1997 Georges Marchais, Sec Gen of French Communist Party (1972-94), dies
1997 Zdenek Mlynar, Sec of Czech Communist Central Committee (1968), dies
1996 Ron Brown, sec of Comerce, dies in an accident
1995 Les Aspin, U.S. sec of Defense (1993-95), dies of stroke at 56
1995 Michael Johnson runs world record 400m indoor (44.63 sec)
1995 Irina Privalova runs indoor woman's European record 200m (22.10 sec)
1995 Linford Christie runs world record 200m indoor (20.25 sec)
1995 Linford Christie runs European record 60m indoor (6.47 sec)
1995 Bonnie Blair skates female world record 500m (38.69 sec)
1995 Jeff Rouse swims world record 50m backstroke (24.37 sec)
1995 Susan Auch skates female world record 500m (38.94 sec)
1995 Mark Foster swims world record 50m butterfly (23.55 sec)
1995 Sandra Volker swims European record 50m backstroke (27.67 sec)
1995 Irina Privalova runs female world record 50m (5.96 sec)
1994 Jingyi Le swims world record 100m women's freestyle (54.01 sec)
1994 Ad Gang, Dutch Liberal Party asst sec of state, dies at 67
1994 Aleksander Popov swims world record 100m free style (48.21 sec)
1994 7th longest NHL game: New Jersey Devils beat Buffalo Sabres (125 min 43 sec)
1994 Bonnie Blair skates world record 500 m ladies (38.99 sec)
1994 Mark Foster swims world record 50m butterfly (23.68 sec)
1994 Colin Jackson runs world record 60m hurdles indoor (7.30 sec)
1994 Merlene Ottey runs world record 50 m indoor (6.00 sec)
1994 Irina Privalova runs world record 50m indoor (6.03 sec)
1993 Dan Jansen skates world record 500m (35.92 sec)
1993 Jeff Rouse swims world record 100m backstroke (51.43 sec)
1993 Dan Jansen skates world record 500m (36.02 sec)
1993 Mark Foster swims world record 50m free style (21.60 sec)
1993 Sandra V"lker swims world record 50m backstroke (28.33 sec)
1993 Merlene Ottey runs world record 200m indoor (21.87 sec)
1993 Irina Privalova runs world record 50m indoor (6.05 sec)
1993 Klaas Wiersma, Dutch sec of Justice (VVD), dies
1992 Sandra Volker swims world record 50m backstroke (28.57 sec)
1992 Jan Karlsson swims world record 50m butterfly (23.80 sec)
1992 Jani Sievinen swims world record 100m medley (53.78 sec)
1992 Louise Karlsson swims world record 50m freestyle (31.19 sec)
1992 Jeff Rouse swims world record/OR 100m backstroke (53.86 sec)
1992 Yang Wenyi swims world record/OR 50m freestyle (24.79 sec)
1992 Andre Cason runs world record 6 m indoor (6.41 sec)
1992 Merlene Ottey runs world record 60m indoor (6.96 sec)
1992 Michael Johnson runs indoor world record 400m (44.97 sec)
1992 Fastest yodeler-22 tones/15 falsetto in 1 sec by Thomas School of Germ
1992 Danny Everett runs world record 400m indoor (45.02 sec)
1991 Bomb attack on Aad Kosto, Dutch social dem party-asst sec of state
1991 Merlene Ottey runs world record 200 m indoor (22.24 sec)
1991 Merlene Ottey runs world record 200m indoor (22.24 sec)
1991 Qian Hong swims female world record 50m butterfly (27.30 sec)
1990 Tom Hunter swims world record 50m freestyle (21.81 sec)
1990 Mark Tewsksbury swims world record 50m backstroke (25.06 sec)
1990 New York Knicks Trent Tucker scores with 1/10 sec, beats Bulls, 109-106
1989 Dmitri Volkov swims world record 50m freestyle (27.15 sec)
1989 Hu Yaobang, general sec of Chinese Commnist Party, dies
1989 Roger Kingdom runs world record 60m hurdles indoor (7.36 sec)
1988 Canada's Ben Johnson runs drug-assisted 100 m in 9.79 sec
1988 Carl Lewis runs world record 100m (9.92 sec)
