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1998 State Farm Rail Golf Classic

1997 Farm Aid 10 concert cancelled due to weak ticket sales

1997 Cindy Figg-Currier wins LPGA State Farm Rail Classic

1996 Michelle McGann wins LPGA State Farm Rail Golf Classic

1995 Mary Beth Zimmerman wins LPGA State Farm Rail Golf Classic

1995 John Halas, Hungarian/US cartoonist (Animal Farm), dies at 81

1994 Barb Mucha wins LPGA State Farm Rail Golf Classic

1994 Raymond Scott, composer (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm), dies at 85

1993 Helen Dobson wins LPGA State Farm Rail Golf Classic

1993 Cesar Chavez, U.S. farm worker (United Farm Workers), dies at 66

1992 Erie Sailors (Florida Marlin farm team) 1st game beat Jamestown 6-5 in 13

1992 Jennifer Wyatt wins LPGA Crestar-Fresh Farm Golf Classic

1992 Farm Aid V

1991 Gordon Heath, actor (Sapphire, Staircase, Animal Farm), dies

1991 Calumet Farm, home to 8 Kentucky Derby winners, files bankruptcy

1991 Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Crestar-Fresh Farm Golf Classic

1990 Farm Aid IV concert

1990 Helen Jerome Eddy, actress (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm), dies at 92

1988 Parker Fennelly, actor (Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm), dies at 96

1987 New Jersey Devils farm team Maine Mariners (AHL) move to Utica (Devils) NY

1985 Willie Nelson's Farm Aid concert

1983 New Jersey Devils purchase AHL Maine Mariners as their farm team

1975 Farm truck packed with wedding party struck by a train, killing 66 in truck, 40 miles south of Poona, India

1974 Wings release "Junior's Farm"

1972 Police find cannabis growing on Paul and Linda McCartney's farm

1972 Leta Lindley, born in Phoenix, Arizona, LPGA golfer, 1995 State Farm Rail-3rd

1971 Helen Dobson, Skegness England, golfer, 1993 State Farm Rail Classic

1970 Stefania Croce, Bergamo Italy, golfer, 95 State Farm Rail Classic-11

1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair opens in New York State (Max Yasgur's Dairy Farm)

1966 Eugene O'Brien, actor (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm), dies at 85

1959 Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Children's Petting Farm opens

1956 Eisenhower signs farm bill allows government to store agricultural surplus

1952 Ron Necciai of Pitts Pirate's Bristol Twins Class D farm team, strikes out 27, as he no-hits Welch Minors, 4 Minors do reach base

1950 George Orwell, author (Animal Farm, 1984), dies in London at 46

1948 4 Duluth Minnesota Dukes (St. Louis Cardinals Class C farm team) die in crash

1946 George Orwell published "Animal Farm"

1945 117 SD-prisoners executed at Savage Farm

1945 Jan Thijssen, Dutch resistance fighter, executed at Savage Farm

1938 Henry Schultz, U.S. farm commune, dies

1934 Electric Home and Farm Authority incorporated

1933 Electric Home and Farm Authority Inc, authorized

1933 Joan Bakewell, British broadcaster/actress, Cold Comfort Farm

1933 U.S. Farm Credit Administration authorized

1929 Farm workers strike begins in East-Groningen

1927 Cesar Chavez, born in Yuma, Arizona, farm labor leader, United Farm Workers

1923 1st successful chinchilla farm in U.S. (Los Angeles California)

1918 Dwayne Andreas, born in Worthington, Minnesota, called the 'Soybean King', CEO of Archer Daniels Midland - ADM, largest producer of farm commodities in the U.S. for over 30 years

1914 Jack Delano, born in Kiev, Ukraine, attended Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, photographer for the Farm Security Administration, composer for Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra

1913 Shirley Ross, born in Omaha, Nebraska, actress, Cafe Society, Prison Farm

1909 Bukka White, born in Houston, Mississippi, Booker T. Washington White, gave cousin B.B. King his first guitar, celebrated as National steel guitarist, wrote "Parchman Farm Blues"

1909 Stojan T. Daskalov, Bulgaria, writer, A Farm

1903 George Orwell, British writer, Animal Farm, 1984

1902 Dorothea "Stella" Gibbons, English author, Cold Comfort Farm

1893 Henry Schultz, U.S., farm commune leader

1880 Eugene O'Brien, Boulder, Ohio, actor, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

1868 Obe Postma, Frisian poet/geography/historian, Frisian Clay Farm

1867 Grange organized to protect farm interests

1864 Battle of Preble's Farm Virginia (Poplar Springs Church)

1864 Battle of Cold Harbor, Virginia (Gaines' Mill, Gaines' Farm)

1863 Battle of Payne's Farm, VA

1862 Battle of Malvern Hill, Virginia (Harrison's Landing, Crew's Farm)

1862 Day 7 of 7 Days-Battle of Malvern Hill (Poindexter's Farm) Day 7 of Seven Days US15,249 CS17,583

1862 Battle at Nelson's Farm, Virginia

1862 Day 6 of 7 Days-Battle of White Oak Swamp Virginia (Frayser's Farm)

1862 Day 4 of 7 Days-Battle of Savage's Station/Garnett's Farm, Virginia

1856 Kate Douglas Wiggins, author, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

1845 John F Mellaerts, Flemish social worker, 1st Belgian farm gilde

1801 Elisha Brown, Jr. pressed a 1,235 pound cheese ball at his farm

1777 Battle of Freeman's Farm (Bemis Heights) or 1st Battle of Saratoga

1644 Farm leader Li Zicheng becomes emperor of China and flees Peking


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