2004 Wimbledon Mixed Doubles Finals, Cara Black and her brother Wayne Black beat Todd Woodbridge and Alicia Molik
2003 Wimbledon Women's Finals, Serena Williams beat her sister Venus Williams
2002 Wimbledon Women's Doubles Finals, Venus Williams and her sister Serena Williams Paola Suarez and Virginia Ruano
2002 Wimbledon Women's Finals, Serena Williams beat her sister Venus Williams
1999 Hazel Frederick, face in a crowd, faced the camera when Mary Tyler Moore tossed her hat in the opening credits of her show, dies at 91
1998 After months of wrangling, Lewinsky and Starr announce a full immunity agreement for Lewinsky and her parents
1998 Mary Kay LeTourneau, 36, former teacher, who violated probation by seeing 14 year old father of her baby, sentenced to 7 years
1997 New York Ranger Wayne Gretsky wife Janet is knocked unconcious and gets 2 stitches while watching the game as a plexiglass falls on her
1997 Oprah Winfrey announces she will continue her show through 2000
1997 Jamaica issues a warrant for singer Sade, who fails to report to court on charges of failure to obey a cop who signaled her to stop
1997 Melissa Drexler, 18, charged with killing her baby during her prom
1997 Diane Blood, 32, in England, won right to use her dead husbands sperm
1997 Secretary of State Margaret Albright announces she just discovered that her grandparents were Jewish
1996 Paige Speakman, England, born 19 days before her twin sister
1996 Alanis Morissette ends her 1st U.S. tour (Houston Texas)
1996 Heidi Fleiss scheduled to begin her 7 year jail sentence
1996 Abbey Speakman, England, born 19 days after her twin sister
1995 Martina Ertl of Germany wins her 3rd giant slalom world cup
1995 Ice Skater Nancy Kerrigan (25) weds her agent Jerry Solomon (41)
1995 Monica Seles beats Martina Naratilova in her return to tennis
1995 Susan Smith found guilty of drowning her 2 children in South Carolina
1995 Camilla Parker Bowles and her husband Andrew divorce
1994 Susan Smith who claimed her 2 kids were carjacked arrested for murder
1994 Susan Smith claims her 2 kids were carjack (she actually killed them)
1994 "Sally Marrand Her Escorts" closes at Helen Hayes New York City after 50 performances
1994 Sharon Stone files $12m suit against her jeweler
1994 "Sally Marrand Her Escorts" opens at Helen Hayes New York City for 50 performances
1994 Queen Elizabeth falls off her horse and breaks her left wrist
1993 Barbra Striesand does her 1st live public concert in 20 years
1993 Courtney Love sues doctors for leaking news of her methadone treatment
1992 Tipper Gore (wife of future VP) admits to covering clock on her VCR with black tape so she wouldn't have to watch it blink
1992 Madonna premieres her "Erotica" video on MTV
1992 Lucy in Peanuts comics raises her Pyschiatric Help from 5 cents to 47 cents
1992 England honors her dead soldiers in the Falkland Is war
1992 Joan Lunden ordered to pay her ex-husband $18,000 a month support
1992 Joan Lunden, breaks her left shoulder after being thrown from a horse
1992 Ruth Hammond, dies in her sleep at 96
1992 Jane Fonda undergoes arthroscopic surgery on her right knee
1992 President candidate Bill Clinton (D) and Genifer Flowers accuse each other of lying over her assertion they had a 12-year affair
1992 Princess Sarah Ferguson wears paper bag over her head on airline ride
1991 News anchor Bree Walker Lampley files an FCC complaint that LA radio KFI-AM personally attacked her by discuss her having a disformed baby
1991 Anita Hill testifies Clarence Thomas sexually harrased her
1991 Law Professor Anita Hill accuses Supreme nominee Clarence Thomas of making sexually inappropriat comments to her
1991 Pamela Smart (HS teacher) found guilty in NH of manipulating her student-lover to kill her husband
