2003 Barry White, man with velvet voice, ", Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe, ", dies at 58
2000 Bea Marcus, pitchwoman, famous for saying I've fallen and I can't get up!, dies at 88
1999 Curtis Mayfield, composer/singer, People Get Ready, dies at 57
1998 Tony Awards, Side Man, Death of a Salesman revival, Annie Get Your Gun revival and You're a Good Man Charlie Brown revival won major awards
1998 Vancouver Canucks Mark Messier is 4th NHLer to get 1,600 points
1997 Edith Fore, pitchwoman, I've fallen and I can't get up!, dies at 81
1996 Vito Scotti, actor (Nude Bomb, Get Shorty, Big Bus), dies at 78
1996 Gerald Williams is 1st New York Yankee since 1934 to get 6 hits in a game
1995 Dorothy McHugh, actress (I Fallen and I Can't Get Up), dies at 87
1994 Don Mattingly becomes 6th New York Yankee to get 2,000 hits
1993 Minn Twins Dave Winfield, is 19th to get 3,000 hits
1993 St. Louis reliever Lee Smith is fastest to get 40 saves
1993 New York Met Eddie Murray is 20th to get 1,600 RBIs
1993 New York Knicks and Phoenix Suns get into a major brawl
1992 Kansas City Royal George Brett gets 4 hits to become 18th to get 3,000 hits
1992 Robin Yount, is 17th to get 3,000 hits
1992 England get 7-363 in 55 overs vs Pakistan, then world ODI record
1991 Mike Jeffcoat is 1st AL pitcher to get an RBI since 1972
1991 Red Sox Carlos Quintana is 11th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (3rd)
1991 North Carolina State Chris Corchiani becomes 1st NCAAer to get 1,000 assists
1991 Nugget's Michael Adams becomes shortest NBA player to get a triple-double
1990 Mikhail Gorbachev tells Iraq to get out of Kuwait
1990 New York Yankee Kevin Maas is fastest to get 13 home runs (110 at bats)
1990 Pistons and 76'ers get into a fight accruing $162,500 fines (NBA record)
1989 Wade Boggs is 1st to get 200 hits and 100 walks in 4 consecutive seasons
1989 Atlanta Brave Dale Murphy is 10th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (6th)
1988 Wade Boggs is 1st player to get 200 hits for 6 consecutive seasons
1988 LIRR says Penn station will get air conditioning in 1991
1988 Jose Canseco becomes 11th to get 30 home runs and 30 steals in a season
1988 1st non-pitcher (Jose Oquendo) in 20 years to get a decision in a baseball game, he and St. Louis Cardinals lose to Braves 7-5 in 19 inn
1988 Baltimore Orioles sign a 15 year lease to remain in Balt and get a new park
1988 "Don't Get God Started" closes at Longacre Theater New York City after 86 performances
1987 "Don't Get God Started" opens at Longacre Theater New York City for 86 performances
1987 Supreme Court rules women/minorities may get jobs if less qualified
1985 Montreal Expo Andre Dawson is 9th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (5th)
1985 Rod Carew, is 16th to get 3,000 hits
1985 Dave Concepcion becomes 4th Cincinnati Red teammate to get 2,000 hits, others include Pete Rose, Tony Perez and Cesar Cedeno
1984 Ian Hendry, actor (Assassin, Get Carter, Repulsion), dies at 53
1984 Pete Rose becomes 1st NL to get get 4,000 hits in a career
1984 Jackie Wilson, U.S. singer (I Get the Sweetest Feeling), dies at 49
1982 Rollie Fingers (Brewers) becomes 1st pitcher to get save #300
1982 New York Times reports that military will get 25% of NASA's budget
1981 Oiler Wayne Gretzky becomes fastest NHLer to get 100 pts (38th game)
1981 Yank Graig Nettles is 1st to get 2 hits in same inning of an ALSC game
1981 Los Angeles Dodgers are quickest to get 1,000,000 attendence (22 games)
