2003 Johnny Cash, man-in-black, Boy Named Sue, dies at 71
2002 Kim Hunter, actress, movie version of A Streetcar Named Desire,
2000 Al Gore concedes presidential election, George W. Bush named president
1997 San Francisco Giants manager Dusty Baker named NL Manager of the Year
1997 2 hours after Davey Johnson resigns, he is named AL Manager of Year
1997 Scientists in Scotland announced they succeeded in cloning an adult mammal, producing a lamb named "Dolly"
1996 Ford buys rights to named Detroit domed stadium for $40 million
1994 New York Central park reservior officially named after Jackie Kennedy Onasis
1994 Anne P. Sidamon-Eristoff named chairwoman of Museum of National History
1993 Jacques Lemaire is named New Jersey Devils 8th Head Coach
1993 "5 Guys Named Moe" closes at Eugene O'Neill New York City after 445 performances
1993 New expansion NHL team, owned by Disney, is named the Mighty Ducks
1992 Arthur Ashe is named Sports Illustrated Sportman of Year
1992 Scott Stevens is named 5th Captain in New Jersey Devils history
1992 "Streetcar Named Desire" closes at Ethel Barrymore New York City after 137 perf
1992 Mona Van Duyn is named 1st female U.S. poet laureate
1992 "Streetcar Named Desire" opens at Ethel Barrymore New York City for 137 performances
1992 "5 Guys Named Moe" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City for 445 performances
1992 Larry Smith, named 9th Commissioner of the CFL
1991 Ted Turner is named Time Magazine Man of Year
1991 Chicago Bull Michael Jordan, named NBA's MVP
1991 Don Mattingly named 10th New York Yankee Captain
1990 Louis Jordan's revue "Five Guys Named Moe," premieres in London
1989 Wayne Gretzky and Martina Navratilova, named athletes of decade by AP
1989 Lou Piniella is named manager of the Reds, replacing banned Pete Rose
1989 Lincoln Square in Bronx named
1989 Bill White named NL president; 1st black major-league sports head
1988 Benazir Bhutto named 1st female PM of a Moslem country (Pakistan)
1988 Yank manager Billy Martin's 5th term ends, Lou Pinella named manager
1987 Woody Woodward resigns as New York Yankee GM, Lou Piniella is named GM and Billy Martin is named New York Yankee manager for 5th and final time
1987 Lou Lamoriello is named New Jersey Devils President
1986 Bryan O'Connor named chairman of Space Flight Safety Panel
1985 White Sox shortstop Ozzie Guillen, is named AL Rookie of Year
1985 Lou Piniella named New York Yankee manager
1985 Michael Jordan named NBA Rookie of Year
1985 Billy Martin named New York Yankee manager for 4th time
1985 Arthur Ashe is named to International Tennis Hall of Fame
1984 New York Met Dwight Gooden, 20, is youngest to be named NL Rookie of Year
1984 Gen Sec Konstantin U Chernenko named President of Soviet Union
1984 Part of Central Park is named Strawberry Fields honoring John Lennon
1984 John J O'Connor named 8th archbishop of New York
1984 Robert Penn Warren, Pulitzer Prize winner, named 1st U.S. poet laureate
1983 Yogi Berra named Yankee manager for 2nd time
1983 Tennessee Williams, writer (Streetcar Named Desire), dies at 71
1983 Billy Martin named New York Yankee manager for 3rd time
1982 Clyde King named Yankee manager
1982 Orioles Cal Ripken is named AL Rookie of Year
1982 Lehman Engel, U.S. composer (Streetcar Named Desire), dies at 71
1982 New Jersey NHL franchise officially named Devils by fan balloting, runner-up names are Blades, Meadowlanders and Americans
1982 Rudy Bond, actor (Streetcar Named Desire), dies of heart attack at 68
1981 Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year for the Oakland A's
1981 Bob Lemon named New York Yankee manager for 2nd time
1981 Seven Brothers Square in Bronx named honoring 7 Santini Bro Moving Co
1981 Kazimiroff Blvd in Bronx named for a Bronx historian
1981 CNN airs a videotape that shows that Tamara Rand predicted that Reagan is in danger from someone named Jack Humley (a hoax)
1980 Alexander Haig named Reagan's Secretary of State
1980 Gene Michael named 25th Yank mgr, replacing Dick Howser, who resigns
1980 Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year for the Oakland A's
1979 Donald McHenry named to succeed Andrew Young as United Nations ambassador
1979 Dr. Walter Massey named director of Argonne national Lab
1979 Frank Peterson, Jr. named 1st black general in Marine Corps
1979 Billy Martin named manager of Oakland A's
1979 Border is named 12th man for Australia, only Test Cricket he missed
1978 Dianne Feinstein is named San Francisco 1st female mayor
1978 Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat named winners of 1978 Nobel Peace Prize
