2005 Watergate figure Deep Throat is revealed to be W. Mark Felt a former F.B.I agent
2004 Yasser Arafat, PLO leader/former terrorist, dies at 64
2004 Former President Bill Clinton undergoes a quadruple bypass operation
2004 Former President Gerald Ford suffers a stroke during the Republican National Convention
2004 Former President George H. W. Bush celebrates his 80th birthday by skydiving
2003 Joan Kroc, philanthropist/former baseball team owner, started Peace Institutes at several universities, dies at 75
2001 "Morton Downey, Jr", former talk show host, The Morton Downey Jr. Show, dies at 68
2000 Hilary Clinton is the first former First Lady elected to the Senate
2000 Pierre Elliott Trudeau, former Canadian Prime Minister, dies at 80
1998 Mary Kay LeTourneau, 36, former teacher, who violated probation by seeing 14 year old father of her baby, sentenced to 7 years
1997 French court orders producer Jacques Charrier, ex-husband of Brigitte Bardot, to pay the former screen star $8,300 in damages
1997 Former rep Dan Rostenkowski released from custody for mail fraud
1996 Alger Hiss, former alleged spy/lawyer, dies at 92
1996 Ted Nightingale, former colonial governor, dies at 91
1996 Mark Van Thillo and Abigail Alling, former biospherian win $100,000 lawsuit against Biospheric Development for Space Biospheres Ventures
1995 James Brady, former white house press sect, suffers a heart attack
1995 Colorodo Avalanche (former Que Nordiques) 1st NHL game, beat Detroit
1995 Former WMMS engineer William Alford is sentenced to 10 days and $1,000 fine for cutting feed during Howard Stern's broadcast from Cleveland
1994 Aldrich Ames, former CIA officer and wife Rosario plead guilty to spying
1994 Former President Nixon suffered a stroke and dies 4 days later
1993 Former Washington D.C. Mayor Marion Barry divorces his wife Effi
1992 Former NFL New York Giant Coach Bill Parcells undergoes open heart surgery
1992 Marion Berry, former mayor of Washington D.C., let out of prison
1992 Alix Talton, former Miss Georgia, dies of lung cancer at 72
1992 World's 7 wealthiest nations agree on $24B aid for former U.S.S.R.
1992 Former silver Goodyear blimps are now painted yellow and blue
1991 Former California Governor Jerry Brown announce run for presidency
1991 U.S. trial of former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega begins
1991 Norway and Denmark recognize independence of former U.S.S.R. Baltic reps
1991 Major league umpire Steve Palermo and former NFL defensive lineman Terence Mann were shot trying to help 2 waitresses from being robbed
1991 Former New York Jet Mark Gastineau wins 1st pro boxing fight in 12 seconds
1991 Former child actor Adam Rich charged with burglary
1991 Former child actor Adam Rich arrested for breaking into a pharmacy
1991 Rajiv Gandhi, former Prime Minister of India, killed by bomb at 46
1990 Former Noriega aide Luis del Cid pleads guilty
1990 Federal judge sentenced former national security adviser John M Poindexter to 6 months for making false statements to Congress
1990 Former president PW Botha quit South Africa's ruling National Party
1990 Former Exxon Valdez Captain Joseph Hazelwood ordered to help clean up Prince William Sound and pay $50,000 in restitution for 1989 oil spill
1990 Former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is transferred to a Miami jail
1989 Former baseball player and manager Leo Durocher injured in a car crash
1989 Former Belgian premier Paul Vanden Boeynants kidnapped
1988 Former Soviet President Brezhnev's son-in-law sentenced to 12-yr (bribery)
1988 John Mitchell, former Atny Gen, dies of heart attack in Washington
1988 Los Angeles Dodger Orel Herschiser breaks former Dodger Don Drysdale mark by pitching 59 consecutive scoreless innings
1987 Alfred M Landon, former Kansas Gov, dies at his Topeka home at 100
1987 Former national security adviser Robert McFarlane attempts suicide
1986 Jack Morris agrees to salary arbitration with former team Tigers and accuses owners of collusion against free agency
1986 Former Belgium premier Vanden Boeynants sentenced for fraud
1984 Richard Miller, becomes 1st (former) FBI agent, charged with espionage
1983 Rita Lavelle, former head of EPA, convicted of perjury
1983 Former EPA official Rita Lavelle indicted for contempt of Congress
1983 Former Nazi Gestapo official Klaus Barbie brought to trial
1982 Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, Iran's former foreign minister, executed in Iran
1982 Jack Dempsey, former heavyweight boxing champ/actor, dies at 86
1981 Former Dolphin, Mercury Morris, is sentenced to 20 years for drug trafficing, conspiracy, and possession of cocaine
1981 Andrew Young, former United Nations Ambassador, elected mayor of Atlanta, Georgia
1980 Anastasio Somoza, former Nicaraguan Pres, assassinated in Paraguay
1980 Former Buggles members Geoff Downes and Trevor Horn replace Jon Anderson and Rick Wakeman in Yes
1979 Nelson Rockefeller, former VP and (4X Gov-R-NY), dies at 70
1979 John N Mitchell (former AG) released on parole from federal prison
1978 India's former PM, Indira Gandhi, released from jail
1978 Gene Tunney, former heavyweight boxing champ (1926-28), dies at 80
1978 Former President Nixon makes 1st public speech since resigning in 1974
1978 Pakistani former premier Ali Bhutto sentenced to death
1978 Red Brigade kidnaps former premier Aldo Moro in Italy, 5 killed
1977 Former AG John Mitchell starts 19 months in Alabama prison
1977 Former White House chief of staff HR Haldeman enters prison
1977 Tom C Clark, former Supreme Court Justice (1949-67), dies in New York at 77
1977 Parisians elect former PM Jacques Chirac as 1st mayor in a century
1976 Former Twins relief ace Bill Campbell is 1st free-agent to sign with a new team, joining the Red Sox for $1 million over 4 years
1976 Martha Mitchell wife of former Att Gen John Mitchell, dies in New York at 57
1975 Former Teamsters' president James Hoffa reported missing
1974 President Gerald Ford pardons former President R Nixon of all federal crimes
1974 Former Vice President Spiro Agnew disbarred
1973 1000s commemorates former premier Georgios Papandreou
1973 Former Argentine President Juan Peron returns to power
1973 Otto Kerner, former governor of Illinois, convicted for his role in an illegal racetrack scheme
1972 Former umpire, now housewife Bernice Gera wins her suit against baseball, initiated on March 15, 1971 to be allowed to umpire