1981 Carl Yastrzemski is 4th to get 3,000 hits (Cobb, Musial and Aaron)
1979 Carl Yastrzemski, is 15th to get 3,000 hits
1979 Lou Brock, is 14th to get 3,000 hits
1979 New York Islanders didn't get a shot off in 1 period against New York Rangers
1979 K-Mart pulls Steve Martin's "Let's Get Small" for being in "bad taste"
1978 Cincinnati Red Pete Rose becomes 14th player to get 3,000 hits
1977 Billy Martin and Reggie Jackson get into a dug out altercation
1976 White Sox Minnie Minoso, 53, is oldest to get a hit in majors
1976 Rain out! Astrodome cancels game heavy rains make it difficult for visiting team and umpires to get through flooded streets to the stadium
1976 India set 403 to win by WI They get them, 6 wkts 7 overs spare
1975 Kate Winslet, born in Reading, England, actress, Titanic, Jude, Hamlet, Get Back
1975 Phillies 1st 8 batters get hits for a record, beat Cubs 13-5
1975 Otis Francis Tabler is 1st open homosexual to get security clearance to work for the Defense Department
1974 Al Kaline, Detroit Tiger, is 12th to get 3,000 hits
1974 6th time Phils get just 1 assist in game; no other team did it twice
1973 Insurance industry announces auto racers get into more highway accidents
1973 Munson and Fisk get into a brawl at Fenway Park
1973 Pete Rose and Willie Davis both get career hit # 2,000
1972 In 1 of their worst trades Yanks get Rich McKinney for Stan Bahnsen
1972 Roberto Clemente, is 11th to get 3,000 hits
1970 Frances Farmer, actress (Toast of NY, Come and Get It), dies at 55
1970 San Francisco Giant Jim Ray Hart is 8th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (5th)
1970 Oriole's Brooks Robinson get his 2,000 career hit, a 3 run HR
1970 Hank Aaron becomes 9th player to get 3,000 hits
1969 Beatles with Billy Preston release "Get Back" in UK
1969 Tiny Tim and Miss Vicky get engaged
1969 21st Emmy Awards: Get Smart, Don Adams and Susan St. James
1969 Beatles' "Get Back," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 5 weeks
1969 11th Grammy Awards: Mrs. Robinson, By the Time I Get to Phoenix wins
1968 Canadians must get government permission to export silver
1968 20th Emmy Awards: Get Smart, Mission Impossible and Barbara Bain
1967 Paul McCartney and Jane Asher get engaged
1965 Rolling Stones release "Get Off of My Cloud"
1965 "Get Smart" premieres
1965 Glen Goldsmith, rocker, What You See is What You Get
1965 Rolling Stones score their 1st #1, "I Can't Get No Satisfaction"
1965 Phillies Dick Allen and Frank Thomas get into a fight during practice
1965 Dutch Princess Margriet and Pieter van Vollenhoven, get engaged
1964 Jesus Alou is 1st Giant in 40 years to get 6 hits in a game
1964 Beachboy's "I Get Around" reaches #1
1964 Phillies Jim Bunning pitches perfect game (Mets) on Fathers day, in 2nd game of DH, Mets get 3 hits, 3 being fewest hits in NL DH
1963 Beatles record "She Loves You" and "I'll Get You"
1963 3 New Jersey businessman purchase NHL Colorado Rockies, and get approval to move them to New Jersey Meadowlands (Devils)
1962 "I Can Get It For You Wholesale" closes on Broadway
1962 "I Can Get It For You Wholesale" closes at Shubert New York City after 300 performances
1962 "Stop the World, I Want to Get Off" opens at Shubert New York City for 886 performances
1962 "I Can Get It For You Wholesale" opens at Shubert New York City for 300 performances
1961 Equal access rule, political parties get TV broadcasting time
1961 Jimmy Dean's "Big Bad John" is 1st country song to get a gold record
1961 Martin Gore, rocker, Depeche Mode-Just Can't Get Enough
