2006 United States population reaches 300 million people
2006 Egyptian ferry, Al Salam Boccaccio, sinks killing over 1200 people in the Red Sea
2005 Earthquake in Kashmir kills approximately 80,000 people
2005 The Supreme Court rules the death penalty unconstitutional for people who committed crimes before age 18
2003 Sheb Wooley, singer/actor, ", One-eyed, One-horn Flying Purple People Eater, ", dies at 82
2002 Stove mishap sets Egyption train on fire, kills over 360 people
1999 Curtis Mayfield, composer/singer, People Get Ready, dies at 57
1998 Richard Paul, actor, The People vs. Larry Flynt, dies at 58
1998 President Clinton says "I want to say one thing to the American people I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky"
1998 24th Annual People's Choice Awards - Seinfeld, Tim Allen win
1997 23rd People's Choice Awards: Bill Cosby wins
1996 230 people die when TWA 800 crashes outside of New York City
1996 22nd People's Choice Awards: Apollo 13, Tom Hanks wins
1996 Record $65.2 million British lottery won by 3 people (2-3-4-13-42-44)
1995 Thousands of people in Hiroshima tribute on 50th anniversary of bomb
1995 Earthquake hits Russian town of Khabarovsk, killing 2,000 people
1995 1st time 13 people in space
1995 21st People's Choice Awards: Tim Allen wins
1995 Colin Fergusson found guilty of killing 6 people on the LIRR in NY
1995 Population of People's Republic of China hits 1.2 billion
1994 U.S. changes refugee policy, by sending Haitian boat people back
1994 Drunken officer shoots 7 people dead in Falun Sweden
1994 President Clinton announces U.S. will no longer repatriate boat people
1994 Supreme Court outlaws excluding people from juries because of gender
1994 20th People's Choice Awards
1993 25 people killed during Ghana-Ivory Coast soccer match
1993 Danish people vote in favor of ratifying the Maastricht Treaty
1993 19th People's Choice Awards
1993 "Michael Jackson Talks To Oprah Winfrey" airs on ABC and drew an astounding 39.3 rating/56 share, 90 million people
1992 President candidate Ross Perot at NAACP speech calls them "you people"
1992 Skip Stephenson, TV host (Real People), dies
1992 Skip Stephenson, comedian (Real People), dies of heart attack at 52
1992 18th People's Choice Awards: Garth Brooks and Reba McEntire
1992 Charlie Ventura, jazz sax (Bop for the people), dies at 75 of cancer
1991 Ukrainian people vote for independence
1991 "Shiny Happy People" by REM peaks to #10
1991 "People Are Still Having Sex," by LaTour hits #35
1991 Last issue of Dutch Newspaper "Vr˜e Folk" (Free People)
1991 17th People's Choice Awards: Julia Roberts, Bill Cosby, Pretty Woman
1991 UNPO, Unrepresented Nations and People Org forms in Hague Neth
1990 1st time 12 people in space
1990 Gunman holds 33 people (killing 1) hostage in Berkeley California
1990 16th People's Choice Awards
1989 US Air overshoots runway at LaGuardia Airport in New York City, 2 people die
1989 Merritt Butrick, actor (Shy People, Wired to Kill), dies of AIDS at 29
1989 15th People's Choice Awards
1988 14th People's Choice Awards: Fatal Attraction, Bill Cosby. win
1987 13th People's Choice Awards: Bill Cosby
1986 Vrijkomend vulkaangas kills 1500 people in Nyos-more, Cameroon
1986 Hands Across America - 6 million people hold hands from California to New York
1986 12th People's Choice Awards
1985 Booby trap bomb kills 86 people in India
1985 11th People's Choice Awards: Bill Cosby wins 4 awards
1984 Fire at Wilberg Mine in central Utah killed 27 people
1984 1st time 11 people in space
1984 10th People's Choice Awards: Brooke Shields
1984 1st time 8 people in space
1983 Att Gen Edwin Meese says people go to soup kitchens "...because food is free and that's easier than paying for it"
1983 Earthquake in Colombia kills some 5,000 people
1983 9th People's Choice Awards
1983 Tornado tears through LA, injuring 33 people
1982 China announces its population at 1 billion people plus
1982 Dan Seymour, actor (We the People, Sing it Again), dies at 67
1982 DEA announces seizure of 3,192 tons of marijuana, 495 people
1981 Judge Wapner and People's Court premier on TV
1981 Barcelona fascists take 200 people hostage
1981 53rd Academy Awards - "Ordinary People," R De Niro and Sissy Spacek win
1981 People mag features drug ordeal of Mackenzie and Papa John Phillips
1981 38th Golden Globes: Ordinary People, Coal Miner's Daughter
1980 South Korean police ends people's uprising; 2,000 killed
1979 Ettore Manni, actor (Street People, Divine Nymph), dies at 52
1979 "In The Navy" by Village People hits #3
1979 "Real People" premieres on NBC TV
