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2011 Event - New Zealand's highest mountain, the south ridge of Aoraki/Mount Cook, is renamed Hillary Ridge after Sir Edmund Hillary, first to conquer Mt. Everest

2002 Event - Air China flight 129 crashes into a mountain near Pusan, South Korea killing 128

2002 Event - Iran Air Tours flight 956 crashes into a mountain in Iran killing 119

2001 Event - Eleven die after two trucks collide, head on, in a mountain tunnel in Switzerland

1995 Death - Rosalind Cash, actress (Emma-Go Tell It on the Mountain), dies at 56

1995 Event - Dottie Mochrie wins McCall's LPGA Golf Classic at Stratton Mountain

1994 Event - B737-400 flies into a mountain at Edremit East Turkey, 54 killed

1994 Event - Carolyn Hill wins McCall's LPGA Golf Classic at Stratton Mountain

1994 Event - Peruvian Yak-40 crashes into mountain near Tingo Maria, kills 31

1993 Event - Jakovlev-42 crashes into mountain at Ohrid Macedonia, 116 killed

1993 Event - Antonov AN-124 flies in South Iran against mountain: 17 killed

1993 Event - Boeing 727 crashes into mountain at Medellin Colombia, kills 132

1992 Event - Boeing 734 crashes into mountain in China, kills 141

1992 Event - Pakistani Airbus A-300 crashes into mountain at Kathmandu, 167 dies

1992 Event - Thai Airbus crashes into mountain at Kathmandu, 113 die

1991 Event - Boeing 747-200F of China Airlines crash into mountain at Taipei

1991 Event - Melissa Mcnamara wins Stratton Mountain LPGA Golf Classic

1990 Event - Cathy Gerring wins Stratton Mountain LPGA Golf Classic

1989 Event - U.S. Boeing 707 crashes into Santa Maria mountain, 145 die

1988 Event - New York City 1st case of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (9 year old Bronx boy)

1987 Death - James Baldwin, writer (Go Tell it on the Mountain), dies at 63

1985 Event - -30 degrees F (-34 degrees C), Mountain Lake Bio Station, Virginia (state record)

1983 Death - Felix Pappalardi, rocker (Cream, Mountain), dies

1982 Event - Brazilian B-727 flight crashes into mountain; 135 die

1981 Event - 180 dies as Yugoslav DC-9 jetliner slams into a mountain

1981 Event - Yugoslavic DC-9 crashes into mountain at Corsica, 174 killed

1980 Birthday - Jake Gyllenhaal, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, appeared in films, 'The Day After Tomorrow', 'Jarhead', 'Brokeback Mountain'

1975 Birthday - Aron Ralston, born in America, mountain climber, motivational speaker, forced to amputate his right arm to free and save himself, when trapped by a boulder in Utah

1975 Event - Space Mountain opens at Disneyland

1973 Event - Israeli troops reconquer mountain Hermon

1972 Birthday - Jude Law, born in Lewisham, England, actor, producer, director, Academy Award nominee for movie 'Cold Mountain'

1972 Event - Uruguay to Chile plane crashes in Andes Mountain, (12 of 23 rescue)

1972 Event - 19 mountain climbers killed on Japan's Mount Fuji during an avalanche

1972 Event - Danish airliner hit mountain in Sheikdom of Oman killing 112

1972 Event - Sculpted figures of Jefferson Davis, Robert E Lee, and Stonewall Jackson are completed at Stone Mountain Georgia

1971 Birthday - Laura Moss, Kings Mountain, Ohio, actress, Amanda Cory-Another World

1971 Birthday - Shane Conrad, actress, Cody-High Mountain Rangers

1971 Event - Alaskan 727 crashes into Chilkoot Mountain, kills 109 (Alaska)

1970 Birthday - Camille Spitaleri, born in Mountain View, California, female infielder, Silver Bullets

1970 Birthday - Heather Simmons-Carrasco, Mountain View California, synchro swimmer, 1996 Olympics

1969 Event - Leslie West and Felix Pappalardi form rock group Mountain

1969 Birthday - Renee Zellweger, born in Katy, Texas, actress, producer, Academy-Award winning film, 'Cold Mountain, other films include 'Jerry Maguire', 'Bridget Jones' Diary'

