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2013 Event - Australia's government plans to hold a referendum to recognize local government in its constitution; the referendum will coincide with the country's federal election taking place September 14, 2013

2013 Event - New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art announces it will return two statues from northern Cambodia's archeological site Koh Ker

2013 Event - Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England announces that the 5 pound bank note, to be circulated in 2016, will feature Winston Churchill

2013 Event - China reports it will open the South China Sea's Paracel Islands to tourism before the May Day holiday. Vietnam voices strong opposition this move, as ownership of the Islands is in dispute

2013 Event - The U.S. TV network NBC announces Jay Leno, host of 'The Tonight Show' will leave in the spring of 2014, and be replaced by comedian Jimmy Fallon

2013 Event - Northwest Africa 7325, a green meteorite found in Morocco, 2012, may have originated on planet Mercury; if scientists are correct, this will be the first known meteorite from Mercury

2013 Event - The President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, asserts he will have the International Court of Justice in The Hague solve the border dispute between Bolivia and Chile

2013 Event - Omar al-Bashir, President of Sudan for over 25 years, announces he will step down in 2015

2013 Event - Egypt's government announces the country will hold parliamentary elections in April, 2013

2013 Event - In Bolivar, Venezuela, the country's government opens a granite processing plant, estimating it will provide 25% of the nation's granite requirements

2013 Event - The U.S. postal service announces that after August 5, 2013, it will no longer deliver first-class mail on Saturdays

2013 Event - Officials at the Kremlin announce that the 2014 G8 summit will be held at Sochi, its southern Black Sea resort

2013 Event - Beatrix of the Netherlands announces she will abdicate her throne to her son, Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange, on April 30, 2013

2013 Event - For the first time since the Battle of Mogadishu, the U.S. announces it will officially recognize, and open diplomatic relations with, the new government of Somalia

2013 Event - Ken Salazar, the U.S. Secretary of the Interior, announces he will leave his post at the end of March, 2013

2012 Event - Pakistan's government announces it will accord recognition to the Republic of Kosovo

2012 Event - Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi declares that proposed referendums on a new constitution will be enacted, but the decree he issued expanding his powers will be annulled

2012 Event - The United Kingdom plans to create new private and public sector universities; these will be the first universities the country has created in decades

2012 Event - In Oklahoma, airport workers discover a painted golden object with a hole in the bottom in the luggage of musician Wayne Coyne; they mistake the object for a live grenade and shut down the Will Rogers World Airport

2012 Event - The film 'Chinese Zodiac' featuring martial arts star Jackie Chan, will be the last film made by the action star

2012 Event - Hostess Brands reveals its plan to file for bankruptcy and liquidate its assets, claiming contract disputes from the bakery's union worker strike crippled its operations; about 18,500 workers will be laid off

2012 Event - Votes in Florida are finalized, giving Barack Obama the winning number of electoral votes; this will be his second term as President of the United States

2012 Event - A report from the European Commission on the need for increased safety at Europe's 134 power station nuclear reactors will cost 10 to 25 billion euros

2012 Event - Four genetically different types of breast cancer are identified by researchers; the study, part of the Cancer Genome Atlas, will help scientists understand how to cure breast cancer in the future

2012 Event - A University of Nebraska-Lincoln communication specialist predicts that future use of unmanned aerial vehicles in journalism will become widespread

2012 Event - Lance Armstrong, the seven-time Tour de France winner, announces he will not contest the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency charges of doping, a result of which will include being stripped of all of his tour de France victories

2012 Event - As part of ongoing political reforms in Myanmar, the country announces it will end media censorship

2012 Event - The Japanese press reveals that Sharp Corporation, an electronics company, will cut 5,000 jobs worldwide

2012 Event - David Cameron, Britain's Prime Minister, suggests government spending cuts will be required until the end of the decade

2012 Event - President Barack Obama states that the U.S. will stop deporting some illegal immigrants

2012 Event - Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, President of Argentina, announces she will switch her personal savings from the U.S. dollar to the Argentine peso

2012 Event - The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) announces it will end talks with Iran; chief inspector Herman Nackaerts says there has been no progress

2012 Event - Madonna begins her MDNA Tour in Tel Aviv, Israel, the first of more than 65 cities she will perform at worldwide

2012 Event - After Simon Bolivar's U.K. concert, featuring Venezuela's premier youth orchestra sells out eight months in advance, it is announced that the concert will be live-streamed on June 23rd and 26th, 2012

2012 Event - U.S. Presidential candidate Ron Paul announces he will end his campaign, but that he will still try to obtain delegates before the Republican National Convention in August

