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
1995 David Healy, actor (Supergirl, Doomsday Gun, Patton), dies at 64
1995 Singer Bobby Brown escapes injury in gun battle
1994 Noah Beery Jr, U.S. actor (Gung Ho!, Heaven With a Gun), dies at 81
1994 "Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult," released in France
1994 Kurt Cobain, grunge rocker (Nirvana), commits suicide by gun at 27
1994 Singer Grace Slick arrested for pointing a gun at a cop
1993 Douglas Hopkins, guitarist (Gin Blossoms), dies of gun shot at 32
1993 President Clinton signs Brady Gun Control Bill
1993 Tony Brafa, actor (Enrico Pallazzo-Naked Gun), dies at 72
1993 Harry Connick, Jr. arrested at a New York airport for gun possession
1992 Harry Connick, Jr. is caught with 9mm gun in New York's JFK airport
1991 Jack Ruby's gun sells for $220,000 in auction
1991 Fred D Scott, actor (2 Gun Troubador), dies
1991 Mary Bacon, jockey, dying of cancer, commits suicide by gun at 43
1989 Lynn Bari, actress (Shock, Nocturne, 6 Gun Law), dies at 71
1989 Gun turret explodes on USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors
1988 "Naked Gun" premieres, a movie based on TV's "Police Squad"
1986 "Top Gun," premieres
1984 Jon-Erik Hexum, actor (Bear), dies by a gun loaded with blanks at 26
1982 Brenda Benet, actress (Track of Thunder), commits suicide by gun at 36
1981 Richard Boone, actor (Paladin-Have Gun Will Travel), dies at 63
1976 Dalton Trumbo, U.S. writer and director (Johnny Got His Gun), dies at 70
1976 Fuzzy Knight, actor (Gun Town, Ragtime Cowboy Joe), dies at 74
1974 "Man With Golden Gun" premieres in US
1973 Lane Bradford, actor (Dead Man's Gold, Gun Hawk), dies at 50
1971 Frank Wolff, actor (Erotic Illusion, Last Gun), suicide at 43
1970 Bowie Kuhn suspends Denny McLain for carrying a gun
1970 Keith Mitchell, born in Palm Springs, California, actor, Jeffrey-Waltons, Gun Shy
1969 Kam Tong, actor (Have Gun Will Travel, Mr. Garlund), dies at 62
1968 Adam Rich, New York City, actor, Nicholas-8 is Enough, Code Red, Gun Shy
1967 James Dunn, actor (Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 6 Gun Law), dies at 61
1965 Adrian Pasdar, born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, actor, C Oliver Resor-Feds, Top Gun
1965 Forrest Taylor, actor (This is Life, Man Without a Gun), dies at 81
1965 Derek B, rocker, Bullet from a Gun
1961 Betty Elder, actress (Annie Get Your Gun), dies
1960 CBS radio cancels "Have Gun Will Travel"
1959 Val Kilmer, actor, Top Secret, Top Gun, Willow
1959 "Weird Al" Yankovic, California, parody singer, Eat It, UHF, Naked Gun
1958 Jeffrey Lee Pierce, singer and songwriter, Gun Club
1957 Rick Rossovich, Palo Alto California, actor, Top Gun, Roxanne, ER
1957 Kelly McGillis, born in Newport Beach, California, actress, Top Gun, Accused, Witness
1954 86th Belmont: Eric Guerin aboard High Gun wins in 2:30.8
1952 Brad Whitford, Massachusetts, rock guitarist, Aerosmith-Jamie Got a Gun
1950 Jerry Zucker, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, director, Airplane, Naked Gun
1949 Frank Morgan, actor (Annie Get Your Gun, Wizard of Oz), dies at 59
1949 "Annie Get Your Gun" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 1147 performances
1948 Steven Tyler, born in New York City, rock vocalist, Aerosmith-Janie Got a Gun
1947 David Zucker, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, director, Airplane, Naked Gun, Top Secret
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 Priscilla Presley, born in Brooklyn, New York, actress, Jenna-Dallas, Naked Gun
1944 Tony Scott, director, Top Gun, Revenge, Days of Thunder
1942 1st bazooka rocket gun produced Bridgeport, Connecticut
1940 Giorgio Moroder, composer, Let it Ride, Cat People, Top Gun
1935 Geoffrey Lewis, Plainsfield, New Jersey, actor, Earl-Flo, Gun Shy
1933 Robert Goulet, Lawrence Massachusetts, singer and actor, Camelot, Naked Gun 2
1931 David Healy, actor, Supergirl, Doomsday Gun, Patton, Be My Guest
1928 Rex Reason, Berlin Germany, actor, Man Without a Gun, Roaring 20s
1928 Joyce Brothers, New York City, pop psychologist, $64,000 Question, Naked Gun
1924 Jim Reeves, U.S. country singer and actor, Gun Fury, Kimberley Jim
1924 Lloyd Bochner, Toronto, Cecil-Dynasty, Lonely Lady, Naked Gun 2
1922 Leslie Nielsen, Regina Sask, actor, Forbidden Planet, Naked Gun
1919 Ricardo Montalban, Mx, actor, Fantasy Island, Star Trek II, Naked Gun
1917 Richard Boone, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Paladin-Have Gun Will Travel
1912 Henry Jones, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, actor, Phyllis, Falcon Crest, Gun Shy
1912 U.S. Army tests 1st machine gun mounted on a plane
1912 John Payne, Roanoke, Virginia, actor, Restless Gun
1911 Gun magazine of French battleship Liberte explode
1911 Benay Venuta, born in San Francisco, California, actress, Annie Get Your Gun, Call Me Mister
1910 Marc Lawrence, New York City, actor, Man With Golden Gun
1905 Dalton Trumbo, U.S., writer/film director, Johnny Got His Gun
1903 Richard J Gatling, U.S. inventor (Gatling Gun), dies at 84
1898 Machine gun 1st used in battle
1894 Walter Brennan, born in Swampscott, Massachusetts, actor, Real McCoys, At Gun Point
1890 Frank Morgan, [Francis P Wupperman], New York City, actor, Annie Get Your Gun
1862 Richard Gatling patents Gatling gun
1862 Dr. Richard Gatling patents machine gun (Indianapolis)
1862 Dr. Richard Gatling patents machine gun
1862 Odore R Timby patents revolving gun turret
1861 Gatling gun patented
1844 12-inch gun aboard USS Princeton explodes
1818 Richard Jordan Gatling, U.S., inventor, hand-cranked machine gun
1793 Eliphalet Remington, U.S. gun maker
1776 1st gun salute - for U.S. Andrea Doria at Ft. St. Eustatius
1775 Americans drag cannon up hill to fight British (Gun Hill Road, Bronx)
1718 James Puckle, a London lawyer, patents world's 1st machine gun
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