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1998 Bill Gates gets a pie thrown in his face in Brussels Belgium
1998 Britain's Queen Mother, 97, gets an emergency hip replacement 1998 Spice Girl Victoria Adams, aka Posh Spice, and soccer David Beckham gets engaged 1997 New York Ranger Wayne Gretsky wife Janet is knocked unconcious and gets 2 stitches while watching the game as a plexiglass falls on her 1997 Rocker Rick Danko gets suspended sentence in Japan for drug smuggling 1996 Wasim Jaffer gets 314* in 2nd cricket FC game for Mumbai vs. Saurashtra 1996 Wasim Akram and Saqlain Mushtaq gets cricket Test record 313 for 8th wkt 1996 Christie Brinkey gets married for 4th time, she marries Peter Cook 1996 Albert Belle uses a forearm to break up a double play and nearly breaks Brewer 2nd baseman Fernando Vina's nose, Belle gets 2 game suspension 1996 Aravinda De Silva gets 107* and 3-42 in cricket World Cup victory 1995 Jose Mesa gets 1st of his M.L. record 37 consecutive saves 1995 Howard Stern gets in trouble for disparaging remarks about Selena 1994 Austrian conservative Vice President wins elections/extreme right gets 18.5% 1994 Corrupt Italian ex-premier Craxi gets 8 year jail sentenced 1994 Poison singer Bret Michaels gets into a car crash 1993 Trailing 3-1 with 2 outs in 9th, time is called prior to Mike Stanley pop out, gets a 2nd chance, and Yankees rally to beat Boston 4-3 1993 Tony Gwynn gets 6 hits, 4th time in 1993 a Padre gets 5 or more hits 1992 David Houghton gets Zimbabwe's 1st Test ton (121 vs. India, debut) 1992 Kansas City Royal George Brett gets 4 hits to become 18th to get 3,000 hits 1992 Roseanne Barr Arnold gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame 1992 Kim Basinger gets 1,959th star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame 1992 Billy Joel, gets an honorary diploma from Hicksville High School at 43 1992 Donna Summer gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame 1992 George Bush gets ill and vomits on Japanese prime minister's lap 1991 DeForest Kelly (Dr. McCoy on Star Trek) gets a star in Hollywood 1990 Arsenio Hall gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame 1990 Marvin Gaye gets a star on Hollywood's walk of fame 1990 Little Richard gets a star on Hollywood's walk of fame 1989 Nolan Ryan's perfect game broken in 8th, but gets his 300th strikeout 1989 George Brett gets his 2,500th hit 1989 Mark McGwire's gets 100th home run, 2nd fastest (1400 at bats) (to Kiner) 1989 Rocker Carol King gets a star in Hollywood's walk of fame 1989 Jerry Lee Lewis gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame 1989 Mike Tyson gets 2nd speeding ticket for drag racing in Albany, New York 1989 Mike Tyson gets a speeding ticket for drag racing in Albany, New York 1989 Robert McFarlane gets $20,000 fine, 2 years probation for Iran-Contra 1989 Russian newspaper Izvestia gets its 1st commercial advertisement 1989 Actress Kelly McGillis gets married 1988 Oklahoma's College football team gets 3 year probation 1988 Staten Island ferry gets 1st pay phones 1988 New York Yankees Dave Winfield gets his 29th RBI of April - Sets AL and ties ML Record 1988 Hansie Cronje gets a pair in 2nd 1st-class game (OFS vs. N Tvl) 1987 Kevin Seitzer (Kansas City Royals), gets 6 hits in one baseball game 1987 Stacking of Discovery's SRBs gets underway 1986 Don Baylor gets hits by a pitch for a record 25th time in a season 1986 Red Sox pitcher Tim Lollar gets a pinch-hit single 1986 Kansas City Royal George Brett gets his 2,000th hit 1986 Despite losing, Red Sox Wade Boggs gets largest arbitration ($1.35M) 1985 Phoenix Arizona, gets 3 inches of snow 1985 Howard Stern gets fired from WNBC AM in New York 1985 Pete Rose of Cincinnati Reds gets career hit 4,192 off Eric Show of San Diego Padres, eclipsing Ty Cobb's record 1985 California Angel Rod Carew gets his 3,000th hit 1985 Boston Red Sox Fred Lynn gets 10 RBIs 1984 "Baby Fae" gets baboon heart transplant, lives 21 days 1984 Pete Rose returns to Cincinnati Reds as player-manager (gets 2 hits) 1984 Holly Roffey (11 days) gets heart transplant 1984 Kansas City Royals Dan Quisenberry gets his 200th career