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2006 Pope Benedict XVI quotes a criticism of the Islamic faith leading to mass protests

1995 Dodgers leading 2-1 in 9th forfeit game to Cards, fans become unruly

1988 Cubs and Phillies attempt to play 1st night game ever at Wrigley Field but are rained out in 4th inning with Chicago leading, 3-1

1983 Jacqueline Logan, silent film leading lady, dies at 78

1982 President Galtieri resigns after leading Argentina to defeat

1981 Lillee becomes the leading wicket-taker in Test Crickets with 310

1981 Boycott becomes leading run-scorer in Test Crickets with 8033

1973 New York Jets trade pro footballs leading receiver Don Maynard to St. Louis

1972 Sidney Pegler, cricket leg spinner (leading South Africa prior to WWI), dies

1972 Muttiah Muralitharan, cricketer, leading Sri Lankan Test off-spinner

1970 Colin Cowdrey becomes Test Crickets' leading run scorer (7,250)

1962 Statham is Test crickets' leading wkt-taker (229), beating Lindwall

1960 Tauseef Ahmed, cricketer, leading Pakistani off-spinner of 80's

1949 Philadelphia fans cause A's to forfeit game when they riot over a trapped line drive by Rich Ashburn, Giants leading 4-2 in 9th declared winners

1943 J Postma, C Schalker, D Goulooze arrested for leading illegal CPN

1941 Daryle Lamonica, Oakland Raider QB, AFL leading passer 1967

1920 Marion Motley, NFL running back, all-time leading AAFC rusher

1914 France declares war on Austria-Hungary, leading to WW I

1914 Jean Jaures, leading socialist, assassinated in Paris

1914 Austria-Hungary issues ultimatum to Serbia leading to WW I

1913 Mohandas K. Gandhi arrested for leading Indian miners march in South Africa

1901 Tillie Ehrlich Lewin, leading industrialist, tomato queen

1811 Charles Sumner, leading Reconstruction senator, died in 1874

1807 British board USS Chesapeake, a provocation leading to War of 1812


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