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2012 Event - Scientists in Kamchatka, Russia, report sighting the first adult white orca to be seen in the wild

2010 Event - Wild celebrations occur as a drill reaches an underground chamber with 33-trapped Chilean miners inside

2006 Death - Jack Wild, actor, theater, stage, Academy Award nominee at age 16 for role of Artful Dodger in film production of 'Oliver!', favorite subject, teen magazines, dies of cancer, in Tebworth, England, at age 53

1998 Event - NHL's Minnesota franchise selects the nickname Wild

1997 Death - Willie Forkner, biker (Wild One), dies of heart attack at 77

1996 Death - James Wild, music teacher, dies at 68

1996 Death - Pamela Mason, actress (Wild in the Streets), dies at 78

1996 Death - Guy Madison, actor (Wild Bill Hickok), dies at 74

1996 Death - Wild Jimmy Spruill, blues guitarist, dies at 61

1995 Death - William Strethan "Wild Bill" Davis, musician, dies at 76

1995 Death - Dorothy Granger, U.S. actress (Hog Wild, Dentist), dies at about 80

1994 Death - Ruth Gillette, actress (Wild Gold), dies of cancer at 88

1994 Death - Byron "Wild Child" Gipson, blues Singer, dies at 64

1992 Death - Malcolm Atterbury, actor (7 Days in May, Wild River), dies at 85

1992 Death - Alberta Vaughn, actress (Wild Horse, Silver Devil), dies at 87

1989 Death - John Meillon, actor (Wild Duck, Crocodile Dundee), dies

1987 Event - Jack Morris ties AL record with 5 wild pitches in a 4-2 lose

1987 Event - Last wild condor captured on California wildlife reserve

1986 Death - Marlin Perkins, TV host (Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom), dies at 81

1986 Death - Marlin Perkins, TV host (Wild Kingdom) at 80

1985 Death - Edmond O'Brien, actor (Moon Pilot, Wild Bunch), dies at 69

1984 Event - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Chief's Crown, Eillo, Lashkari, Outstandingly, Princess Rooney, Royal Heroine, Wild Again at Hollywood

1984 Death - Jack Barry, game show emcee (Joker's Wild), dies at 66

1981 Death - William Holden, actor (Network, Wild Bunch, Breezy), dies at 63

1981 Death - Frank DeKova, actor (Chief Wild Eagle-F Troop), dies

1981 Death - Nils Asther, actor (Son of Lassie, Wild Orchids), dies at 84

1981 Death - Ross Martin, actor (Mr Lucky, Wild Wild West), dies at 61

1980 Birthday - Ben Savage, actor, Little Monsters, Wild Palms

1979 Death - John McQuade, actor (Charlie Wild Private Detective), dies at 73

1979 Event - "Disco Demolition Night" at Comiskey Park, causes fans to go wild and causes White Sox to forfeit 2nd game of a doubleheader to Tigers

1979 Death - Shirley O'Hara, actress (Wild Party), dies at 68

1979 Event - J. R. Richard throws major league record 6 wild pitches in Astrodome

1977 Death - Jack Gardner, actor (Wild Bill Hickok, 3 Russian Girls), dies at 77

1971 Event - "Wild and Wonderful" opens/closes at Lyceum Theater New York City

1971 Event - Wings release their 1st album "Wild Life"

1971 Birthday - Brooke Burke, born in Hartford, Connecticut, television personality, dancer, host of 'Wild On!' show, Frederick's of Hollywood model

1971 Death - Joe E. Lewis, comedian, singer, famous for Al Capone's heavies beating him after he refused to renew his contract at Green Mill Cocktail Lounge in Chicago, Illinois, movie, book, 'The Joker is Wild', dies in New Jersey, age 69