1990 Right to Die case permits Nancy Cruzan to have her feeding tube removed, she dies 12 days later
1990 Margaret Thatcher announces her resignation as British Prime Minister
1990 Sandra Miller awarded $100 for Mike Tyson fondling her breasts
1990 8 KS and OK radio stations boycott k d lang, due to her anti-meat ad
1990 Gloria Estefan released from hospital after her accident
1990 Singer Gloria Estefan breaks her collarbone in a bus accident
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 Chris Evert defeats 15-year-old Monica Seles for her 101st and last U.S. Tennis Open singles victory
1989 Ernest Morrison, actor (Peggy Does Her Darndest), dies
1989 Country singer Rebe McEntire weds her manager Narvel Blackstone
1988 Lori Davis of Long Island sues Mike Tyson for grabbing her buttocks
1988 Jurors award $147,000 to Tacoma parishioner seduced by her minister
1988 Judith Barsi, child actress, shot dead with mother by her father at 11
1988 Margo Adams alleges Red Sox Wade Bogg's had an affair with her
1988 Woman sues Chuck Berry for $5,000,000 alleges he hit her
1987 Lisa Steinberg, battered into coma by her adoptive father Joel
1986 Jane Dornnacker, WNBC-AM New York City helicopter traffic reporter, dies doing a live traffic report as her copter crashes
1986 Madonna's "True Blue," album goes #1 for 5 weeks and her single
1986 Bessie Wallis Warfield Simpson, (Edward abdicated for her), dies at 89
1985 Ruth Gordon, actress (Big Bus), dies of a stroke in her sleep at 88
1985 Madonna weds Sean Penn on her 27th birthday
1984 Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, assassinated by 2 of her bodyguards at 66
1984 Steffi Graf plays her 1st pro tennis match
1984 Indira Gandhi, India PM, killed by her bodyguards
1984 Kathy Whitworth wins Rochester Golf International (her 85th win)
1984 Flora Robson, actress (Great Day, Frieda), dies in her sleep at 82
1984 Ethel Merman, singer and actress (Kid Million), dies in her sleep at 76
1984 TV anchor Christine Craft wins $325,000 in her case against KMBC-TV
1982 Cindy Nicholas of Canada makes her 19th swim of English Channel
1982 Chris Evert wins her 6th and final U.S. Open Tennis match at West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills NY
1982 Margaret Thatcher begins her 2nd term as British prime minster
1982 Tracy Caulkins, 19, wins her 36th U.S. swimming title
1981 Neva Rockefeller is 1st woman ordered to pay her husband alimony
1981 Janet Cooke says her Pulitzer award 8-year-old heroin addict story is a lie, Washington Post relinquishes Pulitzer Prize on fabricated story
1980 Gabriella Brum, 18, of W Germany crowned 30th Miss World, she resigns the next day, because she wants to marry her 52 year old boyfriend
1980 Barbra Streisand's "Guilty," album goes #1 for 3 weeks and her single "Woman In Love," goes #1 for 3 weeks
1980 Turner's painting "Juliet and Her Nurse" sells for $6.4 million
1980 J Turners "Juliet and Her Nurse" sold for $6,400,000 in New York City
1980 Joy Adamson, author (Born Free), killed by her servant at 69
1979 Ann Dvorak, actress (G Men, Life of Her Own, Scarface), dies at 67
1979 Jackie Mercer wins her 4th golf title 31 years after her 1st
1977 Princess Anne announces she's expecting her 1st child (Peter)
1976 Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst sentenced to 7 years for her part in a 1974 bank robbery. Released after 22 months by President Carter
1976 90th U.S. Womens Tennis: C E L Mills beats E Goolagong Cawley (63 60) Evonne Goolagong loses her 4th straight U.S. Open Final (Evert wins)
1976 Dorothy Hamill wins her 3rd consec national figure skating champions
1974 Joan Jett forms her rock group Runaways
