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India (), officially the Republic of India ( ; see also official names of India), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.18 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world. Mainland India is bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the west, and the Bay of Bengal on the east; and it is bordered by Pakistan to the west; Bhutan, the People's Republic of China and Nepal to the north; and Bangladesh and Burma to the east. In the Indian Ocean, mainland India and the Lakshadweep Islands are in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives, while India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands share maritime border with Thailand and the Indonesian island of Sumatra in the Andaman Sea. India has a coastline of .
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The Philippines ( ), officially known as the Republic of the Philippines (), is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam. The Sulu Sea to the southwest lies between the country and the island of Borneo, and to the south the Celebes Sea separates it from other islands of Indonesia. It is bounded on the east by the Philippine Sea. Its location on the Pacific Ring of Fire and its tropical climate make the Philippines prone to earthquakes and typhoons but have also endowed the country with natural resources and made it one of the richest areas of biodiversity in the world. An archipelago comprising 7,107 islands, the Philippines is categorized broadly into three main geographical divisions: Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. Its capital city is Manila.
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Republic of China
The Republic of China (ROC), commonly known as Taiwan, is a state in East Asia located off the east coast of mainland China. Subject to an ongoing dispute with the People's Republic of China (PRC) that has left it with limited formal diplomatic relations, the government of the Republic of China currently governs the islands of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, Matsu and other minor islands. Neighbouring states include the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the northeast, and the Philippines to the south.
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Russia
Russia (; ), also officially known as the Russian Federation (), is a state in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects. From northwest to southeast, Russia shares borders with Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland (both via Kaliningrad Oblast), Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, the People's Republic of China, Mongolia, and North Korea. It also has maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk and the United States by the Bering Strait. At , Russia is the largest country in the world, covering more than a ninth of the Earth's land area. Russia is also the ninth most populous nation with 142 million people. It extends across the whole of northern Asia and 40% of Europe, spanning 9 time zones and incorporating a wide range of environments and landforms. Russia has the world's largest reserves of mineral and energy resources. It has the world's largest forest reserves and its lakes contain approximately one-quarter of the world's fresh water.
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Rwanda
The Republic of Rwanda (, , or in English, or in Kinyarwanda) is a unitary republic of central and eastern Africa. It borders Uganda to the north; Tanzania to the east; Burundi to the south; and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west. Rwanda is landlocked but is noted for its lakes, particularly Lake Kivu, which occupies the floor of the Rift Valley along most of the country's western border. Although close to the equator, the country has a temperate climate due to its high elevation, with the highest point being Mount Karisimbi. The terrain consists of mountains and gently rolling hills, with plains and swamps in the east. Abundant wildlife, including rare mountain gorillas, have led to a fast-growing tourism sector. The largest cities in Rwanda are Kigali, Gitarama, and Butare. Unlike many African countries, Rwanda is home to only one significant ethnic and linguistic group, the Banyarwanda. The country is well known for its native styles of dance, particularly the Intore dance, and for its drummers. Kinyarwanda, English and French are the official languages.
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Akira Kurosawa
was a Japanese director, producer, screenwriter and editor. Widely regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, in a career spanning 57 years, Kurosawa directed 30 films. Kurosawa entered the Japanese film industry in 1936, following a brief, unsuccessful career as a painter. After years of working on numerous films as an assistant director and scriptwriter, he made his debut as a director during the Second World War with the popular action film Sanshiro Sugata (a.k.a. Judo Saga, 1943).
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Alan J. Pakula
Alan Jay Pakula (April 7, 1928 – November 19, 1998) was an American film director, writer and producer noted for his contributions to the conspiracy thriller genre.
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Allan MacLeod Cormack (February 23, 1924 – May 7, 1998) was a South African-born American physicist who won the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (along with Godfrey Hounsfield) for his work on x-ray computed tomography (CT).
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Bear Grylls
Edward Michael Grylls, nicknamed "Bear", (born 7 June 1974) is a British adventurer, writer and television presenter. He is best known for his television series Born Survivor, known as Man vs. Wild in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and India. He is the youngest Briton to climb Mount Everest, doing so at age 23. In July 2009, Grylls was appointed the youngest ever Chief Scout at the age of 35.
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Bella Abzug
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Benjamin Spock
Benjamin McLane Spock (May 2, 1903 – March 15, 1998) was an American pediatrician whose book Baby and Child Care, published in 1946, is one of the biggest best-sellers of all time. Its revolutionary message to mothers was that "you know more than you think you do."
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Bernarr Rainbow
Bernarr Joseph George Rainbow (October 2, 1914 - March 17, 1998) was a historian of music education, organist, and choir master from the United Kingdom.
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Betty Carter
Betty Carter (born Lillie Mae Jones, May 16, 1929 – September 26, 1998) was an American jazz singer renowned for her improvisational technique and idiosyncratic vocal style. Her devotion to the jazz idiom was such that her fellow vocalist Carmen McRae once claimed that "there's really only one jazz singer - only one: Betty Carter."
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Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III, August 19, 1946) is the former 42nd President of the United States and served from 1993 to 2001. At 46 he was the third-youngest president. He became president at the end of the Cold War, and was the first baby boomer president. His wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, is currently the United States Secretary of State. Each received a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Yale Law School.
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Bill Reid
William (Bill) Ronald Reid, OBC (born Victoria, BC, 12 January 1920; died Vancouver, BC, 13 March 1998) was a Canadian artist whose works included jewelry, sculpture, screen-printing, and painting. He was born to an American father of Scottish-German descent and a mother from the Haida (one of the First Nations of the Pacific coast) in Victoria, British Columbia. He developed a keen interest in Haida art while working as a radio announcer in Toronto, where he also studied jewelry making, having first learnt about his heritage from his maternal grandfather, who had himself been trained by Charles Edenshaw, a Haida artist of great renown.
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Binnie Barnes
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Birger Ruud
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Bradley Steven Perry
Bradley Steven Perry is an American child actor. He currently portrays the main role of Gabe Duncan on the Disney Channel Original Series Good Luck Charlie. He is currently filming a new Disney Channel Original Movie entitled High Stakes, a spin-off film of High School Musical starring Ashley Tisdale.
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Brian Stonehouse
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Bruno Munari
Bruno Munari (October 24, 1907, Milan – September 30, 1998, Milan) was an Italian artist and designer, who contributed fundamentals to many fields of visual arts (painting, sculpture, film, industrial design, graphics) and non visual arts (literature, poetry) with his research on games, infancy and creativity.
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Carl Forgione
Carl Forgione (3 May 1944-10 September 1998) was a British actor, best known for his television appearances.
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Carl Perkins
Carl Lee Perkins (April 9, 1932 – January 19, 1998) was an American rockabilly musician who recorded most notably at Sun Records Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, beginning during 1954. His best known song is "Blue Suede Shoes".
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Carlos Castaneda
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Cary Middlecoff
Emmett Cary Middlecoff (January 6, 1921 – September 1, 1998) was a dentist who gave up his practice to become a professional golfer on the PGA Tour in the 1940s. At the time, a career as a dentist would quite likely have been more lucrative.
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Catherine Cookson
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Charles Lang
:''For the Champion jockey, see Charles "Chick" Lang.
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Claudia Benton
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Conrad Schumann
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Cozy Powell
Colin Flooks (29 December 1947 - 5 April 1998), better known as Cozy Powell, was an English rock drummer who made his name with many major rock bands.
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Curtis T. McMullen
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César Baldaccini
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Dan Quisenberry
Daniel Raymond "Quiz" Quisenberry (; February 7, 1953 – September 30, 1998) was an American right-handed relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played primarily for the Kansas City Royals. Notable for his submarine-style pitching delivery and his humorous quotes, he led the American League in saves a record five times (1980, 1982-85), and retired in 1990 with 244 saves, then the 6th-highest total in history behind Rollie Fingers (341), Rich "Goose" Gossage (307), Bruce Sutter (300), Jeff Reardon (287), and Lee Smith (265).
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Dane Clark
Dane Clark (February 26, 1912 – September 11, 1998) was an American film actor who was known for playing, as he labeled himself, "Joe Average".
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Daniel Chee Tsui
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Darwin Joston
Francis Darwin Solomon (December 9, 1937 – June 1, 1998) was an American actor known professionally as Darwin Joston (sometimes credited as Darwin Jostin during the early years of his career). Joston began his career as a New York stage actor, and he appeared in many popular television shows during the 1960s, early 1970s, and mid-1980s, but he is best known for his performances in independent films that later achieved cult status, particularly Assault on Precinct 13.
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David Manners
David Manners (April 30, 1900 – December 23, 1998) was a Canadian - American film actor.
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David Trimble
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Dermot Morgan
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Dorothy Stickney
Dorothy Stickney (June 21, 1896 – June 2, 1998) was a Broadway actress best known for appearing in the long running Life with Father.
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Dušan Pašek
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E. G. Marshall
E. G. Marshall (June 18, 1914 – August 24, 1998) was an American actor, best known for his television roles as the lawyer Lawrence Preston on The Defenders in the 1960s, and as neurosurgeon David Craig on in the 1970s. Among his film roles, he is perhaps best known as the unflappable Juror #4 in Sidney Lumet's courtroom drama 12 Angry Men (1957).
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Eddie Rabbitt
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Elizabeth II
Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, born 21 April 1926) is the reigning queen and head of state of 16 independent sovereign states known as the Commonwealth realms: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Kitts and Nevis. In addition, as Head of the Commonwealth, she is the figurehead of the 54-member Commonwealth of Nations and, as the British monarch, she is the Supreme Governor of the Church of England.
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Elle Fanning
Mary Elle Fanning (born April 9, 1998), credited as Elle Fanning, is an American actress. She is the younger sister of actress Dakota Fanning.
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Ellis Rabb
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Elmer Valo
Elmer William Valo (March 5, 1921 - July 19, 1998) was a Slovak-American right fielder, coach and scout in Major League Baseball, making his debut on September 22, . He batted left-handed and threw right-handed.
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Emil Sitka
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Eric Ambler
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Eric Robert Rudolph
Eric Robert Rudolph (born September 19, 1966), also known as the Olympic Park Bomber, is an American responsible for a series of bombings across the southern United States between 1996 and 1998, which killed two people and injured at least 150 others. The Federal Bureau of Investigation considers him a terrorist.
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Ernst Jünger
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Esther Rolle
Esther Rolle (November 8, 1920 – November 17, 1998) was an American actress of stage and television. She was perhaps best known for her portrayal of Florida Evans on the CBS television sitcom Maude and its spin-off Good Times.
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Eva Bartok
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Falco (musician)
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Ferid Murad
Ferid Murad (born September 14, 1936) is an American physician and pharmacologist, and a co-winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He is also an honorary member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosovo.
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Fernando Balzaretti
Fernando Balzaretti (June 10, 1946 – September 5, 1998) was a late Mexican actor.
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Frank Latimore
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Frank Sinatra
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Frankie Ruiz
Frankie Ruiz (March 10, 1958 - August 9, 1998) was a famous Puerto Rican salsa singer.
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Frankie Yankovic
Frankie Yankovic (July 15, 1915 Davis, West Virginia - October 14, 1998) was a grammy award winning polka musician. Known as "America's Polka King," Yankovic was the premier artist to play in the Slovenian style during a long and successful career.
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Fred W. Friendly
::Fred Friendly should not be confused with Ed Friendly.
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Freddie Young
Freddie Young OBE, BSC (9 October 1902 - 1 December 1998), (sometimes credited as Frederick A. Young) was one of Britain's most distinguished and influential cinematographers. He is probably best known for his work on David Lean's films Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Dr Zhivago (1965) and ''Ryan's Daughter'' (1970), all three of which won him Academy Awards for best cinematography.
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Frederick Reines
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G. Hannelius
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Gene Evans
Gene Evans (July 11, 1922 - April 1, 1998) was an American actor.
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Gene Raymond
Gene Raymond born Raymond Guyon (August 13, 1908 – May 2, 1998) was an American film, television, and stage actor of the 1930s and 1940s. In addition to acting, Raymond was also a composer, writer, director, producer, and decorated military pilot.
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George H. Hitchings
George Herbert Hitchings (April 18, 1905 – February 27, 1998) was an American doctor who shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Sir James Black and Gertrude Elion "for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment," Hitchings specifically for his work on chemotherapy.
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George Howard (jazz)
George Howard (September 15, 1956 – March 20, 1998) was a Jazz-Funk/ Fusion /Smooth Jazz soprano saxophonist.
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George Wallace
George Corley Wallace, Jr. (August 25, 1919 – September 13, 1998) was the 45th Governor of Alabama, serving four terms: 1963–1967, 1971–1979 and 1983–1987. "The most influential loser" in 20th-century U.S. politics, according to biographers Dan T. Carter and Stephan Lesher, he ran for U.S. president four times, running officially as a Democrat three times and in the American Independent Party once. A 1972 assassination attempt left him paralyzed; he used a wheelchair for the rest of his life. He is best known for his Southern populist, pro-segregation attitudes during the American desegregation period, convictions he renounced later in life.
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Ghulam Ahmed
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Hakim Mohammed Said
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Halldór Laxness
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Hammond Innes
Ralph Hammond Innes (15 July 1913 – 10 June 1998) was an English novelist who wrote over 30 novels, as well as children's and travel books.
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Harry Caray
Harry Caray, born Harry Christopher Carabina, (March 1, 1914 – February 18, 1998) was an American baseball broadcaster on radio and television. He covered four Major League Baseball teams, beginning with a long tenure calling the games of the St. Louis Cardinals, then the Oakland Athletics (for one year) and the Chicago White Sox (for eleven years), before ending his career as the announcer for the Chicago Cubs.
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Hazel Bishop
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Helen Wills Moody
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Henny Youngman
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Hermann Prey
Hermann Prey (July 11, 1929 – July 22, 1998) was a German lyric baritone. He is most famous for lieder and for light comic baritone roles in opera.
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Hermann Wedekind
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Hide (musician)
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Hubert Humphrey
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Hugo Chávez
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Hurd Hatfield
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Irene Vernon
Irene Vernon (January 16, 1922 - April 21, 1998) was an American actress.
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J. T. Walsh
James Thomas Patrick "J. T." Walsh (September 28, 1943 – February 27, 1998) was an American character actor. He appeared in many well-known films, including Nixon, Hoffa, A Few Good Men, Backdraft and The Grifters.
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Jack Lord
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Jackie McGlew
Derrick John "Jackie" McGlew, born on 11 March 1929, Pietermaritzburg and died at Pretoria on 8 June 1998 was a cricketer who played for Natal and South Africa. He was educated at Merchiston Preparatory School and Maritzburg College, where he was Head Dayboy Prefect and captain of both cricket and rugby in 1948.
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Jaden Smith
Jaden Christopher Syre Smith is an American child actor, rapper, songwriter, dancer, and the son of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith. His breakthrough role was in the 2006 film The Pursuit of Happyness, and he has also starred in the remakes of The Day the Earth Stood Still and The Karate Kid.
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James Goldman
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Jean Marais
actor
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Jeanette Nolan
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John Derek
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John Pople
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Jon Postel
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Jorge Russek
Jorge Russek (January 4, 1932 – July 30, 1998) was a Mexican actor, he died of a heart attack on July 30, 1998.
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Joseph Estrada
Joseph "Erap" Estrada (born Jose Marcelo Ejercito on 19 April 1937) was the 13th President of the Philippines, serving from 1998 until 2001. Estrada was the only president to have resigned from office and was the first person in the Post-EDSA era to be elected both to the presidency and vice-presidency.
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Joseph Maher
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José Enrique Moyal
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José Saramago
writer
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Jozef Kroner
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Judge Dread
:For the comic book character, see Judge Dredd
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Julian Lincoln Simon
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Julien Green
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Junior Wells
Junior Wells (December 9, 1934January 15, 1998), born Amos Wells Blakemore Jr., was a blues vocalist and harmonica player and recording artist based in Chicago, who was also famous for playing with Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, Bonnie Raitt, The Rolling Stones and Van Morrison.
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Junkyard Dog
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Justin Fashanu
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Jusuf Habibie
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Karla Faye Tucker
Karla Faye Tucker (November 18, 1959 – February 3, 1998) was convicted of murder in Texas in 1984 and put to death in 1998. She was the first woman to be executed in the United States since 1984, and the first in Texas since 1863. Because of her gender and widely-publicized conversion to Christianity, she inspired an unusually large national and international movement advocating the commutation of her sentence to life imprisonment, a movement which included a few foreign government officials.
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Keisuke Kinoshita
was a Japanese film director.
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Kenichi Fukui
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Kenneth McDuff
Kenneth Allen McDuff (March 21, 1946 – November 17, 1998) was an American serial killer suspected of at least 14 murders. He had previously been on death row from 1968 to 1972.
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Kevin Lloyd
Kevin Reardon Lloyd (28 March 1949 – 2 May 1998) was a British actor, born in Derby, and trained at East 15 Acting School, London. Best known for his part of DC Alfred "Tosh" Lines in Thames Television's The Bill.
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Klaus Tennstedt
Klaus Tennstedt (June 6, 1926 – January 11, 1998) was a German conductor from Merseburg. He studied violin and piano at the Leipzig Conservatory. He became concertmaster of the orchestra at the Halle Municipal Theatre in 1948. However, a finger injury stopped his career as a violinist, and afterwards he worked as a coach to singers at the same theatre. Tennstedt then directed his talents toward conducting. In 1958, he became music director of the Dresden Opera, and in 1962, music director of the Schwerin State Orchestra and Theatre.
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Kofi Annan
Kofi Atta Annan (born 8 April 1938) is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1 January 1997 to 31 December 2006. Annan and the United Nations were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for his founding the Global AIDS and Health Fund to support developing countries in their struggle to care for their people.
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Larry Page
Lawrence "Larry" Page (born March 26, 1973) is an American computer scientist and industrialist, who co-founded Google Inc., along with Sergey Brin.
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Lawrence Sanders
Lawrence Sanders (March 15, 1920 – February 7, 1998) was an American novelist.
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Lawton Chiles
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Leonid Kinskey
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Lev Demin
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Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr. (September 19, 1907 – August 25, 1998) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He developed a reputation as a judicial moderate, and was known as a master of compromise and consensus-building. He was also widely well-regarded by contemporaries due to his personal good manners and politeness.
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Lloyd Bridges
Lloyd Vernet Bridges, Jr. (January 15, 1913 – March 10, 1998) was an American actor who starred in a number of television series and appeared in more than 150 feature films. Bridges is best known for his role of Mike Nelson in Sea Hunt, which was the top American TV series in 1958. He is the father of Beau Bridges and Jeff Bridges.
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Louis J. Ignarro
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Lounès Matoub
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Lucio Battisti
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Lynn Strait
James Lynn Strait (August 7, 1968 – December 11, 1998) was the lead singer and lyricist for the rock band Snot. He died in a car accident on December 11, 1998 at the age of 30.