1970 Milwaukee Brewers (former Seat Pilots) 1st game, lose to Angels 12-0
1969 Rocky Marciano, former heavyweight champ, dies in a plane crash at 45
1968 Former President Dwight Eisenhower shot a hole-in-one
1968 Former VP Richard Nixon announces candidacy for president
1966 Former marine Charles Whitman kills 13 and wounds 31 at University of Texas
1966 Charles Whitman, former marine, kills 13 at University of Texas, shot by cops
1961 Former nazi leader Johannes Vorster becomes South Africa's minister of justice (if the shoe fits...)
1961 Howie Long, former NFL tackle/actor/broadcaster, Broken Arrow
1960 Katie Rabbet, born in London, England, Prince Andrew's former girlfriend
1959 Tom Arnold, former husband of Rosanne Barr/actor, True Lies, Stupids
1956 Federal court bars former Little League Commissioner Carl Stotz from forming a rival group
1954 Former French possession of Chandernagore made part of West Bengal
1954 John Lloyd, England, tennis star, former husband of Chris Everet
1953 Braves Phil Paine is 1st former major leaguer to play in Japan
1952 Dallas Texans (former Boston Yanks) play last game, last original team
1952 Larry Fortensky, former husband of Liz Taylor, 7th
1951 Former Cubs 1st baseman and future TV star of Rifleman Chuck Connors is 1st player to oppose the major league draft
1951 Drew Pearson, former NFL all-pro receiver
1950 NY jury finds former State Department official Alger Hiss guilty of perjury
1949 Ivana Trump, former wife of Donald
1948 Former state department official Alger Hiss indicted in New York City for perjury
1948 Margaret Trudeau, Vancouver BC, former Canadian 1st lady
1947 Frances Cleveland Preston, former 1st lady (1885-89 93-97), dies at 83
1947 Former Yank manager Joe McCarthy signs to manage Red Sox
1946 28 former Jap leaders indicted in Tokyo as war criminals
1945 Pierre Laval, former premier of Vichy France, executed at 62
1944 Former Washington 3rd baseman Buddy Lewis wins Distinguished Flying Cross
1943 Italy declares war on former Axis partner Germany
1943 German paratroopers, on orders of Adolf Hitler, seize former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini who was being held prisoner by the government
1942 Claudine Longet, France, former Mrs. Andy Williams/singer
1941 Former Dutch PM Colijn says Netherlands Indies not ready for independence
1941 Former Dutch premier De Geer flies to Berlin
1938 John Dean III, former White House counsel, Watergate figure
1935 Martin Taylor, former vice-chairman, Hanson
1932 Giants sign former outfielder Billy Southworth as a coach
1932 Former Chinese emperor Henry Pu-Yi installed as head of Manchuria
1931 Timothy Kitson, former MP
1929 Former Interior Sec Albert Fall convicted of accepting $100,000 bribe
1928 Richard Barratt, former Chief Inspector of Constabulary
1927 Lou Gehrig named AL MVP (Babe Ruth (former winner) not eligible)
1926 H R Haldeman, former White House Chief of Staff, Watergate figure
1926 Charles Tidbury, former chairman, Whitbread and Company
1925 John DeLorean, former automaker, DeLorean
1924 M M Shearer, former Lord Lieutenant of Shetland
1924 Robert Gatehouse, former High Court judge
1923 Giants defeat Baltimore Orioles 9-0 to benefit former Giants owner John Day
1922 Former Chicago Staleys play 1st NFL game as Chicago Bears, win 6-0
1920 David Vere Bendall, former diplomat
1920 Kenneth Bond, former vice-chairman
1910 John "Cardinal" Krol, former archbishop, Philadelphia
1910 Former Dutch premier Abraham Kuyper acquitted of corruption
1909 Former Dutch premier Abraham Kuyper denies corruption
1907 Britain grants responsible government to former colony of Transvaal
1904 Ted Nightingale, former colonial governor
1901 Gen Maxwell D Taylor, former U.S. Army chief of staff
1871 Jefferson Long of Georgia is 1st black to make an official speech in House of Representatives (opposing leniency to former Confederates)
1868 Oscar J Dunn, former slave, installed as lt governor of Louisiana
1861 Former VP John C Breckinridge flees Kentucky
1831 Former President John Q Adams takes his seat as member of House of Reps
1831 Nat Turner, former slave, led a violent insurrection, hanged in VA
1831 Former slave Nat Turner leads uprising against slavery
1807 Former VP Aaron Burr is tried for treason in Richmond Virginia (acquitted)
1788 Sierra Leone, settled by British as a former haven for slaves
1689 Former English King James II lands in Ireland
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