2002 Eileen Farrell, singer, Can't Help Singing: The Life of Eileen Farrell, dies at 82
1992 Lucy in Peanuts comics raises her Pyschiatric Help from 5 cents to 47 cents
1991 TV show "Roc" has a gay wedding episode - Can't Help Loving that Man
1991 Major league umpire Steve Palermo and former NFL defensive lineman Terence Mann were shot trying to help 2 waitresses from being robbed
1990 Former Exxon Valdez Captain Joseph Hazelwood ordered to help clean up Prince William Sound and pay $50,000 in restitution for 1989 oil spill
1988 Roy Kinnear, actor (Casanova, Pirates, Scrooge, Help!), dies at 54
1980 6 Iranian held U.S. hostages escape with help of Canadians
1979 Supreme Court rules employers may use quotas to help minorities
1976 Viking 1 radio signal from Mars help prove general theory of relativity
1975 India launches 1st satellite with help of U.S.S.R.
1969 Mets help their power needs by adding 1st baseman Donn Clendenon
1968 Pitcher's mound drops from 15" to 10" and strike zone reduced from knees to shoulders to top of knees to armpits, to help hitters
1968 Jim Northrup hits 2 grand-slammers to help Tigers beat Cleveland 14-3
1967 Israel, Syria, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt end "6-Day War" with United Nations help
1966 David Bowie releases his 1st record (Can't Help Thinking About Me)
1965 Beatles' "Help!," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 9 weeks
1965 Beatles' "Help!," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 3 weeks
1965 Kevin Dillon, New York, actor, Heaven Help Us, Remote Control, Platoon
1965 Beatles movie "Help" opens in New York City
1965 Beatles release "Help" album in U.K.
1965 Beatles movie "Help" premieres, Queen Elizabeth attends
1965 Beatles "Help" is released in UK
1965 Beatles record "Help"
1965 Beatles announce their film is named "8 Arms to Hold on to You" (Help)
1965 Beatles begin filming "Help" in Bahamas
1964 Davie Jones and King Bees debut "I Can't Help Thinking About Me," group disbands but Davie Jones goes on to success as David Bowie
1955 Smokey Burgess hits 3 HRS to help Pirates beat Reds 16-5
1946 66,545 fans help Yanks break million attendance mark, the earliest
1945 Archbishop De Jong calls for help with war casualties
1944 Joe Cocker, Sheffield Eng, rock vocalist, Little Help From My Friends
1943 Billy Swan, Cape Giradeau, Louisiana, rocker, I Can Help
1935 Jules Croiset, Dutch actor, Help, Doctor Verzuipt!
1934 Roy Kinnear, Lancashire England, actor, TW3, Help!, The 3 Musketeers
1933 Federal Emergency Relief Administration and Agricultural Adjustment Administration form to help the needy and farmers
1932 Richard Lester, movie director, Hard Day's Night, Help!, Petulia
1931 45,715 fans in 35,000 seat Sportsman Park St. Louis, help cause many ground ruled doubles, 11 in 1st game and 21 in 2nd game for 32
1930 Kate Reid, born in London, England, actress, Heaven Help U.S.
1926 Chicago Tribune reports the Tigers threw a 4-game series to the White Sox in 1917 to help Chicago win the pennant (never substaniated)
1922 Turkish kalief/sultan Mehmed VI asks British army for help
1920 Leo McKern, born in Sydney, Australia, actor, Blue Lagoon, Help, Mouse that Roared
1918 Patrick Cargill, actor, Help, Hammerhead
1917 German plan to get Mexican help in WW I exposed (Zimmerman telegram)
1906 International Radio Telecommunications Com adopts "SOS" as new call for help
1906 John Mayo, director-general, Help the Aged
1900 U.S. troops arrive in Beijing, help put down Boxer Rebellion
1892 Mine explosion kills 100, Krebs, Okla-blacks trying to help rescue white survivors, driven away with guns
1865 Freedmen's Bureau is created to help destitute free blacks
1864 Lord Cecil of Chelwood, UK, help form League of Nations, Nobel 1937
1861 Dorothea Dix offers help in setting up hospitals for Union Army
1854 William Crawford Gorgas, U.S., Surgeon-Gen, help cure yellow fever
1845 William Muldoon, Belfast, New York, boxing commissioner, help find PAL
1804 Robert Baldwin, L, help establish government in Canada, or 1904
1787 Karl Ferdinand von Grafe, help create modern plastic surgery
1745 French help convoy reaches Montrose Scotland
1732 Franz Joseph Haydn, born in Austria, composer, help develop classical style
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