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2009 En route from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to Paris, Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic ocean, killing all 228 on board

2009 Iran launches first domestically made satellite, Omid, into orbit

2008 President George W. Bush signs the 700 billion dollar TARP program into law

2005 Wolfgang Bauer, writer, playwright, works translated into 24 languages, include, 'Magic Afternoon', 'Change', dies of heart failure in Graz, Styria

2003 China sends Yang Liwei into orbit, the third country to have successfully sent a person into space

2003 Tony Awards, Hairspray, Take Me Out, Long Day's Journey Into Night revival and Nine revival won major awards

2003 Iranian Revolutionary Guard military flight crashes into the Sirach Mountains, killing 275

2002 Tony Awards, The Goat or Who Is Sylvia?, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Private Lives revival, and Into the Woods revival won major awards

2002 Air China flight 129 crashes into a mountain near Pusan, South Korea killing 128

2002 Iran Air Tours flight 956 crashes into a mountain in Iran killing 119

2001 Terrorists break into parliament building in New Delhi, murder at least 12

2001 Russian Mir space station is crashed into the Pacific during a controlled re-entry

2000 Brian Statham, cricketer, 20th century's leading fast bowler, inducted into ICC Cricket Hall of Fame, 2009, dies in Stockport, England, of leukemia, at age 69

2000 Air Philippines flight 541 crashes into a hill near Davao, killing 131

1999 Bethel Leslie, actress/writer, Long Day's Journey into Night, dies at 70

1998 Crane crashes into Roosevelt Is (New York City) Tram, injuring 10

1998 STS-89 (Endeavour 12) launches into orbit

1997 Anatoli Boukreev, born in Russia, Anatolij Nikolaevich Bukreev, climber, mountaineer, made seven, 8,000-metre peaks without supplemental oxygen, died in avalanche on Annapurna, chronicled in books 'Into Thin Air', 'The Climb', dies at 39

1997 STS-87 (Columbia 24) launches into orbit

1997 2nd longest 9 inning World Series game (4:12) as Marlins and Indians were tied 7-7 going into the 9th, Mariners win 14-11

1997 STS-86 (Atlantis 20) launches into orbit

1997 STS-85, Discovery 23, launches into orbit

1997 STS-94 (Columbia 23) launches into orbit

1997 Michael Jackson and Bee Gees inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

1997 Ashes of Timothy Leary and Gene Roddenberry launched into orbit

1997 Ashes of Star Trek creator, Gene Roddenberry are launched into space

1997 Space Shuttle STS-81 (Atlantis 18), launches into space

1996 Space Shuttle STS-80 (Columbia 21), launches into space

1996 "Into the Whirlwind" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City for 2 performances

1996 "Into the Whirlwind" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City for 2 performances

1996 Space Shuttle STS-79 (Atlantis 17), launches into space

1996 Soyuz TM-24, launched into orbit

1996 Ivan V. Lalic, poet, awarded most prestigious literary prizes in Yugoslavia, poems are translated into more than twenty languages, dies at 65

1996 Space Shuttle STS-78, Columbia 20, launches into space

1996 STS-77 (Endeavour 11), launches into orbit

1996 STS-76 (Atlantis 16), launches into orbit

1996 STS-75 (Columbia 19), launches into orbit

1996 Soyuz TM-23, launched into orbit

1996 Space Shuttle STS-72 (Endeavour 10), launches into space

1995 Suicide bomber blasts into Egyptian embassy in Islamabad, kills 16

1995 STS-74 (Atlantis 15), launches into orbit

1995 STS-73 (Columbia 18), launches into orbit

1995 STS-69 (Endeavour 9), launches into orbit

1995 Soyuz TM-22, launched into orbit

1995 New York Police Department and New York Transit Police merge into one organization

1995 STS-63 (Discovery 19), launches into orbit

1994 B737-400 flies into a mountain at Edremit East Turkey, 54 killed

1994 Space shuttle STS-68 (Endeavour 7), launches into orbit

1994 Space shuttle STS-64 (Discovery 20), launches into orbit

1994 Tu-22 crashes into Aeroflot Tu-134a at Zhukovsky, 7 killed

1994 Twin's Dave Winfield passes Rod Carew into 15th hit list (3,054)

1994 Poison singer Bret Michaels gets into a car crash

1994 Tennis star Jennifer Capriati (18), checks into a drug rehab center

1994 Bus crashes into a tree at Gdansk Poland, 30 killed

1994 Ferry boat smashes into Mombasa Harbor Kenya, kills over 300

1994 STS-59, Endeavour, launches into orbit

1994 Chuck Jones found guilty of breaking into Marla Maples home

1994 Space shuttle STS-62 (Columbia 16), launches into orbit

1994 Brady Law, imposing a wait-period to buy a hand-gun, went into effect

1994 Peruvian Yak-40 crashes into mountain near Tingo Maria, kills 31

1994 STS-60 (Discovery) launches into orbit

1994 Helicopter crashes into office building in San Jose, California, 1 dead

1994 Russian manned space craft TM-18, launches into orbit

1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect

1993 C-130 flies into a Philippines hill and explodes, 16 killed

1993 Jakovlev-42 crashes into mountain at Ohrid Macedonia, 116 killed

1993 STS-58 (Columbia) launches into orbit

1993 STS-51 (Discovery) launches into orbit

1993 Dave Winfield hits 442nd home run to move into 19th place

1993 Russian manned space craft TM-17, launches into orbit

1993 STS-57 (Endeavour) launches into orbit

1993 Boeing 727 crashes into mountain at Medellin Colombia, kills 132

1993 STS-55 (Columbia) launches into orbit

1993 STS-56, Discovery, launches into orbit

1993 New York Knicks and Phoenix Suns get into a major brawl

1993 Suchoi-24 crashes into Tupolev passenger flight, 134 die

1993 STS-54 (Endeavour) launches into orbit

1993 Czechoslovakia separates into Czech Republic (Bohemia) and Slovakia

1992 Boeing 734 crashes into mountain in China, kills 141

1992 Space Shuttle STS-52 (Columbia 13) launches into space

1992 Pioneer Venus Orbiter (1st Venus orbiter-1978), crashes into Venus

1992 El Al cargo jet crashes into apartment complex in Amsterdam (250 die)

1992 Pakistani Airbus A-300 crashes into mountain at Kathmandu, 167 dies

1992 Thai Airbus crashes into mountain at Kathmandu, 113 die

1992 William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and DeForest Kelley inducted into National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame

1992 Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) launches into space

1992 1st Belgium in the space, Dirk Frimout on Atlantis Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) launches into space

1992 Russian manned space craft TM-14, launches into orbit

1992 Jose Canseco repeatedly rams his Porsche into wife Esther's BMW

1992 Americans with Disabilities Act went into effect

1992 Space Shuttle STS-42 (Discovery 15) launches into space

1991 Boeing 747-200F of China Airlines crash into mountain at Taipei

1991 New York Islanders Mike Bossy and Denis Potvin inducted into NHL Hall of Fame

1991 MTV announces it will split into 3 channels in 1993

1991 Ferguson Jenkins, Gaylord Perry, Rod Carew, Tony Lazzeri, and Bill Veeck are elected into the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York

1991 Islanders Denis Potvan and Michael Bossy inducted into NHL Hall of Fame

1991 Phillie Lenny Dykstra slams his sports car into 2 trees

1991 Former child actor Adam Rich arrested for breaking into a pharmacy

1991 Eddie Sutton is 1st NCAA coach to lead 4 schools into playoffs

1991 U.S. 70th manned space mission STS-39 (Discovery 12) launches into orbit

1991 Joni Mitchel inducted into the Canadian Hall of Fame

1991 5% sales tax on consumer goods and services goes into effect in U.S.S.R.

1990 U.S. 69th manned space mission STS-35 (Columbia 11) launches into orbit

1990 U.S. 68th manned space mission STS-38 (Atlantis 7) launches into orbit

1990 U.S. 67th manned space mission STS-41 (Discovery 11) launches into orbit

1990 10,000 Uganda RPF rebels move into Rwanda

1990 New York Yankee Kevin Mass sets record with 12th home run in 1st 92 at bats and becomes 21st to hit a ball into 3rd deck of Seattle's Kingdome

1990 Jim Palmer and Joe Morgan inducted into hall of fame

1990 Rick Dee's "Into the Night," premieres on ABC-TV

1990 Orioles Cal Ripken plays in his 1,308th consecutive game to move past Everett Scott into 2nd place on the all-time list

1990 Hubble space telescope is placed into orbit by shuttle Discovery

1990 U.S. 66th manned space mission STS-31 (Discovery 10) launches into orbit

1990 Pistons and 76'ers get into a fight accruing $162,500 fines (NBA record)

1990 U.S. 65th manned space mission STS-36 (Atlantis 6) launches into orbit

1990 Kinks inducted into Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

1990 64th U.S. manned space mission STS-32 (Columbia 10) launches into orbit

1989 U.S. 63rd manned space mission STS-33 (Discovery 9) launches into orbit

1989 U.S. 62nd manned space mission STS-34 (Atlantis 5) launches into orbit

1989 Senegambia separates back into Gambia and Senegal

1989 "Into the Woods" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 764 performances

1989 Aak crashes into pleasure boat The Margin on the Thames, 51 killed

1989 Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken moves into 3rd place (1,208th cons game)

1989 Lawrence Delisle drives his 4 kids into river

1989 Margaret Ray pleads guilty to breaking into David Letterman's house

1989 Margaret Ray pleads guilty to breaking into David Letterman's house

1989 Mandatory seatbelt law goes into effect in Italy

1989 AT&T announces New Jersey's 201 area code will split into 908 and 201

1989 Thousands of Chinese crowd into Beijing's Tiananmen Square cheering students demanding greater political freedom

1989 Flyers, scores short-handed into an empty net beating Caps 8-5

1989 U.S. Boeing 707 crashes into Santa Maria mountain, 145 die

1988 Mike Tyson crashes a silver BMW into a tree near Catskills, New York

1988 Mike Schmidt passes Mickey Mantle with his 537th home run into 7th place

1988 Kay Cottee sails into Sydney as 1st woman to circle globe alone

1988 Kay Cottee sails into Sydney as 1st woman to circle the globe alone

1988 Mike Schmidt hits his 535th home run, moving into 8th place

1988 Carlos Lehder Rivas, of Colombia's Medellin drug cartel, is convicted in Florida for smuggling more than 3 tons of cocaine into US

1988 Iraq says it launched 16 missiles into Tehran

1987 South African Airways Boeing 747 crashes into Indian Ocean, 159 die

1987 "Into the Woods" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 764 performances

1987 Stephen Sondheim/James Lapine's musical "Into the Stars," premieres

1987 Lisa Steinberg, battered into coma by her adoptive father Joel

1987 10 die as Air Force jet crashed into a Ramada Inn near Indianapolis

1987 Jessica McClure rescued 58 hours after falling 22' into a well shaft

1987 Syrian army marches into Beirut

1987 Philippines constitution goes into effect

1986 Michael Sergio, who parachuted into Shea Stadium during game 6 of the World Series, sentenced to 100 hours of community service and fined $500

1986 "Into the Light" closes at Neil Simon Theater New York City after 6 performances

1986 Michael Sergio Parachutes into Shea Stadium during game 6 of WS

1986 "Into the Light" opens at Neil Simon Theater New York City for 6 performances

