2012 Event The moon forms a super moon as it gets the closest to the earth for the year 1998 Event Bill Gates gets a pie thrown in his face in Brussels Belgium 1998 Event Britain's Queen Mother, 97, gets an emergency hip replacement 1998 Event Spice Girl Victoria Adams, aka Posh Spice, and soccer David Beckham gets engaged 1997 Event New York Ranger Wayne Gretsky wife Janet is knocked unconcious and gets 2 stitches while watching the game as a plexiglass falls on her 1997 Event Rocker Rick Danko gets suspended sentence in Japan for drug smuggling 1996 Event Wasim Jaffer gets 314* in 2nd cricket FC game for Mumbai vs. Saurashtra 1996 Event Wasim Akram and Saqlain Mushtaq gets cricket Test record 313 for 8th wkt 1996 Event Christie Brinkey gets married for 4th time, she marries Peter Cook 1996 Event Albert Belle uses a forearm to break up a double play and nearly breaks Brewer 2nd baseman Fernando Vina's nose, Belle gets 2 game suspension 1996 Event Aravinda De Silva gets 107* and 3-42 in cricket World Cup victory 1995 Event Jose Mesa gets 1st of his M.L. record 37 consecutive saves 1995 Event Howard Stern gets in trouble for disparaging remarks about Selena 1994 Event Austrian conservative Vice President wins elections/extreme right gets 18.5% 1994 Event Corrupt Italian ex-premier Craxi gets 8 year jail sentenced 1994 Event Poison singer Bret Michaels gets into a car crash 1993 Event Trailing 3-1 with 2 outs in 9th, time is called prior to Mike Stanley pop out, gets a 2nd chance, and Yankees rally to beat Boston 4-3 1993 Event Tony Gwynn gets 6 hits, 4th time in 1993 a Padre gets 5 or more hits 1992 Event David Houghton gets Zimbabwe's 1st Test ton (121 vs. India, debut) 1992 Event Kansas City Royal George Brett gets 4 hits to become 18th to get 3,000 hits 1992 Event Roseanne Barr Arnold gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame 1992 Event Kim Basinger gets 1,959th star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame 1992 Event Billy Joel, gets an honorary diploma from Hicksville High School at 43 1992 Event Donna Summer gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame 1992 Event George Bush gets ill and vomits on Japanese prime minister's lap 1991 Event DeForest Kelly (Dr. McCoy on Star Trek) gets a star in Hollywood 1990 Event Arsenio Hall gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame 1990 Event Marvin Gaye gets a star on Hollywood's walk of fame 1990 Event Little Richard gets a star on Hollywood's walk of fame 1989 Event Nolan Ryan's perfect game broken in 8th, but gets his 300th strikeout 1989 Event George Brett gets his 2,500th hit 1989 Event Mark McGwire's gets 100th home run, 2nd fastest (1400 at bats) (to Kiner) 1989 Event Rocker Carol King gets a star in Hollywood's walk of fame 1989 Event Jerry Lee Lewis gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame 1989 Event Mike Tyson gets 2nd speeding ticket for drag racing in Albany, New York 1989 Event Mike Tyson gets a speeding ticket for drag racing in Albany, New York 1989 Event Robert McFarlane gets $20,000 fine, 2 years probation for Iran-Contra 1989 Event Russian newspaper Izvestia gets its 1st commercial advertisement 1989 Event Actress Kelly McGillis gets married 1988 Event Oklahoma's College football team gets 3 year probation 1988 Event Staten Island ferry gets 1st pay phones 1988 Event New York Yankees Dave Winfield gets his 29th RBI of April - Sets AL and ties ML Record 1988 Event Hansie Cronje gets a pair in 2nd 1st-class game (OFS vs. N Tvl) 1987 Event Kevin Seitzer (Kansas City Royals), gets 6 hits in one baseball game 1987 Event Stacking of Discovery's SRBs gets underway 1986 Event Don Baylor gets hits by a pitch for a record 25th time in a season 1986 Event Red Sox pitcher Tim Lollar gets a pinch-hit single 1986 Event Kansas City Royal George Brett gets his 2,000th hit 1986 Event Despite losing, Red Sox Wade Boggs gets largest arbitration ($1.35M) 1985 Event Phoenix Arizona, gets 3 inches of snow 1985 Event Howard Stern gets fired from WNBC AM in New York 1985 Event Pete Rose of Cincinnati Reds gets career hit 4,192 off Eric Show of San Diego Padres, eclipsing Ty Cobb's record 1985 Event California Angel Rod Carew gets his 3,000th hit 1985 Event Boston Red Sox Fred Lynn gets 10 RBIs 1984 Event "Baby Fae" gets baboon heart transplant, lives 21 days 1984 Event Pete Rose returns to Cincinnati Reds as player-manager (gets 2 hits) 1984 Event Holly Roffey (11 days) gets heart transplant 1984 Event Kansas City Royals Dan Quisenberry