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2013 Event - A court grants Iceland's Blaer Bjarkardottir the right to use her own name; after previously ruling Blaer was only a man's name, the Reykjavik court rules it could also be used as a girl's name 2012 Event - Inquiries into the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya increase as the only surviving witness of the attack, Walid Faraj, has yet to be interrogated 2012 Event - Only two days after being named to his new post, Shinichi Nishimiya, the newly-appointed Japanese ambassador to China is hospitalized after collapsing in Tokyo 2012 Event - Scientists at Stanford University invent a working bionic eye the is powered only by focused light; the eye could eventually restore the sight of millions of people suffering from macular degeneration and retinal pigmentosa 2011 Event - Concerns about the European economy are heightened as Germany reports second quarter growth of only 0.1% 2003 Event - In his State of the Union address, President George W. Bush stated that Saddam Hussein had tried to acquire 'significant quantities of uranium from Africa' (a claim substantiated only by forged documents) 2000 Event - After years of preparation for Y2K, only minor computer-related problems were reported (a problem with Hotmail, with a nuclear power plant in Japan and with apartment heating in Korea) 1997 Death - Judith Merril, editor/writer, That Only a Mother, dies at 74 1997 Event - Mark McGwire joins Babe as only players to hit 50 home runs in 2 consec yrs 1997 Event - For only 2nd time Stanley Cup leaves North America (heads to Russia) 1997 Event - Australian parliament overturns world's 1st and only euthanasia law 1995 Event - Browns and Indians, play simultaneous regular season games in Cleveland for only time, Browns 22-6 over Tampa, Indians 5-3 over Orioles 1995 Death - Charles Rowe, cricket (scored 0 in only Test for New Zealand vs. Australia 1946), dies 1992 Event - Kevin Gross of Dodgers tosses only 9-inning no-hitter of season, a 2-0 1992 Death - Marc Tannenbaum, rabbi (only Jew to attend Vatican II), dies at 66 1992 Event - De Klerk wins a white only referendum 1991 Death - Cassandra Harris, actress (For Your Eyes Only), dies of cancer at 39 1991 Event - Only 1,695 fans watch Boston Red Sox play Cleveland 1991 Death - Rita Marechal, actress (Good During Only During), dies 1991 Event - A new cancer drug is announced, which can only be found in bark of a rare tree in the Pacific Northwest 1991 Event - 356th and final episode of CBS 2nd longest running series Dallas, 2nd only to Gunsmoke 1990 Event - Andre Dawson steals his 300th base and is only player other than Willie Mays to have 300 home runs, 300 steals and 2,000 hits 1989 Event - Browns allow Pittsburgh only 53 net yards, a team defensive record 1989 Event - Only 17 hole-in-ones recorded since U.S. open began, today 4 more are made all on 6th hole (Weaver, Wiebe, Pate and Price) 1989 Event - 1-handed pitcher Jim Abbott debut but lasts only 4 2/3 inn 1989 Death - Jack Douglas, humorist (My Brother Was an Only Child), dies at 80 1987 Event - Imran Khan takes 300th Test Cricket wicket, only Pakistani to do so 1987 Event - Sacramento Kings score only 4 points 1st quarter against Lakers; fewest in a period since introduction of 24 second shot-clock in 1954 1986 Event - Paul McCartney releases "Only Love Remains" 1986 Event - Anne White shocks Wimbledon by wearing only a body stocking 1986 Event - Vinicio Cerezo becomes only 2nd freely elected president of Guatemala since CIA-sponsored coup in 1954 1985 Event - "My One and Only" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 767 performances 1984 Event - Mackay pays $218,718 for 44,166 tickets to keep Twins in Minnesota Twins sell 51,863 tickets but only 6,346 fans show up for the game 1983 Event - Greg LeMond becomes only American to win cycling's Road Championship 1983 Event - "My One and Only" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 767 performances 1983 Event - David Hookes scores his only Test Cricket century, 143* vs. Sri Lanka 1983 Event - Only known typo on Time Magazine cover (control=contol), all recalled 1982 Event - Chaminade, with a student body of only 850 students, beats #1 ranked Virginia 77-72 in a Honolulu holiday basketball classic 1981 Event - Yankees beat Brewers 7-3 and win only Eastern Championship Series 1981 Event - "For Your Eyes Only" premieres in U.S. 1981 Event - Only candidate Hassan Gouled Aptidon wins Djibouti President election 1981 Death - Jean Dixon, actress (Joy of Livng, You Only Live Once), dies 1980 Death - Jim Parks Sr, Kent cricket all-rounder (only Test for England), dies 1980 Event - 1st (& only) time Phillies win World Series (in 98 years) 1980 Event - Sabres take only 15 shots, Islanders 22, in a playoff game 1979 Event - Border is named 12th man for Australia, only Test Cricket he missed 1978 Event - Commerce Department says hurricane names will no longer be only female 1977 Event - Islander Goran Hogosta's only shut-out Flames 9-0-Trottier 4 goals 1977 Event - Czechoslovakian chess master Vlastimil Hort plays 201 games simultaneously and only loses 10 1977 Event - Islanders allow Red Wings only 11 shots on goal 1976 Event - Ranger Toby Harrah is only shortstop not to handle a fielding chance in doubleheader 1976 Event - Only home run of Joe Niekro's 22-year career, comes off brother Phil 1976 Event - Ian Redpath hits his only 2 sixes in Cricket Tests, vs. WI Adelaide 1975 Event - Only 2nd time Islanders beat Rangers 1975 Event - Caps only got one shot in a period against Islanders 1974 Event - John Lennon's only solo #1 "Whatever Gets You Through the Night" 1974 Event - Ringo releases "Goodnight Vienna" and "Only You" in UK 1974 Event - Oakland A's beat Los Angeles Dodgers, 4 games to 1 in 71st World Series makes A's only team other than Yankees to win 3 straight series 1974 Event - Nolan Ryan strikes out 19 and walks only 2 as Angels top Red Sox, 4-2 1974 Death - Charles Braswell, actor (Only Game in Town), dies at 49 1973 Event - Brothers Jim and Gaylord Perry face each other for only time, Tigers beat Indians 5-4, as Gaylord loses 1973 Event - Rodney Redmond scores 107 on debut vs. Pakistan, his only Test Cricket 1972 Event - "Only Fools Are Sad" closes at Edison Theater New York City after 144 performances 1971 Event - "Only Fools Are Sad" opens at Edison Theater New York City for 144 performances 1971 Event - John Lennon and Yoko Ono are Dick Cavett's only guest 1971 Event - Barbra Streisand records "We've Only Just Begun" 1971 Event - Only Test Cricket for Ken Eastwood, who scored 5 and 0 Australia vs. England 1970 Birthday - Deborah, Debbie, Gibson, born in Brooklyn, New York, singer, Only in My Dreams 1970 Event - San Francisco beats Cincinnati 2-1, only day Reds aren't in 1st place in 1970 1969 Event - Plastic Ono Band, play their only concert at London's Lyceum Ballroom 1969 Event - Hanif, Mushtaq and Sadiq Mohammad start their only Test Cricket together 1969 Event - Smallest U.S. Tennis Open single session-131 (men's doubles final only) 1969 Death - Johnny Jordan, cameraman (You Only Live Twice), dies at 44 1968 Event - Beatles release "Beatles," (White Album) their only double album 1968 Event - Golden Gate Bridge charges tolls only for southbound cars 1968 Event - Beatles begin work on their only double album "Beatles" 1968 Death - Virginia Maskell, actress (Only Two Can Play), dies at 31 1967 Event - Bobby Gentry releases her only hit "Ode to Billy Joe" 1967 Event - "You Only Live Twice" premieres in U.S. 1967 Event - Hank Aaron only inside the park home run vs Jim Bunning 1967 Birthday - Mellow Man Ace, Cuba, spanish rapper/actor, Only the Strong 1966 Event - Only 413 show up at a Yankee Stadium game 1966 Birthday - Ronna Reeves, born in Big Spring, Texas, female country music singer, albums titled, 'Only the Heart', 'The More I Learn', 'What Comes Naturally' 1966 Event - Daylight meteor seen from Utah to Canada. Only known case of a meteor entering Earth's atmosphere and leaving it again 1966 Death - Neal Dodd, actor (Only Women, You Belong to Me), dies at 86 1966 Event - Only home run ever hit out of Baltimore's Memorial Park (Frank Robinson) 1964 Event - Rex Sellers bowls 5-1-17-0 vs. India in only Test Cricket innings 1963 Event - Only 1st-class cricket game played in Uganda, MCC vs. E African XI 1963 Event - Houston Colt .45 John Paciorek goes 3 for 3 in his only game 1963 Death - Patrick Kennedy, son of President Kennedy, dies at only 3 days 1963 Birthday - Patrick Kennedy, son of President Kennedy, lives only 3 days 1963 Event - Wes Stock becomes