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2000 Craig Claiborne, food author, New York Times, dies at 79
1998 Esther Rolle, actress, Good Times, dies at 78 1997 Richard Berry, musician, singer, songwriter, wrote, 'Louie Louie', sold copyright in 1959, song has since been recorded over 1,000 times, dies at 61 1996 NFL/Heisman Trophy Winner Mike Rozier, is shot several times 1996 Sony does not renew lease on megatron in Times Square 1995 Sunday New York Times raises price from $2.00 to $2.50 1994 Eddie Murray sets record for switch hit home runs in a games (11 times) 1993 Sam Zolotow, U.S. theater critic (New York Times), dies at 94 1993 Croupier of casino in Bristol England, shoots a 4, a record 8 times 1993 Harrison E. Salisbury, U.S. journalist (New York Times), dies at 84 1993 Will Weng, Sunday Times crossword puzzle editor (1968-78), dies at 86 1990 500 pound Hershey Kiss is displayed in Times Square 1990 Andre Dawson sets record being intentionally walked 5 times 1987 "Black Monday"-Dow Jones down 508.32, 4 times previous record 1987 Donald Trump takes out a full page New York Times ad lambasting Japan 1987 Brewers' Rob Deer struck-out 5 times in a game 1986 London Sunday Times reports Israel is stocking nuclear arms 1986 Robby Thompson (SF) sets record, caught stealing 4 times in 1 game 1986 San Francisco Giant Robby Thompson is caught stealing record 4 times 1986 Mariners strike out 16 times, set record of 36 in 2 consecutive games 1986 Iowa's All-American running back, Ronnie Harmon, fumbles the ball 4 times in his last game at the Rose Bowl 1985 Houston quarterback Warren Moon sacked NFL tying record 12 times (by Cowboys) 1984 Cyndi Lauper's 1st #1 "Time After Times" 1983 Reggie Jackson is 1st major leaguer to strike out 2,000 times 1982 John C Gardner, U.S., writer (Life and Times of Chaucer High), dies at 49 1982 California catches A's Rickey Henderson stealing 3 times 1982 New York Times reports that military will get 25% of NASA's budget 1982 New York Times raises it's price from 25 cents to 30 cents 1981 Browns' quarterback Brian Sipe sets club record by being intercepted 6 times 1980 St. Louis Cardinals sack Baltimore Colt quarterbacks an NFL record tying 12 times 1979 British newspaper "Times" resumes publishing after 1 year 1978 Al Unser became 5th to win Indianapolis 500, 3 times 1978 Aldo Moro, 5 times Prime Minister of Italy, assassinated by terrorists 1977 Charlie Chaplin, actor (Modern Times), dies in Switzerland at 88 1975 Expos' Jose Mangual struck out 5 times in a game 1974 Cards beat Mets, 4-3, in 25 (7h4m), record 202 plate appearances, Felix Milan and John Milner come to bat 12 times each 1974 "Good Times," debuts on CBS TV 1974 "Good Times" (spinoff from "Maude") premieres on CBS TV 1973 New York Times reports almost all Superfectas run at Yonkers, Roosevelt and Monticello from Jan-Mar of 1973 were fixed 1972 Yankees score 8 times in 13th beating White Sox 18-10 1972 "Different Times" closes at ANTA Theater New York City after 24 performances 1972 "Different Times" opens at ANTA Theater New York City for 24 performances 1971 Brooks Robinson ties Series record, reaches base 5 straight times 1971 Chester Conklin, actor (Greed, Modern Times), dies at 83 1971 New York Times reports growing interest of white youth in black gospel music 1971 Orioles' Don Buford struck out 5 times in a game 1971 New York Times began publishing "Pentagon Papers" 1970 Yankees Horace Clarke breaks up a no-hitter in the 9th for the 2nd of 3 times in 28 days 1970 Yankees Horace Clarke breaks up a no-hitter in the 9th for the 1st of 3 times in 28 days 1970 New York Times falsely reports U.S. Army has ended domestic surveillance 1969 New York Times reports Curt Flood will sue baseball and challenge the reserve clause 1969 Turtles play White House, Mark Volman falls off stage 5 times 1967 Naomi Sims is 1st black model on U.S. cover (Fashion of the Times) 1967 Beatles sign a petition in Times to legalize marijuana 1967 Melora Hardin, born in Houston, Texas, actress, Family Tree, Best Times 1967 New York Times reports Army is conducting secret germ warfare experiments 1966 Dallas sacks Pittsburgh quarterbacks an