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2003 China sends Yang Liwei into orbit, the third country to have successfully sent a person into space

2003 "Elizabeth ""Ma Pampo"" Israel", old woman, ", may have been world's oldest but ""undocumented"" person, ", dies at 128, disputed

1998 Federal court rules President Clinton does not have executive privilege in the Lewinsky case so he must testify

1998 Federal court rules that Monica Lewinsky does not have an immunity agreement with Kenneth Starr

1998 President Clinton says "I want to say one thing to the American people I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky"

1996 Og Mandino, author, professional salesman, inspirational, best-selling author, wrote, 'The Greatest Salesman in the World', books have sold over 50 million copies in 25 different languages, president of Success Unlimited magazine

1996 NASA announces that life may have existed on Mars

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

1995 New York becomes 38th state to have the death penalty

1992 Tipper Gore (wife of future Vice President) admits to covering clock on her VCR with black tape so she wouldn't have to watch it blink

1992 1st time AL East and West champs have same record (96-66)-Tor and Oak

1992 Pope John Paul II hospitalized for 3 weeks to have tumor removed

1992 Curaeao becomes 1st in Dutch Antilles to have compulsory education

1991 Joe Carter is 1st to have 3 consec 100-RBI seasons with 3 differ teams

1991 Katharine Blake, actress (To Have and To Hold), dies at 62

1991 Kuwaiti resistance leaders declare they have control of their capital

1990 Right to Die case permits Nancy Cruzan to have her feeding tube removed, she dies 12 days later

1990 Andre Dawson steals his 300th base and is only player other than Willie Mays to have 300 home runs, 300 steals and 2,000 hits

1990 On a BBC taped interview, rock star Stevie Nicks breaks down, saying that she will never have children and no man can stand her for long

1989 Supreme Court rules states do not have to provide funds for abortions

1989 U.S. Supreme Court rules employees have legal burden to prove non- discriminatory reasons for not hiring or promoting

1989 2 Utah scientists claim they have produced fusion at room temperature

1988 Dodgers win World Series, LA 1st to have both NBA and baseball champs as LA beats Oakland A's, 4 games to 1 in 85th World Series

1988 Supreme Court rules (5-3) public school officials have broad powers to censor school newspapers, plays and other expressive activities

1987 "Didn't We Almost Have It All," by Whitney Houston hits #1

1987 Phil Niekro 314th combines with Joe to have most wins by bros (530)

1986 Cleveland Browns becomes 1st team in NFL history to have a play reviewed by instant replay, Chicago 41, Browns 31

1985 Shite Moslems claim to have killed hostage William Buckley - CIA station chief in Beirut

1984 Supreme Court declares illegally obtained evidence may be admitted at trial if it could be proved that it would have been discovered legally

1984 NCAA announces that basketball tournament will have 64 teams

1983 Reagan certifies El Salvador human-rights abuses have decreased making country eligible for U.S. military aid

1982 Robin Yount is 1st to have 2 4-hit games in a World Series

1979 Royals George Brett is 6th to have 20 doubles/triples/home runs in a season

1979 Dave Kingman becomes 6th to have a 2nd 3 home run game

1979 Bobby Bonds hits his 300th home run (2nd to have 300 home runs and 300 stolen bases)

1979 Ali Hassan Salameh, Abu Hassan, killed by car bomb; believed to have helped mastermind massacre of 1972 Munich Olympics athletes

1978 Reds Joe Morgan is 1st to hit 200 home runs and have 500 stolen bases

1975 Cars in Netherlands must have seatbelts

1973 President Nixon tells AP "...people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook"

1973 Mariette Hartley appears on Bob Newhart in "Have You Met Miss Dietz"

1971 England becomes 6th nation to have a satellite (Prospero) in orbit

1970 Would have been start of Australia/England Test Cricket at MCG, washed out

1970 Man-eating tiger is reported to have killed 48, 80 km from New Delhi

1970 AAU player Steve Myers makes a basketball field goal of 92'3 " from out of bounds, Tacoma-it shouldn't have counted, but was allowed

1969 Kam Tong, actor (Have Gun Will Travel, Mr. Garlund), dies at 62

1968 Private Eye magazine reports a John Lennon and Yoko Ono album will have a picture of them nude on cover

1968 Helen Keller, blind and deaf/author (Let us Have Faith), dies at 87

1966 All U.S. cigarette packs have to carry "Caution Cigarette smoking may be hazardous to your health"

1964 Terence Hanbury White, novelist (England Have My Bones), dies at 57

1963 Martin Luther King Jr's "I have a dream speech" at Lincoln Memorial

1963 Supreme Court's Miranda Decision; defendants must have lawyers

1963 Khrushchev claims to have a 100-megaton nuclear bomb

1962 Fab Four have their 1st recording session under name Beatles

1962 Joseph Allen, Jr., actor (All Women Have Secrets), dies at 44

1961 Supreme Court rules cities and states have right to censor films

1960 CBS radio cancels "Have Gun Will Travel"

1960 Ian Hislop, born in Mumbles, Wales, writer, editor, Private Eye magazine, broadcaster, radio, television, team captain on BBC's 'Have I Got News for You'

