Year | Description | Category |
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2018 | Romanian tennis player Simona Halep won her first title in 2018 French Open. | Achievement |
2008 | Chess grandmaster from Armenia, Karen Asrian died. | Death day |
2003 | Spanish tennis player Juan Carlos Ferrero won his first title in 2003 French Open. | Achievement |
1997 | Brazilian tennis player Gustavo Kuerten won his first title in 1997 French Open. | Achievement |
1994 | Dutch economist Jan Tinbergen died. | Death day |
1990 | Tennis player from Yugoslavia Monica Seles won her first title in 1990 French Open. | Achievement |
1989 | American geneticist George Wells Beadle died. | Death day |
1982 | Chess grandmaster from Poland, Radosław Jedynak was born. | Birthday |
1981 | American actress Natalie Portman was born. | Birthday |
1980 | American basketball player Udonis Haslem was born. | Birthday |
1979 | Accident in Luna Park Sydney, located at Sydney, Australia killed 7. | Man-Made Disaster |
1974 | Guatemalan poet and novelist Miguel Angel Asturias died. | Death day |
1968 | Australian tennis player Ken Rosewall won his first title in 1968 French Open. | Achievement |
1961 | Chess grandmaster from Germany, Klaus Bischoff was born. | Birthday |
1960 | Chess grandmaster from Hungary, Attila Grószpéter was born. | Birthday |
1960 | Soviet aerospace engineer Semyon Lavochkin died. | Death day |
1959 | German chemist Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus died. | Death day |
1958 | English actor Robert Donat died. | Death day |
1953 | German businessman Matthias Muller was born. | Birthday |
1948 | Chess grandmaster from Serbia, Radoslav Simic was born. | Birthday |
1946 | Astronaut from United States, Francis Gaffney was born. | Birthday |
1919 | Chess grandmaster from Soviet Union, Isaac Boleslavsky was born. | Birthday |
1915 | American guitarist and inventor Les Paul was born. | Birthday |
1907 | Golfer from United States, Mike Turnesa was born. | Birthday |
1892 | Soviet aeronautical engineer Nikolai Polikarpov was born. | Birthday |
1875 | English physiologist Henry Hallett Dale was born. | Birthday |
1843 | Austrian-Bohemian pacifist Bertha von Suttner was born. | Birthday |
1781 | English civil engineer George Stephenson was born. | Birthday |
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