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2012 Event - At the National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, the U.S. Democratic Party vote three separate times in order to approve putting the terms, 'God', 'Jerusalem', and 'Israel' back into the platform

2012 Event - The United States space agency NASA reveals it had its security compromised by hackers 13 times in the past year

2012 Event - Anthony Shadid, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and the Middle East correspondent for the New York Times, dies at 43 of an acute asthma attack

2011 Event - A report submitted to the United Nations states Iran has been caught attempting to transfer weaponry to terrorists including Hamas and the Taliban 10 times

2011 Event - The Financial Times finds computer hackers may have accessed details on Citigroup bank card customers

2011 Event - The U.S. government 'condemns' international media outlets, including 'The New York Times' for publishing confidential files

2011 Event - In Tokyo, the Metropolitan Government Bureau of Waterworks reports that radioactive iodine in city tap water is two times the recommended level for infants

2011 Event - The Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant reports radiation levels 1600 times normal levels are present 20km from the plant

2010 Event - A car bomb is discovered and deactivated in New York City's Times Square

2010 Event - Two men on motorcycles fatally shot Pedro Alcantara de Souza, a Brazilian land reform activist, five times in the head while he tried to ride his bicycle in Para

2000 Death - Craig Claiborne, food author, New York Times, dies at 79

1998 Death - Esther Rolle, actress, Good Times, dies at 78

1997 Death - Richard Berry, musician, singer, songwriter, wrote, 'Louie Louie', sold copyright in 1959, song has since been recorded over 1,000 times, dies at 61

1996 Event - NFL/Heisman Trophy Winner Mike Rozier, is shot several times

1996 Event - Sony does not renew lease on megatron in Times Square

1995 Event - Sunday New York Times raises price from $2.00 to $2.50

1994 Event - Eddie Murray sets record for switch hit home runs in a games (11 times)

1993 Death - Sam Zolotow, U.S. theater critic (New York Times), dies at 94

1993 Event - Croupier of casino in Bristol England, shoots a 4, a record 8 times

1993 Death - Harrison E. Salisbury, U.S. journalist (New York Times), dies at 84

1993 Death - Will Weng, Sunday Times crossword puzzle editor (1968-78), dies at 86

1990 Event - 500 pound Hershey Kiss is displayed in Times Square

1990 Event - Andre Dawson sets record being intentionally walked 5 times

1987 Event - "Black Monday"-Dow Jones down 508.32, 4 times previous record

1987 Event - Donald Trump takes out a full page New York Times ad lambasting Japan

1987 Event - Brewers' Rob Deer struck-out 5 times in a game

1986 Event - London Sunday Times reports Israel is stocking nuclear arms

1986 Event - Robby Thompson (SF) sets record, caught stealing 4 times in 1 game

1986 Event - San Francisco Giant Robby Thompson is caught stealing record 4 times

1986 Event - Mariners strike out 16 times, set record of 36 in 2 consecutive games

1986 Event - Iowa's All-American running back, Ronnie Harmon, fumbles the ball 4 times in his last game at the Rose Bowl

1985 Event - Houston quarterback Warren Moon sacked NFL tying record 12 times (by Cowboys)

1984 Event - Cyndi Lauper's 1st #1 "Time After Times"

1983 Event - Reggie Jackson is 1st major leaguer to strike out 2,000 times

1982 Death - John C Gardner, U.S., writer (Life and Times of Chaucer High), dies at 49

1982 Event - California catches A's Rickey Henderson stealing 3 times

1982 Event - New York Times reports that military will get 25% of NASA's budget

1982 Event - New York Times raises it's price from 25 cents to 30 cents

1981 Event - Browns' quarterback Brian Sipe sets club record by being intercepted 6 times

1980 Event - St. Louis Cardinals sack Baltimore Colt quarterbacks an NFL record tying 12 times

1979 Event - British newspaper "Times" resumes publishing after 1 year

1978 Event - Al Unser became 5th to win Indianapolis 500, 3 times

1978 Death - Aldo Moro, 5 times Prime Minister of Italy, assassinated by terrorists

1977 Death - Charlie Chaplin, actor (Modern Times), dies in Switzerland at 88

1975 Event - Expos' Jose Mangual struck out 5 times in a game

1974 Event - Cards beat Mets, 4-3, in 25 (7h4m), record 202 plate appearances, Felix Milan and John Milner come to bat 12 times each

1974 Event - "Good Times," debuts on CBS TV

1974 Event - "Good Times" (spinoff from "Maude") premieres on CBS TV

1973 Event - New York Times reports almost all Superfectas run at Yonkers, Roosevelt and Monticello from Jan-Mar of 1973 were fixed

