francis, Wales, jockey/novelist (Whip Hand, High Stakes)
- B10311922 Barbara Bel Geddes, NYC, actress (Vertigo, Miss Ellie-Dallas, Caught)
- B10311923 Hicks B Waldron, Amsterdam NY, CEO (Avon)
- B10311926 Shirley Dinsdale, SF Calif, ventriloquist (Judy Splinters)
- B10311927 Lee Grant, [Lyova Haskell Rosenthal], NYC, actress (Shampoo, Landlord)
- B10311928 Andrew Sarris, movie critic (Village Voice)
- B10311930 Michael Collins, Rome, Mjr Gen USAF/astronaut (Gemini 10, Apollo 11)
- B10311931 Dan Rather, Wharton Tx, news anchor (CBS Evening News, 60 Minutes)
- B10311937 Michael Landon, Forest Hills NY, actor (Bonanza, Highway to Heaven)
- B10311937 Tom Paxton, Chicago, folk singer/songwriter (Forest Lawn)
- B10311942 David Ogden Stiers, Peoria Ill, actor (Winchester-M*A*S*H, Doc)
- B10311944 Deidre Hall, Milwaukee, actress (Days of our Life, Our House)
- B10311944 Kinky Friedman, Palestine Tx, country rocker (Ride 'em Jewboy)
- B10311944 Sally Kirkland, NYC, actress (Anna, Sting, Pvt Benjamin, Big Bad Mama)
- B10311947 Frank Shorter, US, marathon runner (Olympic-gold-1972)
- B10311949 Terrence W Wilcutt, Russellville Ky, Major USMC/astronaut
- B10311950 Jane Pauley, Indianapolis Indiana, newscaster (Today, NBC Weekend)
- B10311950 John Candy, Ontario Canada, comedian (SCTV, Uncle Buck)
- B10311953 John Lucas, NBA guard (Houston Rockets, Milwaukee Bucks)
- B10311960 Reza Pahlavi, Iran, son of Shah of Iran
- B10311961 Larry Mullen Jr, drummer (U2-I Will Follow)
- B10311963 Johnny Marr, rocker (The Smiths-Ask, Girl Afraid)
- B10311964 Amanda Sandrelli, Rome Italy, actress (The Key)
- B10311966 Ad-Rock, [Adam Horowitz], rocker (Beastie Boys-You Gotta Fight)
- B10311968 Vanilla Ice, [Robert Van Winkle], rapper (Ice Ice Baby)
- D01011960 Margaret Sullavan, actress (Back Street), dies at 58 from an OD
- D10--1964 Bernard Dudley, host (Sportsman's Quiz), dies at 86
- D10011807 John Mühlenberg, Lutheran pastor, dies on his 61st birthday
- D10011961 Donald Cook, actor (Too Young To Go Steady), dies at 60
- D10011972 Louis Leakey, anthropologist, dies at 68
- D10011973 Joe Devlin, actor (Sam-Dick Tracy), dies at 74
- D10011990 Curtis E LeMay, USAF General, dies at 83
- D1002 322 -BC- Aristotle, dies of indigestion
- D10021264 Pope Urban IV, (1261-64), dies (birth date unknown)
- D10021678 Gen Wu San-kuei, invited Manchus in China, dies trying to expell them
- D10021780 John André, British major, hanged by Americans (spied with B Arnold)
- D10021962 Frank Lovejoy, actor (Man Against Crime, Meet McGraw), dies at 48
- D10021973 Paavo "Flying Finn" Nurmi, who won 6 Olympic gold medals, dies
- D10021973 Paul Hartman, actor (Bert-Petticoat Junction), dies at 68
- D10021981 Hazel Scott, singer/pianist (Hazel Scott), dies at 61
- D10021985 George Savalas, actor (Kojak), dies at 58
- D10021985 Rock Hudson, actor (MacMillian & Wife), dies at 59 of aids
- D10021985 Sidney Clute, actor (Lou Grant, Cagney & Lacey), dies at 69
- D10031656 Myles Standish, Plymouth Colony leader, dies (birth date unknown)
- D10031959 William Bishop, actor (Steve-It's a Great Life), dies at 42
- D10031965 Zachary Scott, actor (Spotlight Playhouse), dies at 51
- D10031979 Charles White, artist, dies at 61 in Los Angeles
- D10031979 Claudia Jennings, playmate (Nov, 1969)/actress, dies at 29
- D10031983 John K.M. McCaffery, TV host (One Minute Please), dies at 69
- D10031985 Charles Collingwood, newscaster (Chronicles), dies at 68
- D10031985 Maurice Copeland, actor (Ralph-Those Young Charmings), dies at 74
- D10031988 Franz Josef Strauss, German FR min of defense (1956-62), dies at 73
- D10031988 Generoso Pope Jr, National Enquirer owner, dies at 61
- D10031990 Stefano Casiraghi, Princess Caroline of Monaco husband, dies at 30
- D10041904 Frederic Auguste Bertholdi, French sculptor ("Statue of Liberty")
- D10041962 John Lowry, Mount Vernon NY, NYC builder, dies at 79
- D10041966 Sherman Billingsley, talk show host (Stork Club), dies at 66
- D10041970 Janis Joplin, rock singer, dies at 27
- D10041972 Colin Gordon, actor (John-The Baron), dies at 61
- D10041976 Alexander Gray, singer (This is Music), dies at 74
- D10041991 Leonard C Odell, wrote 7,000 Burma Shave poems, dies at 83
- D10051941 Louis D Brandeis, 1st Jewish Supreme Court Justice, dies at 84
- D10051967 Clifton C Williams Jr, astronaut, dies at 35, in T-38 jet crash
- D10051976 Barbara Nichols, actress (Pajama Game, Loved One), dies at 46
- D10051981 Gloria Grahame, actress (Sue-Rich Man Poor Man), dies at 55
- D10051981 Jud Strunk, singer/comedian (Laugh-In), dies at 48
- D10051984 Leonard Rossiter, actor, dies of a heart attack at 57
- D10051990 Meir Kahane, founder of Jewish defense league, assassinated at 58
- D10061891 Charles Stewart Parnell, leader of the Irish party, dies
- D10061951 Henry Gurney, British high commissioner to Malaya assassinated
- D10061956 Walter Herlihy, announcer (Music at Meadowbrook), dies at 42
- D10061969 Walter Hagen, PGA golfer (US Open 1914, 19), dies at 76
- D10061975 Henry Calvin, actor (Sgt Garcia-Zorro), dies at 57
- D10061981 Anwar Sadat assassinated, Hosnai Mubarak becomes Egytian president
- D10061983 Terence Cooke, NY's Cardinal, dies at 62
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- D10141986 Keenan Wynn, actor (Dallas, Call to Glory, Last Precinct), dies at 70
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- I100219997[Jewish] Sh'mini Atz-8th day of Succoth
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- I100519982[Jewish] Succoth-feast
- I1006 [Ang] St Faith's Day
- I1006 [Christian] St Bruno, Blsd Marie-Rose Durocher
- I10061101 [RC] Memorial of St Bruno, patron of the possessed CE (opt)
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- I1007 [RC] Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary
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- I100719935[Jewish] Sh'mini Atz-8th day of Succoth
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- I100819936[Jewish] Simchat Torah-day of rejoicing
- I1009 [Orth] Commem of the Death of St John Leonardi the Divine (9/26 OS)
- I1009 [RC, Ang] Memorial of St Denis, bp, & companions, martyrs (opt)
- I1009 [Shi'te] Husain Day
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- I100919952[Jewish] Succoth-Feast
- I100920002[Jewish] Yom Kippur-Day of Atonement
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- I101119976[Jewish] Yom Kippur-Day of Atonement
- I1012 709 [RC] Commemoration of St Wilfrid, bishop of York, confessor
- I101219922[Jewish] Succoth- Feast
- I101219982[Jewish] Sh'mini Atz-8th day of Succoth
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- I101319983[Jewish] Simchat Torah-day of rejoicing
- I1014 [Orth] Protection (Intercession) of Mary (10/1 OS)
- I1014 222 [RC] Memorial of St Callistus I, pope (217-222), martyr (opt)
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- I101420007[Jewish] Succoth-feast
- I1015 4[US] National Day of Prayer
- I10151582 [RC] Memorial of St Teresa of Avila, 1st woman doctor of the church
- I10151906 [Ang] Feast of Samuel Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky, bishop of Shanghai
- I1016 [Christ] Hedwig & Margaret Mary Alacoqu e, virgin
- I1016 [RC] Commemoration of St Gerard Majella, patron of mothers
- I1016 4[US] National Day of Prayer
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- I10161556 [Ang] Comm of Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury
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- I101619975[Jewish] Succoth-feast
- I1017 [Anglican] St Ethelred's Day
- I1017 [RC] St Hedwig
- I1017 4[US] National Day of Prayer
- I1017 107 [Ang, RC, Luth] Memorial of Ignatius, bishop of Antioch, martyr
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- I101719953[Jewish] Simchat Torah-day of rejoicing
- I1018 [Ang, RC, Luth] Feast of St Luke, evangelist
- I1018 [Moslem] Start of the Moslem New Year
- I1018 4[US] National Day of Prayer
- I1019 [RC] Commemoration of St Peter of Alcantara, confessor/mystic
- I1019 [RC] G Lalemand, Garnier, Chabanel, R Goupil & J Laliande, canonized
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- I1019 [RC] SS John de Brebeuf & Isaac Jogues, priests
- I1019 4[US] National Day of Prayer
- I10191775 [RC] Memorial of St Paul of the Cross (opt)
- I10191812 [Ang] Commem of Hanry Martyn, Priest, & Missionary to India & Persia
- I101919922[Jewish] Sh'mini Atz-8th day of Succoth
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- I1020 [Christian] Commemoration of St Bertilla Boscardin
- I1020 [Christian] Feast of St Irene
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- I1021 4[US] National Day of Prayer
- I1021 371 [RC] Commemoration of St Hilarion, abbot, ascetic, lover of solitude
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- I102120007[Jewish] Sh'mini Atz-8th day of Succoth
- I1022 [Christ] SS Philip, bishop of Heraclea, & his companions, martyrs
- I1022 [RC] Commemoration of St Theodoret, priest/martyr
- I102220001[Jewish] Simchat Torah-day of rejoicing
- I1023 62 [Ang, Orth, Luth] Comm of St James of Jerusalem, Brother of Jesus
- I10231456 [RC] Mem, St John of Capistrano, patron of military chaplains (opt)
- I102319975[Jewish] Sh'mini Atz-8th day of Succoth
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- I1024 1[Protestant] Reformation Day
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- I102419976[Jewish] Simchat Torah-day of rejoicing
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- I1025 [Christian] Feast of St Gaudentius, bishop of Brescia
- I1025 [Christ] Commemoration of SS Chrysanthus & Daria, martyrs (3rd cen)
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- I1025 1[Lutheran] Protestant Reformation Day
- I1025 1[Old RC] Christ the King Sunday
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- I1026 [Luth] Commem of P Nicolai, J Heermann, P Gerhardt, hymnwriters
- I1026 [Orthodox] Feast of Demetrios the Martyr
- I1026 1[Lutheran] Protestant Reformation Day
- I1026 1[Old RC] Christ the King Sunday
- I1026 107 [RC] Commem of St Evaristus, 5th pope (c 97-c 107), martyr
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- I1027 1[Old RC] Christ the King Sunday
- I1027 380 [RC] Comm of St Frumentius, bishop; founded Ethiopian church
- I1028 [RC, Ang, Luth] Feast of SS Simon & Jude, apostles
- I1028 1[Lutheran] Protestant Reformation Day
- I1028 1[Old RC] Christ the King Sunday
- I1029 [Christian] St James Hannington, bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa
- I1029 1[Lutheran] Protestant Reformation Day
- I1029 1[Old RC] Christ the King Sunday
- I1029 575 [Christian] Commemoration of St Theuderius, or Chef, abbot
- I10291885 [Ang] Com of James Hannington, bishop of E Equatorial Afr & companions
- I1030 [Unification Church] Children's Day
- I1030 1[Lutheran] Protestant Reformation Day
- I1030 1[Old RC] Christ the King Sunday
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- I1031 [C] Vigil of All Saints, Feast of St Wolfgang, Benedictine bishop
- I1031 [France] All Saints Day Eve
- I1031 [Witch] Samhain, sabbat
- I1031 1[Lutheran] Protestant Reformation Day
- I1031 1[Old RC] Christ the King Sunday
- I1031 287 [RC] Commemoration of St Quintin, martyr
- R1000 Flowers-calendula, cosmos & hops Gem-opal & tourmaline
- R1000 National Lupus Month-Eggtober-Computer Learning Month
- R1000 National Restaurant-Car Maintance Month-Rocktober-Octoberfess
- R1001 Fiscal year begins for Federal Government
- R1001 [Ancient Rome] Calendae October
- R1001 1Respect Life Week
- R1001 1[US] National Employ the Handicapped Week begins
- R1001 2Child Health Day (1st Monday)
- R1001 2[US] Supreme Court begins annual session
- R10011008 Harvest Moon Days (full moon closest to the equinox)
- R10011022 Astrological sign: Libra
- R1002 Quadrantid meteor shower, radiant in Boötes
- R1002 1Respect Life Week
- R1002 1[US] National Employ the Handicapped Week begins
- R1002 2Child Health Day (1st Monday)
- R1002 2[US] Supreme Court begins annual session
- R1003 1Respect Life Week
- R1003 1[US] National Employ the Handicapped Week begins
- R1003 2Child Health Day (1st Monday)
- R1003 2[US] Supreme Court begins annual session
- R1004 1Respect Life Week
- R1004 1[US] National Employ the Handicapped Week begins
- R1004 2Child Health Day (1st Monday)
- R1004 2[US] Supreme Court begins annual session
- R1005 Ruby-Throated Hummingbird migrates south, flying non-stop 500 miles
- R1005 1Respect Life Week
- R1005 1[US] National Employ the Handicapped Week begins
- R1005 2Child Health Day (1st Monday)
- R1005 2[US] Supreme Court begins annual session
- R1006 1Fire Prevention Week
- R1006 1National Employ the Handicap Week
- R1006 1Respect Life Week
- R1006 1[US] National Employ the Handicapped Week begins
- R1006 2Child Health Day (1st Monday)
- R1006 2[US] Supreme Court begins annual session
- R1007 [Ancient Rome] Nonae October
- R1007 [Sweden] Birgitta name day
- R1007 1Fire Prevention Week
- R1007 1National Employ the Handicap Week
- R1007 1Respect Life Week
- R1007 1[US] National Employ the Handicapped Week begins
- R1007 2Child Health Day (1st Monday)
- R1007 2[US] Supreme Court begins annual session
- R1008 [Sweden] Nils name day
- R1008 1Fire Prevention Week
- R1008 1National School Lunch Week
- R1009 Giacobinid meteor shower, radiant in Draco
- R1009 [Sweden] Ingrid name day
- R1009 1Fire Prevention Week
- R1009 1National School Lunch Week
- R10091011 Draconids meteor shower
- R1010 [US] National Metric Week
- R1010 1Fire Prevention Week
- R1010 1National School Lunch Week
- R1011 [Ancient Rome] Meditrinalia
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- R1011 1National School Lunch Week
- R1012 [Ancient Rome] Augustalia (honor of Augustus Cæsar)
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- R1012 1National School Lunch Week
- R1013 Gray whales generally leave feeding grounds in Bering Sea to Baja Ca
- R1013 [Ancient Rome] Fontiralia
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- R1015 World Poetry Day
- R1015 [Ancient Rome] Idus October
- R1015 [Charlotte, NC] Billy Graham Day (1971)
- R1015 1National Forest Products Week
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- R1016 1National Forest Products Week
- R1016 6Sweetest Day-help the less fortunate
- R1017 Black Poetry Day (1711)
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- R1018 1National Forest Products Week
- R1018 6Sweetest Day-help the less fortunate
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- R1019 [Ancient Rome] Armilustrium
- R1019 1National Forest Products Week
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- R1027 1[US, UK] Standard Time begins at 2 AM
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- R1030 1[US, UK] Standard Time begins at 2 AM
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- R1031 National Magic Day (1926)
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- S10--1961 Clandestine Radio Libertad begins transmitting (Venezuela)
- S10--1980 Barbra Striesand records the album "Guilty"
- S10--1982 Madonna releases her 1st record (Everybody)
- S10--1983 Microsoft releases MS-DOS 2.11 (PC-DOS 2.1 + MS-DOS 2.01)
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- S1001 110 -BC- Origin of Sidonian Era
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- S1001 366 St Damasus I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- S10011661 Yachting begins in England; King Charles II beats his brother James
- S10011791 1st session of the new French legislative assembly
- S10011800 Spain cedes Louisiana to France in a secret treaty
- S10011837 "Racer's" Hurricane (Gulf of Mexico)
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- S10011886 US mint at Carson City, Nevada closes
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- S10011937 Pullman Co formally recognizes Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
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- S10011939 Winston Chruchill refers to Soviet policy as "a riddle wrapped in a
- S10011939Cmystery inside an enigma"
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- S10011942 Bell P-59 Airacomet fighter, 1st US jet, makes maiden flight
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- S10011944 Newspaper editor Alejandro Córdova assassinated in Guatemala
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- S10011945 Heavyweight champ Joe Louis is discharged from the army
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- S10011946 Bob Feller 348th strikeout of the season
- S10011947 1st helicopter air mail & express service, LA, Ca
- S10011947 NHL Pension Society founded
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- S10011948 Radio Denmark begins transmitting
- S10011949 People's Rep of China proclaimed by Mao Tse-tung (National Day)
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- S10011952 1st ultra high frequency (UHF) television station, Portland Or
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- S10011954 British colony of Nigeria becomes a federation
- S10011955 "Honeymooners" premieres
- S10011956 Johnny Heckmann rides 7 winners at Chicago Hawthorne Horse track
- S10011957 B-52 bombers begin full-time flying alert in case of USSR attack
- S10011958 Britain transfers Christmas Island (south of Java) to Australia
- S10011958 Inauguration of NASA
- S10011958 Vanguard Project transferred from military to NASA
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- S10011960 Nigeria gains independence from Britain (National Day)
- S10011961 A believed extinct volcanco erupts in Tristan da Cunha
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- S10011962 Barbra Striesand signs her 1st recording contract (with Columbia)
- S10011962 Brian Epstein signs a contract to manage the Beatles through 1977
- S10011962 James Meredith became 1st black at U of Mississippi
- S10011962 Johnny Carson hosts his 1st Tonight Show, Joan Crawford guests
- S10011962 The Lucy Show premiers
- S10011962 US National Radio Astronomy Obs gets a 300' (91m) radio telescope
- S10011963 Nigeria becomes a republic within the Commonwealth
- S10011964 Free Speech Movement launched at U of California, Berkley
- S10011964 SF cable cars declared a national landmark
- S10011968 "Night of the Living Dead" premieres in Pittsburgh
- S10011969 Guernsey & Jersey begin issuing their own postage stamps
- S10011970 Last game at Philadelphia's Connie Mack Stadium, Phils-2 Expos-1
- S10011971 Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida opens
- S10011972 1st games of the World Hockey Association
- S10011973 Leo Durocher resigns as Houston Astro manager
- S10011975 Britain grants internal self-government to Seychelles
- S10011975 Ellice Islands split from Gilbert Islands, take name "Tuvalu"
- S10011975 Réunion Island stops prints stamps, France takes over production
- S10011977 Brazilian soccer great Pele' retires with 1,281 goals in 1,363 games
- S10011977 Yanks win 2nd consecutive AL East title
- S10011978 Tuvalu (Ellice Islands) gains independence from Britain
- S10011978 Yanks lose 9-2 to Indians forcing a playoff game with Red Sox
- S10011979 US returns Canal Zone to Panama after 75 years (but not the canal)
- S10011980 A Mrkos discovers asteroid #2404 Antarctica
- S10011980 Cosmonauts Ryumin & Popov break space endurance record of 176 days
- S10011980 L G Taff & D Beatty discovers asteroid #2460 Mitlincoln
- S10011982 EPCOT Center opens in Orlando Florida
- S10011982 West Germany's Parliament ousts chancellor Helmut Schmidt
- S10011984 Gary Trudeau's Doonesbury comic strip resumes after 2-year hiatus
- S10011984 Peter Ueberroth replaces Bowie Kuhn as 6th commissioner of baseball
- S10011986 President Carter's presidential library/museum dedicated in Atlanta
- S10011987 6 killed by an earthquake measuring 6.1 in LA
- S10011988 Lowest batting avg for NL champion (Tony Gwynn .313)
- S10011988 Robert Englund the actor who plays Freddie Kruger weds Nancy Booth
- S10011989 Dallas Cowboy, Ed "Too Tall" Jones records his 1,000th NFL tackle
- S10011989 Thousands of East Germans flee to West Germany
- S10011989 US issues a stamp, labeling an apatosaurus as a brontosaurus
- S10011990 Pres Bush at the UN, condemns Iraq's takeover of Kuwait
- S10011991 Howard Stern adds Baltimore to his radio network (WJFK-AM)
- S10012016 -BC- Origin of Era of Abraham
- S10021187 Sultan Saladin captures Jerusalem from the Crusaders
- S10021535 Jacques Cartiér discovers Mount Royal (Montréal)
- S10021608 Hans Lippershey offers Dutch gov't a new invention, the telescope
- S10021608 Prototype of modern reflecting telescope completed by Jan Lippershey
- S10021792 Baptist Missionary Society forms in London
- S10021833 NY Anti-Slavery Society organized
- S10021836 Darwin returns to England aboard HMS Beagle
- S10021853 Austrian law forbids Jews from owning land
- S10021870 Italy annexes Rome & Papal States; Rome made Italian capital
- S10021879 Start of the Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Musgrave Ritual" (BG)
- S10021889 1st Pan American conference (Washington DC)
- S10021899 E F Coddington discovers asteroid #445 Edna
- S10021907 Phillies Eddie Grant goes 7 for 7 in a doubleheader
- S10021908 Addie Joss perfect game stops Ed Walsh 1-0 who won 40 in a row
- S10021910 1st 2 aircraft collision (Milan Italy)
- S10021910 V Cerulli discovers asteroid #704 Interamnia
- S10021913 Phillies beat NY Giants 2 games out of 3 in a tripleheader