1986 Russian cargo ship crashes into cruise ship Admiral Nakhimov; 398 die

1986 Reggie Jackson hit his 537th home run passing Mickey Mantle into 6th place

1986 U.S.S.R. launches Mir space station into Earth orbit

1985 Shuttle Columbia carries Spacelab into orbit

1985 L Brock, Slaughter, A Vaughan, and H Wilhelm inducted into Hall of Fame

1985 Reggie Jackson hits his 513th home run to move into 10th place

1985 US's 1st manadatory seat belt law goes into effect (NY)

1984 Anna Fisher becomes 1st "mom" to go into orbit

1984 Baboon heart transplanted into a 15-day-old baby girl

1984 Red Sox Jim Rice grounds into record 33rd double play en route to 36

1984 Harmon Killebrew, Rick Ferrell, Don Drysdale, Pee Wee Reese, and Luis Aparicio inducted into Hall of Fame

1984 Islander Bryan Trottier ties NHL rec scores 5 seconds into game

1984 Soviet sub crashes into USS aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off Japan

1984 Mobil oil tanker spills 200,000 gallons into Columbia River

1984 Landsat 5 and ham satellite Oscar 11 launched into polar orbit

1984 500,000 Iranian soldiers move into Iraq

1984 AT&T's 22 owned Bell system companies divests into 8 companies

1983 Korean Boeing 747 strays into Siberia and is shot down by a Soviet jet

1983 B Robinson, J Marichal, G Kell, and W Alston inducted into Hall of Fame

1983 Cards outfielder Lonnie Smith checks into a drug rehab

1983 Infrared telescope satellite launched into polar orbit

1983 Russian radioactive satellite falls into Indian Ocean

1982 Israeli forces began pouring into west Beirut

1982 Pete Rose gets his 3,772nd hit, moves past Aaron into 2nd place

1982 Brazilian B-727 flight crashes into mountain; 135 die

1982 U.S.S.R. Salyut 7 space station put into orbit

1982 Jerry Pate celebrates golf win by jumping into the water hazard

1982 Honduras constitution goes into effect

1982 Air Florida 737 took off in a snowstorm, crashes into 14th St. Bridge in Washington, D.C., and falls into Potomac River, killing 78

1981 180 dies as Yugoslav DC-9 jetliner slams into a mountain

1981 Yugoslavic DC-9 crashes into mountain at Corsica, 174 killed

1981 Satellites China 10 and 11 launched into Earth orbit by B-1 rocket

1981 George Foster hits his 8th home run into red seats at Riverfront

1981 Coca-Cola Bottling Co agrees to pump $34 million into black business

1981 European Space Agency's Ariane carries 2 satellites into orbit

1980 New South Korean constitution comes into effect

1980 Kaline, Snider, Klein, and Tom Yawkey inducted into Hall of Fame

1980 Rohini 1, 1st Indian satellite, launches into orbit

1980 Italian plane crashes into Tyrrheense Sea, kills 81

1979 Air New Zealand DC-10 crashes into Mount Erebus on Antarctica kills 257

1979 Mali's constitution goes into effect

1979 Gary Roenicke hits into Orioles 13th triple play (Oakland)

1979 Peace treaty between Israel and Egypt goes into effect

1979 Henri La Mothe dives 28' into 12 3/8" of water

1978 Spain constitution goes into effect

1978 Pioneer Venus 2 drops 5 probes into atmosphere of Venus

1978 Pioneer Venus 1 goes into orbit around Venus

1978 NASL realligns its 24 teams into 6 divisions

1978 Gunman shoots his way into Iraqi Embassy in Paris

1978 U.S. Seasat 1, 1st oceanographic satellite, launched into polar orbit

1978 Dutch Investment bill (WIR) law goes into effect

1978 South Africa military goes into Angola

1978 Israel turns 3 military outposts in West Bank into civilian settlements

1977 International Sun-Earth Explorers 1 and 2 launched into Earth orbit

1977 Psychic Romark attempts to drive blindfolded, smashed into cop van

1977 Soviet space station Salyut 6 launched into Earth orbit

1977 High Energy Astronomy Observatory 1 launched into Earth orbit

1977 Billy Martin and Reggie Jackson get into a dug out altercation

1977 Belgium reapportions 2,359 communities into 596

1976 Albania constitution goes into effect

1976 Piper Cherokee crashes into Baltimore Memorial Stadium upper stands, 10 minutes after Colts lose 40-14 to Steelers. No one seriously hurt

1976 Algeria Constitution goes into effect

1976 Soyuz 22 carries 2 cosmonauts into Earth orbit for 8 days

1976 U.S. Viking 2 goes into Martian orbit after 11-month flight from Earth

1976 Viking 2 goes into orbit around Mars

1976 U.S. Viking 1 goes into Martian orbit after 10-month flight from Earth

1976 ABA (Nets, Pacers, Nuggets and Spurs) merges into NBA

1976 International Bill of Rights goes into effect (35 nations ratifying)

1976 US-German Helios B solar probe launched into solar orbit

1975 Constitution of Democratic Republic of Madagascar comes into force

1974 Soyuz 16 launched into Earth orbit for 6 days

1974 Express train runs full speed into Zagreb, Yugo rail yard killing 153

1974 1st extraterrestrial message sent from Earth into space

1974 Malta's constitution goes into effect

1974 Pan Am 707 crashes into mountains of Bali, killing 107

1974 Taiwan police shoots into crowd

1973 Soyuz 13 launched into Earth orbit for 8 days

1973 Bahrain's constitution goes into effect

1973 Skylab 4 launched into Earth orbit

1973 New Jersey becomes 1st state to allow girls into little league

1973 Egyptian tanks move further into Israel

1973 Insurance industry announces auto racers get into more highway accidents

1973 Soyuz 12 carries 2 cosmonauts into Earth orbit (2 days)

1973 New York Mets go into 1st place (at .500) after trailing 12 games

1973 President Nixon signed into law a measure lifting pro football's blackout

1973 Roberto Clemente and Warren Spahn inducted into Hall of Fame

1973 Stevie Wonder involved in car crash, goes into a 4 day coma

1973 Munson and Fisk get into a brawl at Fenway Park

1973 78 drown as flash flood sweeps a bus into a river, India

1973 NASA launches Radio Astronomy Explorer 49 into lunar orbit

1973 President Nixon signs Endangered Species Act into law

1973 Henry Boucha, Detroit Red Wings, scores 6 sec into a game vs Mont

1972 New North Korean constitution comes into effect

1972 Bangladesh Constitution goes into effect

1972 Chicago's Dick Allen is 4th (Jimmie Foxx, Hank Greenberg, and Alex Johnson) to homer into Comiskey Park's center field bleachers