2012 Event - A memorial service is held for San Diego chargers' Junior Seau; his #55 will be retired by the team

2012 Event - A Beijing court announces it will hear artist and dissident Ai Weiwei, held and gagged on tax evasion charges by the People's Republic of China

2012 Event - The United Kingdom's government announces it will introduce a consultation process on internet measures which require online users to opt-in if they want to view adult content

2012 Event - In England, lawmakers ban the display of tobacco products, hoping the move will lead to a reduction in the number of youths who smoke

2012 Event - As part of a continued tightening on world sanctions on Iran, a Chinese company that insures ships will stop indemnifying tankers carrying Iranian oil

2012 Event - Pope Benedict XVI says Cuba needs to find ways to move away from Communism, and that he will help them find a peaceful way to make the transition

2012 Event - In a gesture to honor North Korean founder Kim II-Sung's birthday in April, North Korea plans to launch a new satellite that reportedly will be used to study crops and natural resources

2012 Event - Author JK Rowling announces that the Pottermore website, her version of the Harry Potter universe will launch in early April, 2012

2012 Event - In 2012, the People's Republic of China will increase its defense spending by 11.2 per cent

2012 Event - As a cost-saving measure during bankcruptcy, Eastman Kodak Co. reports they will no longer make digital cameras, pocket video cameras and digital picture frames

2012 Event - American Airlines' parent company announces it will cut 13,000 jobs or 15% of its workforce

2012 Event - fter three years in exile, Madagascar's President, Marc Ravalomanana announces he will return to the country

2012 Event - Justine Greening, the U.K. Secretary of State for Transport approves the HS2, a high-speed rail line that will link major cities in the U.K. to London

2012 Event - Jamaica's new Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller announces the country will become a republic, removing Queen Elizabeth II as head of state

2011 Event - Financial disputes lead New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to report that the National September 11 Museum will not open on time

2011 Event - Poland announces it will provide amnesty to illegal immigrants beginning January 1, 2012

2011 Event - North Korea states is will accept all South Korean delegations who wish to pay their respects to the late leader Kim Jong-il

2011 Event - Reports indicate the credit ratings agency Standard & Poors will review 15 nations for possible downgrades, including France and Germany

2011 Event - NBA team owners and players reach an agreement, ending the 149-day NBA lockout; the new NBA season will begin Christmas day

2011 Event - The U.S. declares it will no longer observe the 1990 Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe

2011 Event - Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of Muammar Gaddafi, is captured in Libya; he will be tried for crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court

2011 Event - In the French city of Cannes, the 2011 G-20 summit commences; discussions will focus on the continuing Eurozone debt crisis

2011 Event - Typhoon Nesat causes 43 deaths in the Philippines; forecasts predict Typhoon Nalgae will cause further flooding problems

2011 Event - The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) announces the 2015 UCI World Championships will be held in Richmond, Virginia

2011 Event - The Libyan National Transitional Council will move to Tripoli from Benghazi next week

2011 Event - Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway announces it will invest $5 billion in Bank of America

2011 Event - The U.S. Federal Reserve declares it will keep interest rates at exceptionally low levels through mid-2013

2011 Event - HSBC bank announces it will cut 5,000 jobs now and 25,000 jobs by 2013

2011 Event - In Iran, the Central Bank of Iran launches a website which it will use to poll Iranians on planned economic reforms and changing the national currency

2011 Event - In a speech outside of Potala Palace, Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping declares he will crush attempts for an Independent Tibet

2011 Event - The host city of the 2018 Winter Olympics will be Pyeongchang, South Korea; the winter multi-sport event will take place between the 9th and 24th of February, 2018

2011 Event - In Libya's capitol of Tripoli, Muammar Gaddafi calls on NATO to stop its bombing campaign or else European homes offices and families will be targeted

2011 Event - People's Republic of China officials warn that the the 2011 China floods will likely raise the price of food

2011 Event - Michelle Bachmann announces she will seek the Republican Party nomination for President of the United States

2011 Event - The U.S. announces it will boycott an anti-racism conference at the United Nations due to concerns over anti-Semetism

2011 Event - In a meeting with President Barack Obama, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will not fully withdraw to the pre-1967 borders as Obama requested

2011 Event - The Tokyo Electric Power Company together with the Government of Japan will not cap compensation payments resulting from the Fukushima I nuclear accidents

2011 Event - Panasonic Corporation reportedly plans to announce it will cut 40,000 jobs

2011 Event - U.S. nightly news host Katie Couric announces she will will no longer host the 'CBS Evening News'

2011 Event - Each household within the exclusion zone of the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant will receive 1 million yen from the Tokyo Electric Power Company