1977 Dr. Clifford R Wharton, Jr. named chancellor of State University of NY
1977 Leonid Brezhnev named president of U.S.S.R.
1977 Yehonathan Netanyou Lane in the Bronx named in honor of Bronx-born
1976 Patricia R. Harris named secretary of HUD
1976 Andrew Young named Ambassador and Chief U.S. Delegate to UN
1976 Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year (New York Yankees)
1975 Pope Paul VI named J Willebrands archbishop of Utrecht
1975 Reds 2nd baseman Joe Morgan is named NL MVP
1974 Cardinals' Lou Brock is named Sportsman of the Year
1974 Oliver Tilden Triangle in the Bronx named
1974 Catfish Hunter is named AL Cy Young Award
1974 Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year (Texas Rangers)
1974 Edna Lewis Thomas, U.S. actress (Streetcar Named Desire), dies at 88
1974 James "Cool Papa" Bell is named to baseball's Hall of Fame
1973 Jim Palmer is named AL Cy Young winner
1973 Yankee GM and President Lee MacPhail named AL president
1973 Billy Martin named manager of Texas Rangers
1973 Willie Mays named to NL all star team for 24th time (ties Musial)
1973 Shoelace Park in the Bronx named
1972 Benjamin L Hooks, named to FCC
1972 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar named NBA MVP
1970 Billy Martin named manager of Det Tigers
1970 Elizabeth Hoisington and Anna Mae Mays named 1st female U.S. generals
1969 John Madden is named head coach of NFL's Oakland Raiders
1968 Billy Martin named manager of Twins
1968 Seattle's AL club is named Pilots
1968 Risse St. in Bronx named
1967 Mets pitcher Tom Seaver (16-12) is named NL Rookie of Year
1967 Melville Abrams Ball Field in Bronx named
1967 Maj Robert H Lawrence, Jr. named 1st black astronaut
1967 Stan Musial is named GM of Cards
1966 Pirates outfielder Roberto Clemente is named NL MVP
1966 Stokely Carmichael named chairman of Student Nonviolent Coordinating
1966 Floyd B McKissick, named national director of CORE
1965 Twins SS Zoilo Versalles is named AL MVP
1965 Willie Mays named NL MVP
1965 Pope Paul VI named MR Perey bishop's helper of New Orleans
1965 Patricia R. Harris named 1st U.S. black female ambassador (Luxembourg)
1965 Beatles announce their film is named "8 Arms to Hold on to You" (Help)
1964 Carl T. Rowan named director of U.S. Information Agency
1962 Kinderman Place in the Bronx named
1962 Dodgers shortstop Maury Wills is named NL's MVP
1962 Cleve sends Harry Chiti to Mets for a player to be named later, on
1962 Schoolman Athletic Field in the Bronx named
1961 Whitney Young, Jr. named executive director of National Urban League
1961 1st animal returned from space, dog named Blackie aboard Sputnik 9
1959 Sammy Baugh named 1st coach of New York Titans (AFL)
1959 Joe Foss named 1st commissioner of AFL
1959 Fidel Castro named himself Cuba's premier after overthrowing Batista
1958 14 people named 1st life peers in U.K.
