2000 Craig Claiborne, food author, New York Times, dies at 79
1998 Esther Rolle, actress, Good Times, dies at 78
1996 NFL/Heisman Trophy Winner Mike Rozier, is shot several times
1996 Sony does not renew lease on megatron in Times Square
1995 Sunday New York Times raises price from $2.00 to $2.50
1994 Eddie Murray sets record for switch hit HRS in a games (11 times)
1993 Sam Zolotow, U.S. theater critic (New York Times), dies at 94
1993 Croupier of casino in Bristol England, shoots a 4, a record 8 times
1993 Harrison E. Salisbury, U.S. journalist (New York Times), dies at 84
1993 Will Weng, Sunday Times crossword puzzle editor (1968-78), dies at 86
1990 500 pound Hershey Kiss is displayed in Times Square
1990 Andre Dawson sets record being intentionally walked 5 times
1987 "Black Monday"-Dow Jones down 508.32, 4 times previous record
1987 Donald Trump takes out a full page New York Times ad lambasting Japan
1987 Brewers' Rob Deer struck-out 5 times in a game
1986 London Sunday Times reports Israel is stocking nuclear arms
1986 Robby Thompson (SF) sets record, caught stealing 4 times in 1 game
1986 San Francisco Giant Robby Thompson is caught stealing record 4 times
1986 Mariners strike out 16 times, set record of 36 in 2 consecutive games
1986 Iowa's All-American running back, Ronnie Harmon, fumbles the ball 4 times in his last game-the Rose Bowl
1985 Houston QB Warren Moon sacked NFL tying record 12 times (by Cowboys)
1984 Cyndi Lauper's 1st #1 "Time After Times"
1983 Reggie Jackson is 1st major leaguer to strike out 2,000 times
1982 John C Gardner, U.S., writer (Life and Times of Chaucer High), dies at 49
1982 California catches A's Rickey Henderson stealing 3 times
1982 New York Times reports that military will get 25% of NASA's budget
1982 New York Times raises it's price from 25 cents to 30 cents
1981 Browns' QB Brian Sipe sets club record by being intercepted 6 times
1980 St. Louis Cardinals sack Balt Colt QBs an NFL record tying 12 times
1979 British newspaper "Times" resumes publishing after 1 year
1978 Al Unser became 5th to win Indianapolis 500, 3 times
1978 Aldo Moro, 5 times PM of Italy, assassinated by terrorists
1977 Charlie Chaplin, actor (Modern Times), dies in Switzerland at 88
1975 Expos' Jose Mangual struck out 5 times in a game
1974 Cards beat Mets, 4-3, in 25 (7h4m), record 202 plate appearances, Felix Milan and John Milner come to bat 12 times each
1974 "Good Times," debuts on CBS TV
1974 "Good Times" (spinoff from "Maude") premieres on CBS TV
1973 New York Times reports almost all Superfectas run at Yonkers, Roosevelt and Monticello from Jan-Mar of 1973 were fixed
1972 Yanks score 8 times in 13th beating White Sox 18-10
1972 "Different Times" closes at ANTA Theater New York City after 24 performances
1972 "Different Times" opens at ANTA Theater New York City for 24 performances
1971 Brooks Robinson ties Series record, reaches base 5 straight times
1971 Chester Conklin, actor (Greed, Modern Times), dies at 83
1971 New York Times reports growing interest of white youth in black gospel music
1971 Orioles' Don Buford struck out 5 times in a game
1971 New York Times began publishing "Pentagon Papers"
1970 Yanks Horace Clarke breaks up a no-hitter in the 9th for the 2nd of 3 times in 28 days
1970 Yanks Horace Clarke breaks up a no-hitter in the 9th for the 1st of 3 times in 28 days
1970 New York Times falsely reports U.S. Army has ended domestic surveillance
1969 New York Times reports Curt Flood will sue baseball and challenge the reserve clause
1969 Turtles play White House, Mark Volman falls off stage 5 times
1967 Naomi Sims is 1st black model on U.S. cover (Fashion of the Times)
1967 Beatles sign a petition in Times to legalize marijuana
1967 Melora Hardin, born in Houston, Texas, actress, Family Tree, Best Times
1967 New York Times reports Army is conducting secret germ warfare experiments
1966 Dallas sacks Pittsburgh QBs an NFL record 12 times
1966 Newspaper magnate Thomson purchases "The Times"
1966 Patrick Dempsey, Lewiston Me, actor, Mike-Fast Times
1965 Largest newspaper-Sunday New York Times at 946 pages (50 cents )
1965 Phillies catcher Pat Corrales sets record by reaching base twice on catcher's interference in one game and 6 times in one season
1964 Don Redman, orch leader (Sugar Hill Times), dies at 64
1964 Jim Koethe, Dallas Times Herald reporter, killed by karate chop
1964 Barbra Streisand appears on the cover of New York Times Magazine section
