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2012 Event - Facing fuel shortages after a fall storm, preparations are made for the US Coast Guard icebreaker USCGC Healy to accompany Russian tanker Renda to deliver fuel

2011 Event - Over 88 containers from the MV Rena, New Zealand's stranded cargo ship, fall into the Bay of Plenty

2011 Event - For the second day in a row, global stock markets fall as fears of a deepening economic crisis continue

2011 Event - Renewed concerns over the Eurozone debt crisis cause Asian markets to fall

2011 Event - As the Australian dollar falls below parity, Australian and New Zealand dollars continue to fall as investors seek security

2011 Event - Stock markets in Asia, Australia and the United States fall after the U.S. loses it's AAA credit rating

2010 Event - Hundreds of investors staged protests in Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, in response to the stock exchange's steepest daily fall

2010 Event - At last count, 76 people are dead while hundreds have disappeared after a train crash in the Republic of Congo caused the train to fall into a ravine

2000 Death - L. Sprague de Camp, writer, Lest Darkness Fall, dies at 92

1997 Death - Alvinio Misciano, Italian tenor, killed in a fall from a window

1996 Death - Mohamed Amin, cameraman, photojournalist, known for photos of Ethiopian famine, fall of Idi Amin, wrote, 'Journey Through Pakistan', dies at 53

1996 Event - "Apple Doesn't Fall" closes at Lyceum Theater New York City after 1 performance

1996 Event - "Apple Doesn't Fall" opens at Lyceum Theater New York City for 1 performance

1995 Death - Kingsley Amis, author, dies of injuries from a fall at 73

1995 Death - Phyllis Hyman, Phyllis Linda Hyman, soul singer, songwriter, actress, jazz, soul, rhythm and blues, disco genres, first solo Top Ten Hit, 'Can't We Fall In Love Again', received Tony-nomination for Broadway musical, Sophisticated Ladies, dies from suicide at 45

1994 Event - "Rise and Fall of Little Voice" closes at Neil Simon New York City after 9 performances

1994 Event - "Rise and Fall of Little Voice" opens at Neil Simon New York City for 9 performances

1993 Death - William L Shirer, writer (Rise and Fall of 3rd Reich), dies at 89

1991 Death - Richard Thorpe, director (Jailhouse Rock, Night Must Fall), dies

1990 Death - Troy Dixon, rapper (Trouble T-Roy of Heavy D), dies at 22 of a fall

1990 Event - New Kid on the Block Donnie Wahlberg release from hospital after fall

1988 Death - Mike Venezia, jockey, dies in 5th-race fall at Belmont Race Track, New York

1987 Event - Gregory Robertson does 200-mph free fall to save unconscious skydiver

1982 Event - "Taxi," last airs on ABC, moves to NBC in the fall

1981 Event - 2 climbers fall 550 m down cliff near Angel Falls, Venezuela

1979 Event - Iran proclaimed an Islamic Republic following fall of Shah

1974 Event - Fall of earth and rocks kill 200 (Quebrada Blanca Canyon, Colombia)

1973 Death - Robert Armstrong, actor (Fall Guy, Exposed), dies at 82

1972 Event - Jim Ryan (U.S.) and Billy Fordjour (Ghana) collide and fall in qualifying competitions for 1,500m finals, ending Ryan's chances for gold

1972 Event - Rock fall inside Vierzy Tunnel (France) causes 2 train crash; 107 die

1972 Event - David Bowie releases 'Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust'

1972 Event - Stewardess Vesna Vulovic survives 10,160m fall without parachute

1972 Event - NCAA announces freshman can play on teams starting in fall

1971 Death - Madame Spivy [LeVoe], actress (All Fall Down), dies at 64

1969 Event - New York Mets fall 9 games back, later to win pennant

1967 Birthday - Matt Howard, Fall River, Massachusetts, infielder, New York Yankees

1966 Death - Michael Garrison, producer (Crowded Sky), dies after a fall at 43

1965 Birthday - Julia Ormond, born in London, England, actress, Sabrina, Legends of the Fall

1964 Birthday - Steve Nevius, film editor, Eden, Fall Time, Damascus

1964 Birthday - William Thomas Andrade, Fall River, Massachusetts, PGA golfer, 1991 Kemper Open

1964 Event - Arthur Miller's "After the Fall," premieres in New York City

1963 Death - Henrietta Kreis, 3rd of famous Wallenda aerialist to fall to death

1961 Birthday - Greg Gagne, Fall River, Massachusetts, infielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers

1958 Event - Giant splash caused by fall of 90 million tons of rock and ice into Lituya Bay, Alaska washes 1,800 feet up the mountain