2011 Event - The Tibetan parliament will seek the Tibetan community's opinion after the Tibetan government in-exile accepts the Dalai Lama's resignation from politics

2011 Event - Newspapers report that Japan will issue over 10 trillion yen in emergency government bonds to help pay for their earthquake and tsunami recovery efforts

2011 Event - Libya's military claims it will stop fighting Sunday to allow the rebels to turn themselves in

2011 Event - U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, publicly announces she will retire rather than serve a second term in 2012 if President Obama is reelected

2011 Event - Wisconsin AFL-CIO assemble hundreds of union supporters claiming they will risk arrest to prevent police from clearing the Wisconsin State Capitol building

2011 Event - Palestinian Authority cabinet members resign and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad will select new ministers at the request of President Mahmoud Abbas

2011 Event - Ian Thorpe, an Australian swimmer, announces he will come out of retirement to compete in the London Olympics in 2012

2011 Event - Australia and Japan win their semi-final games and will play in the AFC Asian Cup final

2011 Event - Tunisian Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi announces he will leave politics soon after the Presidential elections are held

2011 Event - Joe Lieberman, an independent U.S. Senator from Connecticut announces he will not seek re-election in 2012

2011 Event - According to Clarence House, Prince William and his bride-to-be, Kate Middleton, will be married by the Archbishop of Canterbury

2010 Event - Nelson Mandela, former President of South Africa, will have a street named after him in Capetown

2010 Event - Despite concern from the opposition, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez declares he will pass laws by decree for the next six to eighteen months

2010 Event - The U.S. announces it will provide an additional $500 million to aid Pakistan to help rebuilding efforts after major floods ravaged the country

2010 Event - If trends in diet and exercise continue, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention project estimate 1 in 3 adult Americans will have diabetes by 2050

2010 Event - President Obama's economic advisor Lawrence Summers announces he will leave his post as head of the U.S. Economic Council

2010 Event - Raul Castro, head of the Cuban government, declares they will lay off half a million state workers to improve their economy by the middle of 2011

2010 Event - Pastor Terry Jones announces that the Dove Outreach Center will not burn the Koran, 'not now, not ever'

2010 Event - In Sudan, the People's Liberation Army announces it will demobilize its child soldiers by the end of 2010

2010 Event - Saudi Arabia agrees to address security fears with Blackberry; the country determines it will not ban Blackberry instant messaging

2010 Event - The U.K. will increase aid to poor nations, including a 40% increase in Afghanistan, while reducing aid to 'powerhouses' like Russia, China and other eastern European countries

2010 Event - The European Union announces that on January 1, 2011, it will make Estonia the seventeenth member of the euro

2010 Event - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel states he will not apologize to Turkey for the Gaza flotilla clash, and that the injured will not receive any compensation

2010 Event - After South Korea's ROKS Cheonan ship is sunk by North Korea, South Korea cuts off trade with North Korea and announces North Korean ships will no longer be allowed to use South Korean waters

2010 Event - After serving twenty-one terms, U.S. Representative, Democrat, and Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, Dave Obey, announces he will not run for re-election

2010 Event - United and Continental air lines announce that the two American companies will merge, creating the world's largest airline

2010 Event - Tens of thousands of Poles line the streets to witness the procession of President Kaczynski, en route to the Presidential Palace, Warsaw, where he will lie in state

2010 Event - Over 100 people die in the Krygyzstani riots; opposition leader Roza Otunbayeva says she will lead a temporary government for six months

2010 Event - 60 countries are invited to participate in Iran's two-day nuclear disarmament conference in Tehran April 17 - 18; China says it will attend

2010 Event - The World Food Programme announces it will suspend operations in Somalia due to increased instability in the region

2009 Event - 30,000 Phillipine people remain in temporary shelter as scientists predict the Mount Mayon volcano will erupt in the coming weeks

2009 Event - President Obama promises the will 'get something done this year' on healthcare reform

2005 Event - Apple Computer announces they will switch to Intel processors in 2006

2005 Death - Will Eisner, American Cartoonist

2003 Death - Leni Riefenstahl, director, Triumph of the Will, dies at 101

1997 Event - WNBA announces it will add Detroit and Washington D.C. franchises

1997 Event - Oprah Winfrey announces she will continue her show through 2000

1997 Event - Microsoft announces it will invest $150 million in Apple Computer Inc

1997 Event - RJR Nabisco announces it will replace Joe Camel in new ads

1997 Event - NHL announces it will add Nashville in 1998, Atlanta in 1999 and Minneapolis-St. Paul and Columbus, Ohio in 2000

