1993 David Brian, U.S. actor (Damned Don't Cry, Fort Worth), dies at 78
1993 Pilar Fort, crowned 25th Miss Black America
1992 81st Davis Cup: USA beats Switzerland in Fort Worth (3-1)
1989 Winds gust to 85 MPH at Fort Smith Arkansas
1988 Herschel Walker performs Fort Worth Ballet
1986 Crockett's Tavern opens in Fort Wilderness
1983 5 killed in a fire at a Ramada Inn in Fort Worth, Tx
1972 10.84" (27.53 cm) of rainfall, Fort Ripley, Mn (state 24-hr record)
1972 27.5 cm rainfall at Fort Ripley, Minnesota, state record
1972 John Godina, born in Fort Sill Oklahoma, shot putter/discus thrower, 1996 Olympics silver
1971 G von Le Fort, writer, dies at 95
1971 Charles Johnson, born in Fort Pierce, Florida, catcher, U.S. Olympics 1992, Marlins
1971 Fort Point, San Francisco dedicated as a national historic site
1970 David Doster, Fort Wayne, Indiana, infielder for the Philadelphia Phillies
1969 Racial disturbances in Fort Lauderdale Florida
1968 Billy Brewer, born in Fort Worth, Texas, pitcher, New York Yankees
1968 Neal Fort, CFL tackle, Montreal Alouettes
1966 Jay Berger, Fort Dix, New Jersey, tennis star
1966 Laura Richmond, Fort Dix, New Jersey, playmate, Sep, 1988
1966 Randy Burridge, Fort Erie, NHL left wing for the Buffalo Sabres
1965 Hal Morris, born in Fort Rucker, Alabama, infielder for the Cincinnati Reds
1965 Irving Bacon, actor (Fort Ti, Petticoat Fever), dies at 71
1965 Greg Swindell, Fort Worth, Texas, pitcher, Houston Astros, Cleveland Indians
1963 Bob Friend, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Nike golfer, 1991 Fort Wayne Open
1963 Lisa Whelchel, Fort Worth Texas, actress, Blair-Facts of Life
1963 Norm Charlton, born in Fort Polk, Louisiana, pitcher for the Seattle Mariners
1962 Morgan Reeser, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 470 yachter, Olymp-8th-1992, 96
1962 Kimberly McArthur, born in Fort Worth Texas, playmate, January, 1982
1957 WPTA TV channel 21 in Fort Wayne, IN (ABC) begins broadcasting
1957 1st military nuclear power plant dedicated, Fort Belvoir Va
1955 KTVT TV channel 11 in Fort Worth-Dallas, Texas (IND) begins broadcasting
1954 WANE TV channel 15 in Fort Wayne, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Fort Wayne Golf Open
1954 1st army helicopter battalion forms, Fort Bragg, NC
1952 Teddy Gentry, Fort Payne Ala, country music star, Alabama-Mt Music
1952 Sharon Gabet, Fort Wayne, Indiana, actress, Edge of Night, Another World
1950 Matthew Kelly, actor/TV host, Holding the Fort, Relative Strangers
1949 Randy Owen, Fort Payne Ala, country music star, Alabama-Mt Music
1949 Jeff Cook, Fort Payne Ala, country guitar/vocalist, Alabama-Mt Music
1949 Shelley Long, born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, actress, Diane-Cheers, Money Pit
1949 WBAP-FM, Fort Worth Texas, begins broadcasting
1949 Lucky Lady II (USAF B-50 Superfortress), completes 1st nonstop round- the-world flight at Fort Worth, Tx, covering 23,452-mis in 94 hrs
1948 WBAP (now KXAS) TV channel 5 in Fort Worth-Dallas, Texas (NBC) begins
1948 WBAP-TV, (NBC affiliate) Fort Worth Texas, begins broadcasting
1948 Arab Legion captures fort on Mt. Scopus
1945 General Blaskowitz becomes nazi leader of "Fort Holland"
1944 Danish resistance fails on assault on Taarbaek Fort near Copenhagen
1944 Freighter "Fort Stikene" explodes in Bombay India, killing 1,376
1943 Aldemarin (Ned) and Fort Cedar Lake (U.S.) torpedoed and sinks
1942 Lawrence Allen Gilbert, Fort Knox, Kentucky, PGA golfer, 1994 Dallas Reunion
1942 Ray Floyd, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, PGA golfer, Masters 1976
1942 Raymond Loran Floyd, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, PGA golfer, 1986 U.S. Open
1942 Women's Army Auxiliary Corps began basic training at Fort Des Moines
