1999 Pete Conrad, "astronaut, businessman", third man to walk on the moon, dies at 69
1998 President Bill Clinton says he would never resign, 'I would never walk away from the of this country and the trust they've placed in me', during a press conference
1994 Pointer Sisters receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
1994 Bill Cowley, creator (Lyke Wake Walk), dies at 78
1994 Miami begins a latin walk of fame, 1st star for Gloria Estefan
1993 Cosmonaut Aleksandr Serebrov makes record 9th space walk
1992 Roseanne Barr Arnold gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame
1992 Kim Basinger gets 1,959th star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame
1992 Donna Summer gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame
1992 Sandra Seuser/Katrin Schreiter/Annet Hesselbarth/Grit Breuer walk female indoor world record 4x400m (3:27.22)
1991 Rico Lieder/Jens Carlowitz/Karsten Just/Thomas Schonlebe walk 4x400m indoor world record (3:03.05)
1990 Arsenio Hall gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame
1990 Marvin Gaye gets a star on Hollywood's walk of fame
1990 Nadezhda Ryashkina of U.S.S.R. sets 10K walk woman's record (41:56.23)
1990 Little Richard gets a star on Hollywood's walk of fame
1989 Rocker Carol King gets a star in Hollywood's walk of fame
1989 Jerry Lee Lewis gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
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
1988 Helga Arendt, Silke-Beate Knoll, Mechthild Kluth, Gisela Kinzel walk indoor female world record 4x200m (1:32.55)
1988 Abraham Sofaer, actor (Naked Jungle, Elephant Walk), dies
1987 Steve Miller's star is unveiled on Hollywood's Walk of Fame
1985 1,400 meatpackers walk off the job at a Geo A Hormel and Co plant
1985 Billy Dee Williams receives a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
1984 1st space walk by U.S. woman, Kathryn D. Sullivan
1984 Kathy Sullivan becomes 1st U.S. woman to walk in space
1984 Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes 1st woman to walk in space
1984 Bruce McCandless, U.S., makes 1st untethered space walk
1983 George Meegen completes 2,426d (19K mi) walk across Western Hemisphere
1981 Astro's Nolan Ryan passes Early Wynn as all-time walk leader, 1,777
1980 Bucky Dent hits an inside park HR, Royals walk 14 Yanks including 5 with bases loaded, Yanks win 16-3
1979 D Bautista of Mexico completes 20,000 m walk in record 1:20:06.8
1979 Raul Gonzales of Mexico completes 50,000 m walk in record 3:41:38.4
1979 Peter Jenkins finishes "A Walk Across America," Florence Oregon
1977 1st Space walk made by G Grechko from Salyut
1977 Thomas Wessinghage/Harald Hudak/Michael Lederer/Karl Fleschen walk world record 4x1500m (14:38.8)
1976 San Diego Padre pitcher Randy Jones ties record of 68 innings without a walk
1973 2 Skylab 3 astronauts walk in space for a record 7 hours
1972 Pirate's Gene Alley bases-loaded walk, beats Padres 1-0 in 18th
1971 Chips Rafferty, actor (Kona Coast, Walk into Hell), dies at 62
1971 Largest walk in crowd (31,626) in Baltimore Oriole history
1971 Apollo 14, 3rd U.S. manned Moon expedition, lands near Fra Mauro Alan Shepard and Edward Mitchell (Apollo 14) walk on Moon for 4 hrs
1968 3 Oriole pitchers walk 14 New York Yankees in a 9 inning game
1967 Eric Schweig, born in Inuvik, Canada, actor, Dead Man's Walk
1965 Jan van Nijlen, Flemish poet and writer (Walk at Dawn), dies
1964 Michael Brown meets Rene Fladen, then writes "Walk Away Rene"
1964 Sandy Koufax throws his 9th complete game without allowing a walk
1962 A's Bill Fischer ends 84 1/3 consec innings pitched without a walk
1962 KC A's Bill Fischer sets record of 69 1/3 innings without a walk
1960 Tinseltown dedicated its Walk of Fame on Hollywood Blvd
1960 Dr. Barbara Moore completes a 3,207 mile walk from Los Angeles to New York City
1957 Chic Cub pitchers walk NL record 9 Reds in 5th inning
1956 AL plans to test automatic intentional walk during spring training
1955 Bob Walk, baseball player
1955 1st "Walk"/"Don't Walk" lighted street signals installed
1954 Senator Eddie Yost draws his 100th walk for 5th year in a row
1954 Michael Steele, rocker, Bangles-Eternal Flame, Walk Like an Egyptian
1953 Ge Reinders, Dutch singer and songwriter, Girls walk by
1952 Robert R[ick] McCammon, U.S., sci-fi author, Baal, Mystery Walk
1949 Michael Brown, rocker (Left Bank-Don't Walk Away Renee)
1949 Michael Brown, born in New York City, keyboardist, Left Bank-Don't Walk Away Renee
1947 Mike Reid, Altoona Penn, country singer, Walk on Faith
1945 1000 whites walk out of Gary, Indiana schools to protest integration
1938 St. Louis Browns walk Boston Red Sox Jimmy Foxx 6 times in a row
1933 Carl Hubbell shuts-out Cards 1-0 in 18 innings without a walk
1931 1st walk across American backwards begins
1929 Leroy Van Dyke, Spring Fork, Missouri, country singer, Walk on By
1929 Otto E Funk, 62, ends marathon walk (New York to SF, 4165 miles in 183 days)
1929 Roy Hamilton, singer, You'll Never Walk Alone
1925 James E "Jimmy" Smith, U.S. jazz/organist, Walk on the Wild Side
1925 Marty Robbins, born in Glendale, Arizona, singer, Devil Woman, I Walk Alone
1925 Alex La Guma, Cape Town South Africa, novelist, A Walk in the Night
1913 After 68 straight innings Christy Mathewson gives up a walk
1912 Derek Farr, London, actor, 8 O'Clock Walk, Doctor at Large
1910 Dumitru Dan (Romania) completes a 62,137 mile (100,000 m) walk
1908 John Krohn begins walk around perimeter of U.S., which took 357 days
1904 Dawson City hockey team begins 9 day walk to get a boat to Seattle to catch a train to Ottawa to play in Stanley Cup on Jan 13 1905
1903 Phillies walk 17 Dodgers in a game
1876 Dan O'Leacy completes 500 mile walk in 139h32m
1876 Daniel O'Leary completes a 500 mile walk in 139 hours 32 min
1861 On a bet Edward Weston leaves Boston to walk to Lincoln's inauguration
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