1964 Supreme Court issues New York Times vs. Sullivan decision, public officials must prove malice to claim libel and recover damages
1964 Willie Bryant, singer (Sugar Hill Times), dies at 55
1963 Phoebe Cates, born in Manhattan, New York, actress, Fast Times at Ridgemount High
1963 Valery Bykovsky in Vostok 5 orbits earth 81 times in 5 days
1963 Pirate's Bob Friend balks 4 times in a game
1962 Scott Carpenter orbits Earth 3 times in U.S. Aurora 7
1962 Roger Maris walks 5 times (record 4 intentionally) in a 9 inn game
1962 Johanne Relleke gets stung by bees 2,443 times in Rhodesia and survives
1961 Ralph Carter, New York City, actor, Michael Evans-Good Times
1960 Sean Penn, born in Santa Monica, California, actor, Fast Times at Ridgemont High
1959 Harold Huber, actor (I Cover Times Square), dies at 49
1958 Braves Warren Spahn is 1st lefty to win 20 or more games 9 times
1958 Sugar Ray Robinson is 1st boxing champ to win 5 times
1957 Cindy Nicholas, Canada, swimmer, swam English Channel 19 times
1957 White Sox' James Landis struck out 5 times in a game
1957 Cameron Crowe, director, Jerry Maguire, Fast Times at Ridgemont High
1957 Judge Reinhold, Wilmington, Delaware, actor, Fast Times at Ridgemont High
1953 Bernnadette Stanis, born in Brooklyn, New York, actress, Thelma-Good Times
1953 Willie Thrower becomes 1st black NFL quarterback in modern times
1952 Amy Heckerling, Bronx, dir, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Clueless
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 Martin Brest, born in Bronx, New York, actor, Fast Times at Ridgemont High
1951 New York Times reports the New York City subway will auction off things found
1950 Vic Toweel knocks down Danny O'Sullivan 14 times in a title fight
1950 New York Times reports of worlds smallest and dumbest mechanical brain
1949 Jimmie Walker, born in Bronx, New York, comedian, JJ-Good Times, At Ease
1949 Andrew Nell, editor, Sunday Times
1949 Joao Botelho, Lamego Portugal, director, Trafico, Hard Times
1949 Milan Williams, U.S. keyboardist, Commodores-Three Times a Lady
1947 Jackie Robinson swipes home for 1st of 19 times in his career
1943 New York City's Times Square greets Frank Sinatra at Paramount Theater
1943 Simon Jenkins, editor, Times
1943 Terry Pavey, editor, TV Times
1942 Robert Sullivan becomes 1st pilot to fly Atlantic 100 times
1942 Los Angeles Times urges security measures against Japanese-Americans
1941 Earl Thomas Conley, Portsmouth, Ohio, country singer, Too Many Times
1941 Jim McBride, born in New York City, director/actor, Hot Times, Breathless, Big Easy
1940 Stan Mikita, NHL center, led NHL in scoring 4 times
1939 John Amos, Newark, New Jersey, actor, Good Times, Coming to America
1938 Indian Bob Feller strikes out record 18 Tigers (Chester Laabs 5 times)
1938 Ja'net Dubois, born in Philadelphia, actress, Willona-Good Times, Beverly Hill 90210
1938 Jimmie Foxx is walked a record 6 consecutive times by Browns
1938 St. Louis Browns walk Boston Red Sox Jimmy Foxx 6 times in a row
1937 Johnny Brown, born in St. Petersburg, Florida, comedian, Good Times, Leslie Uggams
1937 Seymour Hersh, award winning investigative reporter, New York Times
1937 1st Charlie Chaplin talkie, "Modern Times," released
1936 Paul Waner ties Rogers Hornsby's NL record of 200 hits for 7 times
1936 Leonard Lee, U.S. vocalist, Shirley and Lee-Let the Good Times Roll
1936 Tony Lazerri 2 grand slams (11 RBIs); Ben Chapman sets record by reaching 1st 7 times safely, Yanks beat A's 25-2
1936 Tennis champs Helen Moody and Howard Kinsley volley 2,001 times (1h18m)
1935 Ken Taylor, cricketer, England opening batsman three times 1959-64
1935 Mickey Wright, born in San Diego, California, LPGA golfer, 4 times LPGA champ
1934 William Franks twirls an indian club overhead 17,280 times in 1 hour
1934 New York Times erroneously declares Ruth 700 HR record to stand for all time
1934 Yank pitcher John Broaca ties record by striking out 5 times
1934 Geoffrey Owen, British editor, Financial Times
1934 David Halberstam, International correspondent, New York Times/Pulitzer 1964
1930 Sarnoff reports in New York Times "TV would be a theater in every home"
1930 Joe Sewell, strikes out twice of his 3 times in 1930, by Pat Caraway
1929 William Safire, political columnist, New York Times, speech writer, Nixon
1929 Moses Gunn, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor, Amityville II, Good Times, Shaft
1927 Clive Barnes, drama critic, New York Times, New York Post
