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1998 Event - U.S. hockey team destroys their rooms at Olympic village in Japan

1997 Event - Vijay Singh wins Golf Memorial at Muirfield Village CC, 14 under par

1997 Event - Tea Leoni and David Duchovny wed in Greenwich Village

1993 Death - Dennis Gregory, actor (Village of the Damn), dies of pneumonia at 40

1992 Event - Intercity-train derailed at Village chief, 5 die

1987 Event - 27th Ryder Cup: Europe beats U.S., 15-13 at Muirfield Village Golf Club, Ohio

1986 Event - Suriname army leader Desi Bouterse massacres Moiwana village

1984 Death - Ken Williams, TV announcer (Video Village), dies at 69

1982 Death - David Blue, rocker, dies while jogging in Greenwich Village at 41

1979 Event - "In The Navy" by Village People hits #3

1979 Event - "YMCA" by Village People peaks at #2 on pop singles chart

1979 Event - YMCA files libel suit against Village People's YMCA song

1975 Event - Walt Disney World Shopping Village opens

1973 Event - Susie Berning wins LPGA Heritage Village Golf Open

1972 Event - Judy Rankin wins LPGA Heritage Village Golf Open

1969 Event - U.S. Army announces investigating William Calley for alleged massacre of civilians at Vietnamese village of My Lai in March, 19

1969 Event - Police raid Stonewall Gay Bar in Greenwich Village, New York, about 400 to 1,000 patrons riot against police, it lasts 3 days

1969 Death - Dominique G Pire, clergyman, (Europe village Nobel 1958), dies at 58

1967 Birthday - Rachel Williams, born in Greenwich Village, New York, model, Absolut Vodka, Elle

1967 Birthday - Billy Corgan, born in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, guitarist, bassist, songwriter, member of The Smashing Pumpkins band

1963 Event - Germany FR annexes Elten village

1961 Event - Bob Dylan's 1st appearance at Folk City, Greenwich Village

1958 Death - Theodore Krieger, German author (Forgotten Village), dies at 61

1956 Birthday - Eric Roberts, born in Mississippi, actor, Pope of Greenwich Village, King of Gypsies

1955 Event - 1st edition of "Village Voice" (New York City) published

1945 Death - Dezso Szabo, Hungarian writer (Wiped-out Village), dies at 65

1943 Birthday - Maria Muldaur, Greenwich Village, New York, singer, Midnight at the Oasis

1943 Birthday - Eni Faleomavaega, born in Vailoatai Village, American Samoa, Representative-D-American Samoa 1989

1943 Birthday - Ray Buktenica, born in Greenwich Village, New York City, actor, Rhoda, House Calls

1943 Event - -32 degrees F (-36 degrees C), Falls Village, Connecticut (state record)

1942 Event - Nazis burn village of Lidice Bohemia, as reprisal of killing Heydrich

1939 Birthday - Tom Johnson, born in Greely, Colorado, composer, minimalist style, new music critic for the Village Voice, wrote music based on tiling, involving mathematical and logical processes

1929 Birthday - Mies Bouman, Dutch TV hostess, Open the Village

1928 Birthday - Andrew Sarris, movie critic, Village Voice

1925 Birthday - Nat Hentoff, columnist/novelist, Village Voice, The Cold Society

1922 Birthday - Jack Narz, born in Louisville, Kentucky, TV gameshow host, Dotto, Video Village

1922 Birthday - Francois Reichenbach, French director, La douceur du Village

1916 Birthday - Michael Gwynn, Bath England, actor, Village of Damned, Question 7

1916 Birthday - Penny Santon, Greenwich Village, New York, actress, Roll Out, Matt Houston

1915 Birthday - Dick Thomas, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, TV host, Village Barn

1915 Birthday - Dick Dudley, TV host, Village Barn

1914 Event - German army shoots Belgian priests/burns down village of Battice

1911 Birthday - Pete Piute, Morris Kaufman, born in New York City, comedian, Village Barn

1906 Birthday - John Carradine, Greenwich Village, New York, actor, Grapes of Wrath, Howling

1897 Birthday - Antonius F "Anton" Coolen, Dutch author, Village by the River

1887 Birthday - Marc Chagall, born in Vitebsk, Russia, artist, I and The Village

1882 Event - British HMS Flirt fire at and destroy Abari village in Niger

1882 Event - British HMS Flirt destroys village of Asaba Niger

1879 Birthday - Dezso Szabo, Hungarian writer, Weggevagde Village

1876 Birthday - Maurice de Vlaminck, born in Paris, Fauvist painter, Village in the Snow

1872 Event - "3 Fingers" Mackenzie destroys Kwahadi-Commanche village

1833 Event - Chicago incorporates as a village of about 200

1832 Death - Abijah Hammond, owned large portion of Greenwich Village, dies

1832 Event - U.S. ship destroys Sumatran village in retaliation for piracy

1817 Event - U.S. soldiers attack Florida Indian village, beginning Seminole War

1813 Event - U.S. troops under General Coffee destroy indian village at Talladega Ala

1790 Event - Colonial troops occupy Bonni's marroon village

1752 Event - Premiere of Rousseau's opera "Le Devin du Village"

1752 Birthday - Philip Freneau, poet of American Revolution, The American Village

1630 Event - Mass village of Shawmut changes name to Boston

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