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2012 Event - After a series of self-immolation by Tibetan monks, hundreds of Tibetan monks and students protest against education policies in China's western Qinghai Province

2012 Event - Winds in southwestern Western Australia of up to 140km/h batter the area and leave more than 170,000 homes without power

2012 Event - Clashes between Buddhists and Muslims occurs in western Burma, causing the area to declare a state of emergency

2012 Event - People in East Asia, the North Pacific and the Western United States have the opportunity today to view a rare annular solar eclipse

2011 Event - If Western nations impose more sanctions, Iran threatens to close down the key oil route of the Strait of Hormuz

2011 Event - In western Ethiopia, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees opens new refugee camp for refugees from Sudan and South Sudan

2011 Event - The world's potentially oldest fossils, thought to be 3.4 billion years old, are found in the Strelley Pool rock formation in Western Australia's outback

2011 Event - Senior politician Norman Moore calls upon Western Australia to consider secession over carbon tax and Minerals Resource Rent Tax

2010 Event - The U.N. compound in Herat, western Afghanistan, is attacked by a suicide bomber

2010 Event - The fourth named cyclone of the 2010 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Cyclonic Storm Giri, lands in western Burma with winds of 144mph

2010 Event - Fighting over the past three days in Darfur, Sudan's western region, has killed 41 people

2002 Event - Earthquake kills at least 260 in western Iran

1997 Event - Tiger Woods wins golf's Western Open

1995 Event - Earliest 1st-class cricket in Australia season (Qld vs. Western Prov)

1995 Event - North and Western Colorado begins using new area code 970

1995 Event - Western Washington begins using new area code 360

1992 Event - 11th NCAA Women's Basketball Champion: Stanford beats Western Kentucky 78-62

1991 Death - Aldo Ray, western actor (Battle Cry), dies at 64 of cancer

1990 Event - Iraq moves Western hostages to military installations (human shields)

1988 Event - Gilbert is strongest (26.13 barometer) hurricane in Western Hemisphere

1988 Death - Louis L'Amour, western writer (Bowdrie), dies at 80 of cancer

1986 Death - Virginia Gilmore, actress (Jennie, Western Union), dies

1986 Event - AIDS patient Ryan White returns to classes at Western Middle School

1985 Event - Hanspeter Beck of South Australia, finishes a 3,875 mile, 51 day trip from Western Australia to Melbourne on a unicycle

1983 Event - George Meegen completes 2,426d (19K mi) walk across Western Hemisphere

1983 Event - NSW beat Western Australia by 54 runs to win Sheffield Shield

1982 Death - Jimmy Wakely, country western singer, dies of heart failure at 68

1980 Birthday - Jenny Smith, born in Western Australia, gymnast 1996 Olympics

1979 Death - Ludwig Renn, writer, fought in World War I on the Western Front, wrote, 'Krieg', member, Communist Party of Germany, dies at 90