1997 Death - Rosie Will Monroe, WW II icon, Rosie the Riveter, dies at 76

1997 Event - NFL announces it will give $3M to CFL and possible "World Classic Bowl"

1997 Event - Fred Goldman says he will settle for a signed murder confession from O. J. Simpson in lieu of his $20.5 million judgement

1996 Event - Howard Stern announces he will be making the film "Private Parts"

1995 Death - Francis Joan Frances Will, actress, dies at 75

1994 Event - Maggie Will wins Children's Medical Center LPGA Golf Classic

1994 Event - President Clinton announces U.S. will no longer repatriate boat people

1994 Event - Arsenio Hall announces he will end his show in May 1994

1994 Event - 36th Grammy Awards: I Will Always Love You, Toni Braxton wins

1994 Event - Indians owner Richard Jacobs announces he will pay $10 million to name baseball field (Jacobs Field) at Gateway (becomes official 3/23)

1994 Event - Ukraine says it will give up world's 3rd largest nuclear arsenal

1993 Event - "Will Rogers Follies" closes at Palace Theater New York City after 983 performances

1993 Death - Lily van Lugt Melsert, actress (Tomorrow will be better), dies at 91

1993 Death - Will Rogers, Jr., (Rep-D)/actor (Boy from Okla), commits suicide at 81

1993 Event - Prodigy announces it will offer Cox newspapers

1993 Event - Richard Jacobs announces Chief Wahoo will go to Jacobs Field

1993 Death - Will Weng, Sunday Times crossword puzzle editor (1968-78), dies at 86

1993 Event - Bill Wyman announces he will leave Rolling Stones

1992 Event - New Jersey Devils organization announces that it will change its colors to black, red, and white for the 1992-93 season

1992 Event - NBC announces that "Cheers" will go off the air in May, 1993

1992 Event - New York Giants announce they will quit WNEW Radio after 32 years for WOR

1992 Event - Bradlees announces it will take over Alexander's department stores in New York City

1992 Event - Maggie Will wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic

1992 Event - Nelson Mandela announces he will seek divorce from Winnie

1991 Event - MTV announces it will split into 3 channels in 1993

1991 Event - NBC announces Jay Leno will replace Johnny Carson on May 25, 1992

1991 Event - 45th Tony Awards: Lost in Yonkers and Will Rogers Follies win

1991 Event - "Will Rogers Follies" opens at Palace Theater New York City for 983 performances

1991 Event - Johnny Carson announces he will retire next year from Tonight Show

1991 Event - Musical "Will Rogers Follies," premieres in New York City

1990 Event - Saddam says Israel will be Iraq's 1st target

1990 Event - Iraq announces it will never give up Kuwait

1990 Event - Iraq announces it will release all 3,300 Soviet hostages

1990 Event - Iraq announces it will free all German hostages

1990 Death - Will Kuluva, actor (To Trap a Spy, Go Naked in World), dies at 73

1990 Event - Saddam Hussein warns that U.S. will repeat Vietnam experience

1990 Event - Saddam says he will destroy Israel

1990 Event - France announce it will send 4,000 troops to Persian Gulf

1990 Event - Washington D.C. mayor Marion Barry announces he will not seek a 4th term,

1990 Event - The ML umpires announce that they will boycott exhibition games

1990 Event - Maggie Will wins Desert Inn LPGA Golf International

1990 Event - On a BBC taped interview, rock star Stevie Nicks breaks down, saying that she will never have children and no man can stand her for long

1990 Event - South Africa President de Klerk announces Nelson Mandela will be free Feb 11th

1990 Event - Will Clark, NL's MVP signs a $15M 4-year contract with San Francisco Giants

1989 Event - Giants Will Clark hits 1st NLCS grand slam since 1977

1989 Event - Batting titles decided on final day Puckett goes 2-for-5 edges Carney Lansford .339 to .336, Gwynn's 3-for-4 edges Will Clark .336 to .333

1989 Event - AT&T announces New Jersey's 201 area code will split into 908 and 201

1989 Event - NL announces Yankees' broadcaster Bill White will be 1st black president

1988 Event - China confirms earthquake death toll will rise above current 938

1988 Event - Royals announce that Dick Howser, who underwent surgery for a brain tumor in July, will return to manage the club in 1989

