History Hop Tags - Single

1591-01-18

King Naresuan of Siam kills Crown Prince Minchit Sra of Burma in single combat, for which this date is now observed marked as Royal Thai Armed Forces day.

1857-06-02

James Gibbs, Va, patents chain-stitch single-thread sewing machine

1862-09-17

American Civil War: The Allegheny Arsenal explosion results in the single largest civilian disaster during the war; 78 workers killed.

1881-08-31

1st US men's single tennis championships (Newport, RI)

1888-08-20

Longest US men's single tournament match Palmer Presbrey defeats T S Tailer, 19-21, 8-6, 6-1, 6-4, an 80-game 1st-round contest

1888-08-30

Lord Walsingham kills 1,070 grouse in a single day

1893-08-10

Rudolf Diesel's prime model internal combustion engine, a single 10-foot iron cylinder with a flywheel at its base, ran on its own power for the first time in Augsburg, Germany

1900-01-02

E Verlinger begins manufacturing 7" single-sided records (Montreal)

1907-05-23

The single chamber Parliament of Finland gathers for its first plenary session.

1909-08-26

Middlesex beat Gloucs (Bristol) by Inn & 31 in a single day

1915-12-28

Today the British Cabinet recognizes the true nature of the war by deciding to institute compulsory military service, with single men to be conscripted before married ones

1918-10-08

American soldier Sgt Alvin York single-handedly kills 25, captures 132 Germans

1923-09-11

After a single, Red Sox Howard Ehmke retires next 27 Yanks

1923-10-02

Harry Heilmann goes 2-for-2, sit out rest of season, except for a pinch single on final day, hitting .403

1925-05-01

A's Jimmie Foxx, 17, 1st game; he pinch-hits a single

1930-01-05

Mao Zedong writes "A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire"

1934-06-30

French Equatorial Africa constituted a single administrative unit

1938-05-05

Phillies Harold Kelleher faces 16 batters in 6th, as Cubs score 12 runs, both marks are NL records off one hurler in a single inning

1942-02-20

Lt E H O'Hare single-handedly shoots down 5 Japanese heavy bombers, becomes America's first World War II flying ace

1943-04-11

Frank Piasecki, Vertol founder, flies his 1st (single-rotor) craft

1946-10-15

Enos Slaughter scores from 1st on a single in World Series

1948-05-21

NY Yank Joe DiMaggio hits for cycle (single, double, triple, HR)

1949-02-01

RCA releases 1st single record ever (45 rpm)

1950-07-16

Single day 16 team HR record set at 37 (NL-25, AL-12)

1950-08-31

Dodger Gil Hodges hits 4 HRs & a single in a game vs Braves

1951-05-29

1st North Pole flight in single engine plane-CF Blair

1951-06-20

Cleve Indian Bobby Avila hits 3 HRs, double & single vs Red Sox

1953-05-16

Phillies Curt Simmons gives up a single, then retires next 27 in a row

1954-04-05

Elvis Presley records his debut single "That's All Right"

1955-01-08

Furman sets NCAA basketball single-game scoring record with 154 pt

1955-02-12

McGuire Sisters' "Sincerely" single goes to #1 & stays #1 for 10 weeks

1956-01-08

Elvis Presley's "Don't Be Cruel/Hound Dog," single goes to #1 & stays #1 for a record 11 weeks (for a single)

1956-01-27

Elvis Presley's releases the single "Heartbreak Hotel"

1956-10-15

Yankees Enos Slaughter scores from 1st on a single in World Series

1956-11-26

USSR single sculls winner Vyacheslav Ivanov wins Olympic gold medal in his excitement he jumps for joy, & loses his medal, it sinks

1956-12-08

Guy Mitchell's "Singing the Blues," single goes #1 for 10 weeks

1957-09-08

Jackie Wilson, releases his 1st solo single "Reet Petite"

1957-09-29

Buddy Holly & Crickets released 2nd single "Oh Boy!"/"Not Fade Away"

1958-04-18

NL single-game record of 78,682, Giants lose to Dogers 6-5, in LA

1959-10-06

Single game World Series attendence record set (92,706 in LA)

1961-01-18

Zanzibar's Afro-Shirazi party wins 1 seat by a single vote & parliament by a single seat

1961-03-30

The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed at New York.

