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1999 61st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: at ThunderDome St. Petersburg

1995 Graves of czar Nicholas and family found in St. Petersburg

1994 Goodwill Games open in St. Petersburg

1991 Grand duke Vladimir Kirillovitsj returns to St. Petersburg

1991 1st scheduled NHL exhibition game in St. Petersburg Fla, is cancelled due to poor ice conditions (New York Islanders vs Boston Bruins)

1990 NL announces Buffalo, Denver, Miami, Orlando, Tampa-St. Petersburg, and Washington D.C. as 6 finalist for 1993 expansion (Miami and Denver win)

1990 79th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in St. Petersburg (3-2)

1990 St. Petersburg Pelicans beat West Palm Beach Tropics 12-4 to win 1st Senior Professional Baseball Association Championship

1971 Peter Tchernyshev, St. Petersburg Russia, dance skater, & Naomi Lang

1969 LaRee Pearl Sugg, Petersburg, Virginia, LPGA golfer, 1995 Hawaiian-15th

1969 Dexter Rogers, St. Petersburg, Florida, volleyball opposite hitter 1996 Olympics

1969 Christina Marie Leardini, St. Petersburg, Florida, playmate, Apr, 1991

1968 Kathie Whitworth wins LPGA St. Petersburg Orange Blossom Golf Open

1967 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA St. Petersburg Orange Golf Classic

1966 WUSF TV channel 16 in Tampa-St. Petersburg, Florida (PBS) 1st broadcast

1966 Miami beats St. Petersburg (Florida State League) 4-3 in 29 innings longest uninterrupted game in organized baseball

1966 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA St. Petersburg Women's Golf Open

1965 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA St. Petersburg Golf Open

1964 Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA St. Petersburg Women's Golf Open

1963 Mickey Wright wins LPGA St. Petersburg Women's Golf Open

1962 Louise Suggs wins LPGA St. Petersburg Golf Open

1961 Mickey Wright wins LPGA St. Petersburg Golf Open

1960 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA St. Petersburg Golf Open

1959 Dean Townson, born in St. Petersburg, Florida, singer, Pirates of Miss-Fred Jake

1959 Louise Suggs wins LPGA St. Petersburg Golf Tournament

1958 WEDU TV channel 3 in Tampa-St. Petersburg, Florida (PBS) begins broadcasting

1958 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA St. Petersburg Golf Open

1957 Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA St. Petersburg Golf Open

1956 Betsy Nagelsen, St. Petersburg, Florida, tennis star

1956 Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA St. Petersburg Golf Open

1955 WTVT TV channel 13 in Tampa-St. Petersburg, Florida (CBS) 1st broadcast

1955 WFLA (now WXFL) TV channel 8 in Tampa-St. Petersburg, Florida (NBC) begins

1955 Patty Berg wins LPGA St. Petersburg Golf Open

1954 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA St. Petersburg Golf Open

1941 Blockade of Leningrad (St. Petersburg) by Germany begins

1939 Terrence McNally, St. Petersburg, Florida, playwright, Bad Habits

1937 Bruce Devlin, Armidale Australia, PGA golfer, 1964 St. Petersburg Open

1937 Johnny Brown, born in St. Petersburg, Florida, comedian, Good Times, Leslie Uggams

1931 Spring training site of New York Yankees in St. Petersburg is renamed Miller Huggins Field in honor of the team's late manager

1924 Russian city of St. Petersburg renamed Leningrad

1917 Stalin, Kamenev and Muranov arrives in St. Petersburg

1914 St. Petersburg, Russia changes name to Petrograd

1914 World's 1st airline, St. Petersburg Tampa Airboat Line, begins

1912 Leonid V Kantorovich, St. Petersburg Russia, economist, Nobel

1910 Galina Ulanova, St. Petersburg Russia, ballerina, Bolshoi

1908 Leonid Andreyevs "Dui Nashey Zhizni," premieres in St. Petersburg

1907 Saint-Saens/Fokines ballet "Le Cygne," premieres in St. Petersburg

1907 Leonid N Andreyev's "Zhizn Cheloveka," premieres in St. Petersburg

1906 Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich, St. Petersburg Russia, composer

1906 Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich, St. Petersburg Russia, composer

