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1996 Lew Ayres, screen actor (Salem's Lot, State Fair), dies at 88

1993 Ihsan Mohamed Salem, Yunis Awad, Palestinian Al-Fatah leader, killed

1991 Ferry boat Salem Express sinks in Red Sea, 476 killed

1990 It becomes illegal in Salem Oregon to be within 2' of nude dancers

1989 May Allison, actress (Youth for Salem Men of Steel), dies

1971 11 die in a train crash in Salem, Illinois

1971 Jeff Juden, Salem, Massachusetts, baseball pitcher, Philadelphia Phillies, San Francisco Giants

1970 Dahlia Salem, actress, Sofia Carlino-Another World, approx 1970]

1970 Dawn Marple, born in Salem, Ohio, team handball wing/back 1996 Olympics

1970 KVDO TV channel 3 in Salem, OR (IND) begins broadcasting

1969 Dahlia Salem, born in Boston, Massachusetts, actress, Sofia Carlino-Another World

1969 Brad Pennington, born in Salem, Indiana, pitcher for the California Angels

1967 Tawni Cable, Salem, Oregon, playmate, June 1989

1967 Monique Noel, born in Salem, Oregon, playmate, May, 1989

1966 Susie Redman, born in Salem, Ohio, LPGA golfer, 1995 Nabisco Dinah Shore-2nd

1959 Charles Grant, Winston Salem, North Carolina, actor, Another World

1946 Al Nichol, born in Winston Salem, North Carolina, rock guitarist and vocalist, Turtles

1940 Howard Hesseman, Salem Or, actor, Dr. Johnny Fever-WKRP, Head of Class

1937 Bus blew a tire, going out of control, killing 18 (Salem Illinois)

1932 William J. Hughes, born in Salem, New Jersey, Representative-D-New Jersey 1975 - 1995

1929 Salem, Oregon airport dedicated

1912 Samuel Fuller, born in Worchester, Massachusetts, actor, Return to Salem's Lot

1878 Louise Dresser, Kerlin, Evansville, Indiana, actress, Maid of Salem

1877 1st news dispatch by telephone, between Boston and Salem, Mass

1864 Skirmish at Salem Church (Haw's Shop), Virginia

1863 Battle of Chancellorsville - action at Salem Church

1863 Battle of Salem Church, Virginia

1862 Skirmish at Jackson/Salem Church, Tennessee (80 casualties)

1853 Arthur W. Foote, born in Salem, Massachusetts, organist and composer, Suite for Strings in E

1810 Charles Lenox Remond, born in Salem Massachusetts, famous black

1757 Samuel McIntire, woodcarver/architect, architect of Salem

1692 Last (8) person hanged for witchcraft in U.S. (Salem Mass)

1692 5 women executed for witchcraft in Salem Mass

1692 Bridget Bishop, 1st Salem witch hanged

1692 Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba arrest for witchcraft (Salem, Massachusetts)

1692 Sarah Good and Tituba, an Indian servant, accused of witchcraft, Salem

1692 Salem witch hunt begins

1647 Achsah Young, 1st woman known to be a witch, executed in Salem Mass

1629 1st non-Separatist Congregational Church in U.S. founded (Salem, MA)

1628 Puritans land at Salem, from Mass Bay Colony, witches soon to settle


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