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2012 Event - In his first political speech, marking the five-year anniversary of his mother's death, ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's son, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, vows to maintain democracy and fight militancy

2011 Event - Dubbed the 'Day of Martyrs' in honor of those killed in their fight for freedom, Egyptians continue protesting for the 13th day in Tahir Square

2010 Event - In France, over 200 protests occur in as part of the 2010 strikes to fight against plans to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62

2009 Event - Two mass graves relating to Columbia's long fight with the Farc, were found in northwest and south Columbia

1997 Death - Alex Macintosh, broadcaster/actor (Hell Fight), dies at 72

1995 Event - George Foreman loses IBF boxing title, refused to fight Axel Schulz

1995 Event - George Foreman loses WBA boxing title, refusing to fight Tony Tucker

1995 Event - Ecuador and Peru involve in boundary fight

1994 Death - Rossano Brazzi, It resistance fight/actor (Final Justice), dies at 78

1992 Event - Lennox Lewis given WBC title, when Riddick Bowe refused to fight him

1991 Event - Former New York Jet Mark Gastineau wins 1st pro boxing fight in 12 seconds

1990 Death - Henry Lauter, actor (Tarzan's Fight), dies

1990 Event - Pistons and 76'ers get into a fight accruing $162,500 fines (NBA record)

1989 Event - Soviet-U.S. agreement allows Soviets to fight U.S. pros

1985 Event - Mike Tyson KOs Hector Mercedes in 1 round in his 1st pro fight

1984 Event - NL suspends Mario Soto 5 days for Reds-Cubs fight on May 27th

1984 Event - Lebanese army fight in Beirut

1983 Event - Michael Dokes and Mike Weaver fight to a draw in 15 for hw boxing title

1982 Death - Roy Webb, composer, arranger for over 200 films, Academy Award nominee, wrote fight song 'Roar, Lion, Roar', dies at 94

1982 Event - Howard Cossell calls his last fight after being disgusted by Larry Holmes-Tex Cobb mismatch

1982 Event - Pentagon plans 1st strategy to fight a nuclear war

1982 Death - Red Smith, sportscaster (Pulitzer, Fight Talk), dies at 76

1981 Event - Muhammad Ali's 61st and last fight, losing to Trevor Berbick

1981 Death - Lola Lane, actress (Zanzibar, Mystery Ship, Big Fight), dies

1977 Event - Thomas Hearns KOs Jerome Hill in 2 rounds in his 1st pro fight

1977 Event - Sugar Ray Leonard beats Luis Vega in 6 rounds in his 1st pro fight

1975 Event - Kurds end fight against Iraqi army

1974 Event - A's Reggie Jackson and Bill North engage in clubhouse fight at Detroit

1974 Event - Iran/Iraqi border fight breaks out

1973 Event - 1st heavyweight championship fight in Japan (Foreman beats Roman)

1970 Event - Super Fight, computer mock championship between Ali and Marciano

1969 Birthday - Edward Norton, born in Boston, Massachusetts, actor, appeared in films, 'Primal Fear', 'Rounder', 'Fight Club', 'Red Dragon', 'The Illusionist'

1969 Event - Chinese-Russian borders fight (approx 70 die)

1968 Event - Israeli-Jordan border fight

1966 Birthday - Ad-Rock, Adam Horowitz, rocker, Beastie Boys-You Gotta Fight

1966 Event - Peru and Argentina soccer fans fight in Lima; 248 die

1965 Birthday - Mike Diamond, born in New York City, New York, rap vocalist, Beastie Boys-You Gotta Fight

1965 Event - Phillies Dick Allen and Frank Thomas get into a fight during practice

1965 Event - U.S. troops ordered to fight offensively in Vietnam

1965 Event - India and Pakistan engage in border fight

1964 Birthday - MCA, Adam Yauch, rock vocalist, Beastie Boys-You Gotta Fight

1962 Death - Benny "Kid" Paret, U.S. welterweight boxer, dies after fight, at 24

1962 Event - U.S. advisors in South-Vietnam join the fight

1960 Event - Muhammad Ali's 1st professional fight, beats Tunney Hunsaker in 6

1954 Event - 1st color telecast of a prize fight, Giardello vs Troy in MSG, New York City

1953 Birthday - Dave Amato, rocker for REO Speedwagon, Can't Fight this Feeling

1951 Event - Baseball Commish Happy Chandler loses fight (9-7) to stay in office

1950 Birthday - Karl Rove, born in Denver, Colorado, Deputy Chief of Staff to President George W. Bush, author, 'Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight'

