1999 Paul Mellon, art patron/horse owner, dies at 91
1998 Jeanette Nolan, actress, The Horse Whisperer, dies at 86
1997 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Countess Diana, Elmhurst, Ajina, Spinning World, Favorite Trick, Chief Bearhart, Skip Away
1996 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Lit de Justice, Storm Song, Jewel Princess, Da Hass, Boston Harbor, Pilsudski, Alphabet Soup at Woodbine
1995 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Cigar, Desert Stormer, Inside Information, My Flag, Northern Spur, Ridgewood Pearl, Unbridled's Song
1994 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Barathea, Cherokee Run, Concern, Flanders, One Dreamer, Tikkanen, Timber Country
1994 Alain Bernardin, impressario of the Crazy Horse Saloon, dies at 78
1994 Alain Berdarin, founder/owner of "Crazy Horse Saloon," suicide at 78
1994 Queen Elizabeth falls off her horse and breaks her left wrist
1993 Northern Exposure star Barry Corbin falls off his horse
1993 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Arcangues, Brocco, Cardmania, Hollywood Wildcat, Kotashaan, Lure, Phone Chatter at Belmont
1993 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Arcangues, Brocco, Cardmania, Hollywood Wildcat, Kotashaan, Lure, Phone Chatter
1993 "3 Men on a Horse" closes at Lyceum Theater New York City after 40 performances
1993 "3 Men on a Horse" opens at Lyceum Theater New York City for 40 performances
1993 Karel Goeyvaerts, Flemish composer (8 Horse Bet), dies at 69
1992 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: A P Indy, Fraise, Gilded Time, Liza, Lure, Paseana, Thirty Slews at Gulfstream Park
1992 Jockey Angel Cordero retires after winning over 7,000 horse races
1992 Alberta Vaughn, actress (Wild Horse, Silver Devil), dies at 87
1992 Joan Lunden, breaks her left shoulder after being thrown from a horse
1991 Horatio Luro, U.S. horse trainer (Northern Dancer), dies at 90
1991 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Arazi, Black Tie Affair, Dance Smartly, Miss Alleged, Opening Verse, Pleasant Stage, Sheikh Albadou
1991 Angel Cordero is 3rd jockey to win 7,000 horse races
1990 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Bayakoa, Fly So Free, In The Wings, Meadow Star, Royal Academy, Safely Kept, Unbridled
1990 Jockey Billy Shoemaker (58), retires after 40,350 horse race
1989 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Bayakoa, Dancing Spree, Go for Wand, Prized, Rhythm, Steinlen, Sunday Silence
1989 George Harrison releases "Best of Dark Horse 1976-89" album
1988 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Alysheba, Gt Communicator, Gulch, Is It True, Miesque, Open Mind, Personal Ensign at Churchill Downs
1988 Simply Majestic sets horse racing's 1-1/8 mile record at 1:45
1987 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Epitome, Ferdinand, Miesque, Sacahuista, Success Express, Theatrica, Very Subtle at Hollywood
1986 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Brave Raj, Capote, Lady's Secret, Last Tycoon, Manila, Skywalker, Smile at Santa Anita
1985 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Cozzene, Life's Magic, Pebbles, Precisionist, Proud Truth, Tasso, Twilight Ridge at Aqueduct
1985 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Cozzene, Life's Magic, Pebbles, Precisionist, Proud Truth, Tasso, Twilight Ridge
1984 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Chief's Crown, Eillo, Lashkari, Outstandingly, Princess Rooney, Royal Heroine, Wild Again at Hollywood
1984 White Horse by Laid Back hits #26
1983 Angel Cordero wins his 5,000th horse races
1982 Nini de Boel, Flemish operetta singer (White Horse), dies at 84
1981 Wanda Hendrix, actress (Sierra, Ride the Pink Horse), dies
1980 Affirmed wins $500,000 Hollywood Cup, 1st horse to win $2 million
1979 200th running of horse's Derby in England
1979 Mr Ed, talking horse, dies
1978 Tango Duke, dies in Australia at 42; oldest known thoroughbred horse
1974 George Harrison releases his "Dark Horse" album in UK
1973 Triple Crown horse Secretariat bought for a record $5.7m
1971 Teddy Hart, actor (3 Men on a Horse), dies at 73
1970 Natasha Gregson Wagner, actress, Dark Horse, SFW, /Robert's daughter