1968 Death - Thomas Merton, French/U.S. priest and writer '7 Story Mountain', dies at 53

1967 Birthday - Diane Madl, Mountain Top, Pennsylvania, field hockey forward/midfielder 1996 Olympics

1967 Event - Opening ceremony of Tassajara Zen Mountain Center

1967 Event - 15,000 attend Fantasy Faire and Magic Mountain Music Festival, California

1967 Birthday - Juli Furtado, born in New York City, mountain cyclist, world champion 1991, 92

1967 Event - 2 homemade buses collided on a mountain road in Terpate, Philippines plunging off a cliff, killing 84, injuring 140

1966 Birthday - Chantal Daucourt, born in Bienne, Switzerland, mountain cyclist, world-bronze-95

1966 Birthday - Melissa McNamara, Tulsa, Oklahoma, LPGA golfer, 1991 Stratton Mountain Classic

1965 Event - 27 copper miners die in avalanche, Granduc Mountain, British Columbia

1964 Birthday - Christian Conrad, actor, Charley Hannah, High Mountain Rangers

1963 Birthday - Jeff Brehaut, born in Mountain View, California, Nike golfer, 1994 NIKE Alabama-3rd

1960 Birthday - William Sinnot, Scottish pop musician, Shamen-Move Any Mountain

1958 Event - Giant splash caused by fall of 90 million tons of rock and ice into Lituya Bay, Alaska washes 1,800 feet up the mountain

1955 Event - Betty Jameson wins LPGA White Mountain Golf Open

1952 Birthday - Teddy Gentry, Fort Payne, Alabama, country music star, Alabama - Mountain Music

1950 Death - John G Fletcher, U.S. poet (Burning Mountain), dies

1949 Birthday - Randy Owen, Fort Payne, Alabama, country music star, Alabama - Mountain Music

1949 Birthday - Jeff Cook, Fort Payne, Alabama, country guitar/vocalist, Alabama - Mountain Music

1948 Birthday - Corky Laing, rocker, Mountain

1945 Birthday - Tammi Terrell, Montgomery, singer, Ain't No Mountain High Enough

1945 Event - Dodgers open spring training at Bear Mountain, New York

1944 Death - Kenesaw Mountain Landis, judge/baseball commisioner, dies at 78

1944 Birthday - Reinhold Messner, Italian mountain climber, Mount Everest

1943 Birthday - John Denver, New Mexico, singer, 'Rocky Mountain High', 'Thank God He's a Country Boy'

1943 Birthday - Ral Donner, Ralph Stuart, Black Mountain, North Carolina, singer, Starfires

1941 Birthday - Naomi Uemura, mountain climber, 1st Japanese to scale Everest

1938 Event - Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis frees 74 St. L Cardinals minor leaguers

1937 Event - Battle of of P'ing-hsin-kuan Wutai Mountain

1935 Birthday - Jakusho Kwong, Santa Rosa California, head of Sonoma Mountain Zen Center

1934 Birthday - John Storey Bonington, UK, mountain climber, Annapurna I in 1970

1934 Event - Kenesaw Mountain Landis denies Joe Jackson's appeal for reinstatement

1930 Birthday - Gary Snyder, Japhy Ryder, beat poet, Rip Rap and Cold Mountain Poems

1929 Birthday - Jim Whittacker, mountain climber, 1st American to climb Mount Everest

1926 Event - Kenesaw Mountain Landis renewed 7-years as baseball commissioner

1925 Event - Walter Mittelholzer is 1st to flies over Demawend mountain, Iran

1922 Event - Babe Ruth and Bob Meusel, suspended on October 16, 1921, by Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis, return to the New York lineup and go hitless