1961 Betty Elder, actress (Annie Get Your Gun), dies
1960 Chris Elliott, actor/comedian, Get a Life, David Letterman Show
1959 Washington Senator Jim Lemon is 7th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (3rd)
1958 Stan Musial, is 8th to get 3,000 hits
1958 Ted Williams is 10th major league player to get 1,000 extra-base hits
1958 Eve Plumb, born in Burbank, actress, Jan-Brady Bunch, I'm Gonna Get You Sucka
1955 Reba McEntire, born in McAlester, Oklahoma, country singer, Can't Even Get the Blues
1955 Howard Jones, rock pianist/vocalist, Things Can Only Get Better
1954 Miles Chapin, New York City, actor, French Postcards, Get Crazy, Funhouse
1953 Mont Canadiens (106) and Toronto Maple Leafs (98) get 204 penalty mins
1953 Eugene Stephens is 1st to get 3 hits and Red Sox score 17 runs in 1 Inning (7th) Red Sox beat Detroit 23-3
1953 Johnny Mize is 93rd player to get 2,000 hits
1952 Delroy Lindo, actor, Get Shorty, Ransom
1952 Ford Frick sets waiver rule to bar inter-league deals until all clubs in same league get right to bid
1952 Chicago White Sox Sam Mele is 6th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (4th)
1952 US Standard Board clears Stan Musial to get an $85,000 salary
1951 Last Belgian communities get electricity
1951 Andy Fletcher, rocker, Depeche Mode-Just Can't Get Enough
1951 Ron Banks, U.S. R&B singer, Dramatics-Whatcha See is Whatcha Get
1951 New York Yankee Gil McDougald is 5th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (9th)
1950 Philadelphia A's Joe Astroth is 4th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (6th)
1949 Martin Delray, Texarkana Ar, country singer, Get Rhythm,
1949 Frank Morgan, actor (Annie Get Your Gun, Wizard of Oz), dies at 59
1949 West begins Berlin Airlift to get supplies around Soviet blockade
1949 "Annie Get Your Gun" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 1147 performances
1949 Teresa Graves, born in Houston, Texas, actress, Laugh-in, Get Christie Love
1948 Gerard Depardieu, France, actor, Get Out Your Handkerchiefs, Danton
1948 Olivia Newton-John, born in Cambridge, England, singer, Lets Get Physical
1948 Cleveland Indians get 29 hits in a 9 inning game
1948 Joey Malland, Liverpool, rock guitarist, Badfinger-Come and Get It
1947 Yanks get 18 singles to beat Red Soxs 11-2
1947 Pete Ham, born in Swansea, Wales, rock vocalist, Badfinger-Come and Get It
1946 "Annie Get Your Gun" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 1147 performances
1946 Musical "Annie Get Your Gun," starring Ethel Merman premieres in New York City
1945 Red Sox Tom McBride is 3rd to get 6 RBIs in an inning (4th)
1944 U.S. forces land on Guam to get rid of Japanese invaders
1944 Millie Jackson, born in Thompson, Georgia, model/singer, Get it out 'cha system
1943 Manufacturers get permission to use synthetic rubber for baseball core
1943 Georgie Fame, rock vocalist, Get Away, Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde
1943 Leona Williams, singer and songwriter, Ladies Get the Blues
1942 Paul Waner, is 7th to get 3,000 hits
1942 Braves Paul Waner is 3rd NLer to get 3,000 hits (Anson and Wagner)
1942 Braves get Tommy Holmes from Yanks for Buddy Hassett and Gene Moore
1941 Charles Lindbergh, charges "British, Jewish and Roosevelt administration" are trying to get U.S. into WW II
1941 Ump Jocko Conlan ejects Pirate manager Frankie Frisch for coming out on field holding an umbrella to get a rainout
1939 Cookie Lavagetto goes 6 for 6-Dodgers get 27 hits and beat Phillies 22-4
