2000 Wladyslaw Szpilman, pianist/writer, ", write Death of a City, later filmed as The Pianist, ", dies at 78
1997 Murray Burnett, writer, Everybody Goes to Rick's - later filmed as Casablanca, dies at 86
1996 Eappens hire Louise Woodward as nanny, later she's charged with murder
1995 Lord Home of Hirsel, cricket (Middlesex player later British PM), dies
1994 Former President Nixon suffered a stroke and dies 4 days later
1992 Dateline NBC airs a demonstration show General Motors trucks, blowing up on impact, later revealed NBC rigged test
1991 Roseanne Arnold and Tom Arnold wed again, they divorced later
1990 Right to Die case permits Nancy Cruzan to have her feeding tube removed, she dies 12 days later
1989 Oklahoma football player Charles Thompson is charged with selling cocaine; he is later sentenced to 2 years in prison
1988 NBC premieres "Later" with Bob Costas (1st guest Linda Ellerbee)
1988 U.S. Lt. Col Wm Higgins kidnapped by Lebanese terrorists and later killed
1988 3-judge panel of 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco strikes down Army's ban on homosexuals (later overturned by appeal)
1987 In Arkansas R Gene Simmons kills 2, later bodies of 14 of his relatives are found at his home near Dover Ark
1987 Ranger's Bob Frosse becomes 2nd goalie to score a goal (vs Isles) It is later ruled that he should not be credited with goal
1986 U.S. Senate ratifies UN's anti-genocide convention 37 years later
1984 Supreme Court rules (5-4) oks private use of home VCRs to tape TV programs for later viewing does not violate federal copyright laws
1983 Jury in KC, Mo, awards TV anchorwoman Christine Craft $500,000 in sex discrimination suit against KMBC-TV (later overturned)
1982 Car maker John DeLorean indicted for drug trafficking, later acquitted
1982 30 Something stars Ken Olin and Patricia Wettig meet, later they marry
1981 Rochester Red Wings and Pawtucket Red Sox play to 2-2 tie in 32 innings, game suspended at 4:07 AM (Pawtucket later wins in 33rd)
1981 Washington Post Janet Cooke wins Pulitzer Prize (later admits story a hoax)
1981 British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, a truck driver later convicted of "Yorkshire Ripper" murders of 13 women
1977 Angels acquire Dave Kingman from Padres for cash 9 days later Yankees buy Kingman (started with Mets) who plays in all 4 divisions in 1977
1977 Jimmy Carter cans B-1A bomber later "B-1's the B-52"
1977 Oil enters Trans-Alaska pipeline exits 38 days later at Valdez
1976 "Bionic Woman" with Lindsay Wagner debuts on ABC (later NBC)
1975 Soyuz 19 and Apollo 18 launched; rendezvous 2 days later
1974 A's Catfish Hunter is ruled a free agent (later signs with Yankees)
1974 Helios 1 launched by U.S., Germany; later makes closest flyby of Sun
1974 Ruffian begins her racing career as a filly and dies 14 months later
1974 Tony Greig takes 8-86 vs. WI Port-of-Spain (later 5-70 in 2nd inn)
1973 Yanks sign Dick Williams as manager, overturned later by AL Pres
1973 Delta Airlines DC-9 crashes in fog at Logan Airport, Boston, killing all but one of 89 aboard. Lone survivor dies 6 months later
1972 Balt Roric Harrison is last AL pitcher to homer until interleague play 25 years later
1971 Peruvian Airlines Electra crashes at headwaters of Amazon, killing all except Juliane Margaret Koepcke found 10 days later
1971 Chuck Hughes, Detroit Lion collapses during game and later, dies
1971 Tigers ace reliever John Hiller, 27, sufferes a heart attack, but later makes a remarkable comeback to record 38 saves
1969 New York Mets fall 9 games back, later to win pennant
1969 Soyuz 4 launched; rendezvous with Soyuz 5 two days later
1968 Saeed Al-Saffar, cricketer, UAE batsman 1996 World Cup, later captain
1968 Nuclear-powered sub Scorpion, with 99 men, reported missing and is later found at the bottom of the ocean off Azores
1967 New Jersey Americans (later NY/New Jersey Nets) play 1st ABA game
1967 Pope Paul VI names 27 new cardinals, including Karol Wojtyla, archbishop of Krakow, who later became Pope John Paul II