1974 Ruffian begins her racing career as a filly and dies 14 months later
1973 Constance Talmadge, U.S. comedienne (Her Primitive Lover), dies at 75
1973 Bernice Fekete skips her curling rink to 2nd straight 8-ender, Edm
1973 Max Adrian, actor (Boy Friend, Her Favorite Husband), dies at 69
1972 Former umpire, now housewife Bernice Gera wins her suit against baseball, initiated on March 15, 1971 to be allowed to umpire
1970 Mairiam Hargrave of Yorkshire, passes her driving test on 40th try
1970 Miriam Hargrave of England passes her drivers test on 40th try
1970 Dolle Mina's burns her bra in Amsterdam
1968 "Her First Roman" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City after 17 performances
1968 "Her 1st Roman" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City for 17 performances
1968 Jane Asher breaks her engagement with Paul McCartney on live TV
1967 Bobby Gentry releases her only hit "Ode to Billy Joe"
1966 Janis Joplin plays her 1st gig in San Francisco
1964 Queen Elizabeth orders Beatles to her birthday party, they attend
1963 Beatles release "I Want To Hold Your Hand"/"I Saw Her Standing There"
1963 Princess Marijke changes her name to Christina
1962 Barbra Streisand signs her 1st recording contract (with Columbia)
1961 Vasa, which sunk on her maiden voyage in 1628, is raised
1961 Jane Fonda made her acting debut in the NBC drama "A String of Beads"
1960 "Tell Laura I Love Her" by Ricky Valance peaks at #1 in UK
1960 Wilma Rudolph wins her 2nd gold medal
1960 Arthur Benjamin, Austral composer/pianist (Devil Take Her), dies at 66
1959 Queen Elizabeth is fined $140 for withdrawing her race horse
1959 Gary Springer, born in New York City, actor, Bernice Bobs Her Hair
1957 Carole Bouquest, Paris, actress, On Her Majesty's Secret Service
1957 Richie Ashburn, fouls hit fan Alice Roth twice in same at bat 1st one breaks her nose, 2nd one hits her while she is on the stretcher
1957 Leah Neuberger wins her 8th women's singles ping pong championship
1956 Golda Meir begins her term as Israel's foreign minister
1956 Darius Rucker, lead vocalist, Hootie and the Blowfish-Let Her Cry
1956 Spain relinquishes her protectorate in Morocco
1955 Jill Kinmont hits a tree and breaks her back in Snow Cup Ski Race
1951 Sonia Braga, born in Maringa, Brazil, actress, Dona Flor and Her 2 Husbands
1950 Mother Teresa found her Mission of Charity in Calcutta, India
1950 Gwendolyn Brooks, is 1st Black awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her poetry
1948 Charles D Brown, actor (Eve Knew Her Apples), dies at 61
1948 Dianne Wiest, born in Kansas City, Missouri, actress, Hannah and Her Sisters, Footloose
1946 Sally Field, born in Pasadena, California, we really like her, Gidget, Flying Nun
1946 Sammy Johns, rocker, Politics, Religion and Her
1943 France transfers most of her powers in Lebanon to Lebanese government
1942 Rex Thompson, New York City, actor, Young Bess, King and I, Her 12 Men
1942 Mel McDaniel, born in Checotah, Oklahoma, singer, Baby's got her Blue Jeans On
1942 Anne Frank, 13, goes into hiding with her family and 4 other Jews
1942 Anne Frank begins her diary
1942 Anne Frank gets her diary as a birthday present, Amsterdam
1942 Willy Bogner, Jr., Munich, director, On Her Majesty's Secret Service
1939 Ray Peterson, born in Denton, Texas, singer, Tell Laura I Love Her
1938 Alice Marble wins her 2nd singles U.S. tennis title
1938 Jeff Barry, born in Brooklyn, New York, rock writer, Tell Laura I Love Her
1937 Mae West performs Adam and Eve skit that gets her banned from NBC radio
1937 Maribel Vinson wins her 9th U.S. figure skating championship
1935 Paul J M Beers, Dutch actor, Mother Courage and Her Children
1934 Elizabeth Ryan wins her 12th Wimbledon doubles championship