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Madison Pettis
Madison Michelle Pettis (born July 22, 1998) is an American child actress, best known for playing Sophie Martinez "America's Angel" on Disney Channel's Cory in the House and Peyton Kelly in The Game Plan.
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Mae Questel
Mae Questel (pronounced "ques-TELL"; September 13, 1908–January 4, 1998) was an American actress and vocal artist best known for providing the voices for the animated characters, Betty Boop and Olive Oyl. She began in vaudeville, and played occasional small roles in films and television later in her career, most notably the role of Aunt Bethany in 1989's ''National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation''.
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Mark Belanger
Mark Henry Belanger (June 8, 1944 – October 6, 1998) was an American shortstop in Major League Baseball who played almost his entire career with the Baltimore Orioles. A defensive standout, he won eight Gold Glove Awards between 1969 and 1978, leading the American League in assists and fielding percentage three times each, and retired with the highest career fielding average by an AL shortstop (.977). He set franchise records for career games, assists and double plays as a shortstop, all of which were later broken by Cal Ripken, Jr. After his playing career, he became an official with the Major League Baseball Players Association.
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Martin Rodbell
Martin Rodbell (December 1, 1925 – December 7, 1998) was an American biochemist and molecular endocrinologist who is best known for his discovery of G-proteins. He shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Alfred G. Gilman for "their discovery of G-proteins and the role of these proteins in signal transduction in cells."
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Martin Ruane
Martin Ruane (October 10, 1946 - November 29, 1998) was an English professional wrestler of Irish descent. Best known by his ring name, Giant Haystacks, he wrestled in such places as England, the United States, Canada, India, and Zimbabwe. Ruane was known for his massive physical size, standing tall and weighing at his heaviest.
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Mary Frann
Mary Frann (February 27, 1943 – September 23, 1998) was an American actress best known for her role as Bob Newhart's wife, Joanna Loudon, on the television series Newhart.
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Mary Millar
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Matthew Shepard
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Maureen O'Sullivan
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Maxim Kontsevich
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Michael Tippett
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Michelle Thomas
Michelle Thomas (died December 22, 1998) was an American actress. She was best known for her roles as Justine Phillips (girlfriend of Theo Huxtable) on the NBC sitcom The Cosby Show, and as Myra Monkhouse (girlfriend of Steve Urkel) on the ABC/CBS sitcom Family Matters.
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Mikio Oda
was a Japanese athlete and the first Japanese Olympic gold medalist. He was the first Asian Olympic champion in an individual event.
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Monica Edwards
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Muriel Humphrey
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Natascha Kampusch
Natascha Kampusch (born 17 February 1988 in Vienna) is an Austrian television hostess mostly known for her abduction at the age of 10 on 2 March 1998. Kampusch was held in a secret cellar by her kidnapper Wolfgang Priklopil for more than eight years, until she escaped on 23 August 2006. The media attention later led to her signing a contract with Austrian channel Puls 4 for her own talk show, which had its premiere on 1 June 2008.
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Nolan Gould
Nolan Gould (born October 28, 1998) is an American child actor best known for his starring role as Luke Dunphy on the ABC comedy Modern Family. He is the brother of Aidan Gould.
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Norman Fell
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Olivier Gendebien
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Osama Bin Laden
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Patrick de Gayardon
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Paul McCartney
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Pavel Štěpán
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Peter Lind Hayes
Peter Lind Hayes (June 25, 1915 – April 21, 1998) was an American vaudeville entertainer, songwriter, and film and television actor. He was born Joseph Conrad Lind in San Francisco, California.
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Phil Hartman
Philip Edward "Phil" Hartman (September 24, 1948 – May 28, 1998) was a Canadian-born American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and graphic artist. Born in Brantford, Ontario, Hartman and his family immigrated to the United States when he was ten. After graduating from California State University, Northridge with a degree in graphic arts, he designed album covers for bands like Poco and America. Feeling the need for a more creative outlet, Hartman joined the comedy group The Groundlings in 1975 and there helped comedian Paul Reubens develop his character Pee-wee Herman. Hartman co-wrote the screenplay for the film ''Pee-wee's Big Adventure'' and made recurring appearances on Reubens' show ''Pee-wee's Playhouse''.
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Pierre Trudeau
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Pol Pot
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Poul Bundgaard
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Poul Nyrup Rasmussen
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Raman Lamba
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Ramzi Yousef
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Ray Nitschke
Raymond Ernest "Ray" Nitschke (December 29, 1936 – March 8, 1998) was a professional football player who played his whole career as a middle linebacker for the Green Bay Packers of the NFL. Wearing #66, he played fifteen seasons, from 1958-72.
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Red Reeder
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Reginald Ben Davis
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Richard Denning
:This article is about the American actor; for the British author, see Richard J Denning.
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Rob Pilatus
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Robert B. Laughlin
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Robert Capron
Robert Capron (born June 9, 1998) is American child actor who starred in Diary of a Wimpy Kid as Greg Heffley's best friend Rowley Jefferson. He started off with a role in Bride Wars and later had small parts in and the Disney film ''The Sorcerer's Apprentice''. He was born in Providence, Rhode Island, lives in Scituate, Rhode Island and also did stage and other film acting. His mother, Kaye Capron, played his character's mother in Diary of a Wimpy Kid.
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Robert F. Furchgott
Robert Francis Furchgott (June 4, 1916 – May 19, 2009) was a Nobel Prize-winning American biochemist.
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Robert Lewis Taylor
Robert Lewis Taylor (24 September 1912 – 30 September 1998) was an American author and winner of the 1959 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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Rodney Harvey
Rodney Michael Harvey (July 31, 1967 – April 11, 1998) was an American actor and model.
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Roger Avon
Roger Avon (23 November 1914 – 21 December 1998) was a British film and television actor.
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Rose Maddox
Roselea Arbana Brogdon (August 15, 1925 - April 15, 1998), better known as Rose Maddox, was an American country singer-songwriter and fiddle player. She has been called The Original Hillbilly Filly and The Grandmother of Rockabilly.
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Roy Rogers
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Rancid - 1998
White Stones, Queens 1974
Fathers talking shit
motherfucker slam the door
Hittin' the streets runnin' can I take this any more?
In the reins of the trains I cuddle on the floor
Well the park bench, door and
Sleeping in the rain
Little kids sitting in the shooting gallery
Set yourself up
rom innocence to misery
Oh if this is what you want not
the way of what they fucking say
Hangin out with Sid yet again in the USA
Sidney Sidney in the USA
Lower east side 1976
Who's got the dope and
who's turning tricks?
Should I call a user all for a fix?
Rippen off some lady just to avoid from gettin' sick
But a life runs low when you got no where to go
What the fuck happens to your soul when your low
Is he comin' over is he comin' home
Oh momma's disappointed waiting by the phone
Yeah!!!
Hangin out with Sid yet again in the USA
Sidney Sidney in the USA
Same fuckin' shit 1998
Lifting bait, and by the motherfuckers that he hates
Hit some fucking people by the Kennedy strait
Who's got the bag gonna seal his fate?
Well the park bench, door and
Sleeping here for free
Little kids sitting in the shooting gallery
Set yourself up for manifested misery
Well this is what you want
not the way they fucking say
Hangin out with Sid yet again in the USA
Sidney Sidney in the USA
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binary finary-1998
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:44
- Published: 26 Aug 2007
- Updated: 19 Jul 2012
CLASSIC TRACK binary finary 1998
http://wn.com/binary_finary-1998
The Best Songs 1998
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- Duration: 11:52
- Published: 04 Nov 2010
- Updated: 19 Jul 2012
Lo mejor del año 1998
http://wn.com/The_Best_Songs_1998
Duke Nukem Forever - E3 Trailer 1998
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- Duration: 3:36
- Published: 11 Feb 2007
- Updated: 19 Jul 2012
Visit: www.spielekonsolen.de.ms This is an official Trailer of the "upcoming" :P Game Duke Nukem Forever from 1998.
http://wn.com/Duke_Nukem_Forever_E3_Trailer_1998
The First iMac Introduction
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- Duration: 7:01
- Published: 30 Jan 2006
- Updated: 19 Jul 2012
Here we see Steve Jobs introducing the very first iMac in 1998.
http://wn.com/The_First_iMac_Introduction
Thursday (1998).avi
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- Duration: 84:11
- Published: 26 Nov 2011
- Updated: 20 Jul 2012
Billy Crystal Oscars Opening -- 1998 Academy Awards
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- Duration: 6:45
- Published: 14 Dec 2011
- Updated: 15 Jul 2012
Billy Crystal's Oscars opening monologue at the 70th Academy Awards® in 1998.
http://wn.com/Billy_Crystal_Oscars_Opening_-_1998_Academy_Awards
Brandy & Monica - The Boy Is Mine (1998) + Lyrics
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- Duration: 0:00
- Published: 28 Apr 2009
- Updated: 20 Jul 2012
(chorus) You need to give it up. Had about enough. It's not hard to see, the boy is mine. I'm sorry that you Seem to be confused He belongs to me The boy is mine Brandy I think it's time we got this straight let's sit and talk face to face There is no way you could mistake him for your man - are you insane? Monica See I know that you may be just a bit jealous of me. But you're blind If you can't see that his love is all in me. Brandy You see I try to hesitate I didn't want to say what he told me He said without me he couldn't make it through the day, ain't that a shame. Monica Maybe your misunderstood Cause I can't see how he could wanna change something that's so good Because my love was all it took. (Chorus) Monica Must you do the things you do keep on acting like a fool You need to know it's me not you And if you didn't know it girl, it's true. Brandy I think that you should realize I'm trying to understand why He is a part of my life I know it's killing you inside. Monica You can say what you want to say What we have you can't take From the truth you can't escape I can tell the real from the fake. Brandy When will you get the picture Your the past I'm the future Get away it's my time to shine if you didn't know the boy is mine. (chorus x2) Monica You can't destroy this love I've found Your silly games I won't allow the boy is mine without a doubt You might as well throw in the towel. Brandy What makes you think that he wants you when I'm the one that brought him to <b>...</b>
http://wn.com/Brandy_Monica_The_Boy_Is_Mine_1998_+_Lyrics
Duke Nukem Forever 1998 Trailer
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- Duration: 3:39
- Published: 11 Apr 2007
- Updated: 16 Jul 2012
www.gametheater.org Trailer for Duke Nukem 4-Ever back in 1998.
http://wn.com/Duke_Nukem_Forever_1998_Trailer
Binary Finary - 1998 (Original Mix)
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- Duration: 7:54
- Published: 19 Oct 2008
- Updated: 19 Jul 2012
Please visit the Official Binary Finary Facebook Page www.facebook.com The original mix everyone wanted. If you would like to listen to the mp3 stream, go to www.binary-finary.com
http://wn.com/Binary_Finary_1998_Original_Mix
Detroit Red Wings vs Colorado Av's ('98 brawl)
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- Duration: 6:56
- Published: 05 Sep 2007
- Updated: 19 Jul 2012
I found this online, I didn't record it. But here it is, (pretty much) the full brawl (and a couple goals) from April 1st, 1998 Wings vs Av's brawl.
http://wn.com/Detroit_Red_Wings_vs_Colorado_Av's_'98_brawl
1998 NBA Finals - Utah Jazz Vs. Chicago Bulls - Game 6
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- Duration: 5:28
- Published: 18 Jan 2008
- Updated: 20 Jul 2012
1998 NBA Finals - Utah Jazz Vs. Chicago Bulls - Game 6. Michael Jordans game winner, highlights etc
http://wn.com/1998_NBA_Finals_Utah_Jazz_Vs_Chicago_Bulls_Game_6
Eurovision 1998 - 08 Israel - Dana International - Diva
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- Duration: 3:08
- Published: 10 Jan 2011
- Updated: 19 Jul 2012
Israel in eurovision 1998.
http://wn.com/Eurovision_1998_08_Israel_Dana_International_Diva
Nuclear Detonation Timeline "1945-1998"
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- Duration: 10:00
- Published: 13 Jul 2010
- Updated: 20 Jul 2012
The 2053 nuclear tests and explosions that took place between 1945 and 1998 are plotted visually and audibly on a world map. As the video starts out detonations are few and far between. The first three detonations represent the Manhattan Project and the two bombs that ended World War II. After a few representative minutes the USSR and Britain enter the nuclear club and the testing really starts to heat up. Even though the video does not differentiate between sub-critical "safety" tests and full detonations, you get a good idea of the fever of the nuclear arms race. The time line does not extent to tests by North Korea (October 2006 and May 2009). video credit: goes to Isao Hashimoto (www.ctbto.org/specials/1945-1998-by-isao-hashimoto/) The video was cleaned up, re-sized and edited to fit You tube's 10min limit by the folks at Bit of Fun
http://wn.com/Nuclear_Detonation_Timeline_1945-1998
F1 Spa 1998 Schumacher & Coulthard Crash
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- Duration: 3:53
- Published: 21 Feb 2009
- Updated: 17 Jul 2012
f1 spa 1998 schumacher and coulthard crash
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1998 FIFA World Cup Final: France-Brazil
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- Duration: 10:55
- Published: 28 Feb 2009
- Updated: 18 Jul 2012
FRANCE 98 FRANCE 3 - BRAZIL 0 goals: Zidane 27' Zidane 45' Petit 90'
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Nuclear Testing 1945 - 1998 Complete Video HD
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- Duration: 14:25
- Published: 06 Aug 2010
- Updated: 18 Jul 2012
"2053" - This is the number of nuclear explosions conducted in various parts of the globe. Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto has created a beautiful, undeniably scary time-lapse map of the 2053 nuclear explosions which have taken place between 1945 and 1998, beginning with the Manhattan Project's "Trinity" test near Los Alamos and concluding with Pakistan's nuclear tests in May of 1998. This leaves out North Korea's two alleged nuclear tests in this past decade. Each nation gets a blip and a flashing dot on the map whenever they detonate a nuclear weapon, with a running tally kept on the top and bottom bars of the screen. Video credit: Isao Hashimoto
http://wn.com/Nuclear_Testing_1945_1998_Complete_Video_HD
THE INTERNET on April 4th, 1998
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- Duration: 10:22
- Published: 11 Jan 2011
- Updated: 20 Jul 2012
One day almost 13 years ago I just decided to fill a VHS tape with me using the internet. I've edited out a lot of even more boring bits of this video, you're not missing much. I've uploaded this to show to friends, but it'd be cool if more people find something they enjoy here. 0:00 I visit #3dfx on IRC 4:17 I show off my old Geocities website 5:18 I check bluesnews.com for the latest gaming news 3 browsing the anime web turnpike 5:42 more #3dfx on IRC 9:07 I go to IGN64.com looking up news on the upcoming Zelda64
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![Dr Motte & Westbam - One World One Future [love parade 1998]](http://web.archive.org./web/20120801172620im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/CDJ20spGymE/0.jpg "Dr Motte & Westbam - One World One Future [love parade 1998]")
Dr Motte & Westbam - One World One Future [love parade 1998]
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- Duration: 3:41
- Published: 10 Feb 2007
- Updated: 19 Jul 2012
My first video upload. This song is one of the best Love Parade promo songs ever made. Music Store: itunes.apple.com
http://wn.com/Dr_Motte_Westbam_One_World_One_Future_love_parade_1998_
Norm MacDonald @ Sports Awards, 1998
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- Duration: 8:27
- Published: 13 Mar 2008
- Updated: 17 Jul 2012
Norm MacDonald @ Sports Awards, 1998
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Beastie Boys - 1998 VMAS - Video Vanguard Award
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 8:29
- Published: 15 Nov 2010
- Updated: 18 Jul 2012
Chuck D presents the Beastie Boys with the Video Vanguard award at the 1998 VMAs
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Impact
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- Duration: 109:38
- Published: 28 Sep 2010
- Updated: 18 Jul 2012
Businessman Walter Williams is disappointed to learn his wife is sick and unable to come on a trip with him. She suggests that he take her cousin Jim instead. On the highway, Jim, who is actually Irene's lover, tries to kill Walter hitting his head and throwing him in a cliff, and has a fatal accident while escaping driving Walters's car. Walter is assumed dead and later his wife is sent to jail accused of plotting his murder. Meanwhile, the wounded Walter sleeps in a moving van and awakes in Larkspur, Idaho. He is hired as a mechanic in a gas station by the owner, Marsha Peters, and makes a new life for himself there.
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Loona - Bailando 1998
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:36
- Published: 28 Aug 2007
- Updated: 20 Jul 2012
It is old clip from the nineties www.slap.borec.cz
http://wn.com/Loona_Bailando_1998
OKLAHOMA! OK! - Hugh Jackman 1998
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- Duration: 4:47
- Published: 13 Apr 2009
- Updated: 19 Jul 2012
The Musical Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma! (The Royal National Theatre Production 1998)
http://wn.com/OKLAHOMA!_OK!_Hugh_Jackman_1998
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![Buczka Street Żary [ˈʐarɨ] (German: Sorau, Lower Sorbian: Žarow) is a town in western Poland with about 39,900 inhabitants (2006), situated in the Lubusz Voivodeship (since 1999, previously in Zielona Góra Voivodeship (1975–1998))](http://web.archive.org./web/20120801172620/http://cdn5.wn.com/pd/6b/2f/407766b7c6ea424414946d1e4fb0_medium.jpg "Buczka Street Żary [ˈʐarɨ] (German: Sorau, Lower Sorbian: Žarow) is a town in western Poland with about 39,900 inhabitants (2006), situated in the Lubusz Voivodeship (since 1999, previously in Zielona Góra Voivodeship (1975–1998))")
![Okrzei Street Żary [ˈʐarɨ] (German: Sorau, Lower Sorbian: Žarow) is a town in western Poland with about 39,900 inhabitants (2006), situated in the Lubusz Voivodeship (since 1999, previously in Zielona Góra Voivodeship (1975–1998)).](http://web.archive.org./web/20120801172620/http://cdn6.wn.com/pd/a9/0b/9149dcc827311eb69888edffaf3a_medium.jpg "Okrzei Street Żary [ˈʐarɨ] (German: Sorau, Lower Sorbian: Žarow) is a town in western Poland with about 39,900 inhabitants (2006), situated in the Lubusz Voivodeship (since 1999, previously in Zielona Góra Voivodeship (1975–1998)).")
![Poniec Town Hall [ˈpɔɲet ͡s] (German: Punitz) is a town situated in the southern part of the Greater Poland Voivodeship (since 1999), formerly in Leszno Voivodeship (1975-1998), in Poland.](http://web.archive.org./web/20120801172620/http://cdn9.wn.com/pd/e2/8a/9393317cb31f039d4b0d49c589a3_medium.jpg "Poniec Town Hall [ˈpɔɲet ͡s] (German: Punitz) is a town situated in the southern part of the Greater Poland Voivodeship (since 1999), formerly in Leszno Voivodeship (1975-1998), in Poland.")