1950 Event - Vic Toweel knocks down Danny O'Sullivan 14 times in a title fight

1950 Event - 1st Major League baseball player to fight in Korea (Curt Simmons)

1948 Birthday - Ruben Blades, salsa singer and actor, Critical Condition, Last Fight

1947 Event - President Truman introduces Truman-doctrine to fight communism

1944 Event - Rotterdam Passage fight frees 46 prisoners

1944 Death - John Post, Dutch farmer/resistance fighter (passage fight), executed

1943 Event - Hitler orders nazi troops at Stalingrad to fight to death

1942 Event - Hitler orders Rommels African corps to fight to last man

1942 Event - Fight at Matanikau, Guadalcanal (John Hersey-Into the Valley)

1940 Event - 1st Polish squadrons fight along in the Battle of Britain

1940 Event - Winston Churchill says "We shall fight on the seas and oceans"

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

1938 Event - British leaders and Arabians fight in Palestine

1938 Event - March of Dimes established to fight polio

1932 Birthday - Don King, fight promoter, Mike Tyson

1927 Event - Famous "Long count" fight (Dempsey loses boxing title to Tunney)

1925 Birthday - Alex Macintosh, broadcaster/actor, Hell Fight

1925 Event - Spain and France fight Morocco

1916 Event - Heavyweight Jess Willard and Franc Moran fight to no decision in New York City

1915 Event - German and French fight Battle of Artois

1915 Event - Vladmir Jabotinsky forms a Jewish military force to fight in Palestine

1915 Birthday - Gus Lesnevich, light heavyweight boxing champ, 1947 fight of year

1914 Event - Germany offers Austria war aid to fight against Russia in Serbia

1913 Event - Heavyweight Jack Johnson-Jim Johnson fight to no decision in Paris

1908 Event - Quickest world heavyweight title fight (Burns KOs Roche in 88 seconds)

1906 Event - Tommy Burns and Jack O'Brien fight to a draw in 20 for hw boxing title

1906 Birthday - Johannes Post, Dutch farmer/resistance fighter, passage fight

1905 Birthday - Red Smith, Green Bay Wisconsin, sportscaster/columnist, Fight Talk

1902 Event - Most knock downs in a fight, Oscar Nelson (5) and Christy Williams (42)

1900 Event - Rival forces fight for control of the Union Park ball grounds in Balt

1896 Event - Fight in Central Dance Hall starts fire (Cripple Creek Colorado)

1891 Event - Boxers Peter Jackson and Jim Corbett fight to a draw in 61 rounds

1888 Birthday - Roy Webb, born in New York City, New York, composer, arranger for over 200 films, Academy Award nominee, wrote fight song 'Roar, Lion, Roar'

1887 Event - Jake Kilrain and Jem Smith fight 106 round bare knuckle draw

1885 Event - Boxing's 1st heavyweight title fight with 3-oz gloves and 3-minute rounds fought between John L Sullivan and Dominick McCaffrey

1879 Event - Longest championship fight (136 rounds)

1876 Event - Nelly Saunders and Rose Harland fight 1st female boxing match (NY)

1864 Event - Cavalry fight at Old Church (Totopotomoy Creek) Virginia

1863 Event - 1st black regiment (54 Mass) leaves Boston to fight in Civil War

1856 Event - James Kelly and Jack Smith fight bareknuckle for 6h15m in Melbourne

1849 Event - 1st U.S. prize fight fatality (Tom McCoy)

1836 Event - 3,000 Mexicans beat 182 Texans at the Alamo, after 13 day fight

1781 Event - George Washington begins to move his troops south to fight Cornwallis

1775 Event - Americans drag cannon up hill to fight British (Gun Hill Road, Bronx)

1747 Birthday - John Paul Jones, naval hero, "I have not yet begun to fight"

1746 Death - John Peter Zenger, journalist, involved in 1st amendment fight, dies

1688 Birthday - Lukas Fencer, Dutch poet, Fight of Kings and Mice













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