1998 U.S. hockey team destroys their rooms at Olympic village in Japan
1997 Vijay Singh wins Golf Memorial at Muirfield Village CC, 14 under par
1997 Tea Leoni and David Duchovny wed in Greenwich Village
1993 Dennis Gregory, actor (Village of the Damn), dies of pneumonia at 40
1992 Intercity-train derailed at Village chief, 5 die
1987 27th Ryder Cup: Europe beats U.S., 15-13 at Muirfield Village GC (Ohio)
1986 Suriname army leader Desi Bouterse massacres Moiwana village
1984 Ken Williams, TV announcer (Video Village), dies at 69
1982 David Blue, rocker, dies while jogging in Greenwich Village at 41
1979 "In The Navy" by Village People hits #3
1979 "YMCA" by Village People peaks at #2 on pop singles chart
1979 YMCA files libel suit against Village People's YMCA song
1975 Walt Disney World Shopping Village opens
1973 Susie Berning wins LPGA Heritage Village Golf Open
1972 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Heritage Village Golf Open
1969 U.S. Army announces investigating William Calley for alleged massacre of civilians at Vietnamese village of My Lai in March, 19
1969 Police raid Stonewall Gay Bar in Greenwich Village, New York, about 400 to 1,000 patrons riot against police, it lasts 3 days
1969 Dominique G Pire, clergyman, (Europe village Nobel 1958), dies at 58
1967 Rachel Williams, born in Greenwich Village, New York, model, Absolut Vodka, Elle
1963 Germany FR annexes Elten village
1958 Theodore Krieger, German author (Forgotten Village), dies at 61
1956 Eric Roberts, born in Mississippi, actor, Pope of Greenwich Village, King of Gypsies
1955 1st edition of "Village Voice" (New York City) published
1945 Dezso Szabo, Hungarian writer (Wiped-out Village), dies at 65
1943 Maria Muldaur, Greenwich Village, New York, singer, Midnight at the Oasis
1943 Ray Buktenica, born in Greenwich Village, New York City, actor, Rhoda, House Calls
1943 -32 degrees F (-36 degrees C), Falls Village, Connecticut (state record)
1942 Nazis burn village of Lidice Bohemia, as reprisal of killing Heydrich
1929 Mies Bouman, Dutch TV hostess, Open the Village
1928 Andrew Sarris, movie critic, Village Voice
1925 Nat Hentoff, columnist/novelist, Village Voice, The Cold Society
1922 Jack Narz, born in Louisville, Kentucky, TV gameshow host, Dotto, Video Village
1922 Francois Reichenbach, French director, La douceur du Village
1916 Michael Gwynn, Bath England, actor, Village of Damned, Question 7
1916 Penny Santon, Greenwich Village, New York, actress, Roll Out, Matt Houston
1915 Dick Thomas, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, TV host, Village Barn
1915 Dick Dudley, TV host, Village Barn
1914 German army shoots Belgian priests/burns down village of Battice
1911 Bob Dylan's 1st appearance at Folk City, Greenwich Village
1911 Pete Piute, [Morris Kaufman], born in New York City, comedian, Village Barn
1906 John Carradine, Greenwich Village, New York, actor, Grapes of Wrath, Howling
1897 Antonius F "Anton" Coolen, Dutch author, Village by the River
1887 Marc Chagall, born in Vitebsk, Russia, artist, I and The Village
1882 British HMS Flirt fire at and destroy Abari village in Niger
1882 British HMS Flirt destroys village of Asaba Niger
1879 Dezso Szabo, Hungarian writer, Weggevagde Village
1876 Maurice de Vlaminck, born in Paris, Fauvist painter, Village in the Snow
1872 "3 Fingers" Mackenzie destroys Kwahadi-Commanche village
1833 Chicago incorporates as a village of about 200
1832 Abijah Hammond, owned large portion of Greenwich Village, dies
1832 U.S. ship destroys Sumatran village in retaliation for piracy
1817 U.S. soldiers attack Florida Indian village, beginning Seminole War
1813 U.S. troops under Gen Coffee destroy indian village at Talladega Ala
1790 Colonial troops occupy Bonni's marroon village
1752 Premiere of Rousseau's opera "Le Devin du Village"
1752 Philip Freneau, poet of American Revolution, The American Village
1630 Mass village of Shawmut changes name to Boston
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