2003 Strom Thurmond, politician, South Carolina senator for a very long time, dies at 100
1999 John Chafee, senator, Rhode Island senator, dies at 77
1998 Barry Goldwater, politician, Arizona senator, dies at 89
1998 Terry Sanford, poltician, senator from North Carolina, dies at 80
1997 Paul Tsongas, Massachusetts senator, dies at 55
1996 Hugh Burnton Mitchell, U.S. senator, dies at 89
1993 California state senator Tom Hayden (54) weds actress Barbara Williams (40)
1992 Washington Post reports Ore Senator Bob Packwood sexually harassed 10 women
1992 New York senator Alphonse D'Mato fillerbusters for 15 hours 20 mins
1992 Thomas J McIntyre, U.S., senator/writer (Fear Brokers), dies
1992 Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy marries Victoria Reggie (38)
1992 Gale McGee, senator (Wyoming, 1959-77), dies at 77
1986 Chester Bowles, U.S. senator/ambassador, dies at 85
1985 16th Shuttle Mission (51D)-Discovery 4 launched-with Senator Jake Garn
1984 Glen H Taylor, U.S. senator/VP candidate (1948), dies at 80
1972 James Stream Thurmond, Jr., son of U.S. senator Strom Thurmond
1971 Jack Barnhill, Northern Ireland senator, assassinated
1971 Last Washington Senator home game, Yanks win career 5th forfeit game Yanks trailing 4-2 in 9th with 2 outs, fans rush field
1971 AL OKs Washington Senator move to Arlington (Texas Rangers)
1968 Bob Packwood is elected senator of Oregon
1968 Washington Senator Ron Hansen makes 1st unassisted triple-play in 41 years
1968 Senator Eugene McCarthy wins Democrate primary in Oregon
1968 Senator Mccarthy wins Democratic primaries in Wisconsin
1967 Ted Workman replaces Senator Keith Davey as CFL commissioner
1967 "Wild Thing" hits #20 on the pop singles chart by Senator Bobby
1966 Cleveland Indian Sonny Siebert no-hits Washington Senator, 2-0
1962 Washington Senator Tom Cheney strikes out record 21 Orioles in 16 inn game
1962 Cairine R Wilson, 1st Canadian female senator (appointed), dies at 77
1960 Continental League, a proposed third major league, gets an assurance of congressional support from New York Senator Kenneth Keating
1960 Senator John F Kennedy, announces his candidacy for president
1959 Maria Baers, Flemish social female worker/senator, dies at 76
1959 Washington Senator Bob Allison wins AL Rookie of Year
1959 Washington Senator Jim Lemon is 7th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (3rd)
1959 Hiram L Fong sworn in as 1st Chinese-American senator while Daniel K Inouye sworn in as 1st Japanese-American Rep (Both from Hawaii)
1958 Marcel Cachin, 1st communist French senator, dies at 88
1957 U.S. senator Strom Thurmond speaks 24hrs 27m against civil rights
1957 Joseph McCarthy, commie hunting senator (R-Wisc), dies at 47
1954 J. S. Thurmond is 1st senator elected by write-in vote (SC)
1954 Senator Eddie Yost draws his 100th walk for 5th year in a row
1954 U.S. Army charges Senator Joseph McCarthy used undue pressure tactics
1954 Senator John Kennedy appears on "Meet the Press"
1950 Senator Joe McCarthy claims to have list of 205 communist government employees
1950 Senator Joseph McCarthy charges State Department infested with 205 communists
1949 Pompeo Aloisi, Italian baron/diplomat/senator, dies at 63
1948 Margaret Chase Smith (R-Me) elected senator, 1st woman to serve in both houses of Congress
1945 Happy Chandler, resigns as U.S. Senator, remains as baseball commish
1945 Joe Kuhel hits inside-the-park HR, only HR hit by a Senator all season at Washington's Griffith Stadium
1945 Washington Senator Rick Ferrell catches a record 1,722 games
1945 Ion Pillat, Romaniams poet/senator (Umbra timpului), dies
1944 George W. Norris, U.S. senator (lame duck-amendement), dies
1942 Fred Thompson, senator, R-Tenn, /actor, In the Line of Fire
1936 Joan Kennedy, 1st wife of Mass Senator, Ted
1935 Senator Huey Long of Louisiana spoke continually for 15 hours in Senate's longest speech on record (150,000 words)
1933 Washington Senator coach Nick Altrock plays in a game at age 57