1972 Bloody Sunday: British soldiers fire into crowd, kill 13

1972 U.S.S.R. launches Prognoz 2 into earth orbit (549/200,000 km)

1972 White House "plumbers" break into Democratic National headquarters at the Watergate Hotel

1972 Bus plunges into Nile River killing 50 pilgrims. (Minia Egypt)

1972 Overloaded South Korean bus plunges into reservoir, killing 77

1972 Kiteman attempting to throw out 1st ball in Phillie Vet crashes into centerfield seats

1972 Iberian Airlines crashes into 800' peak on island of Ibiza, 104 die

1971 Eisenhower dollar put into circulation

1971 Alaskan 727 crashes into Chilkoot Mountain, kills 109 (Alaska)

1971 Watergate team breaks into Daniel Ellsberg's doctor's office

1971 Le Roy (Satchel) Paige inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame

1971 U.S. launches 1st satellite into lunar orbit from manned spacecraft

1971 Chips Rafferty, actor (Kona Coast, Walk into Hell), dies at 62

1971 A commuter bus plunges into Panama Canal, killing 38 of 43 aboard

1971 Bulgarian constitution goes into effect

1971 200 die in landslide into Lake Yanahuani, Chungar Peru

1971 12,000 South Vietnamese troops cross into Laos

1971 Golfing Vice President Spiro Agnew hits 2 tee shots into crowd, injuring 2

1970 Iraq's constitution goes into effect

1970 Chartered Dan-Air Comet crashes into mountains north of Barcelona, Spain killing 112 vacationing Britons

1970 U.S. ends 2 month military offensive into Cambodia

1970 Soyuz 9 launched into Earth orbit for 18 days

1970 Nuclear non-proliferation treaty goes into effect

1970 Dominican DC-9 crashes into sea at Santo Domingo, kills 102

1970 Dry powder avalanche moving at 120 mph smashes into youth hostel killing 40 Belgian, French, and German youths (Val d'Isere, France)

1970 NFL realigns into 3 divisions (down from 4)

1970 Revised calendar for Western (RC) Church goes into effect

1969 Apollo 11 goes into Moon orbit

1969 22-year-old man sneaks into wheel pod of a jet parked in Havana and survives 9-hour flight to Spain despite thin oxygen levels at 29,000 ft

1969 Nuclear reactor Dodewaard Netherlands goes into use

1969 Stan Coveleski and Waite Hoyt are voted into baseball Hall of Fame

1969 Orbiting Solar Observatory 5 launched into earth orbit

1968 Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 launched into Earth orbit

1968 U.S. pro soccer 14 teams merged into 1 all star team

1968 France refuses U.K. entry into common market

1968 NL announces break into 2 divisions for 1969

1968 Executive Council decides both AL and NL to divide into 2 divisions

1968 Truth in Lending Act signed into law

1968 AL announces it is splitting into 2 divisions

1968 Vatican City's Apostolic Constitution of 1967 goes into effect

1968 Country's 1st 911 phone system went into service in Haleyville, Ala

1968 Pennsylvania Railroad/New York City Central merge into Penn Central

1968 Bill Masterson, (Minn Northstars), checked into the boards and killed

1968 Explorer 36 (GEOS-B) launched into earth orbit (1080/1570 km)

1968 ABC radio splits into 4 networks (Info, Entertainment, Contemp and FM)

1967 United Soccer Association and National Pro Soccer League merge into NASL

1967 U.S. launches Pioneer 8 into solar orbit

1967 Oriole Brooks Robinson hits into a record 4th triple play

1967 Muhammad Ali refuses induction into army and stripped of boxing title

1967 Martial Law goes into effect in Greece

1967 Kosmos 140 (Soyuz Test) launches into Earth orbit

1966 Pioneer 7 launched into solar orbit

1966 Medicare goes into effect

1966 Bombay-New York Air India flight crashes into Mont Blanc (Switzerland), 117 die

1966 Rocker Jan Berry crashes his corvette into a parked truck

1966 75 MPH air currents causes BOAC 707 crash into Mount Fuji, 124 die

1966 French satellite Diapason D-1A launch into Earth orbit

1965 Pioneer 6 launched into solar orbit

1965 2 trucks crashed into a crowd of dancers (Sotouboua Togo) kills 125

1965 Venera 3 launched, 1st to land on another planet (crashes into Venus)

1965 Trackless trolley plunged into Nile River drowning 74 (Cairo Egypt)

1965 India and Pakistan ceases-fire goes into effect

1965 Gemini 5 launched into Earth orbit (2 astronauts)

1965 Orioles' Brooks Robinson hits into his record tying (George Sisler)

1965 Cook Islands enters into free association with New Zealand

1965 Lyndon Baines Johnson signs Medicare bill, which goes into effect in 1966

1965 Corey Parker, born in New York City, actor, How I Got into College, Roger-Eddie Dodd

1965 Phillies Dick Allen and Frank Thomas get into a fight during practice

1965 Early Bird satellite goes into commercial service

1965 U.S.S.R. launches Kosmos 57 into earth orbit (Voskhod Test)

1965 Eastern DC-7B crashes into Atlantic off Jones Beach NJ, kills 84

1965 Orbiting Solar Observatory 2 launches into Earth orbit (552/636 km)

1964 Phillies 7th straight loses sends them into 2nd place

1964 Wilderness Act signed into law by President Lyndon B Johnson

1964 President Johnson signs Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act into law

1964 Unmanned Apollo 2 Saturn test launched into Earth orbit

1964 24th Amendment to U.S. Constitution goes into effect and states voting rights could not be denied due to failure to pay taxes

