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2013 Event - The British Food Standards Agency reports a discovery in Lancashire of 100kg of horse meat imported from Hungary labelled as beef

2013 Event - British catering firm Compass Group and Whitbread, one of the country's largest hotel chains, find horse DNA in products sold as "beef"

2013 Event - The Republic of Ireland's Food Safety Authority announces horse DNA was present in some beef burgers on sale in supermarkets in Ireland and in the UK

2012 Event - Camelot the horse, wins the Epsom Derby, the fourth Classic win for trainer Aidan O'Brien

2011 Event - At the 2011 Melbourne Cup, the French-trained horse Dunaden wins the closest finish in the race's history

2011 Event - With an unbeaten run of 14 wins, Australian mare Black Caviar ties the horse racing record for consecutive victories set by Phar Lap

2011 Event - At the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, Danedream wins with a record racing speed of 2:24.49, the second German horse to win since 1975

1999 Death - Paul Mellon, art patron/horse owner, dies at 91

1998 Death - Jeanette Nolan, actress, The Horse Whisperer, dies at 86

1997 Event - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Countess Diana, Elmhurst, Ajina, Spinning World, Favorite Trick, Chief Bearhart, Skip Away

1996 Event - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Lit de Justice, Storm Song, Jewel Princess, Da Hass, Boston Harbor, Pilsudski, Alphabet Soup at Woodbine

1996 Death - Rodney Rash, born in Frederick, Maryland, Rodney R. Rash, horse trainer, trained Thoroughbred horses, clients include Berry Gordy, Bruce McNall, Wayne Gretzky, Gary A. Tanaka, won Santa Anita Handicap with Urgent Request, 1995, dies of rare blood disorder at age 36

1995 Event - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Cigar, Desert Stormer, Inside Information, My Flag, Northern Spur, Ridgewood Pearl, Unbridled's Song

1994 Event - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Barathea, Cherokee Run, Concern, Flanders, One Dreamer, Tikkanen, Timber Country

1994 Death - Alain Bernardin, impressario of the Crazy Horse Saloon, dies at 78

1994 Death - Alain Berdarin, founder/owner of "Crazy Horse Saloon," suicide at 78

1994 Event - Queen Elizabeth falls off her horse and breaks her left wrist

1993 Event - Northern Exposure star Barry Corbin falls off his horse

1993 Event - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Arcangues, Brocco, Cardmania, Hollywood Wildcat, Kotashaan, Lure, Phone Chatter at Belmont

1993 Event - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Arcangues, Brocco, Cardmania, Hollywood Wildcat, Kotashaan, Lure, Phone Chatter

1993 Event - "3 Men on a Horse" closes at Lyceum Theater New York City after 40 performances

1993 Event - "3 Men on a Horse" opens at Lyceum Theater New York City for 40 performances

1993 Death - Karel Goeyvaerts, Flemish composer (8 Horse Bet), dies at 69

1992 Event - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: A P Indy, Fraise, Gilded Time, Liza, Lure, Paseana, Thirty Slews at Gulfstream Park

1992 Event - Jockey Angel Cordero retires after winning over 7,000 horse races

1992 Death - Alberta Vaughn, actress (Wild Horse, Silver Devil), dies at 87

1992 Event - Joan Lunden, breaks her left shoulder after being thrown from a horse

1991 Death - Horatio Luro, U.S. horse trainer (Northern Dancer), dies at 90

1991 Event - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Arazi, Black Tie Affair, Dance Smartly, Miss Alleged, Opening Verse, Pleasant Stage, Sheikh Albadou

1991 Event - Angel Cordero is 3rd jockey to win 7,000 horse races

1990 Event - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Bayakoa, Fly So Free, In The Wings, Meadow Star, Royal Academy, Safely Kept, Unbridled

1990 Event - Jockey Billy Shoemaker (58), retires after 40,350 horse race

1989 Event - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Bayakoa, Dancing Spree, Go for Wand, Prized, Rhythm, Steinlen, Sunday Silence

1989 Event - George Harrison releases "Best of Dark Horse 1976 - 1989" album

1988 Event - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Alysheba, Gt Communicator, Gulch, Is It True, Miesque, Open Mind, Personal Ensign at Churchill Downs

1988 Event - Simply Majestic sets horse racing's 1-1/8 mile record at 1:45

1987 Event - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Epitome, Ferdinand, Miesque, Sacahuista, Success Express, Theatrica, Very Subtle at Hollywood

1986 Event - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Brave Raj, Capote, Lady's Secret, Last Tycoon, Manila, Skywalker, Smile at Santa Anita

1985 Event - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Cozzene, Life's Magic, Pebbles, Precisionist, Proud Truth, Tasso, Twilight Ridge at Aqueduct

