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Glen Rice

Personal


- Full Name: Glen Anthony Rice
- Born: May 28, 1967, in Flint, MI
- Height/Weight: 6'7" (2.01 m), 215 lb (98 kg)
- High School: Northwestern Community High School (Flint, MI)
- College: University of Michigan

College career

Rice played college basketball at Michigan from 1985-1989, where he became the school's all-time leading scorer (2,442 points). He led Michigan to the 1989 national championship, scoring an NCAA-record 184 points in tournament play and was voted tournament Most Outstanding Player. Well known for his pin point accuracy in shooting, his personal outstanding achievement in the NBA came in the 1997 All-Star game, which was commerating the 50th anniversary of NBA, where he was named MVP of the all-star game, he won his first championship ring with the LA Lakers in 2000 leading the team alongside Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal.

NBA Transactions


- Drafted by Miami Heat in 1st round (4th overall) of 1989 NBA Draft.
- Traded by Miami with Matt Geiger, Khalid Reeves and '96 1st-round pick to Charlotte Hornets for LeRon Ellis, Alonzo Mourning and Pete Myers on November 3, 1995.
- Traded by Charlotte with B.J. Armstrong and J.R. Reid to Los Angeles Lakers for Elden Campbell and Eddie Jones on March 10, 1999.
- Traded by Lakers with Travis Knight and conditional '01 1st-round pick to New York Knicks as part of four-team deal on September 20, 2000 (Lakers received Emanual Davis, Greg Foster, Horace Grant and Chuck Person from Seattle SuperSonics; New York also received Luc Longley and two 2nd-round picks from Phoenix Suns and Lazaro Borrell, Vernon Maxwell, Vladimir Stepania and conditional '01 1st-round pick from Seattle; Phoenix received Chris Dudley, conditional '01 1st-round pick and cash from New York; Seattle received Patrick Ewing from New York).
- Traded by New York to Houston Rockets as part of three-team deal on August 17, 2001 (Dallas Mavericks received Muggsy Bogues from New York; Houston also received draft rights to Kyle Hill and future considerations from Dallas; New York received Shandon Anderson from Houston and Howard Eisley from Dallas).
- Traded by Houston with draft considerations and cash to Utah Jazz for John Amaechi and future 2nd-round pick on September 30, 2003.
- Waived by Utah on October 3, 2003.
- Signed as free agent by Los Angeles Clippers on October 10, 2003.
- Waived by Clippers on January 13, 2004.

External links


- [http://www.basketballreference.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=RICEGL01 Glen Rice Statistics @ BasketballReference.com] Rice, Glen Rice, Glen Rice, Glen Rice, Glen Rice, Glen Rice, Glen Rice, Glen Rice, Glen Rice, Glen Rice, Glen Rice, Glen

May 28

May 28 is the 148th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (149th in leap years). There are 217 days remaining.

Events


- 585 BC - A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares, leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates from which other dates can be calculated.
- 1503 - James IV of Scotland and Margaret Tudor are married by Pope Alexander VI according to Papal Bull.
- 1503 - The Treaty of Everlasting Peace between Scotland and England is signed, which would actually last 10 years.
- 1588 - The Spanish Armada, with 130 ships and 30,000 men, begins to set sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel. (It will take until May 30 for all ships to leave port).
- 1754 - French and Indian War: In the first engagement of the war, Virginia militia under 22-year-old Lieutenant Colonel George Washington defeat a French reconnaissance party at Jumonville Glen in what is now Fayette Couty in southwestern Pennsylvania.
- 1774 - American Revolutionary War: The first Continental Congress convenes.
- 1863 - American Civil War: The 54th Massachusetts, the first African American regiment, leaves Boston, Massachusetts, to fight for the Union.
- 1892 - In San Francisco, California, John Muir organizes the Sierra Club.
- 1905 - Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima ends with the destruction of the Russian Baltic Fleet by Admiral Togo Heihachiro and the Imperial Japanese Navy.
- 1918 - The first Republic of Armenia declares its statehood.
- 1918 - Independence day in the Azerbaijan Republic.
- 1926 - Military dictatorship established in Portugal to suppress the unrest of the First Republic.
- 1930 - The Chrysler Building in New York City officially opens.
- 1934 - Near Callender, Ontario, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Olivia and Elzire Dionne, later becoming the first quintuplets to survive infancy.
- 1934 - The Glyndebourne festival in England is inaugurated.
- 1936 - Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.
- 1937 - The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California, is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Washington, DC, who pushes a button signaling the start of vehicle traffic over the span.
- 1937 - Neville Chamberlain becomes British Prime Minister.
- 1940 - World War II: Belgium surrenders to Germany.
- 1940 - World War II: Norwegian, French, Polish and British forces recapture Narvik. First allied infantry victory in WW2.
- 1942 - World War II: In retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazis in Czechoslovakia kill over 1800 people.
- 1961 - Peter Benenson's article "The Forgotten Prisoners" is published in several internationally read newspapers. This will later be thought of as the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International.
- 1964 - The Palestine Liberation Organization is formed.
- 1969 - Sound engineer Glyn Johns mixes the second of the Beatles Bootlegs.
- 1974 - Northern Ireland's power-sharing Sunningdale Agreement collapses following a general strike by loyalists.
- 1975 - Fifteen West African countries sign the Treaty of Lagos, thus creating the Economic Community of West African States.
- 1977 - In Southgate, Kentucky, the Beverly Hills Supper Club is engulfed in fire, killing 165 people inside.
- 1978 - Second round of the presidential elections in Upper Volta. Elections wonm by incumbent Sangoulé Lamizana.
- 1982 - Falklands War: British forces defeat the Argentines at the Battle of Goose Green.
- 1987 - 19-year-old West German pilot Mathias Rust evades Soviet Union air defenses and lands a private plane in Red Square in Moscow. He is immediately detained and is not released until August 3, 1988.
- 1987 - A robot probe finds the wreckage of the USS Monitor near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
- 1991 - The capital city of Addis Ababa, falls to the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, ending both the Derg regime in Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Civil War.
- 1995 - The Russian town of Neftegorsk is hit by a 7.6 magnitude earthquake that kills at least 2,000 people, 2/3 of total population.
- 1998 - Nuclear testing: Pakistan responds to a series of Indian nuclear tests with five of its own, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions.
- 1999 - In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo de Vinci's newly-restored masterpiece "The Last Supper" is put back on display.
- 2000 - The volcano Mount Cameroon erupts.