1934 Eileen Atkins, born in London, England, actress, Equus, Devil Within Her
1934 Shirley Temple appears in her 1st movie, "Stand Up and Cheer"
1933 Alfred Her, Hungarian mathematician, dies at 47
1932 Anna Dickinson, dies just a week shy of her 90th birthday
1932 Sonja Henie wins her 6th straight World Women's figure skating title
1931 Operetta "Victoria and Her Husband," premieres in London
1931 Singer Kate Smith begins her long-running radio program on CBS
1927 Isadora Duncan, dies as her scarf became entangled in her car's wheel
1920 Margaretha D Ferguson-Wigerink, Dutch author, Anna and her Father
1917 Rosemary Woods, Nixon's secretary, keep her away from your tapes
1917 James Barries' "Old Lady Shows Her," premieres in London
1912 Ann Dvorak, [McKim], New York City, actress, G Men, Life of Her Own, Scarface
1911 Marie Curie receives her 2nd Nobel Prize
1907 Eleni Gatzoyiannis, heroine, saved her kids
1907 Maria Montessori opens her 1st (Montessori) school (Rome)
1905 Mistaking her husband for a burglar, Ty Cobb's mother kills him
1904 GB Shaw's "How He Lied to Her Husband," premieres in New York City
1902 Jan Kiepura, Sosnowiec Poland, vocalist/actor, Her Wonderful Lie
1901 Clara Maass, army nurse sacrificied her life at 25 to prove that the mosquito carries yellow fever
1901 Dame Nellie Melba, reveals secret of her now famous toast
1896 Fanny Farmer publishes her 1st cookbook
1894 Amelia Jenks Bloomer, suffragist (Bloomers named for her), dies at 76
1892 Mae West, Brooklyn, actress, Go Up and See Her Sometime, Klondike Annie
1892 Mrs William Astor invites 400 guests to a grand ball at her mansion thus beginning use of "400" to describe socially elite
1889 New York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) began her attempt to surpass fictitious journey of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg by traveling around world in less than 80 days She succeeded, by finishing trip following January in 72 days, 6
1880 Grantland Rice, sportswriter, New York Her Trib 1914-30, Colliers 1925-37
1876 Battle of Rosebud/Battle Where Girl Saved Her Brother
1866 Mary Baker Eddy cures her injuries by opening a bible
1866 Harry Davenport, New York City, actor and director, Her Unborn Child, My Sin
1853 Harriet Tubman began her Underground Railroad, helping slaves escape
1843 Sojourner Truth leaves New York to begin her career as antislavery activist
1842 Princess Sophia weds her cousin duke Charles Saksen-Weimar-Eisenach
1840 British queen Victoria marries her cousin Albert von Saksen-Coburg
1838 Alice Cunningham Fletcher, ethnologist, Stranger in Her Native Land
1829 Britain abolished "suttee" in India (widow burning herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre
1818 Amelia Jenks Bloomer, suffragette known for her pantaloons
1803 Spain cedes her claims to Louisiana Territory to France
1777 Sybil Ludington, 16, rode from New York to Ct rallying her fathers militia
1729 Sister St. Stanislas Hachard, 1st U.S. nun, takes her vows, N Orleans
1656 All female jury hears case of woman who killed her child (acquit her)
1631 Mumtax Mahal, wife of Shah Jahan of India, her tomb (Taj Mahal)
1570 Pius V excommunicates Elizabeth, absolves her subjects from allegiance
1565 Mary Queen of Scots marries her cousin, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley
1504 Queen Isabella I of Spain signs her testament
1503 Il Bronzino, Florentine painter, Eleanor de Toledo and her Son
1418 Jacoba van Bayern marries her cousin John IV van Brabant
1349 Margaretha of Bavaria names her son Willem V earl of Holland/Zealand
1040 Lady Godiva rides naked on horseback to force her husband, the Earl of Mercia, to lower taxes
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