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2009 Mike Francis, Michele Francesco Puccioni, singer, composer, known for Survivor, a 1982 disco hit, recorded ten studio albums during his career, last album, 'The Very Best of Mike Francis', produced before dying of lung cancer, at age 47
2005 The Supreme Court rules the death penalty unconstitutional for people who committed crimes before age 18 2001 Dick Schaap, sportscaster/writer, Flashing Before My Eyes, dies at 67 2001 The heir to the Nepalese throne killed his parents and eight other family members before shooting himself, after an argument over his choice of a bride 1998 President Bill Clinton testifies before a grand jury investigating his conduct (first president to do so), and admits an 'inappropriate relationship' with Monica Lewinsky 1998 Linda Tripp begins to testify before a grand jury about the Lewinsky case 1995 Rockies are 1st team to make postseason before 7th year in existence 1995 Cleveland Indians tie record of scoring 8 runs before making an out, they beat Twins 10-0 1992 Oakland A's rip Jose Canseco for leaving stadium before end of game 1992 New York Yankees score 9 runs before 1st out in 8th inn, beat Brewers 13-7 1992 Ravi Shastri scores 206 at SCG before being Warne's 1st crick Test wkt 1991 Richard Speck, mass murderer, dies a day before his 50th birthday 1991 A day before he dies, Freddie Mercury, 45, confirms he has AIDS 1989 Yankees beat Milwaukee Brewers 4-1, score is changed to 5-1 after game is over. Umpire rules Roberto Kelly scored before a double-play 1989 New York Yankee hurler Lee Gutterman sets record of pitching 30-2/3 innings before giving up his 1st run of season 1987 A's Mark McGwire is 1st rookie to hit 30 home runs before All Star break 1985 During NLCS, Cards rookie Vince Coleman is injured stretching before game as his left leg is caught in Busch Stadium's automated tarpaulin 1984 1st-class cricket debut of Wasim Akram, 2 months before his 1st Test 1983 While warming up before 5th inning Yankee Dave Winfield accidentally kills a seagull 1982 SF's cable cars made a final run before closing down for 20-month 1982 Longest baseball game at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois, ends after 22 innings - before Los Angeles Dodgers beat Cubs 2-1 (game started Aug 17th) 1981 President Reagan greeted predecessors Jimmy Carter, Gerald R Ford and Richard Nixon before sending them to Egypt for Anwar Sadat's funeral 1981 Red Sox rookie Bob Ojeda no-hits Yankees for 8 innings before Rick Cerone and Dave Winfield lead off 9th with back-to-back doubles 1976 Randy Jones wins NL record 16 games before All Star break 1975 Led Zeppelin fans riot before Boston concert, causing $30,000 damage 1973 John Dean begins testimony before Senate Watergate Committee 1972 Lew Parker, actor (Lou Marie-That Girl), dies a day before turning 65 1972 Courts awarded Kentucky Derby prize money to 2nd place winner because winner was given drugs before race 1969 Julie Delpy, actress, Before Sunrise 1969 Wilton Graff, actor (Bloodlust, Just Before Dawn), dies at 65 1968 Enid Mary Blyton, author (Before I Go To Sleep), dies at 70 1967 Surveyor 4 launched to Moon; explodes just before landing 1965 Shooting begins on Star Trek 2nd pilot "Where No Man Has Gone Before" 1965 U.S. Ranger 9 launched; takes 5,814 pictures before lunar impact 1964 U.S. Ranger 7 takes 4,316 pictures before crashing on Moon 1962 U.S.S.R. launches Mars 1; radio contact lost before arrival at Mars 1961 John F. Kennedy sets goal of putting a man on Moon before the end of decade 1961 John Joseph Becker, composer, dies a day before 75th birthday 1958 Gary Sobers 365* vs. Pak, 614 min, 38 fours, best Cricket before Lara 1953 Yankees sweep Indians 6-2, 3-0 before 74,708 win streak at 18 straight 1952 Braves last game in Boston's Braves Field before move to Milwaukee 1951 Harlem Globetrotters play in Olympic Stadium, Berlin before 75,052 1951 Ty Cobb testifies before the Emanuel Celler committee, denying that the reserve clause makes peons of baseball players 1950 David Jensen, born in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, David 'Kid' Jensen, popular British radio DJ, played progressive music, hosted BBC pop network, Radio 1, Top of the Pops presenter, interviewed Duran Duran, promoted The Police before they were commercially successful 1949 Baseball owners agree to erect warning paths before each fence 1946 Wash's Cecil Travis gets 6 straight hits before being stopped 1946 "Day Before Spring" closes at National Theater New York City after 167 performances 1946 Richard Collinge, cricketer, New Zealand rec wicket-taker, 116, before Hadlee 1946 Julian Barnes, England, writer, Before She Met Me 1945 "Day before Spring" opens at National Theater New York City for 167 performances 1945 Carlo Felice