1972 Event - Yankees score 8 times in 13th beating White Sox 18-10

1972 Event - "Different Times" closes at ANTA Theater New York City after 24 performances

1972 Event - "Different Times" opens at ANTA Theater New York City for 24 performances

1971 Event - Brooks Robinson ties Series record, reaches base 5 straight times

1971 Death - Chester Conklin, actor (Greed, Modern Times), dies at 83

1971 Event - New York Times reports growing interest of white youth in black gospel music

1971 Event - Orioles' Don Buford struck out 5 times in a game

1971 Event - New York Times began publishing "Pentagon Papers"

1970 Event - Yankees Horace Clarke breaks up a no-hitter in the 9th for the 2nd of 3 times in 28 days

1970 Event - Yankees Horace Clarke breaks up a no-hitter in the 9th for the 1st of 3 times in 28 days

1970 Event - New York Times falsely reports U.S. Army has ended domestic surveillance

1969 Event - New York Times reports Curt Flood will sue baseball and challenge the reserve clause

1969 Event - Turtles play White House, Mark Volman falls off stage 5 times

1968 Birthday - Mika Hakkinen, born in Vantaa, Finland, racing driver, Formula One World Champion, seven times world champion

1967 Event - Naomi Sims is 1st black model on U.S. cover (Fashion of the Times)

1967 Event - Beatles sign a petition in Times to legalize marijuana

1967 Birthday - Melora Hardin, born in Houston, Texas, actress, Family Tree, Best Times

1967 Birthday - Paul Gascoigne, born in Dunston, England, professional soccer player, nicknamed Gazza, midfielder, capped 57 times for the England national soccer team

1967 Event - New York Times reports Army is conducting secret germ warfare experiments

1966 Event - Dallas sacks Pittsburgh quarterbacks an NFL record 12 times

1966 Event - Newspaper magnate Thomson purchases "The Times"

1966 Birthday - Patrick Dempsey, Lewiston Me, actor, Mike-Fast Times

1965 Event - Largest newspaper-Sunday New York Times at 946 pages (50 cents )

1965 Event - Phillies catcher Pat Corrales sets record by reaching base twice on catcher's interference in one game and 6 times in one season

1965 Birthday - Lennox Lewis, born in West Ham, England, professional boxer, won World heavyweight championship three times, 1988 Olympic Games gold medalist

1964 Death - Don Redman, orchestra leader (Sugar Hill Times), dies at 64

1964 Death - Jim Koethe, Dallas Times Herald reporter, killed by karate chop

1964 Event - Barbra Streisand appears on the cover of New York Times Magazine section

1964 Event - Supreme Court issues New York Times vs. Sullivan decision, public officials must prove malice to claim libel and recover damages

1964 Death - Willie Bryant, singer (Sugar Hill Times), dies at 55

1964 Birthday - Richard Dunwoody, born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, British jockey in National Hunt Racing, won King George VI Chase four times on the famous grey Desert Orchid in 1989 and 1990

1963 Birthday - Phoebe Cates, born in Manhattan, New York, actress, Fast Times at Ridgemount High

1963 Event - Valery Bykovsky in Vostok 5 orbits earth 81 times in 5 days

1963 Event - Pirate's Bob Friend balks 4 times in a game

1962 Birthday - Chuck Finley, born in Monroe, Louisiana, pitcher, Major League Baseball, played for California Angels, won more than 15 games six times between 1986 and 1999

1962 Event - Scott Carpenter orbits Earth 3 times in U.S. Aurora 7

1962 Event - Roger Maris walks 5 times (record 4 intentionally) in a 9 inn game

1962 Event - Johanne Relleke gets stung by bees 2,443 times in Rhodesia and survives

1961 Birthday - Ralph Carter, New York City, actor, Michael Evans-Good Times

1960 Birthday - Sean Penn, born in Santa Monica, California, actor, Fast Times at Ridgemont High

1960 Birthday - Richard Roeper, born in Chicago, Illinois, film critic, columnist, 'Chicago Sun Times' newspaper, co-host of 'At the Movies' television series with Roger Ebert

1959 Death - Harold Huber, actor (I Cover Times Square), dies at 49

1959 Birthday - Sammy Lee, born in Liverpool, England, professional soccer player, midfielder, played for Liverpool, represented England fourteen times

