1997 Ted Turner gives $1 billion to UN
1994 O. J. Simpson, charged with murder, gives hair samples for testing
1994 O.J. Simpson doesn't turn himself in on murder charges, Los Angeles police chase his Ford Bronco for 1 hours, eventually gives up
1993 John F. Kennedy, Jr., gives notice of quitting as ADA in Manhattan
1993 Texas Ranger Jose Canseco pitches 8th inning in 15-1 loss to Red Sox, he gives up 3 runs on 2 hits and 3 walks, he damages his arm
1992 1st female to play in a NHL exhibition game (Manon Rheaume, goalie) for Tampa Bay Lightning - gives up 2 goals on 9 attempts in 1 period
1991 Donald Trump gives Marla Maples a 7 caret engagement ring
1991 Donald Trump gives Marla Maples a 7.45 karat diamond ring
1991 Alfaro Vive guerrilla group of Ecuador gives arms to Catholic church
1991 Matt Barr's field goal with no time left gives New York Giant 15-13 Victory over defending champs San Francisco 49ers, for NFC title
1991 U.S. Congress gives George Bush authority to wage war against Iraq
1990 Supreme Soviet gives approval to switch to free market
1989 29 year old French woman gives birth to sextuplets in Paris
1988 Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen gives $10 million to University Washington library
1988 With 2 outs in bottom of 9th, an injured Kirk Gibson hits dramatic 2 run HR to gives Dodgers a 5-4 win in 1st game of World Series
1988 Duchess of York gives birth to 6 lb 12 oz baby girl
1988 Beatrice E M, Duchess of York gives birth to 6 lb 12 oz baby girl
1988 Chicago gives Cubs right to install lights and play up to 18 night games
1987 Bunt single gives Paul Molitor longest hit streak of 1980s at 32 games
1986 Bert Blyleven gives up a record 44 home runs in a season
1986 President Reagan gives speech defending his judicial appointments
1986 Exciting draw in final gives NSW the Sheffield Shield over Qld
1985 Bret Saberhagen gives Kansas City Royals their 1st World Series win
1985 Frustaci Septuplets, California, Patricia Frustaci gives birth to 7
1984 Met Dwight Gooden's 11 strikeouts gives him NL rookie record 236
1984 "Weird Al" Yankovic gives free live performance at Del Mar Fair
1984 Weird Al Yankovic gives a live performance at Starlight Amphitheater
1984 Netherlands' Lubbers government gives 48 sites for cruise missiles
1983 Argentina milt regime gives amnesty to military/political assassins
1983 Woman gives birth to baby 84 days after brain death in Roanoke, Virginia
1983 Weird Al Yankovic gives live performance at Wax Museum in Washington D.C.
1983 Senate revises immigration laws, gives millions of illegal aliens legal status under an amnesty program
1981 Pirate Jim Bibby gives up a leadoff single to Brave Terry Harper, then retires next 27 batters
1979 Phillies Tug McGraw gives up record 4th grand slam of year
1978 Yankee Catfish Hunter's 6-2 win gives him a perfect 6-0 in Aug 1978
1976 Britain gives Gilbert Island (Kiribati) self rule
1976 Chris Chambliss' 9th inning lead off homer gives New York Yanks pennant #30
1974 Rhino Store gives people 5 cents to take home Danny Bonaduce's Album
1970 Clay Kirby has a no-hitter going for 8 inn, but is lifted for a pinch hitter, Reliever Jack Baldschun gives up 3 hits and Padres lose, 3-0
1964 Pope Paul VI gives tiara to poor
1964 Reds Chico Ruiz steals home, beats Phillies 1-0. Phillies start a 10 game losing streak that gives Cards the pennant
1964 Dutch government gives Indonesia export guarantees
1963 Ines Cuervo de Priete, 34, gives birth to quintuplets, all boys
1963 Jerry Lynch's record 15th pinch-hit HR gives Pirates a 7-6 win
1963 Giant Willie Mays' HR in 16th inning gives them a 1-0 win over Braves
1962 U.N. gives Netherlands control of New-Guinea
1962 New Orleans Citizens Co gives free 1-way ride to blacks to move North
