2002 Earthquake kills at least 260 in western Iran
1997 Tiger Woods wins golf's Western Open
1995 Earliest 1st-class cricket in Aust season (Qld vs. Western Prov)
1995 North and Western Colorado begins using new area code 970
1995 Western Washington begins using new area code 360
1992 11th NCAA Women's Basketball Champion: Stanford beats Western Kentucky 78-62
1991 Aldo Ray, western actor (Battle Cry), dies at 64 of cancer
1990 Iraq moves Western hostages to military installations (human shields)
1988 Gilbert is strongest (26.13 barometer) hurricane in Western Hemisphere
1988 Louis L'Amour, western writer (Bowdrie), dies at 80 of cancer
1986 Virginia Gilmore, actress (Jennie, Western Union), dies
1986 AIDS patient Ryan White returns to classes at Western Middle School
1985 Hanspeter Beck of South Australia, finishes a 3,875 mile, 51 day trip from Western Australia to Melbourne on a unicycle
1983 George Meegen completes 2,426d (19K mi) walk across Western Hemisphere
1983 NSW beat Western Australia by 54 runs to win Sheffield Shield
1982 Jimmy Wakely, country western singer, dies of heart failure at 68
1980 Jenny Smith, born in Western Australia, gymnast 1996 Olympics
1979 Elton John becomes 1st western rocker to perform live in U.S.S.R.
1979 1st western pop star to tour U.S.S.R.-Elton John
1979 Costliest single periodical ad, $3.2 million, Gulf + Western in Time
1976 Spain withdraws from Western Sahara
1975 Mindy McCready, country/western singer
1975 Golfer Lee Trevino is struck by lightning at Western Open (Ill)
1974 Israeli forces leave western Suez
1973 Allan "Rocky" Lane, western actor (All's Fair), dies at 64
1970 Brennan Little, St. Thomas Ont, golfer, 1994 Western States mini-tour
1970 Revised calendar for Western (RC) Church goes into effect
1969 Dean Wilson, Kaneohe Hawaii, golfer, 1991 Western Athletic
1969 Rod[erique] La Rocque, U.S. western actor (Mystery Woman), dies
1969 Fiona Robinson, Collie Western Aust, basketball player, Oly-bronze-96
1969 Sweden (1st Western country) recognizes North Vietnam
1967 1st NBA game at Great Western Forum, Los Angeles Lakers beat Houston 147-118
1967 Great Western Forum opens in LA
1967 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open
1967 Todd Doohan, Sarnia Ont, Canadian Tour golfer, Western Ont Amateur-92
1966 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open
1966 28th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Texas Western beats Kentucky 72-65
1965 Pope Paul VI becomes 1st Pope to visit Western Hemisphere (UN)
1965 Susie Maxwell wins LPGA Western Golf Open
1964 Sean O'Casey, Irish playwright (Playboy of Western World), dies at 84
1964 Scott Rachal Verplank, born in Dallas, Texas, PGA golfer, 1985 Western Open
1964 Carol Mann wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open Invitational
1963 West German Chancellor Adenauer condemns western grain shipments to U.S.S.R.
1963 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open
1963 Susuga Malietoa Tanumafili II becomes chief of Western Samoa
1962 Pravda criticizes western art
1962 12,000 die in an earthquake in western Iran
1962 E German border guards shot and kill Peter Fechter, 18, attempting to cross Berlin Wall into western sector
1962 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Western Golf Open
1962 Western Samoa gains independence from New Zealand Susuga Malietoa Tanumafili II becomes co-chief of Western Samoa
1961 Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Western Golf Open
1960 "Johnny Ringo," TV Western Drama; last airs on CBS-TV
1960 "Outlaws," TV Western Drama; debuts on NBC-TV
1960 Joyce Ziske wins LPGA Western Golf Open
1959 Rare Pacific hurricane kills 2,000 in Western Mexico
1959 Billy Montana, Country/Western performer, No Yesterday, Angelia
1959 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Western Golf Open
1958 Russell Earl Cochran, Paducah, Kentucky, PGA golfer, 1991 Centel Western
1958 Patty Berg wins LPGA Western Golf Open
1957 Patty Berg wins LPGA Western Golf Open
1956 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Western Golf Open
1955 Patty Berg wins LPGA Western Golf Open
1955 Melinda Culea, Western Springs, Illinois, actress, A-Team, Brotherly Love
1954 Betty Jameson wins LPGA Western Golf Open
1953 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Western Golf Open
1953 Andy Bean, born in Lafayette, Georgia, PGA golfer, Western 1978, Kemper 1978