1988 Matt Biondi swims world record 100m free style (48.42 sec)
1988 Carl Lewis runs a wind-assisted 100 m in 9.78 sec
1988 Bonnie Blair skates world record 500m (39.10 sec)
1988 Cornelia Oschkenat hurdles indoor world record 50m (6.58 sec)
1987 Christa Rothenburger skates female world record 500m (39.39 sec)
1987 L T Coggeshall, medical scientist (Sec of HEW 1956-58), dies at 86
1987 Ben Johnson of Canada runs 100 m in world record 9.83 sec
1987 Bonnie Blair skates ladies world record 500 m (39.43 sec)
1987 Bruno Marie-Rose runs world record 200m indoor (20.36 sec)
1986 SEC imposes a record $100 million penalty against Ivan Boesky
1986 Madrid-Nelli Cooman runs world record 60m indoor (7 sec)
1986 Kania skates ladies world record 500 m (39.52 sec) and 3 km (4:18.02)
1986 Nelli Fiere-Cooman runs world record 60 m indoor (7.00 sec)
1986 Space Shuttle Challenger 10 explodes 73 sec after liftoff
1984 Evelyn Ashford of U.S. ties world women's mark for 100 m, 10.76 sec
1984 Pat LaFontaine scores 2 goals within 22 sec in an NHL playoff game
1984 Gen Sec Konstantin U Chernenko named President of Soviet Union
1984 Kenneth Whitty, 1st sec at British Embassy in Athens, shot dead
1984 Yuri Andropov, Gen Sec of Soviet Communist Party (1982-84), dies at 69
1983 Christa Rothenburger skates world record 500 m ladies (39.69 sec)
1982 Renaldo Nehemiah of U.S. sets record for 110 m hurdles, 12.93 sec
1982 Senate confirms George Shultz as 60th sec of state by vote of 97-0
1982 Jarmilla Kratochvilova run world record 400 m indoor (49.59 sec)
1982 Steve D'Innocenzo scores 3 hockey goals in 12 sec in Mass HS game
1981 U.N. Sec Council chose Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru as 5th Sec Genl
1981 Willem Klein mentally extracts 13th root of a 100-digit # in 29 sec
1981 Christa Rothenburger skates ladies world record 500 m 40.18 sec)
1981 James Sanford equals 50m indoor world record (5.61 sec)
1980 Mrs. Shakuntala Devi mentally multiplies 2 13-digit #s in 28 sec
1980 Eric Heiden skates Olympic record 500m in 38.03 sec
1980 Shakuntala Devi, mentally multiplies 2 13-digit #s in 28 sec
1977 Marlies Gohr runs Europen record 100m (10.88 sec)
1976 Toronto Maple Leaf Lanny McDonald scores a hat trick in 2 min 54 sec
1975 JP Parise 11 sec OT goal-Isles 1st playoff advance eliminates Rangers
1975 Asa Smith Bushnell Jr, Sec of U.S. Olympics (1945-65), dies at 75
1975 Jevgeni Kulikov skates world record 500m (37.99 sec)
1973 Nixon's personal sec, Rose Mary Woods, tells a federal court she accidentally caused part of 18 -minute gap in a key Watergate tape
1973 Manfred Kokot runs world record 50m indoor (5.61 sec)
1973 Henry Boucha, Detroit Red Wings, scores 6 sec into a game vs Mont
1972 Renate Stecher runs 100m European female record (11.07 sec)
1970 Valeri Muratov skates world record 500m (38.99 sec)
1970 Hasse Borjes skates world record 500m in 38.9 sec
1968 Kip Keino (Kenya) wins gold medal for 1,500m (3 min 34.9 sec)
1968 J R Hines of U.S. runs 100m in world record 9.95 sec
1967 U.N. Sec council passes resolution 242 - Israel must give back occupied land
1963 Amazon carries 190,000 m3/sec (record)
1963 Jevgeni Grishin skates world record 500m in 39.6 sec
1960 Earthquake kills 1/3 of Agadir Morocco population (12,000) in 15 sec
1958 World's 1st Moon probe, US's Thor-Able, explodes at T +77 sec
1954 Montreal Canadians score 3 goals in 56 sec in playoff game against Detroit