- S10021915 M Wolf discovers asteroid #2298 Cindijon
- S10021916 F Sy discovers asteroid #859 Bouzareah
- S10021916 Grover Cleveland Alexander records his 16th shutout of the year
- S10021919 Pres Woodrow Wilson suffers a stroke
- S10021920 Only tripleheader of the century (Reds win 2, Pirates win 1)
- S10021926 Bert Gibb of Hamilton Tigers kicks 9 singles in a game
- S10021931 Pope Pius XI encyclical On the economic crisis
- S10021932 NY Yankees sweep Cubs in 29th World Series
- S10021932 Washington Redskins (as Boston Braves) play 1st NFL game, lose 14-0
- S10021935 Italy invades Absynnia (Ethiopia)
- S10021935 NY Hayden Planetarium, the 4th in the US, opens
- S10021936 1st alcohol power plant established, Atchison, Kansas
- S10021936 Tony Lazzeri becomes the 1st Yank to hit a world series grand slam
- S10021937 FDR visits Grand Coulee Dam construction site in Washington State
- S10021938 Cleveland Indians' Bob Feller strikes out 18 Detroit Tigers
- S10021938 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #2237 Melnikov
- S10021938 Tigers' Chester Laabs struck out 5 times in a game
- S10021939 Birdbaths installed in Union Square, SF
- S10021940 British liner Empress loaded with refugees for Canada, sunk
- S10021941 6 Parisian synagogues are bombed
- S10021942 "Queen Mary" slices cruiser "Curacao" in half, killing 338
- S10021942 1st self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction demonstrated, Chicago
- S10021946 1st network soap opera-Faraway Hill-Dumont
- S10021947 Revised International Telecommunication Convention adopted
- S10021947 Yogi Berra becomes 1st to pinch hit a world series homer
- S10021949 St Louis Browns use 9 pitchers, lose to Whites Sox 4-3
- S10021949 Yanks & Red Sox, tied for 1st place, play the final game of the
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- S10021950 Bob Shaw of the Chicago Cardinals sets NFL record with 5 TD catches
- S10021950 Chic Cards Jim Hardy passes for 6 touchdowns vs Balt Colts (55-13)
- S10021950 The comic strip "Peanuts" 1st appears, in 9 newspapers
- S10021953 Dodger Carl Erskine strikes out 14 Yankees in the World Series
- S10021954 Former French possession of Chandernagore made part of West Bengal
- S10021954 NY Giants sweep Cleve Indians, in 51st World Series
- S10021955 "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" premiers
- S10021956 1st atomic power clock exhibited-NYC
- S10021957 NY Yankees appear in their 25th World Series
- S10021958 Guinea gains independence from France (National Day)
- S10021959 Rod Serling's "Twilight Zone" premieres on CBS
- S10021961 "Ben Casey" premieres
- S10021962 SF & LA play a 4h18m 9 inning game
- S10021964 Phillies tie major league record with season's 3rd triple play (Reds)
- S10021965 Mel Stottlemyre wins game #20
- S10021965 Phillies' Chris Short strikes-out 18 NY Mets
- S10021966 2 perfect game pitchers face each other (Bunning vs Koufax)
- S10021967 Grateful Dead members arrested by narcotic agents
- S10021967 Groundbreaking begins on Veteran Stadium in Philadelphia
- S10021967 Thurgood Marshall is sworn as 1st black Supreme Court Justice
- S10021968 Bob Gibson sets a world series record of 17 strikeouts
- S10021970 Billy Martin named manager of the Tigers
- S10021970 Plane carrying Wichita State U football team crashes killing 30
- S10021971 Homing pigeon averages 133 KPH (record) in 1100-km Australian race
- S10021972 Aeroflot Il-18 crashes near Black Sea resort of Sochi, kills 105
- S10021972 Mont Expos Bill Stoneman 2nd no-hitter beats NY Mets, 7-0
- S10021972 N E Kurochkin discovers asteroid #2302 Florya
- S10021972 Ron Johnson becomes 1st NY Giant to score 4 TDs (vs Phila)
- S10021978 Yanks win 3rd straight AL East beating Red Sox 5-4 in a playoff
- S10021978Cgame. Guidry wins #25 aided by Dent's homer & Pinella's fielding
- S10021978CZhuravleva discovers asteroids 2850, 2979 Murmansk, 3214, 3442 & 3547
- S10021980 A Mrkos discovers asteroid #3716
- S10021980 Larry Holmes retains WBC heavweight title defeating Muhammad Ali
- S10021980 Michael Myers (D-Pa), is 1st rep expelled in over 100 years (ABSCAM)
- S10021983 Carl Yastrezemski's last at bat
- S10021984 3 cosmonauts return after a record 237 days in orbit
- S10021984 Richard Miller, becomes 1st (former) FBI agent, charged with espionage
- S10021986 P Wild discovers asteroid #3582
- S10021986 Sikhs attempt to assassinate Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi
- S10021988 Mike Tyson wrecks furniture in his Bernardsville Mansion
- S10021988 Police breakup domestic disturbance between Mike Tyson & Robin Givens
- S10021990 Radio Berlin International's final transmission (links to Deutsche
- S10021990 US Senate votes 90-9 to confirm David Souter to the Supreme Court
- S10021990CWelles of West Germany); final song is "The End" by the Doors
- S10031264 Comet said to predict the death of Pope Urban IV is last seen
- S10031430 Jews are expelled from Eger Bohemia
- S10031789 Washington proclaims the 1st national Thanksgiving Day on Nov 26
- S10031862 Battle of Corinth, Miss
- S10031863 Lincoln designates last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day
- S10031886 J Palisa discovers asteroid #260 Huberta
- S10031890 A Charlois discovers asteroid #300 Geraldina
- S10031904 Mary McLeod Bethune opens Daytona Normal & Industrial School
- S10031904 P Gotz discovers asteroid #545 Messalina
- S10031910 J Palisa discovers asteroid #703 Noemi
- S10031911 J Palisa discovers asteroid #719 Albert
- S10031913 Federal Income Tax signed into law (at 1%)
- S10031918 Boris becomes king of Bulgaria
- S10031920 NFL (then American Pro Football Association) plays 1st games
- S10031922 1st facsimile photo send over city telephone lines, Washington, DC
- S10031928 French sun "Ondine" sinks returning to Toulon, drowning 42
- S10031929 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1135 Colchis
- S10031929 Kingdom of Serbs, Croats & Slovenes changes name to Yugoslavia
- S10031930 S Arend discovers asteroid #1171 Rusthawelia
- S10031932 Iraq gains full independence from Britain
- S10031934 E Delporte discovers asteroid #1350 Rosselia
- S10031934 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1671 Chaika
- S10031935 Italy invades Ethiopia
- S10031935 Shajn disc asteroid #1390 Abastumani, #2445 Blazhko & #3080 Moisseiev
- S10031942 L Oterma discovers asteroid #2774 Tenojoki
- S10031942 Launch of the 1st A-4/V-2 rocket to altitude of 53 miles (85 km)
- S10031945 World Federation of Trade Unions formed; CIO a member
- S10031947 1st telescope lens 200" (508 cm) in diameter completed
- S10031947 With only 1 out to go, Yank Floyd Beven gives up a double breaking
- S10031947Chis world series no-hit bid, it scored 2 runs & he lost the game
- S10031948 NFL becomes 1st sport televised as sport of the week
- S10031949 WERD, 1st black-owned radio station, opens in Atlanta
- S10031950 1st black lead (Ethel Waters) on TV (Beulah)
- S10031951 Bobby Thomson HR-The Giants win the pennant defeating Dodgers
- S10031952 1st video recording on magnetic tape, LA, Ca
- S10031953 Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #1721 Wells
- S10031954 "Father Knows Best" premieres
- S10031955 "Captain Kangaroo" premieres, Good Morning, Captain!
- S10031955 "Mickey Mouse Club" premieres
- S10031955 Soviet battleship "Novorossiisk" strikes WW II mine in Baltic Sea
- S10031960 SF's White House dept store 1st to accept BankAmericard
- S10031960 Yanks win 8-7, ending season on a 15 game win streak
- S10031961 "Dick Van Dyke Show" premieres on CBS-TV
- S10031961 "Mr Ed" premieres
- S10031962 Wally Schirra in Sigma 7 launched into Earth orbit
- S10031965 Whitey Ford notches #232 to become Yankees winningest pitcher
- S10031967 William Knight sets X-15 speed rec of 7,297 KPH/4,534 MPH/Mach 6.72
- S10031968 Military coup overthrows Pres Fernando Belaúnde Terry in Peru
- S10031970 Baseball umpires call their 1st strike
- S10031971 Billie Jean King became 1st female athlete to win $100,000
- S10031972 Spaceflight 71-2 launched; 1st flexible substrate photovoltaic flown
- S10031972 Steve Carlton wins 27th game for Phillies (almost ½ of their 59 wins)
- S10031974 Bundy victim (?) Nancy Wilcox disappears in Salt Lake City, Utah
- S10031974 Frank Robinson becomes baseball's 1st black manager (Cleve Indians)
- S10031974 Watergate trial begins
- S10031975 George Harrison releases "Extra Texture" album in UK
- S10031975 N Chernykh discovers asteroid #2420 Ciurlionis
- S10031975C#2998 Berendeya, #3273 Drukar, #3321 & #3523
- S10031975CL Chernykh discovers asteroids #2132 Zhukov, #2457, #2907 Nekrasov,
- S10031978 Gold hits record $223.50 an ounce in London
- S10031980 Z Vavrova discovers asteroids #2442 Corbett, #2620 & #3479 Malaparte
- S10031981 Irish Nationalist at Maze Prison near Belfast end 7-mo hunger strike
- S10031982 Cox 4 rowing record set at 12:52 for 99 miles (Geneva, Switzerland)
- S10031982 Record 11,763 start a 186 mile cross-country race near Stockholm
- S10031982 Scott Weiland runs Detroit marathon backwards in less than 5 hours
- S10031983 Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson release "Say, Say, Say" in UK
- S10031985 21st Shuttle Mission (51J)-Atlantis 1-all-military flight launched
- S10031986 Soviet Yankee-class sub sinks off NC, 3 die
- S10031987 Michael Pruffer of France skis 135.26 MPH at Portillo, Chile
- S10031988 26th Space Shuttle Mission, Discovery 7 returns to Earth after 4-days
- S10031988 Lebanese kidnappers release Mithileshwar Singh (held for 30 months)
- S10031988 WBMW-FM, Wash DC changes calls to WJFK & begins airing Howard Stern
- S10031989 Panamanian Defense Force attempted coup of Manuel Noriega fails
- S10031990 East Germany & West Germany merge to become Germany
- S10031990 George Brett becomes 1st to lead league in batting in 3 decades
- S10031990 Tiger Cecil Fielder becomes 11th, to hit 50 HRs (& 51st)
- S10031990CFlorida record store owner Charles Freeman is found guilty of
- S10031990Cobsenity, for selling 2 Live Crew rap records
- S10032333 -BC- Tangun establishes kingdom of Chosun (Korea) (legendary)
- S10041582 Last day of the Julian calendar in Italy, many Catholic countries
- S10041636 1st code of law for Plymouth Colony
- S10041648 Peter Stuyvesant establishes Americas 1st volunteer firemen
- S10041777 Battle of Germantown
- S10041824 Mexico becomes a republic
- S10041830 Provisional government declares secession of Belgium from Netherlands
- S10041857 J Ferguson discovers asteroid #50 Virginia
- S10041862 Battle of Corinth ends
- S10041864 National black convention meets (Syracuse NY)
- S10041864 New Orleans Tribune, first black daily newspaper, forms
- S10041883 Orient Express' 1st run, linking Turkey to Europe by rail
- S10041885 J Palisa discovers asteroid #251 Sophia
- S10041900 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Problem of Thor Bridge" (BG)
- S10041901 Columbia (US) beats Shamrock II (England) in 12th America's Cup
- S10041906 Chicago Cubs win their 116th game (116-36) of the year
- S10041907 Kopff discovers asteroid 650 Amalasuntha, 651 Antikleia & 3133 Sendai
- S10041910 Portugal becomes a republic, King Manuel II flees to England
- S10041912 Nicaraguan Gen Zeledon, opponent of US occupation, is executed
- S10041913 Freddy Wilson of Regina Roughriders kicks 10 singles in a game
- S10041913 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #768 Struveana
- S10041916 Market Street's "Path of Gold" lit for 1st time
- S10041920 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #939 Isberga
- S10041923 Young Stribling held light-heavyweight boxing championship for the
- S10041923Cshortest amount of time (3 hrs). Referee overturns the decision
- S10041924 NY Giants become 1st team to appear in 4 consecutive World Series
- S10041926 Dahlia is officially designated as SF city flower
- S10041926 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1072 Malva
- S10041928 25th World Series begins, NY Yankees vs St Louis Cardinals
- S10041931 The comic strip Dick Tracy by Chester Gould debuts
- S10041940 Adolph Hitler & Benito Mussolini confer at Brenner Pass in the Alps
- S10041940 Wrestling returns to Madison Sq Garden after 12 year lay off
- S10041944 1st All St Louis World Series, all games played at Sportsman's Park
- S10041944 The St Louis World Series-Cards vs Browns
- S10041944CSt Louis Browns win 1st World Series game in their only appearance
- S10041948 Indians beat Red Sox, 8-0, in 1st AL playoff game
- S10041948 P Shajn discovers asteroid #2108 Otto Schmidt
- S10041949 American Contract Bridge League votes 58½% to keep blacks out
- S10041955 Brooklyn Dodgers only World Series victory, beating Yankees in 7
- S10041955 Rev Sun Young Moon leaves prison in Seoul
- S10041957 "Leave It to Beaver," debuts on CBS
- S10041957 USSR launches Sputnik I, the 1st artificial Earth satellite
- S10041958 5th French republic established
- S10041958 Transatlantic coml jet passenger service began (BOAC)
- S10041959 1st world series game played west of St Louis (in LA)
- S10041959 USSR Luna 3 sent back 1st photos of Moon's far side
- S10041960 Courier 1B Launched; 1st active repeater satellite in orbit
- S10041961 Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #1994 Shane
- S10041962 USAF Maj Robert A Rushworth takes X-15 to 32,300 m
- S10041962 Whitey Ford's world series 33 2/3 scoreless inning streak ends
- S10041963 Gambia achieves full internal self-government
- S10041964 3 cars of a commuter train derails in South Africa killing 81
- S10041964 Patriots' Gino Cappelletti kicks 6-of-6 field goals against Broncos
- S10041964 St Louis Cards clinch NL pennant
- S10041965 Pope Paul VI becomes 1st Pope to visit Western Hemisphere (UN)
- S10041965 USSR launches Luna 7; crash lands on Moon
- S10041966 Lesotho (Basutoland) gains independence from Britain (National Day)
- S10041967 1st World Series since 1948 not to feature Yanks, Giants or Dodgers
- S10041969 UN starts issuing postage stamps at Geneva headquarters
- S10041969CBaseball's 1st divisional playoff games, Mets beat Braves 9-5 &
- S10041969COrioles beat Twins 4-3 in 12 innings
- S10041970 Jan Stenerud of Kansas City Chiefs kicks 55-yard field goal
- S10041970CHerbert Schmidtz makes highest parachute jump from a tower by
- S10041970Cleaping from a 1,984 ft TV mast in Tulsa, Oklahoma
- S10041971 Borden's opens a turn-of-century ice cream parlor at Disney World
- S10041972 L Kohoutek discovers asteroid #3475
- S10041974 John Lennon releases "Walls & Bridges" album
- S10041976 Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz resigns due to telling a racial joke
- S10041977 Pier 39 opens in SF
- S10041977 Purple Mt Obs discovers asteroid #2223 Sarpedon & #2363 Cebriones
- S10041978 C Kowal discovers asteroid #2594
- S10041978 Funeral services held for Pope John Paul I
- S10041978 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #3055
- S10041981 L G Karachkina discovers asteroid #3623
- S10041981 Pasakevi Kouna of Greece (9) is youngest intl gymnastics participant
- S10041983 Richard Noble reaches record 1019 kph in jet-powered car
- S10041984 US govt closes down due to budget problems
- S10041984 Yanks clinch AL East
- S10041985 Henry G Perry completes 157 day, 14,021 mile bicycle tour of Australia
- S10041985 Shite Muslims claim to have killed hostage William Buckley
- S10041987 1st "Scrub Sunday" of NFL football with replacement players
- S10041987 Blues Jays lose final 7 games allowing Tigers to win the AL pennant
- S10041987 James Jefferson of Winnipeg scores 2 TDs on interception returns
- S10041987Cwithout making an interception. (He scored on laterals)
- S10041988 Pillsbury stock soars $18.37 to $57.37 on takeover bid
- S10041990 Regional elections held, in what was East Germany
- S10041991 NHL NY Rangers trade Bernie Nichols to Edmonton for Mark Messier
- S1005 869 4th Council of Constantinople (8th ecumenical council) opens
- S10051450 Jews are expelled from Lower Bavaria by order of Ludwig IX
- S10051582 Gregorian calendar introduced in Italy, other Catholic countries
- S10051762 The opera "Orfeo Ed Euridice" is produced (Vienna)
- S10051813 Battle of the Thames in Canada; Americans defeat British
- S10051855 H Goldschmidt discovers asteroid #36 Atalante
- S10051855 R Luther discovers asteroid #37 Fides
- S10051864 Battle of Allatoona, 1/3 of Union troops die repulsing the South
- S10051864 Most of Calcutta destroyed by cyclone (approx 60,000 die)
- S10051867 Last day of Julian calendar in Alaska
- S10051875 Palace Hotel on Market Street, SF opens
- S10051877 Chief Joseph surrenders, ending Nez Percé War
- S10051892 Dalton Gang ends in shoot-out in Coffeville, Kansas bank holdup
- S10051906 Henry Mathewson (NY Giants) walks 14 men
- S10051907 Interprovincial Rugby Football Union plays 1st game (Mtl 17 Tor 8)
- S10051907 Phila A's Rube Vickers no-hits Wash Senators, 4-0 in 5 inning game
- S10051908 Bulgaria declares independence from Turkey, Ferdinand I becomes Tsar
- S10051910 Portugal overthrows monarchy, proclaims republic
- S10051912 Billy Mallett of Hamilton Tigers kicks 9 singles in a game
- S10051912 Yanks win final game at Hilltop stadium
- S10051921 1st World Series radio broadcast, Yanks beat Giants 3-0
- S10051921 Present constitution of Liechtenstein comes into effect
- S10051922 Yanks & Giants play an infamous 3-3 tie world series game
- S10051923 Edwin Hubble identifies Cepheid variable star
- S10051923 V Albitzkij discovers asteroid #1007 Pawlowia
- S10051925 WSM-AM in Nashville Tenn begins radio transmissions
- S10051926 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1076 Viola
- S10051929 C W Tombaugh discovers asteroid #2839 Annette & #3583 Burdett
- S10051931 1st nonstop transpacific flight, Japan to Wash (Herndon & Pangborn)
- S10051931 M Wolf discovers asteroid #1203 Nanna
- S10051931C#1706 Dieckvoss, #2359 Debehogne & #3644
- S10051931CK Reinmuth discovers asteroids #1227 Geranium, #1228 Scabiosa,
- S10051934 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1351 Uzbekistania
- S10051941 Mickey Owens drops a 3rd strike, Tom Hendrick reaches 1st safely
- S10051941Cwould have been the last out, instead Yanks score 4 and win 7-4
- S10051942 St Louis Cards beat NY Yankees, 4 games to 1, in 39th World Series
- S10051945 "Meet the Press" premieres on radio
- S10051947 1st Presidential address televised from White House-HS Truman
- S10051947 Al Gionfriddo makes a great catch off Joe Dimaggio in world series
- S10051950 S Arend discovers asteroids #1887 Virton & #2455 Somville
- S10051953 50th World Series sees NY Yankees beat Dodgers, 4 games to 2, as NY
- S10051953 Earl Warren sworn in as 14th chief justice of the US
- S10051953CBilly Martin's 12 hits set record; Yanks win record 5th consec WS
- S10051953CYankees break own record with 5th consecutive World Series win
- S10051954 Hurricane Hazel hits Eastern US
- S10051956 Yogi Berra becomes the 4th Yank to hit a World Series Grand Slam
- S10051960 Eastern AL Electra turbo-prop crashed in Boston Harbor (61 die)
- S10051962 Beatles release their 1st record "Love Me Do"
- S10051963 Hyde St Pier re-opens as State Historical Park
- S10051964 SF Fire Department Museum is dedicated
- S10051965 Chuck Linster performs 6,006 consecutive push-ups
- S10051965 Dick McInnes stays aloft almost 12 hours in a kite
- S10051969 Tom Dempsey of New Orleans Saints kicks 55-yard field goal
- S10051970 PBS becomes a network
- S10051970 Quebec seperatists kidnap British trade commissioner James Cross
- S10051972 Herbert Mullin first kills, to prevent earthquakes
- S10051978 Isaac Bashevis Singer wins the Nobel Prizefro literature
- S10051980 Yanks set AL attendence mark at 2,627,417
- S10051981 N G Thomas discovers asteroid #2927 Alamosa & #3584
- S10051981 Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg becomes an honarary American
- S10051982 NJ Devils 1st game, ties Pitts Penguins 3-3 at the Meadowlands
- S10051982 Unmanned rocket sled reaches 9,851 kph at White Sands, NM
- S10051983 Lech Walesa wins the Nobel Peace Prize
- S10051984 13th Space Shuttle Mission (41-G)-Challenger 6-launched
- S10051985 Grambling's Eddie Robinson wins record 324th football game
- S10051986 London Sunday Times reports Israel is stocking nuclear arms
- S10051988 Israel bans Meir Kahane's Kach Party on grounds of racism
- S10051990 Cincinnati jury acquits art gallery of obsentity (Mappelthorpe photos)
- S10051991 Actor Ted Shackelford (Knots Landing) weds Annett Wolf
- S1006 891 Formosus begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- S10061683 13 German families arrive in present day Philadelphia
- S10061781 Americans & French begin siege of Cornwallis at Yorktown; last
- S10061781Cbattle of the Revolutionary War
- S10061857 American Chess Assn organized; 1st major US chess tournament (NYC)
- S10061863 Dr Charles H Sheppard opens the 1st public bath, in Brooklyn
- S10061866 1st train robbery in US
- S10061876 American Library Association organized in Philadelphia
- S10061882 1st world series game, Cincinnati (AA) beats Chicago (NL) 4-0
- S10061884 Naval War College established in Newport RI
- S10061886 Start of the Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Resident Patient" (BG)
- S10061889 Thomas Edison shows his 1st motion picture
- S10061890 J Palisa discovers asteroid #299 Thora
- S10061890 Mormon Church outlaws polygamy
- S10061908 Austria annexes Bosnia & Herzegovina
- S10061908 Yanks lose 100th game of the year go 51-103 for season
