1998 Stamps commemorating Princess Diana go on sale across Britain
1996 Dare and Go ends Cigars record tying victory streak at 16
1996 Dorothy Hyson, actress (Spare a Copper, Sing as We Go), dies at 81
1995 New Jersey Devils beat Philadelphia Flyers, to go to their 1st Stanley Cup finals
1994 120th Kentucky Derby: Chris McCarron on Go For Gin wins in 2:03.6
1993 Ken England, U.S. screenwriter (Good Girls Go to Paris), dies at 82
1993 Richard Jacobs announces Chief Wahoo will go to Jacobs Field
1993 Tickets for Indians 1st season in Jacobs Field go on sale
1992 NBC announces that "Cheers" will go off the air in May, 1993
1992 Joop Van Nellen, soccer/trainer (DHC/"We go to Rome!"), dies
1992 Leo Halle, soccer goalie (Go Ahead, Orange), dies
1991 Panel of 8 baseball experts vote to drop asterisk next to Roger Maris HR record and determine an official no hitter must go at least 9 innings
1991 Railroad workers go on strike in U.S.
1990 Will Kuluva, actor (To Trap a Spy, Go Naked in World), dies at 73
1990 122nd Belmont: Michael Kinane aboard Go and Go wins in 2:27.2
1989 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Bayakoa, Dancing Spree, Go for Wand, Prized, Rhythm, Steinlen, Sunday Silence
1989 Jeff Richards, actor (Don't Go Near the Water), dies at 66
1989 Toronto Blue Jays are 10 games back in AL, and go on to win AL East
1989 Michael Changs French Open win makes him youngest male to go to finals
1988 Boston Red Sox are 10 games back in AL, and go on to win AL East
1988 Baltimore Orioles set worst record to start a season 0-14 (will go 0-21)
1987 James Baldwin, writer (Go Tell it on the Mountain), dies at 63
1987 NFL players go on strike for 24 days
1987 Detroit Tigers are 11 games back in AL, but go on to win AL East
1987 Buddy Rich, drummer/orch leader (Away We Go), dies at 69
1986 Beatle records officially go on sale in Russia
1985 Baseball players go on strike for 2 days
1984 Anna Fisher becomes 1st "mom" to go into orbit
1984 "Let's Go Crazy" by Prince and Revolution peaks at #1
1983 Att Gen Edwin Meese says people go to soup kitchens "...because food is free and that's easier than paying for it"
1981 Mariners beat Orioles 8-2 at Kingdome, then players go on strike
1980 In Lenin Shipyard Gdansk, Poland, 17,000 workers go on strike
1979 "Boom Boom (Out Go Lights)" by Pat Travers peaks at #56
1979 "Disco Demolition Night" at Comiskey Park, causes fans to go wild and causes White Sox to forfeit 2nd game of a doubleheader to Tigers
1979 "Got To Go Disco" closes at Minskoff Theater New York City after 8 performances
1979 "Got Tu Go Disco" opens at Minskoff Theater New York City for 8 performances
1978 Iranian oil workers go on strike
1978 RR clerks go on strike, halting more than 2/3s of rail service
1978 Victor Sikora, soccer player, Go Ahead Eagles
1976 Frank van Twillert, soccer player, Go Ahead Eagles
1976 Maringo Vlijter, soccer player, Go Ahead Eagles
1975 Pirates beat Cubs 22-0, Rennie Stennett is 3rd to go 7 for 7
1975 Wings release "Letting Go"
1975 600 employees of Royal Canadian Mint go on strike
1974 Bas Leferink, soccer player, Go Ahead Eagles
1974 Toine Rorije, soccer player, Go Ahead Eagles
1973 New York Mets go into 1st place (at .500) after trailing 12 games
1973 New York Mets are 12 games back in NL, and go on to win pennant
1972 Cincinnati Reds are 11 games back in NL, and go on to win pennant
1972 Fredric [William] Brown, sci-fi author (Martians Go Home), dies at 65
1971 Diana Lynn, actress (Annapolis Story, Easy Come Easy Go), dies at 45
1971 Lloyd Kammeron, soccer player, Feyenoord, Go Ahead Eagles
1971 Deventer Soccer team Go Ahead Eagles forms
1971 U.S. special delivery rates go from 45 cents to 60 cents
1971 National Emergency Center erroneously orders U.S. radio and TV stations to go off the air. Mistake wasn't resolved for 30 minutes
1970 Mark Schenning, Dutch soccer player, Go Ahead Eagles
1970 Marco Heering, soccer player, Go Ahead Eagles
1970 Paul Bosvelt, soccer player, Go Ahead Eagles/FC Twente
1970 Dennis Hulshof, soccer player, Go Ahead Eagles
1970 Robert [Harriot] Barrat, actor (Bad Lands, Go West), dies at 81
1969 Marthijn Pothoven, soccer player, Go Ahead Eagles
1969 Erik Tammer, soccer player, South Carolina Heerenveen, Go Ahead Eagles
1969 Baltimore, Cleveland and Pittsburgh agree to go from NFC to AFC in NFL
1969 John Forest, soccer player, Go Ahead Eagles
1968 Cees Marbus, soccer player, Go Ahead Eagles
1968 Enid Mary Blyton, author (Before I Go To Sleep), dies at 70
1968 Students of San Francisco State Counsel go on strike
1968 Jack de Gier, soccer player, Cambuur L, Go Ahead Eagles
1968 178,000 employees of U.S. Bell Telephone System go on strike
1968 Jason van Blerk, soccer player, Go Ahead Eagles
1967 Beatles go to Wales to study TM with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
1967 Radio Scotland and Radio Swinging Holland go off the air
1967 Marcel Valk, soccer player, RKC, Go Ahead Eagles
1966 Britains rock TV show, "Ready Steady Go," last program
1966 Jerry Fehily, rocker, Hothouse Flowers-Don't Go
1965 Fiachna O'Braonain, Irish pop guitarist, Hothouse Flowers-Don't Go
1965 Alphons Arts, Dutch soccer player, Go Ahead Eagles
1965 Arno Hofstede, Dutch soccer player, Willem II, Go Ahead Eagles
1964 EMI rejects audition by "High Numbers," they go on to become The Who
1964 Supreme's "Where Did Our Love Go," reaches #1
1964 1st surfin' record to go #1-Jan and Dean's "Surf City"