Births


- 1140 - Xin Qiji, Chinese poet (d. 1207)
- 1371 - John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1419)
- 1524 - Selim II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1574)
- 1582 - William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele, English statesman (d. 1662)
- 1588 - Pierre Seguier, Chancellor of France (d. 1672)
- 1641 - Janez Vajkard Valvasor, Slovenian polymath (d. 1693)
- 1660 - King George I of Great Britain (d. 1727)
- 1676 - Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician (d. 1754)
- 1759 - William Pitt the Younger, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1806)
- 1779 - Thomas Moore, Irish poet (d. 1852)
- 1807 - Louis Agassiz, Swiss-born zoologist and geologist (d. 1873)
- 1818 - Pierre Beauregard, American Confederate general (d. 1893)
- 1836 - Alexander Mitscherlich, German chemist (d. 1918)
- 1853 - Carl Larsson, Swedish painter (d. 1919)
- 1858 - Carl Rickard Nyberg, Swedish inventor (d. 1939)
- 1878 - Paul Pelliot, French sinologist (d. 1945)
- 1883 - Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1966)
- 1884 - Edvard Beneš, Czech politician (d. 1948)
- 1887 - Jim Thorpe, American athlete (d. 1953)
- 1892 - Sepp Dietrich, German SS officer (d. 1966)
- 1900 - Tommy Ladnier, American musician (d. 1939)
- 1908 - Ian Fleming, English author (d. 1964)
- 1910 - T-Bone Walker, American singer (d. 1975)
- 1910 - Lady Rachel Kempson, English actress (d. 2003)
- 1911 - Thora Hird, British actress (d. 2003)
- 1911 - Fritz Hochwälder, Austrian author (d. 1986)
- 1912 - Patrick White, Australian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1990)
- 1914 - W. G. G. Duncan Smith, British World War II pilot (d. 1996)
- 1915 - Joseph Greenberg, American linguist (d. 2001)
- 1916 - Walker Percy, American author (d. 1990)
- 1917 - Papa John Creech, American musician (d. 1994)
- 1921 - Heinz G. Konsalik, German author (d. 1999)
- 1922 - Lou Duva, American boxing trainer
- 1923 - Henry Kissinger, United States Secretary of State
- 1923 - György Ligeti, Hungarian composer
- 1923 - Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao, Indian actor, director, and producer (d. 1998)
- 1925 - Bülent Ecevit, Prime Minister of Turkey
- 1925 - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, German baritone
- 1931 - Carroll Baker, American actress
- 1936 - Betty Shabazz, American civil rights leader
- 1938 - Jerry West, American basketball player
- 1942 - Stanley B. Prusiner, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 1944 - Rudy Giuliani, Mayor of New York City
- 1944 - Gladys Knight, American singer
- 1944 - Billy Vera, American actor and musician
- 1945 - John Fogerty, American musician (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
- 1945 - Gary Stewart, American singer (d. 2003)
- 1946 - Satchidanandan, Indian-born poet
- 1947 - Sondra Locke, American actress
- 1947 - Zahi Hawass, Egyptologist
- 1949 - Wendy O. Williams, American musician (The Plasmatics) (d. 1998)
- 1955 - John McGeoch, Scottish musician (Siouxsie and the Banshees) (d. 2004)
- 1957 - Kirk Gibson, baseball player
- 1962 - Brandon Cruz, American actor
- 1962 - Roland Gift, English musician (Fine Young Cannibals)
- 1963 - Houman Younessi, Iranian-born scientist
- 1964 - Jeff Fenech, Australian boxer
- 1964 - Christa Miller, American actress
- 1964 - Phil Vassar, country music artist
- 1965 - Chris Ballew, American musician
- 1968 - Kylie Minogue, Australian actress and singer
- 1972 - Michael Boogerd, Dutch cyclist
- 1977 - Elisabeth Hasselbeck, American television panelist
- 1980 - Mark Feehily, Irish musician (Westlife)