1963 Landslide into Vaiont Dam emptys lake, kills 3-4,000 (Italy)

1963 Language laws in Belgium goes into effect causing a riot

1962 Wally Schirra in Sigma 7 launched into Earth orbit

1962 Stan Musial's 3,516th hit moves over Tris Speaker into 2nd place

1962 E German border guards shot and kill Peter Fechter, 18, attempting to cross Berlin Wall into western sector

1962 Mariner I launched to Mars falls into Atlantic Ocean

1962 Lou Brock is 2nd to home run into Polo Grounds right-center field bleachers

1962 Oscar 2 (ham radio satellite) launched into Earth orbit

1962 M. Scott Carpenter aboard Aurora 7 launched into Earth orbit

1962 H Trendley Dean, doctor (introduced fluoridation into water)

1962 Express train crashed into wreckage of a commuter train and a freight, killing 163, injuring 400 (Tokyo, Japan)

1962 American Airlines 707 plunges nose 1st into Jamaica Bay New York killing 95

1962 Dutch express train crashes into slow commuter train, 93 die (Netherlands)

1961 Unmanned Mercury-Atlas 4 launched into Earth orbit

1961 Antarctic Treaty goes into effect

1961 NASA launches Explorer 11 into Earth orbit to study gamma rays

1961 Explorer 10 launched into elongated Earth orbit (177/181,000 km)

1961 Sputnik 10 carries a dog into Earth orbit; later recovered

1961 Sputnik 9 carries Chernushka, a dog, into orbit

1961 Sputnik 7 launches into Earth orbit; probable Venus probe failure

1961 U.N. genocide pact goes into effect

1960 Benelux treaty goes into effect

1960 South Korean troops cross 38th parallel into North Korea

1960 International Development Association (U.N. agency) comes into existence

1960 60 people die when bus plunges off bridge into Turvo River, Brazil

1960 Sputnik 5 carries 2 dogs, 3 mice into orbit (later recovered alive)

1960 CFL's Calgary Stampeders move into McMahon Stadium

1960 Discoverer 13 launched into orbit; returned 1st object from space

1960 Sputnik 4 launched into Earth orbit; later recovery failed

1960 House investigating committee, looking into payola questions

1960 India's Bombay state split into Gujarat and Maharashtra states

1960 Pioneer 5 launched into solar orbit between Earth and Venus

1959 Chinese troops move into India, 17 die

1959 Vanguard 3 launched into Earth orbit

1959 Satellite Discoverer 6 launched into polar orbit

1959 Military satellite Discoverer 5 launched (into polar orbit)

1959 2,000 ft long by 1,300 foot wide section of ridge falls into Madis

1959 Monkeys Able and Baker zoom 300 mi (500 km) into space on Jupiter missile, became 1st animals retrieved from a space mission

1959 USAF launches Discoverer II into polar orbit

1958 Giant splash caused by fall of 90 million tons of rock and ice into Lituya Bay, Alaska washes 1,800 feet up the mountain

1958 Brooks Robinson, hits into 1st of record 4 triple plays

1958 UP and International News Service merge into United Press International

1958 Yankees threaten to broadcast games nationwide if NL goes ahead with plans to broadcast, games into New York City

1958 Navy launches Vanguard 1 into orbit (2nd U.S.), measures Earth shape

1958 Royals basketball star Maurice Stokes collapsed during a playoff game with encephalitis; He goes into a coma and is permanently disabled

1958 Vanguard TV-3 back-up launches into Earth orbit; reaches 6 km

1958 Egypt and Syria announce plans to merge into United Arab Republic

1958 Phillies agree to televise 78 games into New York City (doesn't happen)

1958 Anatoli Boukreev, born in Russia, Anatolij Nikolaevich Bukreev, climber, mountaineer, made seven, 8,000-metre peaks without supplemental oxygen, died in avalanche on Annapurna, chronicled in books 'Into Thin Air', 'The Climb'

1957 USAF sends 2 aluminium bullets into space

1957 Excursion train crashed into a ravine killing 175, injuring 400

1957 11th Tony Awards: Long Days Journey into the Night and My Fair Lady win

1956 U.S.S.R. sends tanks into Hungary and threatens to bomb Budapest

1956 Israeli paratroopers drop into Sinai to open Straits of Tiran

1956 1st transatlantic telephone cable goes into operation (Scot-Canada)

1956 Joe Cronin and Hank Greenberg inducted into Hall of Fame

1956 At Detroit's Briggs Stadium, Mickey Mantle hits 2 Billy Hoeft pitches into right center field bleachers (no else hits 1 there)

1955 1st separation of virus into component parts reported

1955 Patrick McCabe, born in Clones, Ireland, novelist, wrote 'Butcher Boy', 'Breakfast on Pluto', both adapted into films by Neil Jordan

1955 South East Asia Collective Defense Treaty goes into effect

1955 U.S. federations of trade unions merge into AFL/CIO

1954 Kingdom of Netherlands, with Netherlands and Netherlands Antilles as autonomous parts, comes into being

1954 U.S. Senate censures Joe McCarthy, Senator-R-Wisconsin, for "conduct that tends to bring Senate into dishonor and disrepute"

1954 Armistice divides Vietnam into two countries

1954 Armistice for Indo-China signed, Vietnam separates into North and South

1954 Jeremy Coney, cricketer, New Zealand captain turned them into world-beaters

1954 European Convention on Human Rights goes into effect

1954 2 ton locomotive swept into ravine by avalanche 10 die (Austria)

1953 1st 3 Dutch female police officers go into service

1953 Black families move into Trumbull Park housing project in Chicago

1953 Dizzy Dean, Al Simmons Chief Bender, Bobby Wallace, Harry Wright, Ed Barrow, and Bill Klem and Tom Connolly are inducted into Hall of Fame

1953 Yankee Irv Noren hits into a triple-play, Yankees beat Washington 12-4

1953 Joe Adcock is 1st to homer into Polo Grounds' center field bleachers

1953 Billy Sheehan, rocker, Mr Big-Lean Into It

1952 Arab League security pact goes into effect

1952 Diane E[lizabeth] Duane, U.S., sci-fi author, Door into Fire

1951 Peabo Bryson, born in Greenville, South Carolina, R&B vocalist, I'm So into You

1950 Chinese troops cross 38th Parallel, into South Korea

1950 Indies Constitution goes into effect

1950 North Koreans troop reach Seoul, United Nations asks members to aid South Korea, Truman orders Air Force and Navy into Korean conflict