1964 Lenny Kravitz, singer/guitar, 911 is a Joke, Are You Gonna Go My Way?
1963 "Sally, Go 'Round The Roses" by Jaynetts peaks at #2
1963 Britains rock TV show, Ready Steady Go, premieres
1963 1st transmission of "Pop Go the Beatles" on BBC radio
1963 "Go Away Little Girl" by Steve Lawrence peaks at #1
1962 "Nowhere to Go, But Up" closes at Winter Garden New York City after 9 performances
1962 "Nowhere to Go, But Up" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 9 performances
1962 Vivian Campbell, heavy metal rocker, White Snake-Here I Go Again
1962 London trolley buses go out of service
1961 Donald Cook, actor (Too Young To Go Steady), dies at 60
1961 Beatles record Aint She Sweet, Cry for a Shadow, When the Saints Go Marching In, Why, Nobody's Child and My Bonnie, in Hamburg
1961 Gijs Steinmann, Dutch soccer player, Go Ahead Eagles
1959 Richard Drummie, rocker, Go West-Call Me, Don't Look Down
1958 Joop Hiele, soccer player, Dordrecht '90, Go Ahead Eagles
1958 Apie [Adrian P] Prince, Dutch writer (I Go Me Own Way), dies
1958 Oran "Juice" Jones, rocker, Curiosity, Here I Go Again
1958 Dick Dale invents "surf music" with "Let's Go Trippin"
1956 David Grant, Jamaica, singer and songwriter, Stop and Go, Heaven Knows
1956 650,000 U.S. steel workers go on strike
1956 1st solar powered radios go on sale
1956 Paul Young, rock vocalist/keyboardist, Every Time You Go Away
1955 Peter Cox, rocker, Go West-Call Me, Don't Look Down
1955 Leo Barnes, Irish saxophonist, Hothouse Flowers-I'm Sorry, Don't Go
1953 1st 3 Dutch female police officers go into service
1953 4-5 million French go on strike against economizations
1953 American B-47 accidentally drops a nuclear bomb on South Carolina, the bomb doesn't go off due to 6 safety catches
1953 Anton GO Ridder Van Rappard, painter/lithographer/etcher, dies
1952 650,000 metal workers go on strike in U.S.
1952 Rangers with less than 14 minutes to go blow a 6-2 lead, losing 7-6 to Chicago Black Hawks. Mosienko scores 3 times in 21 seconds
1951 New York Giants lose to go 13 games behind Brooklyn Dodgers, later win pennant
1950 "Touch and Go" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 176 performances
1950 "As the Girls Go" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 420 performances
1949 "Touch and Go" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 176 performances
1948 Southside Johnny Lyon, New Jersey, rocker, Asbury Jukes-Don't Want Go Home
1948 "As the Girls Go" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 420 performances
1948 Paul Davis, born in Meridian, Michigan, country/rock vocalist, I Go Crazy
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 Kiki Dee, born in Yorkshire, England, singer, Don't Go Breaking My Heart
1946 Marianne Faithfull, born in Hampstead, England, singer, Money, As Tears Go By
1945 General Motors workers go on strike
1945 Philip "Felix" Bekkers, actor (We Go on Trip), dies at 37
1944 Brigid Bazlen, born in Wisconsin, actress, Pam-Too Young to go Steady
1944 T S "Tony" McPhee, rocker, Sad Go Round
1944 Mary Wilson, born in Detroit, Michigan, vocalist, Supremes-Where Did Our Love Go
1944 Peter Allen, Australia, vocalist/pianist, I Go to Rio, Legs Diamond
1943 Tully Marshall, actor (Let's Go, Red Dust), dies at 78
1942 Seyss-Inquart orders students in nazi-Germany to go work
1942 German units go through Red October-factory in Stalingrad
1942 1st U.S. force in Europe during WW II go ashore in Northern Ireland
1941 Geoffrey Davies, English actor, Doctor at Sea, Doctor on the Go
1941 U.S. savings bonds go on sale
1941 Sandy Denny, country singer, Fairport Convention-If You Gotta Go
1939 Nylon stockings go on sale in U.S. for 1st time
1939 Nylon stockings go on sale for 1st time (Wilmington Delaware)
1939 Adolf Hitler denies he intends to go to war against France and Britain
1937 Karl Radek and 16 others go on trial in Stalin's great purge
1936 New York Giants are 10 games back in NL, and go on to win pennant
1935 Steve Lawrence, born in Brooklyn, singer and actor, Go Away Little Girl, Lonely Guy