NFL record 12 times 1966 Newspaper magnate Thomson purchases "The Times" 1966 Patrick Dempsey, Lewiston Me, actor, Mike-Fast Times 1965 Largest newspaper-Sunday New York Times at 946 pages (50 cents ) 1965 Phillies catcher Pat Corrales sets record by reaching base twice on catcher's interference in one game and 6 times in one season 1964 Don Redman, orchestra leader (Sugar Hill Times), dies at 64 1964 Jim Koethe, Dallas Times Herald reporter, killed by karate chop 1964 Barbra Streisand appears on the cover of New York Times Magazine section 1964 Supreme Court issues New York Times vs. Sullivan decision, public officials must prove malice to claim libel and recover damages 1964 Willie Bryant, singer (Sugar Hill Times), dies at 55 1963 Phoebe Cates, born in Manhattan, New York, actress, Fast Times at Ridgemount High 1963 Valery Bykovsky in Vostok 5 orbits earth 81 times in 5 days 1963 Pirate's Bob Friend balks 4 times in a game 1962 Scott Carpenter orbits Earth 3 times in U.S. Aurora 7 1962 Roger Maris walks 5 times (record 4 intentionally) in a 9 inn game 1962 Johanne Relleke gets stung by bees 2,443 times in Rhodesia and survives 1961 Ralph Carter, New York City, actor, Michael Evans-Good Times 1960 Sean Penn, born in Santa Monica, California, actor, Fast Times at Ridgemont High 1959 Harold Huber, actor (I Cover Times Square), dies at 49 1958 Braves Warren Spahn is 1st lefty to win 20 or more games 9 times 1958 Sugar Ray Robinson is 1st boxing champ to win 5 times 1957 Cindy Nicholas, Canada, swimmer, swam English Channel 19 times 1957 White Sox' James Landis struck out 5 times in a game 1957 Cameron Crowe, director, Jerry Maguire, Fast Times at Ridgemont High 1957 Judge Reinhold, Wilmington, Delaware, actor, Fast Times at Ridgemont High 1955 Chiyonofuji Mitsugu, born in Hokkaido, Japan, sumo wrestler, 58th yokozuna, greatest, highest ranked sumo in recent times, won 31 tournament championships, coming in second to Taiho, noted as lightest yokozuna since Tochinoumi in the 1960's, head coach for Kokonoe stable 1955 Buster Mottram, born in Kingston upon Thames, in south-west London, English tennis player, ranked 15th best tennis player in the world, represented Great Britain in Davis Cup eight times 1953 Bernnadette Stanis, born in Brooklyn, New York, actress, Thelma-Good Times 1953 Willie Thrower becomes 1st black NFL quarterback in modern times 1953 Anna Quindlen, American author, journalist, and New York Times columnist 1953 Tony Armas, born in Puerto Piritu, Venezuela, Antonio Rafael Armas Machado, baseball player, two-time All-Star, played with California Angels, Pittsburgh Pirates, Oakland Athletics, Boston Red Sox, susceptible to injuries, on disabled list 12 times, missing 302 games 1952 John Francome, born in Swindon, England, jockey, National Hunt Champion Jockey seven times, apprenticed with Fred Winter, presenter for horseracing broadcasts on Channel 4 1952 Amy Heckerling, Bronx, dir, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Clueless 1952 Rangers with less than 14 minutes to go blow a 6-2 lead, losing 7-6 to Chicago Black Hawks. Mosienko scores 3 times in 21 seconds 1951 Mark McCumber, born in Jacksonville, Florida, Mark Randall McCumber, golfer, won PGA tour ten times, won World Cup of Golf for the United states with Ben Crenshaw, golf analyst for Fox Sports, golf course architect 1951 Martin Brest, born in Bronx, New York, actor, Fast Times at Ridgemont High 1951 New York Times reports the New York City subway will auction off things found 1950 Vic Toweel knocks down Danny O'Sullivan 14 times in a title fight 1950 New York Times reports of worlds smallest and dumbest mechanical brain 1949 Jimmie Walker, born in Bronx, New York, comedian, JJ-Good Times, At Ease 1949 Andrew Nell, editor, Sunday Times 1949 Joao Botelho, Lamego Portugal, director, Trafico, Hard Times 1949 Milan Williams, U.S. keyboardist, Commodores-Three Times a Lady 1947 Jackie Robinson swipes home for 1st of 19 times in his career 1943 New York City's Times Square greets Frank Sinatra at Paramount Theater 1943 Burt Rutan, born in Estacada, Oregon, Elbert Leander Burt Rutan, inventor, aerospace engineer, created the Voyager, the