1985 Event - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Cozzene, Life's Magic, Pebbles, Precisionist, Proud Truth, Tasso, Twilight Ridge

1984 Event - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Chief's Crown, Eillo, Lashkari, Outstandingly, Princess Rooney, Royal Heroine, Wild Again at Hollywood

1984 Event - White Horse by Laid Back hits #26

1983 Event - Angel Cordero wins his 5,000th horse races

1982 Death - Nini de Boel, Flemish operetta singer (White Horse), dies at 84

1981 Death - Wanda Hendrix, actress (Sierra, Ride the Pink Horse), dies

1980 Event - Affirmed wins $500,000 Hollywood Cup, 1st horse to win $2 million

1979 Event - 200th running of horse's Derby in England

1979 Death - Mr Ed, talking horse, dies

1978 Death - Tango Duke, dies in Australia at 42; oldest known thoroughbred horse

1974 Event - George Harrison releases his "Dark Horse" album in the United Kingdom

1973 Event - Triple Crown horse Secretariat bought for a record $5.7m

1971 Death - Teddy Hart, actor (3 Men on a Horse), dies at 73

1970 Birthday - Natasha Gregson Wagner, actress, Dark Horse, SFW, Robert's daughter

1970 Birthday - Secreteriat, race horse, triple crown, 1973

1966 Event - 5 time Horse of the Year, Kelso, retires

1966 Death - Billy Rose, U.S. theater producer (Diamond Horse Show), dies at 66

1965 Death - Trigger, horse (Roy Rogers), dies at 25

1965 Birthday - Melita Ruhn, born in Romania, horse vaulter 1980 Olympics bronze

1965 Death - U C Greyhound, champion trotter (horse), dies at 33

1962 Event - Bill Hartack becomes 8th jockey to win 3,000 horse races

1961 Death - Ben Jones, Missouri, horse trainer (Citation, Whirlaway), dies at 79

1960 Event - Angel Cordero wins his 1st of over 7000 horse races

1959 Event - Queen Elizabeth is fined $140 for withdrawing her race horse

1959 Birthday - Rodney Rash, born in Frederick, Maryland, Rodney R. Rash, horse trainer, trained Thoroughbred horses, clients include Berry Gordy, Bruce McNall, Wayne Gretzky, Gary A. Tanaka, won Santa Anita Handicap with Urgent Request, 1995

1958 Death - Charles O'Malley, actor in silent westerns (Iron Horse), dies at 61

1957 Death - Joyce A L Cary, English writer (Horse's Mouth), dies at 68

1956 Event - Johnny Heckmann rides 7 winners at Chicago Hawthorne Horse track

1954 Birthday - Sarah Lundy, born in America, horse trainer, won Sam F. Davis Stakes, Tampa Bay Downs, 1993, first female trainer to saddle a horse in the Belmont Stakes

1954 Birthday - John Kimmel, born in East Orange, New Jersey, John C. Kimmel, horse trainer, trained at University of Pennsylvania Veterinary School, trained famous horses, Better Than Honour, Premium Tap, wins include Florida Derby, 2004, Pennsylvania Derby, 2007, among others

1953 Birthday - Zoltan Magyar, Hungary, side horse gymnast, Gold Medal 1976, 1980 Olympics

1951 Event - Citation becomes 1st horse to win $1,000,000 in races

1951 Event - Largest purse to date in horse racing, $144,323, won by Great Circle

1950 Event - Last horse race at Havre de Grace Track in Md, is run

1948 Event - Korczak Ziolkowski begins sculpture of Crazy Horse near Mount Rushmore

1945 Birthday - Mikhail Voronin, born in U.S.S.R., horse vault gymnast, 1968 Olympics gold

1945 Event - Big Racket becomes fastest race horse at 69t.6 kph (440 yd/20.8 s)

1944 Birthday - Corinna Tsopel, born in Athens, actress, Man Called Horse, Miss Universe, 64

1943 Birthday - Liz Edgar, horse show jumper

1942 Event - 1st legal New Jersey horse race in 50 years; Garden State Park track opens

1940 Birthday - Braulio Baeza, jockey, National Horse Racing Hall of Famer

1938 Event - 1st U.S. bred horse (Battleship) to win Grand National Steeplechase

1937 Birthday - Alwin Schockemohle, horse show jumper

1935 Death - Thelma Todd, actress (Horse Feathers, Bohemian Girl), dies of 30

1935 Event - Mary Hirsch, becomes 1st woman licensed as a horse trainer

1933 Birthday - Alan "the Horse" Ameche, Wisconsin, NFL fullback for the Baltimore Colts

1932 Birthday - Rodion Konstantinovich Schedrin, Moscow, composer, Humpback Horse

1932 Event - Horse racing legend Eddie Arcaro won his 1st race

1931 Event - "White Horse Inn" opens in London

1930 Birthday - Richard Harris, Ire, actor, Man Called Horse, singer, MacArthur Park

1930 Birthday - George Steinbrenner, owner, New York Yankees, ship builder/horse owner

1928 Birthday - Brooklyn Supreme, born in Belgium, stallion, heaviest known horse, 1450 kg

1927 Birthday - Martin Walser, born in Wasserburg am Bodensee, Germany, writer, 1998 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade winner, known for 'Runaway Horse', famous for describing conflicts his anti-heroes have in stories and novels