1956 Event - U.S. most intense rain fall (1.23" in 1 minute) at Unionville, Maryland

1952 Event - 9" of rain fall creates a 20' wave in Lynmouth, England killing 34

1950 Birthday - Ernest Thompson, Bellows Fall Vt, actor, Sierra, Westside Medical

1950 Event - 33.4 cm rain fall at York, Nebraska (state record)

1950 Birthday - Phyllis Hyman, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Phyllis Linda Hyman, soul singer, songwriter, actress, jazz, soul, rhythm and blues, disco genres, first solo Top Ten Hit, 'Can't We Fall In Love Again', received Tony-nomination for Broadway musical, Sophisticated Ladies

1950 Birthday - Mercedes R. Lackey, U.S., sci-fi author, Arrow's Fall, Magic's Pawn

1948 Birthday - Chris LeDoux, Biloxi Mississippi, country singer, Ridin' for a Fall

1947 Event - Daytime fireball and meteorite fall seen in eastern Siberia

1945 Event - Imperial General Headquarters in Tokyo announce fall of Okinawa

1944 Event - During WW II, U.S. troops capture Aachen, 1st large German city to fall

1943 Birthday - Mohamed Amin, born in Kenya, cameraman, photojournalist, known for photos of Ethiopian famine, fall of Idi Amin, wrote, 'Journey Through Pakistan'

1942 Event - Hitler proclaims fall of Stalingrad from Munich beer hall

1942 Birthday - Frankie Lymon, New York City, rocker, & Teenagers-Why do Fools Fall in Love

1941 Birthday - Herb Santiago, vocalist, Frankie Lymon and Teenagers-Why Do Fools Fall

1940 Birthday - Lee Majors, Wyandotte, actor, $6,000,000 Man, The Fall Guy

1940 Death - E E Clive, actor (Bulldog Drummond, Night Muss Fall), dies at 56

1936 Event - Jockey Ralph Neves unexpectedly revived after being declared dead after a fall. His wife fainted when he returned to track

1935 Birthday - Morton Dean, Fall River Massachusetts, TV newscaster, CBS, ABC

1929 Event - Former Interior Sec Albert Fall convicted of accepting $100,000 bribe

1929 Birthday - Burt Bacharach, born in Kansas City, Missouri, composer, I'll Never Fall in Love Again

1925 Death - Leo Fall, Austria operetta composer (That Pink von Stambul), dies

1925 Death - Leopold Fall, composer, dies at 52

1919 Event - Leslie Irvin of U.S. makes 1st parachute jump and free fall

1914 Event - U.S. Senator Albert Fall (Teapot Dome) demands "Cubanisation of Mexico"

1911 Event - 46" of rain begins to fall in Baguio, Philippines

1908 Event - Dirigible explodes over San Francisco Bay, 16 passengers fall, none die

1904 Birthday - William L Shirer, historian, Rise and Fall of 3rd Reich

1900 Event - Brigadier General Broadwoods troops fall into guerrilla hands

1899 Event - Natal: British fall/burst out belegerd Ladysmith

1897 Event - After Bob Fitzsimmons KOs much larger Jim Corbett to win world HW championship he says, "The bigger they are, the harder they fall"

1892 Birthday - Eduard J Dijksterhuis, Dutch mathematician/historian, Fall and Throw

1892 Event - Sunday school teacher Lizzie Borden arrested in Fall River, Mass

1891 Birthday - Ilya G Ehrenburg, born in Kiev, Ukraine, writer, Fall of Paris, The Thaw

1885 Event - News of fall of Khartoum reaches London

1883 Birthday - E E Clive, Monmouthshire Wales, actor, Night Must Fall, Dark Hour

1882 Event - 17" hailstones weighing 1.75 lbs fall in Dubuque Iowa

1879 Birthday - Gerrit J. Heering, Dutch theologist, Fall of Christianity

1873 Birthday - Leopold Fall, Austria, operetta composer, Dollar Princess

1803 Event - Meteorites fall in L'Aigle, France

1794 Event - Coup of thermidor/fall of Robespierre in Paris

1794 Death - Edward Gibbon, historian (Decline and Fall), dies in London at 56

1789 Death - Thomas Day, author, killed by fall from a horse at Wargrave Berkshire

1789 Event - Bastille Day-French Revolution begins with the fall of Bastille

1776 Event - 1st volume of Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of Roman Empire" published

1737 Birthday - Edward Gibbon, England, historian, Decline and Fall of Roman Empire

1737 Birthday - Edward Gibson, England, historian, Decline and Fall of Roman Emp

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













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