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2004 Laura Branigan, singer, How Am I Supposed to Live Without You?, dies at 47

2004 Tony Awards, Avenue Q, I Am My Own Wife, Henry IV revival and Assassins revival won major awards

1997 At 6:11 AM San Francisco experiences a black out

1995 New York City agrees to sell it's 2 owned radio stations (WNew York City AM and FM)

1995 "Late Late Show" with Tom Snyder premieres on CBS at 12:30 AM

1994 -20 degrees F (-29 degrees C) (5:32 AM) coldest day ever recorded in Cleveland Ohio

1993 Anthonius AM "Ton" Kors, writer (Time of Anton de Lange), dies at 47

1993 Mats Wilander defeats Mikael Pernfors 7-6 (7-3), 3-6, 1-6, 7-6 (8-6), 6-4 in 4 hours 1 minutes U.S. Open Tennis match concluding at 2:26 AM

1993 Don Imus begins broadcasting to Boston on WEEI (590 AM)

1993 Bob Fitzsimmons, New York radio DJ (WNEW AM/WABC AM/WHN AM), dies at 53

1992 WNew AM (1130) New York City resigns air, replaced by WBBR

1992 WNEW AM radio on 1130 in New York City ends transmitting after 58 years

1992 FCC rules companies can own 30 AM and 30 FM stations (formerly 12)

1991 Tutte Lemkow, dancer/dir (Captain Paradise, I am a Camera), dies at 73

1991 Pan Am games closes in Havana

1991 Pan Am games open in Havana

1990 At Yankee Stadium rally, Nelson Mandela dons a New York Yankee baseball cap and proclaims "I am a Yankee!"

1989 At 7:42 AM, radio has a 30 2nd silence, honoring radio

1988 New York bound Pan Am jumbo jet explodes over Scotland all 258 aboard die

1988 Mike Schmidt sets NL record appearing in 2,155 games at 3rd base, as Phillies and New York Mets end that game at 2:13 AM

1987 Roger Lewis, aviation executive (Lockheed, C Wright, Pan Am), dies at 75

1987 "Nightline" presents it's 1st "Town Meeting" the subject is AIDS and the show runs until 3:47 AM

1987 Gerald Moore, England, pianist (Am I Too Loud), dies at 87

1985 Howard Stern gets fired from WNBC AM in New York

1982 John AM "Hans" van Tongeren, actor (Hunk), commits suicide at 27

1982 WQXI, Atlanta, is 1st to use Harris Corp AM stereo system

1982 KHJ (LA) and KFRC (SF) become 2nd and 3rd stereo AM stations

1982 FCC approves AM stereo radio, KTSA San Antonio goes stereo

1982 Pan Am Boeing 727 crashes in Kenner, Louisiana, killing 153

1981 Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco opens at 11:30 AM

1981 MTV premieres at 12:01 AM

1981 Rochester Red Wings and Pawtucket Red Sox play to 2-2 tie in 32 innings, game suspended at 4:07 AM (Pawtucket later wins in 33rd)

1980 61 degrees F in Boston at 1 AM

1980 Phillies and San Francisco Giants end their game at 3:11 AM

1977 2 Boeing 747s by Pan Am and KLM collide in Canary Islands, killing 582

1977 5 die as New York Airway helicopter topples on Pan Am building in New York City

1977 583 die in aviation's worst disaster KLM-Pan Am 747 crash on Tenerife

1976 Pan Am begins non-stop flights New York City - Tokyo

1975 Cuba beats Mexico for its 4th Pan Am Games Gold Medal in baseball

1975 Phillies and New York Mets play a doubleheader that ends at 3:15 AM

1975 "AM America," premieres on ABC-TV with Bill Beutel as host

1974 Pan Am 707 crashes into mountains of Bali, killing 107

1969 Neil Armstrong steps on Moon at 2:56:15 AM, GMT

1968 21 killed by hijackers aboard a Pan Am jet in Karachi Pakistan

1968 Yankees and Tigers play 3-3 tie in 19 due to 1 AM curfew

1968 Radio Prague, Czechoslovakia at 12:50 AM announces a soviet led invasion

1967 BBC unofficially bans "I Am the Walrus" by Beatles

1967 At 11 AM, Census Clock at Department of Commerce ticks past 200 million

1966 Phillies and Expos play a doubleheader that ends at 3:23 AM

1966 "I Am A Rock" by Simon and Garfunkel peaks at #3

1966 Pan Am places $525,000,000 order for 25 Boeing 747s

1965 Mehdi Am Barka, Moroccan socialist leader, murdered in Paris

1965 1st all news radio station (WINS 1010 AM in New York City) begins operating

1965 At 10:58 am PST burn up a nuclear rocket in Nevada

1963 At 4 AM, traffic on Bay Bridge is 1-way on each deck

1963 At 10:59 AM census clock, records U.S. population at 190,000,000

1963 Kennedy visits W Berlin "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner)

1962 Stevenson demands U.S.S.R. ambassador Zorin answer regarding Cuban missile bases saying "I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over"

1960 Virtually all coastal towns between 37th and 44th parallels severly damaged by tsunami that strikes Hilo, Hawaii at 01:04 AM

