1996 Heidi Fleiss scheduled to begin her 7 year jail sentence
1995 1994-95 NHL Season begin after a lengthy strike
1994 Warner Brothers announces a 5th TV network to begin on Jan 11, 1995
1994 Congressional hearings begin on White Water
1994 The Rolling Stones begin Voodoo Lounge world tour
1994 1994 World Cup soccer match begin, Germany vs Bolivia in Chicago
1994 Indians, begin a 18 home game hoome win streak at Jacobs Field
1993 Astronauts begin repair of Hubble telescope in space
1993 Pittsburgh Penguins begin NHL record 17 game winning streak
1992 America Cup finals begin in San Diego
1992 Jury acquits Los Angeles police officers of beating Rodney King, riots begin
1992 Serbian troops begin siege of Sarajevo
1992 Jury deliberations begin in Noriega case
1992 NHL players begin 1st strike in 75-year history
1992 Florida Marlins begin selling tickets
1992 Menachem Begin, PM Israel (1977-80, 81-83, Nobel 1979), dies at 85
1992 Menachem Begin, Israeli Statesman
1992 Menachim Begin, Israeli PM, dies at 78 of a heart attack
1991 New Jersey Devils begin their 10th Anniversary with a 7-2 win over the Blues
1991 U.S. and allies begin a ground war assault on Iraqi troops
1991 Bush and U.S. Gulf War allies give Iraq 24 hours to begin Kuwait withdrawal
1990 Antiwar protest marches begin in 20 U.S. cities (for U.S. - Iraq war)
1990 Nelson Mandela lands in New York City to begin a tour of U.S.
1989 East Germans begin their flight to west (via Hungary and Czech)
1989 Approx 2,000 students begin hunger strike in Tiananmen Square, China
1989 NBA New Jersey Nets begin a 32+ game road losing streak
1988 Iran and Iraq begin talks to end their 8 year war
1988 Iran-Iraq begin a cease-fire in their 8-year-old war (11 PM EDT)
1988 Russian troops begin pull out of Afghanistan after 9 year war
1988 Red Sox begin AL record 23rd consecutive home win streak
1988 Charlotte Hornets and Miami Heat begin their NBA expansion draft
1988 Rascals begin 1st tour in 20 years
1988 In Santa Barbara, California, a team of 32 divers begin cycling underwater on a standard tricycle, to complete 116.66 mi in 75 hours 20 mins
1987 Palestine uprising begin in Israeli-occupied West Bank
1987 Salt Lake City Trappers begin pro baseball record 29 consec win streak
1986 Daniel Buettner, Bret Anderson, Martin Engel and Anne Knabe begin cycling journey of 15,266 miles from Prudhoe Bay Alaska to Argentina
1984 During a radio voice test President Reagan joked he "signed legislation that would outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in 5 minutes"
1984 National Union of Mine Workers in England begin a 51 week strike
1983 Philadelphia Flyers begin 13 NHL game win streak
1983 Israel premier Begin resigns
1983 Yitzhak Shamir (Herut) endorsed by Menachem Begin for Israeli PM
1983 Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin announces resignation
1983 NBA San Diego Clippers begin a 29 game road losing streak
1983 NBA Indiana Pacers begin a 28 game road losing streak
1983 NCAA creates football Kickoff Classic to begin in August
1982 U.S., Italian and French peacekeeping troops begin arriving in Lebanon
1982 NFL players begin a 57 day strike
1982 NFL players begin a 57 day strike
1982 Christian militia begin massacre of 600 Palestinians in Lebanon
1982 Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin arrives in Washington
1982 Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat sign peace treaty in Washington D.C.