1958 Event - Braves Warren Spahn is 1st lefty to win 20 or more games 9 times

1958 Event - Sugar Ray Robinson is 1st boxing champ to win 5 times

1957 Birthday - Cindy Nicholas, Canada, swimmer, swam English Channel 19 times

1957 Event - White Sox' James Landis struck out 5 times in a game

1957 Birthday - Cameron Crowe, director, Jerry Maguire, Fast Times at Ridgemont High

1957 Birthday - Judge Reinhold, Wilmington, Delaware, actor, Fast Times at Ridgemont High

1956 Birthday - Lance Parrish, born in Clairton, Pennsylvania, professional baseball player, catcher, played for many Major League Baseball teams, won All-Star eight times, won Silver Slugger award six times

1956 Birthday - Lynda Barry, born in Richland Center, Wisconsin, cartoonist, author, known for comic strip, 'Ernie Pook's Comeek', wrote 'The Good Times are Killing Me', 'What It Is'

1955 Birthday - Chiyonofuji Mitsugu, born in Hokkaido, Japan, sumo wrestler, 58th yokozuna, greatest, highest ranked sumo in recent times, won 31 tournament championships, coming in second to Taiho, noted as lightest yokozuna since Tochinoumi in the 1960's, head coach for Kokonoe stable

1955 Birthday - Buster Mottram, born in Kingston upon Thames, in south-west London, English tennis player, ranked 15th best tennis player in the world, represented Great Britain in Davis Cup eight times

1953 Birthday - Bernnadette Stanis, born in Brooklyn, New York, actress, Thelma-Good Times

1953 Event - Willie Thrower becomes 1st black NFL quarterback in modern times

1953 Birthday - Anna Quindlen, American author, journalist, and New York Times columnist

1953 Birthday - Tony Armas, born in Puerto Piritu, Venezuela, Antonio Rafael Armas Machado, baseball player, two-time All-Star, played with California Angels, Pittsburgh Pirates, Oakland Athletics, Boston Red Sox, susceptible to injuries, on disabled list 12 times, missing 302 games

1953 Birthday - Paul Krugman, born in New York, economist, liberal, political columnist, author, op-ed columnist for 'The New York Times', wrote, 'The Conscience of a Liberal'

1953 Birthday - Joe Bob Briggs, born in Dallas, Texas, actor, film critic, wrote for 'Texas Monthly' and 'Dallas Times Herald'

1952 Birthday - John Francome, born in Swindon, England, jockey, National Hunt Champion Jockey seven times, apprenticed with Fred Winter, presenter for horseracing broadcasts on Channel 4

1952 Birthday - Jan Raas, born in Heinkenszand, Zeeland, Dutch professional cyclist, won 10 stages in the Tour de France, won Amstel Gold Race five times

1952 Birthday - Amy Heckerling, Bronx, dir, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Clueless

1952 Event - 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 Birthday - Mark McCumber, born in Jacksonville, Florida, Mark Randall McCumber, golfer, won PGA tour ten times, won World Cup of Golf for the United states with Ben Crenshaw, golf analyst for Fox Sports, golf course architect

1951 Birthday - Martin Brest, born in Bronx, New York, actor, Fast Times at Ridgemont High

1951 Event - New York Times reports the New York City subway will auction off things found

1950 Event - Vic Toweel knocks down Danny O'Sullivan 14 times in a title fight

1950 Event - New York Times reports of worlds smallest and dumbest mechanical brain

1949 Birthday - Jimmie Walker, born in Bronx, New York, comedian, JJ-Good Times, At Ease

1949 Birthday - Andrew Nell, editor, Sunday Times

1949 Birthday - Joao Botelho, Lamego Portugal, director, Trafico, Hard Times

1949 Birthday - Milan Williams, U.S. keyboardist, Commodores-Three Times a Lady

1947 Event - Jackie Robinson swipes home for 1st of 19 times in his career

1943 Event - New York City's Times Square greets Frank Sinatra at Paramount Theater

1943 Birthday - Burt Rutan, born in Estacada, Oregon, Elbert Leander Burt Rutan, inventor, aerospace engineer, created the Voyager, the first plane to fly around the world without stopping or refueling, and SpaceShipOne, which entered space two times in fourteen days

1943 Birthday - Simon Jenkins, editor, Times

1943 Birthday - Terry Pavey, editor, TV Times

1942 Event - Robert Sullivan becomes 1st pilot to fly Atlantic 100 times

1942 Event - Los Angeles Times urges security measures against Japanese-Americans

1941 Birthday - Earl Thomas Conley, Portsmouth, Ohio, country singer, Too Many Times

1941 Birthday - Jim McBride, born in New York City, director/actor, Hot Times, Breathless, Big Easy

1940 Birthday - Stan Mikita, NHL center, led NHL in scoring 4 times

1939 Birthday - John Amos, Newark, New Jersey, actor, Good Times, Coming to America

1939 Birthday - David Hobbs, born in Royal Leamington Spa, England, auto racer, commentator for Speed, raced in the 24 Hours of Le Mans twenty times

