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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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