1982 New York Islanders begin then NHL record 15 game winning streak
1981 Rolling Stones begin their 6th U.S. tour (John F. Kennedy Stadium, Phila)
1981 Divers begin to recover a safe found aboard Andrea Doria
1981 13,000 Air Traffic Controllers (PATCO) begin their strike
1981 Jacksons begin a 36-city tour
1981 Premier Begin's Likud party wins Israeli elections
1981 Baseball players begin a 50 day strike, their 3rd strike
1981 Boston Celtics begin 18 NBA game win streak
1980 John and Yoko begin recording "Double Fantasy"
1980 Cubans begin to arrive in U.S. from Mariel boatlift
1979 Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin visits President Sadat in Cairo
1979 US and China (Peoples Republic) begin diplomatic relations
1978 In Oslo, Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat accept 1978 Nobel Peace Prize
1978 Begin and Sadat win Nobel Peace prize
1978 Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat named winners of 1978 Nobel Peace Prize
1978 Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin returns home after Camp David summit
1978 Begin, Sadat and Carter sign Camp David accord
1978 Begin and Sadat meet at Camp David to discuss peace
1978 Sadat, Begin and Carter began peace conference at Camp David, Md
1978 Egyptian and Israeli officials begin 2 days of talks
1977 Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin meets Egyptian President Sadat in Egypt
1977 Menachem Begin (Likud), becomes Israel's 6th PM
1977 Menahem Begin forms Israeli government
1977 Menachem Begin becomes Israel's Prime Minister
1977 U.S. House of Representatives begin 90 day test of televising its sessions
1977 Czech intellects begin Human Rights Group Chapter 77
1976 Student uprisings begin in Soweto, South Africa, Soweto Day
1976 Australian band AC/DC begin their 1st headline tour of Britain
1976 NBA Atlanta Hawks begin a 28 game road losing streak
1974 NBA New Orleans Jazz begin a 28 game road losing streak
1974 Washington Capitals 1st NHL game, losing 6-3 to New York Rangers at MSG Washington Caps begin a 37 game road losing streak
1974 House Judiciary Committee begin formal hearings on Nixon impeachment
1974 Veronica and Colin Scargill (England) begin tandem bicycle ride a record 18,020 miles around the world, completed on August 27, 1975
1973 Members of American Indian Movement begin occupation of Wounded Knee
1972 Guided tours of Alcatraz (by Park Service) begin
1972 Japan and People's Republic of China begin diplomatic relations
1972 U.S. airlines begin mandatory inspection of passengers and baggage
1972 President Nixon signs a bill for NASA to begin research on manned shuttle
1971 Boston Bruins begin 13 NHL game win streak
1970 2 men begin ascent of south face of Annapurna I, highest final stage in a wall climb in world
1970 SF city employees begin 4-day strike
1969 "War is Over! If You Want It, Happy Christmas from John and Yoko" posters begin appearing
1969 Guernsey and Jersey begin issuing their own postage stamps
1969 John and Yoko begin their 2nd bed-in (Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal)
1969 U.S. troop begin attack on Hill 937/Hamburger Hill
1969 Beatles begin recording Abbey Road album
1969 US-North Vietnamese peace talks begin in Paris
1968 Beatles begin work on their only double album "Beatles"
1967 The Who, opening for Herman's Hermits begin a U.S. tour
1967 6 day war between Israel and Arab neighbors begin
1967 New Orleans Saints begin selling season tickets (20,000 sold 1st day)
1967 U.S. troops begin largest offensive of Vietnam War
1966 Toboggan Chutes begin operation in Cleveland Metroparks
1966 Construction crews begin tearing up Market St. to build BART
1966 Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale begin a joint holdout against Dodgers
1965 Beatles begin final U.K. concert tour in Glasgow
1965 Watts riots begin in Southeast LA, lasts 6 days