1905 Mischa Auer, [Ounskowsky], St. Petersburg Rus, actor, My Man Godfrey

1905 Great revolutionary demonstration for amnesty in St. Petersburg

1905 1st Soviet (workers' council) formed, St. Petersburg, Russia

1904 Dmitri B Kabalevsky, St. Petersburg Russia, composer, In the Fire,

1904 Sergei Yutkevich, St. Petersburg Russia, director, Otello, Banya

1904 Dmitri B Kabalevsky, St. Petersburg Russia, composer, In the Fire,

1903 Nikolai Cherkasov, born in St. Petersburg, Russia, actor, Ivan the Terrible

1903 Leonid Kinskey, St. Petersburg Russia, actor, Casablanca

1902 Aleksandr Skriabin's 2nd Symphony in C premieres in St. Petersburg

1901 Andre Kostelanetz, St. Petersburg Russia, conductor, Lincoln Portrari

1900 Efrem Kurtz, St. Petersburg Russia, conductor, Houston Symph 1948-54

1900 Jennie Tourel, St. Petersburg Russia, mezzo-soprano, Met Opera 1943-47

1899 Vladimir Nabokov, born in St. Petersburg, Russia, novelist, Lolita, Ada

1899 Vladimir Nabokov, born in St. Petersburg, novelist

1899 Alexander Tcherepnin, St. Petersburg Russia, composer

1896 Nikolay Semyonovich Tikhonov, St. Petersburg Russia, poet

1896 Anton Tsjechovs "Chayka," premieres in St. Petersburg

1895 Mary Marquet, born in St. Petersburg, Russia, actress, Matter of Resistance

1895 Tchaikovsky/Petipa's "Swan Lake," premieres in Petersburg

1895 Tchaikovsky's ballet "Swan Lake" premieres, St. Petersburg

1893 Richard Drigo's ballet "Magic Flute" premieres, St. Petersburg

1892 Tsjaikovski's ballet "Casse-noisette," premieres in St. Petersburg

1890 St. Aleksandr Borodons opera "Prins Igor," premieres in Petersburg

1890 Opera "Prince Igor" is produced (St. Petersburg)

1889 Alexander Smallens, St. Petersburg, Russia, conductor

1888 St. Tsjaikovsky's 5th Symphony premieres in Petersburg

1887 Rimski-Korsakov's "Capricio Espagnol," premieres in St. Petersburg

1882 Albert Coates, born in St. Petersburg, Russia, conductor and composer, Eagle

1882 Rimski-Korsakovs opera "Snyegurochka," premieres in St. Petersburg

1882 Anna Pavlova, St. Petersburg Russia, ballerina/choreographer

1875 Aleksandr Ostrovsky's "Volki i Ovsty," premieres in St. Petersburg

1874 Mussorgsky's opera "Boris Godunov," premieres in St. Petersburg

1873 Nikolay N Tcherepnin, St. Petersburg, composer of ballets, songs

1873 Nikolay N Tcherepnin, St. Petersburg, composer of ballets, songs

1867 Leo Tolstoy's "Smert Ioonna Groznogo," premieres in St. Petersburg

1865 Alexander K Glazunov, St. Petersburg Russia, composer, Chopiniana

1865 Battle of Petersburg, Virginia (Ft. Gregg, Sutherland's Station)

1865 Battle of Fort Stedman, Virginia - in front of Petersburg

1864 Siege of Petersburg, VA

1864 Petersburg Campaign-Battle of Ream's Station

1864 Petersburg Campaign-Battle of Weldon Railroad day 1 of 3 days

1864 Battle of Petersburg, Virginia

1864 Battle of the Crater: Gen Burnsides fails on attack of Petersburg

1864 Petersburg Campaign-Federals begin digging tunnels under Reb lines

1864 At Petersburg, Grant ends 4 days of assaults

1864 Union Gen Grant begin siege of Petersburg, Virginia

1864 Battle for Petersburg begins as Gen Grant assaults Confederate line

1862 Opera "La Forza Del Destino" is produced (St. Petersburg Russia)

1861 Revolt of Russian student shuts down university of Petersburg

1855 Anatoli Liadov, St. Petersburg, Russia, composer, Enchanted Lake,

1852 Anton Rubinsteins opera "Dmitri Donskoi," premieres in St. Petersburg

1850 Alexander Sergeyevich Taneyev, St. Petersburg Russia, composer

1845 Alexander III, St. Petersburg, Russian tsar, 1881-94, 3/10 NS

1842 St. M Glinka's opera "Russlan Ludmilla," premieres in Petersburg

1836 Lehman-theater in St. Petersburg catches fire; 100s die

1836 Nikolai Gogol's "Revisor," premieres in St. Petersburg

1826 Piotr A von der Pahlen, military governor of St. Petersburg, dies at 60

1824 Storm causes St. Petersburg flood, killing 10,000

1824 St. Petersburg flood

1764 Smolny-institution forms in St. Petersburg for noble girls

1745 Piotr A von der Pahlen, milt governor, St. Petersburg

1703 St. Petersburg (Leningrad) founded by Peter the Great



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