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2011 Event - The General Assembly of Rhode Island passes legislation allowing same-sex couples to enter civil unions

2009 Death - Claiborne Pell, dies in Newport, Rhode Island, of Parkinson's disease, at 90

2003 Event - Fire at the Station rock club in Rhode Island kills nearly 100

1999 Death - John Chafee, senator, Rhode Island senator, dies at 77

1987 Event - Iceberg twice size of Rhode Island sighted in Antarctic

1980 Birthday - Kelly Dutra, Miss Rhode Island Teen USA 1996

1979 Birthday - Kim Rhode, Whittier California, double trap, Gold Medal 1996 Olympics

1979 Birthday - Lauren Alviti, Miss Rhode Island Teen USA 1997

1979 Birthday - Mena Suvari, born in Newport, Rhode Island, actress, fashion designer, movies include: 'American Beauty', 'American Pie', 'Day of the Dead'

1978 Event - Arlyne Rhode sets female footbow distance record (1,113 yards and 30")

1976 Birthday - Karen Bradley, Miss Rhode Island USA 1996

1975 Event - 104 degrees F (40 degrees C) at Providence, Rhode Island (state record)

1975 Birthday - Elana Eve Chomiszak, born in Providence, Rhode Island, Miss America-Rhode Island 1997

1970 Birthday - Elizabeth Patricia Reilly, North Providence, Rhode Island, Miss America-RI 1996

1970 Birthday - Dawn Ponte, born in Kent, Rhode Island, dance skater, & Frey-1995 Eastern, Jr. champ

1970 Birthday - Kengy Gardiner, born in Providence, Rhode Island, WPVA volleyballer, U.S. Open-5th-1994

1969 Event - 78,000 attend Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, Rhode Island

1968 Birthday - Ken Ryan, Pawtucket, Rhode Island, pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies

1968 Birthday - Susan Emily Savastano, E Providence, Rhode Island, Miss RI-America 1991

1968 Birthday - Gianna Amore, born in Warwick, Rhode Island, playmate, August, 1989

1965 Birthday - Joe Cioe, Cranston, Rhode Island, Canadian Tour golfer, New Hampshire Open - 1992, 1993

1962 Birthday - Eric Lutes, born in Charlestown, Rhode Island, actor, Del-Caroline in the City

1961 Birthday - Pat Dufficy, born in Westerly, Rhode Island, female catcher, Colorado Silver Bullets

1960 Birthday - Susan Cowsill, Newport, Rhode Island, rock vocalist, Cowsills-We Can Fly

1960 Birthday - John Caliri, born in Providence, Rhode Island, actor, Vinnie-Square Pegs, Double Trouble

1956 Birthday - Peter Frechette, Warwick, Rhode Island, actor, Paint it Black, George-Profiler

1956 Birthday - John Cowsill, born in Newport, Rhode Island, rock drummer, Cowsills-We Can Fly

1954 Birthday - Barry Cowsill, Newport, Rhode Island, rock bassist, Cowsills-We Can Fly

1952 Birthday - Paul Cowsill, Newport, Rhode Island, rock keyboardist, Cowsills-We Can Fly

1952 Birthday - Harry Anderson, Newport, Rhode Island, actor, Judge Harry Stone-Night Court

1952 Birthday - William F Readdy, Quonset Point, Rhode Island, astronaut, STS-42, 51, 79

1950 Birthday - Richard Cowsill, Newport, Rhode Island, rocker, Cowsills-Hair, We Can Fly

1949 Birthday - Jack Reed, born in Cranston, Rhode Island, Representative-D-Rhode Island 1997 -

1948 Birthday - Allen Michael Doyle, born in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, PGA golfer, 1991 Memorial-64th

1948 Birthday - Jeffrey Osborne, born in Providence, Rhode Island, rock vocalist, On the Wings of Love

1948 Birthday - Bill Cowsill, Newport, Rhode Island, rock guitarist/vocals, Cowsills-We Can Fly

1947 Birthday - Joyce Jillson, Cranston, Rhode Island, psychic/actress, Superchick

1947 Event - 1st (U.S. Navy) air squadron of jets, Quonset Point, Rhode Island

1947 Birthday - James Woods, born in Warwick, Rhode Island, actor, Salvador, Against All Odds

1945 Birthday - Robert J. Mrazek, born in Newport, Rhode Island, Representative-D-New York 1983 - 1993

1944 Birthday - Martha Rockwell, born in Providence, Rhode Island, skier, Mount Washington

1942 Birthday - Bill Conti, born in Providence, Rhode Island, composer, For Your Eyes Only, Rocky IV

1942 Event - -23 degrees F (-31 degrees C), Kingston, Rhode Island (state record)

1941 Birthday - Spalding Gray, Rhode Island, actor, Beaches, Clara's Heart, Heavy Petting

1941 Birthday - David Blue, Cohen, born in Providence, Rhode Island, rocker, Cupid's Arrow

1939 Birthday - Wendy, Walter, Carlos, Pawtucket, Rhode Island, composer, Switched on Bach

1938 Birthday - Alvin Curran, born in Providence, Rhode Island, composer, professor at Mills College, co-founder of Musica Elettronica Viva, using electronic and environmental found sounds

