2004 Ukraine re-elects Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich. but the election results were thrown out after large protests about the way the election was conducted
2000 After years of preparation for Y2K, only minor computer-related problems were reported (a problem with Hotmail, with a nuclear power plant in Japan and with apartment heating in Korea)
1997 More Swedes died than were born in 1997, 1st time since 1809
1997 2nd longest 9 inning World Series game (4:12) as Marlins and Indians were tied 7-7 going into the 9th, Mariners win 14-11
1997 Belgian amusement park riders were stuck upside down for 90 minutes
1997 Secretary of State Margaret Albright announces she just discovered that her grandparents were Jewish
1995 New Jersey Devils Stanley Cup Victory Party, admidst rumours they were moving to Nashville, goalie Chris Terreri holds up "Nashville? NO WAY!" sign
1994 Susan Smith who claimed her 2 kids were carjacked arrested for murder
1994 Susan Smith claims her 2 kids were carjack (she actually killed them)
1993 General Motors sues NBC, alleging that "Dateline NBC" program had rigged 2 car-truck crashes to show that 1973-87 GM pickups were prone to fires
1991 Major league umpire Steve Palermo and former NFL defensive lineman Terence Mann were shot trying to help 2 waitresses from being robbed
1991 "Those Were The Days" closes at Edison Theater New York City after 126 performances
1990 "Those Were The Days" opens at Edison Theater New York City for 126 performances
1990 Los Angeles Raiders announce they were returning to Oakland
1988 3 IRA suspects were shot dead in Gibraltar by SAS officers
1985 American, Brazilian and West German forensic pathologists confirm skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele
1983 Last hand-cranked telephones U.S. went out of service as 440 telephone customers in Bryant Pond, Maine, were switched over to direct-dial
1983 IOC restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals 70 years after they were taken from him for being paid $25 in semipro baseball
1982 Penn prison guard George Banks kills 13 (5 were his own children)
1982 British ship Atlantic Conveyor and Coventry were hit in Falkland war
1979 U.S. admits troops in Vietnam were exposed to the toxic Agent Orange
1977 James Brown's band walks out claiming they were underpaid and overworked
1977 Radio Shack issues a press release introducing TRS-80 computer 25 existed, within weeks thousands were ordered
1974 Barbra Striesand's 1st #1 hit, "The Way We Were"
1973 New York Times reports almost all Superfectas run at Yonkers, Roosevelt and Monticello from Jan-Mar of 1973 were fixed
1972 Jack Anderson discloses Dita Beard (ITT) memo indicating antitrust charges were dropped for $400,000 contribution to Republican Party
1970 Emily Lloyd, born in London, England, actress, Wish You Were Here, In Country
1970 Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club, headed by Bud Selig, purchases the Seattle Pilots for $10,800,000 Although negotiations were conducted over a period of months, it was not until March 13 when a federal bankruptcy referee declared the Pilots bank
1962 John F. Kennedy announces Cuban missile bases were being dismantled
1959 During a game in Wrigley Field, 2 balls were in play at same time
1958 Henry Kuttner, sci-fi author (Dark World, As You Were), dies at 42
1954 T Graham Brown, Arabi, Georgia, country singer, Come as you Were
1953 "Wish You Were Here" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 597 performances
1953 U.S. controls on wages and some consumer goods were lifted
1952 "Wish You Were Here" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 597 performances
1950 Mary Hopkin, South Wales, singer, Those Were the Days
1947 Un-American Activities Committee finds "Hollywood 10" in contempt because of their refusal to reveal whether they were communists
1945 Venice and Mestre were captured by the Allies
1945 U.S. planes intercept Japanese fleet heading for Okinawa on a suicide superbattleship Yamato and four destroyers were sunk
1944 Exercise "Tiger" ends with 750 U.S. soldiers dead in D-Day rehearsal after their convoy ships were attacked by German torpedo boats
1943 Lana Cantrell, born in Sydney, Australia, singer, Those Were the Days
1943 Greatest tank battle in history ends with Russia's defeat of Germany at Kursk, almost 6,000 tanks take part, 2,900 were lost by Germany
1941 Tim Hardin, Oregon, singer, If I Were a Carpenter, Bird on a Wire
1938 Benny Goodman refuses to play Carnegie Hall when black members of his band were barred from performing
1936 Judith Chalmers, English TV hostess, Wish You Were Here
1934 Dionne Quintuplets, secluded quintuplets, born Annette, Alive Cecile, Alive Emelie, Dead 1954 Marie, Dead 1970 Yvonne, Alive, First known set of surviving quintuplets, these girls were treated as a side show and lived in a virtual muse
1924 1st newsreel pictures of presidential candidates were taken
1920 Viveca Lindfors, Uppsala Sweden, actress, Way We Were, Welcome to LA
1915 Henry Kuttner, U.S., sci-fi author, Dark World, As You Were
1914 Boston Braves, who were in last place in mid-July, clinch NL pennant
1910 Nap Lajorie challenges Ty Cobb batting avg with 8 hits, 6 were bunts as Brown's 3rd baseman Red Corriden played deep, Cobb still won
1905 Cubs Jack McCarthy becomes only major league player to throw out 3 runners at plate in 1 game, all were ends of a double play
1903 Dorothy Stickney, Dickinson ND, actress, And So They Were Married
1901 Justin Huntly McCarthy's "If I were King," premieres in New York City
1901 Cornelia Otis Skinner, Chic, writer, When Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
1899 Elliot Nugent, director, And so They were Married
1889 Oklahoma land rush officially started; some were "sooner"
1861 Confederate Provisional Congress declares all laws under the U.S. Constitution were consistent with constitution of Confederate states
1704 French and Bavarian forces were routed by a combined British, German and Dutch army at Blenheim, Germany
1661 1st banknotes in Europe were issued by Bank of Stockholm
1310 Shoes were made for both right and left feet
1138 English defeated Scots at Cowton Moor Banners of various saints were carried into battle which led to being called Battle of the Standard
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