1938 Event - Indian Bob Feller strikes out record 18 Tigers (Chester Laabs 5 times)

1938 Birthday - Ja'net Dubois, born in Philadelphia, actress, Willona-Good Times, Beverly Hill 90210

1938 Event - Jimmie Foxx is walked a record 6 consecutive times by Browns

1938 Event - St. Louis Browns walk Boston Red Sox Jimmy Foxx 6 times in a row

1937 Birthday - Johnny Brown, born in St. Petersburg, Florida, comedian, Good Times, Leslie Uggams

1937 Birthday - Seymour Hersh, award winning investigative reporter, New York Times

1937 Event - 1st Charlie Chaplin talkie, "Modern Times," released

1936 Event - Paul Waner ties Rogers Hornsby's NL record of 200 hits for 7 times

1936 Birthday - Floyd Abrams, born in America, attorney, constitutional law expert, argued for famous cases, including the New York Times in the Judith Miller in CIA leak grand jury investigation

1936 Birthday - Leonard Lee, U.S. vocalist, Shirley and Lee-Let the Good Times Roll

1936 Event - Tony Lazerri 2 grand slams (11 RBIs); Ben Chapman sets record by reaching 1st 7 times safely, Yankees beat A's 25-2

1936 Event - Tennis champs Helen Moody and Howard Kinsley volley 2,001 times (1h18m)

1935 Birthday - Ken Taylor, cricketer, England opening batsman three times 1959-64

1935 Birthday - Richard Berry, born in Extension, Louisiana, musician, singer, songwriter, wrote, 'Louie Louie', sold copyright in 1959, song has since been recorded over 1,000 times

1935 Birthday - Mickey Wright, born in San Diego, California, LPGA golfer, 4 times LPGA champ

1934 Event - William Franks twirls an indian club overhead 17,280 times in 1 hour

1934 Event - New York Times erroneously declares Ruth 700 home run record to stand for all time

1934 Event - Yank pitcher John Broaca ties record by striking out 5 times

1934 Birthday - Geoffrey Owen, British editor, Financial Times

1933 Birthday - Eric Salzman, born in America, author, composer, record producer, music critic, wrote for the New York Times, New York Herald Tribune

1931 Birthday - Gregg Smith, born in Chicago, Illinois, composer, directed The Gregg Smith Singers, a mixed chorus of 16 singers who toured the U.S. 40 times, recorded over 100 albums, received three Grammy Awards

1931 Birthday - Billy Casper, born in San Diego, California, William Earl Billy Casper, Jr., professional golfer, golf course designer, won the PGA Tour 27 times, named 15th greatest golfer of all time by Golf Digest in 2000, considered best putter of his era

1930 Event - Sarnoff reports in New York Times "TV would be a theater in every home"

1930 Event - Joe Sewell, strikes out twice of his 3 times in 1930, by Pat Caraway

1929 Birthday - William Safire, political columnist, New York Times, speech writer, Nixon

1929 Birthday - Moses Gunn, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor, Amityville II, Good Times, Shaft

1927 Birthday - Joe Adcock, born in Coushatta, Louisiana, first baseman, outfielder, played for Cincinnati Reds, homered four times in a single game against Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field

1927 Birthday - Clive Barnes, drama critic, New York Times, New York Post

1927 Birthday - Anthony Lewis, columnist New York Times and author, Gideon's Trumpet

1926 Birthday - Louise L. Hay, born in Los Angeles, California, motivational author, professional speaker, self-help and motivational writer, 'You Can Heal Your Life', 1984, on the New York Times Bestseller list, sold 35 million copies in 30 languages, made into movie of the same title, founder, Hay House Publishing

1926 Birthday - Tom Wicker, columnist, New York Times

1926 Birthday - Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, New York City, publisher, New York Times

1926 Birthday - Ray Price, country singer, Good Times

1925 Birthday - Russell Baker, Loudoun County, Virginia, columnist/humorist, New York Times

1925 Event - Philadelphia A's go into bottom of 8th inning trailing 15-4, then score 13 times to defeat Cleveland 17-15

1925 Birthday - John Simon, theater critic, New York Times

1924 Birthday - Vincent Canby, critic, New York Times

1924 Birthday - Paul Conrad, comic strip cartoonist, LA Times

1923 Event - Radio Times 1st published

1922 Event - Mrs Theres Vaughn, 24, confessed in court to being married 62 times

1922 Birthday - Esther Rolle, Pompano Beach, Florida, actress, Florida-Good Times, Maude

1922 Event - Longest attack of hiccups begins Charlie Osborne, 98 hiccupped over 435 million times before it stops, He dies 11 months after it stops