1953 NFL's National and American conference become Eastern and Western conf
1952 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open
1951 Patty Berg wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open
1950 Western allies rearm West Germany
1950 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Western Women's Golf Open
1949 "Hopalong Cassidy" becomes 1st network western (NBC)
1948 Bradman scores 115 for the Australian cricket team vs. Western Australia
1946 9 Spokane baseball players (Western League), die in a bus crash
1945 General Eisenhower declares German defenses on Western Front broken
1944 Max Brand, [Frederick Schiller Faust], western author, dies
1943 German offensive at Western Dorsalgebergte Tunisia
1942 German offensive in South Western Stalingrad
1942 Italian army begin siege of French western Fort Bir Hachim
1939 Zane Grey, U.S. western writer (Spirit of the Border), dies at 67
1939 Germany annexes Western Poland
1938 Nazi forces occupy western Czech and declared them German citizens
1936 Paul Nowee, Dutch western writer, Eagle's Eye
1933 US forswears armed intervention in Western Hemisphere
1932 Bradman scores 260, a North American record, vs. Western Ontario
1931 1st woman to purchase a baseball team Lucille Thomas purchases Topeka franchise in the Western League
1931 Art Acord, western actor (Set Free, Spurs and Saddles), dies at 40
1930 Des Moines (Western League) defeats Wichita 13-6 to open 1st ballpark with permanently installed lights
1930 Liz Anderson, country and western singer
1922 Western Hockey Championship: Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA) sweep Regina Capitals, in 2 games
1919 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 Armistice Day-WW I ends (at 11 AM on Western Front)
1918 Britain opens offensive on Western front during WW I
1917 Gen Pershing and U.S. troops see action on Western Front for 1st time
1915 Russia occupies Bukovina and Western Ukraine
1914 Jim Boyd, country/western performer
1911 Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta Unions form Western Canada Rugby Football Union
1908 Lew Ayres, Minnesota, actor, All Quiet on Western Front, Dr. Kildare
1907 1st 1st-class cricket game between NSW and Western Australia
1907 J M Synge's "Playboy of Western World" opens; police are called
1903 "The Great Train Robbery," the 1st Western film, released
1899 John Randall, Jr., Michigan, historian/philosopher, Western Man
1898 Erich Maria Remarque, novelist, All Quiet on the Western Front
1898 Randolph Scott, actor, Last of the Mohicans, Western Union
1896 Rod, erique, La Rocque, La Tour, western actor, Beau Bandit
1896 Western Conference forms of Midwestern U, later renamed Big 10 Conf
1895 Kavalam Madhava Panikkar, born in India, diplomat, Asia and Western Dominance
1892 Hoot Gibson, Tekamah NE, western actor, Horse Soldier, Last Outlaw
1892 Edmund Cobb, born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, western actor, Comanche Territory
1890 Art Acord, Glenwood Sevier, Utah, western actor, Arizona Kid, Hard Fists
1883 Clarence Mulford, Illinois, western writer, Hopalong Cassidy
1880 Sean O'Casey, born in Ireland, playwright, Playboy of the Western World
1871 Millions of birds fly over western SF, darkens sky
1861 Battle of Corrick's Ford, Virginia (Carrick's Ford) - Union army takes total control of western Virginia CS20 US53
1861 Western Virginia campaign
1855 Western railroads blocked by snow
1845 Congress appropriates $30,000 to ship camels to western U.S.
1838 English steamship "Great Western" crossing Atlantic docks in New York City
1838 Steamship "Great Western" maiden voyage (Bristol England to New York City)
1830 Congress authorizes Indian removal from all states to western prairie
1813 John C Fremont, [Pathfinder], map maker/explorer, western U.S., /Gov, AZ
1810 U.S. annexes western Florida
1807 Ezra Cornell, founder, Western Union Telegraph, Cornell University
1804 Townsend Harris, 1st Western consul to reside in Japan
1782 Spanish take Minorca (western Mediterranean) from English
1620 1st stones layed in Western Tower
1545 John Taverner, English composer (Western Wynde), dies at about 55
1262 Flemish/Dutch coast ravaged by north western storm
472 Flavius Ricimer, general of the Western Roman Empire, kingmaker
410 Rome overrun by Visigoths, symbolized fall of Western Roman Empire
350 General Maxentius drives out Western Roman emperor Constans
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