1953 Yuri Sergejev skates world record 500m in 40.9 sec
1951 Emil Zatopek runs 15,000m in record 44 min, 54.6 sec
1948 Anthony Nelson, British Sec of Treasury
1946 Robert Reich, U.S. Sec of Labor, Clinton
1942 David Hunt, Wales sec of state
1942 Graham Bright, private sec to British PM
1940 Sec of War Henry L Stimson drew 1st number-158-in 1st peacetime military draft in U.S. history
1940 Adolf Kiefer swims world record 100 yards backstroke (58.8 sec)
1939 Ernest Hausen of Wisconsin sets chicken-plucking record-4.4 sec
1938 Hans Engnestangen skates world record 500m (41.8 sec)
1935 Newfoundland changes time to 3 hours W of Greenwich, repeats 44 sec
1933 Louis W. Sullivan, U.S. Sec of Health and Human Services, 1989-
1933 Frances Perkins becomes sec of labor, 1st U.S. woman cabinet member
1932 Theodorus Heemskerk, lawyer/Dutch sec of state (1866..88), dies at 79
1931 Nels Stewart of Montreal Maroons scores 2 goals in 4 sec (record)
1930 Frank Carlucci, National Security Adviser/Sec of Defense, 1987-89
1930 Percy Williams runs world record 100m (10.3 sec)
1930 James Baker 3, Houston, Sec of Treasury, 1985-88, Sec State, 1989-92
1929 Former Interior Sec Albert Fall convicted of accepting $100,000 bribe
1929 Clas Thunberg skates world record 500m in 42.8 sec
1928 Ray Barbuti saves U.S. team from defeat in Amsterdam Olympics track events by winning 400 m (47.8 sec)
1925 Ruth Mompati, South Africa sec of Nelson Mandela/W Sisulu
1920 Elliot L Richardson, Attorney General, 1973, /Sec of Defense, 1973
1918 Washington catcher Eddie Ainsmith applies for deferment from the draft Sec of War Newton D. Baker rules baseball players are not draft exempt
1918 Orville Freeman, Minneapolis, Sen-D-Mn, /Sec of Agriculture, 1961-69
1918 [Benjamin] Franc[lin] Wedekind, German writer/press sec, dies at 53
1918 Otis R Bowen, U.S. Sec of Health and Human Services, 1985-89
1916 Robert S. McNamara, U.S. Sec of Defense, 1961-68, head World Bank
1914 Oscar Mathisen skates world record 500 m in 43.7 sec in Oslo
1907 Houdini escapes from chains underwater at Aquatic Park in 57 sec
1906 Oscar Straus, 1st Jewish government member, appointed Sec of Commerce
1906 Rudolf Gundersen skates world record 500m at 44.8 sec
1900 Peter Ostlund skates world record 500m (45.2 sec)
1900 Asa Smith Bushnell, Jr., Springfield Ohio, Sec of U.S. Olympics, 1945-65
1895 John Jay McCloy, lawyer/banker, Sec of War 1941-45, President Chase Man
1894 Oscar Fredriksen skates world record 500m in 47.8 sec
1893 Einar Halvorsen skates world record 500m (48 sec)
1893 Alfred Naess skates world record 500m (49.4 sec)
1891 Oscar Grunden skates world record 500m (50.8 sec)
1890 Charles Wilson, President of General Motors, 1940-53, /Sec of Def, 1953-57
1867 President A Johnson defies Congress suspending Sec of War Edwin Stanton
1862 Confederate Sec of War George B Randolph resigns
1862 Lincoln appoints Isaac Newton sec of agriculture-no kidding!
1855 Andrew W. Mellon, founder, Mellon Bank, /US Sec of Treasury
1806 Giacomo Antonelli, Italian cardinal and assistant sec of state for Pius IX
1789 Jefferson appointed 1st Sec of State; John Jay 1st chief justice;
1618 Gilles van Ledenberg, sec of Utrecht States (1588-1618), suicide at 68
1578 Juan de Escobedo, sec of Spanish land guardian Don Juan, murdered
1550 Nicolas Perrenot de Granvelle, Charles V's asst sec of state, dies
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