1959 William Shea announces he plans to have a baseball team in New York City in 1961

1959 Per Helmstad Gessle, Sweden, singer, Roxette-Must Have Been Love

1958 Marie Fredriksson, Ostra-Lj Swed, singer, Roxette-Must Have Been Love

1957 Ted Williams becomes 1st ALer to have 2, 3-home run games in a season

1954 Joseph Welch asks Senator Joseph McCarthy "Have you no sense of decency, sir?" during Senate-Army hearings

1953 Jim Diamond, Scotish singer and songwriter, I Should Have Known Better

1953 John Norman Lewis contends players have no desire to form a union

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

1952 John Hiatt, U.S. singer and songwriter, Have a Little Faith in Me

1950 Senator Joe McCarthy claims to have list of 205 communist government employees

1949 Despite 71 injuries, Yankees have been in 1st place all season until Red Sox move into a tie for 1st place

1948 Shakti Gawain, author, personal development expert, environmentalist, wrote series of successful books, including 'Creative Visualization' and 'Creating True Prosperity', books have sold over 10 million copies, co-founder, New World Library Publishing Company

1947 Kristian Elster, Norwegian author (Paradisets Have), dies at 66

1947 President Truman signs Executive Order 9835 requiring all federal employees to have allegiance to the United States

1946 Carmine Appice, musician, Have You Heard, Keep on Rolling

1946 Federal judge rules Seattle club doesn't have to play returning serviceman

1945 Tigers and A's both have 7 straight games postponed due to rain

1944 All 1,200 Jewish death marchers from Lipcani Moldavia have died

1944 Bobby Womack, Cleveland, R&B singer and guitarist, Woman's Got to Have It

1941 Mickey Owens drops a 3rd strike, Tom Hendrick reaches 1st safely - would have been last out, instead Yankees score 4 and win 7-4

1940 Churchill says "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat"

1937 Wanda Jackson, Maud Oklahoma, country singer, Let's Have a Party

1937 Ernest Hemingway novel "To Have and Have Not" published

1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt inaugrated as 32nd president, pledges to pull U.S. out of Depression and says "We have nothing to fear but fear itself."

1933 Zeke Carey, U.S. R&B-singer, Flamingos-I Only Have Eyes For You

1932 Pitcher John Quinn, 47, is oldest player to have an extra-base hit (a double) and bat in a run, as the Dodgers beat the Cubs 9-2

1929 Lieutenant Commander Richard E. Byrd sends "My calculations indicate that we have reached vicinity of South Pole"

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

1929 Don Larsen, pitcher, New York Yankees, on what must have been a perfect day

1928 Eddie Kirkland, Jamaican/U.S. blues guitarist, Have Mercy

1927 Pastor of Have begins blessing of motorcars/motors

1927 Martin Walser, born in Wasserburg am Bodensee, Germany, writer, 1998 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade winner, known for 'Runaway Horse', famous for describing conflicts his anti-heroes have in stories and novels

1925 Phillies have their 8th game postponed in a row

1923 Og Mandino, born in Italy, author, professional salesman, inspirational, best-selling author, wrote, 'The Greatest Salesman in the World', books have sold over 50 million copies in 25 different languages, president of Success Unlimited magazine

1923 Leif Panduro, Danish writer, 'k Have varnish on traditions

1923 Frank Silver and Irving Conn release "Yes, We Have No Bananas"

1918 Joe Williams, Cordele, Georgia, jazz singer, Everyday I have the Blues

1917 Guy Bolton and PG Wodehouse's "Have a Heart," premieres in New York City

1913 Common tern banded in Maine; found dead in 1919 in Africa (1st bird known to have crossed the Atlantic)

1912 Eddie Maxwell, singer, Yes We Have No Bananas

1910 Dodgers and Pirates play to 8-8 tie, both have 38 at bats, 13 hits, 12 assists, 2 errors, 5 strikeouts, 3 walks, 1 pass ball and 1 hit by pitch

1908 Yankees replace Clark Griffith with Kid Elberfeld as manager who is destined to have worse won-lost percentage of any Yankee manager 27-71 (.276)

1906 Terence Hanbury White, Bombay India, novelist, England Have My Bones

1904 Jean Helion, artist/author, They Shall Not Have Me

1902 Erwin Harvey becomes 1st Cleveland ballplayer (Cleveland Bronchos) to have six hits in one game

1900 Dutch President Paul Kruger and Queen Wilhelmina have a triumphant procession

1869 Hotel in Boston becomes 1st to have indoor plumbing

1861 Lincoln's cabinet declares Union government will pay for expenses once states have mobilized volunteers

1859 Gustave Kahn, France, poet, claimed to have invented vers libre

1833 1st U.S. college fraternity to have a fraternity house founded

1821 Abraham de Amorie van der de Have, theologist/poet

1818 Keats composes his sonnet, "When I Have Fears"

1785 Oliver Hazard Perry, U.S. Naval hero, "We have met the enemy"

1774 English House of Lords rules authors do not have perpetual copyright

1747 John Paul Jones, naval hero, "I have not yet begun to fight"

1653 An athlete from Croydon is reported to have run 20 miles from St. Albans to London in less than 90 minutes

1613 Galileo may have unknowingly viewed undiscovered planet Neptune

1556 Pietro Aretino, Italian author, poet and playwright, said to have died from laughing

1348 Rudolph of Oron claims Jews have confessed to poisoning wells

60 St. Paul thought to have been shipwrecked at Malta


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