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1997 Dawn Steel, film maker (When Harry Met Sally), dies at 51

1997 New York Met John Olerud hits for the cycle

1997 Rudolf Bing, opera manager (New York Met Opera), dies at 95

1996 New York Met Todd Huntley sets record of 41 home runs by a catcher

1994 New York Met Pitcher Dwight Gooden suspended for 60 days due to drug charges

1993 New York Met Anthony Young wins ending his losing streak at 27 games

1993 Met Vince Coleman injures 3 when he throws cherry bomb at Dodger fans

1993 New York Met Anthony Young loses record 27th straight

1993 New York Met Anthony Young, loses his 26th straight game, goes to 27

1993 New York Met Anthony Young loses a record 25th straight game (goes to 27)

1993 New York Met pitcher Anthony Young loses record 24th straight game

1993 New York Met Eddie Murray is 20th to get 1,600 RBIs

1993 New York Met Anthony Young ties record of 23rd straight lose

1992 New York Met Eddie Murray sets RBI record by a switch hitter

1992 New York Met Anthony Young begins losing streak of at least 26 games

1992 New York Met Eddie Murray is 24th to hit 400 HRS

1991 New York Met David Cone ties NL record by striking out 19 Phillies

1990 As Met pitcher David Cone argues a call at 1st base, 2 Braves score

1990 4th American Comedy Award: When Harry Met Sally

1990 New York Met Darryl Strawberry voluntarily enters Alcohol rehab center

1989 Zinka Milanov, Met Opera Diva, dies of a stroke at 83

1989 Soviet president Mikhail S. Gorbachev and Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping ended a 30-year rift when they formally met in Beijing

1989 New York Met Darryl Strawberry swings at teammate Keith Hernandez

1988 225 at bats after #299, Met Gary Carter is 59th to hit 300th HR

1988 New York Met Davey Johnson becomes 2nd manager to record 400 victory in 1st 4 years (Al Lopez did it 1st)

1987 New York Met Darryl Strawberry threatens teammates Wally Backman and Lee Mazzilli for criticizing his play

1987 Milton J. Cross, born in New York City, TV announcer, Met Opera Auditions of the Air

1987 New York Met Darryl Strawberry charges Red Sox pitcher Al Nipper during spring training exhibition game, causes bench clearing brawl

1987 Lisa files for separation from husband New York Met Darryl Strawberry

1987 Sir Rudolph Bing (of New York Met Opera) marries Lady Carroll Douglass

1986 New York Met Dwight Gooden is 1st to strike out 200 or more in 1st 3 seasons

1986 Pope John Paul II met Rome's Chief Rabbi Elio Toaff at Rome synagogue

1985 New York Met Gary Carter hits 3 consecutive home runs in a game

1985 Met Dwight Goodin becomes youngest pitcher to win 20 games (20y 9m 9d)

1985 Met Dwight Gooden strikes out 16 on way to his 13th consecutive win

1984 New York Met Dwight Gooden, 20, is youngest to be named NL Rookie of Year

1984 New York Met Rusty Staub joins Ty Cobb, who hit home runs as a teen and in 40s

1984 New York Met Dwight Goodin sets rookie strike out record at 251

1984 Met Dwight Gooden's 11 strikeouts gives him NL rookie record 236

1984 Met pitcher Dwight Gooden becomes 11th rookie to strikeout 200

1983 New York Met Tom Seaver's sets record 14th NL Opening Day assignment

1982 New York Met Joel Youngblood singles in Chicago day game, he is traded, then singles for Expos in Philadelphia night game

1981 Phils Mike Schmidt hits his 300th career HR off New York Met Mike Scott

1980 New York Met Doug Flynn ties record of 3 triples in a game

1976 Lily Pons, French/US soprano/opera diva (Met Opera), dies at 71

1975 New York Met Tom Seaver is 1st to strike out 200 in 8 consecutive seasons

1975 New York Met Felix Milan hits 4 singles; erased by Joe Torres 4 double plays

1975 Milton J Cross, TV announcer (Met Opera Auditions), dies at 87

1974 New York Met Benny Ayala hits a HR in his 1st at bat

1973 Mariette Hartley appears on Bob Newhart in "Have You Met Miss Dietz"

1973 NLCS game 3 brawl between Cins' Pete Rose and New York Met Bud Harrelson

1972 In Willie Mays 1st game as a New York Met his homer beats San Francisco Giants, 5-4

1970 New York Met Tommy Agee hits for the cycle

1970 New York Met Jerry Grote sets record of 20 put outs by a catcher

1970 New York Met Tom Seaver strikes out last 10 Padres, for a total of 19

1969 Giovanni Martinelli, Ital opera singer (New York Met), dies on 84th birthday

1969 Met Cleon Jones awarded 1st base when shoe polish on ball proves he is hit by a pitch, he scores on a HR in World Series