Deaths


- 1357 - King Afonso IV of Portugal (b. 1291)
- 1672 - John Trevor, English politician (b. 1626)
- 1747 - Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, French writer (b. 1715)
- 1750 - Emperor Sakuramachi of Japan (b. 1720)
- 1787 - Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer (b. 1719)
- 1805 - Luigi Boccherini, Italian composer (b. 1743)
- 1808 - Richard Hurd, English bishop and writer (b. 1720)
- 1811 - Henry Dundas, British minister (b. 1742)
- 1843 - Noah Webster, American author, politician, and lexicographer (b. 1758)
- 1849 - Anne Brontë, English author (b. 1820)
- 1916 - Ivan Franko, Ukrainian writer (b. 1856)
- 1937 - Alfred Adler, Austrian psychologist (b. 1870)
- 1940 - Friedrich Karl von Hessen (b. 1868)
- 1948 - Unity Mitford, English fascist sympathizer (b. 1914)
- 1971 - Audie Murphy, American actor and war hero (b. 1924)
- 1972 - King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (b. 1894)
- 1978 - Arthur Brough, English actor (b. 1905)
- 1980 - Rolf Nevanlinna, Finnish mathematician (b. 1895)
- 1993 - Billy Conn, American boxer and actor (b. 1917)
- 1994 - Julius Boros, American golfer (b. 1920)
- 1994 - Ely Jacques Kahn, Jr., American writer (b. 1916)
- 1998 - Phil Hartman, Canadian actor, comedian (b. 1948)
- 2001 - Francisco Varela, Chilean biologist and philosopher (b. 1946)
- 2002 - Jean Berger, German-born composer (b. 1909)
- 2003 - Oleg Makarov, cosmonaut (b. 1933)
- 2003 - Ilya Prigogine, Russian-born physicist and chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1917)
- 2003 - Martha Scott, American actress (b. 1912)
- 2004 - Umberto Agnelli, Swiss-born automobile executive (b. 1934)

Holidays and observances


- Feast day of the following saints in the Roman Catholic Church:
  - Germain
  - Augustine of Canterbury
  - William of Gellone
  - Bernard of Menthon
  - Lanfranc
- Republic Day in Azerbaijan and Armenia (both 1918)
- Sunset and sunrise occur along Manhattan's street grid centerline

External links


- [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/28 BBC: On This Day] ---- May 27 - May 29 - April 28 - June 28 – listing of all days ko:5월 28일 ms:28 Mei ja:5月28日 simple:May 28 th:28 พฤษภาคม

1967

1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.

Events

January


- January 4 - Algerian revolutionary Mohammed Khider is shot in Madrid.
- January 6 - Vietnam War: USMC and ARVN troops launch "Operation Deckhouse Five" in the Mekong River delta.
- January 10 - Segregationist Lester Maddox inaugurated as governor of Georgia.
- January 13 - Military coup in Togo under the leadership of Etienne Eyadema.
- January 14 - The New York Times reports that the US Army is conducting secret germ warfare experiments.
- January 15 - Louis Leakey announces that he has found prehuman fossils from Kenya - he names the species Kenyapitchecus Africanus.
- January 15 - United Kingdom enters the first round of negotiations for EEC membership in Rome.
- January 16 - Italy announces support for United Kingdom's EEC membership.
- January 18 - Albert DeSalvo, the "Boston Strangler," is convicted of numerous crimes and is sentenced to life in prison.
- January 18 - Jeremy Thorpe becomes leader of the Liberal Party
- January 23 - In Munich, trial begins against Wilhelm Harster, accused of murder of 82,856 Jews (including Anne Frank) when he led German security police during the German occupation of Netherlands. He is eventually sentenced to 15 years in prison.
- January 26 - Parliament of the United Kingdom decides to nationalize 90% of British steel industry.
- January 27 - Apollo 1: US astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White, and Roger Chaffee are killed when fire erupts in their Apollo spacecraft during a test on the launch pad.
- January 27 - USA, Soviet Union and UK sign the Outer Space Treaty.
- January 31 - West Germany and Romania form diplomatic relations.

February


- February 2 - The American Basketball Association is formed.
- February 3 - Ronald Ryan becomes the last man hanged in Australia, executed for the murder of a prison guard, which he committed while escaping from prison in December 1965
- February 4 - Soviet Union protests the demonstrations before its embassy in Peking
- February 5 - Lunar Orbiter 3 is launched.
- February 5 - Italy's first guided missile cruiser, the Vittorio Veneto (C550), is launched.
- February 5 - General Anastasio Somoza Debayle becomes president of Nicaragua.
- February 6 - Aleksei Kosygin arrives in the UK for an eight-day visit. He meets the Queen on the 9th.
- February 7 - Chinese government announces that it can no longer guarantee safety of Soviet diplomats outside the Soviet embassy building
- February 7 - Serious brush fires in southern Tasmania claim 62 lives
- February 10 - The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified
- February 14 - King Constantine II of Greece flees the country when his coup attempt fails
- February 15 - Soviet Union announces that it has sent troops to near Chinese border
- February 18 - China sends three PLA divisions to Tibet
- February 18 - New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison claims he is going to solve the John F. Kennedy assassination and that it was planned in New Orleans
- February 22 - Suharto takes power from Sukarno in Indonesia.
- February 22 - Donald Sangster becomes the new Prime Minister of Jamaica, succeeding Alexander Bustamante.
- February 23 - Trinidad and Tobago are the first Commonwealth nation to join the OAS.
- February 24 - Moscow forbids its satellite states to form diplomatic relations to West Germany
- February 25 - Chinese government announces that it has ordered the army to help in the spring seeding.
- February 25 - Britain's second Polaris missile submarine, HMS Renown, is launched.
- February 26 - Soviet nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan, Semipalitinsk.
- February 27 - Dutch government supports British EEC membership
- February 27 - Dominica gains independence from the United Kingdom.
- February 27 - The Outer Space Treaty was signed in Washington, London, and Moscow (entered into force October 10, 1967).