1942 Italian army begin siege of French western Fort Bir Hachim
1941 Ammunition plant at Fort Smederovo in Belgrade explodes; kills 1,500
1941 British attack Halfaya-pass and Fort Capuzzo in Egypt and Libya
1935 Franklin D. Roosevelt ordersa federal gold vault to be built at Fort Knox Kentucky
1935 Fort Jefferson National Monument in Florida established
1934 Van Williams, Fort Worth, Texas, actor, Green Hornet, Tycoon
1932 Bobby Day, [Robert Byrd], Fort Worth, Texas, rock vocalist, Rockin' Robin
1932 Charles Fort, American Writer
1931 Larry Hagman, born in Fort Worth, Texas, actor, I Dream of Jeannie, JR-Dallas
1931 Joan Vohs, St. Albans, New York, actress, Fort Ti, Vice Squad, Sabrina
1929 Venezuelan rebel Rafael Urbina overthrows Fort Amsterdam, Curaeao kidnap governor Fruytier
1928 Dick York, Fort Wayne, Indiana, actor, Darrin-Bewitched, Inherit the Wind
1925 Fess Parker, Fort Worth Texas, actor, Davy Crockett, Old Yeller
1924 Norman Alden, Fort Worth, Texas, actor, Pilaski-Hennesey, Al-Fay
1922 WBAP-AM, Fort Worth Texas, begins broadcasting
1921 John Agar, Chicago, actor, Fort Apache, Sands of Iwo Jima
1918 Cesar A Cui, Lithuanian fort builder/composer, dies at 83
1916 Germany troop march into Fort Faux, Verdun
1916 German troops under Lt Rackow take Fort Vaux
1916 German attack on Fort Vaux, Verdun
1916 French driven out of Fort Douaumont after 500 killed or injured
1916 Heavy battles at Fort Douaumont Verdun
1916 French troops occupy parts of Fort Douaumont Verdun
1916 German munitions bunker in Fort Douaumont explodes
1916 France battles at Fort Douaumont
1916 German troops conquer Fort Douaumont near Verdun
1916 German troops conquer Fort Vaux at Verdun
1915 100 degrees F (38 degrees C), Fort Yukon Alaska (state record)
1914 German army occupies last fort at Luik, Belgian general Leman caught
1912 Byron Nelson, Fort Worth, Texas, PGA golfer, won 19 tournaments in 1945
1908 Orville Wright makes 1st 1-hr airplane flight, Fort Myer, Va
1908 Dennis O'Keefe, born in Fort Madison, Iowa, actor/dir, T-Men, Fighting Seabees
1907 Adrienne Ames, Fort Worth, Texas, actress, Death Kiss, Panama Patrol
1905 Mbunga-siege of Fort Mahenge German East-Africa broken
1905 Mbunga-rebellion takes German Fort Mahenge East-Africa
1905 Pogoro/Ngindo attack Fort Mahenge German East-Africa
1902 Philip Ober, born in Fort Payne, Alabama, actor, Gen Stone-I Dream of Jeannie
1901 Boer General Botha captures Fort Itala in Natal
1899 Mafeking: Bathe-Powells failed assault up fort Game Tree: 24 killed
1896 Temperature hits 127 degrees F at Fort Mojave, California
1893 Irving Bacon, born in St. Joseph, Missouri, actor, Branded Men, Fort Ti
1890 Cecil Rhodes' colonies reach Mashonaland (Fort Victoria)
1888 Stanley's expedition reaches Fort Bodo, East-Africa
1883 Lt-colonel Borgnis-Desbordes founds Fort Bamako Niger
1879 Cheyenne prisoners led by Dull Knife revolt at Fort Robinson
1876 G von Le Fort, writer
1874 Charles Fort, American Writer
1872 Paul Fort, French poet/founder of Vers et Prose
1866 Last Navaho chief Manuelito, turns self in at Fort Wingate
1866 Italian fleet under adm Persano capture Austrian Fort Lissa
1865 Siege of Spanish Fort, AL-captured by Federals
1865 Battle of Fort Stedman, Virginia - in front of Petersburg
1865 Battle of Mobile, Alabama (Spanish Fort, Fort Morgan, Fort Blakely)
1865 Battle of Wilmington, North Carolina (Fort Anderson) occupied by Federals
1865 Union occupies Fort Anderson, NC
1865 Union fleet bombs Fort Fisher NC
1864 Union troops/fleet occupy Fort Morgan, Alabama
1864 Union troops/fleet occupy Fort Gaines, Alabama
1864 Griffin A Stedman, Union-brig-gen (Fort Stedman), dies in battle at 26
1864 Battle of Fort Stevens, DC (Early's Raid, Tennallytown, MD)
1864 Confederate Gen Nathan Bedford Forrest captures Fort Pillow, Tennessee
