2003 Fire at the Station rock club in Rhode Island kills nearly 100
2003 Arsonist set a fire in a trian station in Daegu, South Korea kills nearly 200
2001 Dennis Tito becomes the first space tourist by paying $20 million to fly on a Soyuz mission to the International Space Station.
2001 Russian Mir space station is crashed into the Pacific during a controlled re-entry
2000 International Space Station becomes permanently staffed
1997 Howard Stern is fired from radio station, KEGL Dallas
1997 Dallas TV Station KXAS settle with Dallas Cowboys Michael Irvin and Erik Williams for reporting false sex assault allegations against them
1997 Progress M-34 Collides with and damages Mir Space Station
1997 Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with Mir Space Station
1996 WPAT FM New York City radio station switches to English-Spanish format
1995 Space shuttle Atlantis docks with orbiting Russian space station Mir
1995 Spanish Broadcasting System buys New York radio station WPAT-FM for $83.5M
1995 Dean St. Station in Brooklyn, is 6th MTA station to close since 1904
1994 Progress M-25 launched to space station Mir
1994 Man shoots another man on IRT #4 train at Grand Central Station
1994 WMMS-FM's Jeff and Flash, and entire station staff, are fired
1993 Battle at TV station Ostankino/Moscow townhall, about 25 killed
1993 Cleveland radio station WMMS-FM/101.7 is bought by Disney
1991 U.S.S.R. launches 2 cosmonauts to MIR space station
1988 Mexican radio station erronously reports Mike Tyson dies in car crash
1988 Man armed with explosives blows self up in 125 St. subway station (New York City)
1988 Union Station reopens in Washington D.C.
1988 U.S.S.R. launches 3 cosmonauts (Valery Polyakav, 1 Afghan) to station Mir
1988 LIRR says Penn station will get air conditioning in 1991
1988 New York City WABC-AM becomes flagship radio station of New Jersey Devils
1988 Clifford D[onald] Simak, sci-fi author (Hugo, Way Station), dies at 83
1987 Soyuz TM-4 launches 3 cosmonauts to space station Mir
1987 31 die in a fire at King's Cross, London's busiest subway station
1987 New York City radio station WFAN-AM becomes 1st 24 hour all sports radio
1986 Soyuz T-15 carries 2 cosmonauts to Soviet space station Mir
1986 U.S.S.R. launches Mir space station into Earth orbit
1985 Soyuz T-14 carries 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station
1985 Soyuz T-13 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station
1985 -30 degrees F (-34 degrees C), Mountain Lake Bio Station, Virginia (state record)
1984 Soyuz T-12 carries 3 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 7
1984 Gunmen kidnap William Buckley, CIA station chief in Beirut
1983 Soyuz T-9 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station
1982 Suriname army under Desi Bouterse fires on radio station building
1982 U.S.S.R. Salyut 7 space station put into orbit
1981 Soyuz T-4 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
1980 Soyuz T-3 carries 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station, launched
1980 Soyuz 38 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station
1980 Fascist bomb attack on Bologna Italy train station, 86 killed
1980 Soyuz T-2 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
1979 Soyuz 32 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station is launched
1978 Supreme Court rules 5-4, FCC had a right to reprimand New York radio station WBAI for broadcasting George Carlin's "Filthy Words"
