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2010 Event - The Taliban blow up a girls' school in Huwaid, Pakistan, no one is killed

2002 Death - Ted Demme, director, Beautiful Girls, dies at 38

1998 Event - 25th American Music Award: Spice Girls and Babyface win

1997 Event - 8th Billboard Music Awards: LeAnn Rimes and Spice Girls win

1995 Death - Lorraine Macleod, dancer (Girls Just Want to Have Fun), dies at 65

1993 Death - Ken England, U.S. screenwriter (Good Girls Go to Paris), dies at 82

1992 Event - Final episode of "Golden Girls" airs on NBC-TV

1990 Death - Mike Mazurski, wrestler/actor (Centerfold Girls), dies at 80

1988 Death - Marjorie Bonner Lowry, actress (Reno, Poor Girls), dies at 83

1988 Death - Jeff Donnell, actor (Hoedown, 9 Girls), dies at 66 of a heart attack

1988 Death - Colleen Moore, actress (These Girls Won't Talk), dies at 87

1986 Event - 38th Emmy Awards: Golden Girls, Cagney and Lacey and Michael J Fox win

1986 Event - "Jerry's Girls" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 139 performances

1985 Event - "Jerry's Girls" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 139 performances

1985 Death - Ina Claire, actress/comedienne (3 Bdwy Girls), dies of stroke at 89

1985 Death - Charles Briggs, actor (13 Frightened Girls, Captain Newman), dies at 53

1983 Birthday - Kim Smith, born in Houston, Texas, model, featured in Victoria's Secret, Abercrombie & Fitch, Guess ad campaigns, appeared in 'Girls of Summer' Aerosmith video

1982 Event - Caryl Churchill's "Top Girls," premieres in London

1982 Birthday - Lizzy Caplan, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, appeared in films, 'Mean Girls', 'Cloverfield' and television show 'True Blood' and 'Party Down'

1981 Birthday - Alexis Bledel, born in Houston, Texas, actress, fashion model, appeared on television show, 'Gilmore Girls', films include, 'The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants'

1981 Event - Supreme Court rules states could require, with some exceptions, parental notification when teen-age girls sought abortions

1980 Birthday - Aubrie Rippner, born in Los Angeles, California, tennis star, 1995 USTA National Girls 18

1979 Birthday - Adam Brody, born in San Diego, California, actor, musician, appeared on television shows, 'The O.C.', 'Gilmore Girls', films include, 'Cop Out', 'Thank You for Smoking'

1979 Event - "Girls Talk" by Dave Edmunds peaks at #65

1979 Death - James T Farrell, U.S. writer (French Girls are Vicious), dies

1979 Event - 2 Iowa girls High School basketball teams play 4 scoreless quarters game was won 4-2 in 4th overtime period

1978 Event - Mick Jagger apologizes for racist lyrics in "Some Girls"

1978 Event - In girls' High School basketball, Chicago Latin beats Harvard St. George

1977 Event - 2 girls are killed by a runaway car outside of Graceland

1977 Death - Jack Gardner, actor (Wild Bill Hickok, 3 Russian Girls), dies at 77

1976 Event - Ntozake Shange's "For Colored Girls Who ...," premieres in New York City

1976 Birthday - Keri Russell, actress, Mickey Mouse Club, Lottery, Daddy Girls

1976 Birthday - Emma Bunton, born in Barnet, England, singer, songwriter, member of Spice Girls girl band, which sold over 35 million albums, nicknamed, 'Baby Spice'

1975 Birthday - Melanie Janine Brown, "Scary Spice", Leeds, vocalist, Spice Girls

1975 Birthday - Victoria Adams, "Posh Spice", Hertfordshire, vocalist, Spice Girls

1975 Event - Penn is 1st state to allow girls to compete with boys in HS sports

1974 Birthday - Melanie Jayne Chisholm, "Sporty Spice", Widnes, vocalist, Spice Girls

1973 Event - New Jersey becomes 1st state to allow girls into little league

1973 Event - Lawsuit in Detroit challenges Little League's "no girls" rule

1972 Birthday - Geri Halliwell, born in Watford, England, author, philanthropist, known as 'Ginger Spice' from band, the Spice Girls, representative for the United Nations Population Fund