1979 People's Republic of China joins IOC
1979 5th People's Choice Awards
1979 "YMCA" by Village People peaks at #2 on pop singles chart
1979 YMCA files libel suit against Village People's YMCA song
1978 U.N. observes "international day of solidarity with Palestinian people," boycotted by U.S. and about 20 other countries
1978 People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South) adopts constitution
1978 4th People's Choice Awards: Star Wars, Carol Burnett and Bob Hope
1977 Supreme Court says people may refuse to display state motto on license
1977 Ali Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party wins elections
1977 Libyan Socialist Arabs People's Republic forms
1976 "Let My People Come" closes at Morosco Theater New York City after 106 performances
1976 "Let My People Come" opens at Morosco Theater New York City for 106 performances
1976 East-Timor People's Assembly accepts annexation through Indonesia
1975 Laos falls to communist forces; Lao People's Democratic Rep proclaimed
1975 Lao People's Democratic Republic founded (National Day)
1975 WEDway People Mover inaugurated
1975 3 people die in tornado that strikes Omaha, Nebraska
1974 Rhino Store gives people 5 cents to take home Danny Bonaduce's Album
1974 "People" magazine begins sales
1974 E Wilson Jr's musical "Let My People Come," premieres in New York City
1973 President Nixon tells AP "...people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook"
1973 National People's party wins Dutch Antilles National elections
1973 M Revis, [Willem Fisherman), author (People that Mutiny), dies at 68
1972 Japan and People's Republic of China begin diplomatic relations
1972 Peter Billingsley, born in New York City, actor, Real People
1971 Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity) form Jesse Jackson
1971 People United To Save Humanity (PUSH) forms by Jesse Jackson in Chic
1971 People's Republic of South Yemen renames itself People's Democratic Republic of Yemen
1971 China People's Republic seated in United Nations Security Council
1971 People's Republic Bangladesh forms, under sheik Mujib ur-Rahman
1971 President Nixon ends blockade against People's Republic of China
1971 John and Yoko record "Power to the People"
1970 Independent People's Republic of South Yemen becomes People Democratic Republic of Yemen
1969 Congo-Brazzaville becomes People's republic, under major Ngouabi
1969 1st time 7 people in space
1969 1st time 5 people in space
1969 People revolt in Willemstad, Curacao
1969 Communist New People's Army found in Philippines
1969 Nayif Hawatimah forms Dem People's Front for Liberation of Palestine
1968 William E B Dubois, U.S. founder NAACP (Souls of black people), dies
1968 50,000 participate in Solidarity Day March of Poor People's Campaign
1968 Martin Luther King, Jr. announces plans for Poor People's Campaign
1968 Clandestine Radio Voice of Iraqi People (Communist) final transmission
1967 People's front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) established
1967 Democratic People's republic of Yemen gains independence
1967 People's Democratic Republic of Yemen declares independence from UK
1967 People's Rep of South Yemen (Aden) gains independence from Britain
1967 4 people from Baltimore pour blood on selective service records
1967 NLF leaves People's Republic of South-Yemen
1965 Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Turin Italy, actress, Normal People
1965 People's Republic China offers North Vietnam military aid
1964 1st time 4 people in space
1964 Barbra Streisand's "People," album goes #1 for 5 weeks
1964 1st time 3 people in space
1964 Courtney Love, SF, vocalist, Hole, /actress, People vs Larry Flynt
1963 Helen Slater, New York City, actress, Supergirl, Billie Jean, Ruthless People
1963 1st transmission of Clandestine Voice of Iraqi People (Communist)
1962 Beatles 1st British TV appearance (People and Places)
1962 1st time 2 people in space
1961 "Billy Barnes People" closes at Royale Theater New York City after 8 performances
1961 "Billy Barnes People" opens at Royale Theater New York City for 8 performances
1961 Byron Allen, born in Los Angeles, California, comedian, Real People, Byron Allen Show
1961 Willem J M van Eysinga, people rights scholar, dies at 82
1960 60 people die when bus plunges off bridge into Turvo River, Brazil
1960 Timothy Hutton, born in Malibu, California, actor, Turk 182, Ordinary People
1960 Nastassja Kinski, born in Berlin, Germany, actress, Tess, Cat People
1959 Belouis Some, rocker, Neville Keighley-Some People
1958 14 people named 1st life peers in U.K.
