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2013 Event - In Doha, Qatar, hundreds of delegates meet as Qatar pledges $500 million in aid to rebuild Sudan's Darfur, a region racked by a decade-long conflict

2013 Event - In Rome, Italy, Roman Catholic Cardinals meet in a conclave to appoint a successor to Pope Benedict XVI

2013 Event - More than 100 Catholic cardinals meet in Rome, Italy, to begin the process of selecting the successor to Pope Benedict XVI

2012 Event - Burmese President Thein Sein and National League for Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi meet U.S. President Barack Obama, the country's first visit from a sitting U.S. President

2012 Event - In New Delhi, India, leaders of Brazil, Russia, China, South Africa and India meet for the 2012 BRICS summit

2011 Event - U.S. President Barack Obama is scheduled to meet the Dalai Lama in Washington, D.C. despite a warning from the People's Republic of China

2011 Event - North and South Korean officials meet for working-level military talks, the first Korean dialogue in eight months

2010 Event - China announces its plan to use its own uranium resources to meet growing demands for nuclear power

2010 Event - Leaders of the twenty largest economies meet for the 2010 G-20 Summit in Toronto, Canada

2010 Event - Foreign ministers of the Arab League meet in Cairo and agree to ask the U.N. Security Council to force Israel to end its blockade of Gaza

1999 Death - Martha Rountree, journalist, Meet the Press, dies at 87

1996 Event - Bob Dole and President Bill Clinton meet in their 1st debate

1995 Event - 1st New York City Mayor Trophy's High school track meet in 19 years

1994 Event - "Meet The Flintstones" by The BC 52's peaks to #33

1994 Death - Lawrence E Spivak, journalist (Meet the Press), dies at 93

1992 Birthday - Miley Ray Cyrus, pop-rock singer, actress, 100 Most Influential People in the World list, Time magazine, 2008, star of Disney's 'Hannah Montana', debut album, 'Meet Miley Cyrus' had first top ten single, 'See You Again'

1992 Death - Frederic I Rinaldo, writer (Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein), dies

1992 Event - Longest 2 undefeated baseball teams to meet (New York Yankees 5-0 vs Toronto Blue Jays 6-0); Yankees score 3 in top of 9th to win 5-2

