1997 Frank Nobilo wins Greater Greensboro Chrysler Classic at Forest Oaks
1995 67th Academy Awards - "Forest Gump," Jessica Lange and Tom Hanks win
1994 Forest Cowles Bud Forrest Sagendorf, cartoonist, dies at 79
1989 George Forest's musical "Grand Hotel," premieres in New York City
1988 Sting performs his 1st Rain Forest benefit concert
1982 Chris Evert wins her 6th and final U.S. Open Tennis match at West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills NY
1976 Frank Forest, actor (Big Broadcast of 1937, Champagne Waltz), dies
1976 Paul M Frank Forest, dies at 80
1975 Jean Kurt Forest, composer, dies at 65
1972 Herd of stampeding elephants kills 24, Chandka Forest India
1969 John Forest, soccer player, Go Ahead Eagles
1968 Conrad Richter, U.S. writer (Light in the Forest), dies at 78
1967 Monkees perform at Forest Hills, New York, Jimi Hendrix is opening act
1965 Bob Dylan booed off stage in New York's Forest Hills
1963 Cindy Schreyer, Forest Park Georgia, LPGA golfer, 1993 Sun-Times Challenge
1962 Wake Forest coach "Bones" McKinney becomes 2nd person to play and coach
1961 Hans Segers, soccer goaltender, PSV, Nottingham Forest, Wimbledon
1961 Forest Whitaker, born in Longview, Texas, actor, Bloodsport, Platoon, Stakeout
1961 Lee de Forest, inventor (Electron Tube), dies at 87
1960 Mark Derwin, Park Forest, Illinois, actor, AC Mallet-Guiding Light
1953 Christine Ebersole, Park Forest, Illinois, actress, SNL, Valerie, Tootsie
1950 Because of forest fire in Br Columbia, blue moon appears in England
1949 Harry Davenport, actor (Cowboy and Lady, Enchanted Forest), dies at 83
1948 Donna Karan, Forest Hills, New York, fashion designer, Coty Award-1977
1947 Series of forest fires $30 million of timber (New England States)
1946 Lillian Hellman's "Another Part of the Forest," premieres in New York City
1946 Al Green, Forest City Arkansas, singer, Lets Stay Together
1944 Grieg/Work/Forest's musical "Song of Norway," premieres in New York City
1939 Premier De Geer recalls Dutch vacationers in Black Forest
1938 1st aircraft owned by Forest Service in service (Oakland)
1937 Michael Landon, born in Forest Hills, New York, actor, Bonanza, Highway to Heaven
1937 Tom Paxton, Chicago, folk singer and songwriter, Forest Lawn
1937 Forest fire kills 14 and injures 50 in Cody Wyoming
1931 Roone Arledge, born in Forest Hills, New York, head of sports broadcasting, ABC
1929 Joan Shawlee, born in Forest Hills, New York, actress, Prehistoric Women
1926 Lord Murray of Epping Forest, general secretary, TUC
1926 Forest fire burns 900 acres and kills 2 in San Luis Obispo, California
1924 Forest Peters of Montana State U hits 17 of 22 attempted field goals
1924 Gila Wilderness Area established by Forest Service
1923 Lee de Forest demonstrates his sound-on-film moving pictures (New York City)
1922 Lord Murray of Epping Forest, general secretary, TUC
1921 Jack Fletcher, born in Forest Hills, New York, actor, Grady, Bob Crane Show
1918 Cloquet Minnesota and 25 other communities destroyed by forest fire, 559 die
1918 Forest fire in Minnesota and Northern Wisconsin kills about 800
1915 Forest Sagendorf, cartoonist
1910 Phil Hanna, River Forest, Illinois, singer, Once Upon a Tune
1909 Jean Kurt Forest, composer
1908 David Farrar, Forest Gate England, actor, Beat Girl, I Accuse
1907 3-element vacuum tube patented by Dr. Lee De Forest
1906 U.S. inventor Lee de Forest patents "Audion," a 3-diode amplification valve which proved a pioneering development in radio and broadcasting
1906 Clancy Cooper, actress, Enchanted Forest, Girls in Chains
1905 Earl "Fatha" Hines, Duquesne, Pennsylvania, jazz pianist, Deep Forest
1905 1st forest fire lookout tower placed in operation, Greenville, Maine
1905 U.S. Forest Service forms
1894 Forest fires destroy Hinckley Minnesota: about 600 die
1892 Claire DuBrey, Bonner's Ferry ID, actress, Lightnin' in the Forest
1891 National Forest Service organized
1890 Conrad Richter, writer, Light in the Forest
1890 J Patrick O'Malley, Forest City, Pennsylvania, actress, Courage of Black Beauty
1887 H M Bateman, Sutton Forest NSW, cartoonist
1885 1st U.S. state (California) establishes a permanent forest commission
1883 Hugh Daily, a one-armed pitcher for Cleveland (Forest City), tosses 1-0 no-hitter against Phila
1882 Epping Forest England dedicated by Queen Victoria
1880 John Lee Richmond pitches 1st major league perfect game, Worcester 1, Cleveland's Forest City 0
1873 Lee De Forest, Council Bluffs, inventor, Audion vacuum, radio, tube
1869 Henriette Georgia Roland Holst-van der Schalk, Dutch poet, Women in Forest
1869 Cleveland's Forest City play their 1st game, vs Cincinnati Red Stockings
1863 Svetolik Rankovic, Serbian writer, Forest King
1858 William Watson, British poet, Prince's Quest, Father of Forest
1845 Hendrick Waelput, Flemish composer and conductor, Forest, Stella
1524 Boer War begins in Germany's Black Forest
1100 William II, [Rufus], king of England, shot in New Forest at 44
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