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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-hour 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, Olympic-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, Alabama, country music star, Alabama - Mountain Music 1952 Sharon Gabet, Fort Wayne, Indiana, actress, Edge of Night, Another World 1950 Matthew Kelly, actor/TV host, Holding the Fort, Relative Strangers 1950 Ernest Istook, born in Fort Worth, Texas, Representative-R-Oklahoma 1993 - 2007 1949 Randy Owen, Fort Payne, Alabama, country music star, Alabama - Mountain Music 1949 Jeff Cook, Fort Payne, Alabama, country guitar/vocalist, Alabama - Mountain 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, Texas, covering 23,452 miles in 94 hours 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 Mount Scopus 1946 Mike Murdock, born in Lake Charles, Louisiana, author, televangelist, pastor, Wisdom Center ministry, Fort Worth, Texas, hosts Wisdom Keys with Mick Murdock television program, mentored with Jimmie Swaggart, preached with Tammy Faye Bakker 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 1941 Hal Daub, born in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Representative-R-Nebraska 1981 - 1989 1938 Ray Sharpe, born in Fort Worth, Texas, singer, songwriter, guitarist, Lee Hazlewood produced debut album, second album featured Duane Eddy and Al Casey on guitars, recorded with King Curtis 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 1929 Arthur Hill, born in Brompton Square, London, Arthur Robin Ian Hill, 8th Marquess of Downshire, the Hereditary Constable of Hillsborough Fort. Conservative Party, House of Lords 1929 Marilyn Lloyd, born in Fort Smith, Arkansas, Representative-D-Tennessee 1975 - 1995 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 Jim Wright, born in Fort Worth, Texas, Representative-D-Texas 1987 - 1989, Speaker of House 1922 WBAP-AM, Fort Worth Texas, begins broadcasting 1921 John Agar, Chicago, actor, Fort Apache, Sands of Iwo Jima 1918 Corita Kent, born in Fort Dodge, Iowa, artist, educator, mediums include silkscreen, serigraphy, producing fine art with messages of love and peace, famous work includes the 1985 Love Samp and Rainbow Swash 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-hour 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, General 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 Admiral 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-Brigadier-General (Fort Stedman), dies in battle at 26 1864 Battle of Fort Stevens, DC (Early's Raid, Tennallytown, MD) 1864 Confederate General 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 General 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 General 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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