1922 Event - Kenesaw Mountain Landis resigns his judgeship to work for baseball

1921 Event - AL votes to return to best-of-7 World Series, while NL votes best-of-9 Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis casts deciding vote for best-of-7

1921 Event - Mountain Autonomous Republic established in RSFSR

1921 Event - Kenesaw Mountain Landis becomes 1st commissioner of baseball

1920 Event - Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis elected 1st baseball commissioner

1917 Event - -32 degrees F (-36 degrees C) in Mountain City, Tennessee (state record)

1915 Event - Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado established

1910 Event - Highest mountain in North America, Alaska's Mount McKinley climbed

1908 Birthday - Gerd Gaiser, German writer, Ship in the Mountain

1907 Event - 41st Belmont: G Mountain aboard Peter Pan wins

1907 Event - 32nd Preakness: G Mountain aboard Don Enrique wins in 1:45.4

1906 Event - Alberta adopts Mountain Standard Time

1904 Birthday - Dick Powell, Mountain View, Arkansas, actor, Cry Danger, Dick Powell Theater

1903 Event - Limestone slides at Turtle Mountain kills 9 (Frank Alberta)

1895 Birthday - Anita Stewart, New York, actress, South of Hell Mountain

1886 Event - Musical fantasy "Night on Bald Mountain," performed in Russia

1886 Event - Modest Mussorgsky's "A Night on Bald Mountain," premieres in Russia

1886 Birthday - George Mallory, England, mountain climber, "because it is there"

1866 Birthday - Kenesaw Mountain Landis, judge/1st commissioner of baseball

1864 Event - Battle of Droop Mountain, WV (Averell's Raid)

1864 Event - Atlanta Campaign-Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia

1864 Event - Battle of Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia, Pine Mt, Pine Knob, Golgotha

1863 Event - Battle of Chattanooga, Columbia and Lookout Mountain begins in Tennessee

1863 Event - Battle at Battle Mountain, Virginia

1862 Event - Battle at South Mountain: Union troops chases away Confederates

1862 Event - Skirmish at Mountain MD (Boonesboro, Crampton's Gap, Fox's Gap)

1862 Event - Battle of Cedar Mountain Virginia (Slaughter Mountain, Southwest Mountain)

1861 Event - Battle at Cheat Mountain, Elkwater West Virginia

1861 Event - Skirmish at Taylor Mountain, (W)Virginia - CS General Wise retreats

1861 Event - Battle of Laurel Mountain Virginia - General Morris forces retreat of rebels

1861 Event - Battle of Rich Mountain, Virginia - Rosecrans forces rebels to surrender

1850 Birthday - Annie S Peck, mountain climber/explorer/diplomat

1822 Event - 2nd eruption of Galunggung (Java) destroys summit of mountain

1804 Birthday - James Bridger, scout, fur trader and mountain man par excellance

1797 Event - 1st ascent of "Great Mountain" (4,622') in Adirondack New York (C Broadhead)

1780 Event - British defeated by American militia near Kings Mountain, SC

1777 Event - Battle of Bennington-New England's Green Mountain Boys rout Brits

1775 Event - Green Mountain Boys capture Ft. Ticonderoga NY-American Revolution

1632 Death - Frederick V, king of Bohemia (White Mountain), dies at 36

1620 Event - Battle of White Mountain, Prague

1609 Death - Johan Willem, duke of Julich/Cleef/Mark/Mountain/Ravensberg, dies

1596 Birthday - Frederik V, king of Bohemia, White Mountain

1568 Birthday - Christian I, ruler of Anhalt-Bernburg, Battle of White Mountain

1540 Event - Hernando de Soto crosses Appalachian Mountain, 1st European to do so

1296 Death - Adolf VII, earl of Mountain (1259-96), dies













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