1972 Birthday - Claire Forlani, born in Twickenham, London, actress, appeared in 'Meet Joe Black', 'Boys and Girls', 'The Pentagon Papers'

1971 Death - Raymond Hatton, actor (Girls in Prison), dies of heart attack at 84

1971 Birthday - Amy Poehler, born in Newton, Massachusetts, actress, comedienne, appeared in 'Saturday Night Live' 2001 - 2008, appeared in films, 'Bay Mama', 'Mean Girls'

1971 Event - "70, Girls, 70" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 35 performances

1971 Event - "70, Girls, 70" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 35 performances

1968 Birthday - Ashley Judd, born in Granada Hills, California, actress, films include, 'Kiss the Girls', 'High Crimes', 'Double Jeopardy'

1967 Death - Jane Darwell, actress (Girls in Prison), dies of heart attack at 87

1967 Birthday - Ana Gasteyer, born in Washington, D.C., actress, comedienne, appeared in 'Saturday Night Live' television show, appeared in 'Mean Girls' film and 'Wicked' musical

1967 Birthday - Lauren Graham, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, actress, producer, appeared on 'Gilmore Girls' television series, films include, 'Bad Santa', 'Evan Almighty'

1966 Death - Ronald Shiner, actor (Aunt Clara, Forbidden, Girls at Sea), dies at 63

1963 Event - Mary Ann Fischer, Aberdeen, South Dakota, gave birth to America's 1st surviving quintuplets, 4 girls and a boy

1963 Birthday - Michelle Bell, Melrose, Massachusetts, LPGA golfer, 1981 Mass School Girls Champ

1962 Event - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Kelly Girls Golf Open

1962 Death - Franc S Finzgar, Slovic writer (Service Girls), dies

1961 Birthday - Tammy Stephens, Arlington, Texas, singer, Girls Next Door-Don't Be Cruel

1961 Birthday - Vince Neil [Wharton], California, vocalist, Motley Crue-Girls Girls Girls

1961 Birthday - Tim Meadows, born in Highland Park, Michigan, actor, comedian, appeared on 'Saturday Night Live', films include, 'Coneheads', Wayne's World 2', 'Mean Girls'

1959 Event - "Girls against the Boys" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 16 performances

1959 Event - "Girls against the Boys" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 16 performances

1959 Birthday - Diane Williams, Hahn AFB Ger, singer, Girls Next Door-Don't Be Cruel

1959 Event - Barbie, the popular girls' doll, debuted, over 800 million sold

1958 Birthday - Nicki Sixx, born in San Jose, California, rock guitarist, Motley Crue-Girls Girls

1958 Birthday - Julie Brown, born in Van Nuys, California, singer, comedienne, screenwriter, appeared in 'Earth Girls are Easy', songs include, 'The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun'

