2006 Java, Indonesia suffers a 6.3 magnitue earthquake, killing more than 6,000
2004 Tropical Storm Jeanne kills more than 550 during flooding in Haiti
2003 Earthquake kills more than 30,000 in Bam, Iran
1999 Frankie Vaughan, singer/actor, Kisses Sweeter Than Wine, dies at 71
1998 India resumes underground nuclear tests after more than a 20 year gap
1998 Mya Than Tint, Myanmarese author, dies of brain hemorrhage at 69
1998 Author Tom Clancy confirms he signed agreement to purchase Minnesota Vikings for slightly more than $200 million, an NFL franchise record
1997 More Swedes died than were born in 1997, 1st time since 1809
1996 U Hia Than, politician, dies at 52
1995 Sen Bob Packwoord (R-Ore) resigns rather than face expulsion
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
1991 Brett Hull is 3rd NHLer to score 50 goals in less than 50 games (49)
1990 Andre Dawson steals his 300th base and is only player other than Willie Mays to have 300 HRs, 300 steals and 2,000 hits
1988 Bulgaria stops jamming Radio Free Europe after more than 3 decades
1988 Carlos Lehder Rivas, of Colombia's Medellin drug cartel, is convicted in Florida for smuggling more than 3 tons of cocaine into US
1987 Dow Jones for 1st time falls more than 100 pts (108.35)
1987 Philip Rush of NZ, set record for triple crossing English Channel his time 28:21, 10 hours faster than 1st man to do it
1987 Al Campanis, Dodger executive for more than 40 years, resigns, after making racial remarks on "Nightline"
1987 Less than a month after re-signing, A's pitcher Vida Blue retires
1986 Russian TU-144 flies for 1st time faster than sound
1986 Discovery moves to OPF where more than 200 modification are made
1985 Tornados in Penn, Ohio, New York and Canada kill 88 and injured more than 1,000
1983 Att Gen Edwin Meese says people go to soup kitchens "...because food is free and that's easier than paying for it"
1982 U.S. budget deficit reaches more than $110 trillion for fiscal year 1982
1982 Scott Weiland runs Detroit marathon backwards in less than 5 hours
1982 Falklands War: Argentine cruiser General Belgrano sunk by British submarine Conqueror, killing more than 350 men
1982 Harrison Williams (Sen-D-NJ) resigned rather than face expulsion
1982 Earl Anthony becomes 1st pro bowler to win more than $1 million
1981 Largest U.S. bank robbery in Tucson, Arizona, more than $33 million stolen
1981 Bill Shoemaker wins his 8,000th race, 2000 more than any other jockey
1980 Jacqueline Cochrane, U.S. pilot/1st female faster than sound, dies at 70
1978 Jimmy Carter more than doubles national park system size
1978 RR clerks go on strike, halting more than 2/3s of rail service
1977 Elvis Costello releases his 1st record "Less Than Zero"
1976 Lotte (Krause-)Lehmann, German soprano (More than singing), dies at 88
1976 Percy Julian, holder of more than 138 chemical patents, dies at 78
1974 Cowhide, rather than just horsehide, can be used to make baseballs
1974 Fire kills 189 in less than 25 min (Sao Paulo Brazil)
1974 Oakland A's beat Los Angeles Dodgers, 4 games to 1 in 71st World Series makes A's only team other than Yanks to win 3 straight series
1970 Supreme Court ruled juries of less than 12 are constitutional
1967 Pat Badger, heavy metal bassist, Extreme-More Than Words
1966 Nuno Bettencourt, Azores, rock guitarist, Extreme-More Than Words
1966 Beatle John Lennon says Beatles are more popular than Jesus
1966 John Lennon, says "We (the Beatles) are more popular than Jesus"
1965 2nd of 2 cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000, Ganges R India
1965 1st of 2 cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 (India)
1965 Robert Downey, Jr., born in New York City, comedian, SNL, Less than Zero, Back to School
1964 Gilroy Roberts becomes 1st U.S. chief engraver to retire (than die)
1964 Supreme Court rules unconstitutional to deprive naturalized citizens of citizenship if they return to home country for more than 3 years
1963 Paul Geary, born in Boston, Massachusetts, heavy metal drummer, Extreme-More Than Words
1962 U.S. mail truck in Plymouth, Mass robbed of more than $1.5 million
1962 West Side Story soundtrack album goes to #1 and stays #1 for 54 weeks which is more than 20 weeks longer than any other album
