2000 Elian Gonzalez is snatched by a SWAT team from his Florida relatives to return him to his father in Cuba
1997 Fed judge sentences Autumn Jackson, who claims to be Bill Cosby's daughter, to 26 months for trying to extort $40 million from him
1996 O. J. Simpson takes stand as hostile witness in the wrongful death lawsuit filed against him, saying it is "absolutely not true"
1995 Japanese police arrest cult leader Shoko Asahara and charged him with Nerve-gas attack on Tokyo's subways two months earlier
1995 FBI arrested Timothy McVeigh and charge him with Oklahoma City bombing
1994 Replay shows A's Bobby Witt beat KC's Gagne to 1st in 6th but ump Gary Cedarstrom calls him safe, runing Witt's perfect game
1994 Agatha Uwilingiyimana, PM of Rwanda (first female prime minister in Africa), assassinated, the day after President Habyarimana's plane was shot down, killing him and the president of Burundi
1992 Lennox Lewis given WBC title, when Riddick Bowe refused to fight him
1991 Terry Norris knocks down Sugar Ray Leonard twice and beats him
1990 Manuel Noriega claims U.S. denied him a fair trial
1990 "60 Minutes" commentator Andy Rooney suspended by CBS for racial remarks attributed to him by a gay magazine
1989 US troops invade Panama and oust Manuel Noriega, but don't catch him
1989 Michael Changs French Open win makes him youngest male to go to finals
1989 Blue Jays fire manager Jimy Williams and replace him with Cito Gaston
1989 New York Yankee Tommy John ties record of playing 26 seasons, his 287th win puts him 19th overall as Yanks beat Twins on opening day 4-2
1987 Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz acquitted after shooting 4 youths who tried to rob him
1986 Senate convicted U.S. District Judge Harry E Claiborne making him 5th federal official to be removed from office through impeachment
1986 Twins fire manager Ray Miller and replace him with coach Tom Kelly
1986 Indian pitcher Phil Niekro wins his 307th game tying him with
1985 Leon Klinghoffer, hijackers of Achille Lauro, threw him off boat
1985 Paul Hornung awarded $1,160,000 by a Louisville court against NCAA who barred him as a college football analyst for betting on games
1984 John Lennon releases "Every Man has a Woman Who Loves Him"
1984 Met Dwight Gooden's 11 strikeouts gives him NL rookie record 236
1984 Ed "Psycho" Gein, mass murderer (Psycho based on him), dies at 78
1983 Pope John Paul II pardons man who shot him (Mehmet Ali Agca)
1983 IOC restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals 70 years after they were taken from him for being paid $25 in semipro baseball
1982 "Herman Van Veen: All of Him" closes at Ambassador New York City after 6 perf
1982 "Herman Van Veen: All of Him" opens at Ambassador New York City for 6 performances
1982 Demanding an end to nuclear weapons, Norman Mayer, held Washington Monument hostage. After 10 hrs, police kill him he had no explosives
1982 Yanks fire manager Bob Lemon and replaces him with Gene Michael
1981 Ronald Reagan arrives home from hospital after Hinkley shot him
1980 Mae West, actress (She Done Him Wrong), dies in Hollywood at 87
1978 Yankee Catfish Hunter's 6-2 win gives him a perfect 6-0 in Aug 1978
1978 Reggie Jackson refusal to bunt causes mgr Billy Martin to suspend him
1977 Indians fire manager Frank Robinson and replace him with Jeff Torborg
1973 Willie Mays last hit, as Mets beat A's in World Series game 2 A's Mike Andrews makes 2 errors, prompting owner Finley to remove him
1972 Hank Aaron's grandslammer (14) ties him for NL lead with Gil Hodges and moves him ahead of Willie Mays as #2 HR hitter (649)
1971 Cubs release Ernie Banks and sign him as a coach
1961 Carey Lowell, New York City, actress, Me and Him, Guardian, Dangerously Close
1958 Ted Williams signs with Red Sox for $135,000, making him highest paid
1956 White Sox manager Marty Marion resigns. AL Lopez replaces him
1955 Winston Churchill resigns as British PM, Anthony Eden succeeds him
1955 Malenkov resigns as U.S.S.R. premier, Bulganin replaces him
1951 Yvonne Elliman, U.S. actress and singer, I Don't Know How to Love Him
1948 Little Peggy March, [Margaret Battavio], vocalist, I Will Follow Him
1945 Following an 8-7 win over the Phils, Brooklyn manager Leo Durocher is arrested on a complaint by a fan that Durocher slugged him
1943 Gen. Patton slaps a U.S. GI in the hospital accusing him of cowardice
1942 Vikki Carr, born in El Paso, Texas, singer, Let it Please be Him
1939 Owen Moore, actor (She Done Him Wrong), commits suicide at 52
1939 Bradman hits 186 SA vs. Qld before Christ catches him at short-leg
1938 Bradman scores 225 South Aust vs. Qld before Christ gets him out
1938 Vikki Carr, born in El Paso, Texas, singer, Let it Be Him
1936 Red Sox Wes Ferrell, walks off mound when he feels he did no get good feilding, Sox suspend him
1935 Gen Sarazen's double eagle on 15th, wins him his 2nd Masters
1933 Britain's Fred Perry thwarts Australian Jack Crawford's bid for a Grand Slam by defeating him at U.S. Tennis championship
1931 Lou Gehrig hits a HR but is called out for passing a runner, mistake costs him AL home run crown; he and Babe Ruth tie for season
1930 George Sisler's career ends when Boston Braves release him
1930 Cub's Hack Wilson's 2 home runs give him NL record 56 HRs
1930 Ruth homers in both games of a doubleheader, giving him 9 in one week
1929 Francis Gary Powers, U.S. spy, U.S.S.R. captures him in 1959 U-2 incident
1928 Alexis Korner, born in Paris, musician, Blues Inc-Bootleg Him
1927 Ponsford scores 336 against SA, giving him 1146 for month
1925 After a night on the town, Babe Ruth shows up late for batting practice Miller Huggins suspends Ruth and slaps a $5,000 fine on him
1920 Reds' Edd Roush falls asleep in center during long infield argument Heinie Groh goes to wake him, but ump ejects Roush for delay of game
1919 President Woodrow Wilson has a stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed
1918 Reds manager Christy Mathewson suspects Hal Chase of taking bribes to fix games, and suspends him "for indifferent play"
1918 New York Yankees purchase 1st baseman George Burns from Detroit Tigers and immediately trades him to Philadelphia A's
1917 Ernie Shore replaces Red Sox pitcher Babe Ruth with a runner on, he throws him out and retires all 26 he faces for a perfect game
1909 Jim Thorpe makes his pro baseball pitching debut for Rocky Mount (ECL) with 4-2 win, this will cause him to forfeit his Olympic medals
1905 Mistaking her husband for a burglar, Ty Cobb's mother kills him
1895 Oscar Wilde loses libel case against Marquess of Queensberry, who accused him of homosexual practices
1886 Owen Moore, County Meath Ireland, actor, She Done Him Wrong
1873 Lee Shubert, producer, theatres in New York and LA named after him
1862 U.S. Grant issues orders to bar Jews from serving under him
1860 11-year-old Grace Bedell writes to Lincoln, tells him to grow a beard
1831 John Henslow asks Charles Darwin to travel with him on HMS Beagle
1830 Dutch King Willem I fires him displeasing parliament members
1681 English Quaker William Penn receives charter from Charles II, making him sole proprietor of colonial American territory Pennsylvania
1610 Henry Hudson enters bay later named after him, the Hudson Bay
1422 Charles V's son succeeds him as king Charles VII of France
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