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2003 Nina Simone, singer, I Put a Spell on You, dies at 70

2000 Screamin' Jay Hawkins, R and B singer, I Put a Spell on You, dies at 70

1996 John Bobbitt is put under house arrest in Las Vegas for 120 days

1994 Stanley Betrian put in charge of Curacao

1990 Cost of rescuing savings and loan failures is put at up to $130 billion

1983 Greg Luzinski is 1st player to put 3 home runs onto roof at Comiskey Park

1983 Udo Beyer of East Germany sets record for shot put, 22.22 m

1982 U.S.S.R. Salyut 7 space station put into orbit

1978 Velcro was 1st put on the market

1975 Brian Oldfield of U.S. put shot 75', an unofficial record

1971 Eisenhower dollar put into circulation

1970 New York Met Jerry Grote sets record of 20 put outs by a catcher

1970 Japan becomes 4th nation to put a satellite, Osumi, in orbit

1969 Jackie DeShannon gets Gold Record for "Put Little Love in Your Heart"

1966 Walt Disney, animator, dies at 65, put in suspended animation

1965 1st shut put over 70' (Randy Matson 70' 7")

1961 East Germany begins erecting 5' high wall along the border with the west to replace the barbed wire put up Aug 13

1961 1st all-solid-propellant rocket put in orbit, Wallops Island, Va

1956 "I Love Lucy" Christmas show airs, never put in syndication

1956 Hungarian revolt put down

1954 President Eisenhower put forward a plan for an interstate highway system

1954 TV Dinner was 1st put on sale by Swanson and Sons

1949 Geoff Capes, born in Holbeach, England, shot putter, two-time winner, World's Strongest Man title, two-time Commonwealth Games shot put champion

1945 24 Nazi leaders put on trial at Nuremberg, Germany

1943 Federal troops put down racial riot in Detroit 30 dead

1942 Rob de Nijs, Dutch singer, Put a candle in your window

1942 German occupiers put Erik Scavenius as Danish premier

1941 Jews caught outside Polish Ghetto walls could be put to death

1941 Paul Anka, born in Ottawa, Ontario, singer, Put Your Head on My Shoulder

1939 Barry Mann, R&B singer, Who Put the Bomp in the Bomp Bomp Bomp

1939 Barry Mann, vocalist, Who Put the Bump

1937 Phillies Dolph Camilli, plays 1st base and registers no put outs

1932 Dnjepr Dam in U.S.S.R. put into operation (world's biggest)

1931 Teresa Brewer, Toledo Ohio, singer, Put Another Nickel In

1929 "Screamin' Jay" Hawkins, born in Cleveland, rocker, I Put a Spell on You

1925 1st waterless gas storage tank put into service, Michigan City, Ind

1908 1st Gideon Bible put in a hotel room

1903 In 11th an old black ball is put into play against Cleveland, Tigers' Nap Lajoie protests ignored, he hurls ball out of park and forfeits game

1900 U.S. troops arrive in Beijing, help put down Boxer Rebellion

1883 "Buffalo Bill" Cody put on his 1st Wild West Show

1871 Paris communards revolt put down

1866 Henri [Hendrik J] Hall, Dutch MP/comic, Put a Lid on it

1865 Fire alarm and police telegraph system put into operation in San Francisco

1861 Colonel Charles Stone is put in charge of organizing DC militia

1730 States of Holland put death penalty on "sodomy"


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