1988 Event - LIRR says Penn station will get air conditioning in 1991

1988 Event - Hertz car rental will pay out $23 million in consumer fraud case

1988 Event - Stevie Wonder announces he will run for mayor of Detroit in 1992

1988 Event - Baltimore Orioles set worst record to start a season 0-14 (will go 0-21)

1988 Event - U.S.S.R. announces it will participate in Seoul Summer Olympics

1987 Death - Will Sampson, actor (From Here to Eternity, Yellow Rose), dies at 54

1986 Event - IOC announces baseball will become a medal sport in 1992

1986 Event - Federal health officials announce AZT will be available to AIDS patients

1986 Event - U.S. informs New Zealand it will not defend it against attack

1986 Event - Will Stegers expedition reaches North Pole

1986 Event - "Dallas" announces it will revive killed Bobby Ewing character

1985 Event - Angels announce that they will not offer Rod Carew a new contract

1985 Event - Coca-Cola Co announces it will resume selling old formula Coke

1985 Event - South Africa will repeal sex and marriage laws against whites and non-whites

1984 Event - U.S.S.R. announces it will not participate in LA Summer Olympics

1984 Event - President Reagan formally announces he will seek a 2nd term

1984 Event - NCAA announces that basketball tournament will have 64 teams

1983 Event - U.S. say they will leave UNESCO on Dec 31, 1984

1983 Event - Columbia beats Yale 21-18 in football, will lose next 44 games

1982 Event - Shultz warns U.S. will withdraw from United Nations if they vote to exclude Israel

1982 Event - BBC warns Britain will bomb Argentina

1982 Event - New York Times reports that military will get 25% of NASA's budget

1982 Event - New York City Mayor Koch announces he will run for New York governor (unsuccessful)

1981 Death - Will Durant, U.S. author (story of civilization), dies at 96

1981 Death - Richard Boone, actor (Paladin-Have Gun Will Travel), dies at 63

1980 Birthday - Billy L Sullivan, LI, New York, actor, Will Pacino-Something So Right

1980 Event - Shawn Weatherly, (South Carolina (will win Miss Universe), crowned 29th Miss USA

1980 Event - Billy Wyman said he will leave Rolling Stones in 1983

1978 Birthday - Will Estes, American Actor

1978 Birthday - Will Champion, English Musician

1978 Event - On Old Timer's Day, New York Yankees announce that Billy Martin will return as New York Yankee manager in 1980 and Bob Lemon will become General Manager

1978 Event - At Old Timer's Game it's announced Martin will again manage Yankees

1978 Event - Nevada jury rules Howard Hughes "Mormon Will" is a forgery

1978 Event - Commerce Department says hurricane names will no longer be only female

1978 Death - Will Geer, actor (Grandpa Walton-Waltons), dies at 75

1977 Event - Tiger rookies Lou Whitaker and Allan Trammell debut together and will play together for 19 years

1977 Event - President Carter announces U.S. foreign aid will consider human rights

1976 Birthday - Will Friedle, Hartford, Connecticut, actor, Eric-Boy Meets World, Gift of Love

1976 Event - 18th Grammy Awards: 'Love Will Keep Us Together' Record of the Year, Natalie Cole wins as best New Artist

1975 Event - Apollo 18 launched (will rendezvous with Soyuz)

1975 Event - Linda Ronstadt releases "When Will I Be Loved"

1974 Event - President Nixon said he will release edited tapes made in White House

1973 Event - Los Angeles Dodgers announce night games will start at 7:30 instead of 8

1973 Event - Columbia Records fires president Clive Davis for misappropriating $100,000 in funds, Davis will start Arista records

1972 Birthday - Ben Affleck, born in Berkeley, California, actor, director, screenwriter, Academy-award winner for Good Will Hunting, 1987, founded production company LivePlanet with actor Matt Damon

1971 Birthday - Will Shields, NFL guard for the Kansas City Chiefs

1971 Birthday - Minnie Driver, actress, Good Will Hunting

1970 Birthday - Will Oldham, American Musician

1970 Birthday - Matt Damon, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, actor, writer, Academy-Award winner for 'Good Will Hunting', starred in 'Saving Private Ryan', 'Bourne' films

1970 Birthday - Will Moore, NFL wide receiver, New England Patriots, Jacksonville Jaguars

1969 Event - New York Times reports Curt Flood will sue baseball and challenge the reserve clause

1969 Death - Kam Tong, actor (Have Gun Will Travel, Mr. Garlund), dies at 62

1969 Event - U.S. president Nixon proclaims he will end Vietnam war in 1970

1968 Birthday - Will Smith, actor/rapper, Men In Black, Indepedence Day, Fresh Prince

1968 Event - Private Eye magazine reports a John Lennon and Yoko Ono album will have a picture of them nude on cover

1968 Birthday - Debra Messing, born in Brooklyn, New York, actress, appeared on 'Will & Grace', 'The Starter Wife', television shows