1950 Indians' Luke Easter hits longest ball in Cleveland Stadium history, 477 feet, into upper deck, Section 4

1950 Cathy Sherk, born in Bancroft, Ontario, professional golfer, achieved No. 1 World ranking by Golf Digest, 1978, earned silver medal with Canadian team at 1978 World Amateur Golf Team Championships, joined LPGA tour, inducted into Canadian Golf Hall of Fame, 1995

1949 Despite 71 injuries, Yankees have been in 1st place all season until Red Sox move into a tie for 1st place

1949 NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, goes into effect

1949 NBL and NBAA merge into National Basketball Association

1948 U.S. State Department announces work on placing objects into Earth orbit

1948 6 female reservists become 1st women sworn into regular U.S. Navy

1948 20 Jews killed when a bomb is thrown into Jewish quarter of Cairo

1947 HUAC opens hearings into alleged Communist influence in Hollywood

1947 Balsa raft Kon Tiki crashes into a Polynesian archipelago reef

1947 200 die when train derails and fell into a river in Canton, China

1947 "Truman Doctrine" goes into effect, aiding Turkey and Greece

1947 Convention on International Civil Aviation goes into effect

1946 Part of East Prussia incorporated into Russian SFSR

1945 U.N. charter comes into effect

1945 UN's Food and Agriculture Organization comes into existence

1945 1st "bug" in a computer program discovered by Grace Hopper, a moth was removed with tweasers from a relay and taped into the log

1945 Airplane crashes into the Empire State Building

1945 U.S. Army B-25 crashes into 79th floor of Empire State Building, 14 die

1945 Canadian troops move into Amsterdam

1945 British troops pull into Utrecht, Netherlands

1945 Princess Irene Brigade moves into the Hague Netherlands

1944 Japanese kamikaze crashes into U.S. cruiser Nashville, kills 138

1944 1st allied ship sails into Schelde Antwerp

1944 British troops march into Athens

1944 Soviets march into Hungary and Czechoslovakia

1944 Russians march into Bulgaria; Bulgaria declares war on Germany

1944 Russian-Romanian troops march into Bucharest

1944 U.S. B-24 crashes into school in Freckelton England, 76 killed

1944 U.S. troop march into Guam

1944 Soviet Army marches into Lublin Poland

1944 Russian troops cross river Bug/march into Poland

1944 British troops march into Caen

1944 U.S. troop march into Carentan/Caumont, Normandy

1944 Allies march into Rome

1944 Billy Vera, musician, & Beaters-At This Moment, Into the Night

1944 Soviet Army marches into pro-German Romania

1944 Bus falls off bridge into Passaic River New Jersey, killing 16

1943 Bomb fleeing crowd falls into London shelter; 173 die

1943 New York Yankee Joe DiMaggio, enlists into the U.S. army

1943 British 8th army marches into Tripoli

1942 1st Japanese women camp (Ambarawa) goes into use

1942 Train crashes into bus, killing 16 and injuring 20 (Detroit Michigan)

1942 Anne Frank, 13, goes into hiding with her family and 4 other Jews

1942 Germany troop march into Woronezj

1942 Anne Frank's family goes into hiding in After House, Amsterdam

1942 Germany troop march into Sebastopol

1942 Hitler visits Field Marshal Von Bocks headquarter/d into/d Ukraine

1942 Germany Armys march into Sebastopol

1942 Japanese troop march into Lashio, cuts off Burma Road

1942 U.S. move native-born of Japanese ancestry into detention centers

1942 Japanese troop march into Batavia

1942 Japanese troops march into Palembang, South Sumatra

1942 Daylight Savings War Time goes into effect in U.S.

1942 General Timoshenko's troops move into Ukraine

1941 State of siege goes into effect in Bohemia/Moravia

1941 Charles Lindbergh, charges "British, Jewish and Roosevelt administration" are trying to get U.S. into WW II

1941 Kovono Lithuanian Jews are herded into Slobodka ghetto

1941 Doris Coley, born in Goldsboro, North Carolina, lead singer of The Shirelles, married names are Doris Coley Kenner and Doris Kenner Jackson, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

1941 Germans advanced into Russia and took Vilna, Brest-Litovsk and Kaunas

1941 Estonia loses 11,000 inhabitants as a consequence of mass deportations into Siberia

1941 Great British convoy marches into Alexandria

1941 Adolph Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland

1941 Russian-Japan no-attack treaty goes into effect

1941 Grand Coulee Dam in Washington goes into operation

1941 Wolfgang Bauer, born in Graz, Styria, writer, playwright, works translated into 24 languages, include, 'Magic Afternoon', 'Change'

1941 1st baseball player drafted into WW II (Hugh Mulcahy, Phillies)

1941 British troops march into Abyssinia

1940 Deadline for Warsaw Jews to move into Warsaw Ghetto

1940 40 hour work week goes into effect (Fair Labor Standards of 1938)

1940 Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia incorporated into Soviet Union

1940 Estonia is annexed into Soviet empire

1940 Lithuanian SSR is accepted into U.S.S.R.

1940 German armour division moves into Northern France

1939 Polish Jewish forced into obligatory work service

1939 German troops move into Danzig

1939 Hitler proclaims he wants to move into Poland

1938 Concentration camp at Flossenburg goes into use

1937 2nd Irish constitution goes into effect; Irish Free State renamed Erie

1936 1st giant panda imported into US

1936 Harry Froboess dives 110 m from airship into Bodensee and survives

1935 Saar incorporated into Germany

1935 Great airship, USS Macon, crashes into Pacific Ocean

1935 Oil pipeline Iraq-Mediterranean goes into use

1934 Black-McKeller Bill passes causes Bill Boeing empire to break up into Boeing United Aircraft [Technologies] and United Air Lines

1934 Tigers' Goose Goslin grounds into 4 straight double plays

1934 Babe Didrikson pitches an inning in an A's-Dodgers exhibition game Walks 1, hits the next guy, 3rd guy hits into triple-play