1967 "Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" premieres on CBS (later ABC, NBC)
1966 Beatles pose with mutilated dolls and butchered meat for the cover of the "Yesterday and Today" album, It is later pulled
1965 U.S.S.R. launches Luna 5; later impacts on Moon
1964 CBS purchases 80% of Yanks for $11,200,000, later buys remaining 20%
1964 Beckwith arrested for murder of Medger Evers, found guilty 30 yr later
1963 Greg Kinnear, actor/talk show host, Talk Soup, Sabrina, Later
1962 Cleve sends Harry Chiti to Mets for a player to be named later, on
1962 Benny Paret, KOed in a welterweight title, he dies 10 days later
1961 Sputnik 10 carries a dog into Earth orbit; later recovered
1960 Sputnik 5 carries 2 dogs, 3 mice into orbit (later recovered alive)
1960 Sputnik 4 launched into Earth orbit; later recovery failed
1958 "Andy Williams Show" premieres on ABC (later on CBS and NBC)
1957 "Blondie" situation comedy premieres on NBC TV (later on CBS)
1956 "My Friend Flicka" premieres on CBS (later NBC) TV
1955 John Williams Cox buys Yankee Stadium, sells grounds to Knights of Columbus, later leaves structure to Rice University (1962)
1955 1st "Bob Cummings Show" premieres on NBC (later on CBS)
1954 Tonight Show premieres on NBC (Johnny takes over 8 years later)
1954 Austria's worst avalanche-kills 200; 9hrs later 2nd one-kills 115
1953 "General Electric Theater" premieres on CBS TV; Reagan later hosts
1952 Sew Shivnarine, cricketer, 3 Tests for WI 1978, later USA captain
1952 Bob Costas, born in Queens, New York, sportscaster/talk show host, Later
1951 New York Giants lose to go 13 games behind Brooklyn Dodgers, later win pennant
1950 1st strip of Charlie Brown, "Li'l Folks," later "Peanuts" in 9 papers
1950 "Arthur Murray Party" premieres on ABC TV (later DuMont, CBS, NBC)
1950 "Your Hit Parade" premieres on NBC (later CBS) TV
1949 "Red Barber's Clubhouse" sports show premieres on CBS (later NBC) TV
1949 "They Stand Accused" courtroom drama premieres on CBS (later DuMont)
1948 Nolan Clarke, cricketer, Barbados bat 1970-77, later Holland stalwart
1948 Ted Mack's "Original Amateur Hour" begins, DuMont (later NBC/ABC/CBS)
1946 Baseball approves a 168-game schedule, but later rescinds it
1945 Hideki Tojo, Japanese PM during most of WW II, attempts suicide rather than face war crimes tribunal attempt fails, later he is hanged
1944 Anne Frank's last diary entry; 3 days later she is arrested
1943 John Shepherd, cricketer, WI all-rounder 1969-71, later in South Africa
1943 Creed Bratton, California, rock guitarist, Grass Roots-Sooner or Later
1943 Teams agrees to start season later due to WW II
1941 Howard Florey and Norman Heatley meet for 1st time, 11 days later they successfully recreate penicillin
1939 Britain declares war on Germany. France follows 6 hours later quickly joined by Australia, NZ, South Africa and Canada
1938 Cyril Mitchley, cricket wicket-keeper, Transvaal, later Test umpire
1936 Ian McLachlan, cricketer, Cambridge and S Aust bat, later Liberal MP
1936 Tokyo, Japan is awarded the 1940 Olympics, later cancelled
1933 National Industrial Recovery Act becomes law, later struck down
1929 Peter Loader, cricketer, England quick in 13 Tests 1954-59, later WA
1928 Pitcairn Airlines (later Eastern) begins service
1927 Ed Hickman kidnaps child he later beheads
1926 Donald Carr, cricketer, England player in 50's, later MCC honcho
1926 Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson vanished in Venice California She showed up a month later and said she had been kidnapped
1926 Clyde Walcott, cricketer, one of the three W's, later ICC chairman
1925 NHL goalie Georges Vezina collapses and dies of TB 4 months later
1919 Charles Palmer, cricketer, one Test 1955, later MCC president
1919 Tom Brooks, cricketer, NSW fast bowler of the 30's, later Test umpire
1919 Founding of League of Nations, 1st meeting 1 year later
1913 Phillies lead Giants 8-6 in top of 9th, fans in bleachers try to distract Giants, Umpire forefeits game to Giants, later overruled
