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