1979 Event - Elton John becomes 1st western rocker to perform live in U.S.S.R.

1979 Birthday - Heath Ledger, born in Perth, Western Australia, Australian television and film actor

1979 Event - Costliest single periodical ad, $3.2 million, Gulf + Western in Time

1976 Event - Spain withdraws from Western Sahara

1975 Birthday - Mindy McCready, country/western singer

1975 Event - Golfer Lee Trevino is struck by lightning at Western Open (Ill)

1974 Event - Israeli forces leave western Suez

1973 Death - Allan "Rocky" Lane, western actor (All's Fair), dies at 64

1970 Birthday - Brennan Little, St. Thomas Ont, golfer, 1994 Western States mini-tour

1970 Event - Revised calendar for Western (RC) Church goes into effect

1969 Birthday - Dean Wilson, Kaneohe Hawaii, golfer, 1991 Western Athletic

1969 Death - Rod[erique] La Rocque, U.S. western actor (Mystery Woman), dies

1969 Event - Sweden (1st Western country) recognizes North Vietnam

1967 Event - 1st NBA game at Great Western Forum, Los Angeles Lakers beat Houston 147-118

1967 Event - Great Western Forum opens in LA

1967 Event - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open

1967 Birthday - Todd Doohan, Sarnia Ont, Canadian Tour golfer, Western Ont Amateur-92

1966 Event - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open

1966 Event - 28th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Texas Western beats Kentucky 72-65

1965 Event - Pope Paul VI becomes 1st Pope to visit Western Hemisphere (UN)

1965 Event - Susie Maxwell wins LPGA Western Golf Open

1964 Birthday - Scott Rachal Verplank, born in Dallas, Texas, PGA golfer, 1985 Western Open

1964 Event - Carol Mann wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open Invitational

1963 Event - West German Chancellor Adenauer condemns western grain shipments to U.S.S.R.

1963 Event - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open

1963 Event - Susuga Malietoa Tanumafili II becomes chief of Western Samoa

1962 Event - Pravda criticizes western art

1962 Event - 12,000 die in an earthquake in western Iran

1962 Event - E German border guards shot and kill Peter Fechter, 18, attempting to cross Berlin Wall into western sector

1962 Event - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Western Golf Open

1962 Event - Western Samoa gains independence from New Zealand, Susuga Malietoa Tanumafili II becomes co-chief of Western Samoa

1961 Birthday - Greg Egan, born in Perth, Western Australia, author, science fiction, books include, 'Permutation City', 'Diaspora', 'Incandescence'

1961 Event - Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Western Golf Open

1960 Event - "Johnny Ringo," TV Western Drama; last airs on CBS-TV

1960 Event - "Outlaws," TV Western Drama; debuts on NBC-TV

1960 Event - Joyce Ziske wins LPGA Western Golf Open

1959 Event - Rare Pacific hurricane kills 2,000 in Western Mexico

1959 Birthday - Billy Montana, Country/Western performer, No Yesterday, Angelia

1959 Event - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Western Golf Open

1958 Birthday - Russell Earl Cochran, Paducah, Kentucky, PGA golfer, 1991 Centel Western

1958 Event - Patty Berg wins LPGA Western Golf Open

1957 Event - Patty Berg wins LPGA Western Golf Open

1956 Event - Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Western Golf Open

1955 Event - Patty Berg wins LPGA Western Golf Open

1955 Birthday - Melinda Culea, Western Springs, Illinois, actress, A-Team, Brotherly Love

1954 Event - Betty Jameson wins LPGA Western Golf Open

1953 Event - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Western Golf Open

1953 Birthday - Andy Bean, born in Lafayette, Georgia, PGA golfer, Western 1978, Kemper 1978

1953 Event - NFL's National and American conference become Eastern and Western conf

1952 Event - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open

1951 Event - Patty Berg wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open

1950 Event - Western allies rearm West Germany

1950 Event - Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins LPGA Western Women's Golf Open

1949 Event - "Hopalong Cassidy" becomes 1st network western (NBC)

1948 Event - Bradman scores 115 for the Australian cricket team vs. Western Australia

1946 Event - 9 Spokane baseball players (Western League), die in a bus crash

1945 Event - General Eisenhower declares German defenses on Western Front broken

1944 Death - Max Brand, Frederick Schiller Faust, western author, dies

1943 Event - German offensive at Western Dorsalgebergte Tunisia

1942 Event - German offensive in South Western Stalingrad

1942 Event - Italian army begin siege of French western Fort Bir Hachim

1939 Death - Zane Grey, U.S. western writer (Spirit of the Border), dies at 67

1939 Event - Germany annexes Western Poland

1938 Event - Nazi forces occupy western Czechoslovakia and declared them German citizens

1936 Birthday - Paul Nowee, Dutch western writer, Eagle's Eye

1933 Event - U.S. forswears armed intervention in Western Hemisphere

1932 Event - Bradman scores 260, a North American record, vs. Western Ontario

1931 Event - 1st woman to purchase a baseball team Lucille Thomas purchases Topeka franchise in the Western League

1931 Death - Art Acord, western actor (Set Free, Spurs and Saddles), dies at 40

1930 Event - Des Moines (Western League) defeats Wichita 13-6 to open 1st ballpark with permanently installed lights

1927 Birthday - Lucio Fulci, born in Rome, Italy, director, screenwriter, actor, known for directing gore films, Zombi 2 and The Beyond, other genres, including giallo, western, comedy