1971 Birthday - Linda Wild, Arlington Heights, Illinois, tennis star, 1993 Melbourne Open

1968 Death - Patsy Moran, actress (Children of the Wild), dies at 65

1968 Birthday - Carre Otis, born in San Francisco, California, actress, Wild Orchid

1968 Event - Bob Gibson's streak of 47 2/3 inn scoreless streak ends on wild pitch

1967 Event - "Wild Thing" hits #20 on the pop singles chart by Senator Bobby

1966 Birthday - Yokozuna, Rodney Anoia, wrestler, WWF/NJPW/AWA, Wild Samoan Kokina

1966 Death - Pat O'Malley, silent film actor (Wild One, Quiet Man), dies at 75

1965 Death - Wild Bill Elliott, cowboy actor (49'ers), dies of cancer at 60

1963 Event - "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom" with Marlin Perkins begins on NBC

1961 Birthday - Maxi Priest, Max Elliott, Jamaican/English singer, Wild World

1959 Birthday - Alan "Wild"er, English rock vocalist/music, Depeche Mode-Wild!

1959 Death - William J "Wild Bill" Donovan, Office Strategic Services, dies at 76

1958 Birthday - Kate Bush, born in Plumstead, England, singer and songwriter, Wild Things

1956 Birthday - Mickey Rourke, born in Schenectady, New York, actor, 9 Weeks, Wild Orchid, Homeboy

1956 Birthday - Michael Biehn, actor, Rampage, Hog Wild, Aliens, Abyss

1956 Birthday - Robert Davi, actor, License to Kill, Raw Deal, Wild Thing

1955 Death - "Wild Bill" Vukovich, killed in Indy 500

1955 Birthday - Jeff Daniels, born in Georgia, actor, Something Wild, Dumb and Dumber, Speed

1953 Birthday - Mickey Rourke, boxer/actor, Wild Orchid, Barfly

1952 Birthday - Jack Wild, actor, theater, stage, Academy Award nominee at age 16 for role of Artful Dodger in film production of 'Oliver!', favorite subject, teen magazines

1948 Birthday - George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin, U.S., sci-fi author, Wild Cards

1947 Birthday - Octavia E[stelle] Butler, U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo, Wild Seed

1945 Birthday - Clarissa Pinkola Estes, born in Indiana, writer, psychologist, certified Jungian psychoanalyst, poet, author, wrote bestseller, 'Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype'

1943 Birthday - [Susan] Tuesday Weld, New York City, actress, Dobie Gillis, Wild in Country

1943 Birthday - Donnie Iris, born in Ellwood City, Pennsylvania, musician, guitarist, performed with The Jaggerz, Cellarful of Noise, The Cruisers, famous for Wild Cherry's hit 'Play That Funky Music'

1942 Birthday - Bobby Rydell, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, rock singer, Wild One, Bye Bye Birdie