1963-02-25

Beatles release their 1st single in US "Please Please Me"

1963-06-07

1st Rolling Stones TV appearance (Thank Your Lucky Stars) & release 1st single, "Come on"

1963-10-20

Jim Brown sets NFL single-season rushing record, 1,863 yds

1964-03-21

Beatles' "She Loves You" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks

1964-04-04

Beatles' "Can't Buy Me Love" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 5 weeks

1964-05-30

Beatles' "Love Me Do" single goes #1

1964-08-01

Beatles' single "A Hard Day's Night" goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks

1964-09-10

Rod Steward records his 1st single "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl"

1964-12-26

Beatles' "I Feel Fine," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 3 weeks

1965-03-13

Beatles' "Eight Days a Week" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks

1965-05-22

Beatles' "Ticket to Ride" single goes #1

1965-06-06

Rolling Stones release single "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"

1965-07-10

Rolling Stones score their 1st US #1 single "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"

1965-08-20

Rolling Stones release their single "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" (their 1st #1 US hit) in the UK

1965-09-04

Beatles' single "Help!" goes #1 & stays #1 for 3 weeks

1965-10-09

Beatles' "Yesterday" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 4 weeks

1966-01-08

Beatles' "We Can Work It Out," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 3 weeks

1966-06-25

Beatles' "Paperback Writer" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks

1966-08-05

Beatles release single "Yellow Submarine" with "Eleanor Rigby" in UK

1966-12-16

Jimi Hendrix Experience releases its 1st single, "Hey Joe," in the UK

1967-03-11

Pink Floyd releases 1st single (Arnold Layne)

1967-03-18

Beatles' "Penny Lane" single goes #1

1967-07-10

Bobbie Gentry records "Ode to Billie Joe" - single goes on to win 4 Grammys

1967-08-19

Beatles' "All You Need is Love" single goes #1

1967-12-30

Beatles' "Hello Goodbye," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 3 weeks

1968-05-22

Pitts Pirate Willie Stargell hits 3 HRs, a double & a single

1968-09-28

Beatles' "Hey Jude" single goes #1 and stays #1 for 9 weeks

1969-01-09

Beatles release "Yellow Submarine" single and its album "Revolver" in the US

1969-05-24

Beatles' "Get Back" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 5 weeks

1969-09-09

Smallest US Tennis Open single session-131 (men's doubles final only)

1969-11-22

Isolation of single gene announced by scientists at Harvard University

1970-04-11

Beatles' "Let It Be" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks

1970-06-13

Beatles' "Long & Winding Road" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks

1970-09-04

George Harrison releases "My Sweet Lord" single

1971-12-04

McGurk's Bar bombing: the UVF explode a bomb at a Catholic-owned pub in Belfast, killing fifteen Catholic civilians and wounding seventeen others; this was the highest death toll from a single incident in Belfast during 'the Troubles'

1972-01-30

'Bloody Sunday': 27 unarmed civilians are shot (of whom 14 were killed) by the British Army during a civil rights march in Derry; this is the highest death toll from a single shooting incident during 'the Troubles'

1972-02-25

Paul McCartney releases "Give Ireland back to the Irish" single

1972-06-16

The largest single-site hydro-electric power project in Canada starts at Churchill Falls, Labrador.

1974-04-20

Paul McCartney & Wings release single "Band on the Run"

1974-05-17

The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF)explode four bombs in the Republic of Ireland, killing 33 civilians and wounded a further 300(This is the highest number of casualties in a single incident during "The Troubles")

1975-07-19

NY Yank catcher Thurman Munson's 1st-inning single & RBI are

1975-09-20

David Bowie's "Fame," single goes #1 for 2 weeks

1976-11-26

Ringo releases "Hey Baby" single

1976-11-26

Sex Pistols release their debut single "Anarchy In The UK"

1977-05-22

Red Sox (6) & Brewers (5) tie single game HR record of 11

1979-01-06

The Village People's Y.M.C.A becomes their only UK No.1 single. At it's peak it sold over 150,000 copies a day

1979-02-05

Costliest single periodical ad, $3.2 million, Gulf + Western in Time

1979-08-05

Phillies Pete Rose collects NL record 2,427th career single

1980-10-25

Barbra Streisand's "Guilty" album goes #1 for 3 weeks & her single "Woman In Love," goes #1 for 3 weeks

1981-03-27

John Lennon single "Watching the Wheels" released posthumously in UK

1981-05-19

Pirate Jim Bibby gives up a leadoff single to Brave Terry Harper, then retires next 27 batters