- S10061910 Braves beat Phillies 20-7
- S10061910 E Ernst discovers asteroid #705 Erminia
- S10061913 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #769 Tatjana
- S10061923 1st NL unassisted triple play (Ernie Padgett, Braves against Phillies)
- S10061923 USSR adopts experimental calendar
- S10061926 Babe Ruth hits 3 HRs in a world series game, Yanks beat Cards 10-5
- S10061926 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1077 Campanula
- S10061927 "Jazz Singer," 1st movie with a sound track, premieres (NYC)
- S10061928 Chiang Kai-Shek becomes president of China
- S10061928 E Delporte discovers asteroid #1124 Stroobantia
- S10061931 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1204 Renzia, #1205 Ebella
- S10061931C#1223 Neckar, #1782 Schneller, #1941 Wild, #3379 Oishi & #3555
- S10061935 Market Street Railway starts using trackless trolley coaches
- S10061936 NY Yankees beat Giants 4 games to 2 in 33rd World Series
- S10061939 Hitler announces he has no attention of war with Britain & France
- S10061940 Zoological Gardens opens on Sloat & Skyline in SF
- S10061941 NY Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 1, in 38th World Series
- S10061947 NY Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 3, in 44th World Series
- S10061949 Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Tokyo Rose) sentenced to 10 years & $10,000 fine
- S10061949 Pres Truman signs Mutual Defense Assistance Act (for NATO)
- S10061959 Single game World Series attendence record set (92,706 in LA)
- S10061959 Soviet Luna 3, 1st successful photographic spacecraft, impacts Moon
- S10061963 Barbra Striesand appears on "The Judy Garland Show"
- S10061963 LA Dodgers sweep NY Yankees, in 60th World Series
- S10061965 Supremes release "I Hear a Symphony"
- S10061966 Oriole Jim Palmer, 20, is youngest to pitch a World Series shutout
- S10061967 Haight-Ashbury hippies throw a funneral to mark the end of hippies
- S10061972 22-car train carrying 2,000 pilgrims derails, kills 208 in Mexico
- S10061973 Yom Kippur War begins as Syria & Egypt attack Israel
- S10061976 John Hathaway completes a bicycle tour of every continent in the
- S10061976 Pres Ford says there is "no Soviet domination in Eastern Europe"
- S10061976Cworld & cycling 50,600 miles
- S10061977 Yankees win AL pennant by rallying for 3 runs in 9th to beat KC
- S10061977CRoyals 5-3 in 5th & deciding playoff game
- S10061978 Royals' George Brett hits 3 HRs, Yanks win championship game 3, 6-5
- S10061979 Harry Drake set long distance footbow shot record of 2,006 yds 1'9"
- S10061979 Pope John Paul II is 1st Pope to visit the White House
- S10061981 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #3652
- S10061982 Auburn's Al Del Greco kicks 6 field goals
- S10061983 Buffalo Bill QB Joe Ferguson passes 419 yards with 5 TDs
- S10061983 Islander's Mike Bossy's 25th career hat trick
- S10061983 NY Jets announce they are leaving Shea for the Meadowlands
- S10061985 Marita Koch of Germany sets 400m woman's record (47.6) in Australia
- S10061985 Yankee Phil Niekro becomes the 18th pitcher to win 300 games & also
- S10061985Cat 46 becomes the oldest to pitch a shut-out beating Toronto 8-0
- S10061988 Oakland A's sweep Boston Red Sox in 4 games for AL pennant
- S10061990 US 67th manned space mission STS 41 (Discovery 11) launches into orbit
- S10061991 Elizabeth Taylor weds for the 8th time (Larry Fortensky)
- S10061991 NY Met David Cone ties NL record by striking out 19 Phillies
- S1007 336 St Mark ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- S10071571 Turkish fleet defeated by Spanish & Italians in Battle of Lepanto
- S10071737 40 foot waves sink 20,000 small craft & kill 300,000 (Bengal, India)
- S10071765 The Stamp Act Congress convenes in NY
- S10071777 Americans beat Brits in 2nd Battle of Saratoga & Battle of Bemis Hts
- S10071780 British defeated by American militia near Kings Mountain, SC
- S10071816 1st double decked steamboat, the Washington, arrived in New Orleans
- S10071826 Granite Railway (1st chartered railway in US) begins operations
- S10071868 Cornell University (Ithaca NY) opens
- S10071871 16-hour fire injures 30 of Chicago's 185 firefighters
- S10071882 1st world series (game 2), Chicago (NL) beats Cincinnati (AA) 2-0
- S10071882CSeries ends abruptly as AA plans to expell Cin for participating
- S10071886 Spain abolishes slavery in Cuba
- S10071900 The term "orienteering" is 1st used for an event
- S10071902 M Wolf discovers asteroid #494 Virtus
- S10071908 A Kopff discovers asteroid #3687
- S10071908 Crete revolts against Turkey & aligns with Greece
- S10071915 Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland College 222-0 in football (record)
- S10071916 222 points are scored in a football game between Georgia Tech &
- S10071916CCumberland University of Lebanon, Tennessee
- S10071919 1st London-Amsterdam airline service begins (Brit Aerial Transport)
- S10071924 160 consecutive days of 100° at Marble Bar, Australia begins
- S10071927 Yank Herb Pennock retires 1st 22 Pirates in world series game
- S10071928 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #2484 Parenago
- S10071931 1st infra-red photograph, Rochester, NY
- S10071933 NY Giants beat Washington Senators, 4 games to 1 in 30th World Series
- S10071935 Detroit Tigers beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 2 in 32nd World Series
- S10071936 H L Giclas discovers asteroid #2347
- S10071938 Germany demands all Jewish passports stamped with the letter J
- S10071939 Y Vaisala discovers asteroids #1526 Mikkeli, #2258 Viipuri,
- S10071939C#2679 Kittisvaara, #2716 Tuulikki, #2885 & #2972
- S10071949 German Dem Rep formed from Russian occupation zone (National Day)
- S10071950 NY Yankees sweep Phila Phillies in 47th World Series
- S10071950 US forces invade Korea by crossing the 38th parallel
- S10071950 Yanks win 13th world championship sweeping the Phillies
- S10071952 NY Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 3 in 49th World Series
- S10071952CYankees tie their own record of 4 consecutive World Series wins
- S10071957 "American Bandstand" premieres
- S10071958 Potter Stewart appointed to US Supreme Court
- S10071958 US manned space-flight project renamed Project Mercury
- S10071959 Far side of Moon seen for 1st time, compliments of USSR's Luna 3
- S10071960 "Route 66" premieres
- S10071961 S Arend discovers asteroid #2866
- S10071963 Bobby Baker resigns as Senate Democratic secretary
- S10071963 Hurricane Flora hits Haiti & Dominican Republic, kills 7,190
- S10071964 NY Yankees make 14th appearance in last 16 & 29th in 61 World Series
- S10071965 50 mph gust carries 165 lb Robert Mitera's tee shot 447
- S10071965 Charles Linster does 6,006 consecutive push-ups
- S10071965 Robert Mitera aces 447-yd 10th hole at Miracle Hills, Omaha, Nebr
- S10071965Cyards to score the world's longest straight hole-in-one in Omaha
- S10071967 Beatles turn down $1 million NY concert offer by Sid Berstein
- S10071968 Motion Picture Association of America adopts film rating system
- S10071969 L Chernykh discovers asteroid #3577
- S10071972 1st season game at Nassau Coliseum, Flames-3, Islanders-2
- S10071977 With 2 outs in top of 9th, Dodgers trailing Phillies 5-3 in
- S10071977Cplayoffs, score 3 runs & win 6-5. Dodgers hold 2-1 game lead
- S10071980 Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroid #2631 Zhejiang
- S10071981 In 1st Eastern Division championship Yanks beat Brewers 5-3
- S10071984 Walter Payton passes Jim Brown as NFL's career rushing leader
- S10071985 21st Space Shuttle Mission (51-J)-Atlantis 1 lands at Edwards AFB
- S10071985 KHQ-AM in Spokane Wash's final transmission
- S10071985 Lynette Woodward, chosen as 1st woman on the Harlem Globetrotters
- S10071985 PLO terrorists sieze Italian cruise liner Achille Lauro
- S10071988 Dallas Green replaces Lou Pinella as NY Yankee manager
- S10071988 Latvian flag raised in Riga for 1st time since annexation by USSR
- S10071988 Robin Givens files for divorce after 8-month marriage to Mike Tyson
- S10071988 WNBC 660 final transmission, WFAN moves from 1050 to 660 & WUKQ
- S10071988Cbegins on 1050 at 5:30 PM (NYC radio)
- S10071989 Radio talk show host Larry King weds Julie Alexander
- S10071989 Rickey Henderson steals a record 8 bases in a play off (5 games)
- S10071990 Israel begins handing out gas masks to its citizens
- S10071991 Child star Adam Rich arrested for stealing hypodermics
- S10073761 -BC- Origin of Jewish Mundane Era
- S1008 451 Council of Chalcedon (4th ecumenical council) opens
- S10081604 The supernova called "Kepler's nova" is 1st sighted
- S10081775 Officers decide to bar slaves & free blacks from Continental Army
- S10081818 2 English boxers are 1st to use padded gloves
- S10081822 1st eruption of Galunggung (Java) sends boiling sludge into valley
- S10081840 1st Hawaiian constitution proclaimed
- S10081860 Telegraph line between LA & SF opens
- S10081862 Battle of Perryville, KY-Confederate invasion halted
- S10081865 Earthquake in Santa Cruz Mountains
- S10081871 Great Fire kills 200, destroys over 4²miles (10 km²) of Chicago
- S10081871Cbuildings, & original Emancipation Proclamation
- S10081879 J Palisa discovers asteroid #204 Kallisto
- S10081886 Start of the Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Noble Bachelor" (BG)
- S10081887 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #270 Anahita
- S10081887 Phillies set club record 16th straight victory
- S10081891 A Charlois discovers asteroid #319 Leona
- S10081896 Dow Jones starts reporting an average of industrial stocks
- S10081896 G Witt discovers asteroid #422 Berolina
- S10081904 1st Vanderbilt Cup auto race (Hicksville, Long Island, NY)
- S10081906 A Kopff discovers asteroid #612 Veronika
- S10081906 Karl Nessler demonstrates 1st 'permanent wave' for hair, in London
- S10081909 Chicago Cubs beat NY Giants 4-2 in a playoff to win NL pennent
- S10081912 1st Balkan War begins
- S10081915 Phillies win their 1st & only World Series game before 1980, beating
- S10081915 Red Sox, 3-1, with an 8th inning 2 run rally
- S10081918 Sgt Alvin York single-handedly kills 25, captures 132 Germans
- S10081922 NY Giants beat Yankees, 4 games to 0, with a tie in 19th World Series
- S10081927 NY Yankees sweep Pirates in 24th World Series
- S10081928 Eastern Soccer League forms in US
- S10081930 Phila A's beat St Louis Cards, 4 games to 2 in 27th World Series
- S10081931 P Shajn discovers asteroid #1654 Bojeva
- S10081933 Coit Tower dedicated in SF, a monument to firefighters
- S10081934 Bruno Hauptmann is indicted for murder of Lindbergh's son
- S10081935 Ozzie Nelson marries Harriet Hilliard (Ozzie & Harriet)
- S10081939 Germany annexes Western Poland
- S10081939 NY Yankees sweep Reds in 36th World Series, 4th straight WS win
- S10081940 Cin Reds beat Detroit Tigers, 4 games to 3, in 37th World Series
- S10081944 "Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet" debut on CBS radio
- S10081945 Truman announced atomic bomb secret shared with Britain & Canada
- S10081951 S Arend discovers asteroid #2666 Gramme
- S10081951CFord C Frick replaces Happy Chandler as 3rd commissioner of baseball
- S10081951CWarren C Giles becomes president of baseball's National League
- S10081952 2 trains collide with a derailed commuter train, kills 112 (England)
- S10081953 Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroids #1762 Russell,
- S10081953C#2496 Fernandus & #2528 Mohler
- S10081955 Worlds most powerful aircraft carrier, Saratoga (US), launched
- S10081956 Don Larsen, NY, pitches only perfect world series game, vs Brooklyn
- S10081957 Brooklyn Dodgers announce move to Los Angeles
- S10081957 Turkish & Syrian border guards exchange fire
- S10081959 LA Dodgers beat Chicago White Sox, 4 games to 2 in 56th World Series
- S10081960 Bobby Richarson hits a world series grand slammer
- S10081962 Algeria admitted as 109th member of the UN
- S10081962 N Korea reports 100% election turnout, 100% vote for Workers' Party
- S10081963 Sultan of Zanzibar cedes his mainland possessions to Kenya
- S10081964 Gilroy Roberts becomes 1st US chief engraver to retire (than die)
- S10081964 Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroid #2045 Peking,
- S10081964 Ringo Starr takes & passes his driving test
- S10081964C#2514 Taiyuan, #2539 Ningxia, #2899, #3048 & #3746
- S10081966 Wyoming's Jerry DePoyster kicks 3 field goals over 50 yds (54, 54, 52)
- S10081969 L Chernykh discovers asteroids #1855 Korolev, #1856 Ruzena,
- S10081969C#1956 Artek, #2030 Belyaev, #2031 BAM, #2468, #2561 Margolin,
- S10081969C#2877 Likhachev, #2948 Amosov, #3126 Davydov, #3441 & #3659
- S10081970 Soviet author Alexander I Solzhenitsyn awarded Nobel Prize for Lit
- S10081971 John Lennon releases his megahit "Imagine"
- S10081972 L Zhuravleva discovers asteroids #1910 Mikhailov & #2475 Semenov
- S10081975 S J Bus & J Huchra discovers asteroid #2174 Asmodeus
- S10081977 Largest baseball crowd in Penns, 64,924 see Dodgers beat Phillies
- S10081977C4-1 in 4th NL championship game (Dodgers win pennent)
- S10081978 E F Helin discovers asteroid #2860 Pasacentennium
- S10081978 Ken Warby set the world water speed record at 319.627 mph
- S10081978 Kenneth Warby sets world speed record on water (514 kph)
- S10081978 Yanks win 3rd straight AL Championship, all against Kansas City
- S10081980 L Zhuravleva discovers asteroid #2760 Kacha
- S10081981 L Chernykh discovers asteroid #3588
- S10081981 USAC appeals panel restores disputed Indy 500 victory to Al Unser
- S10081981CPres Reagan greeted predecessors Jimmy Carter, Gerald R Ford &
- S10081981CRichard Nixon before sending them to Egypt for Anwar Sadat's funeral
- S10081982 NJ Devils 1st victory, beating NY Rangers 3-2 at the Meadowlands
- S10081982 Poland bans Solidarity
- S10081983 1st regular season Islander OT game beat Caps 8-7
- S10081983 Washington Capitals 1st NHL overtime game losing to NY Islanders 8-7
- S10081986 Mike Scott ties playoff record of 14 strikeouts, beats Mets 1-0
- S10081988 Fire in Seattle's Space Needle causes evacuation, $2,000 damage
- S10081990 Israeli police kill 17 Palestinian rioters
- S10081990 US doctors Joseph E Murray & E Donnall Thomas win Nobel Prize
- S1009 680 Husain ibn 'Ali, Shi'i religious leader, enters martyrdom
- S10091000 Leif Ericson discovers "Vinland" (possibly New England)
- S10091446 Korean Hangual alphabet devised
- S10091635 Religious dissident Roger Williams banished from Mass Bay Colony
- S10091701 Collegiate School of Ct (Yale U), chartered in New Haven
- S10091776 Mission Dolores founded by SF Bay
- S10091820 Guayaquil, Ecuador declares its freedom from Ecuador
- S10091837 Steamboat "Home" sinks off Okracoke NC killing 100
- S10091855 Joshua Stoddard of Worcester, Mass patents 1st calliope
- S10091869 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #109 Felicitas
- S10091876 1st 2-way telephone conversation, 1st over outdoor wires
- S10091877 American Humane Association organized in Cleveland
- S10091888 Public admitted to Washington Monument
- S10091890 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Red-Headed League"
- S10091903 11" rainfall in 24 hrs (NYC)
- S10091910 J Helffrich discovers asteroid #706 Hirundo
- S10091910 Nap Lajorie challenges Ty Cobb batting avg with 8 hits, 6 were bunts
- S10091910Cas Brown's 3rd baseman Red Corriden played deep, Cobb still won
- S10091915 Wilson becomes 1st president to attend a world series
- S10091915 Woodrow Wilson becomes 1st pres to attend a world series game
- S10091916 Babe Ruth pitches & wins longest WS game (14 innings) 2-1
- S10091921 Babe Ruth's 1st WS homer; only Sunday game ever pitched by Carl Mays
- S10091928 NY Yankees sweep Cards in 25th World Series, Ruth hits 3 HR in game
- S10091928CNY Yankees become 1st to sweep consecutive World Series
- S10091930 1st transcontinental flight by a woman completed, Laura Ingalls
- S10091931 C W Tombaugh discovers asteroid #3310 Patsy
- S10091931 K Reinmuth discovers asteroids #1229 Tilia, #1230 Riceia,
- S10091931C#1253 Frisia, #1624 Rabe & #1814 Bach
- S10091934 St Louis Cards beat Detroit Tigers, 4 games to 3 in 31st World Series
- S10091936 Hoover Dam begins transmitting electricity to LA
- S10091938 Cleveland Browns & Chicago Bears play a penalty free NFL game
- S10091938 NY Yankees sweep Cubs in the 35th World Series, 3rd straight WS win
- S10091944 St Louis Cards beat St Louis Browns, 4 games to 2 in 41st World Series
- S10091946 1st electric blanket manufactured; sold for $39.50
- S10091947 1st telephone conversation between a moving car & a plane
- S10091948 H Alikoski discovers asteroid #1786 Raahe
- S10091948 S Arend discovers asteroid #1570 Brunonia
- S10091949 NY Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 1 in 46th World Series
- S10091951 Gil McDougald's world series grand slam helps Yanks beat Giants 13-1
- S10091958 NY Yankees beat Braves 4 games to 3 in 55th World Series
- S10091958CNY Yankees appear in 9 & win 7 of last 10 World Series
- S10091960 Cowboy QB Eddie LeBaron throws shortest touchdown pass (2")
- S10091961 NY Yankees beat Cin Reds, 4 games to 1 in 58th World Series
- S10091961 Tanganyika becomes independent within the British Commonwealth
- S10091961 Volcano eruptions on Tristan de Cunha (South Atlantic)
- S10091961 Yank Whitey Ford breaks Ruth record of 29 2/3 consecutive inning
- S10091961Cworld series scoreless pitching streak Yanks beat Reds 4 games to 1
- S10091962 NASA civilian test pilot John B McKay takes X-15 to 39,200 m
- S10091963 Uganda becomes a republic within the British Commonwealth
- S10091964 Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroid #1802 Zhang Heng,
- S10091964C2012 Guo Shou-Jing, 2184 Fujian, 2515 Gansu, 2547 Hubei, 3502 & 3542
- S10091965 Beatles' "Yesterday," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 4 weeks
- S10091966 Balt Orioles sweep LA Dodgers, in 63rd World Series
- S10091968 Government seizes oil fields in Peru
- S10091969 B Burnasheva discovers asteroid #2697 Albina
- S10091969 Supremes release "Someday We'll Be Together"
- S10091970 Khmer Republic (Cambodia) declares independence
- S10091973 Elvis & Priscilla Presley divorce after 6 years
- S10091973 Warriors-Cavalier game in Cleveland postponed because of wet floors
- S10091974 Wash Caps begin a 37 game road losing streak
- S10091974 Washington Capitals 1st NHL game, losing 6-3 to NY Rangers at MSG
- S10091975 Emperor Hirohito of Japan visits SF
- S10091975 Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov wins Nobel Peace Prize
- S10091976 Yanks 1st AL Championship game, beat Royals 4-1
- S10091977 Soyuz 25 launched to Saluyt 6, but returned after failing to dock
- S10091977 Yanks rally for 3 in 9th & beat Royals 5-3 for pennant #31
- S10091978 Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroid #3028
- S10091980 1st consumer use of home banking by computer (Knoxville Tn)
- S10091980 C Shoemaker & S J Bus discovers asteroid #2834 Christy Carol
- S10091980 Princess Caroline of Monaco divorces Philippe Junot
- S10091980C#2932 Kempchinsky, #3161 Beadell, #3333 Schaber & #3430 Bradfield
- S10091980CC Shoemaker discovers asteroids #2532 Sutton, #2705 Wu, #2918 Salazar,
- S10091983 4 South Korean cabinet ministers assassinated in Rangoon Burma
- S10091984 Kathy Sullivan becomes 1st US woman to walk in space
- S10091986 Gilbert Perreault, Buffalo, became 12th NHLer to score 500 goals
- S10091986 Senate convicted US District Judge Harry E Claiborne making him the
- S10091986C5th federal official to be removed from office through impeachment
- S10091988 Dennis Eckersley, 1st to save all 4 games in a championship series
- S10091989 Penthouse Magazine's hebrew edition hits the newstands
- S10091989C1st NFL game coached by a black man (Art Shell), his LA Raiders beat
- S10091989CNY Jets 14-7 on Monday Night Football
- S10091990 Radio stations around the world play "Imagine" honoring John Lennon
- S10091990 Saddam threatens to hit Israel with a new missile
- S10101780 Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000 to 30,000 in Caribbean
- S10101802 1st non indian settlement in Oklahoma
- S10101845 The Naval School (now called US Naval Academy) opens at Annapolis
- S10101846 Neptune's moon Triton discovered by William Lassell
- S10101854 US Assay Office in New York City, NY opens
- S10101857 American Chess Association formed (NYC)
- S10101865 John Hyatts patents the billard ball
- S10101868 Cuba revolts for independence against Spain
- S10101868 Declaration of the plan of Yara in Cuba
- S10101868 J C Watson discovers asteroid #106 Dione
- S10101874 Fiji becomes a British possession
- S10101874 J C Watson discovers asteroid #139 Juewa
- S10101886 1st dinner jacket worn to autumn ball at Tuxedo Park, NY (the tuxedo)
- S10101888 Teatotalers excursion train crushed, killing 64 (Mud Run Pa)
- S10101899 M Wolf & A Schwassmann discovers asteroid #450 Brigitta
- S10101904 P Gotz discovers asteroid #546 Herodias
- S10101904 Yanks 2 games out play 1st place Red Sox on final day doubleheader
- S10101904C41 game winner Chesbro loses the 1st game & chance at pennant
- S10101908 Baseball Writers Association, formed
- S10101911 Sun Yat-sen's revolutionaries overthrow Manchus (Taiwan Nat'l Day)
- S10101913 Gamboa Dam in Panama blown up; Atlantic & Pacific waters mix
- S10101914 German forces route Belgians in Antwerp Belgium (WW I)