1969 New York Met Ron Swoboda's spectacular diving catch of sinking liner with runners at 1st and 3rd in 9th, Mets win in 10th in World Series game

1969 Robert Lehman, U.S. multi-millionaire/director (Met Museum of Art), dies

1969 Giovanni Martinelli, opera singer (New York Met), dies at 83

1968 New York Met manager Gil Hodges suffers a heart attack

1967 New York Met pitcher Tom Seaver wins hist 1st game

1967 New York Met Tom Seaver's 1st victory, beats Cubs, 6-1

1966 Anthony Young, U.S. baseball pitcher, New York Met, Chicago Cubs

1965 Jim Hickman becomes 1st New York Met to hit 3 home runs in a game

1965 New York Met Casey Stengel wins his 3,000 game as manager

1963 Jim Hickman becomes 1st New York Met to hit for cycle

1963 New York Met Roger Craig's NL record-tying 18-game losing streak ends

1963 New York Met Duke Snider hits his 400th HR

1963 Lenny Dykstra, centerfielder, New York Met, Philadelphia Phillies

1962 New York Met Frank Thomas hits his 6th HR in 3 games

1962 Kevin Mitchell, U.S. baseball outfielder, New York Met, San Francisco Giants, for the Cincinnati Reds

1961 Meg Ryan, Bethel, Connecticut, actr, When Harry Met Sally, As the World Turns

1957 Ezio F Pinza, Italian bass (Scale of Milan, New York Met Opera), dies

1955 Matthew A Henson, met Peary on 6/4/1909 at North Pole, dies at 88

1955 Marian Anderson becomes 1st black singer to perform at Met (New York City)

1953 WTCN (now KARE) TV channel 11 in Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN (MET) begins

1953 KMBC TV channel 9 in Kansas City, Missouri (MET/ABC) begins broadcasting

1953 Barry Sonnenfeld, director, When Harry Met Sally, Big, Misery

1949 KTTV TV channel 11 in Los Angeles, California (MET) begins broadcasting

1948 1st opera to be televised, "Othello," broadcast from the Met (New York City)

1947 WTTG TV channel 5 in Washington, D.C. (MET) begins broadcasting

1946 Julian Barnes, England, writer, Before She Met Me

1945 Jac[obus] P Thijsse, Dutch biologist (Omgang met planten), dies at 79

1944 Tom Seaver, pitcher, New York Met, 300 game winner, Cy Young '69 '73 '75

1944 WABD (WNEW, now WNYW) TV channel 5 in New York City (DUM/MET/FOX) 1st broadcast

1943 FDR, Churchill and Stalin met at Tehran to map out strategy

1943 Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini met for an Axis conference in Salzburg

1941 Mel Stottlemyre, Wash, pitcher, New York Yankee, /pitching coach, New York Met

1940 Amsterdam time becomes MET (Middle European Time)

1937 Martina Arroyo, New York City, opera soprano, New York Met

1931 U.S. opera, "Peter Ibbetson," by Deems Taylor premieres at Met Opera New York City

1930 Roberta Peters, New York City, operatic soprano, New York Met

1928 Republican National Convention, met in KC, nominated Herbert Hoover

1927 Colin Rex Davis, Weybridge England, conductor, New York Met 1967-71

1926 Joan Sutherland, Sydney Australia, operatic soprano, Met Opera

1924 Georges Prˆtre, Waziers France, conductor, New York Met

1918 Astrid Varnay, born in Stockholm, Sweden, soprano, Met Opera 1941-56

1913 Richard Tucker, [Reuben Ticker], born in Brooklyn, New York, Tenor, New York Met Opera

1913 Licia Albanese, born in Bari, Italy, operatic soprano, New York Met Opera

1913 Rise Stevens, New York City, mezzo-soprano, Met Opera, /actor, Going My Way

1911 Leonard Warren, born in New York City, baritone, Met 1939-60, died on stage

1910 1st opera by an U.S. composer (Converse) performed at the Met, New York City

1907 Jarmila Novotna, soprano, Met Opera, /President of Czechoslovakia, 1957-68

1904 Jan Peerce, [Jacob Pincus Perelmuth], New York City, tenor, New York Met Opera

1900 Jennie Tourel, St. Petersburg Russia, mezzo-soprano, Met Opera 1943-47

1898 Championship wrestling match at Met turns into a brawl

1894 Indian chiefs from the Sioux and Onondaga tribes met to urge their people to renounce Christianity and return to their old Indian faith

1890 Casey Stengel, baseball manager, Yankees, 1949-60, /NY Met's 1st

1885 Giovanni Martinelli, Montagnana Italy, opera singer, New York Met

1860 1st Italian Parliament met at Turin

1853 Women's Right's Convention met (New York City)

1785 Oliver Hazard Perry, U.S. Naval hero, "We have met the enemy"

1765 Stamp Act Congress met in New York, wrote declaration of rights and liberties



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