1932 Hattie W Caraway elected 1st woman senator (D-Ark)
1931 Hattie Caraway (D-AK) appointed 1st U.S. woman senator
1931 Washington Senator Bob Burke no-hits Boston Red Sox, 5-0
1930 Lord Morton, of Shauna, senator, College of Justice, Scotland
1928 Senator Milt Gaston hurls record tying 14-hit shutout
1925 Michael Tolan, born in Detroit, Michigan, actor, Nurses, Senator
1924 Washington Senator Walter Johnson 2nd no-hitter beats Browns, 2-0 in 7 inn
1923 Senator Walter Johnson pitches his 100th shutout, beats Yanks 3-0
1923 Ottawa Senator Cy Denneny becomes NHL's all time scorer (143 goals)
1922 Rebecca L. Felton sworn in as 1st female U.S. Senator
1920 Washington Senator Walter Johnson no-hits Boston Red Sox, 1-0
1920 Washington Senator Walter Johnson wins his 300th game vs Detroit
1919 Edward W. Brooke, 1st black senator in over 80 years, Sen-R-Mass
1919 Lord Maxwell, senator/prof, college of Justice Scotland
1918 Washington Senator Walter Johnson pitches 1-0, 18 inning game
1917 Red Sox Babe Ruth beats Washington Senator Walter Johnson, 1-0
1913 Washington Senator Walter Johnson wins his 36th game
1913 Washington Senator Walter Johnson ends record scorless streak at 56 innings
1912 Washington Senator Carl Cushion no-hits Cleveland Indians, 2-0 in 6 innings
1907 Constantine P Pobedonostsev, Russian reactionary senator, dies at 79
1907 Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes 1st Native American U.S. senator
1903 Mauritius van Haegendoren, Flemish historian/senator
1900 David Croll, QC senator
1897 Roger Bresnahan debuts as Washington Senator pitcher (later HOF catcher)
1897 Washington Senator catcher Charlie Farrell throws out 8 attempted stealers
1897 M H Cannon becomes 1st woman state senator in U.S. (Utah)
1896 Martha Hughes Cannon of Utah elected 1st female senator
1896 Martha Hughes Cannon of Utah becomes 1st female senator
1891 Louis L Bonaparte, English/French linguist/senator, dies at 78
1891 Ion Pillat, Romaniams poet/senator, Umbra timpului
1891 Georges-Eugene Haussmann, French senator/baron, dies at 81
1890 Henry Borginon, Flemish nationalist/senator
1887 Walter Johnson, Kansas, Washington Senator pitcher, 1907-27, 414-218
1886 David L Yule, 1st Jewish U.S. senator, dies
1885 Cairine Ray Wilson, Montreal, 1st female Canadian senator, appointed
1883 Maria Baers, Flemish social female worker/senator
1879 James Shields (D) elected U.S. senator from Missouri after previously serving as U.S. senator from Illinois and Minnesota
1875 Pompeo Aloisi, Italian baron/diplomat/senator
1874 Francois Coty, Corsica, Corsican senator/perfume maker
1868 B F Randolph, South Carolina state senator, assassinated
1863 James Cooper, U.S. attorney/senator/Union-brig-general, dies at 52
1861 Edward Dickinson Baker, U.S. attorney/senator, dies in battle at 50
1861 Stephen A Douglas, "Little Giant", senator (Lincoln Debates), dies
1839 Joseph Fesch, French cardinal/war commission/earl/senator, dies
1827 Constantine P Pobedonostsev, Russian reactionary lawyer/senator
1817 Hiram R Revels, Fayetteville, North Carolina, 1st black U.S. senator
1813 Stephen Arnold Douglas, Little giant, U.S. senator, Lincoln debates
1813 Louis L Bonaparte, English/French linguist/senator
1811 Charles Sumner, leading Reconstruction senator, died in 1874
1811 U.S. Sen Thomas Pickering is 1st senator censured (revealed confidential documents communicated by the president of the U.S.)
1798 1st impeachment trial against a U.S. senator (Wm Blount, TN) begins
1797 1st U.S. senator, William Blount of Tennessee, expelled by impeachment
1787 Law passes providing a senator must be at least 30 years old
1770 Blanche Kelso Bruce sworn in as a U.S. Senator (Mississippi)
1763 Joseph Fesch, French cardinal/war commission/earl/senator
1762 Charles G G, earl of Merode/mayor of Brussels/French senator
1347 Stefano Colonna, Roman senator, dies in battle
455 Roman senator Petronius Maximus becomes Emperor
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