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2012 Event - Ceremonies commemorating the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il were held outside the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun mausoleum in Pyongyang; the nation observed three-minutes of silence to honor him

2012 Event - The BBC's George Entwistle steps down as Director-General, with Tim Davie replacing him Acting Director General

2012 Event - After his decision not to context charges of doping by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, Lance Armstrong learns the organization has banned him for life and recommended he be stripped of his record seven Tour de France titles

2012 Event - Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi appoints Hisham Qandil as Prime Minister, and asks him to form a new government

2011 Event - The Prime Minister of Greece, George Papandreou receives a no-confidence motion against him after failing to hold a referendum on a eurozone bailout

2011 Event - South Australia swears in their new Premier, Jay Weatherill after officially electing him as the leader of the Australian Labor Party

2011 Event - North Korea attests it has detained Jun Young Su, a U.S. citizen; they plan to charge him with 'committing a crime' against their country

2010 Event - Nelson Mandela, former President of South Africa, will have a street named after him in Capetown

2010 Event - Game-maker NCsoft is sued by a man claiming he would not have played Lineage II if he knew it was addictive and render him unable to function

2007 Death - Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., dies of caridac arrest at 89, newspapers remembered him as a historian of power

2000 Event - Elian Gonzalez is snatched by a SWAT team from his Florida relatives to return him to his father in Cuba

1997 Event - Federal judge sentences Autumn Jackson, who claims to be Bill Cosby's daughter, to 26 months for trying to extort $40 million from him

1996 Event - O. J. Simpson takes stand as hostile witness in the wrongful death lawsuit filed against him, saying it is "absolutely not true"

1995 Event - Japanese police arrest cult leader Shoko Asahara and charged him with Nerve-gas attack on Tokyo's subways two months earlier

1995 Event - FBI arrested Timothy McVeigh and charge him with Oklahoma City bombing

1994 Event - 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 Death - Agatha Uwilingiyimana, Prime Minister 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 Event - Lennox Lewis given WBC title, when Riddick Bowe refused to fight him

1991 Event - Terry Norris knocks down Sugar Ray Leonard twice and beats him

1990 Event - Manuel Noriega claims U.S. denied him a fair trial

1990 Event - "60 Minutes" commentator Andy Rooney suspended by CBS for racial remarks attributed to him by a gay magazine

1989 Event - U.S. troops invade Panama and oust Manuel Noriega, but don't catch him

1989 Event - Michael Changs French Open win makes him youngest male to go to finals

1989 Event - Blue Jays fire manager Jimy Williams and replace him with Cito Gaston

1989 Event - New York Yankee Tommy John ties record of playing 26 seasons, his 287th win puts him 19th overall as Yankees beat Twins on opening day 4-2

1987 Event - Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz acquitted after shooting 4 youths who tried to rob him

1986 Death - Sydney J. Harris, journalist, wrote, syndicated column, 'Strictly Personal', wrote for Chicago Daily News, Chicago Sun-Times, political positions placed him on the list of Nixon political opponents, wrote, 'The Authentic Person: Dealing with Dilemma', dies in Chicago, Illinois

1986 Event - Senate convicted U.S. District Judge Harry E Claiborne making him 5th federal official to be removed from office through impeachment

1986 Event - Twins fire manager Ray Miller and replace him with coach Tom Kelly

1986 Event - Indian pitcher Phil Niekro wins his 307th game tying him with

1985 Death - Leon Klinghoffer, hijackers of Achille Lauro, threw him off boat

1985 Event - 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 Event - John Lennon releases "Every Man has a Woman Who Loves Him"

1984 Event - Met Dwight Gooden's 11 strikeouts gives him NL rookie record 236

1984 Death - Ed "Psycho" Gein, mass murderer (Psycho based on him), dies at 78

1983 Event - Pope John Paul II pardons man who shot him (Mehmet Ali Agca)

1983 Event - IOC restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals 70 years after they were taken from him for being paid $25 in semipro baseball