1970 Secreteriat, race horse, triple crown, 1973
1967 Randy Gullatt, horse trainer
1966 Butch Reid, horse trainer
1966 Bryan Webb, horse trainer
1966 5 time Horse of the Year, Kelso, retires
1966 Billy Rose, U.S. theater producer (Diamond Horse Show), dies at 66
1965 Bob Hess, Jr., horse trainer
1965 Trigger, horse (Roy Rogers), dies at 25
1965 Melita Ruhn, born in Romania, horse vaulter 1980 Olympics bronze
1965 U C Greyhound, champion trotter (horse), dies at 33
1964 Karen Straker, horse show jumper
1962 Bill Hartack becomes 8th jockey to win 3,000 horse races
1961 Ben Jones, Missouri, horse trainer (Citation, Whirlaway), dies at 79
1960 John Hills, horse trainer
1960 Troy Young, horse trainer
1960 Angel Cordero wins his 1st of over 7000 horse races
1960 Alex Scott, British horse trainer
1959 Queen Elizabeth is fined $140 for withdrawing her race horse
1959 Richard DeStasio, horse trainer
1959 Rodney Rash, horse trainer
1959 George Glanos, horse trainer
1958 Dom Mamzi, horse trainer
1958 Charles O'Malley, actor in silent westerns (Iron Horse), dies at 61
1958 Richard Mettee, horse trainer
1957 Dom Galluscio, race horse trainer
1957 Brad MacDonald, race horse trainer
1957 Joyce A L Cary, English writer (Horse's Mouth), dies at 68
1957 Blake Passey, horse trainer
1956 Johnny Heckmann rides 7 winners at Chicago Hawthorne Horse track
1956 Jeff Odintz, horse trainer
1956 Steve Pagano, horse trainer
1955 Joe Orseno, race horse trainer
1955 Mark MacDonald, horse trainer
1955 Thad Ackel, horse trainer
1954 Sarah Lundy, horse trainer
1954 John Kimmel, horse trainer
1954 Charles Pinnell, horse trainer
1954 David La Croix, race horse trainer
1953 Zoltan Magyar, Hungary, side horse gymnist, Olympics gold 1976, 80
1952 Steve Penrod, race horse trainer
1952 David Bell, horse trainer
1952 Bill Badgett, Jr., horse trainer
1951 Citation becomes 1st horse to win $1,000,000 in races
1951 Largest purse to date in horse racing, $144,323, won by Great Circle
1950 Last horse race at Havre de Grace Track in Md, is run
1949 Jerry Hollendorfer, horse trainer
1948 Andy Turnell, horse trainer
1948 Angel Penna, Jr., horse trainer
1948 Bob Champion, horse trainer/jockey
1948 Korczak Ziolkowski begins sculpture of Crazy Horse near Mt Rushmore
1948 Richard Lundy, horse trainer
1947 John Forbes, horse trainer
1947 Robert Reinacher, Jr., horse trainer
1946 Jenny Pittman, horse trainer
1946 Tom Dorris, horse trainer
1945 Richard Bickell, race horse trainer
1945 John Veltch, horse trainer
1945 Martin Pipe, horse trainer
1945 Mikhail Voronin, born in U.S.S.R., horse vault gymnist, 1968 Olympics gold
1945 Paco Gonzalez, race horse trainer
1945 Big Racket becomes fastest race horse at 69t.6 kph (440 yd/20.8 s)
1944 Corinna Tsopel, born in Athens, actress, Man Called Horse, /Miss Universe, 64
1944 Mike Degett, horse trainer
1943 Liz Edgar, horse show jumper
1942 1st legal New Jersey horse race in 50 years; Garden State Park track opens
1942 Robert Frankel, horse trainer
1941 Gary Lewis, horse trainer
1940 Don Cormier Sr, horse trainer
1940 David Vance, horse trainer
1940 Robert Camac, horse trainer
1940 Rafael Martinez, horse trainer
1940 James Toner, horse trainer
1940 Walter Greenman, horse trainer
1940 Braulio Baeza, jockey, National Horse Racing Hall of Famer
1940 Mickey Preger, horse trainer
1940 Kathy Hutchinson, race horse trainer
1939 Laurie Silvers, horse trainer
1939 Lynn Whiting, horse trainer
1939 Guy Harwood, horse trainer
1939 Ron Stevens, horse trainer
1938 J Bert Sonnier, race horse trainer
1938 David Gandolfo, horse trainer
1938 1st U.S. bred horse (Battleship) to win Grand National Steeplechase
1938 Vivian Pulliam, horse trainer
1937 Hector Palma, horse trainer
1937 Alwin Schockemohle, horse show jumper
1937 John Mazza, horse trainer
1937 Robin Wright, race horse trainer
1936 Glenn Hild, race horse trainer
1936 Robert Sangster, horse owner/trainer
1935 Thelma Todd, actress (Horse Feathers, Bohemian Girl), dies of 30
1935 Mary Hirsch, becomes 1st woman licensed as a horse trainer
1934 Bob Holthus, horse trainer
1933 Larry Robideaux, horse trainer
1933 Peter Walwyn, British race horse trainer
1933 Alan "the Horse" Ameche, Wisconsin, NFL fullback for the Baltimore Colts
