1997 Brook Lee, Hawaii, crowned 46th Miss USA (en route to Miss Universe)
1996 New York Yankee Bernie Williams hits record tying 7th post season HR, as Yanks tie record of 6th straight post season road win (en route to 8)
1996 Yankee John Weteland sets record of 20th cons saves en route to 24
1996 En route to NHL record 62 victories Detroit Red Wings win #61
1995 CNN en Espanol premieres
1993 10th MTV Awards: Pearl Jam, En Vogue wins
1990 White Sox reliever Bobby Thigpen sets save record at 47 en route to 57
1988 Dennis Eckersley sets A's record with his 37th save en route to 45
1988 In just Oakland's 39th of the season, pitcher Dave Stewart breaks record with his 12th balk en route to 16
1987 Oakland's Mark McGwire sets rookie HR record at 39, en route to 49
1987 Don Mattingly is 2nd to hit home runs in 7 straight AL games (en route to 8)
1985 En route to Halley's Comet, U.S.S.R.'s Vega 2 drops lander on Venus
1984 Red Sox Jim Rice grounds into record 33rd double play en route to 36
1982 KC's John Wathan steals 31st en route to 36 base for catcher's record
1982 Twins Terry Felton loses and runs career to 0-14 (en route to 0-16)
1982 Hermine Heijermans, author (Snikken en Smartlapjes), dies at 80
1982 Wayne Gretzky scores NHL-record 78th goal of season en route to 92
1981 Phillies minor leaguer Jeff Stone steals pro baseball record 121st base en route to 122 (Spartanburg (South Atlantic League))
1980 A's Rickey Henderson sets AL stolen base record at 98 en route to 100
1980 USA beats U.S.S.R. in Olympic hockey 4-3 en route to a gold medal
1970 Apollo 13 announces "Houston, we've got a problem!" as Beech-built oxygen tank explodes en route to Moon
1968 Dawn Robinson, singer, En Vogue
1968 Don Drysdale pitches his 6th straight shutout, en route to 58 innings
1967 Maxine Waters Jones, rocker, En Vogue
1962 Los Angeles Dodger Maury Wills becomes 1st to steal 100 bases (en route to 104)
1962 Mantle hits 2 homers en route to 4 consecutive homers
1962 Phillies score 10 runs in an inning against Reds en route to 13-8 win
1961 Maris hits 29th and 30th en route to 61 homers
1961 Leon Jeunehomme, Belgian teacher (Pedagogie en Cours), dies at 77
1960 U.S. Olympic Ice Hockey Team beats U.S.S.R. 3-2 en route to gold medal
1955 Herb Score sets rookie record of 235 strikeouts (en route 245)
1954 Ted Kluszewski is 1st Cincinnati Red to hit 40 home runs en route to 49
1953 Roy Campanella sets catcher record of 125 (en route to 142) RBIs
1953 Samuel Beckett's "En Attendant Godot," premieres in Paris
1950 Claudia de Colombia, born in Bogato, Columbia, spanish singer, Yo Creo En Ti
1949 Luke Appling record of 2,154 (en route to 2,218) games at shortstop
1947 New York Giants set season record for home runs by a club 183 (en route to 221)
1942 Congress advises Franklin D. Roosevelt that, Americans of Japanese descent should be locked up en masse so they wouldn't oppose the U.S. war effort
1938 Jasperina de Jong, Dutch cabaret performer, Jan Rao en z'n Maat
1936 Giants Carl Hubbell notches his 16th en route to 24 consecutive wins
1935 Boston Braves lose NL record 110th game of year en route to 115
1932 Vince Hill, singer, Roses of Picardy, La Vie en Rose
1931 Lou Gehrig's 4 RBIs break his old RBI mark of 175 en route to 184
1931 Red Sox Earl Webb sets record with 65 en route to 67 doubles
1927 Yanks clinch pennant, Ruth hits 2 home runs (52 en route to 60)
1923 Walter Johnson becomes 1st to strikeout 3,000 (en route to 3,508)
1920 Ruth sets season home run record with 30 en route to 54
1913 3 of 1st 4 Yankees hit-by-pitch en route to a record 6 hit batsman
1912 Yanks lose game #100 en route to a 50-102 season
1908 Olivier Messiaen, born in Avignon, France, composer, L'Ame en Bourgeon
1891 JN Arthur Rimbaud, poet/arms merchant (Saison en Enfer), dies at 37
1883 Karel Candael, Flemish composer, Passacaglia en Bourree
1883 Henrik Ibsen's "En Folkefiende," premieres in Oslo
1864 Gen Early and Confederate forces reach Winchester en route to Washington D.C.
1860 1st Japanese ambassador arrives in San Francisco en route to Washington
1849 1st gold seekers arrive in Nicaragua en route to California
1848 1st gold seekers arrive in Panama en route to SF
1835 Francois Haverschmidt, Dutch writer, Snikken en grimlachjes
1764 Jean Philippe Rameau, French composer (Castor en Pollux), dies at 80
1483 Hendrik van Nassau-Dillenburg en Dietz, gov/viceroy of Holland
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