1935 Chicago Cubs are 10 games back in NL, and go on to win the pennant
1934 St. Louis Cardinals defeat Cin Reds 8-6 in 18 innings, pitchers Dizzy Dean and Tony Freitos go the distant
1934 Gia Scala, born in Italy, actress in Angry Hills, Don't Go Near the Water
1933 Amsterdam confectionery worker go on strike against wage reduction
1931 June Thorburn, born in Kashmir, India, actress, Touch and Go, Children Galore
1931 1st electric shavers go on sale in U.S. from Schick
1930 St. Louis Cardinals are 12 games back in NL, and go on to win pennant
1930 Nita Talbot, born in New York City, New York, actress, Supertrain, Here We Go Again
1929 Bud Spencer, Italian actor, Aladdin, Extralarge, Go For It
1928 NSW (v Vic) go from 8-74 to 9-113 to be 9-367 at stumps
1927 Gianna Maria Canale, Reggio Calabria Italy, actress, Go For Broke
1926 Diana Lynn, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Annapolis Story, Easy Come Easy Go
1926 Buddy Greco, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, jazz singer, Away We Go, Broadway Open House
1926 British general strike ends, but mine workers go on strike
1926 British coal-miners go on strike
1926 Libera Carlier, Flemish author, Action Station Go!
1925 NSW score 705 against Victoria, go from 8-475 to 9-701
1925 Philadelphia A's go into bottom of 8th inning trailing 15-4, then score 13 times to defeat Cleveland 17-15
1922 Jeff Richards, born in Portland, Oregon, actor, Don't Go Near the Water
1922 M. Alain Resnais, born in Vannes, France, director, Melo, I Want to Go Home
1922 Babe Ruth and Bob Meusel, suspended on October 16, 1921, by Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis, return to the New York lineup and go hitless
1917 Buddy Rich, born in Brooklyn, New York, drummer/orch leader, Buddy Rich Band-Away We Go
1915 Rationing laws go into effect in Netherlands
1914 Dorothy Hyson, actress, Ghoul, Spare a Copper, Sing as We Go
1914 600 Dutch textile workers go on strike
1913 Dutch Disability laws go into effect
1912 John B M R "John" Hanlo, Dutch poet, Go to the Mosque
1911 Polo Grounds grandstand and left field bleachers go up in flames
1908 Yanks lose 100th game of year go 51-103 for season
1906 Fredric [William] Brown, U.S., sci-fi author, Martians Go Home
1903 New York Highlanders (Yankees) tickets 1st go on sale
1902 Soccer team Go Ahead forms in Deventer
1901 1st woman to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel (Anna Taylor)
1901 Donald Cook, Portland, Oregon, actor, Too Young To Go Steady
1900 Charles Dudley Warner, U.S. writer (As We Go), dies at 70
1900 Eileen Percy, Belfast Ireland, silent film actress, Let's Go
1900 Dodgers score 7 in top of 11th to go ahead of Phillies, 20-13, In bottom of 11th Phillies stalls so umpire forfeits game to Dodgers
1900 NL decides to go with 8 teams They exclude Baltimore, Cleveland, Louisville and Washington (in 1953 Boston Braves move to Milwaukee)
1898 20,000 Paris construction workers go on strike
1895 Charles Lamont, born in San Francisco, California, director, Abbott and Costello Go to Mars
1893 1st electric car (built in Toronto) could go 15 miles between charges
1892 Mae West, Brooklyn, actress, Go Up and See Her Sometime, Klondike Annie
1892 Homer A. Plessy refuses to go to segregated RR car (Plessy vs. Ferguson)
1891 Conductors on London General Omnibus Company go on strike
1889 Robert [Harriot] Barrat, New York City, actor, Go West, Distant Drums
1888 Drentse and Friese peat cutters go on strike
1865 Horace Greeley advises his readers to "Go west young man"
1847 1st U.S. postage stamps go on sale, 5 cents Franklin and 10 cents Washington, New York City
1820 Dutch city of Leeuwarden forbids Jews to go to synagogues on Sundays
1811 Horace Greeley, editor, "Go west, young man"
1700 Utrecht/Overijssel/Buren/Leerdam/IJsselstein go on Gregoria calendar
1577 Sir Francis Drake sets sail from England to go around world
1568 Treaty of Longjumeau: French huguenots go on strike
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