1932 Rodion Konstantinovich Schedrin, Moscow, composer, Humpback Horse
1932 Ron McAnally, horse trainer
1932 Horse racing legend Eddie Arcaro won his 1st race
1931 "White Horse Inn" opens in London
1930 Richard Harris, Ire, actor, Man Called Horse, /singer, MacArthur Park
1930 George Steinbrenner, owner, New York Yankees, /ship builder/horse owner
1930 Mac Benson, horse trainer
1929 Red Terrill, Jr., horse trainer
1929 Thomas Bell, Jr., race horse trainer
1929 Walter Medio, race horse trainer
1928 Brooklyn Supreme, born in Belgium, stallion, heaviest known horse, 1450 kg
1928 Christopher Benstead, race horse trainer
1927 Jerome Meyer, horse trainer
1927 Joseph Pierce, Jr., horse trainer
1926 Charles Van de Banks, Flemish writer/poet (Red Horse), dies
1926 Dan Perlsweig, horse trainer
1925 Jim Levitch, horse trainer
1924 George Handy, horse trainer
1923 George Vogel, race horse trainer
1922 Leonard Dorfman, horse trainer
1920 William Worthington, horse trainer
1920 Anthony Steel, London, actor, Malta Story, Wooden Horse
1918 James Bracken, race horse trainer
1918 Peter O'Sullevan, born in Ireland, horse racing commentator
1917 Sid Watters, Jr., horse trainer
1916 Alain Bernardin, impressario, Crazy Horse Saloon
1913 Suffragette Emily Davinson throws himself in front of king's horse
1913 Emily Wilding Davidson, suffragette, trampled to death by a horse
1912 Alfred G Vanderbilt, thoroughbred horse owner, Native Dancer
1911 Nan Aspinwall is 1st woman to make solo transcont trip by horse
1908 Richard Caldicot, born in London, England, actor, Horse's Mouth
1907 Heikki Savolainen, Finland, pommel horse gymnist 1948 Olympics gold
1904 Eadweard Muybridge, English photographer (horse trot), dies
1903 Hans C. Branner, Danish writer, Toys, Horse Rider
1903 Joan Whitney Payson, owner, New York Mets and horse stables
1902 Split skirt 1st worn by Mrs. Adolph Landeburg (horse rider)
1901 Horse racing is banned in San Francisco, last race Mar 16th
1899 Billy Rose, theatrical producer, Diamond Horse Show
1898 Nini de Boel, Flemish operette singer, White Horse
1897 Teddy Hart, New York City, actor, 3 Men on a Horse
1894 J L Johnstone of England invents horse racing starting gate
1892 Hoot Gibson, Tekamah NE, western actor, Horse Soldier, Last Outlaw
1889 Buck Jones, [Charles F Gebhart], U.S. actor, War Horse
1889 Ludwig Tugel, German author/novelist/writer, Horse Music
1887 Sir John Layton Jarvis, 1st British race horse trainer knighted
1883 1st New York Horse Show held (Madison Square Garden)
1882 Ben Jones, Missouri, horse trainer, Citation, Whirlaway
1879 Robert Greig, Australia, actor, Horse Feathers
1879 Natl Assoc of Trotting Horse Breeders determines what "is" a trotter
1879 In a 6-day footrace a Mr. Weston loses to a horse, 900 to 885 km
1879 1st mobile home (horse drawn) used in a journey from London and Cyprus
1878 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 Crazy Horse, [Tashunka Witko], last great Sioux war chief, dies at 27
1876 American Horse, Sioux chief, dies in battle
1874 Kincsem, horse that never lost a race
1864 Horse tramway at the Hague, opens
1861 Samuel D. Riddle, horse owner, Man 'o War
1859 Edward Bradley, horse owner, 1st to own 4 Kentucky Derby winners
1850 British ex-premier sir Robert Peel falls off his horse
1849 Hambletonian, Chester, New York, greatest standardbred horse
1838 1st official horse race in South Australia-Adelaide
1833 Charles Darwin departs by horse to Montevideo
1833 Charles Darwin rides horse to Santa Fe
1833 Charles Darwin rides horse to Buenos Aires
1831 "Spirit of the Times" begins publishing (weekly horse racing sheet)
1831 John Morrissey, boxer/developer of Saratoga Springs horse race track
1830 Horse beats 1st U.S. made locomotive (near Baltimore)
1809 1st run of 2,000 guineas horse race at Newmarket England
1808 Messenger, horse that sired many great trotters, dies
1789 Thomas Day, author, killed by fall from a horse at Wargrave Berkshire
1776 St. Leger horse race run for 1st time
1756 Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee, Rep/Gov-Va, /general
1739 Dick Turpin executed in England for horse stealing
1668 1st horse race in America takes place
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