2015 Event Over 3.5 million people in Paris and across France stage unity rallies to protest the recent Islamist terrorist attack on the offices of French satire magazine 'Charlie Hebdo'; the rallies carry the theme 'Je Suis Charlie' (I am Charlie) 2004 Death Laura Branigan, singer, How Am I Supposed to Live Without You?, dies at 47 2004 Event Tony Awards, Avenue Q, I Am My Own Wife, Henry IV revival and Assassins revival won major awards 1997 Event At 6:11 AM San Francisco experiences a black out 1995 Event New York City agrees to sell it's 2 owned radio stations (WNew York City AM and FM) 1995 Event "Late Late Show" with Tom Snyder premieres on CBS at 12:30 AM 1994 Event -20 degrees F (-29 degrees C) (5:32 AM) coldest day ever recorded in Cleveland Ohio 1993 Death Anthonius AM "Ton" Kors, writer (Time of Anton de Lange), dies at 47 1993 Event Mats Wilander defeats Mikael Pernfors 7-6 (7-3), 3-6, 1-6, 7-6 (8-6), 6-4 in 4 hours 1 minutes U.S. Open Tennis match concluding at 2:26 AM 1993 Event Don Imus begins broadcasting to Boston on WEEI (590 AM) 1993 Death Bob Fitzsimmons, New York radio DJ (WNEW AM/WABC AM/WHN AM), dies at 53 1992 Event WNew AM (1130) New York City resigns air, replaced by WBBR 1992 Event WNEW AM radio on 1130 in New York City ends transmitting after 58 years 1992 Event FCC rules companies can own 30 AM and 30 FM stations (formerly 12) 1991 Death Tutte Lemkow, dancer/dir (Captain Paradise, I am a Camera), dies at 73 1991 Event Pan Am games closes in Havana 1991 Event Pan Am games open in Havana 1990 Event At Yankee Stadium rally, Nelson Mandela dons a New York Yankee baseball cap and proclaims "I am a Yankee!" 1989 Event At 7:42 AM, radio has a 30 2nd silence, honoring radio 1988 Event New York bound Pan Am jumbo jet explodes over Scotland all 258 aboard die 1988 Event Mike Schmidt sets NL record appearing in 2,155 games at 3rd base, as Phillies and New York Mets end that game at 2:13 AM 1987 Death Roger Lewis, aviation executive (Lockheed, C Wright, Pan Am), dies at 75 1987 Event "Nightline" presents it's 1st "Town Meeting" the subject is AIDS and the show runs until 3:47 AM 1987 Death Gerald Moore, England, pianist (Am I Too Loud), dies at 87 1985 Event Howard Stern gets fired from WNBC AM in New York 1982 Death John AM "Hans" van Tongeren, actor (Hunk), commits suicide at 27 1982 Event WQXI, Atlanta, is 1st to use Harris Corp AM stereo system 1982 Event KHJ (LA) and KFRC (SF) become 2nd and 3rd stereo AM stations 1982 Event FCC approves AM stereo radio, KTSA San Antonio goes stereo 1982 Event Pan Am Boeing 727 crashes in Kenner, Louisiana, killing 153 1981 Event Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco opens at 11:30 AM 1981 Event MTV premieres at 12:01 AM 1981 Event Rochester Red Wings and Pawtucket Red Sox play to 2-2 tie in 32 innings, game suspended at 4:07 AM (Pawtucket later wins in 33rd) 1980 Event 61 degrees F in Boston at 1 AM 1980 Event Phillies and San Francisco Giants end their game at 3:11 AM 1977 Event 2 Boeing 747s by Pan Am and KLM collide in Canary Islands, killing 582 1977 Event 5 die as New York Airway helicopter topples on Pan Am building in New York City 1977 Event 583 die in aviation's worst disaster KLM-Pan Am 747 crash on Tenerife 1976 Event Pan Am begins non-stop flights New York City - Tokyo 1975 Event Cuba beats Mexico for its 4th Pan Am Games Gold Medal in baseball 1975 Event Phillies and New York Mets play a doubleheader that ends at 