1996 Last game at Atlanta County Fulton Stadium. Yanks win record 8th straight road post season win (with no loses)
1994 Orange County California files for bankruptcy
1994 Typhoon Fred ravages Chinese county Zhejiang, 700+ killed
1993 US warship Harlan County anchors off Port-au-Prince Haiti
1993 Fire in the press box at Altanta Fulton County Stadium
1990 Tom Moody scores 100 in 26 mins in county cricket, world record
1990 Cuyahoga County voters approve sin tax to build Cleveland Gateway
1989 Atlanta Fulton County Comm approves $210M stadium for the Falcons
1988 1st four-day games in County Cricket Championship commence
1981 Fulton County (Atlanta) grand jury indicts Wayne B. William 23 year old photographers, for murder of 2 of 28 blacks killed in Atlanta
1978 Jay Adler, actor (Macon County Line, Illegal, Big Combo), dies at 79
1977 42 die in fire inmate causes at Maury County Jail in Columbia Tenn
1976 In pre-game promo at Atlanta County Stadium, 34 couples wed at home plate followed by Championship Wrestling "Headlocks and Wedlocks"
1975 46th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-3 at County Stadium, Milwaukee
1973 10-year-old Mary Boitano is 1st woman to win 6.8-mile Dipsea Race in Marin County, California, beating a field of 1,500 runners
1973 Tiffany M Sloan, Orange county California, playmate, Oct, 1992
1972 43rd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-3 at Atlanta-Fulton County Stad
1970 Nicole Jeray, Cook County, Illinois, LPGA golfer, 1995 Sprint Champ-22nd
1968 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Palm Beach County Golf Open
1967 Martha Nix, Orange County California, actress, Serena-Waltons
1966 1st day of Sunday play in County Cricket, Essex vs. Somerset
1966 Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium opens; Pirates beat Braves 3-2
1964 Tish Certo, Niagara Falls, New York, LPGA golfer, 1981 Erie County, New York Champ
1964 Chad Kreuter, Marin County California, catcher, Chicago White Sox
1962 Harris County voters approve all-weather stadium for Houston Colt .45s
1962 Marin County withdraws from BART district
1962 San Mateo County withdraws from BART district, San Francisco Bay area
1960 Moise Tsjombe declares Congolese county Katanga independence
1958 Debra Jensen, born in Orange County, California, playmate, January, 1978
1957 Berke Breathed, cartoonist, Vegetarian, Bloom County, Outland
1955 Disneyland opens its doors in rural Orange County
1955 22nd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-5 in 12 at County Stad, Milw
1954 Soccer team The County froms in Doetinchem
1953 Worcester County tornado, 94 killed, 1310 injured, 10,000 homeless
1952 7.8 earthquake shakes Kern County California, 14 killed
1952 Pierce Brosnan, County Meath Ire, actor, Remington Steele, Golden Eye
1949 Joyce McKinney, born in Avery County, North Carolina, Miss Wyoming, 1972
1945 Gary Stewart, Latcher County, Kentucky, country singer, She's Actin' Single
1944 Han Yong-woon, Zen teacher, dies in Seoul County, Korea at 65
1944 Robert Landers, Tarrant County, Texas, PGA golfer, Ft. Worth-1976, 78, 80
1941 German troops conquer Libyan county Cyrenaica
1940 Joanna Miles, born in Nice, France, actress, Cross Creek, Delta County USA
1939 Harold W. Reid, Augusta County, Virginia, singer, Statler Bros-Class of '57
1938 Kenny Rogers, singer, Through the Years, /actor, Coward of the County
1933 John Dillinger escapes from Allen County, OH, jail
1933 Goldie Hill, Karnes County, Texas, country singer, Grand Ole Opry
1933 Work on Golden Gate Bridge begins, on Marin County side
1932 Raman Subba Row, CEO, Test/County Cricket Board
1931 Betty Johnson, born in Guilford County, North Carolina, singer, Jack Paar Show, I Dreamed
1930 Geoffrey Littler, CEO, County NatWest Group
1926 Jerry Clower, Amite County Mississippi, country comedian, Nashville on Road
1925 Russell Baker, Loudoun County, Virginia, columnist/humorist, New York Times
1925 Frank Chamberlain, CEO, Test and County Cricket Board
1923 Patricia Phoenix, County Galway Ireland, actress, L Shaped Room
1918 Tom "Stubby" Fouts, Carroll County, Indiana, actor, Polka-go-round
1916 Glenn Ford, Quebec, Canada, actor, Cade's County, Big Heat, Midway
1915 Ku Klux Klan receives charter from Fulton County Ga
1915 Mob lynches Jewish businessman Leo Frank in Cobb County, Georgia after death sentence for murder of 13-year-old girl commuted to life
1909 Robert Trout, Wake County, North Carolina, newscaster, ABC
1909 Richard Howorth, cricketer, English all-rounder, three county doubles
1907 Merle Travis, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, country singer, 16 Tons
1904 Sally Rand, Hickory County, Missouri, stripper, fan dance
1903 George Ade's "County Chairman," premieres in New York City
1903 Veronica Turleigh, County Donegal Ireland, actress, Promoter
1892 Emory Parnell, St. Paul Minnesota, actress, Rocket Man, County Fair
1888 Matt Moore, County Meath Ireland, actor, Coquette, Deluge
1886 Owen Moore, County Meath Ireland, actor, She Done Him Wrong
1879 Han Yong-woon, Hongsung County Korea, Zen teacher
1877 Alben W. Barkley, Graves County, Kentucky, 35th Vice Pres-D-1949-53
1870 Gov Holden of North Carolina declares Casswell County in a state of insurrection
1865 Mark Twain publishes "Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"
1862 Adeline De Walt Reynolds, Benton County, Iowa, actress, Son of Dracula
1860 Anaheim Township created in Los Angeles County
1853 Leland Hone, cricketer, England keeper 1879 without county experience
1850 San Francisco County Government established
1845 John Chapman, [Johnny Appleseed], dies in Allen County Indiana
1817 1st flower show held, Dannybrook, County Cork, Ireland
1813 Montgomery Blair, Franklin County, Kentucky, lawyer, Dred Scot V Sandford
1812 Rare tornado hits Westchester County, New York
1796 Feargus O'Connor, County Cork, leader of English Chartists
1775 Citizens of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina declare independence of Britain
1765 People of Frederick County Md refuse to pay England's Stamp tax
1679 New Hampshire becomes a county Massachusetts Bay Colony
1643 1st recorded tornado in U.S. (Essex County, Massachusetts)
1622 County Maine appended on John Mason/Fernandino Gorges
1587 Dutch County Groningen flood by dike break
1134 Storm flood ravages Zeeland county
1077 German king Henry IV gives away bisdom Utrecht county Staveren
1064 German King Henry IV gives away Utrecht county of West Friesland
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