March


- March 1 - The city Hatogaya, located in Saitama, Japan is founded
- March 1 - Brazilian police arrest Franc Paul Stangli, ex-commander of Treblinka and Sobibór concentration camps
- March 1 - Red Guards return to schools in China.
- March 1 - The Queen Elizabeth Hall is opened in London.
- March 4 - The first North Sea gas is pumped ashore at Easington Co Durham.
- March 4 - Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh, the disposed democratically elected prime minister of Iran, dies while under house arrest.
- March 7 - Jimmy Hoffa begins his 8-year sentence for attempted bribery of jury
- March 9 - Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to USA via the US Delhi Embassy.
- March 12 - Indonesian State Assembly takes all presidential powers from Sukarno and names Suharto as acting president.
- March 13 - Moise Tshombe, ex-prime minister of Congo is sentenced to death in absentia
- March 14 - The body of President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery
- March 14 - Nine executives of the German pharmaceutical company Grunenthal are charged for breaking German drug laws because of thalidomide
- March 16 - In the Aspida case in Greece, 15 officers are sentenced to 2-18 years in prison accused of treason and intentions of coup
- March 18 - Supertanker Torrey Canyon runs aground in between Land's End and the Scilly Isles
- March 19 - Referendum in French Somaliland favors the connection to France
- March 21 - Military coup takes place in Sierra Leone.
- March 28 - Pope Paul VI issues the encyclical Populorum Progressio.
- March 29 - 13-day TV strike begins in USA.
- March 29-March 30 - RAF planes bomb the Torrey Canyon and sink it
- March 29 - The First French nuclear submrine, Le Redoutable, is launched.
- March 29 - The SEACOM cable system is inaugurated.
- March 31 - President Lyndon Johnson signs the Consular Treaty.

April


- April 2 - UN delegation arrives in Aden due to approaching independence. They leave April 7 and accuse British authorities for lack of cooperation. British say the delegation did not contact them.
- April 4 - Martin Luther King, Jr denounces Vietnam War during a religous service in New York City
- April 6 - Georges Pompidou begins to form the next French government.
- April 7 - Six-Day War: Israeli fighters shoot down seven Syrian MIG-21s.
- April 9 - The first Boeing 737 (a 100 series) takes its maiden flight.
- April 13 - Conservatives win the Greater London Council elections.
- April 14 - 10,000 march against the Vietnam War in San Francisco.
- April 15 - Large demonstrations against the Vietnam War in New York City and San Francisco.
- April 20 - Surveyor 3 probe lands on the Moon.
- April 20 - A Swiss Britannia turboprop crashes at Toronto, Canada, killing 126.
- April 21 - Greece is taken over by military dictatorship led by George Papadopoulos, forcing King Constantine II to flee.
- April 23 - A group of young radicals are expelled from the Nicaraguan Socialist Party (PSN). This group goes on to found the Socialist Workers Party (POS).
- April 24 - Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies during reentry of Soyuz 1 after the spacecraft's parachutes fail to deploy properly.
- April 28 - Boxer Muhammad Ali refuses military service.
- April 28 - Montreal hosts Expo '67; it is to coincide with the centennial of Canadian Confederation.
- April 29 - Fidel Castro announces that all intellectual property belongs to all people and that Cuba intends to translate and publish technical literature without compensation.
- April 30 - Moscow's 537m-tall TV tower is finished.

May


- May 2 - The Toronto Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup.
- May 2 - Harold Wilson announces that United Kingdom has decided to apply for EEC membership
- May 3 - Big gold robbery in London.
- May 4 - Lunar Orbiter 4 launched.
- May 6 - Dr Zakir Hussain is the first Muslim to become president of India.
- May 6 - 400 students seize the administration building at Cheyney State College, Pennsylvania
- May 8 - The Philippine province of Davao is split into three: Davao del Norte, Davao del Sur, and Davao Oriental.
- May 10 - Greek military government accused Andreas Papandreou of treason
- May 11 - United Kingdom and Ireland apply officially for EEC membership
- May 12 - Linda Ronstadt launches her first single 'Different Drum' with band The Stone Ponies.
- May 17 - Syria mobilizes against Israel
- May 17 - President Gamal Abdal Nasser of Egypt demands withdrawal of the peacekeeping UN Emergency Force in Sinai. UN secretary-general U Thant complies (May 18). On May 23 Egypt closes the Straits of Tiran, blockading Israel's southern port of Eilat.
- May 18 - Tennessee Governor Ellington repeals the "Monkey Law" (see the Scopes Trial)
- May 18 - In Mexico, schoolteacher Lucio Cabañas begins a guerilla campaign in Atoyac de Alvarez, west of Acapulco in the state of Guerrero
- May 19 - The Soviet Union ratifies a treaty with the United States and United Kingdom banning nuclear weapons from outer space
- May 19 - Yuri Andropov becomes the chief of KGB
- May 22 - The Innovation department store in the centre of Brussels (Belgium) burns down. It is the most devastating fire in Belgian history, which results in 323 dead and missing and 150 wounded.
- May 22 - Nasser announces the closure of the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping.
- May 25 - Celtic F.C. become the first British team to reach a European Cup final and also to win it, beating Inter Milan 2-1 in normal time.
- May 27 - Naxalite Guerrilla War Beginning with a peasant uprising in the town of Naxalbari, this Marxist/Maoist rebellion sputters on in the Indian countryside. The guerrillas operate among the impoverished peasants and fight both the government security forces and the private paramilitary groups funded by wealthy landowners. Most fighting takes place in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa and Madhya Pradesh.
- May 27 - The Australian referendum, 1967 passes with an overwhelming 90% support, allowing the Government of Australia to make special laws for Indigenous Australians.
- May 30 - Biafra, in eastern Nigeria, announces its independence.
- May 30 - At the Ascot Speedway in Gardena, California, daredevil Evel Knievel jumps his motorcycle over 16 cars lined up in a row.

