1997 Dallas TV Station KXAS settle with Dallas Cowboys Michael Irvin and Erik Williams for reporting false sex assault allegations against them
1995 NHL Winnipeg Jets sold to Americans who plan to move them to Phoenix
1994 Susan Smith claims her 2 kids were carjack (she actually killed them)
1992 President candidate Ross Perot at NAACP speech calls them "you people"
1990 1st time in New York Yankee history they are completely swept season series, Oakland A's beat them 12 games to 0
1989 Pirates score 10 in 1st (their best inning since 1942), prompts Pirate Jim Rooker to say he would walk from Pitts to Philadelphia if Pirates lost, Phillies beat them 15-11, Rooker walks at end of season broadcaster
1983 Houston is 1st NBA team to be held scoreless in an overtime Portland Trail Blazers out score them 17-0 and win 113-96
1981 President Reagan greeted predecessors Jimmy Carter, Gerald R Ford and Richard Nixon before sending them to Egypt for Anwar Sadat's funeral
1978 4th game of Boston Massacre; Yanks beat Red Sox 7-4. This ties them for 1st place. Yanks out hit 'em 67-21; score 42-9
1976 Sex Pistols using profanity on TV, gets them branded as "rotten punks"
1976 South Africa decides to allow multi-racial teams to represent them
1976 India set 403 to win by WI They get them, 6 wkts 7 overs spare
1975 Comoros declare independence from France (most of them)
1969 New York Mets sweep Montreal Expos putting them in 1st place for 1st time
1968 Private Eye magazine reports a John Lennon and Yoko Ono album will have a picture of them nude on cover
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
1964 Braves ask NL to allow them to leave Milwaukee for Atlanta
1964 Phillies 7th straight loses sends them into 2nd place
1963 Giant Willie Mays' HR in 16th inning gives them a 1-0 win over Braves
1963 3 New Jersey businessman purchase NHL Colorado Rockies, and get approval to move them to New Jersey Meadowlands (Devils)
1959 Edmund Gwenn, actor (Them, Java Head, Miracle on 34th St), dies at 83
1954 Jeremy Coney, cricketer, NZ captain turned them into world-beaters
1948 Skip Alan, [Alan Skipper], drummer, Them, Pretty Things
1948 Warren Hymer, actor (Show Them No Mercy), dies at 42
1947 John Wilson, rock drummer, Them
1946 Jackie McCauley, North Ireland, rock pianist, Them Coleraine
1944 Alan Henderson, Belfast, rock bassist, Them
1944 Browns last in AL attendance,only 6,172 watch them sweep Yanks in DH
1944 Jim Armstrong, rock guitarist, Them
1944 Pat McCauley, N Ireland, rock drummer, Them
1943 Ray Elliott, rock pianist/saxophonist, Them
1942 French Navy at Toulon scuttles ships and subs so Nazis don't take them
1942 Billy Harrison, Belfast Ireland, rock guitarist, Them
1938 Nazi forces occupy western Czech and declared them German citizens
1933 Joan Weldon, SF, actress, So This is Love, Them
1924 Notre Dame beats Army 13-7, New York Hearld Tribune dubs them (4 Horsemen)
1921 Due to a technicality, 8 Chicago White Sox accused in Black Sox scandal are acquited, however Landis throws them out of baseball
1920 Giants inform Yankees that the lease allowing them to play in the Polo Grounds will not be renewed at end of 1920 season
1919 Sylvia Syms, U.S. singer, Hello Dolly, Dream Girl, Them There Eyes
1918 1st NHL championship: Mont Canadiens beat Toronto Arenas, outscoring them 10-7 in a 2 game set
1917 U.S. purchases Danish West Indies for $25M and renames them Virgin Islands
1910 Abraham L Polonsky, U.S. writer and director, Tell them Willie Boy is Here
1907 Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers lose to Kenora Thistles but outscore them in 2 game set but outscore them 12-8 and win cup
1907 Gold dental inlays 1st described by Wm Taggart, who invented them
1904 1st college sports letters given to Seniors who played on University of Chicago's football team are awarded blankets with letter "C" on them
1899 US and Germany agree to divide Samoa between them
1792 Paris masses remove nobles/clergymen out of jails and slaughter them
1755 Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France, let them eat cake
1678 Wu San-kuei, gen, invited Manchus to China, dies trying to expel them
1349 Duke of Brabant orders execution of all Jews in Brussels, accusing them of poisoning the wells
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