2003 Tony Awards, Hairspray, Take Me Out, Long Day's Journey Into Night revival and Nine revival won major awards
2003 Johnny Paycheck, singer, Take This Job and Shove It, dies at 65
1998 Henny Youngman, comedian (Take my wife please), dies at 92
1998 Henny Youngman, comedian, ", Take My Wife, Please!: Henny Youngman's Giant Book of Jokes, ", dies at 91
1994 Walter C "Dub" Taylor II, U.S. actor (You Can't Take it All), dies at 86
1994 South African Government/ANC take power in Ciskei homeland
1994 3 Afghans take 70 Pakistani children hostage
1993 Thomas A Dorsey, jazz pianist (Take My Hand, Precious Lord), dies
1992 Bradlees announces it will take over Alexander's department stores in New York City
1992 Brave's Charlie Leibrandt 1,000th strikeout and decides to keep the ball He rolls it to the dugout, allows Ricky Jordan to take 2nd on error
1992 Supreme Court rules states could not force mentally unstable criminal defendants to take anti-psychotic drugs
1992 US Air New York to Cleveland crashes on take off at LaGuardia, 27 die
1990 U.S. Ambassador tells Iraq, U.S. won't take sides in Iraq - Kuwait dispute
1989 Australia take 3-0 series lead over England to regain Cricket Ashes
1989 Beijing students take over Tiananmen Square in China
1988 Devils 6-5 over Islanders-Devils take 1st round 4-2
1987 1st heart-lung transplant take place (Baltimore)
1987 No-smoking rules take effect in federal buildings
1985 "Take Me Along!" opens/closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City
1984 A's take Yankees pitcher Tim Belcher as Type A free agent compensation
1984 Moslem militiamen take over West Beirut from Lebanese army
1982 Prince Chuck and Lady Di take Prince William home from hospital
1982 Paul McCartney releases "Take it Away"
1981 Barcelona fascists take 200 people hostage
1980 Phils rally from 4-0 deficit to beat the Royals, 7-6 to take WS opener
1980 Ray Walker, actor (Baby Take a Bow), dies
1980 Sabres take only 15 shots, Islanders 22, in a playoff game
1979 500 Iranian "students" seize U.S. embassy, take 90 hostages (444 days)
