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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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