- S10101920 1st Grandslam in WS (Smith) & 1st unassisted triple play (Wambsganss)
- S10101920 J Palisa discovers asteroid #941 Murray
- S10101920 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #940 Kordula
- S10101920 Phoenix Cardinals (then in Chicago) play 1st NFL game, a 0-0 tie
- S10101920CIndian Bill Wambsganns makes 1st unassisted world series triple play
- S10101920CIndian's Elmer Smith hits the 1st world series grand slam
- S10101921 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #961 Gunnie
- S10101921 NFL Decatur Staleys become Chicago Staleys, win 14-10
- S10101923 NY Giants & NY Yankees become 1st teams to play each other for 3
- S10101923Cconsecutive World Series, also 1st played at Yankee Stadium
- S10101924 Washington Senators win their 1st World Series beat Giants in 7
- S10101925 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1061 Paeonia
- S10101926 S Belyavskij discovers asteroid #1984 Fedynskij
- S10101926 St Louis Cards beat NY Yankees, 4 games to 3 in 23rd World Series
- S10101931 AJ Bennett hits H Garbarino for 1st scoring pass in Canada's Big 4
- S10101931 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1271 Isergina
- S10101931 St Louis Cards beat Phila A's, 4 games to 3 in 28th World Series
- S10101931C#1233 Kobresia, #1272 Gefion, #2855 & #3144
- S10101931CK Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1231 Auricula, #1232 Cortusa,
- S10101932 "Betty & Bob" premiers on radio
- S10101933 1st synthetic detergent for home use marketed
- S10101935 George Gershwin's "Porgy & Bess" opens on Broadway
- S10101937 NY Yankees beat Giants 4 games to 1 in 34th World Series
- S10101938 Germany completed annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland
- S10101943 Chiang Kai-shek takes oath of office as president of China
- S10101945 Detroit Tigers beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 3 in 42nd World Series
- S10101947 "Allegro" opens at the Majestic Theater on Broadway
- S10101951 Yanks beat Giants 4 games to 2 in world series, DiMaggio's final game
- S10101953 Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #2300 Stebbins
- S10101956 On Skowron's grand slammer NY Yanks beat Dodgers 9-0 in series game 7
- S10101957 Braves' Lew Burdette beats Yankees for 3rd time in 1 world series
- S10101957 Milwaukee Braves beat NY Yankees, 4 games to 3 in 54th World Series
- S10101957 Pres Eisenhower apologizes to finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli
- S10101957CGbdemah, after he is refused service in a Dover, Del, restaurant
- S10101960 Ron Stewart of Ottawa rushes for CFL-record 287 yards
- S10101961 Otis M Smith appointed to Michigan Supreme Court
- S10101963 Treaty banning atmospheric nuclear tests signed by US, UK, USSR
- S10101964 18th modern Olympic games opens in Tokyo
- S10101968 Detroit Tigers beat St Louis Cards, 4 games to 3 in 65th World Series
- S10101968 George Harrison forms Singsong Ltd
- S10101968 Lee Evans of the US sets 400 meter record at 43.86
- S10101970 Fiji gains independence from Britain (National Day)
- S10101971 1st game played at Philadelphia's Veteran Stadium, Phils win 4-1
- S10101973 VP Spiro T Agnew pleads no contest to tax evasion & resigns
- S10101974 Canadian John Hathaway begins 2-yr ride of 50,600 miles
- S10101974 Felix Aguilar Obs discovers asteroid 2284 San Juan & 2311 El Leoncito
- S10101974 US Gen George Brown's speech deplores Jewish influence in US
- S10101975 Israel formally signs Sinai accord with Egypt
- S10101975 Liz Taylor's 6th marriage (re-marries Richard Burton)
- S10101976 NJ Meadowlands' Giant's Stadium opens
- S10101976CGreece's 98 year-old Dimitrion Yordanidis, is oldest man
- S10101976Cto compete in a marathon; he finishes in 7:33
- S10101977 Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroid #3187
- S10101978 British pop magazine "Smash Hits," 1st published
- S10101978 Congress approves the Susan B Anthony Dollar
- S10101978 Pres Carter signs a bill authorizing the Susan B Anthony dollar
- S10101978 Yanks & Dodgers play in World Series # 75
- S10101979 Nordiques' Real Cloutier sets NHL record of a hat trick in 1st game
- S10101979 Panama assumes sovereignty over Canal Area (ie Canal Zone)
- S10101979 Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroid #2510 Shandong
- S10101980 4,500 die when a pair of earthquakes strikes NW Algeria
- S10101980 Asteroid #3764 discovered
- S10101980 C Shoemaker discovers asteroid #3299 Hall
- S10101980 Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope network dedicated
- S10101980 Yanks lose 4-2 & are swept by Royals in the AL Championship series
- S10101981 Anwar Sadat's funeral service is held in Cairo
- S10101982 Pope John Paul II canonizes Rev M Kolbe, who volunteered to die in
- S10101982Cplace of another inmate at Auschwitz concentration camp, a saint
- S10101983 Israel's Knesset votes 60-53 to endorse Yitzhak Shamir as PM
- S10101985 US fighter jets force Egyptian plane carrying hijackers of Italian
- S10101985Cship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, gunmen are placed in custody
- S10101986 7.5 Earthquake strikes San Salvador, El Salvador
- S10101986 D Waldron discovers asteroid #3753
- S10101986 Israel Prime Minister Shimon Peres resigns
- S10101987 Bruce Springsteen releases his 9th album "Tunnel of Love"
- S10101990 US 67th manned space mission STS 41 (Discovery 11) returns from space
- S10101991 Ex-postal worker Joseph Harris kills 4 postal workers
- S10101991 Greyhound Bus ends bankruptcy
- S10101992 Floriade (Flower Show) closes at the Hague, Netherlands
- S10111737 Earthquake kills 300,000 & destroys ½ of Calcutta India
- S10111776 Brig Gen Arnold's Lake Champlain fleet defeated by British
- S10111797 British naval forces defeat Dutch off Camperdown, the Netherlands
- S10111811 The Juliana, the 1st steam-powered ferryboat, begins operation
- S10111864 Slavery abolished in Maryland
- S10111865 Pres Johnson paroles CSA VP Alexander Stephens
- S10111885 J Perrotin discovers asteroid #252 Clementina
- S10111890 1st 100 yard dash under 10 seconds (John Owens 9-4/5 secs, Wash DC)
- S10111890 Daughters of the American Revolution founded
- S10111891 J Palisa discovers asteroid #320 Katharina
- S10111901 L Carnera discovers asteroid #808 Merxia
- S10111906 A Kopff discovers asteroid #613 Ginevra, #614 Pia & #615 Roswitha
- S10111912 J Palisa discovers asteroid #734 Benda
- S10111913 Phila A's beat NY Giants, 4 games to 1 in 10th World Series
- S10111919 1st transcontinental air race ends
- S10111920 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #942 Romilda
- S10111922 1st woman FBI "special investigator" appointed (Alaska Davidson)
- S10111923 German mark falls to 10 billion per £, 4 billion per $
- S10111925 NY Giants play 1st NFL game, lose to Providence 14-0
- S10111925 S Belyavskij discovers asteroid #1062 Ljuba
- S10111927 Lou Gehrig elected MVP
- S10111928 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1734 Zhongolovich
- S10111931 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1309 Hyperborea
- S10111932 1st political telecast (Democratic National Committee) at CBS, NYC
- S10111936 "Professor Quiz", 1st radio quiz show premieres
- S10111936 Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #1631 Kopff
- S10111937 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #3036 Krat
- S10111937 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1438 Wendeline, #1439 Vogtia,
- S10111937C#1440 Rostia, #1650 Heckmann, #1673 van Houten & #2749
- S10111943 NY Yankees beat Cards 4 games to 1, in 40th World Series, 10th WS win
- S10111943CNY Yankees become 1st team to win 10 World Series
- S10111945 Chinese civil war begins, Chiang Kai-Shek vs Mao Tse-Tung
- S10111948 Cleve Indians beat Boston Braves, 4 games to 2 in 45th World Series
- S10111953 T Mitani discovers asteroid #1619 Ueta
- S10111958 2nd US Moon probe, Pioneer 1, reaches 113,810 km, falls back
- S10111961 USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 66,100 m
- S10111962 1st appearance of a Gabor sister on the Merv Griffin Show
- S10111962 2nd Vatican Council (21st ecumenical) convened by Pope John XXIII
- S10111967 Yoko Plus Me art exhibit opens in London (the me is John Lennon)
- S10111968 Apollo 7 (Schirra, Eisele & Cunningham) made 163 orbits in 260 hours
- S10111968 Billy Martin named manager of Twins
- S10111968 Panama revolts
- S10111969 Soyuz 6 launched; Soyuz 7 & 8 follow in next 2 days
- S10111971 Crimean Astrophysical Obs discovers asteroid #2698 Azerbajdzhan
- S10111971 Frank McGee becomes news anchor of the Today Show
- S10111972 Prison uprising at Washington DC jail
- S10111975 "Saturday Night Live" premieres with guest host George Carlin
- S10111975 Islander's Bryan Trottier's 1st career hat trick
- S10111977 Soyuz 25 returns to Earth
- S10111978 Aristides Royo elected president of Panama
- S10111979 Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroid #3014
- S10111979CAllan McLeod Cormack & Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield win Nobel Prize
- S10111979Cfor medicine for developing the CAT scan
- S10111980 Cosmonauts Popov & Ryumin set space endurance record of 184 days
- S10111980 N Chernykh discovers asteroid #2910 Yoshkar-Ola
- S10111981 LeRoy Irvin sets yards gained on punt returns record (207 yds)
- S10111981 Unknown rocker Prince opens for Rolling Stones at LA Coliseum
- S10111981 Yanks beat Brewers 7-3 & win only Eastern Championship Series
- S10111982 English ship Mary Rose, which sank during an engagement with
- S10111982CFrance in 1545, raised at Portsmouth, England
- S10111983 IRAS discovers asteroid #3200 Phaethon
- S10111983 Last hand-cranked telephones US went out of service as 440 telephone
- S10111983Ccustomers in Bryant Pond, Maine, were switched over to direct-dial
- S10111984 NASA launches space vehicle S-208
- S10111984 VP candidate debate-Graldine Ferraro (D) & George Bush (R)
- S10111985 Atlantis returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB
- S10111985 C Shoemaker & E Shoemake discovers asteroid #3640 Gostin
- S10111985 Pres Reagan bans importation of South African Krugerrands
- S10111986 Reagan & Gorbachev open talks at a summit in Reykjavik, Iceland
- S10111987 200,000 gays march for civil rights in Washington
- S10111990 Center for Urban archaeology opens in NYC South Street Seaport Museum
- S10111990 Octavio Paz wins Nobel Prize for literature
- S10111990 Oil hits a record $40.42 per barrel
- S10111991 Anita Hill testifies Clarence Thomas sexually harrased her
- S10111991 Chip Beck ties PGA lowest 18 hole score of 59
- S1012 638 Honorius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- S1012 642 John IV ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- S10121285 180 Jews refuse baptism in Munich Germany, they are set on fire
- S10121492 Columbus arrives in the Bahamas; the real Columbus Day
- S10121776 British Brigade begins guarding Throgg Necks Road in the Bronx
- S10121822 2nd eruption of Galunggung (Java) destroys summit of mountain
- S10121823 Charles Macintosh of Scotland begins selling raincoats (Macs)
- S10121853 John Morrissey wins boxing title, when Yankee Sullivan leaves ring
- S10121853Cafter 36th round to slug Morrissey's fans
- S10121860 British & French troops capture Peking
- S10121861 Confederate ironclad Manassas attack Union's Richmond on Mississippi
- S10121862 JEB Stuart completes his "2nd ride around McClellan"
- S10121862 Maj Gen Earl Van Dorn assumes command of Conf troops in Missisippi
- S10121886 Hurricane & sea surge kills 250 at Indianola Texas
- S10121886 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of The Second Stain" (BG)
- S10121891 Astronomical Society of France is inaugurated
- S10121907 Cubs beat Tigers 4 games to 0 with 1 tie in 4th World Series
- S10121915 English nurse Edith Cavell executed by Germans in Belgium (WW II)
- S10121915 Theodore Roosevelt criticizes US citzens with dual nationalities
- S10121916 Boston Red Sox beat Bkln Dodgers, 4 games to 1 in 13th World Series
- S10121918 1st use of iron lung (Boston's Children Hospital)
- S10121918 Cloquet Minn & 25 other communities destroyed by forest fire, 559 die
- S10121920 Cleve Indians beat Bkln Dodgers, 5 games to 2 in 17th World Series
- S10121920 Man O'War's last race & win
- S10121923 NY Giant's Casey Stengel HR beats Yanks 1-0 in the world series
- S10121924 Sokolnicheskaya Radio begins broadcasting from Moscow
- S10121927 Hermann Gorner of Germany raises 24 men weighing 4,123 lbs on
- S10121927Ca plank with the soles of his feet
- S10121929 Cubs blow 8-0 world series lead, A's score 10 in 1 inning
- S10121931 1st International Conference on Calendar Reform
- S10121931 E Delporte discovers asteroid #2913 Horta
- S10121933 Alcatraz becomes a federal prison (unofficially)
- S10121933 John Dillinger escapes from the Allen County, OH, jail
- S10121941 Russian govt moves from Moscow to Volga as Nazis close in on Moscow
- S10121942 US navy defeats Japanese in WW II Battle of Cape Esperance
- S10121948 Casey Stengel takes over as Yankee manager
- S10121949 Eugenie Anderson becomes 1st woman ambassador nominated in US
- S10121957 1st coml flight between Calif & Antartica
- S10121960 Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe at UN General Assembly session
- S10121962 US/USSR sign joint space effort in telecommunications & meteorology
- S10121963 Archaeological digs begin at Masada, Israel
- S10121963 At 4 AM, traffic on Bay Bridge is 1-way on each deck
- S10121964 Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #1728 Goethe Link
- S10121964 Launch of Voskhod 1, 1st 3 man crew (Komarov, Feokistov, Yegorov)
- S10121967 St Louis Cards beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 3 in 64th World Series
- S10121967Cas Lou Brock steals a record 7 bases in 1 world series
- S10121968 19th modern Olympic games opens in Mexico City
- S10121968 Equatorial Guinea gains independence from Spain (National Day)
- S10121968 Norma Enriqueta Basilio Satelo is 1st woman to light Olympic flame
- S10121969 KDB-AM in Santa Barbara CA changes call letters to KAPN
- S10121969 Soyuz 7 is launched
- S10121969 Yoko Ono suffers another miscarriage
- S10121971 V Piksaev discovers asteroid #2094 Magnitka
- S10121972 46 sailors injured in race riot on aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk
- S10121972 Billy Harris failed in 1st Islander penalty shot
- S10121972 Mariner 9 takes pictures of Martian north pole
- S10121973 Nixon nominates Gerald Ford to replace Spiro Agnew as VP
- S10121974 1st time Wash Caps are shutout as they are beat 6-0 by Minnesota
- S10121975 Archbishop Oliver Plunkett became 1st Irish-born saint in 7 centuries
- S10121975 NASA launches space vehicle S-195
- S10121976 4th Space Shuttle Enterprise, approach & land test (ALT) flight
- S10121976 Hua Guo-feng succeeds Mao Tse-tung as chairman of Communist Party
- S10121977 "Throwaway Game" Catfish Hunter loses WS 6-1 resting Yank pitchers
- S10121977 4th test of the space shuttle Enterprise
- S10121977 P Wild discovers asteroids #2175 Andrea Doria, #2429, #2565 & #3026
- S10121977 Psychic Romark attempts to drive blindfolded, smashed into cop van
- S10121977 US Supreme Court heard arguments in "reverse discrimination" case of
- S10121977CAllan Bakke, white student denied admission to U of Calif Med School
- S10121978 Representatives of Israel & Egypt open talks in Washington
- S10121979 Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroid #3340
- S10121982 38.6 cm (15.2") of rainfall, Angoon, Alaska (state record)
- S10121982 Milwaukee Brewer Paul Molitor getrs world sereis record 5 hits
- S10121983 E Bowell discovers asteroids #2985 Shakespeare & #3714
- S10121984 IRA bombs hotel where Margaret Thatcher is staying
- S10121985 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 61A mission
- S10121985 Intl Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War receives Nobel Prize
- S10121986 Calif Angels within 1 pitch of pennant victory lose to Red Sox
- S10121987 George Harrison releases "Got My Mind Set On You"
- S10121987 Minnesota Twins beat Detroit Tigers for AL pennant
- S10121988 Israel & China sign trade deal, plan diplomatic relations
- S10121989 Herschel Walker is traded from Cowboys to Vikings for 12 players
- S10121992 Expo '92 closes in Seville Spain
- S10131483 Rabbi Issac Abarbanel starts his exegesis on the Bible
- S10131775 Continental Congress orders construction of a naval fleet
- S10131792 Washington lays cornerstone of the Executive Mansion (White House)
- S10131812 Battle of Queenstown Heights
- S10131843 B'nai B'rith founded in NY
- S10131845 Texas ratifies a state constitution
- S10131860 1st aerial photo taken in US (from a balloon), Boston
- S10131874 J Palisa discovers asteroid #140 Siwa
- S10131879 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #206 Hersilia
- S10131879 J Palisa discovers asteroid #205 Martha
- S10131887 V Knorre discovers asteroid #271 Penthesilea
- S10131893 Vigilant (US) beats Valkyrie II (Engld) in 9th America's Cup
- S10131895 M Wolf discovers asteroid #407 Arachn & #408 Fama
- S10131898 E F Coddington discovers asteroids #439 Ohio & #440 Theodora
- S10131903 Pirates beats Pilgrims (Red Sox) 5 games to 3 in 1st World Series
- S10131914 Boston Braves sweep Phila A's, 1st sweep in World Series history
- S10131915 Boston Red Sox beat Phila Phillies, 4 games to 1 in 12th World Series
- S10131919 Race riot at Elaine Arkansas
- S10131921 NY Giants beat NY Yankees, 5 games to 3 in 18th World Series
- S10131936 G Kulin discovers asteroid #2242
- S10131943 Italy declares war on former ally Germany
- S10131944 US 1st army begins battle of Aachen
- S10131947 "Kukla, Fran & Ollie" premieres
- S10131947 NHL All Star Game - All Stars beat Toronto Maple Leafs
- S10131950 S Arend discovers asteroid #2109 Dhotel
- S10131953 Burglar alarm-ultrasonic or radio waves-patented-Samuel Bagno
- S10131953 Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #1763 Williams
- S10131957 German Dem Rep recalls the East Mark & issues new currency
- S10131960 3rd presidential debate with Nixon in Hollywood & Kennedy in NY
- S10131960 Pirate's Mazeroski's bottom of 9th lead off HR beats NY Yankees
- S10131960C10-9 in game 7 of 57th World Series
- S10131962 "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" opens on Broadway, with Uta Hagen
- S10131963 "Beatlemania" is coined after the Beatles appear at the Palladium
- S10131964 Voskhod 1 crew returns
- S10131966 L Chernykh discovers asteroid #1737 Severny
- S10131969 B Burnasheva discovers asteroids #2010 Chebyshev & #2327 Gershberg
- S10131969 Soyuz 8 is launched
- S10131970 Angela Davis arrested in NYC
- S10131971 1st world series night game (Pittsburgh 4-Baltimore 3)
- S10131971 L Chernykh discovers asteroids #2540 & #2837 Griboedov
- S10131972 Aeroflot Il-62 crashes in large pond outside Moscow, 176 die
- S10131972 Uruguay to Chile plane crashes in Andes Mountain, (12/23 rescue)
- S10131973 Teri Garr appears on Bob Newhart Show in "Emily in for Carol"
- S10131977 W Sebok discovers asteroid #2150
- S10131978 James Earl Ray, assassin of Martin Luther King weds Anna Sandhu
- S10131978 Tiros N, US's 1st 3rd generation weather satellite, is launched
- S10131978CGraig Nettles at 3rd makes many spectactular plays in WS game 3 as
- S10131978CGuidry beats Dodgers, after trailing 2 games to 0 Yanks win next 4
- S10131980 Unprovoked slayings of 6 blacks in Buffalo, NY
- S10131981 Vice President Hosni Mubarak elected president of Egypt
- S10131982 IOC restores 2 gold medals from 1912 Olympics to Jim Thorpe
- S10131982 NJ Devils 1st short handed goal-Don Lever
- S10131982C#3510 Veeder, #3574 Rudaux, #3612 Peale, #3658 & #3721
- S10131982CE Bowell discovers asteroids #2874 Jim Young, #2888 Hodgson,
- S10131984 Blackhawk Bill Gardner scores on 10th penalty shot against Islanders
- S10131984 John Henry becomes 1st thoroughbred to win $6 million
- S10131984 STS 41-G mission; lands at Kennedy Space Center
- S10131986 25th NY, NL appearance in World Series (Mets vs A's)
- S10131987 1st military use of trained dolphins (US Navy in Persian Gulf)
- S10131987 Costa Rican Pres Oscar Arias wins Nobel Peace Prize
- S10131988 Concert at Masada ends Israel's 40th-anniversary fest
- S10131989 Dow Jones down 190.58 points
- S10131991 Blue Jay Cito Gaston is 1st manager ejected in a playoff game
- S1014 530 [Discorus] ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- S10141066 Battle of Hastings, in which William the Conqueror wins England
- S10141586 Mary Queen of Scots goes on trial for conspiracy against Elizabeth
- S10141774 1st Continental Congress is 1st to declare colonial rights (Phila)
- S10141774C1st American colonial decl of rights with sinking of Peggy Stewart
- S10141806 Battle of Auerstadt-French beat Prussians
- S10141834 1st black to obtain a US patent, Henry Blair, for a corn planter
- S10141843 British arrest Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell for conspiracy
- S10141862 Baseballer James Creighton ruptures bladder hitting HR, dies 10/18
- S10141867 15th & last Tokugawa Shogun resigns in Japan
- S10141877 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #176 Iduna
- S10141884 George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film
- S10141884 J Palisa discovers asteroid #244 Sita
- S10141904 P Gotz discovers asteroids #547 Praxedis & #548 Kressida
- S10141905 NY Giants beats Phila A's, 4 games to 1 in 2nd World Series
