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1997 Event - Frank Nobilo wins Greater Greensboro Chrysler Classic at Forest Oaks

1995 Event - 67th Academy Awards - "Forest Gump," Jessica Lange and Tom Hanks win

1994 Death - Forest Cowles Bud Forrest Sagendorf, cartoonist, dies at 79

1989 Event - George Forest's musical "Grand Hotel," premieres in New York City

1988 Event - Sting performs his 1st Rain Forest benefit concert

1982 Event - Chris Evert wins her 6th and final U.S. Open Tennis match at West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills NY

1981 Birthday - Robert Earnshaw, born in Mufulira, Zambia, Welsh international soccer player, striker, plays for Nottingham Forest

1976 Death - Frank Forest, actor (Big Broadcast of 1937, Champagne Waltz), dies

1976 Death - Paul M Frank Forest, dies at 80

1975 Death - Jean Kurt Forest, composer, dies at 65

1972 Event - Herd of stampeding elephants kills 24, Chandka Forest India

1969 Birthday - John Forest, soccer player, Go Ahead Eagles

1968 Death - Conrad Richter, U.S. writer (Light in the Forest), dies at 78

1967 Event - Monkees perform at Forest Hills, New York, Jimi Hendrix is opening act

1964 Birthday - Hank Azaria, born in Forest Hills, New York, actor, director, voice actor in 'The Simpsons', appeared in films, 'Godzilla', 'The Birdcage', 'Huff'

1963 Birthday - Cindy Schreyer, Forest Park Georgia, LPGA golfer, 1993 Sun-Times Challenge

1962 Event - Wake Forest coach "Bones" McKinney becomes 2nd person to play and coach

1961 Birthday - Hans Segers, soccer goaltender, PSV, Nottingham Forest, Wimbledon

1961 Birthday - Forest Whitaker, born in Longview, Texas, actor, Bloodsport, Platoon, Stakeout

1961 Death - Lee de Forest, inventor of the electron Tube, dies at 87

1960 Birthday - Mark Derwin, Park Forest, Illinois, actor, AC Mallet-Guiding Light

1956 Birthday - David Caruso, born in Forest Hills, New York, actor, producer, known for television series, 'CSI: Miami', appeared in films, 'First Blood', 'China Girl', 'An Officer and a Gentleman'

1953 Birthday - Christine Ebersole, Park Forest, Illinois, actress, SNL, Valerie, Tootsie

1950 Event - Because of forest fire in Br Columbia, blue moon appears in England

1949 Death - Harry Davenport, actor (Cowboy and Lady, Enchanted Forest), dies at 83

1948 Birthday - Donna Karan, Forest Hills, New York, fashion designer, Coty Award-1977

1947 Event - Series of forest fires $30 million of timber (New England States)

1946 Event - Lillian Hellman's "Another Part of the Forest," premieres in New York City

1946 Birthday - Al Green, Forest City Arkansas, singer, Lets Stay Together

1944 Event - Grieg/Work/Forest's musical "Song of Norway," premieres in New York City

1939 Event - Premier De Geer recalls Dutch vacationers in Black Forest

1938 Event - 1st aircraft owned by Forest Service in service (Oakland)

1937 Birthday - Michael Landon, born in Forest Hills, New York, actor, Bonanza, Highway to Heaven

1937 Birthday - Tom Paxton, Chicago, folk singer and songwriter, Forest Lawn

1937 Event - Forest fire kills 14 and injures 50 in Cody Wyoming

1933 Birthday - Pete Wilson, born in Lake Forest, Illinois, Senator-R-California, 1983 -1988, Governor-R-California 1991 - 1999

1931 Birthday - Roone Arledge, born in Forest Hills, New York, head of sports broadcasting, ABC

1929 Birthday - Joan Shawlee, born in Forest Hills, New York, actress, Prehistoric Women

1926 Birthday - Lord Murray of Epping Forest, general secretary, TUC

1926 Event - Forest fire burns 900 acres and kills 2 in San Luis Obispo, California

1924 Event - Forest Peters of Montana State University hits 17 of 22 attempted field goals

1924 Event - Gila Wilderness Area established by Forest Service

1923 Event - Lee de Forest demonstrates his sound-on-film moving pictures (New York City)

1922 Birthday - Lord Murray of Epping Forest, general secretary, TUC

1921 Birthday - Jack Fletcher, born in Forest Hills, New York, actor, Grady, Bob Crane Show

1918 Event - Cloquet Minnesota and 25 other communities destroyed by forest fire, 559 die

1918 Event - Forest fire in Minnesota and Northern Wisconsin kills about 800

1915 Birthday - William Proxmire, born in Lake Forest, Illinois, Senator-D-Wisconsin, 1957 - 1989, Golden Fleece Awards

1915 Birthday - Forest Sagendorf, cartoonist

1910 Birthday - Phil Hanna, River Forest, Illinois, singer, Once Upon a Tune

1909 Birthday - Jean Kurt Forest, composer

1908 Birthday - David Farrar, Forest Gate England, actor, Beat Girl, I Accuse

1907 Event - 3-element vacuum tube patented by Dr. Lee De Forest

1906 Event - U.S. inventor Lee de Forest patents "Audion," a 3-diode amplification valve which proved a pioneering development in radio and broadcasting

1906 Birthday - Clancy Cooper, actress, Enchanted Forest, Girls in Chains

1905 Birthday - Earl "Fatha" Hines, Duquesne, Pennsylvania, jazz pianist, Deep Forest

1905 Event - 1st forest fire lookout tower placed in operation, Greenville, Maine

1905 Event - U.S. Forest Service forms

1894 Event - Forest fires destroy Hinckley Minnesota: about 600 die

1892 Birthday - Claire DuBrey, Bonner's Ferry ID, actress, Lightnin' in the Forest

1891 Event - National Forest Service organized

1890 Birthday - Conrad Richter, writer, Light in the Forest

1890 Birthday - J Patrick O'Malley, Forest City, Pennsylvania, actress, Courage of Black Beauty

1887 Birthday - H M Bateman, Sutton Forest NSW, cartoonist

1885 Event - 1st U.S. state (California) establishes a permanent forest commission

1883 Event - Hugh Daily, a one-armed pitcher for Cleveland (Forest City), tosses 1-0 no-hitter against Philadelphia

1882 Event - Epping Forest England dedicated by Queen Victoria

1880 Event - John Lee Richmond pitches 1st major league perfect game, Worcester 1, Cleveland's Forest City 0

1873 Birthday - Lee De Forest, Council Bluffs, inventor, Audion vacuum, radio, tube

1869 Birthday - Henriette Georgia Roland Holst-van der Schalk, Dutch poet, Women in Forest

1869 Event - Cleveland's Forest City play their 1st game, vs Cincinnati Red Stockings

1863 Birthday - Svetolik Rankovic, Serbian writer, Forest King

1858 Birthday - William Watson, British poet, Prince's Quest, Father of Forest

1845 Birthday - Hendrick Waelput, Flemish composer and conductor, Forest, Stella

1524 Event - Boer War begins in Germany's Black Forest

1100 Death - William II, Rufus, king of England, shot in New Forest at 44

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