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2013 Event - After being hospitalized for nine days for pneumonia, former South African President Nelson Mandela, age 94, was released from the hospital

2012 Event - Parts of Australia and the South Pacific witness a total solar eclipse, with Cairns being the most populated city to experience this rare event

2012 Event - After being convicted of corruption, Jordan's former spy chief, Mohammad al-Dahabi, is sentenced to 13 years of imprisonment

2012 Event - Israel launches four airstrikes in response to multiple rockets being fired across the border. The airstrikes kill two Salafist jihadist militants and wound one other in the northern Gaza strip

2012 Event - Only two days after being named to his new post, Shinichi Nishimiya, the newly-appointed Japanese ambassador to China is hospitalized after collapsing in Tokyo

2012 Event - The Pakistani government accuses the Save the Children NGO as being linked to a fake vaccination program used in the hunt for Osama bin Laden; Pakistan orders foreign nationals working for the organization to leave the country within four weeks

2012 Event - Lance Armstrong, the seven-time Tour de France winner, announces he will not contest the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency charges of doping, a result of which will include being stripped of all of his tour de France victories

2012 Event - After not being seen for weeks, Ethiopia's long-term Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi dies of a mystery illness

2012 Event - Top executive Marissa Mayer, leaves Google after being appointed Yahoo! Inc.'s new CEO

2012 Event - Egypt's former president, Hosni Mubarak is sentenced to life in prison, along with his former interior minister, Habib al-Adly, for being complicit in killing of demonstrators in the 2011 revolution

2012 Event - Sybrand van Haersma Buma becomes the top candidate for 2012's Dutch general election after being elected as the new party leader of the Christian Democratic Appeal

2012 Event - After two decades of being closed due to civil war, the Somali National Theater reopens in Mogadishu

2012 Event - Despite being under house arrest in the United Kingdom, Julian Assange announces his plan to run for the Senate of Australia

2012 Event - After a year of being held hostage by pirates, 15 Georgian soldiers are released through efforts of the Somalian government

2011 Event - In Mexico, Virgin Group chairman Richard Branson opens the world's first commercial spaceport, Spaceport America, with flights expected to being by 2013

2011 Event - At least 20 Navy SEALs and 17 others die when a NATO Chinook helicopter crashes after being shot down by the Taliban in Afghanistan

2011 Event - Rebel leader Yoweri Museveni continues his 30-year rule after being re-elected President of Uganda; the opposition claims the election was a 'sham'

2011 Event - After 41 years in power, Libya's Muammar al-Gaddafi is less than 24 months away from being world's longest-serving leader

2010 Event - A Japanese salmon subspecies, the black kokanee (Oncorhynchus nerka kawamurae) is discovered after being declared extinct in 1940

2010 Event - U.S. diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks reveal a cable from Hillary Clinton accusing Saudi Arabia's rich of being the largest source of funding for Sunni terrorist groups

2010 Event - Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus claims innocence while being investigated for diverting millions of dollars of aid money from Grameen Bank

2010 Event - Santiago, Nuevo Leon's mayor, Edelmiro Cavazos is found dead, handcuffed and blindfolded after being abducted Sunday night

2010 Event - Planes return to the air in Germany, France and Italy after being grounded by ash clouds from Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano

2010 Event - Hossein Marashi, former Vice-President of Iran, is put in jail after being accused of spreading propaganda

2010 Event - After being delayed by the Supreme Administrative Court of Ukraine, Victor Yanukovych is sworn in as the 4th President of Ukraine

2000 Death - Kenneth Waller, actor, Are You Being Served?, dies at 72

1998 Event - 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 Event - Jerold Mackenzie awarded $266M for being fired from Miller Brewing for sexual harrassment for relaying a Seinfeld episode to a co worker

1995 Death - 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 Event - Actor Jackson Pinckney awarded $487,000 for being partially blinded by Jean-Claude Van Damme during filming of "Cyborg"

1993 Event - Don Henley booed in Milwaukee when he dedicates the song "It's Not Easy Being Green" to President Clinton

1992 Event - Joan Lunden, breaks her left shoulder after being thrown from a horse

1992 Event - Ravi Shastri scores 206 at SCG before being Warne's 1st crick Test wkt

1991 Event - Irene the Icon of Greek Orthodox church returns after being stolen

1991 Event - Wrestler Rip Oliver forced to retire after being injured by Crush

1991 Event - Major league umpire Steve Palermo and former NFL defensive lineman Terence Mann were shot trying to help 2 waitresses from being robbed

1991 Death - Jersy Kosinski, author (Being There), dies at 57

1991 Event - Ben Johnson 1st race after being stripped of his 1988 Olympic Gold medal for steroid use, he finished 2nd

1991 Event - Baseball officially bans Pete Rose from being elected to Hall of Fame

1990 Event - Andre Dawson sets record being intentionally walked 5 times

1990 Event - A Tampa little leaguer, dies, after being struck by a pitch

1989 Event - Buck Helm found alive after being buried 4 days, in San Francisco earthquake

1989 Event - Steve Garvey marries Candace Thomas while at same time being accused of fathering children by 2 other women

1987 Death - Ruth Attaway, actress (Porgy and Bess, Conrack, Being There), dies

1987 Death - Alfie Bass, actor (Moonraker, Are You Being Served), dies at 66

1987 Event - John Demjanjuk, accused of being "Ivan the Terrible" trial begins

1986 Death - Ruth Polsky, record promoter, dies after being run over by a cab at 30

1986 Event - It is reported Boy George is being treated for heroin addiction

1986 Event - Protesters try to stop Land Rover motor company being sold to U.S.

1985 Event - Flames set NHL record 264th regular season game without being shut-out

1983 Event - Despite being in 1st place in NL East, Phils fire manager Pat Corrales

1983 Event - IOC restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals 70 years after they were taken from him for being paid $25 in semipro baseball