1927 Anthony Lewis, columnist New York Times and author, Gideon's Trumpet
1926 Tom Wicker, columnist, New York Times
1926 Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, New York City, publisher, New York Times
1926 Ray Price, country singer, Good Times
1925 Russell Baker, Loudoun County, Virginia, columnist/humorist, New York Times
1925 Philadelphia A's go into bottom of 8th inning trailing 15-4, then score 13 times to defeat Cleveland 17-15
1925 John Simon, theater critic, New York Times
1924 Vincent Canby, critic, New York Times
1924 Paul Conrad, comic strip cartoonist, LA Times
1923 Radio Times 1st published
1922 Mrs Theres Vaughn, 24, confessed in court to being married 62 times
1922 Esther Rolle, Pompano Beach, Florida, actress, Florida-Good Times, Maude
1922 Longest attack of hiccups begins Charlie Osborne, 98 hiccupped over 435 million times before it stops, He dies 11 months after it stops
1922 St. Louis Brown Hub Pruett strikes out Babe Ruth 3 straight times
1922 Abraham Rosenthal, editor, New York Times
1920 Stan Musial, outfielder, St. Louis Cardinal, 7 times NL bat champ
1920 Craig Claiborne, food columnist, New York Times Cookbook
1920 New York Times editorial (falsely) reports rockets can never fly
1919 Red Sox Babe Ruth hits 2 home runs in a game for his 1st of 72 times
1919 Pauline Kael, movie critic, New York Times, For Keeps
1918 Robert Feller, MLB pitcher, Red Sox, led AL in strikeouts 7 times
1918 Arthur McIntyre, cricket wicket-keeper, England 3 times early 50's
1916 Marshall Field IV, publisher/editor, Chic Daily News, Sunday Times
1913 Carl Weilman strikes out 6 times in a 15 inning game
1913 Bert Daniels set AL mark, being hit-by-pitch 3 times in a doubleheader
1913 Rabbit Maranville, is thrown out trying to steal home 3 times
1912 David Raksin, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, composer, Modern Times
1912 Arthur Crook, British editor, Times Literary Supplement
1911 New York Giant Christy Mathewson loses after beating Reds 22 straight times
1910 Explosion at Los Angeles Times kills 21
1910 Washington Red Killefer sacrifices record 4 times against Detroit
1909 James "Scotty" Barrett Reston, Clydebank Scotld, journalist, New York Times
1909 Hermann Bengtson, German historian, Greeks Ancient Times
1908 Willie Bryant, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, singer, Sugar Hill Times
1908 1st time, ball signifying new year dropped at Times Square
1907 For 1st time a ball drops at Times Square to signal new year
1904 Frank Chance gets hit by pitch 5 times in a doubleheader
1900 Don Redman, Piedmont, West Virginia, orch leader, Sugar Hill Times
1899 Louisville's Henry Dowling struck out 5 times in a game
1898 Hubert Howard, British journalist (Times), dies through friendly fire
1897 N.Y. Times begins using slogan "All the News That's Fit to Print"
1896 Adolph Ochs (39) buys New York Times
1894 Rafael Nunez, Colombia, 3 times president (188?..94), dies at 68
1892 Olafur Thors, Icelandic PM, 6 times, 1942-63
1886 London Times publishes world's 1st classified ad
1885 Virginia Pope, New York Times
1871 Boss Tweed (William Macy Tweed), Democratic leader of Tammany Hall, arrested after New York Times exposed his corruption
1870 New York Times dubs baseball "The National Game"
1863 John Huston Finley, Illinois, editor of the New York Times, 1937-38
1854 The Times give precise British positions in Krim
1854 Richard T. Ely, U.S. economist, Hard Times
1853 Northern Daily Times, 1st provincial daily newspaper, starts in London
1852 [James] Burner Matthews, U.S. playwright/critic, New York Times
1851 New York Times starts publishing at 2 cents a copy
1837 Thomas Morris of Australia skips rope 22,806 times
1831 "Spirit of the Times" begins publishing (weekly horse racing sheet)
1825 Rafael Nunez, Colombia, 3 times president, 188?..94
1822 1st edition of London Sunday Times
1788 London's Daily Universal Registrar becomes the Times
1786 Benjamin Robert Haydon, Plymouth, painter, Waiting for The Times
1785 John Walter publishes 1st issue of London Times
1785 "Daily Universal Register" (Times of London) publishes 1st issue
1776 Thomas Paine writes "These are the times that try men's souls"
1776 Thomas Paine published his 1st "American Crisis" essay, in which he wrote, "These are the times that try men's souls"
1776 John Walter II, London, chief proprietor, The Times, 1812-47
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