1981-06-23

Dave Koza scores Marty Barrett with bases-loaded single in bottom of 33rd inning, Pawtucket beats Rochester 3-2

1981-11-21

Olivia Newton-John's "Physical" single goes #1 & stays for 10 weeks

1983-05-21

David Bowie's "Let's "Dance" single goes #1

1984-01-09

John Lennon single "Nobody Told Me" released posthumously

1984-03-09

John Lennon single "Borrowed Time" released posthumously

1984-05-02

Mattingly's single breaks up Lamarr Hoyt's perfect game bid

1984-07-26

Expos Pete Rose ties Ty Cobb with his 3,052nd single

1984-07-27

Reds' Pete Rose collects record 3,053rd career single (vs Phila)

1984-12-22

Madonna's "Like a Virgin" single goes #1 for 6 weeks

1985-01-28

Charity single "We Are the World" is recorded by supergroup USA for Africa (Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie and other pop stars)

1985-05-11

Madonna's "Crazy For You" single goes #1

1986-03-22

Heart's "These Dreams," single goes #1

1986-06-07

Madonna's single "Live to Tell" goes #1

1986-08-12

Red Sox pitcher Tim Lollar gets a pinch-hit single

1986-08-16

Madonna's "True Blue" album goes #1 for 5 weeks & her single

1987-02-07

Madonna's "Open Your Heart," single goes #1

1987-07-11

Heart's "Alone" single goes #1 for 3 weeks

1987-08-17

Bunt single gives Paul Molitor longest hit streak of 1980s at 32 games

1987-08-22

Madonna's "Who's That Girl" single goes #1

1987-09-09

Largest US Tennis Open single night session (total) 21,016

1989-06-25

Mets' defense does not record a single assist in a 5-1 win over Phils

1990-08-30

Ken Griffey & Ken Griffey Jr become 1st father & son to play on same team (Seattle Mariners), both single in 1st inning

1992-02-01

Barry Bonds signs baseball's highest single year contract ($4.7 mil)

1992-05-19

US VP Dan Quayle attacks Murphy Brown for being a single mother and as a poor example of family values

1992-12-31

Target date for Europe's single market

1994-08-30

Largest US Tennis Open single session (total) 23,618

1995-03-20

Beatles song, "Baby It's You", with late John Lennon as lead singer, is released, 1st Fab Four single in more than 30 years

1999-01-10

Fatboy Slim (Norman Cook) achieves his third UK No.1 single with 'Praise You'

2000-06-29

Eminem's mother goes to court claiming defamation of character in a $10 million civil suit, after taking exception to the line "My mother smokes more dope than I do" from her son's single 'My Name Is'

2001-01-14

Jennifer Lopez scored her first UK No.1 single with 'Love Don't Cost A Thing.'

2001-10-04

Barry Bonds hits his 70th home run, tying Mark McGwire for the most home runs hit in a single season

2001-10-05

Barry Bonds hits his 71st home run, breaking Mark McGwire's record of 70 for the most home runs hit in a single season (Bonds would end up with 73 in total)

2002-02-17

Westlife go to No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'World Of Our Own.' The Irish boy band's 10th UK No.1 single.

2002-11-13

Eminem releases single 'Lose Yourself' from soundtrack of 8 Mile, 1st rap song to win Academy Award Best Original Song

2004-10-01

Baseball: Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki gets his 258th hit of the season, breaking George Sisler's 84-year-old single-season record.

2006-01-22

Kobe Bryant scores a career-high 81 points in a victory against the Toronto Raptors, the second most in NBA history in one single game

2006-04-22

Four Canadian soldiers are killed 75 kilometers north of Kandahar, Afghanistan by a roadside bomb planted by Taliban militants, the worst single day combat loss for the Canadian army since the Korean War.

2008-09-29

Following the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual, The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 777.68 points, the largest single-day point loss in its history.

2009-07-13

"She Wolf", the lead single from Shakira's eighth album, premiers

2011-05-22

An EF5 Tornado strikes the US city of Joplin, Missouri killing at least 158 people, the single deadliest US tornado since modern record keeping began in 1950.