gets his 200th career save 1984 Event Kallicharran gets 206 and 6-32 in a NatWest Trophy game 1984 Event Tulsa, Oklahoma gets 13" of rain, 14 die 1984 Event 6 year old Texan Stormie Jones gets 1st heart and liver transplant 1983 Event Undefeated middleweight boxer Tony Ayala gets 35 years on sex assault 1982 Event Dentist Barney B Clark gets 1st artificial heart 1982 Event Zaheer Abbas gets his 100th 100 in Test Cricket vs. India, goes to 215 1982 Event Joe Lefevre gets 6 hits in one baseball game 1982 Event George Brett gets his 1,500th hit 1982 Event Pete Rose gets his 3,772nd hit, moves past Aaron into 2nd place 1982 Event John McMullen buys NHL Colorodo Rockies and gets approval to move to New Jersey 1981 Event Gerald P Remy of Boston gets 6 hits in a baseball game 1980 Event Dallas' "Who Shot JR?" episode (Kristen) gets a 53.3 rating (83 mill) 1980 Event Jorge Orta of Cleveland gets 6 hits in a baseball game 1980 Event Bombay gets its 1st rock concert in 10 years (The Police) 1979 Event Fleetwood Mac gets a star in Hollywood 1979 Event English seaside resort Brighton gets 1st British nude beach 1979 Event George Brett gets his 1,000th hit 1979 Event Today Show gets a new theme song 1979 Event Gavaskar gets twin tons for India for the third time (v WI) 1978 Event Gavaskar gets twin cricket tons for India for 2nd time 1977 Event Keith Richards gets suspended sentence for heroin possession, Canada 1976 Event Sex Pistols using profanity on TV, gets them branded as "rotten punks" 1975 Event G S Chappell gets ton in each inn of 1st Test Cricket as captain vs. WI 1975 Event Fred Lynn gets 10 RBIs in a Red Sox 15-1 victory over Tigers 1975 Event Mick Jagger punches a restaurant window, gets 20 stitches 1974 Event John Lennon's only solo #1 "Whatever Gets You Through the Night" 1974 Event Art Modell gets snowed in and misses his 1st Cleveland Brown game in 33 yrs 1974 Event A's Ken Holtzman, who hasn't batted all season, belts 3rd inning home run in Game 4 and gets the win, 5-2 1973 Event Kansas City Royals' George Brett gets his 1st major league hit 1970 Event Russian ballerina Natalia Makarova gets political asylum 1970 Event Ron Hunt gets hit by a pitch for a record 119th time 1969 Event Jackie DeShannon gets Gold Record for "Put Little Love in Your Heart" 1969 Event 150,000 attend Newport '69, Jimi Hendrix gets $120,000 to appear 1969 Event Oakland A's Reggie Jackson gets 10 RBIs to beat Red Sox 21-7 1968 Event Netherlands gets color TV 1967 Event Cincinnati Red Jim Maloney retires 19 Pirates, then gets injured and leaves 1965 Event French president De Gaulle re-elected (Mitterrand gets 45%) 1964 Event Mickey Mantle gets hits #1999, 2000 and 2001 and his 450th home run 1964 Event St. Louis Card Curt Flood gets 8 straight hits in a doubleheader 1964 Event Rep Martha Griffiths address gets civil rights protection for women being added to the 1964 Civil Rights Act 1963 Birthday Malcolm Gets, actor, Richard Karinsky-Caroline In the City 1963 Event Muskegon, Michigan gets 3' of snow 1963 Event French air force gets 1st nuclear weapons 1963 Event Card's Stan Musial's final game, gets his 3,629th and 3,630th hit 1962 Event Nepal gets constitution/becomes Constitutional Hindu Monarchy 1962 Event BART bond issue just gets by with a 66.9% favorable vote 1962 Event U.S. National Radio Astronomy Obs gets a 300' (91m) radio telescope 1962 Event Johanne Relleke gets stung by bees 2,443 times in Rhodesia and survives 1960 Event Continental League, a proposed third major league, gets an assurance of congressional support from New York Senator Kenneth Keating 1959 Event Phils' Dave Philley gets a major league record 9th straight pinch hit 1957 Event Bkln Sports Authority gets an engineering report on 50,000-seat stadium in downtown area for estimated $207 million 1955 Event Boston Red Sox Norm Zauchin gets 10 RBIs, beating Senators 16-0 1954 Event Giants' Willie Mays gets 82nd extra-base hit, breaks Mel Ott's record 1954 Event Dean Stone gets credit for AL win, although he didn't retire a batter, he threw out Shoendienst trying to steal home, AL-11 NL-9 1954 Event Ted Williams gets 8 hits in 1st game (DH) since breaking collarbone 1953 Event Phillie's Connie Ryan gets 6 hits in a game 1951 Event Willie Mays gets his 1st major league hit, a home run 1950 Event U.N. gets U.S. government approval to issue postage stamps 1950 Event Joe DiMaggio gets his 2,000th hit 1949 Event Cincinnati Red Walker Cooper gets 10 RBIs 1949 Event Bradman plays his last innings in 