- S10141905CGiant's Christy Mathewson's 3rd straight world series shutout
- S10141906 All Chicago World Series, 1st AL victory, White Sox win 4 games to 2
- S10141908 Cubs beat Tigers 4 games to 1 in 1st 5th World Series rematch
- S10141912 Bull Moose Teddy Roosevelt shot while campaigning in Milwaukee
- S10141920 Part of Petsamo province ceded by Soviet Union to Finland
- S10141922 1st automated telephones-Pennsylvania exchange in NYC
- S10141922 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #985 Rosina
- S10141929 Phila A's beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 1 in 26th World Series
- S10141929 Philadelphia A's set world series record of 10 runs in an inning
- S10141933 Nazi Germany announces withdrawal from League of Nations
- S10141934 "Lux Radio Theatre" premieres
- S10141939 BMI (Broadcast Music Incorporated) formed
- S10141944 German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel commits suicide rather than face
- S10141944Ctrial for his part in an attempt to overthrow Hitler
- S10141945 Chicago Cardinals end a record 29-game losing streak, beat Bears
- S10141947 Chuck Yeager in Bell XS-1 makes 1st supersonic flight (Mach 1.015)
- S10141949 14 US Communist Party leaders convicted of sedition
- S10141950 Rev Sun Young Moon liberated from Hung Nam prison
- S10141951 Det Lion Jack Christiansen returns 2 punts for touchdowns vs LA Rams
- S10141953 Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #2775
- S10141953 Ike promises to fire as Red any federal worker taking 5th amendment
- S10141958 Malagasy Republic becomes autonomous republic in French Community
- S10141960 Peace Corps 1st suggested by JFK
- S10141962 Houston Oiler George Blanda throws for 6 TD passes vs NY Titans 56-17
- S10141964 Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #2070 Humason
- S10141964 Martin Luther King Jr wins Nobel Peace Prize
- S10141965 Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 80 km
- S10141965 Sandy Koufax hurls his 2nd shutout of world series beating Twins 2-0
- S10141968 1st live telecast from a manned US spacecraft (Apollo 7)
- S10141968 Gruener & Watson (US) set scuba depth record (133 m) in Bahamas
- S10141968 J.R. Hines of US runs 100 m in world record 9.95 sec
- S10141969 Race riots in Springfield Mass
- S10141970 Cleve Cavaliers lose to Buffalo Braves in their 1st game 107-92
- S10141971 2 killed in Memphis racial disturbances
- S10141971 L Chernykh discovers asteroid #2446 Lunacharsky
- S10141975 Pres Ford escapes injury when his limousine is struck broadside
- S10141976 Chris Chambliss' 9th inning lead off homer gives Yanks pennant #30
- S10141976 Soyuz 23 carries 2 to Salyut 6, but returns without docking
- S10141977 Linda Ronstadt sings the national anthem at the world series
- S10141978 1st TV movie from a TV series-"Rescue from Gilligan's Island"
- S10141978CDespite Denis Potvin hat trick in 3:21 Islanders lose 7-10
- S10141978Cmaking Islander record when scoring a hat trick-22-2-1
- S10141979 Flyers start 35 game unbeaten streak beating Toronto 4-3
- S10141979 NHL's greatest scorer Wayne Gretsky scores his 1st NHL goal
- S10141980 Asteroid #2630 discovered
- S10141980 Bob Marley's last concert
- S10141980 Pres nominee Ronald Reagan promises to name a woman to Supreme Court
- S10141980 Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroid #3763
- S10141982 6,000 Unification church couples wed in Korea
- S10141982 Islanders assessed 108 penality minutes Penguins 125 (233 total)
- S10141982 L G Karachkina discovers asteroids #3067, #3511 & #3750
- S10141982 L Zhuravleva discovers asteroid #3624
- S10141982 NY Islanders greatest shutout margin (9-0) vs Pittsburgh Penguins
- S10141983 US Marine peacekeeper Sgt Allen Soifert killed by sniper in Beirut
- S10141984 Detroit Tigers beat SD Padres, 4 games to 1 in 81st World Series
- S10141985 C Shoemaker discovers asteroid #3709
- S10141985 On Mon Night football, Jets retire Joe Namath's #12, beat Miami 23-7
- S10141986 Concentration camp survivor Elie Wiesel wins Nobel Peace Prize
- S10141986 The IOC decides to stagger the Winter & Summer Olympic schedule
- S10141986 Tim Kides of West NY, NJ performs 25,000 leg raises in 11:57:15
- S10141987 In Midland, Tx 1½-year-old Jessica McClure falls 22' (7m) down a well
- S10141988 Mike Tyson countersues Robin Givens for divorce and annulment
- S10141988 NJ Devils raise their 1st pennant (Patrick Div Playoff Champs)
- S10141989 Texas A&I, Johnny Bailey sets NCAA season rush record at 6,085 yards
- S10141990 Jeff Goldblum & wife Geena Davis file for divorce
- S10141990 SF 49er Joe Montana passes for 6 touchdowns vs Atlanta (45-35)
- S10151520 King Henry VIII of England orders bowling lanes at Whitehall
- S10151582 Many Catholic countries switch to Gregorian calendar, skip 10 days
- S10151641 Paul de Chomedy de Maisonneuve claims Montreal
- S10151655 Jews of Lublin are massacred
- S10151783 Jean Pilâtre de Rozier makes captive-balloon ascent
- S10151789 1st presidental tour-George Washington in New England
- S10151846 Dr William Thomas Green Morton 1st public use of ether
- S10151860 11-year-old Grace Bedell writes to Lincoln, tells him to grow a beard
- S10151863 Cliff House opens in SF (1st of many on the site)
- S10151877 45th Congress (1877-79) convenes
- S10151878 Edison Electric Light Company incorporated
- S10151880 Köln cathedral completed, 633 years after it begun
- S10151881 1st American fishing magazine, American Angler published
- S10151883 Supreme Court declares Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional
- S10151885 Hoss Radbourne pitches his 60th win of the season
- S10151890 Alabama Penny Savings Bank organizes in Birmingham
- S10151891 J Palisa discovers asteroid #321 Florentina
- S10151909 J Helffrich discovers asteroid #2056 Nancy
- S10151914 ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers) founded
- S10151914 Clayton Antitrust Act passed
- S10151914 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #796 Sarita
- S10151915 M Wolf discovers asteroid #3396 Muazzez
- S10151917 Chicago White Sox beat NY Giants, 4 games to 2 in 14th World Series
- S10151919 14 horses begin 300-mile race from Vt to Mass for $1000 prize money
- S10151923 NY Yankees 1st World Series win beating NY Giants, 4 games to 2
- S10151925 Pitts Pirates beat Wash Senators, 4 games to 3 in 22nd World Series
- S10151928 German dirigible "Graf Zeppelin" lands in Lakehurst, NJ
- S10151933 Philadelphia Eagles play 1st NFL game, lose to NY Giants 56-0
- S10151935 NHL's St Louis Eagles fold
- S10151936 M B Protitch discovers asteroid #1564 Srbija
- S10151937 Ernest Hemingway novel "To Have & Have Not" published
- S10151938 Y Vaisala discovers asteroids #1518 Rovaniemi & #1519 Kajaani
- S10151939 LaGuardia Airport opens in NYC
- S10151941 Jews caught outside the Polish Ghetto walls could be put to death
- S10151941 L Oterma discovers asteroids #1544 Vinterhansenia, #1545 Thernoe,
- S10151941C1695 Walbeck, 1882 Rauma, 2805 Kalle, 2840 Kallavesi, 2946,3381 & 3597
- S10151946 Enos Slaughter scores from 1st on a single in the world series
- S10151946 St Louis Cards beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 3 in 43rd World Series
- S10151949 Administration of territory of Manipur taken over by Indian govt
- S10151949 Billy Graham begins his ministry
- S10151949 Tripura accedes to the Indian union
- S10151951 "I Love Lucy" debuts on CBS TV
- S10151956 William J Brennan Jr appointed to the Supreme Court
- S10151956 Yankees Enos Slaughter scores from 1st on a single in World Series
- S10151959 "Untouchables" premieres
- S10151962 Byron R White appointed to the Supreme Court
- S10151963 Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #3433
- S10151964 Craig Breedlove sets auto speed record of 846.97 kph
- S10151964 Kosygin & Brezhnev replace Soviet premier Nikita Krushchev
- S10151964 St Louis Cardinals beat NY Yankees, 4 games to 3 in 61st World Series
- S10151964CNY Yankees appears in 14 & win 9 of last 16 World Series
- S10151965 Dodgers & Sandy Koufax win 7th game of 62nd World Series vs Twins
- S10151966 LBJ signs a bill creating Dept of Transportation
- S10151969 Bank of America World Headquarters (555 California) dedicated
- S10151969 L Chernykh discovers asteroid #2807 Karl Marx
- S10151969 Madison Square Garden TV Network begins (Rangers vs North Stars)
- S10151969 Oriole Earl Weaver becomes 1st manager ejected in a world series
- S10151969 Vietnam Moratorium Day; millions nationwide protest the war
- S10151970 Baltimore Orioles beat Cin Reds, 4 games to 1 in 67th World Series
- S10151974 National Guard mobilizes to restore order in Boston school busing
- S10151974 Washington Capitals 1st NHL tie, playing LA Kings to 1-1 tie
- S10151976 1st debate of major-ticket VP nominees Mondale (D) vs Dole (R)
- S10151976 H L Giclas discovers asteroid #2313
- S10151976 Ringo releases "A Dose of Rock 'n' Roll"
- S10151977 Arkansas' Steve Little kicks a record tying 67 yard field goal
- S10151977 Debbie Boone's "You Light Up My Life," goes #1 & stays #1 for 10 weeks
- S10151979 1st Monday night game from NYC, Jets beat Vikings 14-7 (Shea Stad)
- S10151979 NY Knicks retire 2nd number, # 10, Walt Frazier
- S10151981 Yanks defeat A's 4-0 & win 33rd pennant
- S10151983 Black Hawks & Maple Leafs combine for fastest 5 goals (84 seconds)
- S10151983 Columbia beats Yale 21-18 in football, will lose next 44 games
- S10151983 US Marine sharpshooters kill 5 snipers at Beirut Intl Airport
- S10151985 Shuttle Columbia carries Spacelab into orbit
- S10151985C#3639 Weidenschilling
- S10151985CE Bowell discovers asteroids #3564 Talthybius, #3595 Gallagher &
- S10151985CManhattan Island, doing it in 6 hours 12 minutes 29 seconds
- S10151985CShelley Taylor of Australia makes fastest swim ever around
- S10151986 Longest post season game, Mets beat Astros 7-6 in 16 & win NL pennant
- S10151987 NFL Players Assn orders an end to the 24 day strike
- S10151988 Amnesty International's Global Concert Tour ends in Buenos Aires
- S10151988 NCAA record rushing yardage (768 yards-Oklahoma)
- S10151988 With 2 outs in bottom of 9th, an injured Kirk Gibson hits dramatic
- S10151988C2 run HR to gives Dodgers a 5-4 win in 1st game of world series
- S10151989 Billy Graham is given the 1,900th star on Hollywood Blvd
- S10151989 S Afr pres FW de Klerk frees Sisulu & 4 other political prisoners
- S10151989 Wayne Gretsky passes Gordie Howes as NHL's all time top scorer
- S10151991 Clarence Thomas is confirmed as Supreme Court Justice (52-48)
- S10161311 Council of Vienne (15th ecumenical council) opens
- S10161775 Portland, Maine burned by British
- S10161781 Washington takes Yorktown
- S10161829 Tremont Hotel, 1st US modern hotel opens (Boston)
- S10161841 Queens University in Kingston is chartered
- S10161846 Dentist William T Morton demonstrated the effectiveness of ether
- S10161848 1st US homeopathic medical college opens in Pennsylvania
- S10161849 Avery College establishes in Allegheny, Pennsylvania
- S10161849 British seize Tigre Island in Gulf of Fonseca from Honduras
- S10161859 John Brown leads 20 in raid on federal arsenal, Harper's Ferry, Va
- S10161861 Confederacy starts selling postage stamps
- S10161867 Alaska adopts the Gregorian calendar, crosses intl date line
- S10161869 Hotel in Boston becomes the 1st to have indoor plumbing
- S10161876 Race riot at Cainhoy SC (5 whites & 1 black killed)
- S10161909 J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #690 Wratislavia
- S10161909 Pirates beat Tigers 4 games to 3 in 6th World Series
- S10161912 Boston beats NY Giants, 4 games to 3 with a tie in 9th World Series
- S10161916 Margaret Sanger opens 1st birth control clinic (46 Amboy St, Bkln)
- S10161921 Jim Conzelman takes over as coach of Rock Island Independents from
- S10161921CFrank Coughlin-only mid-game coaching change in NFL history
- S10161923 Disney Co founded
- S10161925 Texas School Board prohibits teaching of evolution
- S10161926 Troop ship sinks in Yangtze River, killing 1,200
- S10161931 Trunk murderess Winnie Ruth Judd chops first
- S10161935 H Van Gent discovers asteroid #1879 Broederstroom
- S10161938 Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #1499 Pori & #1500 Jyvaskyla
- S10161940 Benjamin Oliver Davis Sr named 1st black general in regular army
- S10161940 Lottery for 1st US WW II draftees held; #158 drawn 1st
- S10161940 Warsaw Ghetto established
- S10161941 "Gordo" comic strip (by Gus Arriola) 1st appears in newspapers
- S10161941 Germany advances within 60 miles (96 K) of Moscow
- S10161941 L Oterma discovers asteroid #2159 Kukkamaki
- S10161942 Cyclone in Bay of Bengal kills some 40,000 south of Calcutta India
- S10161942 Natl Boxing Assn freezes titles of those serving in armed services
- S10161943 Chicago Mayor Ed Kelly opens city's new subway system
- S10161945 UN's Food & Agriculture Organization comes into existence
- S10161946 10 Nazi leaders hanged as war criminals after Nuremberg trials
- S10161952 Woolworth's at Powell & Market (SF) opens
- S10161956 William J Brennan Jr becomes a Supreme Court Justice
- S10161957 Queen Elizabeth & Prince Philip visits Williamsburg Virginia
- S10161961 Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #1996 Adams
- S10161962 Byron R White becomes a Supreme Court Justice
- S10161962 Cuban missile crisis began as JFK becomes aware of missiles in Cuba
- S10161962 Yanks (20th championship) beat SF Giants 4 games to 3 in World Series
- S10161962CNY Yankees appear in 12 & win 9 of last 14 World Series
- S10161963 Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #2059 Baboquivari
- S10161964 Brezhnev & Kosygin replace Krushchev as head of Russia
- S10161964 China becomes world's 5th nuclear power
- S10161965 Purple Mt Observatory discovers asteroid #2503 Liaoning & #3513
- S10161968 During Olympics Tommie Smith & John Carlos give black power salute
- S10161968 Milwaukee Bucks play their 1st game losing 89-84 to Chic Bulls
- S10161968CJim Dorey sets Toronto Maple Leaf penalty records (48 mins on 9
- S10161968Cpenalties in a game & 44 minutes on 7 penalties in a period)
- S10161969 100-1 shot NY Mets beat Orioles 5-3 & win 66th World Series in 5
- S10161969 L Chernykh discovers asteroids #2092 Sumiana & #2931 Mayakovsky
- S10161969 Soyuz 6 returns to Earth
- S10161970 Anwar Sadat elected president of Egypt, succeeding Gamal Abdel Nasser
- S10161971 Amphitheater in McLaren Park is dedicated in SF
- S10161973 Kissinger & Le Duc Tho jointly awarded Nobel peace prize
- S10161973 Maynard Jackson elected mayor of Atlanta
- S10161976 Soyuz 23 returns to Earth
- S10161976 Toronto Maple Leaf Lanny McDonald scores a hat trick in 2 min 54 sec
- S10161978 Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla elected supreme pontiff-John Paul II
- S10161979 N Chernykh discovers asteroid #3661
- S10161982 Devils 1st road victory 6-5 over Penguins
- S10161982 Mt Palomar Observatory 1st to detect Halley's comet on 13th return
- S10161982 Shultz warns US will withdraw from UN if they vote to exclude Israel
- S10161982 Z Vavrova discovers asteroids #3069 & #3515
- S10161983 Balt Orioles beat Phila Phillies, 4 games to 3 in 80th World Series
- S10161984 Desmond Tutu, black Anglican Bishop, wins the Nobel Peace Prize
- S10161985 Challenger vehicle moves to the launch pad for STS 61A mission
- S10161985 Intel introduces 32-bit 80386 microcomputer chip
- S10161986 Armand Hammer returns to US with Jewish refusenik David Goldfarb
- S10161986 US govt closes down due to budget problems
- S10161987 175-kph winds cause blackout in London, much of southern England
- S10161987 Jessica McClure rescued 58 hrs after falling 22' into a well shaft
- S10161988 Orel Hirsheiser, 1st to pitch shutout in playoff & world series
- S10161990 US forces reach 200,000 in the Persian Gulf
- S10161991 George Jo Hennard, 35, kills 23 & himself & wounds 20 in Texas
- S10161991 US Supreme Court begins to hear Joseph Doherty case
- S1017 532 Boniface II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- S10171492 Columbus sights isle of San Salvador (Watling Island, Bahamas)
- S10171691 New royal charter for Massachusetts, now including Maine, Plymouth
- S10171777 Americans win victory at Saratoga-American Revolution
- S10171777 British General John Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga, NY
- S10171781 Cornwallis defeated at Yorktown
- S10171787 Boston blacks, petition legislature for equal school facilities
- S10171829 Delaware River & Chesapeake Bay Canal formally opened
- S10171850 Knickerbocker Engine Co Number 5 organized
- S10171855 Bessemer steelmaking process patented
- S10171860 1st pro golf tournament held (Scotland) (Willie Park wins)
- S10171868 Constitution of Grand Duchy of Luxembourg comes into effect
- S10171871 President Grant suspends writ of habeas corpus
- S10171879 J Palisa discovers asteroid #207 Hedda
- S10171892 M Wolf discovers asteroid #342 Endymion
- S10171894 Ohio national guard kills 3 lynchers while rescuing a black man
- S10171899 Sutro railroad sold to Robert F Morrow for $215,000
- S10171904 Bank of Italy (Bank of America) opens its doors
- S10171906 K Lohnert discovers asteroid #618 Elfriede
- S10171906 Kopff discovers asteroid 616 Elly, 617 Patroclus & 1781 Van Biesbroeck
- S10171918 Yugoslavia proclaims itself a republic
- S10171919 Radio Corporation of America (RCA) created
- S10171920 Chicago Bears (as Decatur Staleys) play 1st NFL game, win 7-0
- S10171930 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1307 Cimmeria
- S10171930 K Reinmuth discovers asteroids #1172 Aneas, #1173 Anchises,
- S10171930C#1174 Marmara & #1175 Margo
- S10171931 Al Capone convicted of tax evasion, sentenced to 11 years in prison
- S10171931 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #2018 Schuster
- S10171933 Albert Einstein arrives in the US, a refugee from Nazi Germany
- S10171934 "The Aldrich Family" premieres on radio
- S10171935 Pacific Assoc of AAU votes not to participate in Berlin Olympics
- S10171936 M Laugier discovers asteroids #1730 Marceline & #3568
- S10171941 1st US destroyer (Kearney) torpedoed in WW II, off Iceland
- S10171945 Juan Perón becomes dictator of Argentina
- S10171952 J L Brady discovers asteroid #2739
- S10171954 Phila Eagle Adrian Burk passes for 7 touchdowns vs Wash (49-21)
- S10171955 Lee Merriwether joins the Today Show panel
- S10171956 England's 1st large scale nuclear power station opens
- S10171957 Britain's Queen Elizabeth & Prince Philip visits White House
- S10171957 French author Albert Camus awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
- S10171959 Queen Elizabeth is fined $140 for withdrawing her race horse
- S10171960 PLS discovers asteroids #1813 Imhotep, #2082 Galahad, #2319
- S10171960C#2412 Wil, #2495 Noviomagum, #3279, #3604 & #3734
- S10171961 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 33,100 m
- S10171961 NY Museum of Modern Art hung Henri Matisse's "Le Bateau" upside-down
- S10171961CIt wasn't corrected until December 3rd
- S10171962 Yanks beat Giants for 20th world championship
- S10171963 Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #2161 Grissom
- S10171964 Yanks fire Manager Yogi Berra
- S10171967 Barbra Striesand stars on "Belle of 14th Street" special on CBS
- S10171967 Memorial service for Brian Epstein at New London Synagogue
- S10171967 Pete Knight in X-15 reaches 85 km
- S10171967 The play "Hair" is 1st performed
- S10171969 NY Nets move from Comack to Island Garden, Hempstead NY
- S10171969 Plastic Ono Band's "Cold Turkey" is released in UK
- S10171969 Soyuz 7 returns to Earth
- S10171971 Pitts Pirates beat Balt Orioles, 4 games to 3 in 68th World Series
- S10171972 1st time Islanders shut-out-5-0 vs Penguins
- S10171973 5-mo oil embargo by Arab states against US & Netherlands begins
- S10171974 C Kowal discovers asteroid #1939 Loretta
- S10171974 E F Helin discovers asteroids #2074 Shoemaker & #2335 James
- S10171974 NBA New Orleans Jazz begin a 28 game road losing streak
- S10171974 Washington Capitals 1st NHL home victory, beating Chicago 4-3
- S10171974Cmakes A's the only team other than Yanks to win 3 straight series
- S10171974COakland A's beat LA Dodgers, 4 games to 1 in 71st World Series
- S10171975 1st Space Shuttle main engine test at Natl Space Tech Labs, Miss
- S10171977 Canada begins regular live TV coverage of Parliament
- S10171977 West German commandos storm hijacked Lufthansa in Mogadishu, Somalia
- S10171977Cfreeing all 86 hostages & killing 3 of the 4 hijackers
- S10171978 NY Islanders start a streak of 23 undefeated games at home (15-0-8)
- S10171978 NY Yankees beat Dodgers, 4 games to 2 in 75th World Series
- S10171978 Pres Carter signs bill restoring Jefferson Davis citizenship
- S10171978 Yanks win 22nd World Championship capping their great comeback year
- S10171979 D Bautista of Mexico completes 20,000 m walk in record 1:20:06.8
- S10171979 Mother Teresa of India, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
- S10171979 Pitts Pirates beat Balt Orioles, 4 games to 3 in 76th World Series
- S10171979C#2421 Nininger, #2695 Christabel & #3007 Reaves
- S10171979CE Bowell discovers asteroids #2356 Hirons, #2409 Chapman,
- S10171982 A Mrkos discovers asteroid #3636
- S10171982 E Bowell discovers asteroid #2817 Perec & #3254 Bus
- S10171983 STS-9 vehicle moves to Vandenberg AFB due to SRB nozzle problem
- S10171985 Lou Pinella named Yankee manager
