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
1996 Paige Speakman, England, born 19 days before her twin sister
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 Yanks 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 Yanks 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 Yanks 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
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, NZ 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 Adm Joseph Taussig testifies before U.S. Senate Naval Affairs Committee that war with Japan is inevitable (He was right)
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 Aust 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
1909 Bruce Bennett, born in Tacoma, Washington, actor, Before I Hang, Sahara
1908 Cincinnati Mayor Mark Breith stood before city council and announces that, "women are not physically fit to operate automobiles"
1906 Philadelphia Giants win Negro Championship Cup in Philadelphia before 10,000 fans
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, Cleve, 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 Brig 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. VP (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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