June

motorcycle
- June 1 - The Beatles release Sgt Pepper, one of rock's most acclaimed albums. The mythologised "Summer of Love" kicks into high gear.Moshe Dayan becomes Israel's Secretary of Defense.
- June 2 - Protests in West Berlin against the arrival of the Shah of Iran turn into fights, during which young Benno Ohnesorg is killed by a police officer. His death results in the founding of the terrorist group Movement 2 June
- June 5-June 10 - Israel defeats Arab neighbours in Six-Day War, occupying West Bank, Gaza Strip, Sinai peninsula and Golan Heights
- June 5 - Murderer Richard Speck sentenced to death in electric chair for murder of nurses
- June 7 - Two Moby Grape members arrested for contributing to delinquency of minors
- June 8 - Six-Day War: The USS Liberty incident - Four Israeli fighter jets and four Israeli warships fire at USS Liberty off Gaza, killing 34 and wounding 171
- June 10 - Israel and Syria agree to observe a United Nations-mediated cease-fire.
- June 10 - Soviet Union severs diplomatic relations with Israel.
- June 10 - Margrethe, heir apparent to the throne of Denmark, marries French count Henri de Laborde de Monpezat.
- June 11 - A race riot in Tampa, Florida
- June 12 - The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares all U.S. state law which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional. [http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/loving.html]
- June 12 - Venera program: Venera 4 is launched (it will become the first space probe to enter another planet's atmosphere and successfully return data)
- June 13 - Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall is nominated as the first African American justice of the United States Supreme Court - [http://www.supremecourthistory.org/02_history/subs_timeline/images_associates/082.html]
- June 14 - Mariner program: Mariner 5 is launched toward Venus
- June 14 - The People's Republic of China tests its first hydrogen bomb.[http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/china/nuke.htm]
- June 17 - The People's Republic of China announces a successful hydrogen bomb test.
- June 23 - Cold War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin in Glassboro, New Jersey for the three-day Glassboro Summit Conference. [http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/diary/1967/670623.asp]
- June 26 - Pope ordinates 276 new cardinals (one of them Karol Wojtyła).
- June 27 - First automatic cash machine (voucher-based) is installed in the office of the Barclays Bank in Enfield, England.
- June 27 - A race riot in Buffalo, New York - 200 arrested
- June 28 - Israel declares annexation of East Jerusalem.
- June 30 - Moise Tshombe, former prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is kidnapped to Algeria.

July


- July 1 - Canada celebrates its first one hundred years of Confederation.
- July 1 - The first colour television broadcasts begin on BBC2 in UK on certain programmes. A full colour service began on BBC2 on December 2.
- July 1 - American Samoa's first constitution becomes effective.
- July 3 - A military rebellion led by a Belgian mercenary Jean Schramme begins in Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- July 4 - British parliament decriminalizes homosexuality
- July 5 - Troops of Belgian mercenary commander Jean Schramme revolt against Mobutu and try to take control of Stanleyville, Congo
- July 5 - Israel annexes Gaza
- July 6 - Nigerian forces invade Biafra following latter's secession May 30: beginning of the Biafran War.
- July 12 - Greek military regime strips 480 Greeks of their citizenship
- July 13 - Newark, New Jersey race riots.
- July 15 - Detroit race riots.
- July 16 - Prison riot in Jay, Florida - 37 dead
- July 18 - United Kingdom announces closing of its military bases in Malaysia and Singapore. Australia and USA do not approve
- July 18 - Humberto Castelo Branco, ex-president of Brazil, dies in a plane accident near Fortaleza
- July 20 - Pablo Neruda receives the first Viareggio-Versile prize
- July 22 - The town of Winneconne, Wisconsin, announces secession from the United States because it is not included in the official maps and declares war. Secession is repealed the next day
- July 23 - 12th Street Riot: In Detroit, Michigan, one of the worst riots in United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly African American inner city (43 killed, 342 injured and ~1,400 buildings burned)
- July 24 - During an official state visit to Canada, French President Charles de Gaulle declares to a crowd of over 100,000 in Montreal: Vive le Québec libre! (Long live free Quebec!). The statement, interpreted as support for Quebec independence, delighted many Quebecers but angered the Canadian government and many English Canadians.
- July 29 - Explosion and fire aboard the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Forrestal in the Gulf of Tonkin leaves 134 dead.
- July 29 - Georges Bidault moves to Belgium where he gets an political asylum