1991 Event - Iraqi generals and General Schwarzkopf meet to discuss cease fire

1991 Event - Nelson Mandela and Mangosuthu Buthelezi meet after 28 years

1991 Event - Baker and Aziz meet in Geneva; talks fail to defuse gulf crisis

1991 Event - Iraq agrees to send Aziz to Geneva to meet Baker on Jan 9th

1990 Event - British and French workers meet in English Channel's tunnel (Chunnel)

1990 Event - George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Helsinki

1990 Event - Bush and Gorbachev meet in Helsinki and urge Iraq to leave Kuwait

1990 Event - "Meet Me in St. Louis" closes at Gershwin Theater New York City after 253 performances

1989 Event - "Meet Me in St. Louis" opens at Gershwin Theater New York City for 253 performances

1989 Death - Roland Winters, actor (Jet Pilot, Meet Millie), dies at 84

1988 Event - Mercedes-Benz pays $20.2-M fine failed to meet '86 government fuel standard

1988 Event - George Bush and Michael Dukakis meet in 2nd debate

1987 Death - Mary Astor, actress (Cynthia, Meet Me in St. Louis, Fiesta), dies at 81

1985 Event - President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for 1st time

1982 Event - 30 Something stars Ken Olin and Patricia Wettig meet, later they marry

1981 Death - Ann Harding, actress (When Ladies Meet, Devotion), dies

1980 Birthday - Matthew Thomas Carey, actor, Once You Meet a Stranger

1979 Event - 200 black leaders, meet in New York, to support Andrew Young

1978 Event - Begin and Sadat meet at Camp David to discuss peace

1976 Event - A&M sues George Harrison who fails to meet deadline for LP completion

1976 Death - Frieda Inescort, Scottish actress (Meet Corliss Archer), dies at 74

1974 Event - Catfish Hunter and Charlie Finley meet in arbitration

1974 Event - Magicians Penn and Teller 1st meet

1973 Event - Israel, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, U.S. and U.S.S.R. meet in Geneva

1973 Birthday - Stacy Perrone, Wolcott Conn, Meet Miss America-Connecticut 1997

1973 Death - Bob Gilbert, actor (Never the Twain Shall Meet), dies of hepatitis 75

1972 Birthday - Claire Forlani, born in Twickenham, London, actress, appeared in 'Meet Joe Black', 'Boys and Girls', 'The Pentagon Papers'

1970 Event - West German chancellor and East German premier Willy Brandt meet

1968 Event - North Vietnam agrees to meet U.S. reps to set up preliminary peace talks

1967 Event - Beatles, Mick Jagger and Marienne Faithful meet Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

1967 Event - Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand meet to form Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN)

1966 Event - 100th International soccer meet between Netherlands-Belgium (3-1)

1964 Event - Beatles' "Meet the Beatles!," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 11 weeks

1964 Event - "Meet the Beatles" album goes Gold

1964 Event - "Meet The Beatles" album released in US

1963 Event - "Meet the Beatles" booklet is published

1963 Event - Beatles meet Rolling Stones for 1st time

1962 Death - Frank Lovejoy, actor (Man Against Crime, Meet McGraw), dies at 48

1962 Event - Beatles meet their producer George Martin for 1st time, they record "Besame Mucho" with Peter Best on drums

1962 Birthday - Karen Duffy, Duff, New York City, MTV VJ/actress, Meet Wally Sparks

1961 Event - John F. Kennedy and British Prime Minister MacMillan meet in Bermuda

1961 Event - Beatles meet future manager Brian Epstein

1961 Event - John F. Kennedy and Khrushchev meet in Vienna

1959 Death - Kathryn Adams, actress (Meet the Chump, 5th Avenue Girl), dies

1958 Event - Robert H W Welch, Jr. and 11 other men meet in Indianapolis to form anti-Communist John Birch Society

1958 Birthday - Mitch Albom, born in Passaic, New Jersey, author, screenwriter, sold over 26 million books worldwide, works include, 'Tuesdays with Morrie', 'The Five People You Meet in Heaven'

1957 Event - John Lennon (16) and Paul McCartney (15) meet for 1st time as Lennon's rock group The Quarry Men perform at a church dinner

1956 Death - Earl Godwin, newscaster (Meet the Veep), dies at 75

1956 Event - Writers Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes meet at a party in Cambridge

1954 Event - Senator John Kennedy appears on "Meet the Press"

1950 Birthday - Tim Russert, born in New York, American television journalist, author, lawyer, 'Meet the Press' moderator

1948 Event - Soen Nakagawa and Nyogen Senzaki (Zen teachers) meet in SF

1947 Event - "Meet the Press" makes network TV debut on NBC

1946 Event - 11 Basketball of America Association teams meet to schedule 1st season

1945 Event - "Meet the Press" premieres on radio

1945 Event - Tigers and Cubs meet in World Series for 4th time

1945 Event - U.S. and Soviet forces meet at Torgau, Germany on Elbe River

1945 Event - Generals Eisenhower, Patton and Patch meet in Luneville

1945 Event - FDR, Churchill and Stalin meet at Yalta

1945 Event - U.S. 1st and 3rd army meet at Houffalise

1944 Event - Eisenhower and Montgomery meet in Hasselt Belgium

1944 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt and Churchill meet in Canada at 2nd Quebec Conference

