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1997 Rocker Rick Danko gets suspended sentence in Japan for drug smuggling

1996 Orioles' Roberto Alomar suspended 5 games for spitting at ump

1995 Darryl Strawberry suspended from baseball for 60 days

1994 New York Met Pitcher Dwight Gooden suspended for 60 days due to drug charges

1993 Marge Schott suspended from baseball for 1 year due to racism

1993 Cincinnati Red owner Marge Schott suspended for 1 year due to racist comments

1992 Yankee pitcher Pascual Perez suspended for 1 year due to cocaine

1991 Pittsburgh Steelers guard Terry Long loses his steroids appeal and is suspended without pay by NFL for 4 weeks

1991 Atlanta's Otis Nixon suspended for rest of 1991 due to cocaine

1991 Norm Charlton suspended for 7 days for intentionally hitting Steve Scioscia with a pitch

1991 Dana Plato receives 6 yr suspended sentence for robbing a video store

1991 Soccer star Diego Maradona, suspended for using cocaine, arrested in Argentina for possession and distribution of illegal narcotics

1991 Argentine soocer star Diego Maradona suspended for 15 month by Italian League for testing positive for cocaine use

1990 New York Newsday reporter Jimmy Breslin suspended for a racial slur

1990 "60 Minutes" commentator Andy Rooney suspended by CBS for racial remarks attributed to him by a gay magazine

1989 Cards outfielder Leon Durham suspended for 60 days due to drugs

1989 Pete Rose is suspended from baseball for life for gambling

1988 Expos Pitcher Floyd Youmans suspended for 60 days due to drugs

1988 Doughnutgate incident: New Jersey Devils' coach Jim Schoenfeld tells referee Don Koharski to 'eat another doughnut you fat pig!,' he is suspended

1988 Reds manager Pete Rose is suspended for 30 days for pushing an ump

1987 Fiji's constitution is suspended

1986 Peter Uberroth suspended 7 baseball players for 1 year, after they admitted in Curtis Strong's trial in September, they used drugs

1986 Tennis star Jimmy Connors fined $20,000 and suspended for 10 weeks

1985 Cards' Joaquin Andujar suspended for 10 games for bumping an ump

1984 Kuhn announces Vida Blue is suspended due to cocaine conviction

1984 Pitcher Vida Blue suspended for rest of 1984 due to drug use

1984 Braves pitcher Pascual Perez suspended due to cocaine usage

1983 3 Kansas City Royals suspended due to cocaine usage

1983 Los Angeles Dodger pitcher Steve Howe is suspended for 1 year for cocaine use

1981 Longest game in Fenway Park, suspended in 19, Mariners-7, Red Sox-7

1981 Mariners mgr Maury Wills is suspended for 2 games after ordering Seattle's grounds crew to enlarge batter's boxes by one foot

1981 Rochester Red Wings and Pawtucket Red Sox play to 2-2 tie in 32 innings, game suspended at 4:07 AM (Pawtucket later wins in 33rd)

1977 Keith Richards gets suspended sentence for heroin possession, Canada

1974 South Africa suspended from United Nations General Assembly over racial policies

1972 Lerrin LaGrow Campy, who had been hit by a pitch, is fined and suspended

1971 George Harrison is fined and his driving license is suspended for 1 year

1970 AL Cy Young winner Denny McLain suspended for bookmaking

1966 Walt Disney, animator, dies at 65, put in suspended animation

1965 U.S. - Japan baseball relations suspended over Masanori Murakami dispute

1964 Bo Belinsky is suspended after attacking sportswriter Braven Dyer

1963 Paul McCartney is fined 31 pounds and his license is suspended for one year for speeding

1962 Some provisions of Kuwaiti constitution are suspended

1959 Giants Jim Hearn allows 2 runs against Pirates, game is suspended, Hearn is released and charged with loss 2 months after his retirement

1956 Autherine J Lucy admitted to University of Alabama, suspended 2/7 after a riot

1955 Maurice "Rocket" Richard suspended, sparks 7 hour riot in Montreal

1951 AL alters its restrictions on night games, adopting NL's suspended game rule and lifting its ban on lights for Sunday games

1946 Giants Filchock and Hapes suspended by NFL, didn't report bribe attempt

1946 Spain suspended from UN

1945 A's catcher George George punches ump Joe Rue gets suspended

1944 Browns Nelson Potter is 1st pitcher suspended for throwing spitballs

1942 New York Yankees Frank Crosetti shoves ump Bill Summers in World Series, he is fined $200 and suspended for 1st 30 days of 1943 season

1940 Leo Durocher suspended from Ebbetts Field for "inciting a riot"

1934 In India, Mahatma Gandhi suspended his campaign of civil disobedience

1933 Lou Gehrig and Joe McCarthy thrown out of game, McCarthy suspended 3 games but Gehrig isn't, so he continues his streak at 1,249 games

1923 Harry Houdini frees himself from a straight jacket while suspended upside down, 40 feet (12 m) above ground in New York City

1922 Babe Ruth suspended 1 day and fined $200 for throwing dirt on an ump

1922 Babe Ruth and Bob Meusel, suspended on October 16, 1921, by Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis, return to the New York lineup and go hitless

1918 Tris Speaker suspended for season due to assault on ump Tom Connolly

1912 Hamilton Alerts suspended by ORFU for refusing to field a full team in a replay of a protested game

1912 Ty Cobb rushes a heckler at a New York Highlander game and is suspended

1909 Baseball rules players who jump contracts are suspended for 5 years

1901 Joe McGinnity, suspended from NL for punching and spitting on an ump

1808 Political rights of Jews suspended in Duchy of Warsaw

1561 By Edict of Orleans persecution of French Huguenots is suspended



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