3:15 AM 1975 Event "AM America," premieres on ABC-TV with Bill Beutel as host 1974 Event Pan Am 707 crashes into mountains of Bali, killing 107 1969 Event Neil Armstrong steps on Moon at 2:56:15 AM, GMT 1968 Event 21 killed by hijackers aboard a Pan Am jet in Karachi Pakistan 1968 Event Yankees and Tigers play 3-3 tie in 19 due to 1 AM curfew 1968 Event Radio Prague, Czechoslovakia at 12:50 AM announces a soviet led invasion 1967 Birthday Salli Richardson, born in Chicago, Illinois, television, film, actress, 'Posse', 'A Low Down Dirty Shame', and 'Antwone Fisher', appeared in 2007 film, 'I Am Legend' 1967 Event BBC unofficially bans "I Am the Walrus" by Beatles 1967 Event At 11 AM, Census Clock at Department of Commerce ticks past 200 million 1966 Event "I Am A Rock" by Simon and Garfunkel peaks at #3 1966 Event Pan Am places $525,000,000 order for 25 Boeing 747s 1965 Death Mehdi Am Barka, Moroccan socialist leader, murdered in Paris 1965 Event 1st all news radio station (WINS 1010 AM in New York City) begins operating 1965 Birthday Martin Lawrence, born in Frankfurt am Main, West Germany, comedian, actor, producer, director, appeared in his own hit series, Martin on FOX 1965 Event At 10:58 am PST burn up a nuclear rocket in Nevada 1963 Event At 4 AM, traffic on Bay Bridge is 1-way on each deck 1963 Event At 10:59 AM census clock, records U.S. population at 190,000,000 1963 Event Kennedy visits W Berlin "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner) 1962 Event Stevenson demands U.S.S.R. ambassador Zorin answer regarding Cuban missile bases saying "I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over" 1960 Event Virtually all coastal towns between 37th and 44th parallels severly damaged by tsunami that strikes Hilo, Hawaii at 01:04 AM 1960 Birthday Linda Jezek, born in California, backstroke swimmer, Pan Am Gold-1979 1959 Event Pan Am begins regular flights around World 1958 Birthday Margo [AM] Vliegenthart, Dutch 2nd Chamber member, PvdA 1958 Event Buses replace Key System trains at 3 AM 1955 Birthday Paul Simonon, English pop bassist, Clash-Havana 3 AM 1955 Birthday Johannes AM "Hans" van Tongeren, Dutch actor, Hunk 1953 Event Sultan Sidi Mohammed Am Joessoef V of Morocco deposed 1953 Birthday Samantha Sang, born in Melbourne, Australia, singer, pop genre, hit song at age 15 titled, 'You Made Me What I Am' 1953 Birthday Chaka Khan, born in Great Lakes, Illinois, rocker, Rufus-I am Every Woman 1952 Event "I am an American Day" and "Constitution Day" renamed "Citizenship Day" 1952 Birthday Abdel Basset Ali Al-Megrahi, born in Tripoli Libya, bomber, Pan Am 103 1951 Event John Van Druten's "I am a Camera," premieres in New York City 1949 Birthday Cyndy Garvey, born in Detroit, wife of Steve Garvey, talk show host, AM LA 1947 Birthday Rick Derringer, rocker, I am the Real American, Hulk Hogan's theme 1947 Event Pan Am Airways chartered as 1st worldwide passenger airline 1942 Event 1st around world flight, Pan Am "Pacific Clipper" 1941 Birthday Helen Reddy, born in Melbourne, Australia, rock vocalist, I Am Woman 1941 Birthday Frank AM Aendenboom, Flemish actor, Lion of Flanders 1940 Event Dutch "Curfew" forms (12 AM - 4 AM) 1940 Death Rene "Sascha" Schickele, German writer (Erbe am Rhein), dies at 56 1939 Event Pan Am opens southern route transatlantic air service, Dixie Clipper 1939 Event Pan Am's 1st U.S. to England flight 1939 Event Pan Am begins transatlantic passenger and air