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Memorial

1997 Vijay Singh wins Golf Memorial at Muirfield Village CC, 14 under par 1997 Bruno's Memorial Senior Golf Classic 1997 Carl Sagan Public Memorial at Pasadena California 1997 Carl Sagan Public Memorial at Ithaca New York 1993 1st commemorative bricks are laid at Bob Feller Memorial 1991 Orioles last game at Baltimore's Memorial Stadium (vs Det Tigers) 1991 New York Yankees final game at Baltimore Oriole's Memorial Stadium 1988 Longest game in Balt Memorial Stadium (5:46) 14 inn (beat New York 7-6) 1984 Vietnam Veterans Memorial ("3 Servicemen") completed 1984 1st NBA game at LA Memorial Sports Arena - Clipper beat Knick, 107-105 1982 Vietnam War Memorial dedicated in Washington D.C. 1982 Ground-breaking in Washington, D.C. for Vietnam Veterans Memorial 1981 Maya Yang Lin wins competition to design the Vietnam War Memorial 1976 Piper Cherokee crashes into Balt Memorial Stadium upper stands, 10 minutes after Colts lose 40-14 to Steelers. No one seriously hurt 1969 40th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 9-3 at RFK Memorial, Washington D.C. 1968 Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, Springfield Massachusetts, opens 1967 Memorial service for Brian Epstein at New London Synagogue 1967 John F. Kennedy's body moved from temporary grave to a permanent memorial 1966 Only HR ever hit out of Baltimore's Memorial Park (Frank Robinson) 1964 Longest HR (471') in Balt Memorial Stadium (Harmon Killebrew, Minn) 1964 Britain sets memorial for the late President John F. Kennedy 1963 Martin Luther King Jr's "I have a dream speech" at Lincoln Memorial 1960 [James] Kenneth Perry, born in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, PGA golfer, 1991 Memorial 1959 Stinchcomb Memorial in Cleveland Metroparks' dedicated 1959 27th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 5-3 at Memorial Coliseum, LA 1959 Thomas Edward Lehman, born in Austin, Minnesota, PGA golfer, 1994 Memorial Tournament 1958 25th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 4-3 at Memorial Stadium, Balt 1957 AAU awards Bobby Morrow, James Sullivan Memorial Trophy 1954 Iwo Jima Memorial (servicemen raising U.S. flag) dedicated in Arlington 1951 Fred Wilt wins AAU Sullivan Memorial Trophy (U.S. athlete of 1950) 1950 Baltimore's Memorial Stadium opens - Orioles of International League 1945 Memorial for executed unveiled in Terbregge 1943 Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates Jefferson Memorial 1940 Bud Brennan, a fan at Memorial Stadium, races out of stands and attempts to tackle Tom Harmon at 3-yard line, Harmon easily evades Brennan 1939 Franklin D. Roosevelt lays cornerstone of Jefferson Memorial in Washington D.C. 1939 NHL Babe Seibert Memorial Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 5-3 1939 Marian Anderson sings before 75,000 at Lincoln Memorial 1938 Groundbreaking begins for Jefferson Memorial in Washington D.C. 1938 Bronze memorial statue of Henry Hudson erected in Bronx 1937 NHL Howie Morenz Memorial Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 6-5 in Mont 1937 Memorial Day Massacre - Chicago police shoot on union marchers, 10 die 1932 Shakespeare Memorial Theatre opens at Stratford-on-Avon 1922 President Harding is 1st U.S. president to use radio, dedicating the Francis Scott Key memorial in Baltimore 1922 Lincoln Memorial dedicated 1922 Congress authorizes Grant Memorial $1 gold coin 1921 Memorial to Capt Eddie Grant, killed in WW I, unveiled at Polo Grounds 1916 Congress authorizes McKinley Memorial $1 gold coin 1915 Cornerstone laid for Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. 1913 Muriel Rukeyser, U.S., poet, 1977 Shelley Memorial Award 1901 Memorial Day 1st observed in U.S. 1899 Bronx acquires Keltch Memorial Park 1874 John Russell Pope, U.S., architect, Jefferson Memorial 1868 1st Memorial Day parade held in Ironton, Ohio 1868 Memorial Day 1st observed when 2 women in Columbus Mississippi placed flowers on both Confederate and Union graves 1867 Congress approves Lincoln Memorial 1866 Henry Bacon, architect, Lincoln Memorial 1601 Memorial service for Daitokuji's Shinju held for Ikkyu Sojun in Kyoto

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