1962 Devastating 8 for 6 spell by Gibbs gives WI cricket victory over India
1961 After 84 1/3 innings Bill Fischer gives up a base on balls
1957 U.S. gives Poland credit of $95 million
1957 Congress gives Post Office $41M; restoring Saturday mail delivery
1956 Phillies Robin Roberts gives up a major league record 46th HR
1956 After 72 years, Britain gives up Suez Canal to Egyptian control
1956 KYW-AM in Philadelphia Penn gives calls to WTAM (now WWWE) Cleveland
1954 Robin Roberts gives up a HR then retires next 27 men in a row
1953 New balk rule gives the batter option; of accepting the outcome of the pitch or the balk
1953 Birmingham Alabama, bars Jackie Robinson's Negro-White All-Stars from playing there Robinson gives in and drops white players from his group
1953 U.S. government gives France $385 million for combat in Indo-China
1953 Phillies Curt Simmons gives up a single, then retires next 27 in a row
1952 New York Yankees Johnny Mize's pinch-hit grand slam gives Yanks a 5-1 win at Washington He has now HRed in all 15 major league parks
1951 King Leopold II of Belgium gives up throne to son Boudouin I
1950 U.N. gives Eritrea to Ethiopia
1950 President Truman gives military aid to Vietnamese regime Bao-Dai
1949 J Edgar Hoover gives Shirley Temple a tear gas fountain pen
1947 Dutch Queen Wilhelmina gives golden award to general Eisenhower
1947 With only 1 out to go, Yank Floyd Beven gives up a double breaking his World Series no-hit bid, it scored 2 runs and he lost game
1947 Mildred Babe Didrikson Zaharias gives up amateur status for $300,000
1946 US General MacNarney gives 800,000 "minor Nazi's" amnesty
1945 King Michael of Romania gives in to Communist government
1944 U.S. Congress gives General Eisenhower his 5th star
1940 U.S. gives Britain 50 destroyers in exchange for Newfoundland base lease
1940 Belgium surrenders to Germany, King Leopold III gives himself up
1940 Finland-Russian cease fire signed, Finland gives up Karelische
1940 Finland surrenders to Russia during WW II, gives Karelische Isthmus
1940 Commissioner Kenesaw Landis gives free agency to 91 Detroit Tigers
1939 Soviet-German treaty agree on 4th partition of Poland (WW II) and gives Lithuania to U.S.S.R., last Polish troops surrender
1936 A's pitcher Horace Lisenbee gives up 26 hits in a game
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt gives FBI authority to pursuit fascists and communists
1936 Polish parliament gives President Ignacy Moscicki dictatorial power
1934 Eiji Sawamura, 17, gives up 1 hit, Lou Gehrig's HR, Japan beats U.S. 1-0
1933 German Republic gives power to Hitler
1932 Henry Ford gives his 1st radio speech
1931 Brit Statute of Westminster gives complete legislative independence to Canada, Australia, NZ, South Africa, Ireland, Newfndlnd
1923 League of Nations gives Belgium mandate of Ruanda-Urundi (was German)
1922 Capt Cyril Turner (RAF) gives 1st skywriting exhibition (New York City) Turner spelled out "Hello USA. Call Vanderbilt 7200." 47,000 called
1922 Italian parliament gives Mussolini dictatorial powers "for 1 year"
1920 Enrico Caruso gives his last public performance (New York City)
1920 Peace treaty gives Estonia independence
1918 CH Chubb gives Stonehenge to English state
1917 People's Commissars gives authority to Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin
1917 British government gives final approval to Balfour Declaration
1917 Cin Fred Tooney and Chic's Hippo Vaughn pitch duel no-hitter, Vaughn gives up 2 hits and a run in 10th, so Cin wins 1-0
1914 Chic Jim Scott no-hits Cleveland, gives up 2 hits in 10th and loses 1-0
1913 After 68 straight innings Christy Mathewson gives up a walk
1913 John D. Rockefeller gives $100 million to Rockefeller Foundation
1910 Clement van Maasdijk gives flying demonstration
