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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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