August


- August 1 - Race riots in the United States spread to Washington, D.C.
- August 1 - Israel annexes East Jerusalem.
- August 3 - Sweden switches to right-hand traffic.
- August 7 - Vietnam War: The People's Republic of China agrees to give North Vietnam an undisclosed amount of aid in the form of a grant.
- August 7 - General strike in the old quarter of Jerusalem protests Israel's unification of the city.
- August 8 - The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is founded.
- August 9 - Vietnam War: Operation Cochise initiated - United States Marines begin a new operation in the Que Son Valley.
- August 10 - Schramme's troops take border town of Bukavu.
- August 14 - UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal.
- August 15 - British Labour Government bans pirate radio stations.
- August 19 - West Germany receives 36 East Germany prisoners it has "purchased" through the border posts of Herleshausen and Wartha.
- August 21 - Truce in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- August 21 - The People's Republic of China announces that it has shot down American planes violating its airspace.
- August 25 - Leader of American Nazi Party, George Lincoln Rockwell, is shot dead.
- August 30 - Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

September


- September 1 - Ilse Koch, also known as the "Bitch of Buchenwald", commits suicide in the Bavarian prison of Aichach.
- September 2 - Roughs Tower claimed by Paddy Roy Bates and declared Principality of Sealand
- September 3 - Nguyen Van Thieu is elected President of South Vietnam
- September 3 - H-Day in Sweden. At 5:00 AM local time, all traffic in the country switched from left-hand traffic pattern to right-hand traffic.
- September 4 - Vietnam War: Operation Swift begins - The United States Marines launch a search and destroy mission in Quang Nam and Quang Tin Provinces. The ensuing 4-day battle in Que Son Valley kills 114 Americans and 376 North Vietnamese
- September 5 - Sweden changes to driving on the right
- September 10 - In Gibraltar, only 44 out of 12.182 voters support union with Spain.
- September 17 - Riot in a football match in Kaysei, Turkey - 44 dead, about 600 injured.
- September 17 - Jim Morrison and The Doors defy CBS censors on The Ed Sullivan Show when Morrison sang the word "higher" from their #1 hit Light My Fire when asked not to.
- September 27 - Queen Mary arrives Southampton at the end of her last transatlantic voyage
- September 30 - BBC Radio 1 launched.

October


- October - Patterson-Gimlin film of a purported bigfoot taken.
- October 2 - Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first black justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
- October 3 - An X-15 research aircraft with test pilot Pete Knight establishes an unofficial world fixed-wing speed record of Mach 6.7
- October 8 - Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia. The next day Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution
- October 12 - Vietnam War: US Secretary of State Dean Rusk states during a news conference that proposals by the U.S. Congress for peace initiatives were futile because of North Vietnam's opposition
- October 17 - Premiere of the musical Hair Off-Broadway.
- October 19 - Mariner 5 probe flies by Venus.
- October 21 - Egyptian surface-to-surface missile sinks the Israeli destroyer Eilat, killing 47 Israeli sailors. Israel retaliates by shelling Egyptian refineries along the Suez Canal.
- October 21 - Ten of thousands of Vietnam War protesters march in Washington, D.C.
- October 25 - Abortion bill passes in British parliament.
- October 26 - Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran is officially crowned.
- October 27 - Charles De Gaulle vetoes British entry into EEC – again.
- October 29 - Mobutu's trooops launch an offensive against mercenaries in Bukavu
- October 30 - British troops and Chinese demonstrators clash in the border of China and Hong Kong.
- October 30 - Mayor A.V. Sorensen of Omaha, Nebraska declares the following day to be Grace Bible Institute Day in the city of Omaha.

November


- November 2 - Vietnam War: US President Lyndon B. Johnson holds a secret meeting with a group of the nation's most prestigious leaders ("the Wise Men") and asks them to suggest ways to unite the American people behind the war effort. They conclude that the American people should be given more optimistic reports on the progress of the war
- November 3 - Vietnam War: Battle of Dak To begins - Around Dak To (located about 280 miles north of Saigon near the Cambodian border) heavy casualties are suffered on both sides (the Americans narrowly won the battle on November 22).
- November 4-November 5 - Mercenaries of Jean Schramme and Jerry Puren withdraw from Bukavu over Shangugu Bridge to Rwanda
- November 5 - Hither Green rail crash - commuter train derails in South-East London - 40 dead, 80 injured
- November 6 - Rhodesian parliament passes pro-Apartheid laws.
- November 7 - US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
- November 7 - Carl B. Stokes is elected mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first African American mayor of a major United States city
- November 9 - Apollo program: NASA launches a Saturn V rocket carrying the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft from Cape Kennedy
- November 11 - Vietnam War: In a propaganda ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, three American prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong and turned over to "new left" antiwar activist Tom Hayden
- November 15 - Cyprus conflict eye-witness account: "In the afternoon of November 15 National Guard (Greek Cypriot Army) organised by General Grivas attacked two villages, Kophinou (Tr. Gecitkale) (a wholly Turkish Cypriot village) and Ayios Theodoros (Tr Bogazici) (a Greek/Turkish village) with an estimated 10000 men. The total T.Cypriot population in these villages was under 3000. 24 in all, some armed but mainly unarmed Turkish Cypriot civilians were killed - one 90 year old men in particular was wounded, and burnt to death in the front of his house where he fell. Women and children forced out of their houses were forced to pass by the burning corpse. In the morning of 16th of November, Turkey threatened invasion by bombing various Greek Cypriot army positions at which stage the National Guard withdrew releasing all civilians forcefully kept in various public places eg schools/cinemas in the two villages."
- November 17 - Vietnam War: Acting on optimistic reports he was given on November 13, US President Lyndon B. Johnson tells his nation that, while much remained to be done, "We are inflicting greater losses than we're taking...We are making progress." (two months later the Tet Offensive makes him regret his words)
- November 17 - French author Regis Debray is sentenced to 30 years in Bolivia
- November 19 - UK pound devalued from 1 GBP = 2.80 USD to 1 GBP = 2.40 USD.
- November 21 - Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland tells news reporters: "I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing."
- November 22 - UN Security Council Resolution 242 is adopted by the UN Security Council, establishing a set of the principles aimed at guiding negotiations for an Arab-Israeli peace settlement
- November 24 - Cambodian triple agent Inchin Lam killed
- November 29 - Vietnam War: US Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his pending resignation and that he will become president of the World Bank. This action was the result of US President Lyndon B. Johnson's outright rejection of McNamara's early November recommendations to freeze troop levels, stop bombing North Vietnam and hand over ground fighting to South Vietnam
- November 30- The People's Republic of South Yemen becomes independent from the United Kingdom