1922 Event - Western Hockey Championship: Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA) sweep Regina Capitals, in 2 games

1919 Event - Wichita outfielder Joe Wilhoit (Western League) fails to get a hit, ending a 69-game streak (155 hits in 299 at bats for a .505 avg)

1918 Event - Armistice Day-WW I ends (at 11 AM on Western Front)

1918 Event - Britain opens offensive on Western front during WW I

1917 Event - General Pershing and U.S. troops see action on Western Front for 1st time

1915 Event - Russia occupies Bukovina and Western Ukraine

1914 Birthday - Jim Boyd, country/western performer

1911 Event - Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta Unions form Western Canada Rugby Football Union

1908 Birthday - Lew Ayres, Minnesota, actor, All Quiet on Western Front, Dr. Kildare

1907 Event - 1st 1st-class cricket game between NSW and Western Australia

1907 Event - J M Synge's "Playboy of Western World" opens; police are called

1903 Event - "The Great Train Robbery," the 1st Western film, released

1899 Birthday - John Randall, Jr., Michigan, historian/philosopher, Western Man

1898 Birthday - Erich Maria Remarque, novelist, All Quiet on the Western Front

1898 Birthday - Randolph Scott, actor, Last of the Mohicans, Western Union

1896 Birthday - Rod, erique, La Rocque, La Tour, western actor, Beau Bandit

1896 Event - Western Conference forms of Midwestern U, later renamed Big 10 Conf

1895 Birthday - Kavalam Madhava Panikkar, born in India, diplomat, Asia and Western Dominance

1892 Birthday - Hoot Gibson, Tekamah NE, western actor, Horse Soldier, Last Outlaw

1892 Birthday - Edmund Cobb, born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, western actor, Comanche Territory

1890 Birthday - Art Acord, Glenwood Sevier, Utah, western actor, Arizona Kid, Hard Fists

1889 Birthday - Ludwig Renn, born in Dresden, Germany, writer, fought in World War I on the Western Front, wrote, 'Krieg', member, Communist Party of Germany

1883 Birthday - Clarence Mulford, Illinois, western writer, Hopalong Cassidy

1871 Event - Millions of birds fly over western SF, darkens sky

1861 Event - Battle of Corrick's Ford, Virginia (Carrick's Ford) - Union army takes total control of western Virginia CS20 US53

1861 Event - Western Virginia campaign

1855 Event - Western railroads blocked by snow

1845 Event - Congress appropriates $30,000 to ship camels to western U.S.

1838 Event - English steamship "Great Western" crossing Atlantic docks in New York City

1838 Event - Steamship "Great Western" maiden voyage (Bristol England to New York City)

1830 Event - Congress authorizes Indian removal from all states to western prairie

1813 Birthday - John C Fremont, Pathfinder, map maker/explorer, western U.S., Gov, AZ

1810 Event - U.S. annexes western Florida

1807 Birthday - Ezra Cornell, founder, Western Union Telegraph, Cornell University

1804 Birthday - Townsend Harris, 1st Western consul to reside in Japan

1782 Event - Spanish take Minorca (western Mediterranean) from English

1620 Event - 1st stones layed in Western Tower

1545 Death - John Taverner, English composer (Western Wynde), dies at about 55

1262 Event - Flemish/Dutch coast ravaged by north western storm

472 Birthday - Flavius Ricimer, general of the Western Roman Empire, kingmaker

427 Birthday - Plato, born in Athens, Greece, writer, philosopher, mathematician, laid foundations of natural philosophy, science, Western philosophy

410 Event - Rome overrun by Visigoths, symbolized fall of Western Roman Empire

350 Event - General Maxentius drives out Western Roman emperor Constans













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