1982 Event - "Herman Van Veen: All of Him" closes at Ambassador New York City after 6 perf

1982 Event - "Herman Van Veen: All of Him" opens at Ambassador New York City for 6 performances

1982 Event - Demanding an end to nuclear weapons, Norman Mayer, held Washington Monument hostage. After 10 hours, police kill him he had no explosives

1982 Event - Yankees fire manager Bob Lemon and replaces him with Gene Michael

1981 Birthday - Roger Federer, born in Wollerau, Switzerland, professional tennis player, ranked number one in the World in March 2010, many consider him the greatest tennis player of all time

1981 Event - Ronald Reagan arrives home from hospital after Hinkley shot him

1980 Death - Mae West, actress (She Done Him Wrong), dies in Hollywood at 87

1978 Event - Yankee Catfish Hunter's 6-2 win gives him a perfect 6-0 in Aug 1978

1978 Event - Reggie Jackson refusal to bunt causes manager Billy Martin to suspend him

1977 Event - Indians fire manager Frank Robinson and replace him with Jeff Torborg

1976 Birthday - Ville Valo, born in Helsinki, Finland, musician, singer, songwriter, leader, HIM rock band, baritone voice, Moto Moto in Finnish version of movie, Madagaskar 2

1976 Birthday - Andy Milonakis, born in Katonah, New York, actor, comedian, uses comedy to deflect from his congenital growth-hormone condition, giving him the voice, appearance of an adolescent boy, appears on Jimmy Kimmel Live television show

1973 Event - 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 Event - Hank Aaron's grandslammer (14) ties him for NL lead with Gil Hodges and moves him ahead of Willie Mays as #2 home run hitter (649)

1971 Event - Cubs release Ernie Banks and sign him as a coach

1971 Death - Joe E. Lewis, comedian, singer, famous for Al Capone's heavies beating him after he refused to renew his contract at Green Mill Cocktail Lounge in Chicago, Illinois, movie, book, 'The Joker is Wild', dies in New Jersey, age 69

1970 Death - Blaz Arnic, Slovenian composer, best known for his nine symphonies, The Society of Slovene Composers consider him the great Slovenian symphonic master of the 20th century, dies at 69

1961 Birthday - Carey Lowell, New York City, actress, Me and Him, Guardian, Dangerously Close

1958 Event - Ted Williams signs with Red Sox for $135,000, making him highest paid

1956 Event - White Sox manager Marty Marion resigns. AL Lopez replaces him

1955 Event - Winston Churchill resigns as British Prime Minister, Anthony Eden succeeds him

1955 Event - Malenkov resigns as U.S.S.R. premier, Bulganin replaces him

1951 Birthday - Yvonne Elliman, U.S. actress and singer, I Don't Know How to Love Him

1948 Birthday - Barbara Dickson, born in Dunfermline, Scotland, singer, actress, won two, Olivier Awards, musical hits include song 'I Know Him So Well'

1948 Birthday - Little Peggy March, Margaret Battavio, vocalist, I Will Follow Him

1948 Birthday - Billy Zoom, born in Savanna, Illinois, musician, guitarist, founder of punk rock band X, Guitar Player named him greatest guitar player of all time in 2007, worked with Gene Vincent, rockabilly legend, as well as Etta James, Big Joe Turner

1945 Event - 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 Event - Gen. Patton slaps a U.S. GI in the hospital accusing him of cowardice

1942 Birthday - Vikki Carr, born in El Paso, Texas, singer, Let it Please be Him

1939 Death - Owen Moore, actor (She Done Him Wrong), commits suicide at 52

1939 Event - Bradman hits 186 SA vs. Qld before Christ catches him at short-leg

1938 Event - Bradman scores 225 South Australia vs. Qld before Christ gets him out

1938 Birthday - Vikki Carr, born in El Paso, Texas, singer, Let it Be Him

1936 Event - Red Sox Wes Ferrell, walks off mound when he feels he did no get good feilding, Sox suspend him

1935 Event - General Sarazen's double eagle on 15th, wins him his 2nd Masters

1933 Event - Britain's Fred Perry thwarts Australian Jack Crawford's bid for a Grand Slam by defeating him at U.S. Tennis championship

