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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