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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 home run, Royals walk 14 Yankees including 5 with bases loaded, Yankees 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 hours 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 Nicholas Sparks, born in Omaha, Nebraska, bestselling author, writer, novelist, wrote, 'A Walk to Remember', author of novels including, 'Nights in Rodanthe', 'The Last Song', 'The Notebook' 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 Chicago 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 1932 David Scott, born in San Antonio, Texas, astronaut, commander of Apollo 15 mission, seventh person to walk on the Moon, first person to drive on the Moon 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 1918 W. Eugene Smith, U.S. photographer, Saipan, Walk to Paradise Garden 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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