1958 "Purple People Eater" by Sheb Wooley hits #1
1958 Colin Ferguson, murderer, 6 people on the LIRR on Dec 7, 1993
1957 18,000 people at Madison Square Garden-Billy Graham launched a crusade
1957 Mao's speech "On Correct Handling of Contradictions Among People"
1957 Laurie Mann, geek, Dead People Server curator since 1997
1956 Egypt recognizes People's Republic of China
1956 Alexander Briley, vocalist, YMCA-Village People
1956 M Bandaranaike's People's front wins election in Ceylon
1956 German DR forms own army (National People's Army)
1955 Rita Rudner, comedienne, Funny People
1954 1st National People's Congress adopts Chinese constitution
1953 Hendrik de Man, sociologist (Belgian Working people Party), dies at 67
1952 Annette O'Toole, born in Houston, Texas, actress, Cat People, Superman III
1951 United Nations condemns People's Republic of China as aggressor in Korea
1950 U.N. reject membership of China's People Republic
1950 New marriage laws enforced in People's Republic China
1950 Itumeleng J Mosala, South Africa president, Azanian People's Org
1950 Leon Blum, French premier (People's Front Government), dies at 77
1950 Netherlands recognizes People's Republic of China
1949 India recognizes People's Republic of China
1949 Burma recognizes People's Republic of China
1949 U.S.S.R. recognizes People's Republic of China
1949 People's Rep of China proclaimed by Mao Tse-tung (National Day)
1949 Chinese Communist leaders proclaims People's Republic of China
1949 Hungary (Magyar People's Republic) accepts constitution
1948 Sarah Purcell, Richmond, Indiana, actress/TV hostess, Real People
1948 People's Democratic Republic of Korea proclaimed
1948 Communist form North China People's Republic
1948 North Korean proclaims itself People's Democratic Republic of Korea
1948 Skip Stephenson, born in Omaha, Nebraska, comedian, Real People
1948 Mercedes Ruehl, Queens, New York, actress, Lost in Yonkers, Crazy People
1948 Barbara Hershey, [Herzstein], Atlanta, Stuntman, Shy People
1947 Lynn Lowry, E St. Louis, Illinois, actress, Cat People, Crazies
1947 252,288 people (record) pass through Grand Central Station, New York City
1947 Ann Hui, director, Boat People
1947 Veit Valentin, German/US historian (German People), dies at 61
1946 Paul Schrader, director, American Gigolo, Cat People, Hardcore
1946 Cynthia Robinson, rock trumpeteer, Sly and Family Stone-Everyday People
1946 Enver Hoxha declares People's Rep of Albania with himself dictator
1945 Utrecht: Catholic People's party (KVP) established
1945 "Free People" premieres in Amsterdam
1945 Rosemary Stone, vocalist/pianist, Sly and Family Stone-Everyday People
1945 John Heard, actor, Cat People, Cutter's Way, CHUD
1944 48 people die in a train accident in Ogden, Utah
1944 Michael Tilson Thomas, born in Los Angeles, California, conductor, New York Phil Young People
1944 Danny DeVito, Neptune, New Jersey, actor, Taxi, Ruthless People, Twins
1944 Nazis crush Warsaw Uprising killing 250,000 people
1944 M N Aubrey Mokoape, South Africa's VP, Azanian People Org
1944 Theresienstadt Family camp disbands, with 4,000 people gased
1944 Bill Rafferty, comedian, Real People, Laugh-in '77
1944 Bill Rafferty, born in Queens, New York, comedian, Laugh-In, Real People
1944 Sly Stone, born in Dallas, rocker, Sly and the Family Stone-Everyday People
1943 Randy Newman, New Orleans, vocalist, Short People, Love, Louisiana, Raindrops
1943 Randy Newman, rock vocalitst, Short People
1943 Jim Martini, rocker, Sly and Family Stone-Everyday People
1943 Max Gail, born in Detroit, Barney Miller, Whiz Kids, DC Cab, Normal People
1943 "Manifesto of Algerian People" calls for equality and self-determination
1942 Hitler names Mussert "leader of Netherland people"
1942 John Meulendijks, Dutch cryptogram maker, People's Daily
1942 Barbra Streisand, born in Brooklyn, New York, singer/actress/award winner, People
1942 George VI awards George Cross to people of Malta
1942 Suriname camp for NSB people opens to save Jews
1941 Pedro Aguirre Cerda, president Chili (People's Front), dies
1940 Giorgio Moroder, composer, Let it Ride, Cat People, Top Gun
1940 Skip Stephenson, born in Omaha, Nebraska, comedian, Real People