1944 Event - U.S. leaders meet in Belgium

1944 Event - Churchill and Tito meet in Naples

1944 Event - General Montgomery/Patton/Bradley/Dempsey/Crerar meet in Portsmouth

1944 Event - "Meet Me in St. Louis" opens on Broadway

1944 Event - Hitler and Mussolini meet at Salzburg

1943 Event - FDR, Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek meet to discuss ways to defeat Japan

1943 Event - Common Chiefs of staff meet in Quebec

1942 Event - U.S. General Clark and Lemnitzer and French General Mast meet secretly in Algeria

1941 Event - Howard Florey and Norman Heatley meet for 1st time, 11 days later they successfully recreate penicillin

1941 Event - Resistance fighters counter d'Estienne d'Orves/Jan Doornik, 1st meet

1940 Event - 1st intercollegiate track meet telecast, MSG, New York City

1937 Event - Battle of the Century: Fred Allen and Jack Benny meet on radio

1937 Birthday - Margaret O'Brien, San Diego, actress, Jane Eyre, Meet Me in St. Louis

1935 Birthday - Peter Bichsel, born in Lucerne, Switzerland, writer, journalist, wrote 'And Really Frau Blum Would Very Much Like to Meet the Milkman', member of the Gruppe Olten, a club of Swiss writers

1934 Event - Hitler and Mussolini meet in Vienna

1933 Event - Hitler, Goring, Prince Ruprecht, Bruning and top army meet in Berlin

1930 Birthday - Marvin Kalb, born in New York City, educator/newscaster, CBS/NBC, Meet the Press

1926 Birthday - Helen Gallagher, born in Brooklyn, actress, Ryan's Hope, Strangers When We Meet

1921 Birthday - Loren Tindall, Oklahoma, actor, Meet Me on Broadway, Girl of Limberlost

1916 Event - British-France Sykes-Picot meet over division of Turkey

1914 Birthday - Frank Lovejoy, born in Bronx, New York, actor, Man Against Crime, Meet McGraw

1911 Event - SF has it's 1st air meet

1910 Event - 1st international air meet in U.S. held, in LA

1907 Event - 44 nations meet in 2nd Hague Peace Conference

1906 Birthday - Warren Hymer, New York City, actor, Girl From Havana, Meet the Mob

1905 Event - Philadelphia A's meet Giants in World Series, Giants win 3-0

1905 Birthday - Jack [Weldon J] Teagarden, U.S. trombonist/actor, Meet Band Leaders

1905 Event - 1st race meet at Oaklawn Park (Hot Springs, Ark)

1900 Birthday - Lawrence E Spivak, born in Brooklyn, New York, news panelist, Meet the Press

1899 Event - World Goodwill Day-26 nations meet in 1st Hague Peace Conference

1888 Event - Old Kavallison, Congo: Stanley meet Emin Pasha

1886 Event - 1st International polo meet, U.S. vs England

1884 Event - Sporting Life announces that both pennant winners will meet in 3 game series Oct 23-25 at Polo Grounds New York City to determine baseball champion

1877 Event - 1st U.S. amateur swim meet (New York Athletic Club)

1876 Event - 1st U.S. intercollegiate track meet held, Saratoga, New York; Princeton wins

1871 Event - Stanley presumes to meet Livingston in Ujiji, Central Africa

1868 Event - 1st American amateur track and field meet (New York City)

1864 Event - 1st track meet between Oxford and Cambridge

1847 Event - Urbain J J Leverrier and John Couch Adams, codiscoverers of Neptune meet for 1st time at home of John Herschel

1839 Event - 1st Canadian track and field meet held (Caer Howell Grounds)

1835 Event - Charles Darwin and Mariano Gonzales meet at Portillo Pass

1834 Event - 5th national black convention meet, New York City

1805 Event - 30 women meet at Mrs. Silas Lee's home in Wiscasset Maine, organizes

1776 Event - Battle of Pelham: Col John Glover and Marblehead regiment meet British Forces in Bronx

1756 Event - England and France meet in war

1600 Event - Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler meet for 1st time near Prague

1557 Event - Dutch States-General meet at Valenciennes

1540 Event - The 1st recorded race meet in England (Roodee Fields, Chester)













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