Memorial Events in History

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2012 Event - A memorial service is held for San Diego chargers' Junior Seau; his #55 will be retired by the team

2011 Event - Memorial ceremonies are held worldwide to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the September 11th attacks

2010 Event - The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences is awarded to economists Peter A. Diamond, Dale T. Mortensen and Christopher A. Pissarides

2009 Event - A crowd of 50,000 people participate in a memorial service at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park

1997 Event - Vijay Singh wins Golf Memorial at Muirfield Village CC, 14 under par

1997 Event - Bruno's Memorial Senior Golf Classic

1997 Event - Carl Sagan Public Memorial at Pasadena California

1997 Event - Carl Sagan Public Memorial at Ithaca New York

1993 Event - 1st commemorative bricks are laid at Bob Feller Memorial

1991 Event - Orioles last game at Baltimore's Memorial Stadium (vs Detroit Tigers)

1991 Event - New York Yankees final game at Baltimore Oriole's Memorial Stadium

1988 Event - Longest game in Baltimore Memorial Stadium (5:46) 14 inn (beat New York 7-6)

1984 Event - Vietnam Veterans Memorial ("3 Servicemen") completed

1984 Event - 1st NBA game at LA Memorial Sports Arena - Clipper beat Knick, 107-105

1982 Event - Vietnam War Memorial dedicated in Washington D.C.

1982 Event - Ground-breaking in Washington, D.C. for Vietnam Veterans Memorial

1981 Event - Maya Yang Lin wins competition to design the Vietnam War Memorial

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

1969 Event - 40th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 9-3 at RFK Memorial, Washington D.C.

1968 Event - Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, Springfield Massachusetts, opens

1967 Event - Memorial service for Brian Epstein at New London Synagogue

1967 Event - John F. Kennedy's body moved from temporary grave to a permanent memorial

1966 Event - Only home run ever hit out of Baltimore's Memorial Park (Frank Robinson)

1964 Event - Longest home run (471') in Baltimore Memorial Stadium (Harmon Killebrew, Minnesota)

1964 Event - Britain sets memorial for the late President John F. Kennedy

1963 Event - Martin Luther King Jr's "I have a dream speech" at Lincoln Memorial

1960 Birthday - [James] Kenneth Perry, born in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, PGA golfer, 1991 Memorial

1959 Event - Stinchcomb Memorial in Cleveland Metroparks' dedicated

1959 Birthday - Maya Lin, born in Athens, Ohio, artist, architect of Chinese descent, known for Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., sculpture, landscape art

1959 Event - 27th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 5-3 at Memorial Coliseum, LA

1959 Birthday - Thomas Edward Lehman, born in Austin, Minnesota, PGA golfer, 1994 Memorial Tournament

1958 Event - 25th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 4-3 at Memorial Stadium, Balt

1957 Event - AAU awards Bobby Morrow, James Sullivan Memorial Trophy

1954 Event - Iwo Jima Memorial (servicemen raising U.S. flag) dedicated in Arlington

1951 Event - Fred Wilt wins AAU Sullivan Memorial Trophy (U.S. athlete of 1950)

1950 Event - Baltimore's Memorial Stadium opens - Orioles of International League

1945 Event - Memorial for executed unveiled in Terbregge

1943 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates Jefferson Memorial

1940 Event - 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 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt lays cornerstone of Jefferson Memorial in Washington D.C.

1939 Event - NHL Babe Seibert Memorial Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 5-3

1939 Event - Marian Anderson sings before 75,000 at Lincoln Memorial

1938 Event - Groundbreaking begins for Jefferson Memorial in Washington D.C.

1938 Event - Bronze memorial statue of Henry Hudson erected in Bronx

1937 Event - NHL Howie Morenz Memorial Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 6-5 in Mont

1937 Event - Memorial Day Massacre - Chicago police shoot on union marchers, 10 die

1932 Event - Shakespeare Memorial Theatre opens at Stratford-on-Avon

1922 Event - President Harding is 1st U.S. president to use radio, dedicating the Francis Scott Key memorial in Baltimore

1922 Event - Lincoln Memorial dedicated

1922 Event - Congress authorizes Grant Memorial $1 gold coin

1921 Event - Memorial to Captain Eddie Grant, killed in WW I, unveiled at Polo Grounds

1916 Event - Congress authorizes McKinley Memorial $1 gold coin

1915 Event - Cornerstone laid for Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.

1913 Birthday - Muriel Rukeyser, U.S., poet, 1977 Shelley Memorial Award

1901 Event - Memorial Day 1st observed in U.S.

1899 Event - Bronx acquires Keltch Memorial Park

1874 Birthday - John Russell Pope, U.S., architect, Jefferson Memorial

1868 Event - 1st Memorial Day parade held in Ironton, Ohio

1868 Event - Memorial Day 1st observed when 2 women in Columbus Mississippi placed flowers on both Confederate and Union graves

1867 Event - Congress approves Lincoln Memorial

1866 Birthday - Henry Bacon, architect, Lincoln Memorial

1601 Event - Memorial service for Daitokuji's Shinju held for Ikkyu Sojun in Kyoto

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