save 1984 Kallicharran gets 206 and 6-32 in a NatWest Trophy game 1984 Tulsa, Oklahoma gets 13" of rain, 14 die 1984 6 year old Texan Stormie Jones gets 1st heart and liver transplant 1983 Undefeated middleweight boxer Tony Ayala gets 35 years on sex assault 1982 Dentist Barney B Clark gets 1st artificial heart 1982 Zaheer Abbas gets his 100th 100 in Test Cricket vs. India, goes to 215 1982 Joe Lefevre gets 6 hits in one baseball game 1982 George Brett gets his 1,500th hit 1982 Pete Rose gets his 3,772nd hit, moves past Aaron into 2nd place 1982 John McMullen buys NHL Colorodo Rockies and gets approval to move to NJ 1981 Gerald P Remy of Boston gets 6 hits in a baseball game 1980 Dallas' "Who Shot JR?" episode (Kristen) gets a 53.3 rating (83 mill) 1980 Jorge Orta of Cleveland gets 6 hits in a baseball game 1980 Bombay gets its 1st rock concert in 10 years (The Police) 1979 Fleetwood Mac gets a star in Hollywood 1979 English seaside resort Brighton gets 1st British nude beach 1979 George Brett gets his 1,000th hit 1979 Today Show gets a new theme song 1979 Gavaskar gets twin tons for India for the third time (v WI) 1978 Gavaskar gets twin cricket tons for India for 2nd time 1977 Keith Richards gets suspended sentence for heroin possession, Canada 1976 Sex Pistols using profanity on TV, gets them branded as "rotten punks" 1975 G S Chappell gets ton in each inn of 1st Test Cricket as captain vs. WI 1975 Fred Lynn gets 10 RBIs in a Red Sox 15-1 victory over Tigers 1975 Mick Jagger punches a restaurant window, gets 20 stitches 1974 John Lennon's only solo #1 "Whatever Gets You Through the Night" 1974 Art Modell gets snowed in and misses his 1st Cleveland Brown game in 33 yrs 1974 A's Ken Holtzman, who hasn't batted all season, belts 3rd inning home run in Game 4 and gets the win, 5-2 1973 Kansas City Royals' George Brett gets his 1st major league hit 1970 Russian ballerina Natalia Makarova gets political asylum 1970 Ron Hunt gets hit by a pitch for a record 119th time 1969 Jackie DeShannon gets Gold Record for "Put Little Love in Your Heart" 1969 150,000 attend Newport '69, Jimi Hendrix gets $120,000 to appear 1969 Oakland A's Reggie Jackson gets 10 RBIs to beat Red Sox 21-7 1968 Netherlands gets color TV 1967 Cincinnati Red Jim Maloney retires 19 Pirates, then gets injured and leaves 1965 French president De Gaulle re-elected (Mitterrand gets 45%) 1964 Mickey Mantle gets hits #1999, 2000 and 2001 and his 450th home run 1964 St. Louis Card Curt Flood gets 8 straight hits in a doubleheader 1964 Rep Martha Griffiths address gets civil rights protection for women being added to the 1964 Civil Rights Act 1963 Malcolm Gets, actor, Richard Karinsky-Caroline In the City 1963 Muskegon, Michigan gets 3' of snow 1963 French air force gets 1st nuclear weapons 1963 Card's Stan Musial's final game, gets his 3,629th and 3,630th hit 1962 Nepal gets constitution/becomes Constitutional Hindu Monarchy 1962 BART bond issue just gets by with a 66.9% favorable vote 1962 U.S. National Radio Astronomy Obs gets a 300' (91m) radio telescope 1962 Johanne Relleke gets stung by bees 2,443 times in Rhodesia and survives 1960 Continental League, a proposed third major league, gets an assurance of congressional support from New York Senator Kenneth Keating 1959 Phils' Dave Philley gets a major league record 9th straight pinch hit 1957 Bkln Sports Authority gets an engineering report on 50,000-seat stadium in downtown area for estimated $207 million 1955 Boston Red Sox Norm Zauchin gets 10 RBIs, beating Senators 16-0 1954 Giants' Willie Mays gets 82nd extra-base hit, breaks Mel Ott's record 1954 Dean Stone gets credit for AL win, although he didn't retire a batter, he threw out Shoendienst trying to steal home, AL-11 NL-9 1954 Ted Williams gets 8 hits in 1st game (DH) since breaking collarbone 1953 Phillie's Connie Ryan gets 6 hits in a game 1951 Willie Mays gets his 1st major league hit, a home run 1950 U.N. gets U.S. government approval to issue postage stamps 1950 Joe DiMaggio gets his 2,000th hit 1949 Cincinnati Red Walker Cooper gets 10 RBIs 1949 Bradman plays his last innings in 1st-class cricket, gets 30 1946 Boston Red Sox