![Knothe's Villa (Kościuszko Sq.), Tomaszów Mazowiecki [tɔˈmaʂuf mazɔˈvjɛt ͡ski] is a town in central Poland with 67,159 inhabitants (2004). Situated in the Łódź Voivodeship (since 1999), it was previously part of Piotrków Trybunalski Voivodeship (1975–1998).](http://web.archive.org./web/20120801172620/http://cdn3.wn.com/pd/24/6c/26a7baf4b60e936347301832aa7d_medium.jpg "Knothe's Villa (Kościuszko Sq.), Tomaszów Mazowiecki [tɔˈmaʂuf mazɔˈvjɛt ͡ski] is a town in central Poland with 67,159 inhabitants (2004). Situated in the Łódź Voivodeship (since 1999), it was previously part of Piotrków Trybunalski Voivodeship (1975–1998).")
![Market place (rynek) Żory [ˈʐɔrɨ] is a town and city county in Silesian Voivodeship, Poland with 62,625 inhabitants (2006). Previously it was in Katowice Voivodeship (1975–1998).](http://web.archive.org./web/20120801172620/http://cdn7.wn.com/pd/45/a2/36c460762baa0046d4383a6734c7_medium.jpg "Market place (rynek) Żory [ˈʐɔrɨ] is a town and city county in Silesian Voivodeship, Poland with 62,625 inhabitants (2006). Previously it was in Katowice Voivodeship (1975–1998).")
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"The Big Lebowski" (1998): A Review
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This article is about the year 1998. For the number, see 1998 (number). For other uses, see 1998 (disambiguation).
| 1998 : January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December |
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 19th century – 20th century – 21st century |
| Decades: | 1960s 1970s 1980s – 1990s – 2000s 2010s 2020s |
| Years: | 1995 1996 1997 – 1998 – 1999 2000 2001 |
| 1998 by topic: |
| Subject |
| By country |
| Leaders |
| Birth and death categories |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories |
| Works and introductions categories |
| Gregorian calendar | 1998 MCMXCVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2751 |
| Armenian calendar | 1447 ԹՎ ՌՆԽԷ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6748 |
| Bahá'í calendar | 154–155 |
| Bengali calendar | 1405 |
| Berber calendar | 2948 |
| British Regnal year | 46 Eliz. 2 – 47 Eliz. 2 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2542 |
| Burmese calendar | 1360 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7506–7507 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁丑年十二月初三日 (4634/4694-12-3) — to —
戊寅年十一月十三日(4635/4695-11-13) |
| Coptic calendar | 1714–1715 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1990–1991 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5758–5759 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 2054–2055 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1920–1921 |
| - Kali Yuga | 5099–5100 |
| Holocene calendar | 11998 |
| Iranian calendar | 1376–1377 |
| Islamic calendar | 1418–1419 |
| Japanese calendar | Heisei 10 (平成10年) |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 13 days |
| Korean calendar | 4331 |
| Minguo calendar | ROC 87 民國87年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2541 |
| Unix time | 883612800–915148799 |
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1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year that started on a Thursday. In the Gregorian calendar, it was the 1998th year of Anno Domini; the 998th year of the 2nd millennium; the 98th year of the 20th century; and the 9th of the 1990s.
The year 1998 was designated International Year of the Ocean by UNESCO.[1]
Events[link]
January[link]
- January 2 – Russia begins to circulate new rubles to stem inflation and promote confidence.
- January 4 – Wilaya of Relizane massacres of 4 January 1998 in Algeria: Over 170 are killed in 3 remote villages.
- January 6 – The Lunar Prospector spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently shadowed craters near the Moon's poles.
- January 8 – Ramzi Yousef is sentenced to life in prison for planning the first World Trade Center bombing.
- January 11 – Over 100 people are killed in the Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria.
- January 12 – Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning.
- January 20 – Nepalese police intercept a shipment of 272 human skulls in Kathmandu[citation needed].
- January 22 – Suspected "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski pleads guilty, and accepts a sentence of life without the possibility of parole.
- January 28 – Gunmen hold at least 400 children and teachers hostage for several hours, at an elementary school in Manila, Philippines.
February[link]
- The United States Senate passes Resolution 71, urging U.S. President Bill Clinton to "take all necessary and appropriate actions to respond to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs."
- February 3 – Cavalese cable car disaster: a United States Military pilot causes the deaths of 20 people near Trento, Italy, when his low-flying plane severs the cable of a cable-car.
- February 4 – An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale in northeast Afghanistan kills more than 5,000 people.
- February 7–22 – The 1998 Winter Olympics are held in Nagano, Japan.
- February 16 – China Airlines Flight 676 crashes into a residential area near Chiang Kai-shek International Airport, killing 202 people (all 196 on board and 6 on the ground).
- February 20 – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraqi President Saddam Hussein negotiates a deal with U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, allowing weapons inspectors to return to Baghdad, preventing military action by the United States and Britain.
March[link]
- March 2
- Data sent from the Galileo probe indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice.
- Natascha Kampusch is abducted by Wolfgang Priklopil (she will remain in his captivity until August 2006).
- March 5 – NASA announces that the Clementine probe orbiting the Moon has found enough water in polar craters to support a human colony and rocket fueling station.
- March 11 – Danish parliamentary election, 1998: Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen is re-elected.
- March 23 – 70th Academy Awards ceremony held in Shrine Auditorium Los Angeles, California.
- March 26 – Oued Bouaicha massacre in Algeria: 52 people are killed with axes and knives, 32 of them babies under the age of 2.
April[link]
- April 5 – In Japan, the Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge linking Shikoku with Honshū and costing about US$3.8 billion, opens to traffic, becoming the largest suspension bridge in the world.
- April 6 – Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of hitting India.
- April 10 – Good Friday: 1 hour after the end of the talks deadline, the Belfast Agreement is signed between the Irish and British governments and most Northern Ireland political parties, with the notable exception of the Democratic Unionist Party.
May[link]
- May 8 – On the same day that the film Twister is released, CBS telecasts The Wizard of Oz for the last time. Beginning in 1999, The Wizard of Oz will be shown on cable, and in 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005 it will be telecast by the WB Television Network in addition to its cable showings.
- May 11
- India conducts 3 underground nuclear tests in Pokhran, including 1 thermonuclear device.
- The first euro coins are minted in Pessac, France. Because the final specifications for the coins were not finished in 1998, they will have to be melted and minted again in 1999.
- May 13–14 – Riots directed against Chinese Indonesians break out in Indonesia. Indonesian natives destroy and burn Chinese Indonesian-owned properties and kill and rape more than 1,000 Chinese Indonesians.
- May 19 – The Galaxy IV communications satellite fails, leaving 80–90% of the world's pagers without service.
- May 21 – Suharto resigns, after 32 years as President of Indonesia and his 7th consecutive re-election by the Indonesian Parliament (MPR). Suharto's hand-picked Vice President, B. J. Habibie, becomes Indonesia's third president.
- May 26 – Bear Grylls, 23, becomes the youngest British climber to scale Mount Everest.[2]
- May 28 – Nuclear testing: In response to a series of Indian nuclear tests, Pakistan explodes 5 nuclear devices of its own in the Chaghai hills of Baluchistan, codenamed Chagai-I, prompting the United States, Japan and other nations to impose economic sanctions. Pakistan celebrates Youm-e-Takbir annually.
- May 30
- A 6.6 magnitude earthquake hits northern Afghanistan, killing up to 5,000.
- A second nuclear test, codenamed Chagai-II, is conducted and supervised by the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC).
June[link]
- June 2 – The CIH virus is discovered in Taiwan.
- June 3 – Eschede train disaster: An InterCityExpress high speed train derails between Hannover and Hamburg, Germany, causing 101 deaths.
- June 7 – Former Brigadier-General Ansumane Mané seizes control over military barracks in Bissau, marking the beginning of the Guinea-Bissau Civil War (1998–99).
- June 12 – Centennial Celebration of Independence of the Philippines from Spain
- June 30 – Philippine Vice President Joseph Estrada was sworn in as the 13th President of the Philippines.
July[link]
- July 5 – Japan launches a probe to Mars, joining the United States and Russia as an outer space-exploring nation.
- July 6 – The new Hong Kong International Airport at Chek Lap Kok opens, while the historic Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport closes.
- July 12 – France beats Brazil 3–0 in the World Cup final.
- July 17
- At a conference in Rome, 120 countries vote to create a permanent International Criminal Court to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression.
- In Saint Petersburg, Nicholas II of Russia and his family are buried in St. Catherine Chapel, 80 years after he and his family were killed by Bolsheviks.
- A tsunami triggered by an undersea earthquake destroys 10 villages in Papua New Guinea, killing an estimated 1,500, leaving 2,000 more unaccounted for and thousands more homeless.
- Biologists report in the journal Science how they sequenced the genome of the bacterium that causes syphilis, Treponema pallidum.
August[link]
- August 2 – Second Congo War begins. 3,900,000 people are killed before it ends in 2003, making it the bloodiest war, to date, since World War II.
- August 7
- Yangtze River Floods: In China the Yangtze River breaks through the main bank; before this, from August 1–5, peripheral levees collapsed consecutively in Jiayu County Baizhou Bay. The death toll exceeds 12,000, with many thousands more injured.
- August 7 – 1998 U.S. embassy bombings: The bombings of the United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya, kill 224 people and injure over 4,500; they are linked to terrorist Osama Bin Laden, an exile of Saudi Arabia.
- August 15 – Omagh bombing, A terrorist bombing carried out in Northern Ireland by the Real IRA.
- August 24 – The first RFID human implantation is tested in the United Kingdom.
September[link]
- September 2
- A McDonnell Douglas MD-11 airliner (Swissair Flight 111) crashes near Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia, after taking off from New York City en-route to Geneva; all 229 people on board are killed.
- A United Nations court finds Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide, marking the first time that the 1948 law banning genocide is enforced.
- September 4 – Google, Inc. is founded in Menlo Park, California, by Stanford University PhD candidates Larry Page and Sergey Brin.[3]
October[link]
- October 14 – Eric Robert Rudolph is charged with four bombings (including the 1996 Olympic bombing) in Atlanta, Georgia.
- October 16 – British police place General Augusto Pinochet under house arrest during his medical treatment in the UK.
- October 17 – A pipeline explosion in Jesse, Nigeria results in 1,082 deaths.
- October 29 – Hurricane Mitch makes landfall in Central America, killing an estimated 18,000 people.
November[link]
- November 20 – A Russian Proton rocket is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, carrying the first segment of the International Space Station, the 21 ton Zarya Module.
December[link]
- December 6 – Hugo Chávez, politician and former member of the Venezuelan military, is elected President of Venezuela.
- December 16–19 – Iraq disarmament crisis: U.S. President Bill Clinton orders airstrikes on Iraq. UNSCOM withdraws all weapons inspectors from Iraq.
- December 29 – Khmer Rouge leaders apologize for the genocide in Cambodia that claimed over 1 million in the 1970s.
- December 31 – The first leap second since June 30, 1997, occurs. In the eurozone, the currency rates of this day are fixed permanently.
Date unknown[link]
- Ibrahim Hanna, the last native speaker of Mlahsô, dies in Qamishli, Syria, making the language effectively extinct. Also, the last native speaker of related Bijil Neo-Aramaic dies in Jerusalem.[citation needed]
Births[link]
- January 9 – Kerris Dorsey, American actress
- January 12 – Nathan Gamble, American actor
- January 28 – Ariel Winter, American actress
- February 15 – Zachary Gordon, American actor
- April 6 – Peyton Roi List, American actress
- April 9 – Elle Fanning, American actress
- April 24 – Ryan Newman, American actress
- July 8 – Jaden Smith, American actor
- July 9 – Robert Capron, American actor
- July 22 – Madison Pettis, American actress
- July 31 – Rico Rodriguez, American actor
- August 25 – China Anne McClain, American actress and singer
- October 23 – Amandla Stenberg, American actor
- October 28 – Nolan Gould, American actor
- November 23 – Bradley Steven Perry, American actor and singer
- December 22 – G. Hannelius, American actress
Deaths[link]
Main article: Deaths in 1998
January[link]
- January 1 – Helen Wills Moody, American tennis player (b. 1905)
- January 4 – Mae Questel, American actress (b. 1908)
- January 5 – Sonny Bono, American singer, actor, and politician (b. 1935)
- January 7 – Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1906)
- January 8 – Michael Tippett, English composer (b. 1905)
- January 9 – Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
- January 11
- Ellis Rabb, American director and actor (b. 1930)
- Klaus Tennstedt, German conductor (b. 1926)
- January 15 – Junior Wells, American harmonica player (b. 1934)
- January 16
- Emil Sitka, American actor (b. 1914)
- Hermann Wedekind, artistic director Festspiele Balver Höhle (b. 1910)
- January 18 – Monica Edwards, British writer (b. 1912)
- January 19 – Carl Perkins, American guitarist (b. 1932)
- January 21 – Jack Lord, American actor (b. 1920)
- January 23 – Alfredo Ormando, Italian writer (b. 1958)
- January 28 – Shotaro Ishinomori, Japanese Manga artist, "Father of Henshin heroes" (b. 1938)
February[link]
- February 3 – Karla Faye Tucker, Texas murderer (b. 1959)
- February 6
- Falco, Austrian musician (b. 1957)
- Carl Wilson, American musician (The Beach Boys) (b. 1946)
- February 7
- Lawrence Sanders, American author (b. 1920)
- Roger Nicholas Angleton, American murderer (b. 1942)
- February 8
- Halldór Laxness, Icelandic writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
- Julian Lincoln Simon, American economist and author (b. 1932)
- February 17 – Ernst Jünger, German writer (b. 1895)
- February 18 – Harry Caray, American television and radio broadcaster (b. 1917)
- February 22
- Red Reeder, U.S. Army officer and author (b. 1902)
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff, American Democratic Party politician (b. 1910)
- Athol Rowan, South African cricketer (b. 1921)
- February 23
- Raman Lamba, Indian cricketer (b. 1960)
- Sean A. Moore, American writer (b. 1965)
- February 24 – Henny Youngman, English-born comedian (b. 1906)
- February 26 – Theodore Schultz, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
- February 27
- George H. Hitchings, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1905)
- J. T. Walsh, American actor (b. 1943)
- February 28
- Todd Duncan, American opera singer (b. 1903)
- Dermot Morgan, Irish actor and comedian (b. 1952)
March[link]
- March 2 – Darcy O'Brien, American author (b. 1939)
- March 3 – Fred W. Friendly, American television journalist and executive (b. 1915)
- March 7 – Bernarr Rainbow, historian of music education, organist, and choir master, (b. 1914)
- March 8 – Ray Nitschke, American football player (b. 1936)
- March 10 – Lloyd Bridges, American actor (b. 1913)
- March 12
- Judge Dread, English musician (b. 1945)
- Beatrice Wood, American artist and ceramicist (b. 1893)
- Jozef Kroner, Slovak actor (The Shop on Main Street) (b. 1924)
- March 13
- Bill Reid, Canadian artist (b. 1920)
- Risen Star, American racehorse (b. 1985)
- March 15
- Benjamin Spock, American athlete, pediatrician, and author (b. 1903)
- Dušan Pašek, Slovak ice hockey player (b. 1960)
- March 16 – Derek Harold Richard Barton, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
- March 20 – George Howard, American jazz saxophone musician (b. 1956)
- March 25 – Daniel Massey, English actor (b. 1933)
- March 27 – Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche, Austrian auto designer and businessman (b. 1909)
- March 31 – Bella Abzug, American politician (b. 1920)
April[link]
- April 1
- Gene Evans, American actor (b. 1920)
- Rozz Williams, American singer (b. 1963)
- April 2 – Rob Pilatus, member of the pop group Milli Vanilli (b. 1965)
- April 3 – Charles Lang, American cinematographer (b. 1901)
- April 5 – Cozy Powell, English rock drummer (b. 1947)
- April 6
- Wendy O. Williams, American singer (b. 1949)
- Tammy Wynette, American singer (b. 1942)
- April 11 – Rodney Harvey, American actor and model (b. 1967)
- April 13 – Patrick de Gayardon, French skydiver and skysurfing pioneer (b. 1960)
- April 15
- Rose Maddox, American singer (b. 1925)
- Pol Pot, Cambodian Khmer Rouge leader (b. 1925)
- April 16
- Marie-Louise Meilleur, oldest living person at the time of her death (b. 1880)
- Fred Davis, English snooker player (b. 1913)
- April 17
- Linda McCartney, American photographer and musician and wife of former Beatle Paul McCartney. (b. 1941)
- Muhammad Metwally Al Shaarawy, Egyptian Muslim jurist (b. 1911)
- April 19 – Octavio Paz, Mexican diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)
- April 21
- Peter Lind Hayes, American entertainer (b. 1915)
- Irene Vernon, American actress (b. 1922)
- April 22 – Kitch Christie, South African rugby coach (b. 1940)
- April 23
- Constantine Karamanlis, Greek politician (b. 1907)
- James Earl Ray, American assassin (b. 1928)
- April 25
- Wright Morris, American photographer and writer (b. 1910)
- Christian Mortensen, American supercentenarian and oldest living man at his death. (b. 1882)
- April 26 – Joan Mary Wayne Brown, British author who the pseudonyms Mary Gervaise, Hilary Wayne and Bellamy Brown (b. 1906)
- April 27
- Carlos Castaneda, Peruvian-born American anthropologist and author (b. 1925)
- Anne Desclos, French writer (b. 1907)
May[link]
- May 1 – Eldridge Cleaver, American activist (b. 1935)
- May 2
- Kevin Lloyd, British actor (b. 1949)
- Justin Fashanu, British footballer (b. 1961)
- hide, Japanese musician (b. 1964)
- Gene Raymond, American actor (b. 1908)
- May 7
- Allan McLeod Cormack, South African–born physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1924)
- Eddie Rabbitt, American musician (b. 1941)
- May 9 – Alice Faye, American entertainer (b. 1915)
- May 14
- Frank Sinatra, American entertainer (b. 1915)
- Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American conservationist and writer (b. 1890)
- May 15 – Earl Manigault, American basketball player (b. 1944)
- May 19 – Sosuke Uno, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1922)
- May 22
- John Derek, American actor and film director (b. 1926)
- José Enrique Moyal, mathematical physicist (b. 1910)
- May 28 – Phil Hartman, Canadian-born American artist, writer, actor, and comedian (b. 1948)