1968 Birthday - Patrick Stuart, Hollywood Cal, actor, Will Cortlandt-All My Children

1968 Event - Gary Puckett and Union Gap release "Lady Will Power"

1968 Event - Canada announces it will replace silver with nickel in coins

1968 Birthday - Traci Lords, born in Steubenville, Ohio, actress, producer, appeared in porn films at age 15, appeared in 'Penthouse' magazine, B-movies 'Will and Grace' television show

1968 Birthday - Will Furrer, WLAF quarterback for the Amsterdam Admirals

1968 Event - Lyndon Baines Johnson announces he will not seek re-election

1968 Event - NBC's unprecedented on-air announcement, Star Trek will return

1968 Birthday - Will Furrer, NFL quarterback, Houston Oilers, St. Louis Rams

1968 Event - NBA announces it will expand to Milwaukee and Phoenix

1967 Event - Arthur Allyn says White Sox will play 9 games in Milwaukee in 1968

1967 Birthday - Will Ferrell, born in Irvine, California, actor, writer, cast member, 'Saturday Night Live', starred in films, 'Elf', 'Archorman', 'Talladega Nights', 'Blades of Glory'

1967 Event - Herr Karl Tausch writes shortest will "Vse Zene" (All to wife)

1966 Event - U.S. Treasury announces it will buy mutilated silver coins at silver bullion price at Philadelphia and Denver mints

1965 Birthday - Will Carling, English Athlete

1965 Birthday - Fresh Prince, Will Smith, rapper, Parents Just Don't Understand

1965 Birthday - Will Perdue, NBA center for the San Antonio Spurs

1965 Event - U.S. Ranger 8 launched, will transmit 7,137 lunar pictures

1965 Event - France announces it will convert $150 million of its currency to gold

1964 Birthday - Will Johnson, CFL defensive end for the Saskatchewan Roughriders

1964 Birthday - Maggie Will, Whiteville, North Carolina, LPGA golfer, 1992 Sara Lee Classic

1964 Event - Ford Frick says he will not run for another term as commissioner

1964 Birthday - Will Wolford, NFL tackle, Indianapolis Colts, Pittsburgh Steelers

1964 Birthday - Will Clark, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, infielder for the Texas Rangers

1964 Death - Marc Blitzstein, U.S. composer (Cradle Will Rock), dies at 58

1963 Birthday - Marla Maples, Trump, Dalton, Georgia, actress, Will Rogers Follies

1963 Event - Stan Musial announces he will retire at end of year

1963 Birthday - Lonnie Quinn, Cheshire Conn, actor, Will Cooley-All My Children

1962 Event - John F. Kennedy warns Russia U.S. will not allow Soviet missiles to remain in Cuba

1962 Death - Will Vesper, German author (Tristan und Isolde), dies at 79

1962 Event - John F. Kennedy announces U.S. will resume above ground nuclear testing

1961 Event - Fidel Castro announces Cuba will release 1,113 prisoners from failed 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion for $62M worth of food and medical supplies

1961 Event - Fidel Castro declares he's a Marxist, and will lead Cuba to Communism

1961 Birthday - Larry Mullen, Jr., Dublin Ireland, rock drummer, U2-I Will Follow

1961 Event - U.S.S.R. says it will resume nuclear testing

1961 Birthday - The Edge, Dave Evans, London, rock guitarist, U2-I Will Follow

1961 Event - Soviet premier Khrushchev predicts U.S.S.R. economy will surpass U.S.

1961 Event - Expansion Washington Senators are 30-30, latest date an expansion team will be at .500, Washington will lose their next 10 games

1961 Event - Fidel Castro announces there will be no more elections in Cuba

1960 Event - CBS radio cancels "Have Gun Will Travel"

1960 Birthday - Adam Clayton, born in Oxfordshire, rock bassist, U2-I Will Follow

1959 Event - Lee Harvey Oswald announces in Moscow he will never return to US

1959 Event - Clark Griffith of Senators says team will not move the franchise

1959 Birthday - Bob Rosenberg, rocker, Will To Power

1958 Event - 1st radio broadcast from space (President Eisenhower voice "To all mankind, America's wish for Peace on Earth and Good Will to Men Everywhere")