first plane to fly around the world without stopping or refueling, and SpaceShipOne, which entered space two times in fourteen days 1943 Simon Jenkins, editor, Times 1943 Terry Pavey, editor, TV Times 1942 Robert Sullivan becomes 1st pilot to fly Atlantic 100 times 1942 Los Angeles Times urges security measures against Japanese-Americans 1941 Earl Thomas Conley, Portsmouth, Ohio, country singer, Too Many Times 1941 Jim McBride, born in New York City, director/actor, Hot Times, Breathless, Big Easy 1940 Stan Mikita, NHL center, led NHL in scoring 4 times 1939 John Amos, Newark, New Jersey, actor, Good Times, Coming to America 1939 David Hobbs, born in Royal Leamington Spa, England, auto racer, commentator for Speed, raced in the 24 Hours of Le Mans twenty times 1938 Indian Bob Feller strikes out record 18 Tigers (Chester Laabs 5 times) 1938 Ja'net Dubois, born in Philadelphia, actress, Willona-Good Times, Beverly Hill 90210 1938 Jimmie Foxx is walked a record 6 consecutive times by Browns 1938 St. Louis Browns walk Boston Red Sox Jimmy Foxx 6 times in a row 1937 Johnny Brown, born in St. Petersburg, Florida, comedian, Good Times, Leslie Uggams 1937 Seymour Hersh, award winning investigative reporter, New York Times 1937 1st Charlie Chaplin talkie, "Modern Times," released 1936 Paul Waner ties Rogers Hornsby's NL record of 200 hits for 7 times 1936 Floyd Abrams, born in America, attorney, constitutional law expert, argued for famous cases, including the New York Times in the Judith Miller in CIA leak grand jury investigation 1936 Leonard Lee, U.S. vocalist, Shirley and Lee-Let the Good Times Roll 1936 Tony Lazerri 2 grand slams (11 RBIs); Ben Chapman sets record by reaching 1st 7 times safely, Yankees beat A's 25-2 1936 Tennis champs Helen Moody and Howard Kinsley volley 2,001 times (1h18m) 1935 Ken Taylor, cricketer, England opening batsman three times 1959-64 1935 Richard Berry, born in Extension, Louisiana, musician, singer, songwriter, wrote, 'Louie Louie', sold copyright in 1959, song has since been recorded over 1,000 times 1935 Mickey Wright, born in San Diego, California, LPGA golfer, 4 times LPGA champ 1934 William Franks twirls an indian club overhead 17,280 times in 1 hour 1934 New York Times erroneously declares Ruth 700 home run record to stand for all time 1934 Yank pitcher John Broaca ties record by striking out 5 times 1934 Geoffrey Owen, British editor, Financial Times 1933 Eric Salzman, born in America, author, composer, record producer, music critic, wrote for the New York Times, New York Herald Tribune 1931 Gregg Smith, born in Chicago, Illinois, composer, directed The Gregg Smith Singers, a mixed chorus of 16 singers who toured the U.S. 40 times, recorded over 100 albums, received three Grammy Awards 1931 Billy Casper, born in San Diego, California, William Earl Billy Casper, Jr., professional golfer, golf course designer, won the PGA Tour 27 times, named 15th greatest golfer of all time by Golf Digest in 2000, considered best putter of his era 1930 Sarnoff reports in New York Times "TV would be a theater in every home" 1930 Joe Sewell, strikes out twice of his 3 times in 1930, by Pat Caraway 1929 William Safire, political columnist, New York Times, speech writer, Nixon 1929 Moses Gunn, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor, Amityville II, Good Times, Shaft 1927 Joe Adcock, born in Coushatta, Louisiana, first baseman, outfielder, played for Cincinnati Reds, homered four times in a single game against Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field 1927 Clive Barnes, drama critic, New York Times, New York Post 1927 Anthony Lewis, columnist New York Times and author, Gideon's Trumpet 1926 Louise L. Hay, born in Los Angeles, California, motivational author, professional speaker, self-help and motivational writer, 'You Can Heal Your Life', 1984, on the New York Times Bestseller list, sold 35 million copies in 30 languages, made into movie of the same title, founder, Hay House Publishing 1926 Tom Wicker, columnist, New York Times 1926 Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, New York City, publisher, New York Times 1926 Ray Price, country singer, Good Times 1925 