- S10171986 US Senate approved immigration bill prohibiting hiring of illegal
- S10171986Caliens & offered amnesty to illegals who entered prior to 1982
- S10171987 1st lady Nancy Reagan undergoes a modified radical mastectomy
- S10171987 1st World Series game in a covered stadium (Minnesota Metrodome)
- S10171988 31 reported dead as Ugandan jetliner crashes in fog near Rome
- S10171988 Dallas Green replaces Lou Pinella as manager of the NY Yankees
- S10171988 Lyndon LaRouche pleads innocent to fraud, conspiracy indictment
- S10171988 Phillip Morris announces $11 Billion tender offer for Kraft
- S10171988 Rockin Robin beats "Sensational" Sherri Martel for WWF woman's title
- S10171988 Traveling Wilbury's 1st release "Handle With Care"
- S10171989 Earthquake in SF (6.9) cancels 3rd game of world series. kills 67
- S10171991 News anchor Bree Walker Lampley files an FCC complaint that LA radio
- S10171991CKFI-AM personally attacked her by discuss her having a disformed baby
- S1018 707 John VII ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- S10181016 Danes defeat Saxons at Battle of Assandun (Ashingdon)
- S10181648 1st US labor organization forms (Boston Shoemakers)
- S10181685 Louis XIV revokes Edict of Nantes, outlaws Protestantism
- S10181748 Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, ends War of Austrian Succession
- S10181767 Boundary between Md & Pa, the Mason Dixon line, agreed upon
- S10181776 Col John Glover & Marblehead regiment meet British Forces in Bronx
- S10181776 In a NY bar decorated with bird tail, customer orders "cock tail"
- S10181847 English astronomer J.K. Hind discovers Flora, his 2nd asteroid
- S10181847 J R Hind discovers asteroid #8 Flora
- S10181862 Morgan's raiders capture the federal garrison at Lexington, KY
- S10181867 US takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia ($7.2 million)
- S10181873 Columbia Princeton Rutgers & Yale set rules for collegiate football
- S10181875 J C Watson discovers asteroid #150 Nuwa
- S10181887 Start of the Sherlock Holmes adventure "A Case of Identity" (BG)
- S10181889 1st all NYC world series NY Giants (NL) play Bkln (AA)
- S10181890 John Owen is 1st man to run 100 yd dash in under 10 seconds
- S10181891 1st international 6-day bicycle race in US (MSG, NYC) begins
- S10181892 1st commercial long-distance phone line opens (Chicago-NY)
- S10181898 American flag raised in Puerto Rico
- S10181908 Belgium annexes Congo Free State
- S10181909 Comte de Lambert of France sets airplane altitude record of 300 m
- S10181911 J Palisa discovers asteroid #722 Frieda
- S10181911 Kaiser discovers asteroids 720 Bohlinia, 721 Tabora & 1265 Schweikarda
- S10181912 Beginning of the 1st Balkan War
- S10181912 Italo-Turkish war ends
- S10181918 NHL's Québec Bulldogs sold to a Toronto businessman P J Quinn
- S10181922 British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) established
- S10181924 Harold "Red" Grange, finest collegiate football game (4 long TD runs)
- S10181924 Notre Dame beats Army 13-7, NY Hearld Tribune dubs them (4 Horsemen)
- S10181930 Joseph Sylvester becomes 1st jockey to win 7 races in 1 day
- S10181931 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1206 Numerowia, #1234 Elyna,
- S10181931C#1235 Schorria & #2414 Vibeke
- S10181938 Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #1472 Muonio, #1527 Malmquista,
- S10181939C#1740 Paavo Nurmi, #2096 Vaino & #2826 Ahti
- S10181944 Soviet troops invade Czechoslovakia during WW II
- S10181950 Connie Mack retires as manager of the A's after 50 years
- S10181953 Willie Thrower becomes 1st black NFL quarterback in modern times
- S10181954 Hurricane Hazel (3rd of 1954) becomes most severe to hit US
- S10181955 Track & Field names Jesse Owens all-time track athelete
- S10181960 Casey Stengel retired by NY Yankees (won 10 pennents in 12 years)
- S10181960 In Britain, the News Chronicle & Daily Mail merge, & The London
- S10181960CEvening Star merges with the Evening News
- S10181961 Museum of Modern Art hung Matisse's Le Bateau upside down (until 12/4)
- S10181962 Tony Sheridan & the Beat Brothers record "Let's Dance"
- S10181962 US launches Ranger 5 for lunar impact; misses Moon
- S10181962CDr Watson (US) & Drs Crick & Wilkins (Britain) win Nobel Prize
- S10181962Cfor Medicine for work in determining structure of DNA
- S10181963 Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #2405 Welch
- S10181963 IOC votes Mexico City to host 1968 Olympics
- S10181967 Soviet Venera 4 becomes the 1st probe to send data back from Venus
- S10181967 Walt Disney's "Jungle Book" is released
- S10181967CAL votes to allow Athletics to move from KC to Oakland & expand the
- S10181967Cleague to 12 teams in 1971 with KC & Seattle teams
- S10181968 Bob Beamon of USA sets the long jump record (29"2½") in Mexico City
- S10181968 Circus Circus opens in Las Vegas
- S10181968 John Lennon & Yoko One fined £150 for marijuana possession
- S10181968 Lee Evans sets world record of 43.8 seconds in 400 meter dash
- S10181968 Police find 219 grains of cannabis resin in John & Yoko's apt
- S10181968 US Olympic Committee suspends Tommie Smith & John Carlos for giving
- S10181968C"black power" salute as a protest during victory ceremony
- S10181969 Federal govt bans use of cyclamates artificial sweeteners
- S10181969 Soyuz 8 returns to Earth
- S10181973 Congress authorizes bi-centennial quarter, half-dollar & dollar coin
- S10181974 Wings (Country Hams) release "Walking in the Park with Eloise"
- S10181974CChicago Bull Nate Thurmond becomes 1st in NBA to complete a
- S10181974Cquadruple double-22 pts, 14 rebounds, 13 assists & 12 blocks
- S10181977 1st Islander 0-0 tie-Kings at Nassau-25th time shutout-Resch's 15th
- S10181977 C Kowal discovers asteroid #2060 Chiron
- S10181977 P Wild discovers asteroid #2481
- S10181977 Reggie Jackson hits 3 consecutive homers tying Ruth's series record
- S10181977CYanks beat Dodgers 8-4 for 21st world championship, 1st in 15 years
- S10181978 1st daughter Susan Ford announces engagement to Charles F Vance
- S10181978 NY Islanders 1st scoreless tie, vs LA Kings
- S10181979 "Beatlemania" opens in London
- S10181979 Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroid #2729
- S10181980 Detroit blocks 21 Atlanta shots setting NBA record (double
- S10181981 NY Giant Joe Danelo ties NFL record of 6 field goals in a game
- S10181984 Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51A mission
- S10181985 P Jensen & K Augustesen discovers asteroid #3369 Freuchen
- S10181988 Israel's supreme court uphold's ban on Kahane`s Kach Party as racist
- S10181989 US 62nd manned space mission STS 34 (Atlantis 5) launches into orbit
- S1019 125 -BC- Origin of Era of Tyre
- S1019 615 St Deusdedit I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- S10191298 Rindfleish-140 Jews of Heilbron Germany are murdered
- S10191765 Stamp Act Congress met in NY, wrote decl of rights & liberties
- S10191781 Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown at 2 PM; Revolutionary War ends
- S10191812 Napoleon begins his retreat from Moscow
- S10191818 US & Chicasaw Indians sign a treaty
- S10191845 Wagner's opera Tannhäuser performed for 1st time
- S10191849 Elizabeth Blackwell became 1st woman in US to receive medical degree
- S10191853 1st flour mill in Hawaii begins operations
- S10191856 James Kelly & Jack Smith fight bareknuckle for 6h15m in Melbourne
- S10191859 Wilhelm Tempel discovers diffuse nebula around Pleid star Merope
- S10191864 Approx 25 Confederates make surprise attack on St Albans, Vermont
- S10191864 Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, Union beats back Conf attackers
- S10191870 1st (4) blacks elected to House of Reps
- S10191872 World's largest gold nugget (215 kg) found in New South Wales
- S10191888 Moshav Gederah is attacked by the Arabs
- S10191901 Santos-Dumont proves airship maneuverable by circling Eiffel Tower
- S10191912 Tripoli (Libya) passes from Turkish to Italian control
- S10191919 1st Distinguished Service Medal awarded to a woman
- S10191919 Reds beat White Sox, 5 games to 3 in 16th World Series. This series
- S10191919Cis known as the black sox scandal as 7 White Sox throw the series
- S10191922 J Comas Sola discovers asteroid #986 Amelia
- S10191933 Berlin Olympic Committee vote to introduce basketball in 1936
- S10191936 HR Ekins of "NY World-Telegram" beats 2 other reporters
- S10191936Cin a race around the world on commercial flights, by 18½ days
- S10191941 1st woman jockey in North America, Anna Lee Wiley in Mexico
- S10191943 Theater Guild presentation of "Othello" opens at Shubert
- S10191943 Yankee 2nd baseman Joe Gordon announces retirement (hates NY)
- S10191944 US forces land in Phillipines
- S10191949 Yanks trade Joe Gordon to Cleveland for Allie Reynolds
- S10191950 UN forces entered Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea
- S10191951 Pres Harry S Truman formally ends state of war with Germany
- S10191953 1st jet transcontinental nonstop scheduled service
- S10191953 Singer Julius LaRosa is fired on TV by Arthur Godfrey
- S10191957 Maurice "Rocket" Richard, Mont, became 1st NHLer to score 500 goals
- S10191959 Florence Henderson joins the Today Show panel
- S10191960 France grants Mauritania independence
- S10191960 Martin Luther King Jr arrested in Atlanta sit-in
- S10191960 The US imposes an embargo on exports to Cuba
- S10191963 Beatles record "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
- S10191965 Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroid #2790
- S10191967 Igor Ter-Ovanesyan of USSR, sets then long jump record at 27' 4 3/4"
- S10191967 Mariner 5 makes fly-by of Venus
- S10191968 G Soulie discovers asteroid #1918 Aiguillon
- S10191968 Golden Gate Bridge charges tolls only for southbound cars
- S10191969 Oakland Darryle Lamonica passes for 6 touchdowns vs Buffalo (50-21)
- S10191970 John Frazier kills Ohta's declares WW 3 has begun
- S10191973 Ringo releases "Photograph"
- S10191974 Det Red Wing Mickey Redmond scores the 1st hat trick against Wash Caps
- S10191974 Detroit Pistons beat Trailblazers in Portland (next win 6-1-90)
- S10191977 Supersonic Concorde jet's 1st landing in NYC
- S10191979 L Brozek discovers asteroid #2288 Karolinum
- S10191980 Steve McPeak rides 101'9" unicycle
- S10191981 LA Dodgers beat Montreal Expos for NL pennant
- S10191982 Automaker John DeLorean arrested on cocaine charges (Not guilty)
- S10191983 Columbia moves to Orbiter Processing Facility
- S10191986 USSR expells 5 US diplomats
- S10191987 "Black Monday"-Dow Jones down 508.32, 4½ times previous record
- S10191987 Billy Martin hired as manager of NY Yankees for 5th time
- S10191987 US warships destroy 2 Iranian oil platforms in Persian Gulf
- S10191988 3 Americans win Nobel in physics; 3 W Germans win chemistry Nobel
- S10191988 Britain bans broadcast interviews with IRA members
- S10191988 Car bomb kills 7 Israelis, wounds 11 near Lebanon border
- S10191988 Roxette releases "Roxette Look Sharp!" album
- S10191988 S Afr anti-apartheid leader Sisulu wins $100,000 Human Rights prize
- S10191988 Senate passes bill curbing ads during children`s TV shows
- S10201600 Battle of Sekigahara sets Tokugawa clan as Japan's rulers (shoguns)
- S10201740 Maria Theresa became ruler of Austria, Hungary & Bohemia
- S10201803 US Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase
- S10201813 German Kingdom of Westphalia abolished
- S10201817 1st Mississippi showboat leaves Nashville on maiden voyage
- S10201818 49th parallel established as the border between US & Canada
- S10201818 US & Britain agree to joint control of Oregon country
- S10201845 The opera "Tannhäuser" is produced (Dresden)
- S10201847 Little William Nelman poisons his grandpa
- S10201883 Treaty of Ancon, Peru cedes Tarapaca to Chile
- S10201888 Chicago & All America baseball teams play exhibition in Auckland, NZ
- S10201891 1st International 6 day bike race (NY MSG) begins
- S10201898 NC Mutual & Provident Insurance Company forms
- S10201899 Columbia (US) beats Shamrock (England) in 11th America's Cup
- S10201903 R S Dugan discovers asteroids #518 Halawe & #519 Sylvania
- S10201903 US wins disputed boundary between the District of Alaska & Canada
- S10201905 Great General Strike in Russia begins; lasts 11 days
- S10201905 M Wolf discovers asteroid #577 Rhea
- S10201906 Dr Lee DeForest demonstrates his radio tube
- S10201910 1st appearance of cork centered baseball in World Series
- S10201911 Roald Amundsen sets out on race to South Pole
- S10201919 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #924 Toni
- S10201920 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #943 Begonia
- S10201922 Kennelworth in the Bronx renamed Dwight Place
- S10201929 Bayshore Highway opens (SF)
- S10201930 British White Paper restricts Jews from buying Arab land
- S10201933 E Delporte discovers asteroid #2819 Ensor
- S10201938 A Wachmann discovers asteroid #1501 Baade
- S10201941 G Kulin discovers asteroid #1710 Gothard
- S10201942 "Durham Manifesto" calls for fundamental changes in race relations
- S10201944 30 blocks of Cleveland Oh burns after a liquid gas factory explodes
- S10201944 Revolution by workers & students in Guatemala
- S10201944 US 1st army wins battle of Aachen
- S10201944 US forces under Gen Douglas MacArthur return to the Philippines
- S10201946 Frank Seno returns kickoff 105 yd, Chicago Cards vs NY Giants
- S10201947 HUAC opens hearings into alleged Communist influence in Hollywood
- S10201955 Yanks begin 16-game exhibition in Japan
- S10201956 58° F (15° C), Esperanza Station, Antarctica (Antarctic record high)
- S10201956 Hannes Lindemann begins journey across Atlantic in a 17' craft
- S10201960 1st fully mechanized post office opened, Providence, RI
- S10201960 Ralph Houk replaces Casey Stengel as Yankee manager
- S10201963 Jim Brown sets NFL single-season rushing record, 8,390 yds
- S10201963 S Africa begins trial of Nelson Mandela & 8 others on conspiracy
- S10201964 Riot at Rolling Stones show in Paris (150 arrested)
- S10201967 7 men are convicted of civil rights violations in Meridan Miss
- S10201967 All white fed jury convicts 7 in murder of 3 civil rights workers
- S10201968 Jacqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis
- S10201971 P Wild discovers asteroids #1838 Ursa, #1839 Ragazza & #1893 Jakoba
- S10201973 Mariette Hartley appears on Bob Newhart in "Have You Met Miss Dietz"
- S10201973 OPEC oil embargo begins
- S10201973 Pres Nixon proclaims Jim Thorpe greatest athelete of 1st ½ century
- S10201973 William Shatner marries Marcy Lafferty
- S10201973Ccalls to WYFR & moves station from NYC to Scituate Mass
- S10201973CSat Night Massacre, Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox dismissed by
- S10201973CSolicitor Gen Bork, AG Richardson & Deputy AG Ruckelshaus resigned
- S10201973CThe Family Station Inc buys shortwave Radio Station WNYW, changes
- S10201976 70 die as Norwegian tanker Frosta collides with George Prince
- S10201976 NY Nets Julius "Dr J" Erving sold to the Phila 76ers
- S10201977 3 members of rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd die in charter plane crash
- S10201979 John F Kennedy Library dedicated in Boston
- S10201981 3 members of Weather underground arrested for armored truck robbery
- S10201982 Billy Martin fired as manager of the Oakland A's
- S10201982 L G Karachkina discovers asteroid #3437 Kapitsa
- S10201982 St Louis Cards beat Mil Brewers, 4 games to 3 in 79th World Series
- S10201983 IBM-PC DOS Version 2.1 released
- S10201984 Islander's Mike Bossy's 30th career hat trick-4 goals
- S10201985 A Mrkos discovers asteroid #3395
- S10201987 10 die as Air Force jet crashed into a Ramada Inn near Indianapolis
- S10201987 Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz sentenced to 6 months in jail
- S10201988 Britain ends suspects right to remain silent in crackdown on IRA
- S10201988 Gastineau sacks Jets, retires from football "for personal reasons"
- S10201988 LA Dodgers beat Oakland A's in world series 4 games to 1
- S10201988 Man armed with explosives blows self up in 125 St subway station (NYC)
- S10201988 Reggie Rogers, Det Lion's # 1 pick, kills 3 by driving intoxicated
- S10201988Cas LA beats Oakland A's, 4 games to 1 in 85th World Series
- S10201988CDodgers win World Series, LA 1st to have both NBA & baseball champs
- S10201989 US Senate impeaches US District Judge Alcee L Hastings
- S10201990 3 members of 2 Live Crew acquitted on obsenity charges in Florida
- S10201990 Antiwar protest marches begin in 20 US cities (US-Iraq)
- S10201990 Cincinatti Reds sweep Oakland A's in the World Series
- S10201991 Actress Lisa Hartman weds country singer Clint Black
- S1021 310 St Eusebius ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- S1021 686 Conon begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- S10211520 Magellan entered the strait which bears his name
- S10211553 Volumes of the Talmud are burned
- S10211797 US Navy frigate Constitution, Old Ironsides, launched in Boston
- S10211805 Battle of Trafalgar, Adm Nelson defeats French & Spanish fleet & dies
- S10211861 Battle of Balls Bluff, Va
- S10211862 H D'Arrest discovers asteroid #76 Freia
- S10211868 Severe earthquake at 7:53 AM, centered in Hayward, Calif
- S10211869 1st shipment of fresh oysters comes overland from Baltimore
- S10211871 1st US amateur outdoor athletic games (NY)
- S10211879 J Palisa discovers asteroid #208 Lacrimosa
- S10211879 Thomas Edison perfects the carbonized cotton filament light bulb
- S10211897 Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago is dedicated
- S10211905 England Pilgrim Assn beats All NY 11, 7-1 in soccer at Polo Grounds
- S10211908 J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #525 Adelaide
- S10211911 J Palisa discovers asteroids #723 Hammonia, #724 Hapag & #725 Amanda
- S10211915 1st transatlantic radiotelephone message, Arlington, Va to Paris
- S10211917 1st Americans to see action on the front lines of WW I
- S10211918 Margaret Owen sets world typing speed record of 170 wpm for 1 min
- S10211923 Deutsches Museum, München, 1st Walther Bauersfeld Zeiss Planetarium
- S10211925 B Jekhovsky discovers asteroid #1328 Devota
- S10211935 E Delporte discovers asteroid #1374 Isora
- S10211935 Hank Greenberg selected AL MVP unanimously
- S10211936 M Laugier discovers asteroid #2106 Hugo
- S10211938 H Alikoski discovers asteroid #1508 Kemi
- S10211944 During WWII, US troops capture Aachen, 1st large German city to fall
- S10211945 Women in France allowed to vote for 1st time
- S10211948 Facsimile high-speed radio transmission demonstrated (Washington DC)
- S10211950 Chinese forces occupy Tibet
- S10211950 Tom Powers of Duke scores 6 touchdowns
- S10211959 Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens (NYC)
- S10211960 JFK & Nixon clashed in 4th & final presidential debate (NYC)
- S10211966 144 die as a coal waste landslide engulfed a school in S Wales
- S10211967 Thousands opposing Vietnam War try to storm the Pentagon
- S10211969 Bloodless coup in Somalia (National Day)
- S10211970 777 Unification church couples wed in Korea
- S10211970 Caledonian Airways takes over British United Airways
- S10211971 Nixon nominates Lewis F Powell & William H Rehnquist to US Supreme
- S10211971CCourt, following resignations of Justices Hugo Black & John Harlan
- S10211973 A's manager Dick Williams quits after A's beat Mets in World Series
- S10211973 H L Giclas discovers asteroid #3695
- S10211974 1st Islander shut-out opponent-Billy Smith 5-0 vs Caps
- S10211975 Mexico City's 1st major subway accident takes 26 lives
- S10211975 Red Sox Carlton Fisk's 12th inning HR beats Reds 7-6 in game 6 of WS
- S10211975 Venera 9, first craft to orbit the planet Venus launched
- S10211976 American Saul Bellow wins Nobel Prize for Literature
- S10211976 Cin Reds sweep NY Yankees, in 73rd World Series
- S10211976 Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #2550 Houssay
- S10211976 NY Knicks retire 1st number, # 19, Willis Reed
- S10211977 US recalls William Bowdler, ambassador to South Africa
- S10211979 Greta Waitz wins woman participation in NYC marathon (02:27:33)
- S10211980 1st (& only) time Phillies win the World Series (in 98 years)
- S10211982 E Bowell discovers asteroid #3061 Cook & #3507 Vilas
- S10211982 L Zhuravleva discovers asteroid #3376
- S10211982C#3668, #3669 & #3772
- S10211982CL G Karachkina discovers asteroids #3469 Bulgakov, #3516 Rusheva,
- S10211984 Steve Jones runs Chicago Marathon in world record 2:08:05
- S10211987 Senate debate begins rejecting Robert Bork's Supreme Ct nomination
- S10211988 Boston Celtics beat Yugoslavia 113-85 in Madrid
- S10211988 Ferdinand & Imelda Marcos indicted on racketeering charges
- S10211989 Buck Helm found alive after being buried 4 days, in SF earthquake
- S10211989 Houston becomes 1st major college team to gain 1000 yards in a game
- S10211989C1st black owners (Betram Lee & Peter Bynoe) to own a major sports
- S10211989Cteam, purchasing Denver Nuggets for $65m
- S10211991 24 die in a fire in Oakland Calif
- S10212137 -BC- 1st recorded total eclipse of the sun China
- S10221746 Princeton University (NJ) received its charter
- S10221797 André-Jacques Garnerin makes 1st parachute jump from balloon (Paris)
- S10221836 Sam Houston inaugurated as 1st elected pres of Republic of Texas
- S10221875 Sons of the American Revolution organized
