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2012 Event - New Corporation announces its launch of 'The Sun on Sunday' to replace 'News of the World' which shut down due to a phone hacking controversy

2011 Event - Queen Elizabeth II visits Ireland's Croke Park in Dublin, where the Bloody Sunday massacre of 1920 occurred during the Irish War of Independence

2011 Event - Libya's military claims it will stop fighting Sunday to allow the rebels to turn themselves in

2010 Event - Santiago, Nuevo Leon's mayor, Edelmiro Cavazos is found dead, handcuffed and blindfolded after being abducted Sunday night

2010 Event - The inquiry into Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland, 1972, determined British paratroopers first the first shot without warning, and concocted lies to cover up their acts

2009 Death - Hugh Leonard, writer, winner, Jacob's Award, for 'Wuthering Heights', wrote Sunday Independent column 'The Curmudgeon', dies at age 82

2001 Death - William Berry, Lord Hartwell, 3rd Viscount Camrose and Baron Hartwell, journalist, newspaper owner, editor-in-chief of the Daily, Sunday Telegraph, dies in Westminster, London, at age 89

2000 Death - Robert Northshield, TV news producer, Sunday Morning, dies at 78

1997 Death - Charles Kuralt, news anchor for CBS Sunday Morning, dies at 62

1996 Death - Veronica Guerin, born in Ireland, nicknamed 'Ronnie', journalist, crime reporter, used pseudonyms, street names, exposing underworld figures in the Sunday Independent newspaper, helped found Criminal Assets Bureau, received death threats, murdered, by drug dealers, dies at 36

1996 Event - Sunday League game Kent 6-314 overhaul Leicestershire's 4-311

1995 Event - Sunday New York News increases price from $1.00 to $1.25

1995 Event - Sunday New York Times raises price from $2.00 to $2.50

1994 Death - Manos Hadjidakis, Greek composer (Never on Sunday), dies at 68

1994 Death - Melina Mercouri, Greek actress (Never on a Sunday), dies at about 68

1993 Event - Elton John awarded $518,700 from Sunday Mirror false report his diet

1993 Death - Freya Stark, English author (Sunday Bloody Sunday), dies at 61

1993 Death - Will Weng, Sunday Times crossword puzzle editor (1968-78), dies at 86

1992 Death - Frank Wilson, actor (Beware, Sunday Sinners, Club), dies at 37

1991 Event - 1st Sunday Night game at Shea Stadium, Mets beat Cubs 6-0

1991 Death - Sunday Wilshin, actor (Murder by Rope), dies at 86

1990 Event - "Independent on Sunday" begins publishing in London

1989 Event - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Bayakoa, Dancing Spree, Go for Wand, Prized, Rhythm, Steinlen, Sunday Silence

1989 Event - 115th Preakness: Pat Valenzuela aboard Sunday Silence wins in 1:53.8

1989 Event - 115th Kentucky Derby: Pat Valenzuela on Sunday Silence wins in 2:05

1987 Event - 1st "Scrub Sunday" of NFL football with replacement players

1986 Event - London Sunday Times reports Israel is stocking nuclear arms

1985 Event - "Sunday in the Park with George" closes at Booth New York City after 604 performances

1985 Event - Last edition of Brink Daily Mail/Sunday Express in South Africa

1984 Event - "Sunday in the Park with George" opens at Booth New York City for 604 performances

1983 Death - Georges Auric, French composer (It Always Rains on Sunday), dies at 84

1982 Death - Dorothy [Little-]Round, England, tennis star (Never on Sunday), dies

1974 Death - Andrea Checci, actress (2 Women, Assassin, Black Sunday), dies at 57

1973 Event - St. Patrick Day marchers carry 14 coffins commemorating Bloody Sunday

1972 Event - Bloody Sunday: British soldiers fire into crowd, kill 13

1972 Event - Bloody Sunday: British soldiers shoot on catholics in Londonderry, 13 die

1969 Birthday - Tracey Gold, New York City, actress, Carol-Growing Pains, Incredible Sunday

1966 Event - 1st day of Sunday play in County Cricket, Essex vs. Somerset

1963 Event - 1st Sunday night game in baseball San Francisco Giants lose to Houston Colts 3-0

1963 Event - Colt .45s beat Giants 3-0 in major leagues' 1st Sunday night game

1960 Event - Black Sunday - Riot in Algiers, 114 die

1960 Event - Phillies beat Reds 7-1, ending 16 consecutive Sunday loses

1959 Birthday - Veronica Guerin,, nicknamed 'Ronnie', journalist, crime reporter, used pseudonyms, street names, exposing underworld figures in the Sunday Independent newspaper, helped found Criminal Assets Bureau

1959 Birthday - Morrissey, British rock vocalist, Everyday is Like Sunday

1958 Birthday - Anneka Rice, born in Cowbridge, Wales, born Anne Rice, television hostess, ITV's cooking show, 'Sunday Feast', author, star in 'The Vagina Monologues'

1957 Event - Dutch ban on Sunday driving lifted

1956 Birthday - Charles Moore, British editor-in-chief, Sunday Telegraph

1955 Birthday - Maria Shriver, newscaster, Sunday Today

1955 Birthday - Chris Berman, born in Greenwich, Connecticut, sportscaster, nicknamed Boomer, anchor for Sunday NFL Countdown, Baseball Tonight, and other ESPN and ABC Sports shows