mail service 1939 Birthday Hugh Masekela, born in Wilbank, South Africa, trumpeter, I Am Not Afraid 1937 Event Pan Am starts San Francisco-to-Auckland, New Zealand service 1937 Event 1st commercial flight across Pacific, Pan Am 1936 Event Bachelor's Children debuts on CBS radio (at 9:45 am) 1933 Event 21st Am ratified, 18th Amendment, Prohibition, repealed 1930 Death Jonkvrouw Catharina AM de Savornin Lohman, author, dies at 62 1929 Event AM radio station WOWO, Indiana's transmitter burns down 1927 Event At 7:40 AM, Lindbergh takes off from New York to cross Atlantic for Paris 1927 Birthday Martin Walser, born in Wasserburg am Bodensee, Germany, writer, 1998 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade winner, known for 'Runaway Horse', famous for describing conflicts his anti-heroes have in stories and novels 1925 Event French psychologist Emil Coue brings his self-esteem therapy to U.S. "Every day in every way I am getting better and better" 1921 Birthday Jerome Hines, Heinz, born in Hollywood, California, basso, I am The Way 1918 Event Armistice Day-WW I ends (at 11 AM on Western Front) 1918 Birthday Ron Randell, Sydney Australia, actor, Loves of Carmen, I am a Camera 1916 Birthday Ferdinand AM van der Ham, Dutch WW II resistance fighter 1912 Birthday Marga AM Klompe, 1st Netherland woman elected minister 1912 Event Titanic sinks at 2:27 AM off Newfoundland as band plays on 1912 Birthday Roger Lewis, aviation executive, Lockheed, Curtiss Wright, Pan Am 1910 Birthday Govan AM Mbeki, South African leader, ANC/SACP 1909 Birthday John Beal, Joplin, Missouri, actor, 10 Who Dare, I Am the Law, Amityville 3D 1906 Birthday Anton AM Struyken, minister of justice/governor Dutch Antilles 1903 Event At 10:35 AM, 1st sustained motorized aircraft flight (Orville Wright) 1903 Birthday Lodewijk AM "Lou" Lichtveld, Albert Helman, Suriname author 1903 Birthday Glenna Collett Vare, born in Rhode Island, National Am Golf champ, 1922, 25, 28-30, 35 1900 Birthday Alexandre AM Stols [Chl van Halsbeke], publisher, History of Ecuador 1899 Birthday Gerald Moore, England, pianist, Am I Too Loud 1899 Birthday Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, born in Long Island, New York, founder, Pan Am Airways 1896 Event England defeated Zanzibar in a 38-minute war (9:02 AM-9:40 AM) 1890 Birthday Hans Gal, born in Brunn am Gebirge, Austria, pianist, composer, teacher, trained at New Vienna Conservatory, director, Mainz Conservatory 1889 Birthday Adolf Hitler, born in Braunau am Inn, Austria-Hungary, genocidal leader of Germany 1887 Death Multatuli, writer, named most important Dutch writer of all time, 2002, Society for Dutch literature, dies in Ingelheim am Rhine, Germany 1873 Birthday Otto Loewi, Frankfurt am Main Germany, physician, Nobel-1936 1868 Event Severe earthquake at 7:53 AM, centered in Hayward, California 1865 Death Abraham Lincoln, assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at 7:22 am, Representative-R-Illinois 1847 - 1849, 16th president 1861 - 1865 1856 Birthday Achad Ha'am, Asjer Ginsberg, Hebrew philosopher and writer 1842 Birthday Constantly AM Cap, Flemish poet/etcher 1650 Death Rene Descartes, philosopher "I think therefore I am", stops thinking 1650 Death Rene Descartes, philosopher "I think therefore I am", stops thinking 1597 Event At 4:30 AM Willem Barents leaves Novaya Zemlya for Netherlands 1571 Event Johannes Kepler, by his own calculations, is conceived at 4:37 AM