1922 Event - St. Louis Brown Hub Pruett strikes out Babe Ruth 3 straight times

1922 Birthday - Abraham Rosenthal, editor, New York Times

1920 Birthday - Stan Musial, outfielder, St. Louis Cardinal, 7 times NL bat champ

1920 Birthday - Craig Claiborne, food columnist, New York Times Cookbook

1920 Event - New York Times editorial (falsely) reports rockets can never fly

1919 Event - Red Sox Babe Ruth hits 2 home runs in a game for his 1st of 72 times

1919 Birthday - Pauline Kael, movie critic, New York Times, For Keeps

1918 Birthday - Arthur McIntyre, cricket wicket-keeper, England 3 times early 50's

1916 Birthday - Marshall Field IV, publisher/editor, Chicago Daily News, Sunday Times

1913 Event - Carl Weilman strikes out 6 times in a 15 inning game

1913 Event - Bert Daniels set AL mark, being hit-by-pitch 3 times in a doubleheader

1913 Event - Rabbit Maranville, is thrown out trying to steal home 3 times

1912 Birthday - David Raksin, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, composer, Modern Times

1912 Birthday - Arthur Crook, British editor, Times Literary Supplement

1911 Event - New York Giant Christy Mathewson loses after beating Reds 22 straight times

1910 Event - Explosion at Los Angeles Times kills 21

1910 Event - Washington Red Killefer sacrifices record 4 times against Detroit

1909 Birthday - James "Scotty" Barrett Reston, Clydebank Scotld, journalist, New York Times

1909 Birthday - Hermann Bengtson, German historian, Greeks Ancient Times

1908 Birthday - Willie Bryant, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, singer, Sugar Hill Times

1908 Event - 1st time, ball signifying new year dropped at Times Square

1907 Event - For 1st time a ball drops at Times Square to signal new year

1904 Event - Frank Chance gets hit by pitch 5 times in a doubleheader

1900 Birthday - Don Redman, Piedmont, West Virginia, orchestra leader, Sugar Hill Times

1899 Event - Louisville's Henry Dowling struck out 5 times in a game

1898 Death - Hubert Howard, British journalist (Times), dies through friendly fire

1897 Event - N.Y. Times begins using slogan "All the News That's Fit to Print"

1896 Event - Adolph Ochs (39) buys New York Times

1894 Death - Rafael Nunez, Colombia, 3 times president (188?..94), dies at 68

1892 Birthday - Olafur Thors, Icelandic PM, 6 times, 1942-63

1886 Event - London Times publishes world's 1st classified ad

1885 Birthday - Virginia Pope, New York Times

1871 Event - Boss Tweed (William Macy Tweed), Democratic leader of Tammany Hall, arrested after New York Times exposed his corruption

1870 Event - New York Times dubs baseball "The National Game"

1863 Birthday - John Huston Finley, Illinois, editor of the New York Times, 1937-38

1854 Event - The Times give precise British positions in Krim

1854 Birthday - Richard T. Ely, U.S. economist, Hard Times

1853 Event - Northern Daily Times, 1st provincial daily newspaper, starts in London

1852 Birthday - [James] Burner Matthews, U.S. playwright/critic, New York Times

1851 Event - New York Times starts publishing at 2 cents a copy

1837 Event - Thomas Morris of Australia skips rope 22,806 times

1831 Event - "Spirit of the Times" begins publishing (weekly horse racing sheet)

1825 Birthday - Rafael Nunez, Colombia, 3 times president, 188?..94

1822 Event - 1st edition of London Sunday Times

1788 Event - London's Daily Universal Registrar becomes the Times

1786 Birthday - Benjamin Robert Haydon, Plymouth, painter, Waiting for The Times

1785 Event - John Walter publishes 1st issue of London Times

1785 Event - "Daily Universal Register" (Times of London) publishes 1st issue

1776 Event - Thomas Paine writes "These are the times that try men's souls"

1776 Event - Thomas Paine published his 1st "American Crisis" essay, in which he wrote, "These are the times that try men's souls"

1776 Birthday - John Walter II, London, chief proprietor, The Times, 1812-47













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