1978 Soyuz 30 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Polish) to Salyut 6 space station
1978 Soyuz 27 carring 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station, launched
1977 Soyuz 26 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
1977 Soviet space station Salyut 6 launched into Earth orbit
1977 Burn up of Salyut 4 Space Station (U.S.S.R.)
1976 Soyuz 21 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 5 space station
1975 Richard S Welch, CIA station chief in Athens, shot dead
1975 WGPR-TV Detroit, 1st Black-owned station in U.S., began broadcasting
1975 Bomb explodes at annex of Amsterdam metro station
1975 Soyuz 17 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 4
1974 Soyuz 15 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 3
1974 Soyuz 14 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 3
1973 The Family Station Inc buys shortwave Radio Station WNYW, changes calls to WYFR and moves station from New York City to Scituate Mass
1973 1st BART train travels thru transbay tube to Montgomery St. Station
1973 Skylab launched, 1st Space Station
1972 Edmund Wilson, U.S. writer (To the Finland station), dies at 79
1971 Soyuz 11 takes 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 1 space station
1971 Soyuz 10 launched; cosmonauts become 1st in Salyut 1 space station
1971 Montgomery St. Station, last link in BART, 'holed thru'
1970 KAMU TV channel 15 in College Station, Texas (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 Haiti closes down shortwave station 4VEH for 40 days
1967 1st local British radio station begins broadcasting (Radio Leicester)
1967 BBC starts their own popular music radio station
1967 Amsterdam Marines chase out "nozems" of Central Station
1967 Marines chase "Nozems" out of Amsterdam Central Station
1967 PBS (the National Educational TV) begins as a 70 station network
1966 1st TV station in Congo, Kinshasa (Zaire)
1966 Fred Coury, Johnston, New York, rocker, Cinderella-Heartbreak Station
1966 Shortwave station Radio New York Worldwide changes calls from WRUL to WNYW
1966 BBC opens a relay radio station on Ascension Island
1966 Sergei Korolev, Russian space station constructor, dies
1965 1st all news radio station (WINS 1010 AM in New York City) begins operating
1965 Jeff Labarr, rocker, Cinderella-Heartbreak Station
1964 Eric Brittingham, rocker, Cinderella-Heartbreak Station
1962 Tom Keifer, rock guitarist and vocalist, Cinderella-Heartbreak Station
1961 Freedom Riders attacked by white mob at bus station in Miss
1960 Europe's 1st "moving pavement," (travelator), opens at Bank station
1956 58 degrees F (15 degrees C), Esperanza Station, Antarctica (Antarctic record high)
1956 England's 1st large scale nuclear power station opens
1955 Tom Powers, actor (Station West, Destination Moon), dies at 65
1955 1st microwave TV station operated (Lufkin, Texas)
1954 Ellis Island, immigration station in New York Harbor, closed
1954 1st atomic power station opens (Obninsk, near Moscow, Russia)
1954 -87 degrees F (-66 degrees C), Northice Station, Greenland (Greenland record)
1953 KTVA TV channel 11 in Anchorage (CBS) becomes Alaska's 1st TV station
1953 1st non-commercial educational television station, Houston, Texas
1953 16 car Federal Express train loses brakes and crashes in Washington D.C. station
1952 1st ultra high frequency (UHF) television station, Portland Or
1952 1st black executive of a major TV station (Jackie Robinson-WNBC New York)
1951 NBC extends to become a 61 station coast-to-coast network
1949 1st UHF television station operating regular basis (Bridgeport Ct)
1949 WERD, 1st black-owned radio station, opens in Atlanta
1949 Michael Lutz, bassist, Brownsville Station
1948 Cub Koda, rocker, Brownsville Station
1948 Arabs blow up Latrun pumping station in Jerusalem
1948 Israeli Radio Station Kol Yisrael's 1st broadcast
1947 252,288 people (record) pass through Grand Central Station, New York City
1947 1st commercial TV station west of Mississippi opens, Hollywood CA
1943 Load of "ammunition in transit" explodes at Norfolk Naval Air Station
1942 German troops occupy train station Stalingrad-1
1941 1st U.S. commercial FM radio station goes on the air, Nashville, Tennessee
1940 London's Waterloo Station bombed by Germans
1939 WGY-TV (Schenectady, New York), 1st coml TV station, begins service
1939 Staged "Polish" assault on radio station in Gleiwitz
1938 Utrecht Central Station destroyed by fire
1938 Soviet arctic ice research station North Pole 1 evacuated, Denmark
1937 Governer Wouters inaugurates the radio station on the Dutch Antilles
1936 1st 50 KW U.S. radio station, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1933 Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Zima Russia, poet, Bratsk Station
1933 Marc F A Andries, Flemish actor, Central Station
1929 AM radio station WOWO, Indiana's transmitter burns down
1927 18 station CBS radio network begins, (WOR is New York City affiliate)
1926 1st formal radio network, RCA takes over AT&T 25 station Network (NBC)