1960 Linda Jezek, born in California, backstroke swimmer, Pan Am Gold-1979

1959 Pan Am begins regular flights around World

1958 Margo [AM] Vliegenthart, Dutch 2nd Chamber member, PvdA

1958 Buses replace Key System trains at 3 AM

1955 Paul Simonon, English pop bassist, Clash-Havana 3 AM

1955 Johannes AM "Hans" van Tongeren, Dutch actor, Hunk

1953 Sultan Sidi Mohammed Am Joessoef V of Morocco deposed

1953 Chaka Khan, born in Great Lakes, Illinois, rocker, Rufus-I am Every Woman

1952 "I am an American Day" and "Constitution Day" renamed "Citizenship Day"

1952 Abdel Basset Ali Al-Megrahi, born in Tripoli Libya, bomber, Pan Am 103

1951 John Van Druten's "I am a Camera," premieres in New York City

1949 Cyndy Garvey, born in Detroit, wife of Steve Garvey, talk show host, AM LA

1947 Rick Derringer, rocker, I am the Real American, Hulk Hogan's theme

1947 Pan Am Airways chartered as 1st worldwide passenger airline

1942 1st around world flight, Pan Am "Pacific Clipper"

1941 Helen Reddy, born in Melbourne, Australia, rock vocalist, I Am Woman

1941 Frank AM Aendenboom, Flemish actor, Lion of Flanders

1940 Dutch "Curfew" forms (12 AM - 4 AM)

1940 Rene "Sascha" Schickele, German writer (Erbe am Rhein), dies at 56

1939 Pan Am opens southern route transatlantic air service, Dixie Clipper

1939 Pan Am's 1st U.S. to England flight

1939 Pan Am begins transatlantic passenger and air mail service

1939 Hugh Masekela, born in Wilbank, South Africa, trumpeter, I Am Not Afraid

1937 Pan Am starts San Francisco-to-Auckland, New Zealand service

1937 1st commercial flight across Pacific, Pan Am

1936 Bachelor's Children debuts on CBS radio (at 9:45 am)

1933 21st Am ratified, 18th Amendment, Prohibition, repealed

1930 Jonkvrouw Catharina AM de Savornin Lohman, author, dies at 62

1929 AM radio station WOWO, Indiana's transmitter burns down

1927 At 7:40 AM, Lindbergh takes off from New York to cross Atlantic for Paris

1927 Martin Walser, born in Wasserburg am Bodensee, Germany, writer, 1998 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade winner, known for 'Runaway Horse', famous for describing conflicts his anti-heroes have in stories and novels

1925 French psychologist Emil Coue brings his self-esteem therapy to U.S. "Every day in every way I am getting better and better"

1921 Jerome Hines, Heinz, born in Hollywood, California, basso, I am The Way

1918 Armistice Day-WW I ends (at 11 AM on Western Front)

1918 Ron Randell, Sydney Australia, actor, Loves of Carmen, I am a Camera

1916 Ferdinand AM van der Ham, Dutch WW II resistance fighter

1912 Marga AM Klompe, 1st Netherland woman elected minister

1912 Titanic sinks at 2:27 AM off Newfoundland as band plays on

1912 Roger Lewis, aviation executive, Lockheed, Curtiss Wright, Pan Am

1910 Govan AM Mbeki, South African leader, ANC/SACP

1909 John Beal, Joplin, Missouri, actor, 10 Who Dare, I Am the Law, Amityville 3D

1906 Anton AM Struyken, minister of justice/governor Dutch Antilles

1903 At 10:35 AM, 1st sustained motorized aircraft flight (Orville Wright)

1903 Lodewijk AM "Lou" Lichtveld, Albert Helman, Suriname author

1903 Glenna Collett Vare, born in Rhode Island, National Am Golf champ, 1922, 25, 28-30, 35

1900 Alexandre AM Stols [Chl van Halsbeke], publisher, History of Ecuador

1899 Gerald Moore, England, pianist, Am I Too Loud

1899 Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, born in Long Island, New York, founder, Pan Am Airways

1896 England defeated Zanzibar in a 38-minute war (9:02 AM-9:40 AM)

1890 Hans Gal, born in Brunn am Gebirge, Austria, pianist, composer, teacher, trained at New Vienna Conservatory, director, Mainz Conservatory

1889 Adolf Hitler, born in Braunau am Inn, Austria-Hungary, genocidal leader of Germany

1887 Multatuli, writer, named most important Dutch writer of all time, 2002, Society for Dutch literature, dies in Ingelheim am Rhine, Germany

1873 Otto Loewi, Frankfurt am Main Germany, physician, Nobel-1936

1868 Severe earthquake at 7:53 AM, centered in Hayward, California

1865 Abraham Lincoln, assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at 7:22 am, Representative-R-Illinois 1847 - 1849, 16th president 1861 - 1865

1856 Achad Ha'am, Asjer Ginsberg, Hebrew philosopher and writer

1842 Constantly AM Cap, Flemish poet/etcher

1650 Rene Descartes, philosopher "I think therefore I am", stops thinking

1650 Rene Descartes, philosopher "I think therefore I am", stops thinking

1597 At 4:30 AM Willem Barents leaves Novaya Zemlya for Netherlands

1571 Johannes Kepler, by his own calculations, is conceived at 4:37 AM


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