December


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- December 4, 1850 hours - A volcano erupts on Deception Island in Antarctica.
- December 4 - Vietnam War: US and South Vietnamese forces engage Viet Cong troops in the Mekong Delta (235 of the 300-strong Viet Cong battalion were killed).
- December 5 - Benjamin Spock and Allen Ginsberg arrested for protesting against Vietnam War
- December 9 - Nicolae Ceauşescu becomes the Chairman of the Romanian State Council - that is, de-facto dictator of Romania.
- December 11 - The Concorde is unveiled in Toulouse, France
- December 15 - Silver Bridge over Ohio River in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, collapses - 46 dead. It has been linked to the so-called Mothman mystery.
- December 17 - Harold Holt, Australian prime minister, disappears when swimming at a beach 60 km from Melbourne.
- December 19 - Professor John Archibald Wheeler uses the term

College basketball

College basketball most often refers to the American basketball league organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, or NCAA.

History

The game of basketball was devised by James Naismith in 1891. The first recorded game involving a college basketball team took place in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania on April 8, 1893 when a team from Geneva College defeated the New Brighton YMCA [http://www.geneva.edu/athletics/mens_basketball/] [http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/living/s_84152.html]. The first intercollegiate game was played on February 9,1895 when Minnesota State School of Agriculture defeated Hamline College by a score of 9 to 3. The first intercollegiate game involving the now familiar five-player format occurred in Iowa City, Iowa on January 18, 1896 when the University of Chicago defeated the University of Iowa 15 to 12. Before that time, there were usually seven to nine players on each team. By the turn of the 20th Century, enough colleges were fielding basketball teams that leagues began to form. The NCAA was founded in Chicago in 1906. The first NCAA Men's College Basketball Championship tournament was held before 5,500 fans in Evanston, Illinois in 1939. That year, Oregon beat Ohio State 46 to 33 in the final game to win the national championship. The first college games to be televised took place at Madison Square Garden in 1940. Pittsburgh defeated Fordham, 57 to 37, and NYU beat Georgetown, 50 to 27. Since the advent of television, the popularity of college basketball has exploded. March Madness is consistently one of the most watched events of the year and draws over 700,000 fans.

Division I Men's Basketball

As of the 2005-06 season, there are currently 334 colleges and universities fielding Division I Men's Basketball teams. 49 states boast at least one Division I Men's Basketball program; only Alaska has none. (North Dakota State University and South Dakota State University joined Division I this season, becoming the first schools from their respective states to play at the D1 level.)