1st-class cricket, gets 30 1946 Event Boston Red Sox Rudy York hits 2 grand slams in 1 game, gets 10 RBIs 1946 Event Wash's Cecil Travis gets 6 straight hits before being stopped 1945 Event Stan Musial gets 5 hits off 5 pitchers on 5 consecutive pitches 1945 Event A's catcher George George punches ump Joe Rue gets suspended 1945 Event Every Amsterdammer gets 3 kg sugar beets 1944 Event Field Marshal Rommel gets order to return to Berlin 1944 Event New York Giant Phil Weintraub gets 11 RBIs 1943 Event British premier Winston Churchill gets pneumonia 1942 Event Anne Frank gets her diary as a birthday present, Amsterdam 1941 Event Browns pitcher Johnny Niggling gets Joe DiMaggio in 4 at bats to stop DiMaggio's streak of 74 games in reaching base 1941 Event Yugoslavian coup gets rid of pro-German Prince Paul 1939 Event Kroatia gets autonomous status 1939 Event SA wicketkeeper Bradman gets his 6th straight ton, 135* vs. NSW 1938 Event Bradman scores 225 South Australia vs. Qld before Christ gets him out 1938 Event Baseball's Pinky Higgins gets 12th straight hit 1937 Event Mae West performs Adam and Eve skit that gets her banned from NBC radio 1937 Event Chicago Cub Frank Demaree gets 6 hits in 1st game and 2 in 2nd game 1936 Event New York Yankee Joe DiMaggio makes his major-league debut, gets 3 hits 1935 Event Amsterdam Hotel of the Red Lion gets sidewalk permit 1934 Event Bradman gets 160 Australia vs. Middlesex, 124 minutes, 27 fours, 1x6, 1x5 1934 Event Austrian gets "Austrian facist" constitution 1934 Event Carl Hubbell, NL MVP winner, gets $18,000 contract by the New York Giants 1932 Event German Election (NSDAP gets 37.3%) 1932 Event Jack Burnett gets 9 hits, Eddie Rommel relieves in 2nd 18-17 victory in 18 as his A's beats Indians in longest relief job 1932 Event A's Roger Cramer gets 6 consecutive hits in a game (repeats in 1935) 1932 Event Immigrant Adolf Hitler gets German citizenship 1931 Event George Gunn gets 183 and son of a gunn George Vernon 100* same innings 1930 Event Bradman gets his 1,000th run of the English Cricket season 1929 Event Belgium princess Marie-Jose and Italian crown prince Umberto gets engaged, assassination attempt on Umberto fails 1927 Event Princess Juliana gets seat in Dutch Council of State 1925 Event White Sox manager Eddie Collins gets 3,000 hit 1925 Event Cleveland Indian Tris Speaker gets his 3,000th hit 1923 Event Saxony gets Social Democratic and Communist coalition government 1922 Event Ty Cobb gets 5 hits in a game for record 4th time in a year 1922 Event St. Louis gets record 10 hits in a row and beats Phillies 14-8 1920 Event Browns 1st baseman George Sisler gets his record 257th hit of season 1917 Event Telephone Co runs 1st ad for Army operators, gets 7,000 applicants 1917 Event J. Edgar Hoover gets job on ministry of Justice 1911 Event Ty Cobb (AL) and Frank Schulte (NL) are 1st MVPs, each gets an auto 1910 Event Cleveland Indian Cy Young gets his 500th win, beats Washington 5-4 in 11 innings 1904 Event Frank Chance gets hit by pitch 5 times in a doubleheader 1899 Event U.S.-Spain peace treaty signed by President McKinley. U.S. gets Puerto Rico and Guam 1894 Event Dutch Society for Women Suffrage gets royal charter 1888 Event California gets its 1st seismograph 1886 Event George Goldie gets charter for Royal Niger Company 1883 Event Amsterdam's Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky gets electric lights 1876 Event California Street Cable Car Railroad Co gets its franchise 1873 Birthday Otto Harbach, songwriter, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes 1873 Event University of California gets its 1st Med School (UC/SF) 1871 Event 1st baseball league game (National Association of Baseball Players), (Ft. Wayne 2, Cleveland 0) Deacon Jim White gets 1st hit, a double 1848 Event Edmund Hickly gets 1st known 10 wicket innings (Kent vs. England) 1848 Event Sardinia-Piemonte gets new Constitution 1848 Event Toscane gets liberal Constitution 1837 Event Spain gets new Constitution 1827 Event Dutch Trade Company NHM gets opium monopoly on Java 1826 Event Dutch Business Me gets monopoly on opium trade in Java/Madura 1815 Event Rossini gets assignment for Il barbiere di Siviglia 1714 Event Treaty of Baden: Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI and France, ends War of Spanish Succession, French retain Alsace, Austria gets bank of Rhine 1691 Event Colony Massachusetts Bay gets new charter 1657 Event France and England form alliance against Spain; England gets Dunkirk