1931 Event - Lou Gehrig hits a home run but is called out for passing a runner, mistake costs him AL home run crown; he and Babe Ruth tie for season

1930 Event - George Sisler's career ends when Boston Braves release him

1930 Event - Cub's Hack Wilson's 2 home runs give him NL record 56 home runs

1930 Event - Ruth homers in both games of a doubleheader, giving him 9 in one week

1929 Birthday - Francis Gary Powers, U.S. spy, U.S.S.R. captures him in 1959 U-2 incident

1928 Birthday - Alexis Korner, born in Paris, musician, Blues Inc-Bootleg Him

1927 Event - Ponsford scores 336 against SA, giving him 1146 for month

1925 Event - 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 Event - 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 Event - President Woodrow Wilson has a stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed

1918 Event - Reds manager Christy Mathewson suspects Hal Chase of taking bribes to fix games, and suspends him "for indifferent play"

1918 Event - New York Yankees purchase 1st baseman George Burns from Detroit Tigers and immediately trades him to Philadelphia A's

1917 Birthday - Sydney J. Harris, born in London, England, journalist, wrote, syndicated column, 'Strictly Personal', wrote for Chicago Daily News, Chicago Sun-Times, political positions placed him on the list of Nixon political opponents, wrote, 'The Authentic Person: Dealing with Dilemma'

1917 Event - 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

1913 Birthday - Mary Durack, born in Adelaide, Australia, poet, author, historian, wrote Kings in Grass Castles and Keep Him My Country

1909 Event - 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 Event - Mistaking her husband for a burglar, Ty Cobb's mother kills him

1902 Birthday - Joe E. Lewis, born in New York City, New York, comedian, singer, famous for Al Capone's heavies beating him after he refused to renew his contract at Green Mill Cocktail Lounge in Chicago, Illinois, movie, book, 'The Joker is Wild'

1901 Birthday - Blaz Arnic, born in Luce, Lower Styria, Austria-Hungary, Slovenian composer, best known for his nine symphonies, The Society of Slovene Composers consider him the great Slovenian symphonic master of the 20th century

1895 Event - Oscar Wilde loses libel case against Marquess of Queensberry, who accused him of homosexual practices

1886 Birthday - Owen Moore, County Meath Ireland, actor, She Done Him Wrong

1873 Birthday - Lee Shubert, producer, theatres in New York and LA named after him

1862 Event - U.S. Grant issues orders to bar Jews from serving under him

1860 Event - 11-year-old Grace Bedell writes to Lincoln, tells him to grow a beard

1831 Event - John Henslow asks Charles Darwin to travel with him on HMS Beagle

1830 Event - Dutch King Willem I fires him displeasing parliament members

1681 Event - English Quaker William Penn receives charter from Charles II, making him sole proprietor of colonial American territory Pennsylvania

1610 Event - Henry Hudson enters bay later named after him, the Hudson Bay

1422 Event - Charles V's son succeeds him as king Charles VII of France

661 Death - Ali ibn Abi Talib, the holiest meeting site of Islam, son-in-law, of prophet Muhammad, Muslim Sunni - Shi'a split occurred because Sunni's consider him 4th, last Rashidun, Shi'a's consider him first Imam, rightful successor to Muhammad, dies at age 62

599 Birthday - Ali ibn Abi Talib, born in Mecca, the holiest meeting site of Islam, son-in-law, of prophet Muhammad, Muslim Sunni - Shi'a split occurred because Sunni's consider him 4th, last Rashidun, Shi'a's consider him first Imam, rightful successor to Muhammad

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