1926 Alfred Slote, author, Love and Tennis, Omega Station
1926 Libera Carlier, Flemish author, Action Station Go!
1922 Radio Moscow begins transmitting (12 KWs-most powerful station)
1922 AT&T radio station WBAY becomes WEAF (New York City)
1922 James E. Gunn, U.S., sci-fi author, Station in Space, Immortal
1922 WOI (Ames, Iowa) country's 1st licensed educational radio station
1922 WAAB (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) becomes 1st U.S. radio station with "W" calls
1922 1st southern radio station begins (WSB, Atlanta Georgia)
1921 Oldest radio station west of Mississippi River licensed in Greeley Co
1920 WTAW of College Station, Tx, broadcast 1st football play-by-play
1920 KDKA (Pittsburgh) goes on air as 1st commercial radio station
1920 Westinghouse radio station in East Pittsburgh, KDKA begins
1920 Detroit radio station is 1st to broadcast a news program on the air
1920 1st U.S. coast guard air station established (Morehead City NC)
1915 1st wireless message sent from a moving train to a station received
1913 1st drive-up gasoline station opens (Pitts)
1911 1st public elevator (London's Earl's Court Metro Station)
1910 New Yorks's Penn Station opens as world's largest train station
1905 King Leopold II opens Central Station Antwerp
1904 New York City begins building Grand Central Station
1904 Clifford D[onald] Simak, U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo, Empire, Way Station
1903 U.S. signs agreement acquiring a naval station at Guantanamo Bay Cuba
1903 Harry Houdini escapes police station Halvemaansteeg in Amsterdam
1902 Richard Rodgers, born in Hammels Station, New York, composer, Rodgers and Hammerstein
1900 New Ellis Island Immigration station completed costing $1.5 million
1892 U.S. Quarantine Station opens on Angel Island, San Francisco Bay
1890 Prince of Wales opens 1st underground (Station Stockwell, London)
1890 Tom Powers, born in Owensboro, Kentucky, actor, Station West, Destination Moon
1890 Ellis Island designated as an immigration station
1889 Amsterdam Central Station officially opens
1888 Spencer F Baird, U.S. biologist (Wood's Hole Station), dies at 65
1882 1st district lit by electricity (NY's Pearl Street Station)
1881 U.S. Quarantine Station authorized for Angel Island, San Francisco Bay
1865 Battle of Durham Station, North Carolina (Greensboro)
1865 Battle of Petersburg, Virginia (Ft. Gregg, Sutherland's Station)
1864 Battle of Egypt Station, MS
1864 Skirmish at Thomas' Station, Georgia
1864 Battle of Spring Hill, Tennessee (Thomason's Station)
1864 Petersburg Campaign-Battle of Ream's Station
1864 Riot at McCook's to Lovejoy Station GA, US600 CS---
1864 Battle of Ream's Station, Virginia, Wilson's Raid
1864 Battle of Trevillian Station, Virginia, Central Railroad
1864 Battle of Trevillian Station, Virginia, Central Railroad
1864 Charing Cross Station opens in London
1863 Skirmish at Bean's Station, Tennessee (Knoxville Campaign)
1863 Battle of Campbell's Station TN, 492 casualities
1863 Battle of Rappahannock Station and Kelly's Ford, VA
1863 Battle at Bristoe Station Virginia (about 2000 casualties)
1863 Skirmish at Catlett's Station, Virginia (Bristoe Campaign)
1863 Battle of Brady Station, Virginia (Culpeper Court House, Bristoe Station)
1863 Jo Shelby's cavalry in action at Moffat's Station, Arkansas
1863 Battle of Brandy Station, Virginia, Fleetwood, Beverly Ford
1863 Battle of Thompson's Station, Tennessee
1862 Battle of Bull Run, Virginia (Manassas, Gainesville, Bristoe Station)
1862 Battle of Catlett's Station VA
1862 Day 5 of 7 Days-Battle of Savage's Station, Virginia
1862 Day 4 of 7 Days-Battle of Savage's Station/Garnett's Farm, Virginia
1862 Battle of Hanover Court House, Virginia (Slash Church, Peake's Station)
1862 Skirmish at Bealeton Station, Virginia
1855 Castle Clinton in New York City opens as 1st U.S. receiving station for immigrants
1848 London's Waterloo Station opens
1830 1st U.S. Railroad Station opens (Baltimore)
1827 Petrus J H Cuypers, architect, Amsterdam Museum, Central station
1823 Spencer F Baird, U.S. biologist, Wood's Hole Station
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