1940 Joe South, Atlanta, guitarist/songwriter/singer, Games People Play
1939 Fred Willard, Ohio, comedian, Fernwood 2 Night, Real People
1939 Ray Aranha, born in Miami, Florida, actor, Nick-Married People
1939 William Hagerty, editor, People
1938 Francine York, Aurora, Minnesota, actress, Slattery's People
1937 Mary Tyler Moore, born in Brooklyn, actress, Mary Tyler Moore, Ordinary People
1937 French People's front government-Blum falls
1937 Leon Blum becomes premier of People's front government of France
1936 1 million demonstrate to support French People's Front government
1936 French People's Front wins elections
1936 Spanish Frente Popular (People's Front) wins elections
1936 Catholic People's Party (KVP) of Curacao forms
1935 Anti-fascist People front forms in Brussels
1935 Judd Hirsch, born in Bronx, actor, Alex-Taxi, Dear John, Ordinary People
1934 French socialist/communist party of People's Front forms
1934 Nazi-Germany begins People's court
1934 John Barbour, born in Toronto, TV host, Real People
1933 Belgian Working people's party accept Henry de Mans Plan of Labor
1933 1st edition of People and Fatherland published in Netherlands
1932 Mark Russell, Buffalo, New York, political satirist/pianist, Real People
1931 Chinese People's Republic proclaimed by Mao Tse Tung
1930 22 people killed by hailstones in Siatista, Greece
1929 Cloudburst causes stampede in Yankee Stadium crushes 2 people to death
1929 Palace for People's industry in Amsterdam devastated by fire
1927 Jan Blokker, Dutch writer/journalist, VPRO, People's Newspaper
1925 Gen M Froense replaces Trotsky as People's Commissioner of Defense
1924 Edward I Koch, New York City, Mayor-D-NYC, 1977-89, /judge, People's Court
1924 Mongolian People's Republic proclaimed
1924 Alexei Ryko elected as President of People's commission (succeeds Lenin)
1923 Nadine Gordimer, South African author, July's people, Nobel 1991
1923 Ruby Dee, born in Cleveland, Ohio, actress, Raisin in the Sun, Cat People, Roots
1923 Anita Bjorak, actress, Miss Julie, Loving Couples, Night People
1923 Belgian Working people Party protest against occupied Ruhrgebied
1922 Pope Pius XI calls on Belgian people to unite
1921 Jackie Cooper, born in Los Angeles, California, actor and director, Hennesey, People's Choice
1921 Race riot in Tulsa, Oklahoma, 61 people killed
1921 Sheb Wooley, born in Erick, Oklahoma, vocalist, Purple People Eater, Hee Haw
1920 Lonny Chapman, Tulsa Oklahoma, actor, Investigator, For the People
1920 Tornadoes killed 219 people in Alabama and Mississippi
1920 Liesbeth Tonckens, [Wilhelmina], actress/lecturer, Free People
1919 Joseph Albert Wapner, Louisiana, judge, People's Court
1919 1st edition "Volkskrant" (People's newspaper) published in Neth
1919 Mount Kelud (Indonesia) erupts, boiling crater lake which broke through crater wall killing 5,000 people in 104 small villages
1918 Hungarian People's Republic declared
1918 Hella [S Lelyveld-]Haasse, Dutch author, Cider for Poor People
1918 Harry M Corbett, Bradford, puppeteer/entertainer, Sooty, Some People
1917 People's Commissars gives authority to Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin
1917 60,000 people of Petrograd welcome Prince Kropotkin, banned 41 years
1915 Eli Wallach, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Magnificent 7, Misfits, People Next Door
1915 Margaret Walker Alexander, poet and novelist, For My People
1915 Dan Seymour, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor, We the People, Sing It Again
1914 Louis de Raet, Belgian economist/Flemish People Party, dies
1914 Magda Gabor, born in Budapest, Hungary, actress, People vs Zsa Zsa Gabor
1913 Jimmy Carroll, New York City, pianist, Most Important People
1912 Art Linkletter, born in Saskatchewan, Canada, TV host, People are Funny
1911 Nikolai Afanasyevich Kryuchkov, actor, Telegram, Town People
1910 Luisa Tetrazzini sings to 250,000 people at Lotta's Fountain
1910 Eve March, California, actress, Curse of the Cat People
1909 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) forms
1906 Alexander L Kielland, Norwegian writer (Working People), dies at 57