1958 Event - AL announces Opening Day in 1959 will be earliest ever, April 9

1958 Event - AL announces Kansas City will play AL record 52 night games in 1959

1958 Event - AL announces that Kansas City will play AL record 52 night games in 1959

1958 Event - Calvin Griffith says Senators will prob accept offer to move to Minn

1958 Event - Premier Charles de Gaulle says Algeria will always be French

1958 Birthday - Will Sergeant, rock guitarist, Echo and Bunnymen-Killing Moon

1958 Event - Dodgers announces mascot/clown Emmett Kelly will not perform in 1958

1958 Event - Chicago Cardinals announce they will play their 1958 opener in Buffalo

1956 Birthday - Lyle Lovett, born in Klein, Texas, country singer, God Will, Joshua Judges Ruth

1956 Event - AL President Will Harridge bars Washington Senators move to West Coast, unless unanimously approved by the other AL owners

1956 Event - Indonesia says it will not pay debts to the Netherlands

1956 Birthday - Lisa Niemi, born in Houston, Texas, actress, Dirty Dancing, Will Rodgers Follies

1956 Birthday - Will Rigby, rock percussionist, Amy Rigby Diary of a Mad Housewife

1955 Event - WINS radio, announces it will not play "copy" white cover versions of R&B (DJs must play Fats Domino's "Ain't It A Shame," not Pat Boone's)

1955 Event - WILL TV channel 12 in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (PBS) begins broadcasting

1954 Event - A's defeats Yankees 8-6 in last game franchise will play in Philadelphia

1954 Birthday - Will Patton, born in Charleston, South Carolina, actor, No Way Out, Ballzaire the Cajun

1954 Death - Will Rossiter, composer, dies at 87

1954 Birthday - Billy Mumy, California, actor, Will Robinson-Lost in Space, Dear Brigitte

1953 Event - General Electric announces all Communist employees will be fired

1953 Birthday - Mark Will McNulty, Bindwa Zimbabwe, PGA golfer, 1982 Danny Thomas-4th

1953 Event - Bill Veeck says he will sell his 80% of St. Louis Browns for $2,475M

1952 Birthday - Gus Van Sant, born in Louisville, Kentucky, film director, musician, author, Academy-Award winning director of film, 'Good Will Hunting', other movies include, 'Milk', 'Elephant'

1952 Event - Marines give notice that they will recall Ted Williams to active duty

1951 Event - Dodgers sweep the Giants and lead by 7 games (Giants will win pennant)

1951 Event - New York Times reports the New York City subway will auction off things found

1950 Birthday - Livingston Taylor, Boston, rocker, I Will be in Love With You

1950 Birthday - Will Lee, rock guitarist, Late Show with David Letterman

1949 Death - Will Cuppy, American Writer

1949 Birthday - Gloria Gaynor, Newark, New Jersey, disco singer, I Will Survive

1948 Birthday - Little Peggy March, Margaret Battavio, vocalist, I Will Follow Him

1948 Event - "Cradle Will Rock" closes at Mansfield Theater New York City after 34 performances

1947 Event - "Cradle Will Ruck" opens at Mansfield Theater New York City for 34 performances

1947 Birthday - John C. Maxwell, born in Garden City, Michigan, evangelical Christian, author, pastor, speaker, leadership expert, wrote over 50 books on leadership, sold over 13 million copies including 'Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow'

1944 Death - Will Marion Cook, composer, dies at 75

1944 Event - Dodgers score 8 unearned runs against Braves to win 8-5 and break their 16-game losing streak, they will lose another 5 in a row

1943 Event - Texas League announces it will quit for the duration of WW II

1941 Event - Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, a date that will live in infamy

1941 Birthday - Dack Rambo, Delano California, actor, Guns of Will Sonnett, Dallas

1941 Event - Chicago Daily Tribune editorialize there will not be war with Japan

1941 Birthday - Miriam Margolyes, actress, Will Be

1941 Birthday - George Will, born in Champaign, Illinois, journalist, author, wrote, editor, National Review magazine 1972 - 1978, awarded Pulitzer Prize for Commentary

1941 Birthday - Billy Fury, Liverpool, singer/guitarist, When Will You Say I Love You

1941 Event - Lee MacPhail, Dodger General Manager predicts all players will wear batting helmets

1939 Birthday - Ruby Nash Curtis, U.S. singer, Romantics-Our Day Will Come

1939 Event - Chaim Weizmann informs England that Palestine Jews will fight in WW II

1939 Event - Beer Barrel Polka hits #1 on the pop singles chart by Will Glahe

1938 Event - George Cukor announces Vivien Leigh will play Scarlett O'Hara

1938 Event - Will Harridge is elected to a 10-year-term as AL president

1938 Event - DuPont announces its new synthetic fiber will be called "nylon"

1935 Death - Will Rogers, humoprist, killed in plane crash in Alaska at 55

1933 Event - 1st major league All-Star Game announced for July 6 at Comiskey Park It will be played as part of the Chicago World's Fair

1933 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt announces U.S. will leave gold standard