1958 1st 4 women named to peerage in House of Lords
1957 Soviet Union launches, Sputnik II, carrying a dog named Laika
1956 Laura Thorne, chef, named one of 10 best American chefs
1954 Hurricane Carol (1st major named storm) hits New England, 70 die
1954 Ralph J. Bunche named undersecretary of UN
1953 Walter Alston named Dodger manager
1953 Indians 3rd baseman Al Rosen is unanimously named AL's MVP
1953 Jesse Owens named Illinois Athletic Commission secretary
1952 Shah of Persia named Ghavam Sultaneh premier
1952 Charlton Playground named in Bronx
1951 Roy Campanella named NL MVP on his 30th birthday
1950 General Eisenhower named NATO commander
1950 Edith Sampson named 1st black U.S. delegate to U.N.
1950 Gen Douglas MacArthur named commander-in-chief, United Nations forces in Korea
1950 Connie Mack named Honorary Manager of the All-Star Game
1947 Tennessee Williams' "Streetcar Named Desire," premieres in New York City
1947 Jackie Robinson is named 1947 "Rookie of Year"
1947 Jackie Robinson is named Rookie of Year by Sporting News
1947 Dmitri Shostakovitch named professor at conservatory of Leningrad
1946 Mrs. Emma Clarissa Clement named "American Mother of Year"
1946 11 players Tinker, Evers, Chance, Burkett, McCarthy, Waddell, Plank, Walsh, Chesbro, Griffith, and McGinnity are named to Hall of Fame
1945 Gen George C. Marshall named special U.S. envoy to China
1945 General MacArthur named Supreme Commander of Allied Powers in Japan
1945 Lt-adm Marc Mitscher named chief of U.S. Navy staff
1945 Albert B "Happy" Chandler is named 2nd baseball commissioner
1944 Hal Newhouser is named AL MVP
1944 Smokey the Bear, named after New York City fireman Smokey Joe Martin
1943 Averell Harriman named U.S. ambassador to Moscow
1943 Lynch Triangle (Square) in Bronx named
1943 Gromyko named U.S.S.R.-ambassador in Washington
1943 1st warship named for a Black person, SS Leonard Roy Harmon, launched
1943 Liberty Ship George Washington Carver, named after scientist, launched
1942 Branch Rickey named president/GM of Brooklyn Dodgers
1942 Dwight D. Eisenhower named commander for invasion of North Africa
1941 Young Park (2) in the Bronx named in honor of Samuel Young
1941 Joe DiMaggio is named AL MVP
1941 Martin Bormann is named head of Nazi Party Chancellery in Germany
1940 Benjamin Oliver Davis Sr named 1st black general in regular army
1939 Hitler named Adolf Eichmann leader of "Referat IV B"
1938 NL batting champ Ernie Lombardi is named MVP
1938 Du Pont named its new synthetic fiber "nylon"
1937 St. Louis Cardinals Triple Crown winner Joe Medwick is named NL MVP
1937 "il duce" visits Berlin/named "the Fuhrer" to corporal 1st class
1936 Benjamin E. Mays named president of Morehouse College
1936 Mary McLeod Bethune named director of Negro Affairs in National Youth Adm
1936 Joe McCarthy is named to manage AL All-Stars, rather than high-strung Mickey Cochrane, who is very close to a nervous breakdown
1935 Hank Greenberg is named AL MVP by the BBWAA, Wes Ferrell is runner-up
1934 Ford Frick, NL publicity director, is named league president
1933 Young Park (1) in the Bronx named in honor of James Young
1933 Adolph Hitler named German Chancellor, forms government with Von Papen
1932 Wernher von Braun named head of German liquid-fuel rocket program
1931 Jane Addams (1st U.S. woman) named co-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize
1931 Lefty Grove, A's pitcher who won 31 games, is named the AL's MVP
1931 Frankie Frisch of the Cards named MVP
1930 Charles E Mitchell, named minister to Liberia
1930 Planet Pluto named
1927 Lou Gehrig named AL MVP (Babe Ruth (former winner) not eligible)
1927 William T. Francis named minister to Liberia
1926 Latkin Square in Bronx named for 1st U.S. Jewish soldier to die in WW I
1925 Washington shortstop Roger Peckinpaugh is named AL MVP
1922 Library Ave in Bronx named
1922 Lucerne Street in Bronx named
1922 Parsifal Place laid out in Bronx, named for knight in Wagner's Opera
