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1988 Ice Dance Championship at Budapest won by Bestemianova and Bukin (URS)
1988 Ice Pairs Championship at Budapest won by E Valova and O Vasiliev (URS) 1988 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Budapest won by Katarina Witt (GDR) 1988 Men's Figure Skating Champions in Budapest won by Brian Boitano (USA) 1987 "Les Miserables," opens at Rock Theatre, Vigzinhaz Budapest 1976 Tamas Buday, Jr., Budapest Hungary, Canadian canoeist 1996 Olympics 1974 Atilla Buday, born in Budapest, Hungary, Canadian canoeist 1996 Olympics 1971 Budapest in 1956 to escape treason charges, ends exile and flies to Rome 1967 Tamas Darnyi, born in Budapest, Hungary, backstroke swimmer, 5 Gold Medals 1988, 1992 Olympics 1966 Andrea Temesvari, born in Budapest, Hungary, tennis star, 1985 U.S. Clay Courts 1964 Klari MacAskill, Budapest Hungary, kayaker, Olympics-5-92, 96 1957 Trial begins in Budapest against participants october uprising 1956 200,000 Russian troops attack anti-Stalinist revolt in Budapest 1956 U.S.S.R. sends tanks into Hungary and threatens to bomb Budapest 1956 Ava Cadell, born in Budapest, Hungary, actress, Do or Die 1953 Andras Schiff, Budapest Hungary, pianist, Tchaikovsky-1974 1952 Zoltan Kocsis, born in Budapest, Hungary, composer, pianist, conductor, musical director, Hungarian National Philharmonic 1951 La Cicciolina, Ilona Staller, Budapest Hungary, Italian MP 1949 Tommy Ramone, Thomas Erdelyi, Budapest, rock drummer, Ramones 1945 Radio Budapest, Hungary re-enters shortwave broadcasting after WW II 1945 U.S.S.R. captures Budapest, after 49-day battle with Germany; 159,000 die 1944 Budapest surrounded by soviet army 1944 Hannah Senesh, Jewish poet, executed by Nazis in Budapest 1944 Erno Rubik, born in Budapest, inventor, Rubik's cube 1943 Anna Gael, Gyarmarthy, Budapest Hungary, Lady Weymouth 1943 Zoltan Jeney, born in Szolnok, Hungary, composer, minimalist style, studied with Ferenc Farkas in Budapest, Goffredo Petrassi, in Rome 1930 Lazar Berman, Leningrad Russia, pianist, Budapest 3rd place-1956 1929 Istvan Kertesz, Budapest Hungary, conductor, Budapest Opera 1953-57 1929 Eva Bartok, Budapest Hungary, actress, Assassin, Crimson Pirate 1924 Janos Starker, born in Budapest, Hungary, cellist, Chicago Symphony 1953 - 1958 1921 Eva Gabor, born in Budapest, Hungary, actress, Lisa-Green Acres, Gigi 1919 Admiral Horthy conquerors Budapest from Bela Kuns Soviet Republic 1919 Romanian forces destroys Bela Kun Republic in Budapest 1918 Franz Lehars opera "Wo die Lerche singt," premieres in Budapest 1917 Zsa Zsa Gabor, born in Budapest, actress, Queen of Outer Space 1914 Magda Gabor, born in Budapest, Hungary, actress, People vs Zsa Zsa Gabor 1914 George Tabori, born in Budapest, Gyorgy Tabori, writer, theater director, worked for BBC in London, moved to United States, became screenwriter, translated works by Bertolt Brecht, Max Frisch 1912 Ferenc Moln rs "Farkas," premieres in Budapest 1912 Georg Solti, Budapest Hungary, conductor, Fidelio 1912 Gyorgy Sandor, Budapest Hungary, pianist, L'Apprenti Sorcier 1912 Eric Feldary, born in Budapest, Hungary, actor, 16 Fathoms Deep 1910 Ferenc Moln rs "Tester," premieres in Budapest 1910 Ilona Massey, born in Budapest, Hungary, actress and singer, Ilona Massey Show 1908 Alexander Schneider, Vilna Lith, violinist, Budapest String Quartet 1908 Edward Teller, born in Budapest, Hungary, fathered H-bomb, Manhattan Project 1907 Gyorgy Ranki, Budapest Hungary, composer, Hoemberek 1907 Ida Turay, Budapest, actress, Deryne, Ida Regenye 1907 Ilona Schacherer Elek, born in Budapest, Hungary, fencer, Gold Medal Olympics 1936, 1948 1907 Miklos Rozsa, born in Budapest, Hungary, movie composer, Atomic Cafe, Fedora 1907 Janos Ferencsik, Budapest Hungary, conductor, Budapest Opera 1906 Lili Darvas, born in Budapest, Hungary, actress, Szerelem, Cimmaron 1906 Antal Dorati, born in Budapest, Hungary, conductor, Dresden Opera 1928-29 1905 Matyas Seiber, Budapest, Hungary, composer, Scherzando 1905 Lili Krus, born in Budapest Hungary, pianist, Austrian Cross of Honor 1978 1904 Paul Arma, born in Budapest, born Weisshaus Imre, pianist, composer, ethnomusicologist, studied under Bela Bartok, piano soloist with Radio Paris 1903 Erwin Nyiregyhazi, Budapest Hungary, pianist 1901 Paul Henry Lang, Budapest, critic/musicologist, New York Herald Tribune 1901 Anti semitic riot in Budapest 1901 Stefan Lorant, born in Budapest, Hungary, writer, Hungarian-American filmmaker, photojournalist, made fourteen films in Vienna and Berlin, opposed to Adolph Hitler, imprisoned, wrote memoir 'I was Hitler's Prisoner' 1900 Charles Vidor, born in Budapest, Hungary, direct, Rhapsody, Gilda, Cover Girl 1900 Ferenc Kormendy, Hungarian/US author, Budapest Kaland 1899 Eugene Ormandy, Blau, Budapest Hungary, conductor, Philadelphia Orchestra 1899 Hans Swarowsky, Budapest Hungary, conductor, Graz Opera 1947-50 1899 Georg von Bekesy, born in Budapest, Hungary, physician, Nobel-1961 1898 Vilma Banky, Budapest Hungary, silent screen actress, Eagle, Rebel 1897 George Szell, born in Budapest, Hungary, conductor, Metropolitan 1942-45 1895 Paul Lukas, Budapest Hungary, actor, Watch on the Rhine, Sphynx 1894 Tibor Dery, born in Budapest, Hungary, writer, wrote satire on Hungarian communist regime, primary work, 'The Unfinished Sentence' 1894 Andre Kertesz, born in Budapest, Hungary, Hungarian photographer and photojournalist 1894 Paul Horbiger, born in Budapest, Hungary, actor, Liebelei 1892 Joseph Szigeti, Budapest Hungary, violinist, Violinist Notebook 1933 1888 Fritz Reiner, Budapest Hungary, U.S. conductor, Chicago Symphony Orchestra 1884 S. Z. Sakall, Budapest Hungary, actor, Dolly Sisters, Casablanca 1874 Harry Houdini, Budapest, magician/escape artist 1787 Jews are granted permission in Budapest Hungary to pray in groups |
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