1933 Birthday - Joan Hackett, born in New York, actress, Will Penny, One Stone Pony

1932 Event - Clark Griffith announces Walter Johnson will be manager of Senators

1932 Birthday - Will Hutchins, Atwater, California, actor, Sugarfoot, Hey Landlord

1931 Event - John McGraw says night baseball will not catch on

1930 Event - Babe Ruth signs 2-year contract for $160,000 with New York Yankee General Manager Ed Barrow, wrongly predicts "No one will ever be paid more than Ruth"

1929 Event - AL announces it will discontinue MVP award

1929 Birthday - Will Eisma, composer

1929 Event - Red Sox announce they will play Sunday games at Braves Field

1928 Birthday - Will Gaines, jazz dancer

1927 Event - Rumour starts that Yankee Lou Gehrig will be traded to Tigers

1925 Birthday - Will Gay Bottje, composer

1923 Event - Cards announce their players will wear numbers on their uniforms

1921 Birthday - Will Ogdon, composer

1920 Event - Giants inform Yankees that the lease allowing them to play in the Polo Grounds will not be renewed at end of 1920 season

1920 Birthday - Joan Frances Will, actress

1919 Event - Red Sox owner Harry Frazee announces they will deal any player except Harry Hooper, Hooper is sent to the White Sox after 1920 season

1917 Birthday - Richard Boone, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Paladin-Have Gun Will Travel

1917 Event - Nicholas II, last Russian tsar, says he will abdicate

1917 Birthday - Will Eisner, American Cartoonist

1917 Event - AP reports Mexico and Japan will allie with Germany if U.S. enters WW I

1917 Event - Germany notifies U.S. that U-boats will attack neutral merchant ship

1913 Event - President Wilson says U.S. will never attack another country

1913 Event - Franz Kafka stops working on "Amerika"; it will never be finished

1912 Event - AL President Ban Johnson tells Tigers if they continue protest of Ty Cobb's suspension, they will be banned from baseball

1911 Birthday - Will Rogers, Jr., New York, actor, Down to Earth

1911 Event - Philadelphia Athletics are 12 games back in AL, and will win World Series

1909 Event - Jim Thorpe makes his pro baseball pitching debut for Rocky Mount (ECL) with 4-2 win, this will cause him to forfeit his Olympic medals

1909 Birthday - Rollo May, U.S., psychologist, Love and Will

1906 Event - Will Keith Kellogg found Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Co.

1905 Birthday - Marc Blitzstein, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, composer, Cradle Will Rock

1902 Birthday - Will Greer, born in Frankfort, Indiana, actor, Grandpa Walton-The Waltons

1900 Event - Giacobini discovers a comet (will be 1st comet visited by spacecraft)

1898 Event - Will Kieth Kellogg invents Corn Flakes

1894 Birthday - Will Wright, born in San Francisco, California, actor, Living Christ Story

1885 Birthday - Will Durant, U.S., author/historian, Story of Civilization

1885 Birthday - Jules Romains, France, novelist/playwright/poet, Men of Good Will

1884 Event - Sporting Life announces that both pennant winners will meet in 3 game series Oct 23-25 at Polo Grounds New York City to determine baseball champion

1884 Birthday - Will Cuppy, American Writer

1884 Event - William Sherman refuses Republican presidential nomination saying "I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected"

1882 Birthday - Will Vesper, German author, Vom grossen Krieg

1879 Birthday - Will Rogers, Oologah Indian Territory, Okla, humorist

1878 Event - Fever epidemic in New Orleans begin, it will kill 4,500

1869 Birthday - Will Marion Cook, composer

1867 Birthday - Will Rossiter, composer

1865 Birthday - Martinus Ballings, Flemish jesuit/author, Will Power

1862 Event - President Lincoln, says he will free slaves in all states on Jan 1

1861 Event - Lincoln writes to Kentucky's militia and says Union troops will not enter that state

1861 Event - Lincoln's cabinet declares Union government will pay for expenses once states have mobilized volunteers

1860 Birthday - Will Keith Kellogg, born in America, vegetarian, founder of Kellogg Company, pioneered process of making flaked cereal, promoted corn flakes as a healthy breakfast cereal

1843 Event - Preacher William Miller of Mass predicts the world will end today

1829 Death - James Smithson, dies, his will establishes Smithsonian Institute

1811 Birthday - Johannes H Scholten, Dutch theologist, Free Will

1789 Event - Congress proposes Bill of Rights (10 of 12 will ratify)

1492 Event - Spain announces it will expels all Jews

1350 Event - Orvieto city says it will behead and burn Jewish-Christian couples

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