1938 New York makes syphilis test mandatory in order to get a marriage license
1938 Glen Campbell, singer, By the Time I get to Phoenix, Galveston
1938 Michael Pataki, Youngstown Ohio, actor, Get Christie Love
1937 Philadelphia A's Bob Johnson is 2nd to get 6 RBIs in an inning (1st)
1937 Elinor Donahue, born in Tacoma, Washington, actress, Father Knows Best, Get a Life
1936 Princess Juliana and German prince Bernard Lippe-Biesterfeld get engaged
1936 Red Sox Wes Ferrell, walks off mound when he feels he did no get good feilding, Sox suspend him
1933 Bernie Kopell, born in New York City, actor, Love Boat, Get Smart, That Girl
1933 Cecil Travis becomes 1st player to get 5 hits in his 1st game
1933 1st major league to get 4 consecutive doubles in 9 inn (Dick Bartell)
1931 Leslie Bricuse, English/US composer, Stop the world I want to get off
1930 Buck Henry, New York City, screenwriter/comedian, SNL, Get Smart
1927 Jack Kelly, Astoria Queens, actor, Bart-Maverick, Get Christie Love
1926 Belgian crown prince Leopold and Swedish princess Astrid get engaged
1925 Tris Speaker, is 5th to get 3,000 hits
1925 Eddie Collins, is 6th to get 3,000 hits
1924 Daniel Melnick, born in New York City, producer, Get Smart
1923 Leonard Stern, New York City, producer/TV writer, Phil Silvers Show, Get Smart
1923 Bob Elliot, born in Boston, Massachusetts, comedian, Bob and Ray, Get a Life
1922 William Schallert, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Patty Duke Show, Get Smart
1921 Ty Cobb, is 4th to get 3,000 hits
1919 Wichita outfielder Joe Wilhoit (Western League) fails to get a hit, ending a 69-game streak (155 hits in 299 at bats for a .505 avg)
1917 Phyllis Diller, born in Lima, Ohio, comedienne, Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number
1917 Atlantic ships get destroyer escorts to stop German attacks
1917 German plan to get Mexican help in WW I exposed (Zimmerman telegram)
1916 Baseballers who are injured now get full pay for duration of contract
1915 Yanks get record 16 walks and 3 wild pitches beat A's Bruno Hass, 15-0
1914 Honus Wagner, is 2nd to get 3,000 hits
1912 Chicago Cubs get 21 hits but lose to Philadelphia Phillies in 11 innings
1911 United Dutch Diamond workers get 8-hr day
1911 Yanks steal 15 bases and get 13 walks, beating Browns 16-12; with a major-league record 6 stolen bases in 1 inning
1911 Ty Cobb hits in his 40th straight game. Does not get a hit next day
1911 New York Giant Fred Merkle is 1st to get 6 RBIs in an inning (1st)
1911 Benay Venuta, born in San Francisco, California, actress, Annie Get Your Gun, Call Me Mister
1911 Trumper scored double cricket ton vs. South Africa, goes on to get 214
1909 Warren Bardsley (136 and 130) 1st to get twin tons in a Test
1904 Dawson City hockey team begins 9 day walk to get a boat to Seattle to catch a train to Ottawa to play in Stanley Cup on Jan 13 1905
1901 New York Giants get record 31 hits to beat Cin Reds 25-13
1897 Cap Anson, is 1st to get 3,000 hits
1894 Phils get 36 hits, Sam Thompson hits for cycle beating Louisville 29-4
1890 Frank Morgan, [Francis P Wupperman], New York City, actor, Annie Get Your Gun
1883 Cub's Burns (extra bases), Williamson and Pfeiffer get 3 hits in 1 inn
1876 1st NLer to get 6 hits in 9 inn game (Dave Force, Philadelphia Athletics)
1874 Arthur Hoyt, born in Georgetown CO, actor, Gold Dust Gertie, Goldie Get Along
1867 90 kegs of powder used to get rock from Telegraph Hill for seawall
1864 Rebecca Lee, 1st black woman to get a medical degree
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