1942 Birthday - Brandon De Wilde, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Jamie, Wild in the Sky

1942 Birthday - Claude Miller, director, Garde a Vue, Little Thief, Wild Child

1941 Birthday - Christopher Jones, Jackson, Tennessee, actor, Wild in the Streets

1940 Event - Bugs Bunny debuts in "Wild Hare"

1940 Birthday - Peter Fonda, actor, Easy Rider, Lilith, Wild Angels, Trip

1935 Birthday - Robert Conrad, Conrad R Falk, Chicago, actor, Wild Wild West

1934 Birthday - Wild Jimmy Spruill, blues guitarist

1934 Birthday - Dwayne Hickman, Louisiana, actor, Dobie Gillis, How to Stuff a Wild Bikini

1933 Birthday - Morton Subotnick, born in Los Angeles, California, composer, Wild Bull

1932 Birthday - Diane Ladd, Meridian Mississippi, actress, Wild Angels, Wild at Heart

1932 Birthday - Jim Fowler, born in Albany, Georgia, naturalist, Wild Kingdom

1932 Event - 150 wild swans die in Niagara waterfall

1930 Birthday - Byron "Wild Child" Gipson, blues singer

1928 Birthday - James Wild, music teacher

1928 Birthday - Maurice Sendak, New York City, author/illustrator, Where The Wild Things Are

1925 Birthday - James E "Jimmy" Smith, U.S. jazz/organist, Walk on the Wild Side

1925 Birthday - Sam Peckinpah, born in Fresno, California, film director, Wild Bunch, Straw Dogs

1923 Event - "Runnin' Wild" (introducing Charleston) opens on Broadway

1923 Event - Gibbs/Grey/Wood's revue "Runnin' Wild," premieres in New York City

1923 Birthday - Bobby Jordan, born in New York, actor, Bowery Champs, Kid Dynamite, Flying Wild

1922 Birthday - Bruno VeSota, born in Illinois, actor and director, Chopper, Teenage Doll, Wild Rovers

1922 Birthday - Guy Madison, Robert Moseley, California, actor, Wild Bill Hickok

1920 Birthday - Ross Martin, born in Grodek, Poland, actor, Mr Lucky, Wild Wild West

1918 Birthday - William Strethan "Wild Bill" Davis, musician

1918 Birthday - Jack Barry, born in Lindenhurst, New York, game show emcee, Joker's Wild

1915 Birthday - Earl Wild, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, composer/pianist, Caesar's Hour, NBC Symph 1942

1915 Event - Yankees get record 16 walks and 3 wild pitches beat A's Bruno Hass, 15-0

1906 Birthday - Phil Regan, singer, My Wild Irish Rose

1905 Birthday - Wild Bill Elliott, Pattonsburg, Missouri, actor, Beyond the Sacramento

1905 Birthday - Marlin Perkins, born in Carthage, Missouri, TV host, Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom

1905 Birthday - Rex Warner, English poet and writer, Wild Goose Chase

1903 Birthday - Patsy Moran, Pennsylvania, actress, Children of the Wild

1902 Birthday - Joe E. Lewis, born in New York City, New York, comedian, singer, famous for Al Capone's heavies beating him after he refused to renew his contract at Green Mill Cocktail Lounge in Chicago, Illinois, movie, book, 'The Joker is Wild'

1898 Birthday - Robert Keith, Fowler, Indiana, actor, Battle Circus, Branded, Wild One

1890 Birthday - Frank Conroy, Derby England, actor, Call of the Wild

1883 Event - Phillies make 27 errors against Providence (wild pitches, walks and and passballs count as errors prior to 1888)

1883 Event - Buffalo Bill Cody presents 1st wild west show, North Platte, Nebr

1883 Event - Buffalo Bill Cody's 1st wild west show premieres in Omaha

1883 Event - "Buffalo Bill" Cody put on his 1st Wild West Show

1878 Birthday - Harry Carey Sr, born in Bronx, New York, actor, Aces Wild, Border Cafe, Air Force

1876 Death - Wild Bill Hickok, shot dead (from behind) by Jack McCall while playing poker. He held a pair of Aces and a pair of 8's

1876 Birthday - Jack London, writer/socialist, Call of the Wild

1870 Birthday - William S Hart, actor, silent Westerns, Wild Bill Hickok, Tumbleweeds

1866 Birthday - Butch Cassidy, U.S. desperado, Wild Bunch Passage

1865 Birthday - William Butler Yeats, born in Ireland, poet, Wild Swans at Coole-Nobel 1923

1863 Event - Naval Engagement at Havana Cuba-USS Henrick Hudson vs BR Wild Pigeon

1860 Birthday - Annie Oakley, born in Drake, Ohio, frontierswoman, Buffalo Bill's Wild West

1848 Birthday - Belle Starr [Myra Belle Shirley], U.S. female outlaw, wild west

1837 Birthday - "Wild Bill" Hickok, cowboy/scout

1825 Birthday - Edward Augustus Wild, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1817 Event - Gloucester, Massachusetts, newspapers tells of wild sea serpent seen offshore

1800 Event - Wild Boy of Aveyron discovered in southern France

1798 Death - Matija A Reljkovic, Croatian writer (Satire of Wild Man), dies at 66

1664 Death - Miklos Zrinyi, Hungarian general/poet, killed by wild boar at 44













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