1965 Beatles begin filming "Help" in Bahamas
1965 Operations begin at Grupo Folklorico Antiyano on Curacao
1964 WSBK TV channel 38 in Boston, MA (IND/ABC/CBS/NBC) begin
1964 Rolling Stones begin 1st U.S. tour, with Bobby Goldsboro and Bobby Vee
1964 U.S. begin intelligence flights above Laos
1964 Beatles begin filming "Hard Days Night," Harrison meets Patti Boyd
1964 Greek and Turks begin fighting in Limassol, Cyprus
1963 Beatles begin a tradition of releasing a Christmas record for fans
1963 Beatles begin their 1st full foreign tour in Sweden
1963 Archaeological digs begin at Masada, Israel
1963 Beatles begin their own music publishing company (Northern Songs)
1962 Blacks begin passive resistance in Cairo Ill
1961 1st shuttle flights between Washington D.C., Boston and New York City begin (Eastern)
1960 Baseball uniforms begin displaying player's names on their backs
1959 Soviet Premier Khrushchev arrives in U.S. to begin a 13-day visit
1958 New York City Mayor Robert Wagner announces plans to begin a new baseball called the Continental League
1958 NAACP Youth Council begin sit-ins at Oklahoma City Lunch counters
1957 B-52 bombers begin full-time flying alert in case of U.S.S.R. attack
1956 Britain and France begin to bomb Egypt to reopen Suez Canal
1955 Yanks begin 16-game exhibition in Japan
1955 Brooklyn Dodgers win, then record 10th straight game to begin a season
1954 Cards losing 8-1 to Phillies begin stalling in 5th, they forfeit game
1953 NBA Baltimore Bullets begin a 32 game road losing streak
1952 Killer fogs begin in London England, "Smog" becomes a word
1952 Prague show trial against 14 communists (9 Jewish) begin
1952 Operations begin at United Suriname Workers of Netherlands which flew from London to Johannesburg carrying 36 passengers
1950 U.N. troops begin an assault intending to end Korean War by Christmas
1950 U.N. member states begin using integrated forces against North Korea
1948 Philips begin experimental TV broadcasting
1948 1st courses begin at University of Ibadan, Nigeria
1947 Operations begin at Radio Netherlands World radio
1946 German rocket engineers begin work in U.S.S.R.
1946 Menachen Begin's opposition group surprise attack on King David hotel
1945 German rocket engineers begin work in U.S.
1945 Nazi's begin evacuation of camp Buchenwald
1945 During WW II Allied bombers begin 4-day raid over Germany
1945 Nazi occupiers begin state of siege
1945 U.S. 76th/5th Infantry divisions begin crossing Sauer
1944 Begin(ning) Liese-Aktion: werving of labor force for Germany
1944 U.S. bombers based on Saipan, begin 1st attack on Tokyo
1944 Gulf of Leyte battle begin
1944 Dutch begin railroad strike against German occupiers
1944 Dutch begin diplomatic contact with Vatican in London
1944 Conference of Bretton Woods signed; IMF operations begin
1944 Nazi begin mass extermination of Jews at Auschwitz
1944 U.S. forces begin invasion of Saipan in Pacific
1944 During World War II, Allied forces begin landing at Anzio Italy
1944 Churchill and de Gaulle begin a 2-day wartime conference in Marrakesh
1943 Operations begin at PETA Java, defending (Japanese) fatherland
1943 Allies begin 10-day bombing on Hamburg
1943 Jews in Warsaw Ghetto begin resistance of Nazis
1942 1st detachment of Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, begin basic training
1942 Italian army begin siege of French western Fort Bir Hachim
1942 Operations begin to destroy Sobibor Concentration Camp
1942 German U-boats begin harassing shipping on U.S. east coast
1941 German troops led by Rommel begin retreating in North Africa
1941 Allied troops begin evacuating Kreta
1941 German occupiers begin youth labor
1941 FCC approves regular scheduled coml TV broadcasts to begin July 1
1941 Begin oper Bestrafung-Germany bomb attacks Belgrade (17,000 die)
1941 Nazi SS begin rounding up Jews of Amsterdam
1940 German occupiers in Netherlands begin soap ration