1926 Death - Charles Van de Banks, Flemish writer/poet (Red Horse), dies

1920 Birthday - Anthony Steel, London, actor, Malta Story, Wooden Horse

1918 Birthday - Peter O'Sullevan, born in Ireland, horse racing commentator

1916 Birthday - Alain Bernardin, impressario, Crazy Horse Saloon

1913 Event - Suffragette Emily Davinson throws himself in front of king's horse

1913 Death - Emily Wilding Davidson, suffragette, trampled to death by a horse

1912 Birthday - Alfred G Vanderbilt, thoroughbred horse owner, Native Dancer

1911 Event - Nan Aspinwall is 1st woman to make solo transcont trip by horse

1908 Birthday - Richard Caldicot, born in London, England, actor, Horse's Mouth

1907 Birthday - Heikki Savolainen, Finland, pommel horse gymnast 1948 Olympics gold

1904 Death - Eadweard Muybridge, English photographer (horse trot), dies

1903 Birthday - Hans C. Branner, Danish writer, Toys, Horse Rider

1903 Birthday - Joan Whitney Payson, owner, New York Mets and horse stables

1902 Event - Split skirt 1st worn by Mrs. Adolph Landeburg (horse rider)

1901 Event - Horse racing is banned in San Francisco, last race Mar 16th

1899 Birthday - Billy Rose, theatrical producer, Diamond Horse Show

1898 Birthday - Nini de Boel, Flemish operette singer, White Horse

1897 Birthday - Teddy Hart, New York City, actor, 3 Men on a Horse

1894 Event - J L Johnstone of England invents horse racing starting gate

1892 Birthday - Hoot Gibson, Tekamah NE, western actor, Horse Soldier, Last Outlaw

1889 Birthday - Buck Jones, Charles F Gebhart, U.S. actor, War Horse

1889 Birthday - Ludwig Tugel, German author/novelist/writer, Horse Music

1887 Event - Sir John Layton Jarvis, 1st British race horse trainer knighted

1883 Event - 1st New York Horse Show held (Madison Square Garden)

1882 Birthday - Ben Jones, Missouri, horse trainer, Citation, Whirlaway

1879 Birthday - Robert Greig, Australia, actor, Horse Feathers

1879 Event - National Association of Trotting Horse Breeders determines what "is" a trotter

1879 Event - In a 6-day footrace a Mr. Weston loses to a horse, 900 to 885 km

1879 Event - 1st mobile home (horse drawn) used in a journey from London and Cyprus

1878 Event - 1st attempt at motion pictures (used 12 cameras, each taking 1 picture) done to see if all 4 of a horse's hooves leave the ground

1877 Death - Crazy Horse, Tashunka Witko, last great Sioux war chief, dies at 27

1876 Death - American Horse, Sioux chief, dies in battle

1874 Birthday - Kincsem, horse that never lost a race

1864 Event - Horse tramway at the Hague, opens

1861 Birthday - Samuel D. Riddle, horse owner, Man 'o War

1859 Birthday - Edward Bradley, horse owner, 1st to own 4 Kentucky Derby winners

1850 Event - British ex-premier sir Robert Peel falls off his horse

1849 Birthday - Hambletonian, Chester, New York, greatest standardbred horse

1838 Event - 1st official horse race in South Australia-Adelaide

1833 Event - Charles Darwin departs by horse to Montevideo

1833 Event - Charles Darwin rides horse to Santa Fe

1833 Event - Charles Darwin rides horse to Buenos Aires

1831 Event - "Spirit of the Times" begins publishing (weekly horse racing sheet)

1831 Birthday - John Morrissey, boxer/developer of Saratoga Springs horse race track

1830 Event - Horse beats 1st U.S. made locomotive (near Baltimore)

1809 Event - 1st run of 2,000 guineas horse race at Newmarket England

1808 Death - Messenger, horse that sired many great trotters, dies

1789 Death - Thomas Day, author, killed by fall from a horse at Wargrave Berkshire

1776 Event - St. Leger horse race run for 1st time

1756 Birthday - Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee, Rep/Gov-Va, general

1739 Event - Dick Turpin executed in England for horse stealing

1668 Event - 1st horse race in America takes place













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