2013-03-26

Ariana Grande's first single, "The Way", is released

2014-04-27

Ariana Grande's first single from her second debut album, "Problem" featuring Iggy Azalea, is released

2016-02-06

Beyonce drops new single: 'Formation'

2017-08-25

Taylor Swift releases new single 'Look What You Made Me Do'

1840-02-05

Hiram Stevens Maxim, inventor (automatic single-barrel rifle)

1909-10-10

Roger Manvell, Single-Use Medical Syringes

1916-10-29

John Griffin, Suddenly Single

1917-9-27

William T. Orr, Sex and the Single Girl

1918-08-30

Ted Williams, American baseball player, last player in MLB to bat over .400 in a single season (Red Sox, AL MVP '46, '49; Trip Crown '42, '47)

1919-05-05

George Papadopoulos, A Single Life

1920-11-20

Dorothy Keller, Single Room Furnished

1923-08-17

Juanita Nelson, Single Mom, Minimum Wage

1926-08-20

Kitty Burke Municino, Single Room Furnished

1928-07-28

Helena Romanova, Gift for the Single Woman

1929-04-11

Fabian Dean, Single Room Furnished

1930-08-08

Gene Bartow, Greatest Single Season Performances

1934-05-18

Don Bachardy, A Single Man

1934-12-07

Jean Marie Ingels, The Single Girls

1938-04-17

Leons Krivans, Gift for the Single Woman

1938-08-12

Linda Day, The Single Guy

1939-05-05

Patrick Watkins, Summer Single

1939-9-11

John Lutz, Single White Female

1941-02-17

Fernando Gabeira, How to Be Single in Rio

1941-08-26

Barbet Schroeder, director (Barfly, Single White Female, More)

1945-01-09

Curt McDowell, Taboo: The Single and the LP

1945-05-28

Gary Stewart, Latcher County Ky, country singer (She's Actin' Single)

1945-12-17

Terri Messina, Single Room Furnished

1946-12-04

Peter Harvey-Wright, A Single Life

1946-9-27

Andrea Baynes, Sex & the Single Mom

1947-03-13

Nora Bumbiere, Gift for the Single Woman

1947-10-14

Norman Harris, A Single Man

1949-04-10

Jane Clifton, A Single Life

1950-03-11

Scott De Shields, Living Single

1950-05-07

José Carlos Araújo, How to Be Single in Rio

1951-05-30

Stephen Tobolowsky, Tx, actor (Single White Female, Thelma & Louise)

1951-08-24

To Lee, A Single Man

1957-01-17

Leslie A. Sank, Single White Female

1958-01-20

Robert Single, Top Dog

1959-04-17

David Hearn, Wash DC, slalom single canoe (Olympics-9th-96)

1959-11-09

Hubert, How to Be Single in Rio

1959-11-20

Jeanmarie Simpson, A Single Woman

1960-08-02

Isabel Salgado, How to Be Single in Rio

1961-02-28

Mark Latham, Pencils, Mandates and a Single Bed

1961-08-23

Caroline Manzo, Natalie Dormer/Caroline Manzo/Cast of 'Wicked Single'

1961-08-27

Tom Ford, A Single Man

1961-12-16

Ron Athey, Single White Female

1961-9-23

Daúde, How to Be Single in Rio

1962-01-11

Kim Coles, Brooklyn New York, American actress (Synclaire-Living Single)

1962-02-05

Jennifer Jason Leigh [Morrow], Los Angeles, California, American actress (Single White Female, Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle)

1962-09-09

Aleta Rzepecki Sill, Detroit Mich, bowler (1983 WIBC single)

1963-02-14

W. Donnie Brown, Steve Plans a Wedding Finale/Harvey's Hero/Single Mom's S.O.S./Awkward Wedding Photos

1963-09-18

Rich Weiss, Munich Germany, US slalom single kayak (Olympics-6th-96)

1964-01-27

Bridget Fonda, Los Angeles California, actress (Scandal, Single White Female)

1964-08-04

Robson Caetano, How to Be Single in Rio

1965-06-09

Yvette Lee Bowser, Living Single

1966-02-26

Steve Single, Locke

1966-08-05

Jonathan Silverman, LA Cal, actor (Brighton Beach Memoirs, Single Guy)

1966-11-01

Robert Rowland, Single and Dealing with It

1967-01-22

Olivia d'Abo, London England, actress (Wonder Years, Single Guy)