Russell Baker, Loudoun County, Virginia, columnist/humorist, New York Times 1925 Philadelphia A's go into bottom of 8th inning trailing 15-4, then score 13 times to defeat Cleveland 17-15 1925 John Simon, theater critic, New York Times 1924 Vincent Canby, critic, New York Times 1924 Paul Conrad, comic strip cartoonist, LA Times 1923 Radio Times 1st published 1922 Mrs Theres Vaughn, 24, confessed in court to being married 62 times 1922 Esther Rolle, Pompano Beach, Florida, actress, Florida-Good Times, Maude 1922 Longest attack of hiccups begins Charlie Osborne, 98 hiccupped over 435 million times before it stops, He dies 11 months after it stops 1922 St. Louis Brown Hub Pruett strikes out Babe Ruth 3 straight times 1922 Abraham Rosenthal, editor, New York Times 1920 Stan Musial, outfielder, St. Louis Cardinal, 7 times NL bat champ 1920 Craig Claiborne, food columnist, New York Times Cookbook 1920 New York Times editorial (falsely) reports rockets can never fly 1919 Red Sox Babe Ruth hits 2 home runs in a game for his 1st of 72 times 1919 Pauline Kael, movie critic, New York Times, For Keeps 1918 Robert Feller, MLB pitcher, Red Sox, led AL in strikeouts 7 times 1918 Arthur McIntyre, cricket wicket-keeper, England 3 times early 50's 1916 Marshall Field IV, publisher/editor, Chicago Daily News, Sunday Times 1913 Carl Weilman strikes out 6 times in a 15 inning game 1913 Bert Daniels set AL mark, being hit-by-pitch 3 times in a doubleheader 1913 Rabbit Maranville, is thrown out trying to steal home 3 times 1912 David Raksin, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, composer, Modern Times 1912 Arthur Crook, British editor, Times Literary Supplement 1911 New York Giant Christy Mathewson loses after beating Reds 22 straight times 1910 Explosion at Los Angeles Times kills 21 1910 Washington Red Killefer sacrifices record 4 times against Detroit 1909 James "Scotty" Barrett Reston, Clydebank Scotld, journalist, New York Times 1909 Hermann Bengtson, German historian, Greeks Ancient Times 1908 Willie Bryant, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, singer, Sugar Hill Times 1908 1st time, ball signifying new year dropped at Times Square 1907 For 1st time a ball drops at Times Square to signal new year 1904 Frank Chance gets hit by pitch 5 times in a doubleheader 1900 Don Redman, Piedmont, West Virginia, orchestra leader, Sugar Hill Times 1899 Louisville's Henry Dowling struck out 5 times in a game 1898 Hubert Howard, British journalist (Times), dies through friendly fire 1897 N.Y. Times begins using slogan "All the News That's Fit to Print" 1896 Adolph Ochs (39) buys New York Times 1894 Rafael Nunez, Colombia, 3 times president (188?..94), dies at 68 1892 Olafur Thors, Icelandic PM, 6 times, 1942-63 1886 London Times publishes world's 1st classified ad 1885 Virginia Pope, New York Times 1871 Boss Tweed (William Macy Tweed), Democratic leader of Tammany Hall, arrested after New York Times exposed his corruption 1870 New York Times dubs baseball "The National Game" 1863 John Huston Finley, Illinois, editor of the New York Times, 1937-38 1854 The Times give precise British positions in Krim 1854 Richard T. Ely, U.S. economist, Hard Times 1853 Northern Daily Times, 1st provincial daily newspaper, starts in London 1852 [James] Burner Matthews, U.S. playwright/critic, New York Times 1851 New York Times starts publishing at 2 cents a copy 1837 Thomas Morris of Australia skips rope 22,806 times 1831 "Spirit of the Times" begins publishing (weekly horse racing sheet) 1825 Rafael Nunez, Colombia, 3 times president, 188?..94 1822 1st edition of London Sunday Times 1788 London's Daily Universal Registrar becomes the Times 1786 Benjamin Robert Haydon, Plymouth, painter, Waiting for The Times 1785 John Walter publishes 1st issue of London Times 1785 "Daily Universal Register" (Times of London) publishes 1st issue 1776 Thomas Paine writes "These are the times that try men's souls" 1776 Thomas Paine published his 1st "American Crisis" essay, in which he wrote, "These are the times that try men's souls" 1776 John Walter II, London, chief proprietor, The Times, 1812-47 |
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