- S10221879 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #209 Dido
- S10221883 1st NY Horse Show held (Madison Sq Garden)
- S10221883 Original Metropolitan Opera House (NYC) grand opening (Faust)
- S10221900 M Wolf discovers asteroid #459 Signe, #460 Scania, #461 Saskia &
- S10221900C#462 Eriphyla
- S10221906 3000 blacks demonstrate & riot in Phila
- S10221906 A Kopff discovers asteroid #619 Triberga
- S10221922 Lucerne Street in the Bronx named
- S10221922 Parsifal Place laid out in Bronx, named for knight in Wagner's Opera
- S10221928 Pres Hoover speaks of "American system of rugged individualism"
- S10221935 E Delporte discovers asteroids #1375 Alfreda & #1401 Lavonne
- S10221936 1st commercial flight from mainland to Hawaii
- S10221938 1st Xerox copy made
- S10221938 Y Vaisala discovers asteroids #1473 Ounas, #1520 Imatra,
- S10221938C#1521 Seinajoki & #2715 Mielikki
- S10221939 1st TV NFL game-Eagles vs Dodgers
- S10221947 C A Wirtanen discovers asteroid #1600 Vyssotsky
- S10221949 200 killed in train derailment near Nowy Dwor Poland
- S10221950 LA Rams beat Baltimore Colts 70-27
- S10221952 M B Protitch discovers asteroid #2244 Tesla
- S10221953 Laos gains full independence from France
- S10221954 West Germany joins North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- S10221960 H L Giclas discovers asteroid #2061 Anza
- S10221962 JFK imposes naval blockade on Cuba, beginning missile crisis
- S10221962 Pacific Science Center opens at Seattle Center
- S10221963 225,000 students boycot Chicago schools in Freedom Day protest
- S10221966 USSR launches Luna 12 for orbit around Moon
- S10221968 Apollo 7 returns to Earth
- S10221968 T Smirnova discovers asteroids #1774 Kulikov, #1854 Skvortsov,
- S10221968C#2009 Voloshina, #2046 Leningrad, #2342 Lebedev & #2574 Ladoga
- S10221969 KAPN-AM in Santa Barbara CA changes call letters to KDB-AM
- S10221971 C Torres discovers asteroid #2013 Tucapel
- S10221972 Oakland A's 1st championship; beat Reds, 4 games to 3 in World Series
- S10221973 Security Council Resolution 338-cease fire to the Yom Kippur War
- S10221974 Yanks trade Bobby Murcer to Giants for Bobby Bonds
- S10221975 Cin Reds beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 3 in 72nd World Series
- S10221975 Soviet spacecraft Venera 9 soft-lands on Venus
- S10221975 World Football League disbands
- S10221976 C Kowal discovers asteroid #2340 Hathor
- S10221976 H Kosai & K Hurukawa discovers asteroids #2271 Kiso & #2470 Agematsu
- S10221976 P Wild discovers asteroids #2337 & #2989
- S10221976 Rick Barry (SF), begins then longest NBA free throw streak of 60
- S10221977 International Sun-Earth Explorers 1 & 2 launched into Earth orbit
- S10221978 Laugh-in's Judy Carne arrested at Gatwick Airport for drug possession
- S10221979 Deposed Shah of Iran arrives in NY for medical treatment
- S10221979 Walt Disney World's 100-millionth guest
- S10221980 New South Korean constitution comes into effect
- S10221981 Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization decertified
- S10221981 US national debt tops $1 trillion
- S10221984 NFL quarterback Ken Stabler retires
- S10221984 Paul McCartney releases "Give My Regards to Broad Street" soundtrack
- S10221988 Elton John sells out MSG for a record 26th time
- S10221988 Supreme Ct Justice Sandra Day O'Connor OK after breast cancer surgery
- S10221989 Denver Nuggets beat Jugoplastika Split 135-129 in 3rd McDonald Open
- S10221991 General Motors announces 9 month lose of $2.2 billion
- S10222136 -BC- Chinese make 1st record of a solar eclipse
- S10224004 -BC- Universe created at 8:00 PM, according to the 1650
- S10224004C-BC- pronouncement of Anglican archbishop James Ussher
- S10231679 Meal Tub Plot against James II of England
- S10231775 Continental Congress approves resolution barring blacks from army
- S10231790 Slaves revolt in Haiti (later suppressed)
- S10231805 Sailing ship "Aeneus" sinks off Newfoundland killing 340
- S10231864 Battle of Westport, Missouri
- S10231864 Union Gen Samuel R Curtis defeats Conf Gen Stirling Price
- S10231871 Columbia & Sappho (US) beat Livonia (UK) in 3rd America's Cup
- S10231876 New Orleans Mint reopens as an assay office
- S10231884 1st world series OKed by AA, Providence (NL) beats NY Mets (AA) 6-0
- S10231888 Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx, vested
- S10231890 The opera "Prince Igor" is produced (St Petersburg)
- S10231910 Blanche Scott became 1st woman solo a public airplane flight
- S10231910 Phila A's beat Chicago Cubs 4 games to 1 in 7th World Series
- S10231915 1st national horseshoe throwing championship (Kellerton, Iowa)
- S10231915 25,000 women march in NYC, demanding right to vote
- S10231921 Green Bay Packers play 1st NFL game, 7-6 win over Minneapolis
- S10231922 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #987 Wallia
- S10231924 W Baade discovers asteroid #1036 Ganymed
- S10231927 City of Netanya, Israel founded
- S10231932 "Fred Allen Show" premieres on radio
- S10231941 Walt Disney's "Dumbo" released
- S10231942 During WW II, Britain launches major offensive at El Alamein, Egypt
- S10231944 Soviet army invades Hungary
- S10231945 Jackie Robinson signs Montréal Royal contract
- S10231946 UN General Assembly 2nd session convenes (1st NYC) (Flushing Meadows)
- S10231947 NAACP petition on racism, "An Appeal to the World" presented to UN
- S10231952 Goethe Link Obs discovers asteroids #2024 McLaughlin & #2488 Bryan
- S10231954 Britain, England, France & USSR agree to end occupation of Germany
- S10231956 1st video recording on magnetic tape televised coast-to-coast
- S10231956 Hungarian Revolution began
- S10231956 Revolt against Stalinist policies began in Hungary
- S10231957 1st test firing of Vanguard satellite launch vehicle, TV-3
- S10231958 Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak, wins Nobel Prize for Literature
- S10231958 USSR lends money to UAR to build Aswan High Dam
- S10231962 USAF Major Robert A Rushworth takes X-15 to 40,800 m
- S10231964 Japanese beat Russian for 1st Olympic Gold in woman's volleyball
- S10231967 NJ Americans (later NY/NJ Nets) play 1st ABA game
- S10231968 Kip Keino (Kenya) wins gold medal for 1,500m (3 min 34.9 sec)
- S10231970 Gary Gabelich sets auto speed record 622.4 mph (1,002 kph)
- S10231973 Nixon agrees to turn over White House tape recordings to Judge Sirica
- S10231973 UN's revised International Telecommunication Convention adopted
- S10231973 Yankee GM & pres Lee MacPhail named AL president
- S10231975 Islander Glenn Resch's 5th shut-out opponent-Flyers 3-0
- S10231976 Harvard College discovers asteroids #2051 Chang & #2549 Baker
- S10231977 Panamanians vote 2:1 to approve the new Canal treaties
- S10231980 Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin resigns, due to illness
- S10231981 A Mrkos discovers asteroid #2559
- S10231981 Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroids #2903 & #3024
- S10231981 T Seki discovers asteroid #2571 Geisei
- S10231981 US national debt hits $1 trillion
- S10231983 Suicide terrorist truck bomb kills 243 US personnel in Beirut
- S10231983 Truck bomb in Beirut kills 241 US soldiers
- S10231984 B A Skiff discovers asteroid #3637
- S10231984 C Shoemaker & E Shoemake discovers asteroid #3700 Geowilliams
- S10231984 NBC airs BBC footage of Ethiopian famine
- S10231984 STS 51-A launch vehicle moves to launch pad
- S10231988 Boston Celtics play Spain in Madrid
- S10231989 George Harrison releases "Best of Dark Horse 1976-89" album
- S10231989 US 62nd manned space mission STS 34 (Atlantis 5) returns from space
- S10231990 Iraq announces release of 330 French hostages
- S10231991 Dr Jack Kevorkian's suicide machine kills 2 women
- S10234004 -BC- Cosmos was created according to Archbishop James Usher
- S10241648 Peace of Westphalia ends 30 year war and Holy Roman Empire
- S10241795 3rd partition of Poland, between Austria, Prussia & Russia
- S10241836 The match is patented
- S10241851 William Lassell discovers Ariel & Umbriel, satellites of Uranus
- S10241856 Constitution of South Australia adopted
- S10241857 World's 1st soccer club, Sheffield F.C., founded in England
- S10241861 1st transcontinental telegram sent ending the Pony Express
- S10241871 Mob in LA hangs 18 Chinese
- S10241889 Softball rules adopted by Mid Winter Indoor Baseball League
- S10241901 1st woman to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel (Anna Taylor)
- S10241903 1st trotter to run a mile under 2 minutes (Lou Dillon 1:58.1)
- S10241903 George Sutton becomes billard champ
- S10241911 Robert Scott's expedition leaves Cape Evans for South Pole
- S10241922 O Struve discovers asteroid #991 McDonalda
- S10241929 "Black Thursday," beginning of stock market crash
- S10241931 George Washington Bridge connecting NY to NJ opens
- S10241933 E Delporte discovers asteroid #1294 Antwerpia
- S10241935 Italy invades Ethiopia
- S10241939 Benny Goodman records "Let's Dance"
- S10241939 Nylon stockings go on sale for 1st time (Wilmington Delaware)
- S10241940 40 hour work week goes into effect (Fair Labor Standards of 1938)
- S10241940 Japan eliminates US terms (strike, play ball) from baseball
- S10241943 Anti-nazi Clandestine Radio Soldatsender Calais begins transmitting
- S10241945 United Nations Charter becomes effective
- S10241947 Series of forest fires $30 million of timber (New England States)
- S10241951 United Nation publishes its 1st postage stamps
- S10241952 Arab Liberation Movement becomes the only party of Syria
- S10241956 Soviet troops invade Hungary
- S10241960 Disaster on USSR launch pad, kills missile expert Nedelin & team
- S10241960C(unconfirmed); USSR claims he was killed in plane crash
- S10241964 Zambia (N Rhodesia) gains independence from Britain (National Day)
- S10241965 Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroid #2398 Jilin
- S10241968 Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithful busted for pot, released on £50 bail
- S10241970 Nancy Walker creates Ida Morgenstein role on Mary Tyler Moore Show
- S10241970 Salvador Allende Gossens elected president of Chile
- S10241971 Harry Drake sets longest arrow flight by a footbow (1 mile 268 yds)
- S10241971 Texas Stadium opens-Cowboys beat Patriots 44-21
- S10241973 Heavy fog causes 65 car collision killing 9 on NJ Turnpike
- S10241973 John Lennon sues US govt to admit the FBI is tapping his phone
- S10241973 Yom Kippur War ends, Israel 65 miles from Cairo, 26 from Damascus
- S10241974 Billy Martin named AL Manager of the Year (Texas Rangers)
- S10241976 1st Jewish film & TV festival
- S10241976 R M West discovers asteroid 2052 Tamriko, 2053 Nuki, 2115 Irakli, 2935
- S10241976C2116 Mtskheta, 2145 Blaauw, 2146 Stentor, 2148 Epeios, 2187 La Silla
- S10241978 NHL Toronto Maple Leafs set own team record of 28 pts vs NY Islanders
- S10241979 Billy Martin punches a marshmallow salesman, puts job in jeopardy
- S10241979 Guinness Book of Records presents Paul McCartney with a rhodium disc
- S10241980 John Lennon releases "(Just Like) Starting Over" in UK
- S10241980 Polish government legalizes independent labor union Solidarity
- S10241981 Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroid #3088 & #3462
- S10241984 11 members of the Colombo crime family arrested
- S10241984 Intelsat 5 re-enters Earth's atmosphere 5 months after it failed
- S10241984 Steffi Graf plays her 1st pro tennis match
- S10241987 Bork's supreme court nomination rejected by senate
- S10241987 NBC technicians accept pact, end 118 day strike
- S10241988 NY Islander's & NHL high scorer, Mike Bossy retires
- S10241988 Traveling Wilburys Volume One is released
- S10241988 Typhoon Ruby sinks Philippine ferry; hundreds drown
- S10241989 After a weeks delay due to earthquake, World Series game 3 is played
- S10241989 Rev Jim Bakker is sentenced to 50 years for fraud
- S10243963 -BC- Origin of Hevelius' Mundane Era
- S1025 625 Boniface V ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- S10251415 Battle of Agincourt, Welsh longbow defeats the armored knight
- S10251671 Giovanni Cassini discovers Iapetus, satellite of Saturn
- S10251675 Iapetus, moon of Saturn, discovered by Giovanni Cassini
- S10251760 George III ascends the British throne
- S10251764 John Adams marries Abigail Smith (marriage lasts 54 years)
- S10251812 US frigate United States captures British vessel Macedonian
- S10251854 The Light Brigade charges (Battle of Balaklava) (Crimean War)
- S10251870 Pimlico Race Course opens in Baltimore
- S10251870 Postcards 1st used in US
- S10251884 1st world series OK by AA, Providence (NL) sweeps NY Mets (AA) in 3
- S10251888 J Palisa discovers asteroid #279 Thule
- S10251891 1st International 6 day bike race (NY MSG) ends
- S10251900 England annexes Transvaal
- S10251902 M Wolf discovers asteroid #495 Eulalia & #496 Gryphia
- S10251903 Senate begins investigating Teapot Dome scandals of Harding admin
- S10251915 Atty James L Curtis named minister of Liberia
- S10251918 Canadian steamship "Princess Sophia" hit a reef off Alaska, 398 die
- S10251921 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #962 Aslog
- S10251924 1st appearance of Little Orphan Annie comic strip
- S10251926 Lester Patrick becomes 1st coach & gm of NY Rangers
- S10251929 Former Interior Sec Albert Fall convicted of accepting $100,000 bribe
- S10251930 1st football game in Atlantic City Convention Center
- S10251930 1st scheduled transcontinental air service began
- S10251935 Hurricane-produced floods kill 2,000 in Jeremie & Jacmel Haiti
- S10251939 Nylon stockings go on sale in US for 1st time
- S10251944 Japanese navy defeated at battle of Leyte Gulf
- S10251945 Japanese surrender Taiwan to Gen Chiang Kai-shek
- S10251951 Peace talks aimed at ending Korean War resumed in Panmunjom
- S10251960 1st electronic wrist watch placed on sale, NYC
- S10251962 110th member of the UN admitted (Uganda)
- S10251962 American author John Steinbeck awarded Nobel Prize in literature
- S10251962 Stevenson demands USSR amb Zorin answer regarding Cuban missle bases
- S10251962Csaying "I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over"
- S10251963 Beatles begin their 1st full foreign tour in Sweden
- S10251964 Viking Jim Marshall runs 66 yards in the wrong direction for a safety
- S10251965 Rolling Stones release "Get Off of My Cloud"
- S10251968 Chicago recognizes Jean Baptiste Pointe de Sable as its 1st settler
- S10251968 Longest Oly field hockey game, Hol beats Spain 1-0 in 2h25m (6 OT)
- S10251968 Yoko Ono announces she is having John Lennon's baby
- S10251971 Roy Disney dedicates Walt Disney World
- S10251971 UN General Assembly admits Mainland China & expels Taiwan
- S10251972 Eddy Merckx (Belgium) covers 30 miles, 1,258 yards in 1 hr
- S10251973 Chris Wills wins 1st National hang-gliding championship
- S10251973 P Wild discovers asteroids #1911 Schubart, #1960 Guisan &
- S10251973C#2037 Tripaxeptalis
- S10251974 Wings release "Junior's Farm"
- S10251975 USSR's Venera 10 makes day-side Venus landing
- S10251976 5th Enterprise, approach & lands test (ALT) flight
- S10251976 R M West discovers asteroid #2147 Kharadze
- S10251976CGov Wallace grants full pardon to Clarence Norris, last known
- S10251976Csurvivor of 9 Scottsboro Boys who were convicted in 1931 rape
- S10251978 Israeli Cabinet approves "in principle," a draft compromise peace
- S10251980 Barbra Streisand's "Guilty," album goes #1 for 3 weeks & her single
- S10251980C"Woman In Love," goes #1 for 3 weeks
- S10251981 A Mrkos discovers asteroid #3017
- S10251983 US invades Grenada, a country 1/2,000 its population (US Wins!)
- S10251984 "Give My Regards to Broad Street" premiers (Gotham Theater-NYC)
- S10251984 Rangers beat Devils 11-2
- S10251985 Kosmos 1700 communications satellite placed in geostationary orbit
- S10251986 International Red Cross ousted from South Africa
- S10251986 Michael Sergio Parachutes into Shea Stadium during game 6 of WS
- S10251987 Minnesota Twins win their 1st World Series championship beating
- S10251987CSt Louis Cards, 4 games to 3 in 84th World Series
- S10251988 ABC News reports on potbellied pygmy porkers' popularity as pets
- S10251990 Evander Hollyfield KOs James "Buster" Douglas for HW boxing title
- S10251990 NY Daily News goes on strike (lasts through March, 1991)
- S10261774 1st Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia
- S10261825 Erie Canal between Hudson River & Lake Erie opened
- S10261854 H Goldschmidt discovers asteroid #32 Pomona
- S10261863 Soccer rules standardized; rugby starts as a separate game
- S10261863 Worldwide Red Cross organized in Geneva
- S10261863CFootball Association forms in England, standardizing soccer
- S10261868 White terrorists kill several blacks in St Bernard Parish La
- S10261869 1st American steeplechase horserace (Westchester, NY)
- S10261876 President sends federal troops to SC
- S10261881 Shootout at the OK corral, in Tombstone, Az
- S10261887 Detroit (NL) beats St Louis (AA) 10 games to 5 in the World Series
- S10261903 Yerba Buena is 1st Key System ferry to cross SF Bay
- S10261905 1st Soviet (workers' council) formed, St Petersburg, Russia
- S10261905 Union of Sweden & Norway ends
- S10261906 J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #620 Drakonia
- S10261911 Phila A's beat NY Giants, 4 games to 2 in 8th World Series
- S10261916 Margaret Sanger arrested for obscenity (advocating birth control)
- S10261921 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #963 Iduberga
- S10261921 Solomon Porter Hood named minister to Liberia
- S10261941 US savings bonds go on sale
- S10261942 US ship Hornet sunk in Battle of Santa Cruz Islands during WW II
- S10261947 Maharajah of Jammu & Kashmir accedes to India
- S10261949 Pres Truman increases minimum wage from 40¢ to 75¢
- S10261950 Branch Rickey resigns as Brooklyn Dodger president
- S10261951 Rocky Marciano defeats Joe Louis at Madison Square Garden
- S10261955 Ngo Dinh Diem proclaims Vietnam a republic with himself as pres
- S10261956 UN's International Atomic Energy Agency statute approved
- S10261956 Vietnam promulgates its constitution
- S10261957 USSR fires defense minister, Marshal Georgi Zhukov
- S10261957 Vatican Radio begins broadcasting
- S10261958 PanAm flies the 1st transatlantic jet trip-NY to Paris
- S10261960 AL announces Minneapolis & LA to get teams in 1961
- S10261960 AL's Washington Senators move to become Minnesota Twins
- S10261962 Beatles tape "Please Please Me" & "Ask Me Why"
- S10261964 Rolling Stones appear on the Ed Sullivan Show
- S10261965 Beatles receive MBEs at Buckingham Palace
- S10261965 Sylvia Likens tortured by teen girl gang
- S10261966 1st Pacific communications satellite launched, Intelsat 2
- S10261967 Shah of Iran crowns himself after 26 years on Peacock Throne
- S10261968 Soyuz 3 launched
- S10261970 "Doonesbury" comic strip debuts in 28 newspapers
- S10261971 UN votes to replace Taiwan with China
- S10261971C#1865 Cerberus, #1894 Haffner, #1895 Larink, #1896 Beer, #1897 Hind,
- S10261971C#1898 Cowell, #1899 Crommelin, #1932 Jansky, #1995 Hajek,
- S10261971C#2047 Smetana, #2281, #2418, #2838, #3081, #3336, #3337 & #3514
- S10261971CL Kohoutek discovers asteroids #1840 Hus, #1841 Masaryk,
- S10261972 Guided tours of Alcatraz (by Park Service) begin
- S10261972 Henry Kissinger declares "Peace is at hand" in Vietnam
- S10261973 Wings release "Helen Wheels"
- S10261974 Cleveland Coliseum opens for NBA's Cavaliers & MISL's Crunch
- S10261975 Anwar Sadat became 1st Egyptian president to officially visit the US
- S10261976 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #3159 Prokof'ev
- S10261976 Transkei gains independence, not recognized outside of South Africa
- S10261976 Trinidad & Tobago becomes a republic
- S10261977 5th & final test of space shuttle Enterprise
- S10261977 Dr Clifford R Wharton Jr named chancellor of State University of NY
- S10261980 St Louis Cards sack Balt Colt QBs an NFL record tying 12 times
- S10261981 LA Dodgers beat NY Yankees, 4 games to 2 in 78th World Series
- S10261982 Steve Carlton became 1st pitcher to win 4 Cy Young awards
- S10261984 "Baby Fae" gets baboon heart transplant, lives 21 days
- S10261984 E Bowell discovers asteroid #3174 Alcock
- S10261985 On a poor call in 6th game, umpire Don Deckinger starts
- S10261985Ca string of events costing Cardinals the World Series
- S10261987 Dow Jones down 156.83 points
- S10261987 Head of Salvadoran Human Rights Comm assassinated by death squads
- S10261988 Donald Trump bills Mike Tyson $2,000,000 for 4 month advisory service
- S10261988 US-Soviet effort free 2 grey whales from frozen Arctic, Barrow, AK
- S1027 625 Honorius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- S10271492 Christopher Columbus discovers Cuba
- S10271775 US Navy established
- S10271787 Federalist letters start appearing in NY newspapers
- S10271795 Treaty of San Lorenzo, provides free navigation of Mississippi
- S10271810 US annexes West Florida from Spain
- S10271858 RH Macy & Co opens 1st store, (6th Ave-NYC) Gross receipts $1106
- S10271871 Boss Tweed (William Macy Tweed), Democratic leader of Tammany Hall,
- S10271871Carrested after NY Times exposed his corruption
- S10271880 Theodore Roosevelt marries Alice Lee, on his 22nd birthday
- S10271886 Musical fantasy "Night on Bald Mountain," performed in Russia
- S10271893 Hurricane hits coast between Savannah Ga & Charleston SC
- S10271896 1st Pali Road completed in Hawaii (winds so strong streams flow UP!)