1940 British and French begin evacuation of Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo)
1939 Nazis begin mass murder of Warsaw Jews
1939 Municipal Railway and Market St. RR begin service to Transbay Terminal
1935 NFL adopts an annual college draft to begin in 1936
1935 Germany begin Luftwaffe operation, under Reichsmarshall H Goering
1934 Mao Tse-tung and 25,000 troops begin 6,000 mile Long March
1930 New York City public schools begin teaching Hebrew
1929 British troops begin evacuating
1927 U.S. and Canada begin diplomatic relations
1924 1st men's college swimming championships begin
1924 Netherlands and U.S.S.R. begin talks over U.S.S.R. recognition
1922 Curacao harbor workers begin strike under Felix Chacuto
1921 Begin 3rd anti-German revolt in Upper-Silesia
1919 14 horses begin 300-mile race from Vt to Mass for $1000 prize money
1919 Demonstrations for Korean independence from Japan begin
1917 10 million U.S. men begin registering for draft in WW I
1917 American men begin registering for the draft
1916 Great Arab Revolt begin
1915 French begin Woevre-offensive
1915 Experiments to find cause of pellagra begin at Miss Penitentiary
1914 Pro-German Boers begin opposition of British authority in South Africa
1914 Boston Braves begin drive from last to 1st place in NL
1913 Menachem Begin, Israeli Prime Minister, 1977-83, Nobel 1978
1907 1st cabs with taxi meters begin operating in London
1906 Chicago White Sox begin AL record 19 game win streak
1905 Operations begin uniting conservatory of Nature monument Amsterdam
1904 Herero people of South West Africa, now Namibia, begin uprising
1899 Boers begin siege of Ladysmith Natal
1891 Operations begin at Philips and Co in Holland
1881 Holmes and Watson begin "A Study in Scarlet," 1st case together
1878 Fever epidemic in New Orleans begin, it will kill 4,500
1876 Talks begin to set up a football club in Ottawa
1871 Fisk Jubilee Singers begin 1st national tour
1870 Cincinnati Red Stockings, 1st pro BB team, begin 8-mo tour of Midwest and East
1864 Confederate forces led by Gen J Early begin invasion of Washington D.C.
1864 Petersburg Campaign-Federals begin digging tunnels under Reb lines
1864 Union Gen Grant begin siege of Petersburg, Virginia
1862 Sioux Indians begin uprising in Minnesota
1853 Completion of Grand Trunk Line, trains begin running over 1st North American railroad between Portland, Maine and Montreal
1845 Poets Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning begin corresponding
1843 Sojourner Truth leaves New York to begin her career as antislavery activist
1842 Franciscan nuns begin missionary work on Netherland Antilles
1835 P. T. Barnum and his circus begin 1st tour of US
1814 Peace negotiations begin in Ghent, Belgium
1804 Lewis and Clark begin exploration of Louisiana Purchase
1789 Benjamin Banneker with L'Enfant begin to lay out Washington D.C.
1781 Americans and French begin siege of Cornwallis at Yorktown; last battle of Revolutionary War
1781 9,000 American forces and 7,000 French forces begin siege of Yorktown
1776 Americans begin shelling British troops in Boston
1775 British begin siege of Boston
1763 Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon begin surveying Mason-Dixon Line between Pennsylvania and Maryland
1701 Frisia and Groningen begin use of Gregorian calendar
1700 Protestant West-Europe (except England) begin using Gregorian calendar
1673 Louis Joliet and Jacques Marquette begin exploring Mississippi
1614 2nd parliament of King James I begin session (no enactments)
1576 Dutch provinces begin consultation about Spanish existence
1572 Spanish troops begin siege of Haarlem
1529 Blackfriars begin: Henry VIII and Catharina of Aragon
1190 Crusades begin massacre of Jews of York England
626 Avaren/Slaves under khagan Bajan begin siege of Constantinople
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