1921 Solomon Porter Hood named minister to Liberia
1918 Dr. Joseph L Johnson named minister to Liberia
1917 Trotski named chairman of Petrograd Soviet
1916 2nd Ave and Bronx Terrace renamed Bronx Blvd; Seward Pl renamed Sycamore Ave; Herald Ave renamed Dickinson Ave; Monroe and Selwyn Avenue named
1915 Atty James L. Curtis named minister of Liberia
1914 Von Hindenburg named marshal of Eastern front
1914 Gen von Hindenburgs named commander of German armies on Eastern Front
1914 Dutch Minister of war H Colijn named director of British Petroleum
1913 George W Buckner, named minister to Liberia
1911 Clark Griffith is named manager of Washington Senators
1910 Lehman Engel, Jackson, Mississippi, conductor/comp, Streetcar Named Desire
1910 Irene Mayer Selznick, producer, Street Car Named Desire
1909 Elia Kazan, Constaninople Turkey, director, Streetcar Named Desire
1907 General Louis Botha named premier of Transvaal
1905 Henry Watson Furness, an Indiana physican, named minister of Haiti
1905 Dutch AR-politician AWF Idenburg named governor of Suriname
1904 King Peter I of Sweden named nationalist regime
1904 Earl Grey is named British governor-general of Canada
1902 John McGraw named manager of New York Giants
1900 1st Davis Cup tennis competition, named after Dwight Filley Davis, began at Longwood Cricket Club in Massachusetts, and won by U.S. 2 days later
1899 San Francisco named as a port of dispatch for Army transports
1898 Owen Smith of NC, AME Zion minister, named minister to Liberia
1897 Emperor Karl Joseph I named Gustav Mahler director of Opera
1897 William Frank Powell, New Jersey educator, named minister to Haiti
1895 William Heard, AME minister and educator, named minister to Liberia
1894 Amelia Jenks Bloomer, suffragist (Bloomers named for her), dies at 76
1891 John Stephens Durham, named minister to Haiti
1890 Alexander Clark, journalist/lawyer, named minister to Liberia
1890 Eagle Ave in the Bronx is cut out and named
1889 Frederick Douglass named Minister to Haiti
1885 Moses Hopkins, named minister to Liberia
1885 John E. W. Thompson, named minister to Haiti
1881 Henry Highland Garnet, named minister to Liberia
1879 Dr. Benjamin E Mays, named president of Atlanta Board of Education
1878 Atty John Henry Smyth named minister to Liberia
1877 John Mercer Langston named minister of Haiti
1873 Lee Shubert, producer, theatres in New York and LA named after him
1871 J Milton Turner named minister to Liberia
1866 U.S. Grant named 1st general of Army
1866 Berkeley, California named (for George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne)
1865 C J Thomsen, Denmark, archaeologist, named Stone/Iron/Bronze Ages
1865 Robert E. Lee is named commander-in-chief of Confederate Army
1865 Gen Robert E Lee named Commander-in-Chief of Confederate Armies
1864 Ulysses S. Grant is named General of Volunteers
1864 Grant is named commander of the Union armies
1862 Gen Stonewall Jackson evacuates Winchester Virginia Army of the Potomac. Gen Henry Halleck is named general-in-chief
1861 Richmond, Virginia, is named the capital of the Confederacy
1861 Robert E. Lee named commander of Virginia Confederate forces
1858 Donati Comet 1st seen named after it's discoverer
1849 St. Paul's Place in the Bronx named
1824 Simon Bolivar named dictator by the Congress of Peru
1823 Simon Bolivar named president of Peru
1792 Columbia River discovered and named by U.S. Capt Robert Gray
1785 Congress resolves U.S. currency named "dollar" and adopts decimal coinage
1776 Henri Dutrochet, discovered and named process of osmosis
1716 Eugenius of Savoye named land guardian of Austrian Netherlands
1610 Henry Hudson enters bay later named after him, the Hudson Bay
1546 Thomas Elyot, English diplomat (Boke named the Governor), dies at 46
1448 Pope Nicolaas V named Utrechts bishop Rudolf of Diepholt, cardinal
1055 Bishop Gebhard van Eichstatt named Pope Victor II
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