1983 Event - Quebec Nordiques play 251st NHL game without being shut out

1982 Event - Howard Cossell calls his last fight after being disgusted by Larry Holmes-Tex Cobb mismatch

1981 Event - Browns' quarterback Brian Sipe sets club record by being intercepted 6 times

1980 Event - Billy Carter admits to being paid by Libya

1980 Event - Vostok rocket exploded on launch pad while being refueled, killing 50

1979 Event - K-Mart pulls Steve Martin's "Let's Get Small" for being in "bad taste"

1977 Event - Postal employee David Berkowitz arrested in Yonkers, New York, accused of being "Son of Sam" 44 caliber killer

1976 Event - West German Gens Krupinski/Franke admit to being Nazis

1976 Event - Israel launches rescue of 103 Air France crew and passengers being held at Entebbe Airport in Uganda by pro-Palestinian hijackers

1975 Event - Dodger Davey Lopes steals record 32nd consec base without being caught

1973 Event - Chicago Black Hawks, record 262nd NHL game without being shut-out

1972 Event - "Hard Job Being God" closes at Edison Theater New York City after 6 performances

1972 Event - "Hard Job Being God" opens at Edison Theater New York City for 6 performances

1970 Event - New York Rangers set then NHL record of 126 games without being shut-out

1970 Event - UCLA fires Angela Davis for being a communist

1969 Event - Joe Pepitone quits Yankees after being fined $500 for leaving the bench

1967 Death - Helen Flint, actress (Sea Devils), dies after being hit by a car at 69

1965 Event - "Vinland Map" is introduced by Yale University as being the 1st known map of America, drawn between 1423 and 1445

1964 Event - 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 Event - Rep Martha Griffiths address gets civil rights protection for women being added to the 1964 Civil Rights Act

1963 Event - Frank Sinatra, Jr. returned after being kidnapped

1962 Event - John F. Kennedy announces Cuban missile bases were being dismantled

1960 Event - U.S.S.R. announces Francis Gary Powers confessed to being a CIA spy

1954 Event - Kingdom of Netherlands, with Netherlands and Netherlands Antilles as autonomous parts, comes into being

1954 Event - Robert Oppenheimer accused of being a communist

1950 Event - Baseball rules Phils lefty Curt Simmons cannot play in World Series despite his being on furlough from Army

1948 Event - Alger Hiss denies ever being a Communist agent

1946 Event - Wash's Cecil Travis gets 6 straight hits before being stopped

1945 Birthday - Stacy Johnson, U.S. singer, Sharpees-Tired of Being Alone

1943 Event - German paratroopers, on orders of Adolf Hitler, seize former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini who was being held prisoner by the government

1943 Birthday - Ian Watson, born in UK, sci-fi author, Book of Being, Whores of Babylon

1943 Event - Poon Lim found after being adrift 133 days

1941 Event - Concentration camp Birkenau begins being built

1938 Event - Germany bans Jews being lawyers

1937 Event - Australia snatch series against England 3-2 after being 2-0 down

1936 Event - Jockey Ralph Neves unexpectedly revived after being declared dead after a fall. His wife fainted when he returned to track

1933 Event - Newfoundland reverts to being a crown colony

1933 Birthday - Jerzy Kosinski, novelist, Painted Bird, Being There

1930 Birthday - Dorothy Tutin, born in London, actress, Importance of Being Ernest, Cromwell

1929 Birthday - Milan Kundera, Czechoslovakian poet and writer, Joke, Unbearable Lightness of Being

1922 Event - Mrs Theres Vaughn, 24, confessed in court to being married 62 times

1921 Birthday - Alfie Bass, born in London, England, actor, Moonraker, Are You Being Served

1918 Birthday - T Berry Brazelton, doctor, On Being a Father

1915 Birthday - Michael Denison, York England, actor, Importance of Being Ernest

1914 Event - U.S. Army air service 1st comes into being, in Signal Corps

1913 Event - Bert Daniels set AL mark, being hit-by-pitch 3 times in a doubleheader

1913 Event - Jim Thorpe relinquishes his 1912 Olympic medals for being a pro

1911 Birthday - 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 Event - Oscar Wilde sentenced to 2 years hard labor for being a sodomite

1895 Event - Oscar Wilde's "Importance of Being Earnest," opens in London

1889 Birthday - Martin Heidegger, Germany, Existentialist, Being and Time

1884 Event - Cops arrest John L Sullivan in 2nd round for being "cruel"

1865 Event - Trans Atlantic Cable being laid by SS Great Eastern snaps and is lost

1844 Event - Opera "Stradella" after being rewritten is produced (Hamburg)

1829 Birthday - Charles Dudley Warner, Massachusetts, newspaperman/author, Being a Boy

1787 Event - De Sade shouts from Bastille that prisoners are being slaughtered

1709 Event - British sailor Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being marooned on a desert island for 5 years, his story inspires "Robinson Crusoe"

1688 Death - Reverend James Renwick, hanged in Scotland for being a Presbyterian

1539 Event - St. Jacobs Church burns after being hit by lightning

1508 Event - Maximilian I assumes imperial title without being crowned

1370 Event - Bastille begins being built in Paris

1138 Event - 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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