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2000 Kenneth Waller, actor, Are You Being Served?, dies at 72
1998 Supreme Court rules attorney-client privilege extends beyond the grave, exempting Vince Foster's conversations with his lawyers from being used as evidence by Kenneth Starr 1997 Jerold Mackenzie awarded $266M for being fired from Miller Brewing for sexual harrassment for relaying a Seinfeld episode to a co worker 1995 Benny Lee, entertainer, comedy actor, singer, appeared in radio comedy programs, including It's a Square World, appeared in episodes of Are You Being Served?, and the television series Minder, dies at 84 1994 Actor Jackson Pinckney awarded $487,000 for being partially blinded by Jean-Claude Van Damme during filming of "Cyborg" 1993 Don Henley booed in Milwaukee when he dedicates the song "It's Not Easy Being Green" to President Clinton 1992 Joan Lunden, breaks her left shoulder after being thrown from a horse 1992 Ravi Shastri scores 206 at SCG before being Warne's 1st crick Test wkt 1991 Irene the Icon of Greek Orthodox church returns after being stolen 1991 Wrestler Rip Oliver forced to retire after being injured by Crush 1991 Major league umpire Steve Palermo and former NFL defensive lineman Terence Mann were shot trying to help 2 waitresses from being robbed 1991 Jersy Kosinski, author (Being There), dies at 57 1991 Ben Johnson 1st race after being stripped of his 1988 Olympic Gold medal for steroid use, he finished 2nd 1991 Baseball officially bans Pete Rose from being elected to Hall of Fame 1990 Andre Dawson sets record being intentionally walked 5 times 1990 A Tampa little leaguer, dies, after being struck by a pitch 1989 Buck Helm found alive after being buried 4 days, in San Francisco earthquake 1989 Steve Garvey marries Candace Thomas while at same time being accused of fathering children by 2 other women 1987 Ruth Attaway, actress (Porgy and Bess, Conrack, Being There), dies 1987 Alfie Bass, actor (Moonraker, Are You Being Served), dies at 66 1987 John Demjanjuk, accused of being "Ivan the Terrible" trial begins 1986 Ruth Polsky, record promoter, dies after being run over by a cab at 30 1986 It is reported Boy George is being treated for heroin addiction 1986 Protesters try to stop Land Rover motor company being sold to U.S. 1985 Flames set NHL record 264th regular season game without being shut-out 1983 Despite being in 1st place in NL East, Phils fire manager Pat Corrales 1983 IOC restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals 70 years after they were taken from him for being paid $25 in semipro baseball 1983 Quebec Nordiques play 251st NHL game without being shut out 1982 Howard Cossell calls his last fight after being disgusted by Larry Holmes-Tex Cobb mismatch 1981 Browns' quarterback Brian Sipe sets club record by being intercepted 6 times 1980 Billy Carter admits to being paid by Libya 1980 Vostok rocket exploded on launch pad while being refueled, killing 50 1979 K-Mart pulls Steve Martin's "Let's Get Small" for being in "bad taste" 1977 Postal employee David Berkowitz arrested in Yonkers, New York, accused of being "Son of Sam" 44 caliber killer 1976 West German Gens Krupinski/Franke admit to being Nazis 1976 Israel launches rescue of 103 Air France crew and passengers being held at Entebbe Airport in Uganda by pro-Palestinian hijackers 1975 Dodger Davey Lopes steals record 32nd consec base without being caught 1973 Chicago Black Hawks, record 262nd NHL game without being shut-out 1972 "Hard Job Being God" closes at Edison Theater New York City after 6 performances 1972 "Hard Job Being God" opens at Edison Theater New York City for 6 performances 1970 New York Rangers set then NHL record of 126 games without being shut-out 1970 UCLA fires Angela Davis for being a communist 1969 Joe Pepitone quits Yankees after being fined $500 for leaving the bench 1967 Helen Flint, actress (Sea Devils), dies after being hit by a car at 69 1965 "Vinland Map" is introduced by Yale University as being the 1st known map of America, drawn between 1423 and 1445 1964 Phillies Jim Bunning pitches perfect game (Mets) on Fathers day, in 2nd game of DH, Mets get 3 hits, 3 being fewest hits in NL DH 1964 Rep Martha Griffiths address gets civil rights protection for women being added to the 1964 Civil Rights Act 1963 Frank Sinatra, Jr. returned after being kidnapped 1962 John F. Kennedy announces Cuban missile bases were being dismantled 1960 U.S.S.R. announces Francis Gary Powers confessed to being a CIA spy 1954 Kingdom of Netherlands, with Netherlands and Netherlands Antilles as autonomous parts, comes into being 1954 Robert Oppenheimer accused of being a communist 1950 Baseball rules Phils lefty Curt Simmons cannot play in World Series despite his being on furlough from Army 1948 Alger Hiss denies ever being a Communist agent 1946 Wash's Cecil Travis gets 6 straight hits before being stopped 1945 Stacy Johnson, U.S. singer, Sharpees-Tired of Being Alone 1943 German paratroopers, on orders of Adolf Hitler, seize former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini who was being held prisoner by the government 1943 Ian Watson, born in UK, sci-fi author, Book of Being, Whores of Babylon 1943 Poon Lim found after being adrift 133 days 1941 Concentration camp Birkenau begins being built 1938 Germany bans Jews being lawyers 1937 Australia snatch series against England 3-2 after being 2-0 down 1936 Jockey Ralph Neves unexpectedly revived after being declared dead after a fall. His wife fainted when he returned to track 1933 Newfoundland reverts to being a crown colony 1933 Jerzy Kosinski, novelist, Painted Bird, Being There 1930 Dorothy Tutin, born in London, actress, Importance of Being Ernest, Cromwell 1929 Milan Kundera, Czechoslovakian poet and writer, Joke, Unbearable Lightness of Being 1922 Mrs Theres Vaughn, 24, confessed in court to being married 62 times 1921 Alfie Bass, born in London, England, actor, Moonraker, Are You Being Served 1918 T Berry Brazelton, doctor, On Being a Father 1915 Michael Denison, York England, actor, Importance of Being Ernest 1914 U.S. Army air service 1st comes into being, in Signal Corps 1913 Bert Daniels set AL mark, being hit-by-pitch 3 times in a doubleheader 1913 Jim Thorpe relinquishes his 1912 Olympic medals for being a pro 1911 Benny Lee, born in Glasgow, Scotland, entertainer, comedy actor, singer, appeared in radio comedy programs, including It's a Square World, appeared in episodes of Are You Being Served?, and the television series Minder 1895 Oscar Wilde sentenced to 2 years hard labor for being a sodomite 1895 Oscar Wilde's "Importance of Being Earnest," opens in London 1889 Martin Heidegger, Germany, Existentialist, Being and Time 1884 Cops arrest John L Sullivan in 2nd round for being "cruel" 1865 Trans Atlantic Cable being laid by SS Great Eastern snaps and is lost 1844 Opera "Stradella" after being rewritten is produced (Hamburg) 1829 Charles Dudley Warner, Massachusetts, newspaperman/author, Being a Boy 1787 De Sade shouts from Bastille that prisoners are being slaughtered 1709 British sailor Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being marooned on a desert island for 5 years, his story inspires "Robinson Crusoe" 1688 Reverend James Renwick, hanged in Scotland for being a Presbyterian 1539 St. Jacobs Church burns after being hit by lightning 1508 Maximilian I assumes imperial title without being crowned 1370 Bastille begins being built in Paris 1138 English defeated Scots at Cowton Moor Banners of various saints were carried into battle which led to being called Battle of the Standard |
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