2000 Robert Northshield, TV news producer, Sunday Morning, dies at 78
1997 Charles Kuralt, news anchor for CBS Sunday Morning, dies at 62
1996 Sunday League game Kent 6-314 overhaul Leicestershire's 4-311
1995 Sunday New York News increases price from $1.00 to $1.25
1995 Sunday New York Times raises price from $2.00 to $2.50
1994 Manos Hadjidakis, Greek composer (Never on Sunday), dies at 68
1994 Melina Mercouri, Greek actress (Never on a Sunday), dies at about 68
1993 Elton John awarded $518,700 from Sunday Mirror false report his diet
1993 Sunday Mirror ordered to pay Elton John $518,700 for false report
1993 Freya Stark, English author (Sunday Bloody Sunday), dies at 61
1993 Will Weng, Sunday Times crossword puzzle editor (1968-78), dies at 86
1992 Frank Wilson, actor (Beware, Sunday Sinners, Club), dies at 37
1991 1st Sunday Night game at Shea Stadium, Mets beat Cubs 6-0
1991 Sunday Wilshin, actor (Murder by Rope), dies at 86
1990 "Independent on Sunday" begins publishing in London
1989 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Bayakoa, Dancing Spree, Go for Wand, Prized, Rhythm, Steinlen, Sunday Silence
1989 115th Preakness: Pat Valenzuela aboard Sunday Silence wins in 1:53.8
1989 115th Kentucky Derby: Pat Valenzuela on Sunday Silence wins in 2:05
1987 1st "Scrub Sunday" of NFL football with replacement players
1986 London Sunday Times reports Israel is stocking nuclear arms
1985 "Sunday in the Park with George" closes at Booth New York City after 604 performances
1985 Last edition of Brink Daily Mail/Sunday Express in South Africa
1984 "Sunday in the Park with George" opens at Booth New York City for 604 performances
1983 Georges Auric, French composer (It Always Rains on Sunday), dies at 84
1982 Dorothy [Little-]Round, England, tennis star (Never on Sunday), dies
1974 Andrea Checci, actress (2 Women, Assassin, Black Sunday), dies at 57
1973 St. Patrick Day marchers carry 14 coffins commemorating Bloody Sunday
1972 Bloody Sunday: British soldiers fire into crowd, kill 13
1972 Bloody Sunday: British soldiers shoot on catholics in Londonderry, 13 die
1969 Tracey Gold, New York City, actress, Carol-Growing Pains, Incredible Sunday
1966 1st day of Sunday play in County Cricket, Essex vs. Somerset
1963 1st Sunday night game in baseball San Francisco Giants lose to Houston Colts 3-0
1963 Colt .45s beat Giants 3-0 in major leagues' 1st Sunday night game
1960 Black Sunday - Riot in Algiers, 114 die
1960 Phillies beat Reds 7-1, ending 16 consecutive Sunday loses
1959 Morrissey, British rock vocalist, Everyday is Like Sunday
1957 Dutch ban on Sunday driving lifted
1956 Charles Moore, British editor-in-chief, Sunday Telegraph
1955 Maria Shriver, newscaster, Sunday Today
1951 AL alters its restrictions on night games, adopting NL's suspended game rule and lifting its ban on lights for Sunday games
1949 Andrew Nell, editor, Sunday Times
1949 David Sullivan, English softporno/newspaper publisher, Sunday Sport
1946 Andrea Mitchell, New York City, newscaster, NBC-TV, Summer Sunday USA
1946 Bob Dotson, born in St. Louis, Missouri, newscaster, Primetime Sunday
1942 Sandy Gilmour, Montclair, New Jersey, newscaster, Prime Time Sunday
1936 John Dancy, born in Jackson, Texas, newscaster, Prime Time Sunday
1936 Bekim Fehmiu, actor, Black Sunday, Permission to Kill, Cagliostro
1935 Billy Sunday, American Athlete
1934 Peter Nero, New York City, conductor/pianist, A Sunday in New York
1934 Pittsburgh is last major league city to play a home game on a Sunday
1933 Jack Perkins, born in Cleveland, Ohio, newscaster, Prime Time Sunday, NBC Magazine
1933 Baseball owners agree to ban Sunday doubleheaders until after June 15
1933 1st Sunday football game in Philadelphia (previously illegal)
1933 Pennsylvania voters overturn blue law, by permitting Sunday sports
1932 1st Sunday game at Fenway Park, Yanks beat Red Sox 13-2
1931 British House of Commons agrees for sports play on Sunday
1931 Wolfgang Kohlhaase, born in Berlin, actor, director and writer, Solo Sunday
1929 Red Sox announce they will play Sunday games at Braves Field
1927 Robert Shaw, born in England, actor, Deep, Jaws, Sting, Black Sunday
1927 For 2nd Sunday in a row golfers in South Carolina arrested for violating Sabbath
1926 Leo Derksen, Dutch journalist, Telegraph/Sunday Newspaper
1925 Manos Hadjidakis, Greek composer and conductor, Never on Sunday
1925 Melina Mercouri, Athens Greece, actress/politician, Never on a Sunday
1924 Sunday Express publishes 1st British crossword puzzle
1921 Babe Ruth's 1st WS homer; only Sunday game ever pitched by Carl Mays
1920 John Junor, British editor in chief, Sunday Express
1919 Dutch 2nd chamber approves 8-hour day/No Sunday work
1919 1st legal Sunday baseball game in New York City (Phillies beat Giants 4-3)
1919 Giants play their 1st legal Sunday home game, 35,000 see Phils win 4-3
1918 Washington 1st Sunday game, Senators beat Cleveland 1-0 in 18 innings
1918 Sunday baseball is made legal in Washington D.C.
1917 Sunday benefit baseball game at Polo Grounds results in John McGraw and Christy Mathewson's arrest for violating Blue laws
1917 Robins (Dodgers) play their 1st Sunday game in Brooklyn
1916 Marshall Field IV, publisher/editor, Chic Daily News, Sunday Times
1911 Jules Dassin, Middletown CT, director, Circle of Two, Never on Sunday
1905 Bloody Sunday: Russian demonstrators fired on by tsarist troops
1901 Benjamin Adams arrested for playing golf on Sunday, New York
1894 1st newspaper Sunday color comic section published (New York World)
1892 Sunday school teacher Lizzie Borden arrested in Fall River, Mass
1892 1st Sunday NL baseball game, Reds beat Cards 5-1
1883 Cub's Billy Sunday's 1st at bat, begins 14 consecutive strikes out
1862 Billy Sunday, American Athlete
1849 U.S. had no president, Polks term ends on a Sunday, Taylor couldn't be sworn-in, Sen David Atchison (President pro tem) term ended Mar 3rd
1822 1st edition of London Sunday Times
1815 Sunday observance in Netherlands regulated by law
1811 Robert Raikes, founder of Sunday Schools, dies
1796 1st U.S. newspaper to appear on Sunday (Baltimore Monitor)
1795 Curacao government forbids slave work on Sunday
1791 Britain's Observer, oldest Sunday newspaper in world, 1st published
1780 1st British Sunday newspaper appears (Brit Gazette and Sunday Monitor)
1736 Robert Raikes, England, Sunday school pioneer
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