1961 Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than $12 billion
1961 Gary Cherone, born in Boston, heavy metal vocalist, Extreme-More Than Words
1959 USAF concludes less than 1% of UFO's are unknown objects
1958 Baseball announces players and coaches rather than fans pick all stars
1957 US announces manufacture of Borazon (harder than diamond)
1957 Researchers announce Borazan (harder than diamonds) been developed
1957 Dodgers' Jackie Robinson retires rather than be traded to New York Giants
1955 Mark Mitchell, actor, Larger than Life, Lift Off, Ground Zero
1953 Charley Dressen resigns rather than take 1 year contract as Dodger mgr
1953 Brooklyn Dodgers, clinch NL pennant earlier than any other team
1952 Rangers with less than 14 minutes to go blow a 6-2 lead, losing 7-6 to Chicago Black Hawks. Mosienko scores 3 times in 21 seconds
1951 Brad Delp, guitarist, Boston-More Than a Feeling
1949 Fran Sheehan, rock bassist, Boston-More than a Feeling
1949 Fran Sheehan, born in Boston, Massachusetts, rock bassist, Boston-More than a Feeling
1948 British De Havilland 08-fighter flies faster than sound
1947 Tom Scholz, rock guitarist/keyboardist, Boston-More Than a Feeling
1946 Pirates players vote 20-16 to walkout rather than play the Giants
1945 Hideki Tojo, Japanese PM during most of WW II, attempts suicide rather than face war crimes tribunal attempt fails, later he is hanged
1944 Expulsion of more than 200,000 Tartars from Crimea by Soviet Union begins, they are accused of collaborating with the Germans
1944 In occupied Rome, Nazis execute more than 300 civilians
1943 Hanna Schygulla, Katowice Silesia, actress, Love is Colder than Death
1940 Joseph Brodsky, U.S.S.R., author, Less than 1, Nobel 1987
1937 Rather than accept any trade offers, the Yanks release Tony Lazzeri
1936 Joe McCarthy is named to manage AL All-Stars, rather than high-strung Mickey Cochrane, who is very close to a nervous breakdown
1930 Babe Ruth signs 2-year contract for $160,000 with New York Yankee GM Ed Barrow, wrongly predicts "No one will ever be paid more than Ruth"
1929 1st time New York curb stock exchange transacts more business than New York Exch
1926 Big Mama Thornton, blues singer, Ball and Chain, Stronger than Dirt
1924 White Sox beat New York Giants 8-4 in Dublin, less than 20 fans attend
1919 Than Wyenn, New York City, actor, Pete Kelly's Blues
1916 Dorothy May Bundy-Cheney, winner of more than 141 U.S. tennis titles
1907 Malcolm Atterbury, Philadelphia, actor, Jonas-Thicker than Water, Apples Way
1904 1st airplane flight to last more than 5 minutes
1904 Leslie French, actor/singer, More than a Miracle
1892 U.S. Patent Office says J. W. Swan, rather than Thomas Edison, invented the electric light carbon for the incandescent lamp
1889 New York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) began her attempt to surpass fictitious journey of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg by traveling around world in less than 80 days She succeeded, by finishing trip following January in 72 days, 6
1888 Tris Speaker, baseball great, hit more doubles than Pete Rose
1880 Helen Keller, blind-deaf author/lecturer had more sense than many
1873 Harry M O'Connor, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor, Stranger than Fiction
1858 1st transatlantic cable fails after less than 1 month
1852 Ohio makes it illegal for children under 18 and women to work more than 10 hours a day
1845 More than 1,000 buildings damaged by fire in Pittsburgh Pa
1839 Henry Clay declares in Senate "I had rather be right than president"
1828 More than 100 vessels destroyed in a storm, Gibraltar
1809 Supreme Court rules federal government power greater than any state
1791 Samuel Mulliken, Philadelphia, is 1st to obtain more than 1 U.S. patent
1755 Lisbon earthquake kills more than 50,000
1733 England passes Molasses Act, putting high tariffs on rum and molasses imported to the colonies from a country other than British possessions
1653 An athlete from Croydon is reported to have run 20 miles from St. Albans to London in less than 90 minutes
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