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2002 Earthquake kills at least 260 in western Iran
1997 Tiger Woods wins golf's Western Open 1995 Earliest 1st-class cricket in Australia 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 Ludwig Renn, writer, fought in World War I on the Western Front, wrote, 'Krieg', member, Communist Party of Germany, dies at 90 1979 Elton John becomes 1st western rocker to perform live in U.S.S.R. 1979 Heath Ledger, born in Perth, Western Australia, Australian television and film actor 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 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 Czechoslovakia and declared them German citizens 1936 Paul Nowee, Dutch western writer, Eagle's Eye 1933 U.S. 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 1927 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 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 General 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 1889 Ludwig Renn, born in Dresden, Germany, writer, fought in World War I on the Western Front, wrote, 'Krieg', member, Communist Party of Germany 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 427 Plato, born in Athens, Greece, writer, philosopher, mathematician, laid foundations of natural philosophy, science, Western philosophy 410 Rome overrun by Visigoths, symbolized fall of Western Roman Empire 350 General Maxentius drives out Western Roman emperor Constans |
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