1934 Yuri Gagarin, born in Russia, cosmonaut, 1st man into space, aboard Vostok 1

1933 NFL divides into (2) 5 team divisions

1933 Edward de Bono, physician, inventor, consultant, author, invented term lateral thinking, promoted deliberate teaching of thinking as a subject in public schools, advanced applied psychology, making theories about creativity, perception into usable tools

1933 Congress is called into special session by FDR, and began its "100 days"

1933 20th Amendment goes into effect: President term begins in Jan not March

1932 Dnjepr Dam in U.S.S.R. put into operation (world's biggest)

1932 World Series moves to Chicago, In 5th inning, Babe Ruth waits until he has 2 strikes, points and hits next pitch into center field bleachers

1932 Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd merge into Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

1932 George Washington quarter goes into circulation

1931 His Master's Voice and Columbia Records merge into EMI

1931 Ivan V. Lalic, born in Belgrade, Serbia, poet, awarded most prestigious literary prizes in Yugoslavia, poems are translated into more than twenty languages

1931 Piccard and Knipfer make 1st flight into stratosphere, by balloon

1930 Baseball changes rule, ball bounces into stands not a home run, now a double

1930 Brian Statham, born in Gorton, England, cricketer, 20th century's leading fast bowler, inducted into ICC Cricket Hall of Fame, 2009

1930 Telephone connection England-Australia goes into service

1929 Jan Mayen island, 500 km NNE of Iceland, incorporated into Norway

1929 Democratic constitution goes into effect in Ecuador

1927 Oskar Pastior, born in Sibiu, Romania, poet, writer, translator, studied German at University of Bucharest, translated Romanian literature into German, among other works by Tudor Arghezi, Tristan Tzara, Gellu Naum, Urmuz

1926 Louise L. Hay, born in Los Angeles, California, motivational author, professional speaker, self-help and motivational writer, 'You Can Heal Your Life', 1984, on the New York Times Bestseller list, sold 35 million copies in 30 languages, made into movie of the same title, founder, Hay House Publishing

1925 Harvey Haddix, baseball pitcher, pitched perfect game into 12th

1925 Philadelphia A's go into bottom of 8th inning trailing 15-4, then score 13 times to defeat Cleveland 17-15

1925 1st waterless gas storage tank put into service, Michigan City, Ind

1923 Yankees hit into a triple-play but beat A's 9-2

1923 Firestone puts their inflatable tires into production

1923 Flying Scotsman goes into service

1922 1st constitution of Irish Free State comes into operation

1921 Belgium's public library law goes into force

1921 Present constitution of Liechtenstein comes into effect

1920 Ireland divided into 2 parts, each with its own parliament

1920 Vaino Linna, born in Urjala, Finland, author, wrote Finnish books, Under the North Star translated into English by Richard Impola

1920 USPD-KPD parties merge into Vereinigte Communist Party of Germany

1920 Bulgarian and allied Peace of Neuilly-sur-Seine goes into effect

1920 British Mandate over Palestine goes into effect, lasts 28 years

1920 David Wright, born in Johannesburg, South Africa, given name David John Murray Wright, editor of 'X', autobiography 'Deafness. A Personal Account' gives insight into deafness

1920 18th Amendment, prohibition, goes into effect; repealed in 1933

1919 Yankee Muddy Ruel hits into a triple-play

1919 Austrian National Meeting affirms Anschluss (incorporate into Germany)

1918 1st daylight savings time in U.S. goes into effect

1918 Alick Wickham dives 200' into Australia's Yarra River

1917 Lawrence F O'Brien, Watergate conspirators broke into his office

1916 U.S. troops under General Pershing march into Mexico

1916 Germany troop march into Fort Faux, Verdun

1916 Belgian troop march into Kigali, German East-Africa

1916 General Pershing, 15,000 troops chasing Villa into Mexico, stays 10-mos

1915 Rationing laws go into effect in Netherlands

1915 British/South African troops march into German SW-Africa

1914 German forces move into Antwerp Belgium (WW I)

1914 German troops march into France pushes French army to the Sedan

1914 Von Ludendorff and von Hindenburg move into E Prussia enroute to Russia

1914 U.S. Army air service 1st comes into being, in Signal Corps

1914 Sammy Baugh, born in Texas, American football player, coach, inducted into Pro Football Hall of Fame

1913 President Woodrow Wilson signs Federal Reserve Act into law

1913 Federal Income Tax signed into law (at 1%)

1913 Serbian troops march into Albania

1913 Phillies and Braves tie record of only 1 run in a double header, Phillies win 1st game 1-0, then a scoreless tie into 10th

1913 Dutch Disability laws go into effect

1913 Montenegro troops march into Skoetari, North-Albania

1913 Department of Commerce and Labor split into separate departments

1913 1st prize inserted into a Cracker Jack box

1912 Plant Quarantine Act goes into effect

1912 British National Health Insurance Act goes into effect

1912 New York Giants lead Bost Braves 14-2 into 9th, Giants win 21-12

1910 1st Movie stunt: man jumps into Hudson river from a burning balloon

1909 1st subway car with side doors goes into service in New York City

1903 French Equatorial Africa separates into Gabon, Chad and Ubangi-Shari

1903 British forces under MacDonald and Young march into Tibet

1903 In 11th an old black ball is put into play against Cleveland, Tigers' Nap Lajoie protests ignored, he hurls ball out of park and forfeits game

1901 Florence Elridge, born in Brooklyn, New York, actress, Long Days Journey into the Night

1901 George Keyt, born in Sri Lanka, artist, modern painter, cubist style, influenced by Henri Matisse, celebrated for line drawing translation of Gita Govinda into English and Sinhalese

1900 Leon Kruczkowski, Polish author, Kordian into Cham

1900 Bruno Apitz, born in Leipzip, Germany, writer, published poems in Communist newspapers, novel 'Nackt unter Wolfen', Naked Among the Wolves, translated into more than thirty languages