1968-07-14

John Dybdahl, A Single Man

1968-08-20

Heitor Martinez Mello, How to Be Single in Rio

1968-11-19

Tom Vize, Suddenly Single

1968-12-08

Lee Walker, Single Male Hillbilly

1969-03-29

Lana Gorgievski, Young, Single & Angry

1969-04-28

Iris Bustamante, How to Be Single in Rio

1969-06-21

Barbara Demmer, Single Bells

1969-07-07

Joe Eddie Casares, A Single Man

1970-03-18

Queen Latifah, rap singer/actress (Khadijah James-Living Single)

1971-05-13

Hamish Pepper, Auckland NZ, laser single handed yachter (Olympics-96)

1971-05-15

Scott Shipley, Bremerton Wash, slalom single kayak (Olympics-6th-96)

1972-07-18

Abel Korzeniowski, A Single Man

1972-12-28

Adam Clawson, Salt Lake City UT, slalom single canoe (Olympic-19th-96)

1973-11-18

Shaune Bagwell, Single in L.A.

1973-11-24

Cássia Linhares, How to Be Single in Rio

1974-11-02

Bartosz Blaschke, Single

1975-01-07

Robert Norman Waddell, Cambridge NZ, Single scull rower (Olympics-96)

1975-03-06

Cornel Smit, Still Single? A Divorced Man's journey to understanding Women

1975-07-04

Michael Wayne Thomas, Married Men and Single Women

1975-9-02

Christina Hadiwijaya, Married People, Single Sex: Urban Adultery

1976-07-27

Jimmy Jules, Four Single Fathers

1977-04-06

Teddy Sears, A Single Man

1977-07-20

Tracey McCall, Single White Female 2: The Psycho

1978-07-22

Cedric Martin, A Single Man

1978-11-25

Lauren Hewitt, The Single Guy

1978-9-23

Keri Lynn Pratt, A Single Man

1979-07-19

Tim Heinrich, Single Stamina

1980-01-27

Natalie Samples, Single and Dealing with It

1980-04-15

Jonathan Stapleton, Single and Dealing with It

1980-08-29

William Levy, The Single Moms Club

1980-08-29

Brian David Paul, The Single Moms Club

1980-12-11

Wayne Shore, Single Loaded Cylinder

1981-12-25

Heather Schlitt, Every Single Day

1982-11-15

Dan Turoff, Single White Vampire

1983-12-28

Mike Ho, You Deserve to Be Single

1984-06-03

Jeff Viens, The Single Guy

1984-11-07

Ian Delaney, Every Single Day

1984-9-16

Tiffany Rinehart, Suddenly Single

1985-05-19

Jon Kortajarena, A Single Man

1985-07-24

Graham R. Garner, Slightly Single in L.A.

1985-12-14

Paul Battaglini, Single Number

1989-02-15

Wilder Shaw, Single

1989-08-11

Ezra Edmond, Single

1991-12-13

Michael Warner, Single Minded

1999-07-07

Salvatore Santone, Four Single Fathers

2014-10-07

Mary Quinn McCaig, How to Be Single

2005-09-02

"Single White Female" actress Jennifer Jason Leigh (43) weds director and writer Noah Baumbach (36) in Los Angeles

2010-11-15

"Single White Female" actress Jennifer Jason Leigh (48) divorces writer Noah Baumbach (41) due to irreconcilable differences after 5 years of marriage

1952-09-26

Chauncy Pyle, If I Were Single

1960-09-23

Kathlyn Williams, actress (Single Man), dies of heart attack at 72

1984-03-06

Isabelle Dwan, Single Room Furnished

1986-01-04

Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man

1987-03-20

Norman Harris, A Single Man

1987-06-03

Curt McDowell, Taboo: The Single and the LP

1987-10-12

Helena Romanova, Gift for the Single Woman

1987-11-30

Roger Manvell, Single-Use Medical Syringes

1994-01-12

Nora Bumbiere, Gift for the Single Woman

1997-07-07

Patrick Watkins, Summer Single

1999-06-27

George Papadopoulos, A Single Life

2002-07-05

Ted Williams, baseball hall of famer and last player to bat over.400 in a single season (Boston Red Sox) dies at 84

2002-12-25

William T. Orr, Sex and the Single Girl

2007-02-17

John Griffin, Suddenly Single

2007-08-21

Terri Messina, Single Room Furnished

2009-10-23

Linda Day, The Single Guy

2009-12-03

Dorothy Keller, Single Room Furnished

2012-01-03

Gene Bartow, Greatest Single Season Performances

2012-01-07

Kitty Burke Municino, Single Room Furnished

2015-03-09

Juanita Nelson, Single Mom, Minimum Wage