- May 29 – Barry Goldwater, American politician (b. 1909)
June[link]
- June 1 – Darwin Joston, American actor (b. 1937)
- June 2
- Junkyard Dog, American pro wrestler (b. 1952)
- Dorothy Stickney, American actress (b. 1896)
- June 3 – Poul Bundgaard, Danish actor and singer (b. 1922)
- June 5 – Jeanette Nolan, American actress (b. 1911)
- June 8
- President Sani Abacha of Nigeria (b. 1943)
- Jackie McGlew, South African cricketer (b. 1929)
- June 10 – Hammond Innes, English author (b. 1914)
- June 11 – Catherine Cookson, English author (b. 1906)
- June 12 – Theresa Merritt, American actress (b. 1924)
- June 13 – Birger Ruud, Norwegian athlete (b. 1911)
- June 20 – Conrad Schumann, East German border guard (b. 1942)
- June 22 – Benny Green, British writer, radio broadcaster and saxophonist (b. 1927)
- June 23 – Maureen O'Sullivan, Irish actress (b. 1911)
- June 25 – Lounès Matoub, Berber Kabyle singer (b. 1956)
July[link]
- July 3 – Danielle Bunten Berry, American software developer (b. 1949)
- July 5 – Sid Luckman, American football player (b. 1916)
- July 6 – Roy Rogers, American singer and actor (b. 1911)
- July 17 – Joseph Maher, Irish actor (b. 1933)
- July 19 – Elmer Valo, Slovak Major League Baseball player (b. 1921)
- July 21
- Alan Shepard, American astronaut (b. 1923)
- Robert Young, American actor (b. 1907)
- July 22 – Hermann Prey, German bass-baritone (b. 1929)
- July 27 – Binnie Barnes, English actress (b. 1903)
- July 29 – Jerome Robbins, American choreographer and director (b. 1918)
- July 30
- Buffalo Bob Smith, American children's television host (b. 1917)
- Jorge Russek, Mexican actor (b. 1932)
August[link]
- August 1 – Eva Bartok, Hungarian actress (b. 1927)
- August 2 – Shari Lewis, American ventriloquist (b. 1933)
- August 3 – Alfred Schnittke, Russian-born composer (b. 1934)
- August 4 – Yuri Artyukhin, cosmonaut (b. 1930)
- August 5 – Todor Zhivkov, former president of Bulgaria (b. 1911)
- August 6 – André Weil, French mathematician (b. 1906)
- August 9 – Frankie Ruiz, Puerto Rican singer (b. 1958)
- August 13 – Julien Green, French-born American writer (b. 1900)
- August 24 – E. G. Marshall, American actor (b. 1910)
- August 25 – Lewis F. Powell, Jr., American Justice of the Supreme Court (b. 1907)
- August 26 – Frederick Reines, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
September[link]
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- September 1 – Cary Middlecoff, American golfer (b. 1921)
- September 2
- Jackie Blanchflower, Irish footballer (b. 1933)
- Allen Drury, American writer (b. 1918)
- September 5
- Fernando Balzaretti, Mexican actor (b. 1946)
- Leo Penn, American actor and director (b. 1921)
- September 6 – Akira Kurosawa, Japanese screenwriter, producer, and director (b. 1910)
- September 8 – Leonid Kinskey, Russian-born actor (b. 1903)
- September 9 – Lucio Battisti, Italian singer (b. 1943)
- September 10 – Carl Forgione, British actor (b. 1944)
- September 11 – Dane Clark, American actor (b. 1912)
- September 13 – George Wallace, American politician (b. 1919)
- September 14
- Johnny Adams, American musician (b. 1932)
- Yang Shangkun, former President of the People's Republic of China (b. 1907)
- September 17 – Gustav Nezval, Czech actor (b. 1907)
- September 20 – Muriel Humphrey, Wife of Vice President Hubert Humphrey (b. 1912)
- September 21 – Florence "Flo-Jo" Griffith-Joyner, American runner (b. 1959)
- September 23 – Mary Frann, American actress (b. 1943)
- September 26 – Betty Carter, American jazz singer (b. 1929)
- September 27 – Narita Bryan, Japanese racehorse (b. 1991)
- September 30
- Dan Quisenberry, baseball player (b. 1953)
- Bruno Munari, Italian-born industrial designer (b. 1907)
- Pavel Štěpán, Czech pianist (b. 1925)
- Robert Lewis Taylor, American author (b. 1912)
October[link]
- October 2
- Gene Autry, American actor, singer, and sports team owner (b. 1907)
- Olivier Gendebien, Belgian race car driver (b. 1924)
- October 3 – Roddy McDowall, British actor (b. 1928)
- October 6 – Mark Belanger, American baseball player (b. 1944)
- October 8 – Zhang Chongren, Chinese artist (b. 1907)
- October 9 – Ian Johnson, Australian cricketer (b. 1917)
- October 10 – Tommy Quaid, Irish hurler (b. 1957)
- October 11 – Richard Denning, American actor (b. 1914)
- October 12 – Matthew Shepard, American murder victim (b. 1976)
- October 13 – General Gérard Charles Édouard Thériault, Canadian Chief of the Defence Staff (b. 1932)
- October 14 – Frankie Yankovic, American musician (b. 1916)
- October 16 – Jon Postel, American Internet pioneer (b. 1943)
- October 17
- Joan Hickson, British actress (b. 1906)
- Hakim Mohammed Said, Pakistani scholar and philanthropist (b. 1920)
- October 22 – Eric Ambler, British writer (b. 1909)
- October 28
- Ghulam Ahmed, Indian former cricket captain (b. 1922)
- James Goldman, American writer (b. 1927)
- October 29 – Ted Hughes, English poet (b. 1930)
November[link]
- November 3 – Bob Kane, American comic book creator (b. 1915)
- November 8 – Jean Marais, French actor (b. 1913)
- November 10
- Hal Newhouser, baseball player (b. 1921)
- Mary Millar, British actress (b. 1936)
- November 13
- Valerie Hobson, English actress (b. 1917)
- Michel Trudeau, Canadian outdoorsman, son of Pierre Trudeau (b. 1975)
- Doug Wright, English cricketer (b. 1914)
- November 17
- Kenneth McDuff, American serial killer (b. 1946)
- Esther Rolle, American actress (b. 1920)
- November 19 – Alan J. Pakula, American film director (b. 1928)
- November 22 – Stu Unger, professional poker player (b. 1953)
- November 25 – Flip Wilson, American actor and comedian (b. 1933)
- November 28 – Kerry Wendell Thornley, American counterculture figure and writer (b. 1938)
- November 29
- Martin Ruane, British wrestler best known as Giant Haystacks and later, The Loch Ness Monster (b. 1947)
- Frank Latimore, American actor (b. 1925)
December[link]
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- December 1 – Freddie Young, American cinematographer (b. 1902)
- December 2
- Mikio Oda, Japanese athlete (b. 1905)
- Brian Stonehouse, English painter and World War II secret agent (b. 1918)
- December 5 – Hazel Bishop, American Chemist and inventor of Lipstick (b. 1906)
- December 6 – César Baldaccini, French sculptor (b. 1921)
- December 7
- Michael Craze, British actor (b. 1942)
- Martin Rodbell, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1925)
- December 11 – Lynn Strait, vocalist for band Snot (b. 1968)
- December 12 – Lawton Chiles, U.S. Senator from Florida and Governor of Florida (b. 1930)
- December 13 – Lew Grade, British impresario (b. 1906)
- December 14
- Norman Fell, American actor (b. 1924)
- Annette Strauss, American philanthropist and mayor of Dallas, Texas (b. 1924)
- December 16 – William Gaddis, American writer (b. 1922)
- December 17 – Claudia Benton, Peruvian-born child psychologist (b. 1959)
- December 18 – Lev Demin, cosmonaut (b. 1926)
- December 20
- Irene Hervey, American actress (b. 1910)
- Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, British scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1914)
- December 21 – Roger Avon, British actor (b. 1914)
- December 22 – Michelle Thomas, American actress (b. 1969)
- December 23 – David Manners, Canadian-American actor (b. 1900)
- December 25 – John Pulman, English snooker player (b. 1923)
- December 26 – Hurd Hatfield, American actor (b. 1917)
- December 28 – Robert Rosen, American biologist (b. 1934)
- December 30
- Keisuke Kinoshita, Japanese film director (b. 1912)
- George Webb, British actor (b. 1911)
Date unknown[link]
- Reginald Ben Davis, British artist (b. 1907)
- René Pellos, French artist (b. 1900)
Nobel Prizes[link]
- Physics – Robert B. Laughlin, Horst L. Störmer, Daniel Chee Tsui
- Chemistry – Walter Kohn, John Pople
- Medicine – Robert F. Furchgott, Louis J. Ignarro, Ferid Murad
- Literature – José Saramago
- Peace – John Hume and David Trimble
- Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel – Amartya Sen
Templeton Prize[link]
Fields Medal[link]
See also: Works of fiction set in 1998
Setting in fiction[link]
- The Japanese horror novel Another is set in the fictional town of Yomiyama, Japan during 1998.
- The novel Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years takes place from April 30, 1997 to May 2, 1998.
- The video games Resident Evil 0, Resident Evil, Resident Evil 2, Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City, and Resident Evil Code: Veronica all take place in 1998, July for the first two, September for the next three, and December CV.
External links[link]
References[link]
- ^ 1998—INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF THE OCEAN: MESSAGE OF UNESCO DIRECTOR-GENERAL (December 29, 1997)
- ^ BBC NEWS | UK | Flying over the top of the world
- ^ "The History Of Google – Searching The World" (notes), Matt Jacks, 10 January 2005, webpage: WAH-HGoogle.
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| Billy Crystal | |
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| Birth name | William Edward Crystal |
| Born | (1948-03-14) March 14, 1948 (age 64) New York, New York, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Years active | 1975–present |
| Spouse | Janice Goldfinger (1970–present) |
| Emmy Awards | |
| Performance in Special Events 1989 The 31st Annual Grammy Awards Writing in a Variety or Music Program 1990 Midnight Train to Moscow 1991 The 63rd Annual Academy Awards 1992 The 64th Annual Academy Awards Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program 1991 The 63rd Annual Academy Awards 1998 The 70th Annual Academy Awards |
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| Funniest Actor in a Motion Picture (Leading Role) 1989 When Harry Met Sally... 1991 City Slickers Funniest Male Performer in a TV Special (Leading or Supporting) Network, Cable or Syndication 1991 The 63rd Annual Academy Award 1992 The 64th Annual Academy Award 1993 The 65th Annual Academy Award 1998 The 70th Annual Academy Award Creative Achievement Award 1993 |
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William Edward "Billy" Crystal[1] (born March 14, 1948) is an American actor, writer, producer, comedian, and film director. He gained prominence in the 1970s for playing Jodie Dallas on the ABC sitcom Soap and became a Hollywood film star during the late 1980s and 1990s, appearing in the critical and box office successes When Harry Met Sally... and City Slickers. He has hosted the Academy Awards nine times, including the 84th Academy Awards in 2012.[2]
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Early life[link]
Crystal was born in the Doctor's Hospital in Manhattan and raised on Long Island in Long Beach, the son of Helen (née Gabler), a housewife, and Jack Crystal, a record company executive and jazz producer who also owned and operated the Commodore Record store.[3][4] His babysitter was occasionally Billie Holiday. His uncle was musician and songwriter Milt Gabler, and his brother, Richard "Rip" Crystal, is a television producer. Crystal grew up in a Jewish family that he has described as "large" and "loving".[5]
After graduation from Long Beach High School, Crystal attended Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia on a baseball scholarship, having learned the game from his father, who pitched for St. John's University. Crystal never played a game at Marshall because the program was suspended during his freshman year, and because he was too busy being the Editor in Chief of The BG News from 1969–70.[6] He did not return to Marshall as a sophomore, staying back in New York with his future wife. He instead attended Nassau Community College and later New York University, where he graduated in 1970 with a BFA from its Tisch School of the Arts.[7]
Career[link]
Television[link]
Crystal returned to New York City and performed regularly at The Improv and Catch a Rising Star. He studied film and television direction under Martin Scorsese at New York University. In 1976, Crystal appeared on an episode of All in the Family. He was on the dais for The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast of Muhammad Ali on February 19, 1976, where he did impressions of both Ali and sportscaster Howard Cosell. He was scheduled to appear on the first episode of NBC Saturday Night (later renamed Saturday Night Live) (October 11, 1975), but his sketch was cut.[8] He did do a stand-up bit later in that first season as Bill Crystal, on the April 17, 1976, episode; the "Can you dig it? I knew that you could." portion of which was repeatedly quoted by characters in the 1977 feature film Saturday Night Fever.
Crystal's earliest prominent role was as Jodie Dallas on Soap, one of the first unambiguously homosexual characters in the cast of an American television series. He continued in the role during the series' entire 1977–1981 run.
In 1982, Billy Crystal hosted his own variety show, The Billy Crystal Comedy Hour on NBC. It lasted five episodes.
After hosting Saturday Night Live in 1984, he joined the regular cast.[8] His most famous recurring sketch was his parody of Fernando Lamas, Fernando, a smarmy talk show host whose catchphrase, "You look... mahvelous!," became a media sensation.[8] Crystal subsequently released an album of his stand-up material titled Mahvelous! in 1985, as well as the single "You Look Marvelous", which peaked at No. 58 on the Billboard Hot 100 during the same year. Also in the 1980s, Crystal starred in an episode of Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre as the smartest of the three little pigs.
In 1996, Crystal was the guest star of the third episode of Muppets Tonight.
Billy Crystal hosted three Grammy Awards Telecasts: the 29th Grammys; the 30th Grammys; and the 31st Grammys.
Acting in film and hosting the Oscars[link]
Crystal's first film role was in Joan Rivers's 1978 film Rabbit Test. Crystal also made game show appearances such as The Hollywood Squares, All Star Secrets and The $20,000 Pyramid. He holds the record for getting his contestant partner to the top of the pyramid in winner's circle in the fastest time, 26 seconds.
Crystal appeared briefly in Rob Reiner's 1984 "rockumentary" This Is Spinal Tap as Morty The Mime, a waiter dressed as a mime at one of Spinal Tap's parties. He shared the scene with a then-unknown, non-speaking Dana Carvey. Crystal's line in the film was "Mime is money." He later starred in the action comedy Running Scared (1986). Reiner directed Crystal again in The Princess Bride (1987).
Reiner directed Crystal for a third time in the classic romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally... (1989), for which Crystal was nominated for a Golden Globe. Crystal then starred in the buddy comedy City Slickers (1991), which proved very successful both commercially and critically and for which Crystal was nominated for his second Golden Globe.
Following the success of these films, Crystal wrote, directed, and starred in Mr. Saturday Night (1992) and Forget Paris (1995). In the former, Crystal played a serious role in aging makeup, as an egotistical comedian who reflects back on his career. He directed the made-for-television movie 61* (2001) based on Roger Maris's and Mickey Mantle's race to break Babe Ruth's single-season home run record in 1961. This earned Crystal an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special.
Crystal has continued working in film, including Analyze This (1999) and Analyze That (2002) with Robert De Niro, and in the English version of Howl's Moving Castle as the voice of Calcifer. He was originally asked to provide the voice of Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story (1995) but turned it down, a decision he later regretted due to the popularity of the series.[8] Crystal later went on to provide the voice of Mike Wazowski in the Pixar film Monsters, Inc. (2001), which was nominated for the inaugural Best Animated Feature Oscar.
Crystal hosted the Academy Awards broadcast in 1990–1993, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2004 and 2012; and he reportedly turned down hosting the 2006 ceremony to concentrate on his one-man show, 700 Sundays. He returned as emcee for the 2012 Oscar ceremony, after Eddie Murphy backed out of hosting.[9] His nine times as the M.C. is second only to Bob Hope's 18 in most ceremonies hosted. At the 83rd Academy Awards ceremony in 2011, he appeared as a presenter for a digitally inserted Bob Hope and before doing so was given a standing ovation. Film critic Roger Ebert said when Crystal came onstage about two hours into the show, he got the first laughs of the broadcast.[10] Crystal's hosting gigs have regularly included an introductory video segment in which he comedically inserts himself into scenes of that year's films in addition to a song following his opening monologue.
Broadway[link]
Crystal won the 2005 Tony Award for Best Special Theatrical Event for 700 Sundays, a two-act, one-man play, which he conceived and wrote about his parents and his childhood growing up on Long Island.[8] He toured the U.S. with the show in 2006 and Australia in 2007.
Following the initial success of the play, Crystal wrote the book 700 Sundays for Warner Books, which was published on October 31, 2005. In conjunction with the book and the play that also paid tribute to his uncle, Milt Gabler, Crystal produced two CD compilations: Billy Crystal Presents: The Milt Gabler Story, which featured his uncle's most influential recordings from Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit" to "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley & His Comets; and Billy Remembers Billie featuring Crystal's favorite Holiday recordings.
Philanthropy[link]
In 1986, Crystal started hosting Comic Relief on HBO with Robin Williams and Whoopi Goldberg.[8] Founded by Bob Zmuda, Comic Relief raises money for homeless people in the United States.
On September 6, 2005, on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Crystal and Jay Leno were the first celebrities to sign a Harley-Davidson motorcycle to be auctioned off for Gulf Coast relief.[11]
Crystal has participated in the Simon Wiesenthal Center Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles. Portraying himself in a video, Crystal introduces museum guests to the genealogy wing of the museum.
Crystal is a Los Angeles Clippers fan.
New York baseball[link]
On March 12, 2008, Crystal signed a minor league contract, for a single day, to play with the New York Yankees, and was invited to the team's major league spring training. He wore uniform number 60, in honor of his upcoming 60th birthday.[12] On March 13, in a spring training game against the Pittsburgh Pirates, Crystal led off as the designated hitter. He managed to make contact, fouling a fastball up the first base line, but was eventually struck out by Pirates pitcher Paul Maholm on 6 pitches and was later replaced in the batting order by Johnny Damon.[13] He was released on March 14, his 60th birthday.[14]
Crystal's boyhood idol was Yankee Hall of Fame legend Mickey Mantle who had signed a program for him when Crystal attended a game where Mantle had hit a homerun. Years later on The Dinah Shore Show, in one of his first television appearances, Crystal met Mantle in person and had Mantle re-sign the same program. Crystal would be good friends with Mickey Mantle until Mantle's death in 1995.
Crystal also was well known for his impressions of Yankee Hall of Famer turned broadcaster Phil Rizzuto. Rizzuto, known for his quirks calling games, did not travel to Anaheim, California in 1996 to call the game for WPIX. Instead, Crystal joined the broadcasters in the booth and pretended to be Rizzuto for a few minutes during the August 31 game.
Although a life-long Yankee fan,[15] he is a part-owner of the Arizona Diamondbacks, even earning a World Series ring in 2001 when the Diamondbacks beat his beloved Yankees.[16]
In the movie City Slickers, Crystal wears a New York Mets baseball cap.