Rudy York hits 2 grand slams in 1 game, gets 10 RBIs 1946 Wash's Cecil Travis gets 6 straight hits before being stopped 1945 Stan Musial gets 5 hits off 5 pitchers on 5 consecutive pitches 1945 A's catcher George George punches ump Joe Rue gets suspended 1945 Every Amsterdammer gets 3 kg sugar beets 1944 Field Marshal Rommel gets order to return to Berlin 1944 New York Giant Phil Weintraub gets 11 RBIs 1943 British premier Winston Churchill gets pneumonia 1942 Anne Frank gets her diary as a birthday present, Amsterdam 1941 Browns pitcher Johnny Niggling gets Joe DiMaggio in 4 at bats to stop DiMaggio's streak of 74 games in reaching base 1941 Yugoslavian coup gets rid of pro-German Prince Paul 1939 Kroatia gets autonomous status 1939 SA wicketkeeper Bradman gets his 6th straight ton, 135* vs. NSW 1938 Bradman scores 225 South Australia vs. Qld before Christ gets him out 1938 Baseball's Pinky Higgins gets 12th straight hit 1937 Mae West performs Adam and Eve skit that gets her banned from NBC radio 1937 Chicago Cub Frank Demaree gets 6 hits in 1st game and 2 in 2nd game 1936 New York Yankee Joe DiMaggio makes his major-league debut, gets 3 hits 1935 Amsterdam Hotel of the Red Lion gets sidewalk permit 1934 Bradman gets 160 Australia vs. Middlesex, 124 minutes, 27 fours, 1x6, 1x5 1934 Austrian gets "Austrian facist" constitution 1934 Carl Hubbell, NL MVP winner, gets $18,000 contract by the New York Giants 1932 German Election (NSDAP gets 37.3%) 1932 Jack Burnett gets 9 hits, Eddie Rommel relieves in 2nd 18-17 victory in 18 as his A's beats Indians in longest relief job 1932 A's Roger Cramer gets 6 consecutive hits in a game (repeats in 1935) 1932 Immigrant Adolf Hitler gets German citizenship 1931 George Gunn gets 183 and son of a gunn George Vernon 100* same innings 1930 Bradman gets his 1,000th run of the English Cricket season 1929 Belgium princess Marie-Jose and Italian crown prince Umberto gets engaged, assassination attempt on Umberto fails 1927 Princess Juliana gets seat in Dutch Council of State 1925 White Sox manager Eddie Collins gets 3,000 hit 1925 Cleveland Indian Tris Speaker gets his 3,000th hit 1923 Saxony gets Social Democratic and Communist coalition government 1922 Ty Cobb gets 5 hits in a game for record 4th time in a year 1922 St. Louis gets record 10 hits in a row and beats Phillies 14-8 1920 Browns 1st baseman George Sisler gets his record 257th hit of season 1917 Telephone Co runs 1st ad for Army operators, gets 7,000 applicants 1917 J. Edgar Hoover gets job on ministry of Justice 1911 Ty Cobb (AL) and Frank Schulte (NL) are 1st MVPs, each gets an auto 1910 Cleveland Indian Cy Young gets his 500th win, beats Washington 5-4 in 11 innings 1904 Frank Chance gets hit by pitch 5 times in a doubleheader 1899 U.S.-Spain peace treaty signed by President McKinley. U.S. gets Puerto Rico and Guam 1894 Dutch Society for Women Suffrage gets royal charter 1888 California gets its 1st seismograph 1886 George Goldie gets charter for Royal Niger Company 1883 Amsterdam's Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky gets electric lights 1876 California Street Cable Car Railroad Co gets its franchise 1873 Otto Harbach, songwriter, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes 1873 University of California gets its 1st Med School (UC/SF) 1871 1st baseball league game (National Association of Baseball Players), (Ft. Wayne 2, Cleveland 0) Deacon Jim White gets 1st hit, a double 1848 Edmund Hickly gets 1st known 10 wicket innings (Kent vs. England) 1848 Sardinia-Piemonte gets new Constitution 1848 Toscane gets liberal Constitution 1837 Spain gets new Constitution 1827 Dutch Trade Company NHM gets opium monopoly on Java 1826 Dutch Business Me gets monopoly on opium trade in Java/Madura 1815 Rossini gets assignment for Il barbiere di Siviglia 1714 Treaty of Baden: Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI and France, ends War of Spanish Succession, French retain Alsace, Austria gets bank of Rhine 1691 Colony Massachusetts Bay gets new charter 1657 France and England form alliance against Spain; England gets Dunkirk |
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