1900 Brigadier General Broadwoods troops fall into guerrilla hands

1900 Compulsory education in Netherlands goes into effect

1898 Guomundur G Hagalin, Iceland author, Kristun/d into Hamravik

1898 Ottawa Football Club re-organizes into the Rough Riders

1898 Championship wrestling match at Met turns into a brawl

1897 Brooklyn's last day as a city, it incorporates into New York City (1/1/1898)

1893 Heavy rain wash "quick clay" into a deep valley, kills 111 (Norway)

1892 Jack Hulbert, born in Ely, England, actor, Into the Blue, Bulldog Jack

1892 David Garnett, England, novelist and editor, Lady into Fox

1890 1st signal box for San Francisco Police Department goes into operation

1890 Captain Guillaume of Kerckhoven marches into Boma Congo

1881 World's 1st elec tram goes into service in Lichterfelder (near Berlin)

1877 Nikolai A Nekrasov, Russian poet (Metshty into Zvuki), dies at 56

1877 Chase National Bank opens in New York City (later merges into Chase Manhattan)

1877 Nez Perce-indians flee into to Yellowstone National Park

1877 U.S. troops authorized to pursue bandits into Mexico

1875 William Bonwill, patents dental mallet to impact gold into cavities

1870 Joseph Rainey (SC) became 1st black sworn into House of Reps

1870 Rome is incorporated into Italy by royal decree

1868 Constitution of Grand Duchy of Luxembourg comes into effect

1867 U.S. Congress commission looks into "impeachment" of President Andrew Johnson

1866 Chicago water supply tunnel 3,227 m into Lake Michigan completed

1866 1st ambulance goes into service

1865 Fire alarm and police telegraph system put into operation in San Francisco

1864 Lee sends Early into Shenandoah Valley

1864 Confederate warship CSS Alabama runs into harbor of Cherbourg

1863 Harriet Tubman leads Union guerrillas into Maryland, freeing slaves

1863 1st wartime conscription law in U.S. goes into effect

1863 1st black Civil War regiment, South Carolina Volunteers, mustered into U.S. army

1862 Confederate armies officially divide into corps

1862 100,000 federal troops prepare to march into Corinth, Mississippi

1862 Felix Zollicoffer, General killed after mistakenly riding into Union lines

1861 Ft. Pikens, Florida falls into state hands

1854 Antwerp-Roosendaal railway goes into use

1854 Composer R Schumann is saved from suicide attempt into the Rhine

1853 Commodore Matthew Perry sails his frigate Susquehanna into Tokyo Bay

1845 Henry David Thoreau moves into his shack on Walden Pond

1835 HMS Beagle sails into Bay of Islands (New Zealand)

1835 HMS Beagle moves into Bay of Concepcion

1834 German Tolunie goes into effect

1829 Sam Patch, loses his live in a 125' dive into Genesse Falls

1829 "Stourbridge Lion" locomotive goes into service

1822 In San Salvador, a congress proposes incorporation into US

1822 1st eruption of Galunggung (Java) sends boiling sludge into valley

1822 Congress combined East and West Florida into Florida Territory

1817 Mississippi Territory is divided into Alabama Territory and Mississippi

1814 Britain and allies march into Paris after defeating Napoleon

1812 Waltz introduced into English ballrooms. Most observers consider it disgusting and immoral. No wonder it caught on!

1806 A side of Rossberg Peak collapses into Goldau Valley, Switzerland, kills 500

1805 Napoleons army draws into the Rhine

1803 1,800 sovereign German states unite into 60 states

1800 John Adams is 1st President to move into the White House

1798 New conscription law goes into effect in France

1792 Prussia army moves into French territory

1791 President Washington calls the U.S. Senate into its 1st special session

1790 Chrysanthemums are introduced into England from China

1789 U.S. constitution goes into effect

1789 President-elect George Washington moves into Franklin House, New York

1788 U.S. Constitution goes into effect as New Hampshire is 9th to ratify

1787 Prussian army moves into Netherlands

1774 Chestertown tea party occurs (tea dumped into Chester River)

1765 Stamp Act goes into effect in British colonies

1759 Pope Clement XIII allows Bible to be translated into various languages

1746 Absalom Jones, Delaware, born into slavery

1745 Bonnie Prince Charlies army draws into Manchester

1745 Bonnie Prince Charlies army moves into Manchester and occupy Carlisle

1734 Spanish army under Don Carlos (III) draws into Naples

1688 Prince Willem III's troops pull into London

1667 French troops attack into Southern Netherlands

1662 Uniformity Act of England goes into effect

1655 Lord Protector Cromwell divides England into 11 districts

1653 British Barebones Parliament goes into session

1621 Sir Francis Bacon thrown into Tower of London for 1 night

1618 Prince Maurits' troops pull into Utrecht

1601 Earl Robert Devereux of Essex armies draws into London

1587 Sir Frances Drake sails into Cadiz Spain and sinks Spanish fleet

1569 Latvia Parliament accept Union of Lublin, incorporate into Poland

1556 Charles V and Maria of Hungary march into Spain

1553 Flemish woman introduces practice of starching linen into England

1544 William Gilbert, Essex England, physicist, researcher into magnetism

1534 Jacques Cartier 1st sails into mouth of St. Lawrence River

1534 Lubeck accept free Dutch ships into East Sea

1522 Treaty of Brussels: Habsburgers split into Spanish/Austrian Branches

1391 Mob led by Ferrand Martinez surounds and sets fire to Jewish quarter of Seville Spain, surviving Jews sold into slavery

1265 1st English Parliament called into session by Earl of Leicester

1199 Rambam (Maimonides) authorizes Samuel Ibn Tibbon to translate Guide of Perplexed from Arabic into Hebrew

1187 Saladins army marches into Jerusalem

1138 English defeated Scots at Cowton Moor Banners of various saints were carried into battle which led to being called Battle of the Standard

1110 Crusaders march into Beirut causing a bloodbath

1099 Crusaders herd Jews of Jerusalem into a synagogue and set it afire

609 Pope Boniface I turns Pantheon into Catholic church


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