Personal life[link]
Billy Crystal and his wife Janice (née: Goldfinger) married in June 1970, and have two daughters, actress Jennifer and producer Lindsay, and are now grandparents.[17] They reside in Pacific Palisades, California.[18]
Awards[link]
In addition to his Golden Globe Award-nominations, Emmy Awards, and Tony Award, Crystal won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One-Person Show for 700 Sundays and received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2007.[19]
Filmography[link]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1977–1981 | Soap | Jodie Dallas | TV series |
| 1977 | SST: Death Flight | David | |
| 1978 | Rabbit Test | Lionel Carpenter | |
| Human Feelings | Angel | Made for TV | |
| 1980 | Animalympics | Lodge Turkell | Voice |
| 1984 | This Is Spinal Tap | Morty the Mime | |
| 1986 | Running Scared | Danny Constanzo | |
| 1987 | The Princess Bride | Miracle Max | |
| Throw Momma from the Train | Larry Donner | ||
| 1988 | Memories of Me | Abbie | Writer/Producer |
| 1989 | When Harry Met Sally... | Harry Burns | American Comedy Award for Funniest Actor in a Motion Picture Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy |
| 1991 | City Slickers | Mitch Robbins | Executive Producer American Comedy Award for Funniest Actor in a Motion Picture MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic Performance Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy |
| 1992 | Horton Hatches the Egg | Narrator | Voice |
| Mr. Saturday Night | Buddy Young, Jr. | Writer/Director/Producer Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy |
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| 1994 | City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold | Mitch Robbins | Writer/Producer |
| 1995 | Forget Paris | Mickey Gordon | Writer/Director/Producer |
| 1996 | Muppets Tonight | Himself | Guest star on third episode |
| Hamlet | First Gravedigger | ||
| 1997 | Deconstructing Harry | Larry | |
| Fathers' Day | Jack Lawrence | ||
| Friends | The Gynecologist (with Robin Williams) | TV Series | |
| 1998 | My Giant | Sam 'Sammy' Kamin | Writer/Producer |
| 1999 | Analyze This | Dr. Ben Sobel | Executive Producer |
| 2000 | The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle | Mattress salesman | Uncredited |
| 2001 | 61* | Director | |
| America's Sweethearts | Lee Phillips | Writer/Producer | |
| Monsters, Inc. | Michael "Mike" Wazowski | Voice | |
| 2002 | Mike's New Car | Mike Wazowski | Short Film Subject Voice |
| Analyze That | Dr. Ben Sobel | Executive Producer | |
| 2004 | Howl's Moving Castle | Calcifer | Voice |
| 2005 | Dinotopia: Quest for the Ruby Sunstone | Karl Scott | Voice |
| 2006 | Cars | Mike Car | Voice |
| 2009 | Make 'Em Laugh: The Funny Business Of America | Host | |
| 2010 | Tooth Fairy | Jerry | Uncredited |
| Planet Sheen | Soldier Joagth | Voice Episode: What's Up Chock? |
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| 2011 | The Muppets | Himself | Scenes cut |
| 2012 | Parental Guidance | Artie Decker | To be released November 12, 2012 |
| 2013 | Monsters University | Mike Wazowski | Voice |
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Characters[link]
- Al Minkman, a shady businessman
- Fernando, host of Fernando's Hideaway, a celebrity interview show; based on actor Fernando Lamas
- Buddy Young, Jr. (an insult comic who appears on Weekend Update)
- Lew Goldman
- Ricky, a bowler
- Tony Minetti, a butcher
- Willie, a man who, along with his friend, Frankie (played by Christopher Guest), discuss their masochistic tendencies
Impersonations[link]
- Fernando Lamas
- Howard Cosell
- Muhammad Ali
- John F. Kennedy
- Joe Franklin
- Hervé Villechaize
- Joe Garagiola
- Adam Ant
- Prince
- Sammy Davis, Jr.
- Phil Rizzuto
Bibliography[link]
- Crystal, Billy (2004). I Already Know I Love You. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 0-06-059391-1. A children's book.
- Crystal, Billy (2006). Grandpa's Little One. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-078173-6. A children's book.
- Crystal, Billy (2005). 700 Sundays. New York: Warner Books. ISBN 0-446-57867-3. Crystal's memoirs with his father.
References[link]
- ^ On page 17 of his book, 700 Sundays, Crystal displays his birth announcement, which states that his full name is "William Edward", not "William Jacob" Crystal, Billy (October 2005). 700 Sundays. p. 17. ISBN 0-446-57867-3.
- ^ "The Mud Doctor: Oscar Update: Billy Crystal Officially In as Oscar Host". Themuddoctor.blogspot.com. 2011-11-10. http://themuddoctor.blogspot.com/2011/11/oscar-update-billy-crystal-officially.html. Retrieved 2012-04-10.
- ^ "Billy Crystal Biography". filmreference.com. http://www.filmreference.com/film/61/Billy-Crystal.html. Retrieved January 16, 2008.
- ^ Kane, Joe. "Jack Crystal: A Man To Remember". Allaboutjazz. http://www.allaboutjazz.com/articles/arti0102_03.htm. Retrieved January 16, 2008.
- ^ 700 Sundays by Billy CrystalBraver, Rita (November 6, 2005). "Life Is Short, Laugh Hard". CBS News. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/11/06/sunday/main1015865.shtml.
- ^ "Billy Crystal | Hollywood Walk of Fame". Walkoffame.com. http://www.walkoffame.com/billy-crystal. Retrieved 2012-04-10.
- ^ "Billy Crystal Biography". Yahoo! Movies. http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800015850/bio. Retrieved January 16, 2008.
- ^ a b c d e f Lipton, James (host) (October 8, 2007). "Billy Crystal, 2nd Visit". Inside the Actors Studio. episode 1307. season 13. Bravo. http://www.bravotv.com/Inside_the_Actors_Studio/guest/Billy_Crystal_-_2nd_Visit.
- ^ "Billy Crystal to return as host for 84th Academy Awards". Tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com. http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2011/11/10/billy-crystal-to-return-as-host-for-84th-academy-awards/110348/?utm_campaign=WP. Retrieved 2012-04-10.
- ^ "Oscars: "King" wins, show loses". Chicago Sun-Times. http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110227/OSCARS/110229986.
- ^ "Leno's autographed bike raises $500,000". USAToday. Associated Press. September 30, 2005. http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2005-09-30-leno-bike_x.htm.
- ^ "Billy Crystal to sign contract with Yankees". Yahoo. March 10, 2008. http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=ApQysfnqvYEYnzAzS7waMwc5nYcB?slug=ap-yankees-crystal&prov=ap&type=lgns.
- ^ By Chris Girandola / Special to MLB.com. "Crystal strikes out in only at-bat". Newyork.yankees.mlb.com. http://newyork.yankees.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080313&content_id=2423946&vkey=spt2008news&fext=.jsp&c_id=nyy. Retrieved 2012-05-04.
- ^ "Yankees release Billy Crystal on 61st birthday - Baseball". Nbcsports.msnbc.com. March 14, 2008. http://www.nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/23566549/. Retrieved November 3, 2008.
- ^ Crystal, Billy (April 19, 2009). "Feeling Lonely Behind the Facade". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/sports/baseball/19crystal.html?_r=1&8dpc. Retrieved March 26, 2010.
- ^ "Billy Crystal Strikes Out in New Career". The Insider. March 14, 2008. http://www.theinsider.com/news/727182_Billy_Crystal_Strikes_Out_in_New_Career. Retrieved December 6, 2009.
- ^ Lee, Sandra Y.. ""Celebrity Parents: Billy Crystal"". Parents.com. http://www.parents.com/parenting/celebrity-parents/celebrity-parents-billy-crystal/. Retrieved 2012-05-04.
- ^ "Having Struggled From Warm-Up Act to Headliner: BILLY CRYSTAL". Time. October 19, 1992. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,976793,00.html.
- ^ Trescott, Jacqueline (May 2, 2007). "Billy Crystal, Clearly Funny". The Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/01/AR2007050101252.html.
External links[link]
- Billy Crystal at the Internet Movie Database
- Billy Crystal appears on Michael Eisner's talkshow on CNBC
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| Binary Finary | |
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| Origin | United Kingdom |
| Genres | Epic trance |
| Years active | 1997–present |
| Website | http://www.binary-finary.com |
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| Matt Laws, Stuart Matheson, and Sasha Vatoff | |
Binary Finary are a British trance act originally comprising Matt Laws and Stuart Matheson, who were later joined by Sasha Vatoff who acts as DJ and live performer.[1] They are best known for the dance hit single "1998", especially for the Paul Van Dyk and Gouryella remixes, which charted in many countries. The song was remixed numerous times under the title of the year the remix was produced ("1999" and "2000" etc.), many of which were popular. In the UK, "1998" reached a peak position of #24[2] in the UK Singles Chart whereas "1999" just missed the Top 10, stalling at #11.[2]
On 1 May 2006, they released a collection of 16 tracks written over their eight years sabbatical under the general title The Lost Tracks.[3] This album is available only for download.
Binary Finary are also featured in a Shiny Toy Guns song, When Did This Storm Begin?
Stuart also appeared in the Bafta nominated Channel 4 reality TV series called Faking it (Series 4, 2002) in the episode from 'Web Surfer To Wave Surfer'.
On New Year's Eve 2009/2010 at Etihad Stadium in Melbourne, they launched the 'Binary Finary LIVE' show, using original material and re-makes of classic dance tracks.
In 2009 Stuart officially joined the US based electronica group 'Spanking Machine'.
In 2009 Stuart remixed Aria Award Winning Bertie Blackman, on her track 'Byrds of Prey'.
On 26 April 2010, Binary Finary re-released a '2010' remix package of their track '1998' through Armada Music.
References[link]
- ^ Binary Finary discography at Discogs
- ^ a b Roberts, David (20 May 2005). Guinness Book of British Hit Singles and Albums (18th ed.). Guinness World Records Limited. pp. 63. ISBN 1-904994-00-8.
- ^ "Binary Finary Recordings". binaryfinaryrecordings.com. http://www.binaryfinaryrecordings.com/catalogue.asp. Retrieved 2008-02-25.
External links[link]
- Official Binary Finary website
- Official Facebook site
- Official Binary Finary Twitter site
- Official Binary Finary Myspace site
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The Detroit Red Wings are a professional ice hockey team based in Detroit, Michigan. They are members of the Central Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL), and are one of the Original Six teams of the NHL, along with the Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers, Boston Bruins, and Chicago Blackhawks.
As of 2011[update], the Red Wings have won the most Stanley Cup championships (11)[1] of any NHL franchise based in the United States, and are third overall in total NHL championships, behind the Montreal Canadiens (24) and Toronto Maple Leafs (13). They currently play home games in the 20,066 capacity Joe Louis Arena after having spent over 40 years playing in Olympia Stadium. The Red Wings are one of the most popular franchises in the NHL, and fans and commentators refer to Detroit and its surrounding areas as "Hockeytown".
Between the 1933–34 and 1965–66 seasons, the Red Wings missed the playoffs only four times. More recently, the Red Wings have made the playoffs in 26 of the last 28 seasons, including the last 21 in a row (1991–2012). This is the longest current streak of post-season appearances in all of North American professional sports.
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Franchise history[link]
Further information: History of the Detroit Red Wings
1926–49: Early years[link]
File:Detroit Red Wings Original Logo.svg
Original Logo of the Detroit Red Wings.
Following the 1926 Stanley Cup playoffs, during which the Western Hockey League was widely reported to be on the verge of folding,[2] the NHL held a meeting on April 17 to consider applications for expansion franchises, at which it was reported that five different groups sought a team for Detroit.[3] During a subsequent meeting on May 15, the league approved a franchise to the Townsend-Seyburn group of Detroit and named Charles A. Hughes as governor.[4] Frank and Lester Patrick, the owners of the WHL, made a deal to sell the league's players to the NHL and cease league operations. The new Detroit franchise purchased the players of the folded Victoria Cougars WHL club to play for the team. The new Detroit franchise also adopted the Cougars' nickname in honor of the folded franchise.[5]
Since no arena in Detroit was ready at the time, the Cougars played their first season in Windsor, Ontario at the Border Cities Arena.[6] For the 1927–28 season, the Cougars moved into the new Detroit Olympia, which would be their home rink until December 27, 1979. This was also the first season behind the bench for Jack Adams, who would be the face of the franchise the next 36 years as either coach or general manager.
The Cougars made the Stanley Cup playoffs for the first time in 1929 with Carson Cooper leading the team in scoring. The Cougars were outscored 7–2 in the two-game series with the Toronto Maple Leafs. In 1930, the Cougars were renamed the Falcons,[7] but their woes continued, as they usually finished near the bottom of the standings, even though they made the playoffs again in 1932.
In 1932, the NHL let grain merchant James E. Norris, who had made two previous unsuccessful bids to buy an NHL team, purchase the Falcons. Norris' first act was to choose a new name for the team – the Red Wings. Earlier in the century, Norris had played on one of hockey's early powers, the Montreal HC, nicknamed the "Winged Wheelers." Norris transformed the club's logo into the first version of the Red Wings logo as it is known today.[8] Norris also placed coach Jack Adams on a one-year probation for the 1932–33 NHL season. Adams managed to pass his probationary period by leading the renamed franchise to first ever playoff series victory over the Montreal Maroons. Despite this success, the team lost in the semi-finals to the New York Rangers.[9]
In 1934 the Wings made the Stanley Cup Finals for the first time, with John Sorrell scoring 21 goals over 47 games and Larry Aurie leading the team in scoring. However, the Chicago Black Hawks defeated Detroit in the finals, winning the best-of-five series in four games and winning their own first title.
The Red Wings won their first Stanley Cup[10] in 1936, defeating Toronto in four games. Detroit repeated as Stanley Cup champions in 1937, winning over the Rangers in the full five games.
In 1938, the Wings and the Montreal Canadiens became the first NHL teams to play in Europe, playing in Paris and London. The Wings played nine games against the Canadiens and went 3-5-1; they did not play in Europe again until the preseason and start of the 2009-10 NHL season in Sweden against the St. Louis Blues.[11]
The Wings made the Stanley Cup Finals in three consecutive years during the early 1940s. In 1941 they were swept by the Boston Bruins, and in 1942 they lost a seven-game series to Toronto after winning the first three games. However, in 1943, with Syd Howe and Mud Bruneteau scoring 20 goals apiece, Detroit won their third Cup by sweeping the Bruins. Through the rest of the decade, the team made the playoffs every year, and reached the Finals three more times.
In 1946, one of the greatest players in hockey history came into the NHL with the Red Wings. Gordie Howe, a right-winger from Floral, Saskatchewan, only scored seven goals and 15 assists in his first season and would not reach his prime for a few more years. It was also the last season as head coach for Adams, who stepped down after the season to concentrate on his duties as general manager. He was succeeded by minor league coach Tommy Ivan.
By his second season, Howe was paired with Sid Abel and Ted Lindsay to form what would become one of the great lines in NHL history – the "Production Line". Lindsay's 33 goals propelled the Wings to the Stanley Cup Finals, where they were swept by the Maple Leafs. Detroit reached the Finals again the following season, only to be swept again by Toronto.
1950–66: The Gordie Howe era[link]
The Wings won the Stanley Cup again in 1950, with Pete Babando scoring the game winner in double overtime of Game 7 to beat the Rangers in the Finals. After the game, Lindsay skated around the Olympia ice with the Cup, beginning a tradition that continues today.[12]
After being upset by the Montreal Canadiens in the 1951 semifinals, Detroit won its fifth Cup in 1952, sweeping both the Leafs and the Canadiens, with the Production Line of Howe, Abel and Lindsay joined by second-year goalie Terry Sawchuk. Detroit would become the first team in 17 years to go undefeated in the playoffs.[citation needed] They also scored 24 playoff goals, compared to Toronto and Montreal's combined total of 5. Abel left the Wings for Chicago following the season, and his spot on the roster was replaced by Alex Delvecchio.
James E. Norris died in December 1952. He was succeeded as team president by his daughter, Marguerite, the first (and as of the 2006–07 season, only) woman to head an NHL franchise.[13] She made no secret of her dislike for Adams. While she could have summarily fired him, since he was still without a contract, she chose not to do so.
Following another playoff upset in 1953 at the hands of the Bruins, the Red Wings won back to back Stanley Cups in 1954 (over Montreal, when Habs defenseman Doug Harvey redirected a Tony Leswick shot into his own net) and 1955 (also over Montreal in the full seven games). The 1954–55 season ended a run of eight straight regular season titles, an NHL record.[14]
Also during the 1955 off-season, Marguerite Norris lost an intra-family power struggle, and was forced to turn over the Wings to her younger brother Bruce, who had inherited his father's grain business.[citation needed] Detroit and Montreal once again met in the 1956 finals, but this time the Canadiens won the Cup, their first of five in a row.
In 1957 Ted Lindsay, who scored 30 goals and led the league in assists with 55, teamed up with Harvey to help start the National Hockey League Players' Association (NHLPA)[citation needed]. As a result he, along with outspoken young goaltender Glenn Hall, was promptly traded to Chicago (which was owned by James D. Norris, Bruce's elder brother) after his most productive year.
The Lindsay deal was one of several questionable trades made by Adams in the late 1950s.[citation needed] For example, a year earlier, he had traded Sawchuk to Boston; while he managed to get Sawchuk back two years later, he had to trade up-and-coming Johnny Bucyk to do it. It was one of the most one-sided trades in hockey history[citation needed] – Bucyk went on to play 21 more years with the Bruins. The Wings lost in the first round of the playoffs to the Bruins. In 1959 the Red Wings missed the playoffs for the first time in 21 years.
Within a couple of years, Detroit was rejuvenated and made the Finals for four of the next six years between 1961 and 1966. However, despite having Howe, Delvecchio, Norm Ullman, and Parker MacDonald as consistent goal-scorers, Lindsay's sudden one-year comeback in 1964–65, and Sawchuk and later Roger Crozier between the pipes, the Wings came away empty-handed. Adams was fired as general manager in 1963. He had coached for 15 years and served as general manager for 31 years on a handshake, and his 36–year tenure as general manager is still the longest for any general manager in NHL history.[citation needed]
1967–82: The "Dead Wings" era[link]
Only a year after making the Finals, the Red Wings finished a distant fifth, 24 points out of the playoffs. It was the beginning of a slump from which they would not emerge for almost 20 years. Between 1967 and 1983, Detroit only made the playoffs twice, winning one series. From 1968 to 1982, the Wings had 14 head coaches (not counting interim coaches), with none lasting more than three seasons. In contrast, their first six full-time coaches – Art Duncan, Adams, Ivan, Jimmy Skinner and Abel – covered a 42–year period. During this dark era in franchise history, the team was derisively known as the "Dead Wings"[15] or "Dead Things".