1958 Birthday - Madeleine Stowe, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Tropical Snow, Bad Girls

1958 Birthday - Cindy Nixon, born in Nashville, Tennessee, singer, Girls Next Door-Don't Be Cruel

1957 Birthday - Doris King, born in Nashville, Tennessee, vocalist, Girls Next Door-Don't Be Cruel

1954 Birthday - Keven Wade, born in Chappaqua, New York, screen writer, Working Girls

1953 Birthday - Ge Reinders, Dutch singer and songwriter, Girls walk by

1953 Birthday - Cyndi Lauper, born in Brooklyn, singer, Girls Just Want to Have Fun

1952 Birthday - Sylvia Kristel, Netherlands, actress, Emmanuelle, Priv School for Girls

1951 Birthday - Judy Rodman, Riverside California, country singer, Girls Ride Horses Too

1950 Birthday - Pamela Franklin, Tokyo, Japan, actress, Satan's School for Girls

1950 Birthday - Lizzie Borden, director and writer, Love Crimes, Working Girls

1950 Birthday - Debbie Allen, born in Houston, Texas, dancer/actress, 3 Girls 3, Lydia-Fame

1950 Event - "As the Girls Go" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 420 performances

1949 Birthday - Mimi Kennedy, born in Rochester, New York, actress, Spencer, 3 girls 3, Under 1 Roof

1949 Birthday - Brenda Sykes, born in Shreveport, Louisiana, actress, Ozzie's Girls, Getting Straight

1948 Event - "As the Girls Go" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 420 performances

1948 Birthday - Jamie Lyn Bauer, born in Phoenix Arizona, actress, Young and Restless, Centerfold Girls

1943 Birthday - Julio Iglesias, Spain, singer, Of All the Girls I Loved Before

1943 Event - Phil Wrigley and B Rickey charter All-American Girls Softball League

1940 Birthday - Frank Zappa, born in Baltimore, rocker, Mothers of Invention, Catholic Girls

1940 Birthday - V Payne, British headmistress, Malvern Girls' College

1939 Event - R Rodgers and Lorenz Harts "Too Many Girls," premieres in New York City

1939 Birthday - Billy Henderson, rocker, Spinners-That's What Girls Are Made For

1936 Birthday - Stella Stevens, born in Yazoo City, Mississippi, actress, Girls! Girls!, Manitou

1934 Birthday - Dionne Quintuplets, secluded quintuplets, born Annette, Alive Cecile, Alive Emelie, Dead 1954 Marie, Dead 1970 Yvonne, Alive, First known set of surviving quintuplets, these girls were treated as a side show

1934 Birthday - Rue McClanahan, Healdton Oklahoma, actress, Maude, Golden Girls

1932 Birthday - Mary Moon, Headmistress, Manchester High School for Girls

1931 Birthday - Mitzi Gaynor, born in Chicago, Illinois, actress/vocalist, Les Girls, South Pacific

1931 Birthday - Taina Elg, born in Helsinki, Finland, actress, Hercules in, New York, Les Girls

1929 Birthday - Lorraine Macleod, dancer, Girls Just Want to Have Fun

1929 Birthday - Eileen Stamers-Smith, headmistress, Malvern Girls' College

1927 Birthday - Jacques Bergerac, France, actor, Gigi, Les Girls, Thunder in Sun

1927 Birthday - Kay Kendall, born in Yorkshire, England, actress, Genevieve, Les Girls

1926 Birthday - Beatrice Arthur, Frankel, New York, actress, Maude, Dorothy-Golden Girls

1923 Birthday - Estelle Getty, born in New York City, actress in film, theater, television, appeared in sitcom 'The Golden Girls'

1922 Birthday - Betty White, Oak Park, actress, Mary Tyler Moore Show, Golden Girls

1921 Birthday - Janet Blair, born in Altoona, Pennsylvania, actress, Leave it to the Girls, Smith Family

1920 Birthday - Harriet Van Horne, Syracuse, New York, columnist/panelist, Leave it to Girls

1919 Birthday - Huntz Hall, New York City, actor, Cyclone, Gas Pump Girls, The Rating Game

1917 Birthday - Ann Rutherford, born in Toronto, Canada, TV panelist, Leave It To the Girls

1912 Event - Camp Fire Girls organization announced by Mrs. Luther Halsey Gulick

1912 Birthday - Arline Judge, actress, Girls in Chains, Mad Wednesday, Age of Consent

1911 Event - Triangle Shirtwaist Factory catches fire 145 die, all but 13 girls

1909 Birthday - Mike Mazurki, Tarnopal Austria, actor/wrestler, Centerfold Girls

1907 Birthday - Gunter Eich, German literary, Underground Highway, Girls of Viterbo

1906 Birthday - Clancy Cooper, actress, Enchanted Forest, Girls in Chains

1888 Birthday - Maurice Chevalier, Paris, thanked heaven for little girls, Gigi

1887 Birthday - Raymond Hatton, born in Red Oak, Iowa, actor, Girls in Prison, Lady Killer

1880 Birthday - Gertrude E Durden Rush, U.S. composer/playwright, Black Girls Burden

1764 Event - Smolny-institution forms in St. Petersburg for noble girls


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