1905 Russian tsar allows Polish people to speak Polish
1905 Cyclone hit Tahiti and adjacent islands, killing some 10,000 people
1904 1st day of New York City subway, 350,000 people ride 9.1 mile tracks
1904 Herero people of South West Africa, now Namibia, begin uprising
1902 Hugo Haas, Brno Czechoslovakia, actor and director, 2 Smart People
1900 Claude D. Pepper, Rep-D-FL, 1963-, old people's advocate
1900 1st edition of Dutch newspaper "The People"
1900 Fred Emney, born in London, England, actor, Let the People Sing, Lilac Domino
1897 Sacheverell Sitwell, English poet and author, People's Palace
1897 John Mens, writer, People Without Money
1895 Lin Yu-t'ang, China, writer, My Country and My People
1895 S Constantine Timoshenko, Russian marshal/people's commissioner
1894 Indian chiefs from the Sioux and Onondaga tribes met to urge their people to renounce Christianity and return to their old Indian faith
1893 M Kaganovitsj Kogan, people's commissioner for Stalin
1891 1st public bathhouse with showers opens in New York City (People's Bath)
1888 Dale Carnegie, author, How to Win Friends and Influence People
1888 Jack Holt, U.S., golddigger/actor, Cat People, San Francisco, Brimstone
1884 Anti-Monopoly party and Greenback Party forms People's Party in US
1884 Tornadoes in Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky and Indiana kill 800 people
1878 Carl Sandburg, U.S., poet/biographer of Lincoln, The People, Yes
1877 Albert P Hahn, Dutch political cartoonist, People/Nutcracker
1872 Leon Blum, French premier, People's front government
1870 Louis de Raet, Belgian economist/founder, Flemish People's Party
1869 Jan de Liefde II, Dutch vicar/author (People's Welfare), dies at 54
1867 Philip Kleintjes, people's rights leader
1864 Palace for People's industry official opens in Amsterdam
1861 People of Tennessee vote to succeed from Union
1859 Willem C Grunings, Curacaos publisher, People's Friend
1858 Lincoln makes a speech about when you can fool people
1855 Peter J Blok, Dutch historian, History of the Dutch People
1854 Steamship "Arctic" sinks with 300 people on board
1849 Lincoln says "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and of people some of time, but you can't fool all of the people all of time"
1848 People's uprising in Palermo Sicily
1833 Curaeao census: 2,602 whites, 6,531 free people and 5,894 slaves
1824 Carlos Calvo, Arg diplomat/people rights scholar, Calvo Clause
1815 Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte, Corsican representative of the people
1814 Jan de Liefde II, Dutch vicar/founder, Coop of Welfare of the People
1781 Joan Derks scatters "On the People of Netherlands" pamphlets
1777 People of New Connecticut (Vermont) declare independence from England
1775 4 people buried by avalanche for 37 days, 3 survive (Italy)
1765 People of Frederick County Md refuse to pay England's Stamp tax
1752 This day never happened nor next 10 as England adopts Gregorian Calendar. People riot thinking the government stole 11 days of their lives
1741 Dutch people protest bad quality of bread
1731 Dutch people revolt against meat tax
1726 People's revolt due to increase in gin/brandy tax
1714 People riot due to beer tax in Alkmaar Neth
1699 People of Rotterdam strike over high cost of butter
1693 Haarlem people's revolution due to food shortages
1676 Nathaniel Bacon publishes "Declaration of People of Virginia"
1648 People's uprising against Anna of Austria and Cardinal Mazarin
1648 Moscow's people uprise against regent Boris Morozov
1648 Spanish troops/feudal barons strike down people's uprising in Naples
1647 People's uprising against high prices and Spanish rule in Naples
1614 Trades people under Vincent Fettmilch chase and plunder Jews out of ghetto in Frankfurt
1597 Germany throws out English sales people
1498 Tomas de Torquemada, inquisitor who burned 10,000 people, dies
1391 Jew hating Monk in Seville Spain stirs up people to attack Jews
1349 People of Krems Austria accuse Jews of poisoning wells
1347 Rienzo calls Rome for people's tribunal
1302 Trades people assault on French garrison (Brugse Metten)
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