only Baltimore Oriole to win a doubleheader 1963 Event - Leslie Narum is only Baltimore Oriole to homer on his 1st at bat 1963 Event - Public stock offering of 115,000 shares in Milwaukee Braves withdrawn after only 13,000 shares are sold to 1,600 new investors 1963 Event - Oregon State's Terry Baker becomes 1st and only Heisman Trophy winner 1962 Birthday - Roshan Guneratne, cricketer, wicketless in only Test SL vs. Australia 1983 1961 Event - PGA eliminates caucasians only rule 1960 Event - Roy Orbison releases "Only the Lonely" 1959 Event - Phils Wally Post is only outfielder to throw out 2 runners in an inning twice (Losing to Giants 6-0) 1959 Birthday - Jerry Only, born in Lodi, New Jersey, Gerald Caiafa, bassist, singer for the Misfits, horror punk, hardcore punk genres, creator, Devilock, hair style 1958 Event - Dodgers erect 42-foot screen in left field at LA Coliseum to cut down on home runs, since it is only 250 feet down the line 1957 Event - Giants trade Minneapolis franchise to Red Sox for San Francisco Seals-franchises only, not the players 1957 Birthday - Teresa Ganzel, born in Toledo, Ohio, actress, Teachers Only, Duck Factory 1957 Event - Premiere of only prime-time network TV show beginning with an "X": "Xavier Cugat Show" on NBC (until X-Files) 1957 Event - Supreme Court decides 6-3, baseball is only antitrust exempt pro sport 1956 Event - Don Larsen, New York, pitches only perfect World Series game, vs Brooklyn 1955 Event - Brooklyn Dodgers only World Series victory, beating Yankees in 7 1955 Birthday - Howard Jones, rock pianist/vocalist, Things Can Only Get Better 1954 Event - Yogi Berra plays his only game at 3rd and Mickey Mantle plays shortstop 1954 Birthday - Tula, Barry Kenneth Cossey, England, transsexual, For Your Eyes Only 1953 Birthday - Russ Feingold, born in Janesville, Wisconsin, U.S Senator from Wisconsin, co-sponsor, Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, initially, the only Senator to vote against the USA Patriot Act 1952 Event - Only win ever for NFL's Dallas Texans (11-1) beats Bears 27-23 1952 Event - Arab Liberation Movement becomes only party of Syria 1952 Event - Stan Musial makes his only major league pitching appearance 1952 Event - New York Giant Hoyt Wilhelm wins his 1st relief game and hits his only home run 1951 Birthday - Joe Jordan, born in Carluke, Scotland, professional soccer player, the only soccer player to score in three World Cups in 1974, 1978 and 1982 1950 Event - Red Sox Dom DiMaggio leads AL with only 15 stolen bases 1950 Event - Great Three acknowledge Bond government as only German government 1950 Birthday - Karen Carpenter, born in New Haven, Connecticut, vocalist and drummer, We Only Just Begun 1948 Event - Andy Ganteaume scores 112 for West Indies in only Test Cricket innings 1948 Birthday - Kenia Jayantilal, cricketer, 5 at Kingston 71 his only inns for India 1947 Event - With only 1 out to go, Yank Floyd Beven gives up a double breaking his World Series no-hit bid, it scored 2 runs and he lost game 1947 Birthday - Ghulam Abbas, cricketer, scored 12 and 0 in only Test for Pakistan 1967 1947 Birthday - Ashley Woodcock, cricketer, one Test Australia vs. New Zealand 1974, only knock 27 1946 Birthday - Edgar Winter, Beaumont, Texas, rocker, They Only Come Out at Night 1946 Event - Vance Dinges hits only Phillie pinch hit inside-the-park home run 1945 Event - Joe Kuhel hits inside-the-park home run, only home run hit by a Senator all season at Washington's Griffith Stadium 1945 Event - USS Cod saves 51 sailors from Dutch sub in only sub-to-sub rescue 1945 Event - Ella Fitzgerald and Delta Rhythm Boys record "It's Only a Paper Moon" 1944 Event - St. Louis Browns win 1st World Series game in their only appearance 1944 Event - St. Louis Browns win their only AL pennant 1944 Event - Browns last in AL attendance,only 6,172 watch them sweep New York Yankees in DH 1944 Event - Braves Red Barrett throws only 58 pitches to shut out Cincinnati Reds 2-0 1944 Birthday - Lee Irvine, cricketer, South African batsman, only Tests in 1970 1944 Event - "War As It Happens" news show premieres on NBC TV (New York City only) 1942 Death - Douglas Munro, only U.S. Coast Guard with WW II-Med of Honor, dies 1942 Birthday - Bill Conti, born in Providence, Rhode Island, composer, For Your Eyes Only, Rocky IV 