1979 Nicaragua Liberation Day; Sandinistas take over from Somoza
1975 Ellice Islands split from Gilbert Islands, take name "Tuvalu"
1975 Communists take over Laos
1975 W I win Fifth Test against India to take exciting series 3-2
1974 "Papa Don't Take No Mess Part 1" by James Brown peaks at #31
1974 Mail truck terrorists take school in Maalot, 30 killed
1974 Rhino Store gives people 5 cents to take home Danny Bonaduce's Album
1973 Mushtaq Mohammad follows up 201 to take 5-49 vs. NZ Dunedin
1971 11 guards and 31 prisoners die in take over at Attica State Prison
1971 Apollo 15 astronauts take 6 hour electric car ride on Moon
1968 Estelle Hemsley, actress (Leech Woman, Take aGiant Step), dies at 81
1968 Leftist students take over Columbia University, New York City
1967 ATS-3 launched by U.S. to take 1st pictures of full Earth disk
1967 Yanks longest day, Red Sox take 1st game 2-1 in 9, Yanks win 2nd game in 20, 4-3 a total of 8 hours and 19 minutes
1967 Yanks take 5-3 lead in 11th and lose 6-5, in 2nd game Red Sox lead 3-2 in 9th and Yanks beat them 6-3
1967 Monkees take home an Emmy for their Outstanding comedy Series
1966 Napoleon XIV releases "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha! Ha!"
1961 Moss Heart, U.S. dramatist (You can't take it with you), dies at 57
1961 Teri Nunn, California, rock vocalist, Berlin-You Take my Breathe Away
1960 "Take Me Along" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 448 performances
1960 Arthur Benjamin, Austral composer/pianist (Devil Take Her), dies at 66
1960 John Crawford, Palo Alto California, bass, Berlin-You Take My Breath Away
1959 "Take Me Along" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 448 performances
1959 Bob Merrill's musical "Take me Along," premieres in New York City
1959 A J Pero, Staten Is, drummer, Twisted Sister-Not Gonna Take It
1959 Dodgers win game 2 of playoff, 6-5, and take NL pennant
1959 Lonny Price, born in New York City, actor, Muppets Take Manhattan
1958 Carlos Cavazo, rocker, Quiet Riot-We're Not Gonna Take It
1956 Mark Mendoza, rocker, Twisted Sister-We're Not Gonna Take It
1956 Bob Brill, New York City, drummer, Berlin-You Take My Breath Away
1955 Atkinson and Depeiaza take WI from 6-187 to 6-494 in day vs. Aust
1955 Dee Snider, born in Massapequa, New York, Twisted Sister-We're Not Gonna Take It
1954 Eddie "Fingers" Ojeda, Bx, New York, Twisted Sister-We're Not Gonna Take It
1954 Jay Jay French, born in New York City, guitarist, Twisted Sister-Not Gonna Take It
1953 Charley Dressen resigns rather than take 1 year contract as Dodger mgr
1953 "Take a Giant Step," opens on Broadway
1952 Marines take part in an atomic explosion training in Nevada
1951 Margaret Lindsay, actress (Take a Guess), dies at 40
1950 Heidi Schuller, born in Germany, 1st woman to take olympic oath, 1972
1949 Eddie Money, [Mahoney], born in Brooklyn, New York, singer and guitarist, Take Me Home Tonight
1948 Operation Hiram: Israelis take control of Galilee
1946 Henry Morgan is 1st to take off shirt on TV
1945 U.S. Marines attack Yae Take on Okinawa
1945 British troops take Ramree Island, Burma
1944 Chinese/U.S. armed forces take Myitkyina Airport, Burma
1943 U.S. forces take control of Tarawa, Gilbert Island and Makin from Japs
1943 Janet Margolin, born in New York City, actress, Take the Money and Run, David and Lisa
1943 Greatest tank battle in history ends with Russia's defeat of Germany at Kursk, almost 6,000 tanks take part, 2,900 were lost by Germany
1942 French Navy at Toulon scuttles ships and subs so Nazis don't take them
1942 German occupiers take silver anniversary coins in battle
1942 Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra recorded "I'll Take Tallulah"
1941 Germany's drive to take Moscow halted
1941 Johnny Paycheck, born in Greenfield, Ohio, singer, Take This Job and Shove It
1941 Duke Ellington 1st records "Take the A Train"
1940 1st $64 Question, "Take It or Leave It," on CBS Radio
1940 Dick Motz, cricketer, 1st NZer to take 100 Test wickets
1939 Dutch border guards take positions for German invasion
1937 Warren Berlinger, Brooklyn, actor, Larry-Joey Bishop Shop, Take Two
1930 1st night game in Detroit at newly built Hamtramck Stadium as Negro League Detroit Stars take on Kansas City, Missouri narchs
1929 Elaine Stewart, Montclair, New Jersey, actress, Take the High Ground
1928 Record 12 future Hall of Famers take the field, as Yanks beat A's 9-7
1926 Yankees take a doubleheader from Browns to clinch AL pennant
1926 England regain Ashes with 5th Test Cricket win, to take series 1-0
1924 Wahhabietes under Ibn Saudi take Mecca
1917 After WW I King George V ordered members of British royal family to dispense with German titles and surnames, they take the name Windsor
1916 German troops under Lt Rackow take Fort Vaux
1914 Walter Johnson accepts money from Federal League Chicago Whales Clark Griffith threatens to take Johnson to court
1914 German troops take Antwerp in World War I
1914 Russian troops take East-Prussia and occupy Marggrabowa
1913 Turkish troop take Adrianopel and Erdine from Bulgaria
1910 Margaret Lindsay, Dubuque Iowa, actress, Take a Guess
1908 Billy Murray hits the charts with "Take Me Outto the Ball Game"
1908 Rosalind Russell, born in Waterbury, Connecticut, actress, Mame, Take a Letter Darling
1906 Hugh Jennings resigns as Balt manager to take over at Detroit in 1907
1906 Henny Youngman, born in London, England, comedian, Take my wife please
1906 Henny Youngman, England, comedian, Take my wife please...
1904 Moss Hart, born in Bronx, New York, playwright, You Can't Take it With You, Act 1
1904 Boston Herald again refers to New York baseball club as Yankees, when it reports "Yankees take 2," Yankee name not official till 1913
1900 Boer army under gen Kritzinger take Cape colony
1899 Duke Ellington, Washington D.C., [Edward Kennedy], bandleader, Take A Train
1866 1st train robbery in U.S. (Reno Brothers take $13,000)
1861 Battle of Cape Hatteras SC-Union troops take Ft. Clark
1861 President-elect Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington D.C. to take office
1861 MS troops take Ft. Massachusetts an Ship Island
1845 H L Fizeau and J Leon Foucault take 1st photo of Sun
1839 Slave rebels, take over slaver Amistad
1832 French take Antwerp in liberation of Belgium
1813 British take Ft. Niagara in War of 1812
1809 French take Saragossa, Spain after a long siege
1809 British take Cayenne (French Guiana) from French (until 1814)
1782 Spanish take Minorca (western Mediterranean) from English
1775 Battle of Quebec; Americans unable to take British stronghold
1762 British take Grenada, West Indies, from French
1687 Venetians take Athens from the Turks
1576 Spanish defeat Walloons and take Antwerp Belgium
1520 Spanish conquerors under Cortes take gold from Aztecs
1291 Sultan of Egypt and his son take last Christian stronghold of Acre
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