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Tuesday, 16 June 2026
Oct 06 Johnny Vander Meer, pitched consecutive no-hitters, dies at 82. 
Oct 09 Arthur Tracy, radio personality (Street Singer), dies at 98.
Oct 13 Adil Carcani, prime minister of Albania (1982-91), dies.
Oct 14 Harold Robbins, salacious novelist, dies at 81
Oct 15 Near Coast of Central Chile a 7.3 quake resulted in five people killed at Pueblo Nuevo, one person killed at Coquimbo, one person killed at La Chimba and another died of a heart attack at Punitaqui. More than 300 people injured, 5000 houses destroyed, 5700 houses severely damaged, another 10000 slightly damaged.
Oct 15 The Cyprus-registered Evoikos and an empty Thai supertanker Orapin Global collide in the Singapore strait, causing the worst oil spill in the country's history.
Oct 17 Paul Edwin Zimmer, sci-fi writer, dies of heart attack at 54
Oct 19 Glen Buxton, guitarist (Alice Cooper), dies of pneumonia at 49.
Oct 21 Dolph Camilli, Bkln Dodger/MVP (1941), dies at 90
Oct 24 Don Messick, cartoon voice (Astro-Jetsons, Bamm Bamm), dies at 62
Oct 28 Toni Carabillo, writer (Feminist Chronicles), dies of lymphoma at 71.
Oct 30 Sam Fuller, director/writer (Big Red One), dies at 86
Nov 01 Tropical Storm Linda (1997) in Vietnam killing 3123 people
Nov 02 G Harry Stine, writer, dies at 69
Nov 04 George Chambers, PM of Trinidad and Tobago (1981-86), dies
Nov 06 Phillipo Seed, social work academic, dies at 67.
Nov 10 William Alland, actor (Citizen Kane), dies at 81
Nov 11 Quebec Gatineau Railway takes over operation of the former CP Trois Rivieres and Lachute subdivisions between Quebec City and Hull.
Nov 12 William Matthews, poet, dies at 55.
Nov 13 William John Elwyn Davies, painter, dies at 80
Nov 15 Saul Chaplin, director (West Side Story), dies at 85
Nov 16 George Petrie, actor (Honeymooners), dies on 85th birthday
Nov 19 Christina Corrigan, obese girl (680 lbs), dies at 13
Nov 20 Gary Burris, murderer (Kenneth Chambers), executed in Indiana
Nov 21 Ismail Fahmi, external minister of Egypt in (1973-77), dies.
Nov 24 In response to a 554.26 point free fall, New York Stock Exchange officials invoked the "circuit breake" rule and puts a halt to trading
Nov 24 RealNetworks, an Internet pioneer that developed streaming audio and video technology, launched a public offering on this day in 1997. The company, once co-owned by Microsoft and formerly called Progressive Networks, reaped more than $500 million on its inaugural day of trading
Nov 25 Charles Hallahan, actor (Hunter), dies of heart attack at 54.
Nov 27 Buck Leonard, Hall of Famer in Negro League, dies at 90.
Nov 28 Netscape disputes browser figures by countering Dataquest's estimates that said that Microsoft was gaining ground in the browser market
Nov 28 Online music retailer CDNow filed for an IPO on this day in 1997
Nov 29 Coleman Young, 1st black mayor of a major city, dies at 79.
Nov 30 Clare Lucy Madeleine Evans, historian, dies at 37.
Dec 03 Marian Kratochwil, artist, dies at 91.
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