1995 Beatles song, "Baby It's You," with late John Lennon as lead singer, is released, 1st Fab Four single in more than 30 years
1994 Largest U.S. Tennis Open single session (total) 23,618
1992 Target date for Europe's single market
1992 Barry Bonds signs baseball's highest single year contract - $4.7 mil
1990 Ken Griffey and Ken Griffey, Jr. become 1st father and son to play on same team (Seattle Mariners), both single in 1st inning
1989 Mets' defense does not record a single assist in a 5-1 win over Phils
1987 Largest U.S. Tennis Open single night session (total) 21,016
1987 Madonna's "Who's That Girl," single goes #1
1987 Bunt single gives Paul Molitor longest hit streak of 1980s at 32 games
1987 Heart's "Alone," single goes #1 for 3 weeks
1987 Madonna's "Open Your Heart," single goes #1
1986 Madonna's "True Blue," album goes #1 for 5 weeks and her single
1986 Red Sox pitcher Tim Lollar gets a pinch-hit single
1986 Madonna's "Live to Tell," single goes #1
1986 Heart's "These Dreams," single goes #1
1985 Madonna's "Crazy For You," single goes #1
1984 Madonna's "Like a Virgin," single goes #1 for 6 weeks
1984 Reds' Pete Rose collects record 3,053rd career single (vs Phila)
1984 Expos Pete Rose ties Ty Cobb with his 3,052nd single
1984 Mattingly's single breaks up Lamarr Hoyt's perfect game bid
1983 David Bowie's "Let's "Dance," single goes #1
1981 Olivia Newton-John's "Physical," single goes #1 and stays for 10 weeks
1981 Dave Koza scores Marty Barrett with bases-loaded single in bottom of 33rd inning, Pawtucket beats Rochester 3-2
1981 Pirate Jim Bibby gives up a leadoff single to Brave Terry Harper, then retires next 27 batters
1980 Barbra Streisand's "Guilty," album goes #1 for 3 weeks and her single "Woman In Love," goes #1 for 3 weeks
1979 Phillies Pete Rose collects NL record 2,427th career single
1979 Costliest single periodical ad, $3.2 million, Gulf + Western in Time
1977 Red Sox (6) and Brewers (5) tie single game HR record of 11
1976 Ringo releases "Hey Baby" single
1976 Sex Pistols release their debut single "Anarchy In The UK"
1975 David Bowie's "Fame," single goes #1 for 2 weeks
1975 New York Yank catcher Thurman Munson's 1st-inning single and RBI are
1975 Robert Norman Waddell, Cambridge NZ, Single scull rower 1996 Olympics
1972 Adam Clawson, born in Salt Lake City, Utah, slalom single canoe, Olympic-19th-96
1972 Paul McCartney releases "Give Ireland back to the Irish" single
1971 Scott Shipley, Bremerton Wash, slalom single kayak, Olympics-6th-96
1971 Hamish Pepper, Auckland NZ, laser single handed yachter 1996 Olympics
1970 George Harrison releases "My Sweet Lord" single
1970 Beatles' "Long and Winding Road," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 2 weeks
1970 Beatles' "Let It Be," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 2 weeks
1970 Queen Latifah, rap singer and actress, Khadijah James-Living Single
1969 Isolation of single gene announced by scientists at Harvard
1969 Smallest U.S. Tennis Open single session-131 (men's doubles final only)
1969 Beatles' "Get Back," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 5 weeks
1968 Beatles' "Hey Jude," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 9 weeks
1968 Pittsburgh Pirate Willie Stargell hits 3 HRs, a double and a single
1967 Beatles' "Hello Goodbye," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 3 weeks
1967 Beatles' "All You Need is Love," single goes #1
1967 Beatles' "Penny Lane," single goes #1
1967 Pink Floyd release their 1st single "Arnold Layne"
1967 Olivia d'Abo, born in London, England, actress, Wonder Years, Single Guy
1966 Jimi Hendrix Experience releases its 1st single, "Hey Joe," in the UK
1966 Jonathan Silverman, actor, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Single Guy
1966 Beatles' "Paperback Writer," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 2 weeks
1966 Beatles' "We Can Work It Out," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 3 weeks
1965 Beatles' "Yesterday," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 4 weeks