Boghen, composer, dies a day before 76th birthday 1943 Julio Iglesias, Spain, singer, Of All the Girls I Loved Before 1940 Bradman out 1st ball for SA vs. Victoria before 6213 1940 Paris evacuates before German advance 1940 Rear Admiral Joseph Taussig testifies before U.S. Senate Naval Affairs Committee that war with Japan is inevitable 1939 Marian Anderson sings before 75,000 at Lincoln Memorial 1939 Bradman hits 186 SA vs. Qld before Christ catches him at short-leg 1938 Bradman scores 225 South Australia vs. Qld before Christ gets him out 1938 Reds Johnny Vander Meer extends his string of hitless innings to 21 2/3 before Debs Garms singles for Boston in 4th 1936 Ron Hamence scores 104 for SA vs. Queensland before 4,865 1936 Bradman scores 192 for S A vs. Vic before a MCG crowd of 21000 1934 Four centuries for SA as they make 7-644 vs. Qld before 6,180 1932 Stephane Audran, Versailles France, actress, Just Before Nightfall 1931 Albert Lonergan scores 137 SA vs. Qld at Adelaide before 5,697 1930 Slinger Nitschke scores 142 SA vs. Qld at Adelaide before 5,422 1925 1st East West football game at Ewing Park before 25,000 fans 1925 Pro football a hit in New York City; Grange and Bears beat Giants before 73,000 1924 Giants rip Braves 22-1, Frisch goes 6-for-6 before grounding out 1922 Longest attack of hiccups begins Charlie Osborne, 98 hiccupped over 435 million times before it stops, He dies 11 months after it stops 1916 Len Wilkinson, cricketer, England leg-spinner just before WW II 1915 President Wilson, widowed the year before, marries Edith Bolling Galt 1915 Phillies win their 1st and only World Series game before 1980, beating 1912 English explorer Robert F Scott and his expedition reach South Pole, only to discover that Roald Amundsen had gotten there before 1909 Canadian Football exhibition game played in Van Cortlandt Park in Bronx, Hamilton Tigers beat Ottawa Rough Riders, 11-6 before 15,000 1908 Cincinnati Mayor Mark Breith stood before city council and announces that, "women are not physically fit to operate automobiles" 1906 June Collyer, New York City, actress, Before Midnight, Charley's Aunt 1903 Wilton Graff, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor, Bloodlust, Just Before Dawn 1903 New York Highlanders (Yankees) 1st game, Senators win 3-1 before 11,950 1902 Trumper a century before lunch 4th Test Cricket vs. England 1902 Ranjitsinhji scores 180 before lunch, for Sussex vs. Surrey 1900 Gilbert Jessop hits his 2nd 100 before lunch in same cricket match 1898 Helen Flint, Chicago, actress, Sea Devils, Married Before Breakfast 1893 New Mexico State University cancels it's 1st graduation ceremony, its only graduate Sam Steele was robbed and killed the night before 1888 Shmuel Agnon, born in Israel, novelist, Day Before Yesterday-Nobel 1966 1888 Henri Herz, composer, dies at a day before 85th birthday 1887 Juan Gris, born in Spain, cubist painter, Still Life Before an Open Window 1886 William Booth, cricketer, Yorks all-rounder, England before WW I 1881 Pedro De Cordoba, New York City, actor, Mexican Hayride, Before I Hang 1881 Chicago Cubs beat Troy 10-8 before record small "crowd" of 12 1880 Herbert Strudwick, cricketer, England wicket-keeper before and after WW I 1879 Congress authorizes women lawyers to practice before Supreme Court 1878 Oscar Apfel, Cleveland, actor, Abraham Lincoln, Inspiration, Before Dawn 1869 Elizabeth Cady Stanton becomes 1st woman to testify before Congress 1865 Con Orem and Hugh O'Neill box 193 rounds before darkness ends match 1863 Clement Clarke Moore, ('Twas the Night Before Xmas), dies at 83 1862 Gerhart Hauptmann, Germany, author, Before Dawn-Nobel 1912 1862 Yorktown, Virginia - McClellan halted his troop before town as it is full of armed torpedoes left by CS Brigadier General Gabrial Rains 1861 Martinsburg, Virginia - Confederate forces pull out before U.S. advance 1846 Elizabeth Barrett and R Browning exchange last letters before eloping 1842 4,500 British and Indian troops leave Kabul, massacred before India 1815 Richard Henry Dana, novelist/lawyer spent 2 years before mast 1799 King of Naples flees before advancing French armies 1789 John Adams sworn in as 1st U.S. Vice President (9 days before Washington) 1787 John Fitch's steamboat completes its tests, years before Fulton 1779 Clement Clarke Moore, U.S., author, 'Twas the Night Before Xmas 1743 John Fitch, inventor, had a working steamboat years before Fulton 1697 Isaac Newton receives Jean Bernoulli's 6 month time-limit problem, solves problem before going to bed that same night 1672 Isaac Newton reads 1st optics paper before Royal Society in London 1633 Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before Inquisition for professing belief that earth revolves around the Sun |
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