One factor in the Red Wings' decline was the end of the old "development" system, which allowed Adams to get young prospects to commit to playing for Detroit as early as their 16th birthday. Another factor was Ned Harkness, who was hired as coach in 1970 and was promoted to general manager midway through the season. A successful college hockey coach, Harkness tried to force his two-way style of play on a veteran Red Wings team resistant to change. The Wings chafed under his rule in which he demanded short hair, no smoking, and put other rules in place regarding drinking and phone calls.[16] Harkness was forced to resign in 1973 ending the period colloquially referred to as, "Darkness with Harkness."
In the "expansion season" of 1967–68, the Red Wings also acquired longtime star left-winger Frank Mahovlich from the defending Cup champs in Toronto. Mahovlich would go on a line with Howe and Delvecchio, and in 1968–69, he scored a career-high 49 goals and had two All-Star seasons in Detroit.
But this could not last. Mahovlich was traded to Montreal in 1970, and Howe retired after the 1970–71 season. Howe returned to pro hockey shortly after to play with his two sons Mark and Marty Howe (Mark would later join the Red Wings at the end of his career) in the upstart World Hockey Association in 1972. Through the decade, with Mickey Redmond having two 50–goal seasons and Marcel Dionne starting to reach his prime (which he did not attain until he was traded to the Los Angeles Kings), a lack of defensive and goaltending ability continually hampered the Wings.
During 1979–80, the Wings left the Olympia for Joe Louis Arena. In 1982, after 50 years of family ownership, Bruce Norris sold the Red Wings to Mike Ilitch, founder of Little Caesars Pizza.[17]
1983–93: The early Yzerman era[link]
In 1983 the Wings drafted Steve Yzerman, a center from the Peterborough Petes with their first-round pick. He led the team in scoring in his rookie year and started the Wings' climb back to the top. That season, with John Ogrodnick scoring 42 times and Ivan Boldirev and Ron Duguay also with 30–goal seasons, Detroit made the playoffs for the first time in six years. Defenseman Brad Park, acquired from the Boston Bruins in the 1983 free-agent market, also helped the Wings reach the postseason and ended up winning the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy the same season.
Later Park was asked to coach the Wings, but was sacked after 45 games in 1985–86. He admitted, “I took over a last-place team, and I kept them there.” They did indeed end up in the basement with a 17–57–6 record for only 40 points. This was the same year that the Wings added enforcer Bob Probert, one of the most familiar faces of the Wings in the 1980s and 1990s.
By 1987, with Yzerman, now the captain following the departure of Danny Gare, joined by Petr Klima, Adam Oates, Gerard Gallant, defenseman Darren Veitch and new head coach Jacques Demers, the Wings won a playoff series for only the second time in the modern era. They made it all the way to the conference finals against the powerful and eventual Stanley Cup champion Edmonton Oilers, but lost in five games. In 1988 they won their first division title in 23 years (since 1964–65, when they finished first in a one-division league). They did so, however, in a relatively weak division; no other team in the Norris finished above .500. As was the case in the previous season, they made it to the conference finals only to lose again to the eventual cup champion Oilers in five games.
In 1989, Yzerman scored a career-best 65 goals,[18] but Detroit was upset in the first round by the Chicago Blackhawks. The following season Yzerman scored 62 goals, but the team missed the playoffs (which as of 2012 is the most recent time they did so). Rumors spread that maybe "Stevie Wonder" should be traded.
But it was Demers, not Yzerman, who got the pink slip. New coach Bryan Murray was unable to get them back over .500, but they returned to the playoffs. Yzerman was joined by Sergei Fedorov, who would be an award-winner and frequent all-star for the team in the 1990s. In 1992, the team acquired Ray Sheppard, who had a career-best 52 goals two years later; and in '93, top defenseman Paul Coffey. Also joining the Red Wings around this time were draft picks like Slava Kozlov, Darren McCarty, Vladimir Konstantinov, and Nicklas Lidstrom.
1994–98: The Russian Five[link]
Former Montreal Canadiens coach Scotty Bowman got behind the Motown bench in 1993. In his second season, the lockout-shortened 1994–95 NHL season. Bowman guided Detroit to its first Finals appearance in 29 years, only to be swept by the New Jersey Devils.
The Wings kept adding more star power, picking up Slava Fetisov, Igor Larionov, and goaltender Mike Vernon in trades and winning an NHL record 62 games in 1996. After defeating the St. Louis Blues in seven games the Wings would fall in the Western Conference Finals to the eventual champion Colorado Avalanche.
The following year, Detroit, joined by Brendan Shanahan and Larry Murphy during the season, once again reached the Finals in 1997. After defeating the St. Louis Blues, the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim and the Colorado Avalanche in the first three rounds, the Wings went on to beat the Philadelphia Flyers in four straight games in the Stanley Cup Finals. It was the Wings' first Stanley Cup since 1955, breaking the longest drought (42 years long) in the league at that time. Mike Vernon accepted the Conn Smythe Trophy as the Most Valuable Player in 1997 playoffs.
Misfortune befell the Wings six days after their championship; defenseman Vladimir Konstantinov, one of the Wings' "Russian Five", suffered a brain injury[19] in a limousine accident, and his career came to an abrupt end. The Red Wings dedicated the 1997–98 season, which also ended in a Stanley Cup victory, to Konstantinov, who came out onto the ice in his wheelchair on victory night to touch the Cup. The Wings won the Cup finals in another sweep, this time over the Washington Capitals. Despite his Conn Smythe Trophy in the 1997 playoffs, Mike Vernon had been replaced as the regular Wings goaltender during the season with the younger Chris Osgood.
1999–2004: Superstar acquisitions and more success[link]
The following season, the Wings looked poised to "three-peat" for the first time in franchise history, acquiring three-time top blueliner Chris Chelios from his hometown Chicago Blackhawks in March 1999, but they would end up losing the Western Conference Semifinals to Colorado in six games.
The Wings had built up a fierce rivalry with the Avalanche. With Colorado beating Detroit in the third round in 1996, in the second round of both 1999 and 2000, and the Red Wings beating the Avs in the third round in 1997, the battles between these two teams had become one of the fiercest in the league. During a notorious game on March 26, 1997, a brawl ensued between Colorado goalie Patrick Roy and his Detroit counterpart Mike Vernon.
In 2001, Detroit, the league's second-best team in the regular season, were upset in the playoffs by the Los Angeles Kings. During the summer that followed, they acquired goalie Dominik Hasek (the defending Vezina Trophy winner) and forwards Luc Robitaille and Brett Hull. Russian prospect Pavel Datsyuk also joined the team. The Wings posted the league's best record in the 2001-02 regular season and defeated Colorado in seven games in the Western Conference Finals after beating the Vancouver Canucks and St. Louis Blues in rounds one and two. The Red Wings went on to capture another Stanley Cup in five games over the Carolina Hurricanes, with Nicklas Lidstrom winning the Conn Smythe Trophy as the playoffs' MVP. Bowman and Hasek both retired after the season.
The 2003 season saw the Red Wings promote associate coach Dave Lewis to the head coach position after Bowman's retirement. Needing a new starting goaltender after Hasek's retirement, the Red wings signed Curtis Joseph from the Toronto Maple Leafs to a three year, $24 million deal. Also new to the lineup was highly touted Swedish prospect Henrik Zetterberg. The Red Wings finished the season second in the Western Conference and third overall in the NHL. The Red Wings were favored in their first round matchup against the 7th seeded Mighty Ducks of Anaheim. But the Ducks shocked the hockey world by sweeping the Red Wings in four games.
Longtime Wing Sergei Fedorov signed with the Mighty Ducks as a free agent during the offseason after a long contract dispute. Furthermore, Dominik Hasek decided to come out of retirement and joined the Wings for the 2003–04 season. Joseph, despite being one of the highest-paid players in the NHL, spent part of the season in the minor leagues, but after Hasek was sidelined for the season with an injury, Joseph led the team to the top of the Central Division and the league standings. The Red Wings eliminated the Nashville Predators in six games in the first round of the playoffs, which led to a second round matchup with the Calgary Flames. The teams split the first four games, and headed to Detroit for a pivotal Game 5. The Red Wings lost that game 1–0, and were eliminated two nights later in Calgary by the same score in overtime.
During the 2004 offseason, the Wings focused on keeping players they already had instead of being active on the free agent market, resigning several players before the 2004–05 NHL lockout canceled the season.
2005–2012: The Nick Lidstrom era[link]
On July 15, 2005, Mike Babcock, former head coach in Anaheim, became the new head coach for the Wings. During a November 21, 2005, game against the Nashville Predators, defenseman Jiri Fischer suffered a heart arrhythmia and collapsed on the bench. The game was canceled because of his injury, and was made up on January 23, 2006. This was the first time in NHL history a game had been postponed by injury. The game was played for the full 60 minutes; however, the Predators were allowed to maintain their 1–0 lead from the original game and won, 3–2. The Red Wings won the Presidents' Trophy with a 58–16–8 record, earning them 124 points.(NHL Standings), and secured home ice advantage for the entire playoffs. The Wings opened the 2006 Stanley Cup playoffs against the Edmonton Oilers with a 3–2 overtime victory at Joe Louis Arena. However, the Oilers won 4 of the next 5 games to take the series.
Continuing the shakeup of the Red Wings roster, the offseason saw the departure of Brendan Shanahan and the return of Dominik Hasek, while Steve Yzerman announced his retirement after a 23-season Hall of Fame career with the Wings, having played the third most games in history (behind fellow Wings Alex Delvecchio and Nicklas Lidstrom) all with a single team. Yzerman retired with the additional distinction of having been the longest-serving team captain in NHL history.
The Red Wings opened the 2006–07 season with Nicklas Lidstrom as the new captain. The team retired Steve Yzerman's jersey number 19 on January 2. The Wings finished first in the Western Conference and tied for first in the NHL with the Buffalo Sabres, but the Sabres were awarded the Presidents' Trophy by virtue of having the greater number of wins. They advanced to the third round of the 2007 Stanley Cup playoffs after defeating the Calgary Flames and San Jose Sharks both in six games, coming back three straight after the Sharks' 2–1 series lead. The Red Wings lost to the eventual Stanley Cup winning team - the Anaheim Ducks, in the Western Conference Finals four games to two.
To start the 2007–08 campaign, Henrik Zetterberg recorded at least a point in each of Detroit's first 16 games, setting a club record. The Wings cruised to the playoffs, where they faced the Nashville Predators. After goalie Dominik Hasek played poorly in Games 3 and 4 of the series, both losses, head coach Mike Babcock replaced him with Chris Osgood. Osgood had departed the Wings earlier in the decade, only to be re-acquired as a backup in 2005. Osgood never left the net for the remainder of the playoffs, as the Red Wings came back in that series on their way to winning their 11th Stanley Cup. The final victory came on June 4, 2008, against the Pittsburgh Penguins, by a score of 3-2. This was the Wings' fourth Stanley Cup in 11 years. Zetterberg scored the winning goal in the decisive Game 6, and was also named the winner of the Conn Smythe Trophy as the Most Valuable Player of the playoffs. It was the first time a team captained by a non-North American player (Nicklas Lidstrom) won the Stanley Cup.
On July 2, 2008, the Detroit Red Wings announced the signing of Marian Hossa. From the beginning of the 2008–09 season to New Year's Day, the Wings enjoyed success. Although they finished second in the conference to the San Jose Sharks, the Wings became the first team in NHL history to top 100 points in nine straight seasons. On January 1, 2009, the Red Wings played the Chicago Blackhawks in the third NHL Winter Classic at Chicago's Wrigley Field, beating them 6-4. The Wings entered the 2009 Stanley Cup Playoffs as the second overall seed in the Western Conference. The Red Wings handily swept the Columbus Blue Jackets, then beat the 8th-seeded Anaheim Ducks in a hard fought seven-game series. They took on the vastly improved Chicago Blackhawks in the Conference Finals, winning in five games. The Red Wings would face the Pittsburgh Penguins in the Finals for a second consecutive year, but this series would feature a different outcome. Pittsburgh defeated the Red Wings in seven games, Detroit becoming only the second NHL team to lose the Cup at home in Game 7.
The Red Wings began the 2009-10 NHL Season in Stockholm, Sweden, falling in both games to the St. Louis Blues by scores of 4-3 and 5-3, respectively. They were plagued by injuries throughout the season and lost the second most man-games to injury, with only the last place Edmonton Oilers losing more. The beginning of the season was a struggle for the Wings, with key players out of the lineup including Henrik Zetterberg, Tomas Holmstrom, Johan Franzen, Valtteri Filppula, and Niklas Kronwall. After the Olympic break, Detroit posted a record of 13-2-2 and earned 28 points, the most by any team in the NHL in the month of March. This run helped them secure the fifth playoff seed in the Western Conference. Detroit won their first-round playoff series over the Phoenix Coyotes in seven games. In the second round, they fell behind the San Jose Sharks three games to one, before being knocked out of the playoffs in five games. All four games that the Red Wings lost that series were decided by one goal. The lone game that they won ended with a final score of 7-1.
A healthier Red Wings team finished the 2010–11 NHL season with a 47-25-10 record and 104 points to win the Central Division title. They earned the #3 seed in the Western Conference for the Stanley Cup playoffs (extending their professional sports record of post-season appearances to 20 seasons), finishing behind the Vancouver Canucks (117) and San Jose Sharks (105). The Wings again faced the Phoenix Coyotes in the first round of the playoffs, this time sweeping them 4–0—making them the only team in the 2010-2011 Stanley Cup Playoffs to sweep the first round—and again moved on to play the Sharks in Round 2. After losing the first three games of the series against the Sharks, the Red Wings won three consecutive games to force a Game 7, becoming just the eighth team in NHL history to accomplish the feat (the Chicago Blackhawks became the seventh team to do so earlier in the 2011 Stanley Cup Playoffs, against the Vancouver Canucks). The Red Wings lost Game 7 to the Sharks by a score of 3-2, and were eliminated.
During the 2011 offseason, Red Wings defenseman Brian Rafalski retired, citing injuries as the main reason behind his decision. Detroit soon signed free-agent defenseman Ian White to take his place. Long time Red Wings Kris Draper and Chris Osgood also announced their retirement from hockey, with both soon taking positions within the club. Detroit signed goaltender Ty Conklin for his second tour of duty with the team. Tragedy struck the organization and the rest of the National Hockey League upon the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl air disaster, which claimed the lives of former Red Wings assistant coach Brad McCrimmon and defenseman Ruslan Salei, who had joined the KHL team during the summer. Stefan Liv, a former Red Wings goaltending prospect, was also among the fatalities. The Red Wings then added a patch to the left arm of their uniforms with the trio's initials.
On Tuesday, February 14, 2012, the Red Wings set the NHL record for most consecutive wins at home in a single season by winning their 21st home game with a 3-1 victory over the Dallas Stars, and on Sunday, February 19, 2012, defeated the San Jose Sharks to record their 23rd consecutive home victory, breaking the overall record previously held by the Boston Bruins over two seasons from 1929-1930. The Red Wings also made the NHL playoffs extending their streak of 21 straight playoff appearances as the 5th seed. They were defeated in five games by the Nashville Predators.
On Thursday, May 31, 2012, Nicklas Lidstrom retired after his 20th consecutive NHL season with the Detroit Red Wings.[20]
Team information[link]
Uniforms[link]
The Red Wings, like all NHL teams, updated their jerseys (traditionally known in hockey as "sweaters") to the new Rbk Edge standard for the 2007–08 NHL season. The Red Wings kept their design as close as possible, with a few exceptions: On the road (white) jersey, there is more red on the sleeves as the color panel begins closer to the shoulder. The white sleeve numbers on both jerseys were also moved up a bit, creating more red space between the bottom of the number and the wraparound white trim. The letters of the captain and alternate captains were moved to the player's right shoulder; Detroit is the only team in the league that made this change (the change was necessitated by the stitching of the sweater), although the 2008 NHL All Star jerseys featured this as well, and the Captain and Alternate Captain's letters have switched back to the left shoulder as of the 2011–12 NHL Season. All teams now have an NHL shield panel on the front of the jersey near the collar, and a rounded hemline at the bottom of the jersey which goes up at the hips, providing more mobility.
The Red Wings have not used any alternate logos or uniforms since the trend became popular in the 1990s, the sole exceptions were select games of the 1991–92 season commemorating the league's 75th Anniversary, and for a commemorative game in 1994 at Chicago Stadium. Those jerseys were based on the uniforms worn by the team (then the Detroit Cougars) in 1927–28. The throwbacks are primarily white with five red horizontal stripes on the body, the broadest middle stripe bearing "DETROIT" in bold letters, and three red stripes on the sleeves.
The striped throwbacks have been a popular design, as replicas continue to be marketed by the NHL.[21] This jersey was also a basis for the uniforms worn by Wayne Gretzky's team of NHLPA All-Stars, nicknamed the "99ers", for their exhibition tour in Europe during the 1994–95 NHL lockout; a picture of Gretzky in this jersey was used for the cover art of a video game bearing his name.
Alternate jerseys for the RBK Edge system were made for 2008–2009 and continues today, but Detroit has thus far opted not to use alternates.
The Red Wings wore alternative "Retro" jerseys for the 2009 NHL Winter Classic in Chicago. The one-time jerseys were based on the uniforms worn by the then-Detroit Cougars during their inaugural season of 1926–27.[22] These jerseys were white, with a single bold red stripe on the sleeves and chest, and a uniquely-styled white Old English "D" (a Detroit sports tradition, but formerly used by the Wings, Detroit Lions, and the University of Detroit Titans) centered on the chest stripe, but not to be confused with the Old English "D" used by the Detroit Tigers. These jerseys were also worn for their final 2009 regular season home game, again against the Chicago Blackhawks.
Fan traditions[link]
Main article: Legend of the Octopus
The "Legend of the Octopus" is a sports tradition during Detroit Red Wings playoff games, in which an octopus is thrown onto the ice surface for good luck.[23]
During the playoffs, Joe Louis Arena is generally adorned with a giant octopus with red eyes, nicknamed "Al" after Joe Louis Arena head ice manager Al Sobotka.[24]
The 1952 playoffs featured the start of the tradition—the octopus throw. The owner of a local fish market, Peter Cusimano, threw one from the stands onto the ice. The eight legs are symbolic of the eight wins it took to win the Stanley Cup at the time. The Red Wings went on to sweep both of their opponents that year en route to a Stanley Cup championship. The NHL has, at various times, tried to eliminate this tradition but it continues to this day.[25][26]
Al Sobotka is the man responsible for removing the thrown creatures from the ice. He is known for swinging the tossed octopi above his head when walking off the ice. On April 19, 2008, NHL director of hockey operations Colin Campbell sent a memo to the Detroit Red Wings organization that forbids Zamboni drivers from cleaning up any octopi thrown onto the ice and that violating the mandate would result in a $10,000 fine.[27] Instead, it will be the linesmen who will perform this duty. In an email to the Detroit Free Press, NHL spokesman Frank Brown justified the ban because "matter flies off the octopus and gets on the ice" when Al Sobotka does it.[28] This ban, however, was later loosened to allow for the octopus twirling to take place at the zamboni entrance.[29]
Typically during the last minute or two of games that the Red Wings are winning, especially around the end of the season and during the playoffs, the fans at Joe Louis Arena are known to start singing along to Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'". The song is played over the PA system and continues until it is muted while the crowd sings the words "Born and raised in South Detroit," then the song resumes over the speakers in the arena.