1936 Birthday - Ruth Buzzi, Westerly, Rhode Island, comedienne, Laugh-In, Margie-That Girl

1935 Birthday - David Hartman, Pawtucket, Rhode Island, TV personality, Good Morning America

1934 Birthday - J. Carter Brown, Providence Rhode Island, art director, Washington National Gallery

1932 Event - 30.8 cm rainfall at Westerly, Rhode Island (state record)

1927 Birthday - Galway Kinnell, born in Providence, Rhode Island, author, Body Rags, Book of Nightmares

1926 Birthday - David Hedison, born in Providence, Rhode Island, actor, Colbys, Voyage to Bottom of Sea

1924 Birthday - Nicholas Colasanto, born in Providence, Rhode Island, actor, Coach Ernie-Cheers

1922 Birthday - John Chafee, born in Providence, Rhode Island, Senator-R-Rhode Island 1976 - 1999

1918 Birthday - Claiborne Pell, born in New York, sponsor of the Pell Grant, U.S. State Senator from Rhode Island

1917 Birthday - Ruth Hussey, born in Providence, Rhode Island, actress, Another Thin Man, Philadelphia Story

1916 Birthday - Van Johnson, Newport, Rhode Island, actor, Brigadoon, always wore red socks

1915 Birthday - Bobby Hackett, born in Providence, Rhode Island, trumpeteer/orchestral leader, Air Time '57

1906 Birthday - Aileen Riggin, Newport, Rhode Island, springboard diver, Gold Medal 1920, 1924 Olympics

1903 Birthday - Glenna Collett Vare, born in Rhode Island, National Am Golf champ, 1922, 25, 28-30, 35

1903 Birthday - Frankie Carle, born in Providence, Rhode Island, orchestra leader, Golden Touch

1901 Birthday - Nelson Eddy, born in Providence, Rhode Island, baritone, Duets with Jeanette MacDonald

1899 Birthday - George Macready, born in Providence, Rhode Island, actor, Martin Peyton-Peyton Place

1896 Event - A. H. Whiting wins 1st automobile race held on a track in Cranston, Rhode Island

1896 Death - Wyatt Eaton, artist, painter, portraitist, one of the founders of the Society of American Artists, dies from tuberculosis in Newport, Rhode Island

1895 Event - 1st U.S. Golf Open: Horace Rawlins shoots a 173 at Newport Golf Club Rhode Island

1894 Birthday - Eddie Dowling, Woonsocket, Rhode Island, actor, Anywhere USA

1894 Birthday - Sammy White, Rhode Island, actor, 711 Ocean Drive, Sound Off

1880 Event - League of American Wheelmen (1st U.S. bicycle association), forms in Newport, Rhode Island

1875 Birthday - Napoleon "Larry" Lajoie, Rhode Island, hall of fame shortstop, .426 in 1901

1862 Event - U.S. Naval Academy relocated from Annapolis Maryland to Newport, Rhode Island

1830 Birthday - William Sprague, governor of Rhode Island, 1859-63

1813 Event - David Melville, Newport, Rhode Island, patents apparatus for making coal gas

1798 Event - David Wilkinson of Rhode Island patents a nut and bolt machine

1790 Event - Rhode Is becomes last of original 13 colonies ratifying Constitution

1778 Event - Rhode Island General Assembly authorizes enlistment of slaves

1776 Event - Rhode Island establishes wage and price controls to curb inflation: Limit is 70 cents a day for carpenters, 42 cents for tailors

1776 Event - Rhode Island declares independence from England

1774 Event - Rhode Island becomes 1st colony to prohibit importation of slaves

1772 Event - Burning of Gaspee, British revenue cutter, by Rhode Islanders

1761 Event - Puritan version of "Othello" opens in Newport Rhode Island

1707 Birthday - Stephen Hopkins, Governor of Rhode Island signed Declaration of Independence

1664 Event - Roger Williams is granted a charter to colonize Rhode Island

1663 Event - King Charles II of England grants a charter to Rhode Island

1652 Event - Rhode Island enacts 1st law declaring slavery illegal

1644 Event - England grants patent for Providence Plantations (now Rhode Island)

1639 Event - William Coddington founds Newport, Rhode Island

1636 Event - City of Providence, Rhode Island form

1631 Event - Rhode Island, founder, Roger Williams arrives in Boston from England













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