1941 Event - Japanese attack Wake Island (only failed WW II-landing) 1940 Death - Dusty Tapscott, cricket (bro of Doodles, 4&1 in only S Af Test), dies 1940 Birthday - Justine "Baby" Washington, U.S. singer, Only Those in Love 1939 Birthday - Man Mohan Sood, cricketer, scored 0 and 3 in his only Test for India 1939 Birthday - Shahid Mahmoud, cricketer, opener scored 16 and 9 in only Pak Test 1938 Birthday - Alan Jones, cricketer, England vs. ROW 1970 his only International honour 1938 Event - Only time brothers hit back-to-back home runs (Lloyd and Paul Waner, Pitts) 1937 Birthday - Khalid Hassan, Pak cricket leg-spinner, took 2-116 at 16 in only Test 1937 Birthday - Jim Hunt, born in Wilson, North Carolina, politician, Democratic Party, first and only four-term Governor of North Carolina 1976 - 2001 1937 Birthday - Ken Palmer, cricketer, 1-190 in only Test for England, now Test ump 1937 Event - Only unicameral state legislature in U.S. opens 1st session (Nebr) 1936 Event - 1st baseman Walter Alston plays in his only major league game 1936 Event - Shortest boxing bout with gloves lasts only 10 seconds 1935 Birthday - Jim Dale, born in Rothwell, England, Broadway actor, Barnum, My One and Only 1935 Birthday - V V Kumar, cricketer, useful Madras leggie who only played 2 Tests 1935 Birthday - James Graham, born in Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, Africa, 8th Duke of Montrose, the only Duke with a seat in the House of Lords as a hereditary peer 1933 Event - NSDAP becomes only party in Germany 1933 Birthday - Zeke Carey, U.S. R&B-singer, Flamingos-I Only Have Eyes For You 1932 Death - Henry Taberer, cricket (bowl Trumper only Test wkt for South Africa), dies 1932 Event - U.S. bobsled team member Eddie Eagan becomes only athlete to win gold in both Summer and Winter Olympics (1920 boxing gold) 1930 Event - Farmer killed by hail in Lubbock, Texas, only known fatality due to hail 1930 Birthday - Roy Marshall, cricket opener, prolific Hampshire only 4 Tests for WI 1928 Birthday - Rajindranath, cricketer, 4 stumpings in his only Test for India 1927 Event - Waite Hoyt became only 20 game winner of 1927 Yankees 1927 Event - "Wings," the only silent film to win an Oscar for best picture, opens 1927 Birthday - Jack Douglas, comedian, My Brother Was an Only Child, Jack Paar Show 1926 Event - Bradman plays his 1st State selection trial He only made 37 1926 Event - Tennis star Suzanne Lenglen beats Helen Wills in their only match 1925 Event - Only time Babe Ruth pinch-hit for, Bobby Veach flies out 1925 Birthday - Richard Barber, cricketer, scored 12 and 5 in only Test New Zealand vs. WI 1956 1924 Birthday - Madhussudan Rege, cricketer, 15 runs in only Test India vs. WI 1948-49 1924 Birthday - Margaret Truman, born in Missouri, singer, writer, only daughter of President Harry and Bess Truman 1922 Event - Harry Greb gave Gene Tunney his only professional boxing defeat 1922 Event - Grand National at Aintree sees only 3 horses out of 32 starters finish 1921 Birthday - Gene Saks, New York, actor and director, One and Only, Prisoner of 2nd Ave 1921 Event - Babe Ruth's 1st World Series homer; only Sunday game ever pitched by Carl Mays 1921 Birthday - Sam Cook, cricketer, England slow left-armer in only Test 1921 Birthday - Andy Ganteaume, cricketer, WI batsman, 112 in only Test innings 1948 1920 Event - Roy Park makes 1st-ball duck in only Test Cricket India, vs. England at MCG 1920 Event - Only tripleheader of century (Reds win 13-4, 7-3 then Pirates win 6-0) 1920 Event - Ray Chapman, of Indians is hit in head by Yankees' Carl Mays pitch; he dies next day, only major league fatality 1920 Birthday - Lewis Gilbert, born in London, England, director/actor, You Only Live Twice 1920 Birthday - Mohammad Aslam Khokhar, cricket, Pak bat scored 16 and 18 in only test 1919 Event - Man o'War's only defeat (Upset wins at Saratoga) 1917 Birthday - Jack Plimsoll, cricketer, South Africa lefty quick, 3-143 in only Test 1947 1917 Birthday - Jack Robertson, cricketer, superb England batsman only played 11 Tests 1916 Birthday - Vic Stollmeyer, cricketer, bro of Jeff Scored 96 in only Test innings 1915 Event - Phillies win their 1st and only World Series game before 1980, beating 1915 Birthday - Charles Rowe, cricketer, scored a pair in only Test, New Zealand vs. Australia 