1965 Beatles' "Help!," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 3 weeks
1965 Beatles' "Ticket to Ride," single goes #1
1965 Beatles' "Eight Days a Week," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 2 weeks
1964 Beatles' "I Feel Fine," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 3 weeks
1964 Rod Steward records his 1st single "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl"
1964 Beatles' "Hard Day's Night, A," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 2 weeks
1964 Beatles' "Love Me Do," single goes #1
1964 Beatles' "Can't Buy Me Love," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 5 weeks
1964 Beatles' "She Loves You," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 2 weeks
1964 Bridget Fonda, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Scandal, Single White Female
1963 Rich Weiss, Munich Germany, U.S. slalom single kayak, Olympics-6th-96
1963 1st Rolling Stones TV appearance (Thank Your Lucky Stars) and release 1st single, "Come on"
1963 Beatles release their 1st single in U.S. "Please Please Me"
1962 Aleta Rzepecki Sill, born in Detroit, Michigan, bowler, 1983 WIBC single
1962 Kim Coles, born in Brooklyn, New York, actress, Synclaire-Living Single
1961 Zanzibar's Afro-Shirazi party wins 1 seat by a single vote and parliament by a single seat
1960 Kathlyn Williams, actress (Single Man), dies of heart attack at 72
1959 Single game World Series attendence record set (92,706 in LA)
1959 David Hearn, born in Washington D.C., slalom single canoe, Olympics-9th-96
1958 Jennifer Jason Leigh, [Morrow], LA Cal, actress, Single White Female
1957 Buddy Holly and Crickets released 2nd single "Oh Boy!"/"Not Fade Away"
1957 Jackie Wilson, releases his 1st solo single "Reet Petite"
1956 Guy Mitchell's "Singing the Blues," single goes #1 for 10 weeks
1956 U.S.S.R. single sculls winner Vyacheslav Ivanov wins Olympic gold medal in his excitement he jumps for joy, and loses his medal, it sinks
1956 Yankees Enos Slaughter scores from 1st on a single in World Series
1956 Elvis Presley's "Don't Be Cruel/Hound Dog," single goes to #1 and stays #1 for a record 11 weeks (for a single)
1955 McGuire Sisters' "Sincerely" single goes to #1 and stays #1 for 10 weeks
1954 Elvis Presley records his debut single, "That's All Right"
1953 Phillies Curt Simmons gives up a single, then retires next 27 in a row
1951 Cleveland Indian Bobby Avila hits 3 HRs, double and single vs Red Sox
1951 Stephen Tobolowsky, Texas, actor, Single White Female, Thelma and Louise
1951 1st North Pole flight in single engine plane-CF Blair
1950 Dodger Gil Hodges hits 4 home runs and a single in a game vs Braves
1950 Single day 16 team HR record set at 37 (NL-25, AL-12)
1949 RCA releases 1st single record ever (45 rpm)
1948 New York Yank Joe Dimaggio hits for cycle (single, double, triple, HR)
1946 Enos Slaughter scores from 1st on a single in World Series
1945 Gary Stewart, Latcher County, Kentucky, country singer, She's Actin' Single
1941 Barbet Schroeder, director, Barfly, Single White Female, More
1938 Phillies Harold Kelleher faces 16 batters in 6th, as Cubs score 12 runs, both marks are NL records off one hurler in a single inning
1934 French Equatorial Africa constituted a single administrative unit
1930 Mao Tse-tung writes "A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire"
1925 A's Jimmie Foxx, 17, 1st game; he pinch-hits a single
1923 Harry Heilmann goes 2-for-2, sit out rest of season, except for a pinch single on final day, hitting .403
1923 After a single, Red Sox Howard Ehmke retires next 27 Yanks
1909 Middlesex beat Gloucs (Bristol) by Inn and 31 in a single day
1889 Single tornado kills 119, injures 146, New Richmond, Wisconsin
1888 Lord Walsingham kills 1070 grouse in a single day
1888 Longest U.S. men's single tournament match Palmer Presbrey defeats T S Tailer, 19-21, 8-6, 6-1, 6-4, an 80-game 1st-round contest
1881 1st U.S. men's single tennis championships (Newport, RI)
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