2004 Tony Awards, Avenue Q, I Am My Own Wife, Henry IV revival and Assassins revival won major awards
2004 Lynn Cartwright, actress, A League of Their Own, dies at 76
1998 Rodney Harvey, actor, My Own Private Idaho, dies at 30
1998 Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski asks to act as his own lawyer
1997 ABL players allowed to own stock in the league
1996 Roger Clemens ties his own major league record with 20 strikeouts
1992 FCC rules companies can own 30 AM and 30 FM stations (formerly 12)
1991 "My Own Private Idaho" premieres
1991 John Stockton breaks his own NBA season assist record at 1,136
1990 Burger King begins using Newman's Own Salad Dressing
1989 1st black owners (Betram Lee and Peter Bynoe) to own a major sports team, purchasing Denver Nuggets for $65m
1988 Canadian Ben Johnson breaks own 50-yard dash world record at 5.15
1986 Wayne Gretzky breaks own NHL season record with 136th assist
1985 Wayne Gretzky breaks own NHL season record with 126th assist
1983 Isles tie own rec with 2 shorthanded playoff goals in a pd vs Ranger
1982 Penn prison guard George Banks kills 13 (5 were his own children)
1981 Isles tie own rec with 2 shorthanded playoff goals in a pd vs Minnesota
1979 Ann Dvorak, actress (G Men, Life of Her Own, Scarface), dies at 67
1978 NHL Toronto Maple Leafs set own team record of 28 pts vs New York Islanders
1974 Congress authorizes U.S. citizens to own gold
1974 Crawford-Butler Act allows Puerto Ricans to elect own governor
1973 Isle of Man begins issuing their own postage stamps
1973 Japan allows its citizens to own gold
1969 Guernsey and Jersey begin issuing their own postage stamps
1968 Hester and Appolinar's musical "Your Own Thing," premieres in New York City
1967 Muriel Siebert is 1st women to own a seat on New York Stock Exchange
1967 BBC starts their own popular music radio station
1966 Stephen Mailer, born in New York City, actor, Red Meat, League of Their Own, War and Love
1964 John Lennon's "In His Own Write" is published in U.S.
1963 Obe Postma, Fries, poet/geography/historian (Own Cart), dies
1963 Beatles begin their own music publishing company (Northern Songs)
1962 Rosie O'Donnell, comedienne, League of Their Own, Flintstones, Rosie
1960 French Senate condemns building own nuclear weapons
1960 French National Meeting decide to build own nuclear weapons
1960 "My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own," by Connie Francis hits #1
1959 White Sox Early Wynn beats Red Sox 1-0 on his own HR
1958 Apie [Adrian P] Prince, Dutch writer (I Go Me Own Way), dies
1957 Jon Lovitz, Tarzana California, actor, SNL, League of their Own, Critic
1956 Hungarian party leader Matyas Rakosi enforces his own policy
1956 German DR forms own army (National People's Army)
1954 Bill Pullman, actor, Sommersby, League of their Own, Independence Day
1954 Neil Francis Tennant, rocker, Pet Shop Boys-Left to My Own Devices
1953 Bess Armstrong, born in Baltimore, Maryland, actress, Julia-On Our Own, 4 Seasons, Jaws
1953 James Russo, born in New York City, actor, My Own Private Idaho, China Girl
1953 Boston Braves, who own Milwaukee minor league franchise, block St. Louis Browns attempt to shift their franchise to Milwaukee
1952 Yankees tie their own record of 4 consecutive World Series wins
1952 Prime Minister Winston Churchill announces Britain has its own atomic bomb
1950 Truman signs public law 600 (Puerto Ricans write own constitution)
1950 Indians pitcher Bob Feller, after 15-14 season, takes $20,000 salary cut to $45,000, pay cut is Feller's own suggestion
1948 Bradman scores his last century, 123 in his own testimonial
1947 U.N. General assembly begins debate on printing their own stamps
1947 Mosibudi Mangena, South African black leader, On Your Own
1943 Phils owner William D. Cox is permanently banned from baseball for having bet on his own team
1942 Mick Fleetwood, born in London, rock drummer, Fleetwood Mac-Go Your Own Way
1938 Italy passes their own version of anti-Jewish Nuremberg laws
1936 June Jordan, U.S. playwright and poet, His Own Where
1935 Millionaire Howard Hughes flies his own designed plane at 352.46 mph
1932 President Hoover cuts own salary 15%
1929 Lundy, part of British Isles, issue their own stamps
1920 Ireland divided into 2 parts, each with its own parliament
1919 Dulcie Gray, Kuala Lampur, Malaysia, actress, Mine Own Executioner
1919 German Admiral von Reuter scuttles his own captured fleet
1912 Ann Dvorak, [McKim], New York City, actress, G Men, Life of Her Own, Scarface
1912 Titanic undergoes sea trials under its own power
1907 U.S. Congress raised their own salaries to $7,500
1906 Washington Natl's pitcher Tom Hughes hits HR to win his own game 1-0 in 10th
1884 Apie [Adrian P] Prince, Dutch author, Me Own Way
1873 U.S. Congress and government raise own salary, retroactively
1863 Stonewall Jackson attacks Chancellorsville, wounded by his own men
1859 Edward Bradley, horse owner, 1st to own 4 Kentucky Derby winners
1571 Johannes Kepler, by his own calculations, is conceived at 4:37 AM
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