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 min 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 (Capt 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 NY 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 exec (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 (NY)
1982 Seattle Univ Baptist Ch declares sanctuary for Cen Am refugees
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 bldg 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 Yanks and Tigers play 3-3 tie in 19 due to 1 AM curfew
1968 Radio Prague (Czech) 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 "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 Magnar Am, composer
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 George Carlin, Bronx, comedian, 7 dirty words, AM and FM, Carwash
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 (5:32 PM EST)
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
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 exec, 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, LI, New York, founder, Pan Am Airways
1896 England defeated Zanzibar in a 38-minute war (9:02 AM-9:40 AM)
1877 Phillies and Expos play a doubleheader that ends at 3:23 AM
1873 Otto Loewi, Frankfurt am Main Germany, physician, Nobel-1936
1868 Severe earthquake at 7:53 AM, centered in Hayward, California
1865 Abraham Lincoln, at 7:22 am, assassinated by John Wilkes Booth
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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