Conferences

These teams play in 31 different conferences, which are classified as either major or mid-major conferences. The distinction is unofficial; indeed, the winners of all 31 conferences receive an automatic bid to play in the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament alongside 34 at-large selections made by the selection committee during the selection process. However, the teams from "major" conferences are the traditional powers and continue to dominate the game to this day, thanks in part to the relative ease they have in attracting blue-chip high school recruits. The major-conference teams also have the benefit of playing a tougher schedule, more easily garnering respect. Accordingly, most of the 34 at-large selections on Selection Sunday go to major-conference teams. The following are currently considered to be the major conferences in college basketball: The six conferences that are members of the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) in college football:
- ACC
- Big East
- Big Ten
- Big 12
- Pac-10
- SEC Two other non-BCS conferences that play Division I-A college football:
- Mountain West
- WAC One conference whose football members play in Division I-AA:
- Atlantic 10 (aka "A-10") It should be noted that some teams play in different conferences in different sports. For example, Temple University plays football as an independent (but is transitioning to the Mid-American Conference for that sport) and basketball in the A-10. Local rival Villanova University, on the other hand, plays A-10 football, but is a Big East member in basketball. Many of the A-10 football teams play in mid-major conferences in basketball. The current members of the six BCS conferences and the Mountain West Conference have won every NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship since 1967, although some teams' championships predate their memberships in their current conferences. Conference USA effectively lost its "major" status in July 2005 when 8 of its 14 basketball members left for other conferences, five to the Big East alone. Of the schools that left C-USA, three that left for the Big East (Cincinnati, Louisville, Marquette) were responsible for all of the national championships won by schools that were C-USA members in 2004-05. Louisville made the Final Four in its last season in C-USA. Two other departing schools (DePaul, which joined the Big East, and Charlotte, which joined the A-10) have past Final Four appearances, though not recently (1979 for DePaul, 1977 for Charlotte). The Mountain West and Atlantic 10, which also gained members from Conference USA, are more secure in their "major" status at this time. Only three of the 22 mid-major basketball conferences play Division I-A football: Conference USA, the Mid-American Conference and the Sun Belt Conference. Of the remaining conferences, some play in Division I-AA (e.g. the Ivy League) and the others don't compete in football at all (e.g. the West Coast Conference). The following are considered mid-major conferences in college basketball:
- America East Conference
- Atlantic Sun Conference
- Big Sky Conference
- Big South Conference
- Big West Conference
- Colonial Athletic Association
- Conference USA
- Horizon League
- Ivy League
- Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference
- Mid-American Conference
- Mid-Continent Conference
- Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference
- Missouri Valley Conference
- Northeast Conference
- Ohio Valley Conference
- Patriot League
- Southern Conference
- Southland Conference
- Southwestern Athletic Conference
- Sun Belt Conference
- West Coast Conference No mid-major team has made it to the Final Four since 1979, when Penn and a Larry Bird-led Indiana State both made it to the semifinals, each losing to Magic Johnson's Michigan State team (Penn in the semifinals, and Indiana State in the final). However, the trend in recent years has been towards parity among all the schools in Division I, and practically every year a perennial major-conference power loses to an unheralded mid-major team in the tournament. In recent years, Gonzaga has become the closest thing to a power in mid-major basketball, having made it as far as the quarterfinals in 1999 and in the years since ranking highly in the influential AP Top 25 Poll and the Ratings Percentage Index throughout the basketball season. Increasingly, basketball analysts are considering Gonzaga to be a major program that happens to play in a mid-major conference. Finally, a small number of teams (currently ten) compete in Division I basketball as so-called "Independents", without belonging to any conference. Typically, these teams have just moved up to Division I from a lower division, and compete independently while hoping to eventually secure a spot in a conference. Unlike in football, they are generally among the least-competitive teams in college basketball.

Relationship to Professional Basketball

In past decades, the NBA only drafted college graduates. This was a mutually beneficial relationship for the NBA and colleges—the colleges held onto players who would otherwise go professional, and the NBA did not have to fund a minor league. For the most part, players benefited from the college education. As the college game became commercialized, though, it became increasingly difficult for "student athletes" to be students. Specifically, a growing number of poor (usually black), under-educated, highly talented teenage basketball players found the system exploitative—they brought in funds to schools where they learned little and played without income. In 1974, Moses Malone joined the Utah Stars of the ABA (now merged with the NBA) straight out of high school and went on to a Hall of Fame career. The past 30 years have seen a remarkable change in the college game. The best international players routinely skip college entirely, many American stars skip college (Kobe Bryant and LeBron James) or only play one year (Carmelo Anthony), and only a dozen or so college graduates are now among the 60 players selected in the annual NBA Draft. The pervasiveness of college basketball throughout the nation, the large population of graduates from "major conference" universities, and the NCAA's brilliant marketing of "March Madness" (officially the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship), have kept the college game alive and well. Some commentators have argued that the higher turnover of players has increased the importance of good coaches. Many teams have been highly successful, for instance, by emphasizing personality in their recruiting efforts, with the goal of creating a cohesive group that, while lacking stars, plays together for all 4 years and thus develops a higher level of sophistication than less stable teams could achieve.

Other Divisions

While less commercialized, Women's Division I, and Division II and III, both Women's and Men's, are highly successful college basketball organizations. Women's Division I is often televised, but to smaller audiences than Men's Division I. Generally, small colleges join Division II, while colleges of all sizes that choose not to offer athletic scholarships join Division III. D-II and D-III games, understandably, are almost never televised, although CBS will sometimes show the championship games. Many teams at these levels have rabid fan bases, though, and to those fans these games can be equally or more entertaining than big-name college basketball.

See also


- NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship
- NCAA Men's Division II Basketball Championship
- NCAA Women's Division II Basketball Championship
- NCAA Men's Division III Basketball Championship
- NCAA Women's Division III Basketball Championship
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1985

:This article is about the year. For the song by Bowling for Soup, see 1985 (song). For the album by Rufio, see MCMLXXXV. 1985 (MCMLXXXV) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar.

Events

January-February


- January 1 - The first British mobile phone call is made (by Ernie Wise to Vodafone).
- January 3 - Finnish government announces that a Soviet cruise missile has fallen into Inarinjärvi lake in Finnish Lapland
- January 17 - British Telecom announces it is going to phase out its famous red telephone boxes.
- January 20 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan is sworn in for a second term in office.
- January 23 - A debate in the British House of Lords is televised for the first time.
- February 1 - AM stereo broadcasting starts in Australia.
- February 5 - Australia cancels its involvement in U.S.-led MX missile tests.
- February 7 - "New York, New York" becomes the official city anthem of New York City.
- February 11 - Pakistani bowler Wasim Akram takes ten wickets in his second Test cricket match, but New Zealand still wins.
- February 14 - CNN reporter Jeremy Levin is freed from captivity in Lebanon.
- February 19 - William Schroeder becomes the first artificial heart patient to leave hospital.
- February 26 - US federal grand jury indicts 15 members of New York Mafia for racketeering

March


- March 2 - Government of