1908 N.Y. gives a ticker tape parade to returning U.S. Olympians from London
1903 Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty gives U.S. exclusive canal rights in Panama
1902 Prussian Upper house gives 350 million marks to Poland
1901 Cleveland's Bock Baker gives up a record 23 singles as White Sox beat Blues (Cleveland Blues!) 13-1
1895 Electric central at Niagara Falls gives 1st steam
1894 Dirk Vansina, Flemish playwright, Verschaeve Gives Evidence
1890 King Leopold II gives Congo to Belgium
1885 Congress of Berlin, gives Congo to Belgium and Nigeria to England
1885 Bismarck gives Carl Peters' firm management of East-Africa
1881 Boston Symphony Orchestra gives its 1st concert
1879 Edison gives 1st public demonstration of his incandescent lamp
1871 2nd Enforcement Act gives federal control of congressional elections
1870 Gustav Mahler (10) gives his 1st public piano concert
1867 Legislation gives suffrage to DC blacks, despite President Johnson's veto
1866 U.S. Congress rejects presidential veto gives all equal rights in US
1864 Great Britain gives Isotope Islands back to Greece
1850 "Swedish Nightingale" Jenny Lind gives 1st U.S. concert
1849 1st chamber music group in U.S. gives their 1st concert (Boston)
1848 Mexico gives Texas to U.S., ending the war
1837 Canada gives blacks the right to vote
1835 New Orleans gives U.S. government Jackson Square to be used as a mint
1832 Black Hawk, leader of Sauk-indians, gives himself up
1800 Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse gives 1st cowpox vaccination to his son to prevent smallpox
1790 New York gives up claims to Vermont for $30,000
1780 Benedict Arnold gives British Major Andre plans to West Point
1774 Britain gives Quebec, Labrador and territory north of Ohio
1760 French army gives Montreal to Gen Jeffrey Amherst
1754 George Washington gives Ft. Necessity to France
1745 Treaty of Dresden gives much of Silesia to the Prussians
1721 Dr. Zabdiel Boylston gives 1st smallpox inoculations in America
1717 Prussian king Frederik Willem I gives compulsory education to 5-12 yrs
1708 Monarch Amengkurat II [Sunan Mas] of Mataram gives himself up to VOC
1701 Act of Settlement gives English crown to Sophia, Princess of Hanover
1682 Duke James of York gives Delaware to William Penn
1668 English king Charles II gives Bombay to East India Company
1661 Portugal gives Tanger and Bombay to English King Charles II
1656 Treaty of Labiau: Sweden gives Prussia, Brandenburg
1629 King Charles I gives Bahamas to Sir Robert Heath
1621 King James of England gives Canada to Sir Alexander Sterling
1578 Queen Elizabeth I gives Johan Casimir 20,000 pounds to aid Dutch rebellion
1558 Czar Ivan IV gives parts of North-Russia to fur traders
1550 Emperor Charles V gives inquisiters additional authority
1495 Pope gives his son Cesare Borgia as hostage to Charles VIII of France
1460 Treaty of Alcacovas-Portugal gives Castile Canary Is for W Africa
1420 Treaty of Troyes-French King Charles VI gives France to English
1346 Emperor Louis IV of Bavaria gives his wife Margaretha, Holland/Zealand
1251 The Virgin Mary gives Simon Stork a haircut (legend)
1178 Anti-Pope Callistus III gives pope title to Alexander III
1077 German king Henry IV gives away bisdom Utrecht county Staveren
1064 German King Henry IV gives away Utrecht county of West Friesland
1046 King Henry III gives money to Utrecht Deventer diocese
1040 King Henry III gives Utrecht the Groninger currency
976 Emperor Otto II gives earl Leopold I, East Bavaria
953 Otto I the Great gives Utrecht fishing rights
949 Otto I the Great gives away bishopdom of Utrecht
944 Otto I the Great gives away bisdom Utrecht "foreestrecht"
704 Aengibald gives away bishop Willibrord estate in Waalre
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