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
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' QB 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 Yanks 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 about 1440 by Norse explorer Lief Eriksson
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, Czech 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
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 Rev 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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