Home attendance at Joe Louis Arena[link]
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Broadcasters[link]
The Red Wings' flagship radio stations are Detroit sister stations WXYT-AM 1270 and WXYT-FM 97.1. Games are carried on both stations unless there is a conflict with Detroit Lions football, Detroit Pistons basketball or Detroit Tigers baseball. There are several affiliate stations throughout Michigan, Northwestern Ohio, and Southwestern Ontario.[31]
The Red Wings' exclusive local television rights are held by Fox Sports Detroit.[32]
Announcers:
- Ken Daniels: Television Play by Play
- Mickey Redmond: Television Color Commentator (Home Games and select away games)
- John Keating: Television pre-game and post game show host
- Larry Murphy: Television Color Commentator / reporter
- Ken Kal: Radio Play by Play
- Paul Woods: Radio Analyst
- Trevor Thompson, Mickey York: TV pre-game and post-game show hosts / reporters
- Jeff Riger: Primary radio intermission and post-game host.
During many home games on FS Detroit where Ken Daniels and Mickey Redmond are in the booth, Larry Murphy also provides analysis "between the benches" during games. During road games which Mickey Redmond cannot attend, Murphy provides commentary alongside Daniels in the booth.
Hall of Fame broadcasters[link]
Three members of the Red Wings organization have received the Foster Hewitt Memorial Award:
- Budd Lynch: TV and Radio Play by Play and Color - 1949-1975 (awarded 1985)
- Bruce Martyn: Radio Play by Play - 1964-1995 (awarded 1991)
- Mickey Redmond: TV color commentary - 1979-1981, 1986–present (awarded 2011)[33]
Lynch called the first locally televised game at Olympia for the original WWJ-TV in 1949. He has remained with the organization for over 60 years, serving as Director of Publicity from 1975–1982, and public address announcer since 1982.[34] Since 2008, John Fossen has joined Lynch in performing PA duties.
Season-by-season record[link]
This is a partial list of the last five seasons completed by the Red Wings. For the full season-by-season history, see List of Detroit Red Wings seasons
Note: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; OTL = Overtime losses; Pts = Points; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against
Records as of April 10, 2011.
| Season | GP | W | L | OTL | Pts | GF | GA | Finish | Playoffs |
| 2007–08 | 82 | 54 | 21 | 7 | 115 | 257 | 184 | 1st, Central | Stanley Cup Champions, 4–2 (Penguins) |
| 2008–09 | 82 | 51 | 21 | 10 | 112 | 295 | 244 | 1st, Central | Lost in Finals, 3–4 (Penguins) |
| 2009–10 | 82 | 44 | 24 | 14 | 102 | 229 | 216 | 2nd, Central | Lost in Conference Semifinals, 1–4 (Sharks) |
| 2010–11 | 82 | 47 | 25 | 10 | 104 | 261 | 241 | 1st, Central | Lost in Conference Semifinals, 3–4 (Sharks) |
| 2011–12 | 82 | 48 | 28 | 6 | 102 | 248 | 203 | 3rd, Central | Lost in Conference Quarterfinals, 1–4 (Predators) |
Players[link]
Current roster[link]
Updated April 16, 2012.[35]
| # | Nat | Player | Pos | S/G | Age | Acquired | Birthplace |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | United States ! |
Abdelkader, JustinJustin Abdelkader | 4.0 !C | L | 25 | 2005 | Muskegon, Michigan |
| 63 | Sweden ! |
Andersson, JoakimJoakim Andersson | 4.0 !C | L | 23 | 2007 | Munkedal, Sweden |
| 53 | Canada ! |
Aubry, Louis-MarcLouis-Marc Aubry | 4.0 !C | L | 20 | 2010 | Arthabaska, Quebec |
| 44 | Canada ! |
Bertuzzi, ToddTodd Bertuzzi | 7.0 !RW | L | 37 | 2009 | Sudbury, Ontario |
| 76 | Sweden ! |
Brunnstrom, FabianFabian Brunnstrom | 6.0 !LW | L | 27 | 2011 | Jonstorp, Sweden |
| 11 | Canada ! |
Cleary, DanielDaniel Cleary | 7.0 !RW | L | 33 | 2005 | Carbonear, Newfoundland |
| 29 | United States ! |
Conklin, TyTy Conklin | 1.0 !G | L | 36 | 2011 | Phoenix, Arizona |
| 41 | United States ! |
Conner, ChrisChris Conner | 7.0 !RW | L | 28 | 2011 | Westland, Michigan |
| 13 | Russia ! |
Datsyuk, PavelPavel Datsyuk (A) | 4.0 !C | L | 33 | 1998 | Sverdlovsk, Soviet Union |
| 17 | United States ! |
Eaves, PatrickPatrick Eaves  |
7.0 !RW | R | 28 | 2010 | Calgary, Alberta |
| -- | Canada ! |
Ehrhardt, TravisTravis Ehrhardt | 2.0 !D | L | 23 | 2009 | Calgary, Alberta |
| 48 | Canada ! |
Emmerton, CoryCory Emmerton | 4.0 !C | L | 24 | 2006 | St. Thomas, Ontario |
| 52 | Sweden ! |
Ericsson, JonathanJonathan Ericsson | 2.0 !D | L | 28 | 2002 | Karlskrona, Sweden |
| 51 | Finland ! |
Filppula, ValtteriValtteri Filppula | 4.0 !C | L | 28 | 2002 | Vantaa, Finland |
| 93 | Sweden ! |
Franzen, JohanJohan Franzen | 6.0 !LW | L | 32 | 2004 | Vetlanda, Sweden |
| 43 | Canada ! |
Helm, DarrenDarren Helm | 4.0 !C | L | 25 | 2005 | St. Andrews, Manitoba |
| 96 | Sweden ! |
Holmstrom, TomasTomas Holmstrom | 7.0 !RW | L | 39 | 1994 | Piteå, Sweden |
| 35 | United States ! |
Howard, JimmyJimmy Howard | 1.0 !G | L | 28 | 2003 | Ogdensburg, New York |
| 26 | Czech Republic ! |
Hudler, JiriJiri Hudler | 6.0 !LW | L | 28 | 2010 | Olomouc, Czechoslovakia |
| 37 | United States ! |
Janik, DougDoug Janik | 2.0 !D | L | 32 | 2009 | Agawam, Massachusetts |
| 4 | Czech Republic ! |
Kindl, JakubJakub Kindl | 2.0 !D | L | 25 | 2005 | Šumperk, Czechoslovakia |
| 55 | Sweden ! |
Kronwall, NiklasNiklas Kronwall (A) | 2.0 !D | L | 31 | 2000 | Stockholm, Sweden |
| 25 | United States ! |
Lashoff, BrianBrian Lashoff | 2.0 !D | L | 21 | 2008 | Albany, New York |
| 31 | Canada ! |
MacDonald, JoeyJoey MacDonald | 1.0 !G | L | 32 | 2010 | Pictou, Nova Scotia |
| 38 | United States ! |
McCollum, ThomasThomas McCollum | 1.0 !G | L | 22 | 2008 | Cambria, New York |
| 20 | United States ! |
Miller, DrewDrew Miller | 6.0 !LW | L | 28 | 2009 | Dover, New Jersey |
| 39 | Slovenia ! |
Mursak, JanJan Mursak | 6.0 !LW | R | 24 | 2006 | Maribor, Yugoslavia |
| 14 | Sweden ! |
Nyquist, GustavGustav Nyquist | 4.0 !C | L | 22 | 2008 | Halmstad, Sweden |
| 59 | Canada ! |
Pare, FrancisFrancis Pare | 4.0 !C | R | 24 | 2009 | LeMoyne, Quebec |
| 27 | Canada ! |
Quincey, KyleKyle Quincey | 2.0 !D | L | 26 | 2012 | Kitchener, Ontario |
| 15 | Canada ! |
Sheahan, RileyRiley Sheahan | 4.0 !C | L | 20 | 2010 | St. Catharines, Ontario |
| 2 | Canada ! |
Smith, BrendanBrendan Smith | 2.0 !D | L | 23 | 2007 | Toronto, Ontario |
| 23 | Canada ! |
Stuart, BradBrad Stuart | 2.0 !D | L | 32 | 2008 | Rocky Mountain House, Alberta |
| 21 | Slovakia ! |
Tatar, TomasTomas Tatar | 6.0 !LW | L | 21 | 2009 | Ilava, Czechoslovakia |
| 18 | Canada ! |
White, IanIan White | 2.0 !D | R | 28 | 2011 | Steinbach, Manitoba |
| 40 | Sweden ! |
Zetterberg, HenrikHenrik Zetterberg (A) | 6.2 !LW/C | L | 31 | 1999 | Njurunda, Sweden |
Team captains[link]
All the players who have served as team captain with the Detroit franchise.[36]
- Art Duncan, 1926–27
- Reg Noble, 1927–30
- George Hay, 1930–31
- Carson Cooper, 1931–32
- Larry Aurie, 1932–33
- Herbie Lewis, 1933–34
- Ebbie Goodfellow, 1934–35
- Doug Young, 1935–38
- Ebbie Goodfellow, 1938–41
- Ebbie Goodfellow & Syd Howe, 1941–42
- Sid Abel, 1942–43
- Mud Bruneteau & Flash Hollett, 1943–44
- Flash Hollett, 1944–45
- Flash Hollett & Sid Abel, 1945–1946
- Sid Abel, 1946–52
- Ted Lindsay, 1952–56
- Red Kelly, 1956–58
- Gordie Howe, 1958–62
- Alex Delvecchio, 1962–73
- Alex Delvecchio, Nick Libett, Red Berenson, Gary Bergman, Ted Harris, Mickey Redmond, & Larry Johnston, 1973–74
- Marcel Dionne, 1974–75
- Danny Grant & Terry Harper, 1975–76
- Danny Grant & Dennis Polonich, 1976–77
- Dan Maloney & Dennis Hextall, 1977–78
- Dennis Hextall, Nick Libett, & Paul Woods, 1978–79
- Dale McCourt, 1979–80
- Errol Thompson & Reed Larson, 1980–81
- Reed Larson, 1981–82
- Danny Gare, 1982–86
- Steve Yzerman, 1986–2006
- Nicklas Lidstrom, 2006–12
Honored members[link]
Main article: List of members of the Hockey Hall of Fame
Hall of Famers:
Players
- Sid Abel, C/LW, 1938–1952, inducted 1969
- Marty Barry, C, 1935–1939, inducted 1965
- Andy Bathgate, RW, 1965–1967, inducted 1978
- Leo Boivin, D, 1965–1967, inducted 1986
- Johnny Bucyk, LW, 1955–1957, inducted 1981
- Dino Ciccarelli, RW, 1992–1996, inducted 2010
- Paul Coffey, D, 1993–1996, inducted 2004
- Charlie Conacher, RW, 1938–1939, inducted 1961
- Roy Conacher, LW, 1946–1947, inducted 1998
- Alec Connell, G, 1931–1932, inducted 1958
- Alex Delvecchio, LW/C, 1951–1973, inducted 1977
- Marcel Dionne, C, 1971–1975, inducted 1992
- Bernie Federko, C, 1989–1990, inducted 2002
- Viacheslav Fetisov, D, 1995–1998, inducted 2001
- Frank Foyston, C, 1926–1928, inducted 1958
- Frank Fredrickson, C, 1926–1927 & 1930–1931, inducted 1958
- Bill Gadsby, D, 1961–1966, inducted 1970
- Eddie Giacomin, G, 1975–1978, inducted 1987
- Ebbie Goodfellow, D, 1929–1943, inducted 1963
- Glenn Hall, G, 1952-1953 & 1954-1957, inducted 1975
- George Hay, LW, 1927–1931 & 1932–1933, inducted 1958
- Doug Harvey, D, 1967, inducted 1973
- Hap Holmes, G, 1926–1928, inducted 1972
- Mark Howe, D, 1992–1995, inducted 2011
- Gordie Howe, RW, 1946–1971, inducted 1972
- Syd Howe, LW, 1934–1946, inducted 1965
- Brett Hull, RW, 2001–2004, inducted 2009
- Duke Keats, C, 1926–1927, inducted 1958
- Red Kelly, D/C, 1947–1960, inducted 1969
- Igor Larionov, C, 1995–2000, 2001–2003, inducted 2008
- Herbie Lewis, D, 1928–1939, inducted 1989
- Ted Lindsay, LW, 1944–1957, 1964–1965, inducted 1966
- Harry Lumley, G, 1944–1950, inducted 1980
- Frank Mahovlich, LW, 1968–1971, inducted 1981
- Larry Murphy, D, 1997–2001, inducted 2004
- Reg Noble, 1927–1932, inducted 1962
- Brad Park, D, 1983–1985, inducted 1988
- Marcel Pronovost, D, 1950–1967, inducted 1978
- Bill Quackenbush, D, 1942–1949, inducted 1976
- Luc Robitaille, LW, 2001–2003, inducted 2009
- Borje Salming, D, 1989–1990, inducted 1996
- Terry Sawchuk, G, 1949–1955, 1957–1964, 1968–69, inducted 1971
- Earl Seibert, D, 1943–1946, inducted 1963
- Darryl Sittler, C, 1984–1985, inducted 1989
- "Black" Jack Stewart, D, 1938–1950, inducted 1964
- Tiny Thompson, G, 1938–1940, inducted 1959
- Norm Ullman, C, 1955–1968, inducted 1982
- Jack Walker, C, 1926–1928, inducted 1960
- Harry Watson, LW, 1942-1943 & 1945-1946, inducted 1994
- Cooney Weiland, C, 1933–1935, inducted 1971
- Steve Yzerman, C, 1983–2006, inducted 2009
Builders
- Jack Adams, Head coach, 1927–1947, inducted 1959
- Al Arbour, played for Detroit 1953–1954 & 1956–1958, inducted 1996
- Scotty Bowman, Head coach, 1993–2002, inducted in 1991
- Murray Costello, played for Detroit 1955–1956, inducted 2005
- Jim Devellano, Executive, 1982–present, inducted 2010
- Mike Ilitch, Owner, 1982–present, inducted 2003
- Tommy Ivan, Head coach, 1947–1954, inducted 1974
- Bruce Norris, Owner, 1955–1982, inducted 1969
- James E. Norris, Owner, 1932–1952, inducted 1958
- James D. Norris, Executive, 1932–1966, inducted 1962
- Bud Poile, played for Detroit 1948–1949, inducted 1990
- Carl Voss, played for Detroit 1932–1933, inducted 1974
- John A. Ziegler Jr., Owner, inducted 1987
Numbers out of circulation[link]
Main article: List of NHL retired numbers
Retired jerseys:
- 1 Terry Sawchuk, G, 1949–55, 1957–64 & 1968–69, number retired March 6, 1994
- 7 Ted Lindsay, LW, 1944–57 & 1964–65, number retired November 10, 1991
- 9 Gordie Howe, RW, 1946–71, number retired March 12, 1972
- 10 Alex Delvecchio, C, 1950–73, number retired November 10, 1991
- 12 Sid Abel, LW, 1938–52, number retired April 29, 1995
- 19 Steve Yzerman, C, 1983–2006, number retired January 2, 2007 (the banner features the captain "C" to honor his tenure as the longest serving captain in NHL history)
Not available for issue:
- 6 Larry Aurie, RW, 1927–1939, following his retirement from the NHL. This was the first number ever retired by the Detroit Red Wings; however, Aurie does not have a banner hanging in Joe Louis Arena. The NHL's official information publication, the Official NHL Guide And Record Book, listed the number as being retired from 1975 until 2000 when reference to it was removed at the request of the Red Wings organization. The team no longer considers the number to be retired, although it is not available for use.[37]
- 16 Vladimir Konstantinov, D, 1991–97, following a career-ending vehicular accident.
- 99 Wayne Gretzky, Although he was never a member of the Red Wings, his number was retired league-wide February 6, 2000
First-round draft picks[link]
Main article: List of Detroit Red Wings draft picks
- 1963: Pete Mahovlich (2nd overall)
- 1964: Claude Gauthier (1st overall)
- 1965: George Forgie (3rd overall)
- 1966: Steve Atkinson (6th overall)
- 1967: Ron Barkwell (9th overall)
- 1968: Steve Andrascik (11th overall)
- 1969: Jim Rutherford (10th overall)
- 1970: Serge Lajeunesse (12th overall)
- 1971: Marcel Dionne (2nd overall)
- 1972: None (Pierre Guite 2nd round (26th overall))
- 1973: Terry Richardson (11th overall)
- 1974: Bill Lochead (9th overall)
- 1975: Rick Lapointe (5th overall)
- 1976: Fred Williams (4th overall)
- 1977: Dale McCourt (1st overall)
- 1978: Willie Huber (9th overall)
- 1979: Mike Foligno (3rd overall)
- 1980: Mike Blaisdell (11th overall)
- 1981: None (Claude Loiselle 2nd round (23rd overall)
- 1982: Murray Craven (17th overall)
- 1983: Steve Yzerman (4th overall)
- 1984: Shawn Burr (7th overall)
- 1985: Brent Fedyk (8th overall)
- 1986: Joe Murphy (1st overall)
- 1987: Yves Racine (11th overall)
- 1988: Kory Kocur (17th overall)
- 1989: Mike Sillinger (11th overall)
- 1990: Keith Primeau (3rd overall)
- 1991: Martin Lapointe (10th overall)
- 1992: Curtis Bowen (22nd overall)
- 1993: Anders Eriksson (22nd overall)
- 1994: Yan Golubovsky (23rd overall)
- 1995: Maxim Kuznetsov (26th overall)
- 1996: Jesse Wallin (26th overall)
- 1997: None (Yuri Butsayev 2nd round (49th overall))
- 1998: Jiri Fischer (25th overall)
- 1999: None (Jari Tolsa 4th round (120th overall))
- 2000: Niklas Kronwall (29th overall)
- 2001: None (Igor Grigorenko (62nd overall))
- 2002: None (Jiri Hudler 2nd round (58th overall))
- 2003: None (Jimmy Howard 2nd round (64th overall))
- 2004: None (Johan Franzen 3rd round (97th overall))
- 2005: Jakub Kindl (19th overall))
- 2006: None (Cory Emmerton 2nd round (41st overall))
- 2007: Brendan Smith (27th overall)
- 2008: Thomas McCollum (30th overall)
- 2009: None (Landon Ferraro (32nd overall))
- 2010: Riley Sheahan (21st overall)
- 2011: None (Tomas Jurco 35th overall)
Franchise scoring leaders[link]
These players rank in the top ten in franchise history for goals, assists, and/or points as of the end of the 2011-12 season. Since it is possible to rank in one category but not others there are more than ten players listed in each table.[38] Figures are updated after each completed NHL season.