1946, 1914 Event - V Herbert and H Blossoms "Only Girl," premieres in New York City 1914 Birthday - Barbara Ward, economist/writer, Only One Earth 1914 Death - R E Foster, only dual England captain at cricket and soccer, dies 1913 Event - Phillies and Braves tie record of only 1 run in a double header, Phillies win 1st game 1-0, then a scoreless tie into 10th 1913 Birthday - William Chatterton, cricketer, 48 in only Test for England 1892 1913 Birthday - Yuvraj of Patiala, cricketer, scored 24 and 60 in only Test India vs. Eng 1913 Birthday - Horace Smith, cricketer, New Zealand, only Test wkt off his 1st ball, Paynter, 1912 Event - Red Sox Tris Speaker's makes only world series unassisted double play, from the outfield 1912 Event - English explorer Robert F Scott and his expedition reach South Pole, only to discover that Roald Amundsen had gotten there before 1911 Event - Hungarian education is only taught in German 1910 Birthday - Keki Khursedji Tarapore, cricketer, 0-72 in his only Test for India 1910 Event - Jack Hobbs 1st Test ton (187 vs. SAfr), his only Test hit wicket 1909 Birthday - Carol Lombard, Ft. Wayne, Indiana, actress, My Man Godfrey, In Name Only 1908 Event - Cubs' Ed Reulbach becomes only pitcher to throw doubleheader shutout 1907 Birthday - Helen Vinson, born in Texas, actress, Transatlantic Tunnel, In Name Only 1905 Event - Cubs Jack McCarthy becomes only major league player to throw out 3 runners at plate in 1 game, all were ends of a double play 1903 Event - Boston Beaneater Wiley Piatt is only 20th-century pitcher to lose 2 complete games in one day, falling to Pittsburgh 1-0 and 5-3 1903 Event - Martha Washington Hotel, catering to women only, opens in New York City 1902 Event - Orioles forfeit to St. Louis having only 5 players available to play they then forfeit their franchise back to the AL 1902 Event - Australia won the one and only Test Cricket played at Sheffield 1902 Birthday - Harry Golden, Jewish humorist and writer, 2 cents Plain, Only in America 1900 Birthday - Oda Schaefer, German author and poet, Die Windharfe, Ladies Only 1900 Event - Start of the one and only olympic cricket match, in Paris 1894 Birthday - Rudolf Hess, Hitler's Deputy Fuhrer, only prisoner at Spandau 1893 Event - For only time in history of U.S. Tennis championships, an event is held off the Eastern seaboard. Men's double championship in Chicago 1893 Event - New Mexico State University cancels it's 1st graduation ceremony, its only graduate Sam Steele was robbed and killed the night before 1890 Event - Pim Mulier 1st and only trip to "Alvesteddetocht" 1883 Birthday - Charles Bender, only American Indian in baseball's Hall of Fame 1882 Birthday - Charlie Parker, cricketer, legend Gloucs SLA, but 2 - 32 in only Test 1879 Event - Cornerstone laid for Iolani Palace (only royal palace in U.S.) 1875 Event - Congress authorizes 20 cent coin, lasts only 3 years 1861 Event - Sally Tompkins is only Confederate Army female commissioned officer 1849 Event - Stephen C. Massett opens courthouse using only piano in California 1849 Event - Abraham Lincoln applies for a patent; only U.S. president to do so 1804 Death - Charles Floyd, only fatality of the Lewis and Clark Expedition 1784 Event - Only known deaths by hailstones in U.S. in Winnsborough, South Carolina 1780 Event - Pennsylvania becomes 1st U.S. state to abolish slavery (for new-borns only) 1749 Event - Earl of Chesterfield says "Idleness is only refuge of weak minds" 1683 Event - William Penn signs friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape indians in Pennsylvania; only treaty "not sworn to, nor broken" 1639 Event - 1st observation of transit of Venus occured (only 2, record event) 1570 Event - Spanish viceroy Alva banishes Zutphen City's only physician, Joost Sweiter, "because he is a Jew" 1523 Death - Adrian VI, Adriaan F Bieyens, only Dutch Pope (1522-23), dies at 64 1522 Event - Adriaan F Boeyens elected only Dutch pope (Adrian VI) 1316 Birthday - Jean I, king of France, Nov 15-19, 1316, he lived only 4 days 1301 Event - Pope Boniface VIII's degree Ausculta fili (only nominee) 1178 Event - 5 Canterbury monks report explosion on moon (only known observation) 1159 Death - Adrian IV, Nicole Breakspear, only English pope (1154-59), dies |
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