1864 Union troops occupy Fort de Russy, Louisiana
1863 Confederate troops vacate Fort Esperanza, Texas
1863 Battle at Fort Esperanza Texas
1863 Confederate troops vacate Fort Wagner South Carolina (1700 casualties)
1863 Federal troops reconquer Fort Smith Arkansas
1863 Federal batteries and ships attacked Fort Sumter in SC
1863 Battle of Fort Wagner, South Carolina - Second assault US1500 CS174
1863 Battle of Charleston, South Carolina, failed Federal fleet attack on Fort Sumter
1863 Federal ironclad ships bomb Fort McAllister Georgia
1863 Confederate raider "Nashville" sinks near Fort McAllister Georgia
1863 General McClernand's Union troops surround Fort Hindman Ark
1862 Battle at Old Fort Wayne, Indian Territory
1862 Santee Sioux indian attack Fort Ridgely
1862 Union troops occupy Fort Pulaski Georgia
1862 Gen Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Henry in Tennessee
1861 Battle of Fort Hatteras NC
1861 Confederate troops occupy Fort Fillmore, New Mexico
1861 Skirmish at Fort Fillmore, New Mexico Terr - Rebels attack Union troops
1861 3 fleeing slaves enter Fort Monroe Virginia
1861 Fort Sumter, South Carolina is shelled by Confederacy, starting Civil War
1860 Navaho indians attack Fort Defiance (Canby)
1857 7.9 earthquake shakes Fort Tejon California
1846 Mexican army surrounds fort in Texas
1836 Dutch garrison evacuates fort Du Bus New Guinea
1835 Cesar A. Cui, Vilna Lithuania, fort architect/composer
1828 Dutch army takes Fort Du Bus in New Guinea
1816 U.S. troops destroy Ft. Apalachicola, a Seminole fort, to punish Indians for harboring runaway slaves
1814 Americans capture Fort Erie Canada
1804 Vice-admiral William Bligh ends siege of Fort Amsterdam, Willemstad
1802 Toussaint L'Ouverture imprisoned in Fort de Joux, Jura, France
1794 Battle of Fort Recovery, Ohio
1778 1st treaty between the U.S. and Indian tribes signed (Fort Pitt)
1777 British Gen Burgoyne captures Fort Ticonderoga from Americans
1776 British troops captured Fort Washington during American Revolution
1776 Presidio of San Francisco forms as a Spanish fort
1760 Austrian troops occupy Fort Glatz Silezie
1759 British capture Fort Niagara from French (7 Years' War)
1756 French capture Fort Oswego, New York
1755 British capture Fort Beausejour, expel Acadians
1745 Bonnie Prince Charlies troops occupy Fort August, Scotland
1704 Menno baron van Coehoorn, fort builder/Coevorden/howitzer, dies at 63
1679 Pieter van Schooten, Dutch mathematician/fort architect, dies at 45
1667 Abraham Crijnssen conquerors Fort Willoughby (Zeelandia), Suriname
1667 Abraham Crijnssens fleet reach Fort Willoughby on Suriname River
1664 Dutch Fort Orange (Albany New York) surrenders to English
1663 Austrian Fort Neuhausl surrenders to Turkish invasion army
1661 Tsjeng Tsj'eng-Kung begins siege of Dutch fort Zeelandia, Formosa
1658 Dutch troops occupy last Portugese Fort Jafnapatnam Ceylon
1655 Dutch troops occupy Fort Assahudi Seram
1639 1st American log cabin at Fort Christina (Wilmington Delaware)
1637 WIC-colonel Hans Koin conquerors Fort Elmina, West Africa
1635 Adrian A Metius, mathematician/fort architect, dies at 63
1633 Prince Frederik Henry conquerors fort Rhine at Cologne
1627 Prince Frederik Henry conquerors fort Groenlo
1621 French government army occupies Fort St. Jean d'Angely at La Rochelle
1616 Netherlands buys De Briel/Vlissingen/Fort Rammekens from England
1606 Spanish troops under Spinola occupies fort Rhine birch
1598 Spanish general strategist Bernardino de Mendoza occupies fort Rhine
1592 Willem earl of Nassau-Siegen, Dutch Governor, Fort Emmerik/Heusden
1571 Adrian A. Metius, Dutch mathematician/fort architect
1565 Spaniards capture Fort Caroline Florida and massacre the French
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