1912 Royal Flying Corps forms (later RAF)
1909 U.S. invades Nicaragua, later overthrows President Zelaya
1909 Philadelphia's Shibe Park (later Connie Mack Stadium) opens
1904 Ken James, cricket wicketkeeper, NZ's 1st Test, later Northants
1903 AL/NL batting champ Ed Delahanty, disappears, found dead days later
1903 1st transcontinental auto trip begins in San Francisco; arrives New York 3-months later
1902 Jack Newman, NZ cricket lefty pace bowler, 1932-33, later knighted
1901 President William McKinley, shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at Pan American Exposition in Buffalo NY, he dies 8th days later
1900 1st Davis Cup tennis competition, named after Dwight Filley Davis, began at Longwood Cricket Club in Massachusetts, and won by U.S. 2 days later
1897 Roger Bresnahan debuts as Washington Senator pitcher (later HOF catcher)
1896 Western Conference forms of Midwestern U, later renamed Big 10 Conf
1895 French Capt Alfred Dreyfus, convicted of treason, publicly stripped of his rank; later declared innocent
1894 French officer Alfred Dreyfus court-martialed for treason, triggers worldwide charges of anti-Semitism (Dreyfus later vindicated)
1894 Congress passes Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act, which includes a graduated income tax later struck down by the Supreme Court
1885 Arthur Dolphin, cricketer, Yorkshire and England keeper, later Test ump
1877 Chase National Bank opens in New York City (later merges into Chase Manhattan)
1873 Pelham Warner, cricketer, England 1898-1912, later notable official
1873 Henry Leveson-Gower, cricketer, England capt 1909-10 later official
1872 Arbor day 1st celebrated in Nebraska, later changed to Apr 22
1867 Most of Nebraska becomes 37th U.S. state (expanded later)
1866 President Johnson vetoes civil rights bill; it later becomes 14th amendment
1866 Henry Forster, cricketer, Oxford blue 1887-89, later Aust Gov-General
1861 John Merryman is arrested under suspension of writ of habeas corpus it later sparks a supreme court decision protecting writ
1859 Philadelphia A's organize to play "town ball" became baseball 20 years later
1858 French Emperor Napoleon III escapes attempt on his life by Felice Orsini, an Italian patriot who was later executed
1848 F. A. MacKinnon, cricketer, later the 35th Mackinnon of Mackinnon
1837 Astor Hotel opens in New York City, it later becomes the Waldorf-Astoria
1815 Napoleon surrendered and is later exiled on St. Helena
1807 VP Aaron Burr arrested in Alabama for treason; later found innocent
1789 Society of St. Tammany is formed by Revolutionary War soldiers. It later becomes an infamous group of New York City political bosses
1784 Eastern Tennessee settlers declare their area an independent state and name it Franklin; a year later the Continental Congress rejects it
1772 1st partition of Poland-Russia and Prussia, joined later by Austria
1752 Pope Stephen II elected to succeed Zacharias, died 2 days later
1734 John Zenger, arrested for libel against New York col gov; later acquitted
1714 A highway in Bronx is laid out, later renamed East 233rd Street
1714 Typewriter patented by Englishman Henry Mill (built years later)
1701 Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac found trading post at Ft. Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit
1653 New Amsterdam becomes a city, later called New York City
1630 New Amsterdam's governor buys Gull Island from Indians for cargo, renames it Oyster Island, it is later known as Ellis Island
1629 King Charles I dissolved Parliament; he called it back 11 years later
1610 Henry Hudson enters bay later named after him, the Hudson Bay
1503 Henry Tudor created Prince of Wales (later Henry VIII)
1316 Jan I becomes king of France, dies 4 days later
1301 Edward of Caernarion (later Edward II) becomes 1st prince of Wales
708 Sisinnius begins his reign as Pope (dies 20 days later)
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