1951 Event - AL alters its restrictions on night games, adopting NL's suspended game rule and lifting its ban on lights for Sunday games

1949 Birthday - Andrew Nell, editor, Sunday Times

1949 Birthday - David Sullivan, English softporno/newspaper publisher, Sunday Sport

1946 Birthday - Andrea Mitchell, New York City, newscaster, NBC-TV, Summer Sunday USA

1946 Birthday - Bob Dotson, born in St. Louis, Missouri, newscaster, Primetime Sunday

1942 Birthday - Sandy Gilmour, Montclair, New Jersey, newscaster, Prime Time Sunday

1936 Birthday - John Dancy, born in Jackson, Texas, newscaster, Prime Time Sunday

1936 Birthday - Bekim Fehmiu, actor, Black Sunday, Permission to Kill, Cagliostro

1935 Death - Billy Sunday, American Athlete

1935 Birthday - Tony Campolo, born in America, pastor, speaker, author, promotes evangelical reform, leader, 'Red Letter Christian' movement, focusing on Christ's teachings, wrote, 'A Reasonable Faith', known for famous sermon, 'It's Friday, But Sunday's Coming!'

1934 Birthday - Peter Nero, New York City, conductor/pianist, A Sunday in New York

1934 Event - Pittsburgh is last major league city to play a home game on a Sunday

1933 Birthday - Jack Perkins, born in Cleveland, Ohio, newscaster, Prime Time Sunday, NBC Magazine

1933 Event - Baseball owners agree to ban Sunday doubleheaders until after June 15

1933 Event - 1st Sunday football game in Philadelphia (previously illegal)

1933 Event - Pennsylvania voters overturn blue law, by permitting Sunday sports

1932 Event - 1st Sunday game at Fenway Park, Yankees beat Red Sox 13-2

1931 Event - British House of Commons agrees for sports play on Sunday

1931 Birthday - Wolfgang Kohlhaase, born in Berlin, actor, director and writer, Solo Sunday

1929 Event - Red Sox announce they will play Sunday games at Braves Field

1927 Birthday - Robert Shaw, born in England, actor, Deep, Jaws, Sting, Black Sunday

1927 Event - For 2nd Sunday in a row golfers in South Carolina arrested for violating Sabbath

1926 Birthday - Hugh Leonard, born in Dublin, Ireland, writer, winner, Jacob's Award, for 'Wuthering Heights', wrote Sunday Independent column 'The Curmudgeon'

1926 Birthday - Leo Derksen, Dutch journalist, Telegraph/Sunday Newspaper

1925 Birthday - Manos Hadjidakis, Greek composer and conductor, Never on Sunday

1925 Birthday - Melina Mercouri, Athens Greece, actress/politician, Never on a Sunday

1924 Event - Sunday Express publishes 1st British crossword puzzle

1921 Event - Babe Ruth's 1st World Series homer; only Sunday game ever pitched by Carl Mays

1920 Birthday - John Junor, British editor in chief, Sunday Express

1919 Event - Dutch 2nd chamber approves 8-hour day/No Sunday work

1919 Event - 1st legal Sunday baseball game in New York City (Phillies beat Giants 4-3)

1919 Event - Giants play their 1st legal Sunday home game, 35,000 see Phils win 4-3

1918 Event - Washington 1st Sunday game, Senators beat Cleveland 1-0 in 18 innings

1918 Event - Sunday baseball is made legal in Washington D.C.

1917 Event - Sunday benefit baseball game at Polo Grounds results in John McGraw and Christy Mathewson's arrest for violating Blue laws

1917 Event - Robins (Dodgers) play their 1st Sunday game in Brooklyn

1916 Birthday - Marshall Field IV, publisher/editor, Chicago Daily News, Sunday Times

1911 Birthday - Jules Dassin, Middletown CT, director, Circle of Two, Never on Sunday

1911 Birthday - William Berry, born in England, Lord Hartwell, 3rd Viscount Camrose and Baron Hartwell, journalist, newspaper owner, editor-in-chief of the Daily, Sunday Telegraph

1905 Event - Bloody Sunday: Russian demonstrators fired on by tsarist troops

1901 Event - Benjamin Adams arrested for playing golf on Sunday, New York

1894 Event - 1st newspaper Sunday color comic section published (New York World)

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

1892 Event - 1st Sunday NL baseball game, Reds beat Cards 5-1

1883 Event - Cub's Billy Sunday's 1st at bat, begins 14 consecutive strikes out

1862 Birthday - Billy Sunday, American Athlete

1849 Event - U.S. had no president, Polks term ends on a Sunday, Taylor couldn't be sworn-in, Senator David Atchison (President pro tem) term ended March 3rd

1822 Event - 1st edition of London Sunday Times

1815 Event - Sunday observance in Netherlands regulated by law

1811 Death - Robert Raikes, founder of Sunday Schools, dies

1796 Event - 1st U.S. newspaper to appear on Sunday (Baltimore Monitor)

1795 Event - Curacao government forbids slave work on Sunday

1791 Event - Britain's Observer, oldest Sunday newspaper in world, 1st published

1780 Event - 1st British Sunday newspaper appears (British Gazette and Sunday Monitor)

1736 Birthday - Robert Raikes, England, Sunday school pioneer

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