Note: Pos = Position; GP = Games Played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; P/G = Points per game; * = current Red Wings player
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NHL awards and trophies[link]
Franchise individual records[link]
This is a partial list. For the more franchise records, see List of Detroit Red Wings records
- Most goals in a season: Steve Yzerman, 65 (1988–89)
- Most assists in a season: Steve Yzerman, 90 (1988–89)
- Most points in a season: Steve Yzerman, 155 (1988–89)
- Most penalty minutes in a season: Bob Probert, 398 (1987–88)
- Most points in a season, defenseman: Nicklas Lidstrom, 80 (2005–06)
- Most points in a season, rookie: Steve Yzerman, 87 (1983–84)
- Most wins in a season: Terry Sawchuk, 44 (1950–51 and 1951–52)
- Most shutouts in a season: Terry Sawchuk, 12 (1951–52, 1953–54, and 1954–55)
- Most shutouts in post-season: Dominik Hasek, 6 (2002)
- Longest home win streak in NHL history: 23 games (November 5, 2011 to February 19, 2012)
See also[link]
- Russian Five
- The Grind Line
- Victoria Cougars
- List of NHL players
- List of NHL seasons
- List of Stanley Cup champions
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| Dana International (דנה אינטרנשיונל) |
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 Dana International in 2007. |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Yaron Cohen |
| Born | (1972-02-02) February 2, 1972 (age 40) Tel Aviv, Israel |
| Genres | Dance, Pop, World, Trance |
| Occupations | Singer-songwriter |
| Instruments | Vocals |
| Years active | 1992–present |
| Labels | Hed Arzi Music |
| Website | www.DanaInternational.co.il |
Sharon Cohen (Hebrew: שרון כהן), professionally known as Dana International (דנה אינטרנשיונל; born Yaron Cohen ירון כהן; February 2, 1972) is an Israeli pop singer of Yemenite Jewish ancestry. She has released eight albums and three additional compilation albums, positioning herself as one of Israel's most successful musical acts ever. She is most famous for having won the Eurovision Song Contest 1998 in Birmingham with the song "Diva".
Born male, Dana discovered that she was transsexual at an early age, coming out when she was 13. Undergoing sex reassignment surgery in 1993, it was that year that she released her first album, Danna International, upon which she based her stage name. Consolidating her initial commercial success with the albums Umpatampa (1994) and Maganuna (1996), in 1998 she was selected to represent Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest with her song "Diva"; subsequently winning the international competition, Dana came to public attention throughout Europe.
Following this up with the albums Free (1999), Yoter VeYoter (2001), HaHalom HaEfshari (2002) and Hakol Ze Letova (2008), in 2011 she once more represented Israel in Eurovision, this time with the song "Ding Dong", although failed to make it into the final. That same year she also became a judge on the Israeli television music talent contest Kokhav Nolad.[1]
Dana International has been credited with being one of the world's best known transsexuals. In 2005, a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to list those perceived as the 200 Greatest Israelis saw Dana voted the 47th-greatest Israeli of all time.[2]
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Early life[link]
Yaron Cohen was born in Tel Aviv to a Jewish family of Yemenite and Romanian descent. In an interview, she said her grandfather originated from Transylvania (Romania).[3] Her paternal grandparents lived in Petah Tikva. She was the youngest of three children, and was named after an uncle who had been killed during a terrorist attack.
Though born male, she identified as a female from a very young age. She wanted to become a singer since the age of eight, when she watched legendary Israeli singer Ofra Haza perform her song "Chai" in the 1983 Eurovision Song Contest. Although the family was quite poor, her mother worked to pay for her music lessons, and she claims that her childhood was happy. She came out as transsexual at the age of 13.
The first tragedy in Dana International's life was the death of her best friend Daniel, who died in a car accident. She asserts that Daniel had prophesied that she would someday have a successful singing career, and claims that Daniel's prediction is what pushed her to become the singer she wanted to be. The stage name she adopted, Dana or Danna, is the feminine version of Daniel's abbreviated name, Dan or Danny.[citation needed]
Career[link]
1990–93: Dana International[link]
At 18 years of age, Cohen (still legally male) earned a living as Israel's first drag queen parodying many famous female singers. During one of her performances, she was discovered by Offer Nissim, a well-known Israeli DJ, who produced her debut single "Saida Sultana" ("My Name is Not Saida"), a satirical version of Whitney Houston's song "My Name Is Not Susan".[4] The song received considerable exposure and helped launch her career as a professional singer.[4]
In 1993, Dana International flew to London for male-to-female sex reassignment surgery and legally changed her name to Sharon Cohen.[5] Returning home with her new name, that same year Cohen released her first album, entitled Danna International in Israel. Soon after, the album was also released in several other countries including Greece, Jordan, and Egypt (In Jordan and Egypt the album sold illegally). Sharon's stage name Dana International comes from the title track of the album, and was originally spelled with two n:s. Danna International soon became a gold record in Israel.[6]
1994: Umpatampa and Best Female Artist[link]
In 1994 Dana released her second, Trance-influenced album Umpatampa, which built on the success of her debut and provided further hit singles.[7] The album went platinum in Israel and has sold more than 50,000 copies to date. Because of her popularity and the success of this album, she won the award for Best Female Artist of the Year in Israel.
1995: Eurovision song contest[link]
In 1995, Dana attempted to fulfill her childhood dream of performing in the Eurovision Song Contest.[8] She entered the Eurovision qualifying contest in Israel with a song entitled "Layla Tov, Eropa" ("Good Night Europe") which finished second in the pre-selections, but became another hit single.
In late 1995, Dana released an E.P. called E.P. Tampa with three new songs and four remixes and special versions of her earlier songs.
1996–97: Consolidating popularity[link]
In 1996, Dana released her third album, Maganuna. Although this album was less successful than her previous efforts, it still reached gold record sales in Israel and included the hits "Don Quixote," "Waving," and the club smash "Cinque Milla." In 1997, Dana collaborated with the Israeli artist Eran Zur on his album Ata Havera Sheli, and together they sang the duet "Shir Kdam-Shnati (Sex Acher)" ("Pre-Bed Song (A Different Kind of Sex)") which became a huge hit.[9]
[edit] 1998: Diva and mainstream spotlight
Dana was chosen to represent Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 1998 in Birmingham with the song "Diva". Orthodox Jews and others with conservative views were opposed to her appointment and attempted to void her participation in the contest. However, in May 1998, Dana performed "Diva" at the Eurovision final and won the contest with 174 points. She became an international superstar, and was interviewed by CNN, BBC, Sky News, and MTV among others mostly focusing on her life as a transsexual person before winning the contest. Dana's own words "the message of reconciliation" were; "My victory proves God is on my side. I want to send my critics a message of forgiveness and say to them: try to accept me and the kind of life I lead. I am what I am and this does not mean I don't believe in God, and I am part of the Jewish Nation."[10]
Dana released "Diva" as a single in Europe[11] and it became a hit, reaching number 11 in the UK charts and the top ten in Sweden, Belgium, Finland, Ireland, and the Netherlands.
1999–2001: Stage falling, Streisand cover and new albums[link]
In 1999, Dana released Woman In Love, a Barbra Streisand cover, but it was not the hit that "Diva" had been. In May 1999, Dana again participated in the Eurovision Song Contest held in Jerusalem. Dana was a part of the interval act and sang the Stevie Wonder song "Free". She also presented the award to the winners of the contest but accidentally managed to steal their thunder. Whilst she was carrying the heavy trophy, one of the composers of the winning Swedish entry by mistake stepped on the long trail of her dress and she fell over on stage – in front of a television audience estimated be to one billion or more, arguably making it one of the most memorable moments in the 50-year-long history of the contest.
She released her next album Free in Europe in 1999, which enjoyed moderate success. A few months later Dana moved back to Israel and started to work on different projects. Israeli and Japanese editions of Free were released in 2000. That same year, an Israeli documentary film was made about Dana called Lady D.
In 2001, after a break, Dana released her seventh album Yoter Ve Yoter (More and More).[12] The album put her career in Israel back on track and provided two hits called "I Won" and "After All", which eventually both went gold.
2002–06: Fading from the scene and Sony incident[link]
Dana was about to sign with a major label, Sony/BMG, for an international recording contract but something went wrong in negotiations. These were disagreements that led to Sony cancelling the deal before it was completed. In 2002, she released another album, HaHalom HaEfshari (The Possible Dream), which was a minor chart success. In 2003, she released an exclusive 8 CD box set, containing all singles from The Possible Dream and a new house version of the hit single "Cinque Milla", titled A.lo.ra.lo.la. A few years later, in 2005, Dana participated in the 50th anniversary of the Eurovision song contest, held in Copenhagen, after "Diva" was selected as one of fourteen songs considered to be the best Eurovision songs. The song did not make it into the final top five but, Dana got the chance to perform both "Diva" and an old Eurovision favourite of hers; Baccara's 1978 entry "Parlez-Vous Francais?". She also recorded the song "Lola" (sung in French), to which she released a video. This video can be found on the CD Hakol Ze Letova, released in 2007 as a bonus CD-rom video.
In 2005, Dana was voted the 47th-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet, to determine who the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis.[2]
2007–today: Return to music and Eurovision comeback[link]
After a few years away from show business, together with the relaunch of her official website, a first single of the upcoming album was released in March 2007: "Hakol Ze Letova" ("It's All For the Best"). The second single to be released from the album, "Love Boy", became the most played song on Israeli radio in a decade.[13] It also gained a respectable place on the airplay of the Greek radio station FLY FM 89,7. The following album, also titled Hakol Ze Letova, was released on August 15, 2007. "At Muhana" was the third single and "Seret Hodi" (feat. Idan Yaniv)[14] the fourth to be released from the album, which became a bestseller in many online stores. The next single released from the album was "Yom Huledet".
On February 26, 2008, Dana gained an additional achievement when the song "Ke'ilu Kan" written and composed by her and performed by Boaz Mauda, was chosen on Kdam Eurovision to represent Israel at Eurovision Song Contest 2008 in Belgrade, Serbia. It came 5th in the semi-final and gained 9th place in the final rank.
Currently, Dana International is in the studio putting the finishing touches on her next album. Dana has also recorded a song called "Mifrats Ha Ahava" ("The Love Bay") for an Israeli version of the TV-show "Paradise Hotel". She recently collaborated with the Ukrainian duo NeAngely (Not Angels). They recorded the song "I Need Your Love" together and released a video. In 2009 Dana starred in a mock reality show called Dana Kama/Nama for cellphone provider Cellcom[15]
Dana campaigned for Kadima chairwoman Tzipi Livni shortly before 2009 legislative elections in Israel. At a women's political rally in Jerusalem Dana performed a bouncy disco song right beside Livni onstage. Dana announced, "I now formally invite you to the diva sisterhood."[16]
In April 2009 Dana performed in the opening concert of Tel Aviv-Yafo Centennial Year. She performed a cover version of Danny Robas' song "Lo nirdemet Tel Aviv" (Tel Aviv doesn't fall asleep) in front of 250,000 people.
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On May 18, 2009, Dana International shut down her current website in hopes of launching her new website promoting her new album.
Also in 2009, Dana International joined the 7th season of "Kokhav Nolad" (the Israeli version of Pop Idol) as a judge and joined the 8th one as well in 2010.[17]
Dana made a guest appearance, as herself, in an episode of the second series of UK sitcom Beautiful People, which was set around her Eurovision appearance. She is currently working on her next studio album, which is due to be released later in 2011.
Early in February, it was announced by IBA that Dana was preparing for a comeback in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Germany with the self-penned song Ding Dong and would compete in the Israeli National Final for 2011. On March 8 Dana International won the final and represented Israel at Eurovision for a second time.[18] However, she did not make it into the final, she was the first Eurovision winner not to do so.
Discography[link]
- 1993 Danna International (Offer Nissim Presents), IMP Dance
- 1994 Umpatampa, IMP Dance
- 1995 E.P.Tampa (Offer Nissim Featuring), IMP Dance
- 1996 Maganuna (Crazy), Helicon/Big Foot
- 1998 Diva - The Hits, IMP Dance
- 1998 Dana International The Album, Helicon/Big Foot/PolyGram
- 1999 Free, (European edition), CNR Music
- 2000 Free, (Israeli edition), NMC
- 2000 Free, (Japanese edition), NXCA
- 2001 Yoter Ve Yoter (More and more), NMC
- 2002 HaHalom HaEfshari (The possible dream), IMP Dance
- 2003 The CDs collection, IMP Dance
- 2007 Hakol Ze Letova (It's all for the best), Hed Arzi Ltd.
- 2011 Ding Dong
References[link]
- ^ Nikia Brown proceeds in Kochav Nolad. Jerusalem Post
- ^ a b גיא בניוביץ' (June 20, 1995). "הישראלי מספר 1: יצחק רבין – תרבות ובידור". Ynet. http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3083171,00.html. Retrieved July 10, 2011.
- ^ Dana International – Interview (Romania), Youtube
- ^ a b Billboard. May 23, 1998. http://books.google.com/books?id=jQ4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA10&dq=%22Dana+International%22+%22whitney+houston%22&hl=en&ei=JeFSTqzkMovAgQfbi6mJBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAA. Retrieved August 22, 2011.
- ^ Out. http://books.google.com/books?id=PWIEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA50&dq=%22Dana+International%22+%22sharon%22&hl=en&ei=U-FSToSqDoTTgQfphcT9Bg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDgQ6AEwAw. Retrieved August 22, 2011.
- ^ Thomas Peele. Queer popular culture: literature, media, film, and television. http://books.google.com/books?id=1Z3ChYp6PUIC&pg=PA121&dq=%22Dana+International%22+%22gold%22&hl=en&ei=m-FSTr76BsjngQeM6PiSBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAA. Retrieved August 22, 2011.
- ^ John Shepherd (2005). Continuum encyclopedia of popular music of the world. http://books.google.com/books?id=jhUKAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Dana+International%22+trance&dq=%22Dana+International%22+trance&hl=en&ei=-uFSTpuTNYrbgQeAkK3rBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAA. Retrieved August 22, 2011.
- ^ Lee Walzer (April 15, 2000). Between Sodom and Eden: a gay journey through today's changing Israel. http://books.google.com/books?id=TRIfClIjBBQC&pg=PA172&dq=%22Dana+International%22+eurovision+1995&hl=en&ei=a-JSTubpMo7PgAeu98yLBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAQ. Retrieved August 22, 2011.
- ^ Richard Middleton. Voicing the popular: on the subjects of popular music. http://books.google.com/books?id=kTTNfj4nbaMC&pg=PA134&dq=%22Dana+International%22+kind+of+sex&hl=en&ei=kOJSTqCwKsrogQeB-PD-DQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAg. Retrieved August 22, 2011.
- ^ Jeffrey Heyman. "Dana International - the most famous transsexual in the world". http://www.israel21c.org/people/dana-international-returns-to-eurovision. Retrieved August 22, 2011.
- ^ John Snelson. Andrew Lloyd Webber. http://books.google.com/books?id=RRFx7fFsi0AC&pg=PA228&dq=%22Dana+International%22+diva+11&hl=en&ei=8eJSTqCoGMPagQez5qmNBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CEoQ6AEwBg. Retrieved August 22, 2011.
- ^ L'Arche. http://books.google.com/books?id=2QEuAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Dana+International%22+yoter&dq=%22Dana+International%22+yoter&hl=en&ei=T-NSTojvC8WtgQeileTzBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAg. Retrieved August 22, 2011.
- ^ Watch Dana International's new video, News, Eurovision Song Contest 2011, Düsseldorf
- ^ DANA INTERNATIONAL FEAT IDAN YANIV – SERET HODI, Youtube
- ^ Celebrity Grapevine, Greer Fay Cashman, JPost, 11/23/2008
- ^ "Israel's Tzipi Livni turns to women and the left for votes". Latimes.com. February 8, 2009. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-israel-gender8-2009feb08,0,3243640.story. Retrieved August 22, 2011.
- ^ ".". L'Arche. http://www.forward.com/articles/104675/. Retrieved August 22, 2011.
- ^ "Dana on Euro trail". http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/3457102/Transsexual-Dana-International-to-return-to-Eurovision-Song-Contest.html. Retrieved August 22, 2011.
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Dana International |
- Dana International – Discover The Queen Of The Levant
- Dana International Fan Website
- Dana International Official Website
- Unofficial Dana International fansite
- Dana International – A Star Online; Website & Forum
- Dana Photo Gallery
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| Preceded by Harel Skaat with Milim |
Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 |
Succeeded by Izabo with Time |
Preceded by Katrina and the Waveswith Love Shine a Light |
Winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 1998 |
Succeeded by Charlotte Nilsson with Take Me to Your Heaven |
| Preceded by Liora with Amen |
Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 1998 |
Succeeded by Eden with Yom Huledet |
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| Date of birth | 1972-02-02 |
| Place of birth | Tel Aviv, Israel |
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Nuclear Testing 1945 - 1998 Complete Video HD
TitusFlavius79
Nuclear Testing 1945 - 1998 Complete Video HD
"2053" - This is the number of nuclear explosions conducted in various parts of the globe. Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto has created a beautiful, undeniably scary time-lapse map of the 2053 nuclear explosions which have taken place between 1945 and 1998, beginning with the Manhattan Project's "Trinity" test near Los Alamos and concluding with Pakistan's nuclear tests in May of 1998. This leaves out North Korea's two alleged nuclear tests in this past decade. Each nation gets a blip and a flashing dot on the map whenever they detonate a nuclear weapon, with a running tally kept on the top and bottom bars of the screen. Video credit: Isao Hashimoto
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THE INTERNET on April 4th, 1998
DiamondGB
THE INTERNET on April 4th, 1998
One day almost 13 years ago I just decided to fill a VHS tape with me using the internet. I've edited out a lot of even more boring bits of this video, you're not missing much. I've uploaded this to show to friends, but it'd be cool if more people find something they enjoy here. 0:00 I visit #3dfx on IRC 4:17 I show off my old Geocities website 5:18 I check bluesnews.com for the latest gaming news 3 browsing the anime web turnpike 5:42 more #3dfx on IRC 9:07 I go to IGN64.com looking up news on the upcoming Zelda64
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