- S10271899 M Wolf & A Schwassmann discovers asteroids #446 Aeternitas,
- S10271899C#447 Valentine & #448 Natalie
- S10271903 M Wolf & P Gotz discovers asteroid #520 Franziska
- S10271904 World's 1st subway, the IRT (Interborough Rapid Transit), opens
- S10271904Cin NYC, subway/bus fare is set at one nickel
- S10271916 1st published reference to "jazz" appears (Variety)
- S10271916 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #952 Caia
- S10271919 Axeman of New Orleans claims last victim
- S10271920 League of Nations moves headquarters in Geneva
- S10271920 Westinghouse radio station in East Pittsburgh, KDKA begins
- S10271921 J Palisa discovers asteroid #964 Subamara
- S10271922 1st commemoration of Navy Day
- S10271924 The Uzbek SSR forms
- S10271925 Water skis patented by Fred Waller
- S10271927 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1119 Euboea
- S10271929 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1137 Raissa
- S10271931 Chuhei Numbu of Japan, sets then long jump record at 26' 2¼"
- S10271938 DuPont announces its new synthetic fiber will be called "nylon"
- S10271941 Chicago Daily Tribune editorialize there will not be war with Japan
- S10271947 "You Bet Your Life", with Groucho Marx, premieres on ABC radio
- S10271948 Israel recaptures Nizzanim in the Negev
- S10271949 S Arend discovers asteroid #1573 Vaisala
- S10271954 B O Davis Jr becomes 1st black general in USAF
- S10271954 Walt Disney's 1st TV show, "Disneyland," premieres on ABC
- S10271959 Rare Pacific hurricane kills 2,000 in Western Mexico
- S10271961 1st Saturn launch vehicle makes an unmanned flight test
- S10271961 American Basketball League starts play
- S10271961 Outer Mongolia & Mauritania become the 102nd & 103rd members of UN
- S10271967 4 people from Baltimore pour blood on selective service records
- S10271967 Expo '67 closes in Montreal, Canada
- S10271969 Ralph Nader sets up a consumer organization knowns as Nader's Raiders
- S10271969 St Vincent & the Grenadines gains associated status with Britain
- S10271971 Republic of the Congo becomes Republic of Zaïre
- S10271971 Steve Garvey weds Cynthia Truhan
- S10271972 Golden Gate National Recreation Area created
- S10271973 1st time Islanders beat the Rangers-3-2
- S10271973 Alabama sets offensive record (828 yds), beats Virginia Tech 77-6
- S10271973 Borngen & Kirsch discovers asteroids #2424 Tautenburg & #3245 Jensch
- S10271973 F Borngen discovers asteroid #3540 Protesilaos
- S10271975 P Wild discovers asteroid #2353
- S10271977 NASA launches space vehicle S-200
- S10271978 Begin & Sadat with the Nobel Peace prize
- S10271978 P Wild discovers asteroid #2970
- S10271978 President Carter signs Hawkins-Humphrey full employment bill
- S10271979 Islanders score 2 goals within 6 seconds 3 goals within 44 seconds
- S10271979 St Vincent & the Grenadines becomes independent of UK (Nat'l Day)
- S10271979 Voluntary Euthanasia Society publishes how-to-do-it suicide guide
- S10271980 Dave Gryllis sets world bicycle speed record of 94.37 kph
- S10271981 Andrew Young, former UN Ambassador, elected mayor of Atlanta, Georgia
- S10271982 China announces its population at 1 billion people plus
- S10271982 IBM ROM is capable of EGA graphics
- S10271984 Wash State's Rueben Mayes sets col football rec of 357 yards rushing
- S10271985 KC Royals beat St Louis Cards, 4 games to 3 in 82nd World Series
- S10271985 Thieves steal 9 paintings, including 5 Monet's & 2 Renoir's
- S10271986 NY Mets beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 3 in 83rd World Series
- S10271986 Paul McCartney release "Pretty Little Head"
- S10271987 South Korean voters overwhelmingly approved a new constitution
- S10271988 "ET" released to home video (14 million presold)
- S10271988 Larry Flynt paid hitman $1M to kill Hefner, Guccione & Sinatra
- S10271991 Minn Twins beat Altanta Braves 1-0 in 10 to win the world series in 7
- S10281492 Columbus discovers Cuba
- S10281636 Harvard University (Boston) established
- S10281776 Battle of White Plains; Washington retreats to NJ
- S10281790 New York gives up claims to Vermont for $30,000
- S10281793 Eli Whitney applies for a patent on the cotton gin
- S10281854 J Chacornac discovers asteroid #33 Polyhymnia
- S10281858 Macys Dept store opens in NYC
- S10281886 Statue of Liberty dedicated by Pres Grover Cleveland, it is
- S10281886Ccelebrated by the 1st confetti (ticker tape) parade in NYC
- S10281890 Last NL-AA World Series game Bkln ties Louisville 3 games & 1 tie
- S10281891 Quake strikes Mino-Owari, Japan kills 7,300
- S10281900 After over 5 months the Paris Olympic games close
- S10281904 St Louis police try a new investigation method-fingerprints
- S10281908 W Lorenz discovers asteroid #674 Rachele
- S10281911 Bill Dobbie of Calgary Tigers kicks 10 singles in a game
- S10281914 Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, founded at Howard University, incorporates
- S10281918 Czechoslovakia gains independence as Austria-Hungary breaks up
- S10281919 Volstead Act passed by Congress, start prohibition over Wilson's veto
- S10281922 1st coast-to-coast radio broadcast of a football game
- S10281922 Benito Mussolini takes control of Italy's government
- S10281924 White Sox beat NY Giants 8-4 in Dublin, less than 20 fans attend
- S10281927 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1082 Pirola
- S10281929 1st child born in aircraft, Miami, Fl
- S10281934 Brooklyn & Pittsburgh play a penalty free NFL game
- S10281936 FDR rededicates Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary
- S10281940 Greece successfully resists Italy's attack
- S10281942 Train crashes into bus, killing 16 & injuring 20 (Detroit Michigan)
- S10281946 German rocket engineers begin work in USSR
- S10281948 Flag of Israel is adopted
- S10281953 Bud Grant of Winnipeg Blue Bombers intercepts 5 passes (record)
- S10281954 Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #2322 Kitt Peak & #3572
- S10281958 Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, elected Pope, taking the name John XXIII
- S10281959 Buffalo Bills enter the AFL
- S10281961 Ground broken for Municipal (Shea) Stadium for NY Mets
- S10281962 Khrushchev orders withdrawal of missiles from Cuba, ending crisis
- S10281962 NY Giant YA Tittle passes for 7 touchdowns vs Wash Redskins (49-34)
- S10281965 Gateway Arch (630' (190m) high) completed in St Louis, Missouri
- S10281965 Pope Paul VI proclaims Jews not collectively guilty for crucifixion
- S10281966 Belgium's Gaston Roelants runs 12-4/5 miles in 1 hour
- S10281970 NBA Cleve Cavaliers 1st home game, lose to San Diego 110-99
- S10281970 US/USSR sign an agreement to discuss joint space efforts
- S10281971 England becomes 6th nation to have a satellite (Prospero) in orbit
- S10281971 John & Yoko record "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" in NYC
- S10281973 Elmore Smith of the Lakers blocks 17 shots in a game (NBA record)
- S10281973 F Borngen & K Kirsch discovers asteroid #3338 Richter
- S10281974 1st time 2 Islanders hat trick in same game-MacMillian & Westfall
- S10281975 Calvin Murphy (Houston) begins NBA free throw streak of 58 games
- S10281976 Billy Martin named AL Manager of the Year (NY Yankees)
- S10281976 L Zhuravleva discovers asteroid #2188 Orlenok
- S10281977 TV's Rhoda gets married
- S10281978 Donald Ritchie ran the fastest 100 Km ever, doing it in 7.2722
- S10281978 H L Giclas discovers asteroid #2415 & #3487
- S10281978 Purple Mountain Obs discovers asteroids #2209 Tianjin, #3476 & #3509
- S10281979 Dick Howser (best Yank mngr win-lost pct .636) replaces Billy Martin
- S10281981 Edward M McIntrye elected 1st black mayor of Augusta Georgia
- S10281982 NASA launches RCA-E
- S10281986 KOB-AM in Albuquerque NM changes call letters to KKOB
- S10281986 KOB-TV in Albuquerque NM's final transmission
- S10281987 S Ueda & H Kaneda discovers asteroid #3720
- S10281988 Jurors award $147,000 to Tacoma parishioner seduced by her minister
- S10281988 Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen gives $10 million to U Wash library
- S10281989 Oakland A's sweep SF Giants in earthquake/BART series
- S1029 539 -BC- Babylon falls to Cyrus the Great of Persia
- S10291682 William Penn lands in what will become Pennsylvania
- S10291727 Severe earthquake in New England
- S10291787 The opera "Don Giovanni" is produced (Prague)
- S10291811 1st Ohio River steamboat leaves Pittsburgh for New Orleans
- S10291833 1st US college fraternity to have a fraternity house founded
- S10291863 Intl Comm of the Red Cross founded (Nobel 1917, 1944, 1963)
- S10291867 Mail packets "Rhone" & "Wye" capsizes off St Thomas Virgin Islands
- S10291888 J Palisa discovers asteroid #280 Philia
- S10291889 NY Giants (NL) beat Bkln (AA) in world series 6 games to 3
- S10291889 Stanley Park dedicated in Vancouver, BC
- S10291894 1st election of the Hawaiian Republic
- S10291904 1st intercity trucking service (Colorado City & Snyder, Texas)
- S10291910 Bob Simpson of Hamilton Tigers kicks record 11 singles in a game
- S10291918 M Wolf discovers asteroid #904 Rockefellia
- S10291920 Edward Barrow named Yankee general manager
- S10291923 "Runnin' Wild" (introducing the Charleston) opens on Broadway
- S10291923 Turkey proclaimed a republic (National Day)
- S10291924 "Dixie to Broadway," opens at Broadhurst Theater
- S10291924 B Jekhovsky discovers asteroid #1037 Davidweilla
- S10291927 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #3722
- S10291929 "Black Tuesday," Stock Market crashes triggers "Great Depression"
- S10291930 1st football game in eastern Canada played under floodlights
- S10291932 French liner Noprmandie is launched
- S10291935 G Reiss discovers asteroid #1376 Michelle
- S10291939 Golden Gate International Exposition closes (1st closure)
- S10291940 A Patry discovers asteroid #1539 Borrelly
- S10291940 Sec of War Henry L Stimson drew 1st number-158-in 1st peacetime
- S10291940Cmilitary draft in US history
- S10291942 16,000 Jews killed in Pinsk Russia
- S10291942 Alaska highway completed
- S10291942 Branch Rickey named president/GM of Brooklyn Dodgers
- S10291945 1st ball point pen goes on sale, 57 years after it was patented
- S10291950 Wally Triplett avgs 735 yards on 3 kickoff returns
- S10291951 Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #1953 Rupertwildt
- S10291956 Chet Huntley & David Brinkley, NBC News, team up
- S10291956 IDF crosses Egyptian territory in the Sinai
- S10291956 International zone of Tangier returned to Morocco
- S10291956 Israeli paratroopers drop into the Sinai to open Straits of Tiran
- S10291957 A hand grenade explodes in Israel's Knesset (Parliament)
- S10291959 10 nation soccer league to play all games on NY Randalls Is, announced
- S10291960 Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) 1st professional fight
- S10291960 Chartered C46 carrying Cal State's football team crashes, kills 16
- S10291960 Muhammad Ali's 1st professional fight, beats Tunney Hunsaker in 6
- S10291963 "Meet the Beatles" booklet is published
- S10291964 E Roemer discovers asteroid #1930 Lucifer
- S10291964 Star of India & other jewels are stolen in NY
- S10291964 Town of Karmiel founded in the Galilee
- S10291966 National Organization of Women founded
- S10291972 Don Cockroft of Cleveland Browns kicks 57-yard field goal
- S10291975 Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffer kills first
- S10291978 Purple Mountain Obs discovers asteroids #2230 Yunnan, #3239 & #3643
- S10291979 Billy Martin fired as Yankee manager (2nd time)
- S10291982 Car maker John DeLorean indicted for drug trafficking, later acquitted
- S10291982 Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson release "The Girl is Mine"
- S10291984 E Bowell discovers asteroid #3698 Manning & #3699 Milbourn
- S10291984 Orlando Pizzolato (2:14:53) & Greta Weitz (2:29:30) win NY Marathon
- S10291987 Thomas Hearns wins unprecidented 4th different weight boxing title
- S10291988 2,000 US anti-abortion protesters arrested for blocking clinics
- S10291988 China announces a herbal male contraceptive
- S10291988 Jim Elliott (US) begins 24-hr paced outdoor race for 548.9 mi
- S10291988 Soviets 1st scheduled shuttle launch (postponed)
- S10291989 NYC MTA opens the 63rd street extension to the subway
- S10291990 30 die in a (5.7) earthquake in Algeria
- S10291991 Galileo wlll pass within 600 miles of the asteroid Gaspra
- S1030 701 John VI begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- S10301270 8th & last crusade is launched
- S10301864 Helena, Montana's capital, founded
- S10301871 Phila Athletics beat Chicago for 1st Natl Assn baseball pennent
- S10301888 1st ballpoint pen patented
- S10301905 "October Manifesto" Russian Tsar Nicholas II grants civil liberties
- S10301918 A Schwassmann discovers asteroids #905 Universitas & #906 Repsolda
- S10301918 M Wolf discovers asteroid #919 Ilsebill
- S10301918 Slovakia asks for creation of Czechoslovakian state
- S10301919 Baseball league presidents call for abolishment of the spitball
- S10301922 Mussolini forms cabinet in Italy
- S10301925 KUT-AM in Austin TX begins radio transmissions
- S10301929 J Comas Sola discovers asteroid #1136 Mercedes
- S10301930 Turkey & Greece sign a treaty of friendship
- S10301937 E Delporte discovers asteroid #1433 Geramtina
- S10301938 Orson Welles panics a nation with broadcast of "War of the Worlds"
- S10301939 USSR & Germany agree on partitioning Poland
- S10301941 USS Reuben James torpedoed by Germans, even though US is not in war
- S10301944 Anne Frank (of Diary fame) is deported from Auschwitz to Belsen
- S10301945 US government announces end of shoe rationing
- S10301948 20 die & 6,000 made ill by smog in Donora Pennsylvania
- S10301953 Dr Albert Schweitzer & Gen George C Marshall win Nobel Peace Prize
- S10301954 Defense Department announces elimination of all segregated regiments
- S10301954 S Arend discovers asteroid #2538 Vanderlinden
- S10301956 Israel captures Egyptian militay post at El-Thamad
- S10301957 Y C Chang discovers asteroid #1125 China
- S10301961 Soviet Party Congress unanimously approves a resolution removing
- S10301961 Soviet Union tests a 58 megaton hydrogen bomb
- S10301961CJosef Stalin's body from Lenin's tomb in Red Square
- S10301964 Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroid #3405 & #3556
- S10301965 Fireworks explosions kill 50 in Cartagena, Columbia
- S10301967 L Kohoutek & A Kriete discovers asteroid #3769
- S10301967 L Kohoutek discovers asteroid #2667, #2767 & #3303
- S10301967 USSR Kosmos 186 & 188 make 1st automatic docking & Venmera 13 launch
- S10301972 45 die in a train crash in Chicago Ill
- S10301972 P Wild discovers asteroids #1844 Susilva, #1845 Helewalda & #2868
- S10301972 Worst US rail accident in 14 years; 45 die in Chicago
- S10301973 Tom Seaver becomes 1st non-20-game winner to win Cy Young award
- S10301974 Muhammad Ali KOs George Foreman in 8th round in Kinshasa, Zaïre
- S10301975 John Bucyk, Boston, became 7th NHLer to score 500 goals
- S10301975 Juan Carlos assumes power in Spain
- S10301975 NY Daily News runs headline "Ford to City: Drop Dead"
- S10301976 Jane Pauley becomes news co-anchor of the Today Show
- S10301976 Rev Joseph Evans elected president of the United Church of Christ
- S10301978 Laura Nickel & Curt Noll find 25th Mersenne prime, 2 ^ 21701-1
- S10301978 Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroids #2263 Shaanxi,
- S10301978C#2355 Nei Monggol, #2851 & #3650
- S10301979 NASA launches space vehicle S-203
- S10301979 Richard Arrington elected mayor of Birmingham
- S10301980 Honduras & El Salvador settle their boundary dispute
- S10301980 NASA launches Flt Satcom-4
- S10301985 22nd Space Shuttle Mission (61-A)-Challenger 9-launched
- S10301986 Discovery moves to OPF where more than 200 modification are made
- S10301986 K Suzuki & T Urata discovers asteroid #3533 Toyota
- S10301988 2 gambling clubs & 1 player share 61.38 M California lotto jackpot
- S10301988 Jim Elliott (US) completes 24-hr paced outdoor race for 548.9 mi
- S10301988 NY Jets finally beat Pittsburgh Steelers for 1st time
- S10301991 Mid East peace conference begins in Madrid Spain
- S10311517 Luther posts 95 theses on Wittenberg church-Protestant Reformation
- S10311759 Earthquake in Safed Palestine kills hundred
- S10311793 Execution of the Girondins at Paris, during the Reign of Terror
- S10311815 Sir Humphrey Davy of London patents miner's safety lamp
- S10311864 Nevada admitted as 36th state
- S10311886 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #261 Prymno
- S10311888 J Palisa discovers asteroid #281 Lucretia
- S10311899 M Wolf & A Schwassmann discovers asteroid #449 Hamburga
- S10311900 M Wolf discovers asteroid #463 Lola
- S10311908 4th Olympic games ends in London
- S10311913 A Massinger discovers asteroid #770 Bali
- S10311920 W Baade discovers asteroid #944 Hidalgo
- S10311922 Benito Mussolini (Il Duce) becomes premier of Italy
- S10311923 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1009 Sirene
- S10311923 M Wolf discovers asteroid #1008 La Paz
- S10311940 Deadline for Warsaw Jews to move into the Warsaw Ghetto
- S10311943 Wash Redskin Sammy Baugh passes for 6 touchdowns vs Bkln (48-10)
- S10311950 Collazo & Torresola attempt to kill Truman in Washington, DC
- S10311952 1st thermonuclear bomb detonated-Marshall Islands
- S10311954 Algerian Revolution against French begins
- S10311956 1st American to land an airplane at South Pole-Rear Adm GJ Dufek
- S10311956 Britain & France begin to bomb Egypt to reopen the Suez Canal
- S10311956 Brooklyn, NY ends streetcar service
- S10311959 Lee Harvey Oswald announces in Moscow he will never return to US
- S10311963 Ed Sullivan witnesses the Beatles & their fans at London Airport
- S10311963 Leaking propane gas explodes, kills 64 at "Holiday on Ice" (Indiana)
- S10311964 Barbra Streisand's "People," album goes #1 for 5 weeks
- S10311967 Nguyen Van Thieu took oath of office as 1st pres of S Vietnam 2nd Rep
- S10311968 Linda Eastman moves to UK permanently
- S10311968 Milwaukee Bucks win their 1st game beating Detroit 138-118 (6th game)
- S10311968 President Johnson orders a halt to all bombing of North Vietnam
- S10311969 George Harrison's "Something" is released in UK
- S10311969 Race riot in Jacksonville Florida
- S10311974 Bundy victim (?) Laura Aime disappears in Utah
- S10311975 Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroid #2505 Hebei
- S10311980 Harvard College discovers asteroid #3143
- S10311980 Julian Nott sets world hot-air balloon altitude record (16,806 m)
- S10311982 Pope John Paul II becomes 1st pontiff to visit Spain
- S10311983 Paul McCartney releases "Pipes of Peace" album
- S10311983 Ron Grant completes a 217 day, 8,316 mile run around Australia
- S10311984 Puerto Rican tanker, San Francisco explodes spilling 2 million
- S10311984Cgallons of oil as the ship caught fire
- S10311987 1st jockey to win 9 races in 1 day (Chris Antley at Belmont)
- S10311987 A pair in Coventry, England ties the world record for the longest
- S10311987Csingles tennis match at 80 hrs 21 minutes
- S10311988 1st Monday Night NFL game in Indianapolis, Colts beat Denver 55-23
- S10311988 Journalists demand greater press freedom in Yugoslavia