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Station - Notable Historical Events

Thomas EdisonSep 4, 1882

Harry HoudiniJan 21, 1903

LeninApr 16, 1917

Al CaponeJun 9, 1930

Jackie RobinsonFeb 4, 1952

Paul McCartneyDec 26, 1965

Chris HadfieldMay 13, 2013

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Station - Historical Events
Date Event
1814-12-22

Samuel Marsden of the Church Missionary Society arrives in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand to establish the country's first mission station; Sheep, cattle, horses and poultry are introduced

1819-08-17

The Church Missionary Society establishes New Zealand's second mission station at Kerikeri

1830-01-07

1st US Railroad Station opens (Baltimore)

1833-06-28

Three missionaries of the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society obtain permission from Chief Moshoeshoe (Moshesh) to found a mission station in Basutoland (now Lesotho)

1848-04-03

German explorer Ludwig Leichhardt is seen for the last time at McPherson's Station, Coogoon, before he disappears on the same expedition to reach the Swan River

1848-07-11

London's Waterloo Station opens

1849-05-27

The Great Hall of Euston station in London is opened.

1855-08-01

Castle Clinton in NYC opens as 1st US receiving station for immigrants

1862-03-28

Skirmish at Bealeton Station, Virginia

1862-05-27

Battle of Hanover Court House, VA (Slash Church, Peake's Station)

1862-06-28

Day 4 of 7 Days-Battle of Savage's Station/Garnett's Farm, VA

1862-06-29

Day 5 of 7 Days-Battle of Savage's Station, Va

1862-08-22

Battle of Catlett's Station, VA

1863-03-04

Battle of Thompson's Station, TN

1863-06-09

Battle of Brandy Station, VA (Fleetwood, Beverly Ford)

1863-08-01

Cavalry action near Brandy Station-End of Gettysburg Campaign

1863-09-27

Jo Shelby's cavalry in action at Moffat's Station, Arkansas

1863-10-09

Battle of Brady Station, VA (Culpeper Court House, Bristoe Station)

1863-10-14

Battle at Bristoe Station, Virginia (about 2000 casualties)

1863-10-14

Skirmish at Catlett's Station, Virginia (Bristoe Campaign)

1863-11-07

Battle of Rappahannock Station & Kelly's Ford, VA

1863-11-16

Battle of Campbell's Station TN, 492 casualities

1863-12-14

Battle of Bean's Station-Confederacy repulses Union in Tennessee

1863-12-15

Skirmish at Bean's Station, Tennessee (Knoxville Campaign)

1864-01-11

Charing Cross Station opens in London

1864-06-11

-12] Battle of Trevillian Station, VA (Central Railroad)

1864-06-22

Battle of Ream's Station, VA (Wilson's Raid)

1864-07-26

-31] Riot at McCook's to Lovejoy Station GA, US600 CS—-

1864-08-25

Petersburg Campaign-Battle of Ream's Station

1864-11-29

Battle of Spring Hill, TN (Thomason's Station)

1864-12-03

Skirmish at Thomas' Station, Georgia

1864-12-28

Battle of Egypt Station, MS

1865-04-02

Battle of Petersburg, VA (Ft Gregg, Sutherland's Station)

1865-04-26

Battle of Durham Station, NC (Greensboro)

1881-08-01

US Quarantine Station authorized for Angel Island, SF Bay

1882-09-04

1st large-scale test of Thomas Edison's light bulb - lighting of NY's Pearl Street Station

1889-10-15

Amsterdam Central Station officially opens

1890-04-11

Ellis Island, New York, designated as an immigration station

1890-11-04

Prince of Wales opens first underground station at Stockwell, South London

1892-05-01

US Quarantine Station opens on Angel Island, SF Bay

1894-06-25

Boer leader Paul Kruger meets the British High Commissioner, Sir Henry Loch, on Pretoria station in South Africa and accompanies him to his hotel to discuss the grievances of the Uitlanders (Foreigners)

1900-03-18

Japan uses its influence over the government of Korea to deny Russia's efforts to obtain a concession for a naval station at the Korean Port of Masampo, a step in the lead up to the Russo-Japanese war

1900-05-28

In China, rioters provoked by Boxers burn the Fengtai Railway Station, where many Belgians work

1900-12-17

New Ellis Island Immigration station completed costing $1.5 million

1903-01-21

Harry Houdini escapes from Halvemaansteeg police station in Amsterdam

1904-02-22

The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina; the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.

1904-08-16

NYC begins building Grand Central Station

1905-08-12

King Leopold II opens Central Station Antwerp

1910-11-27

NY's Penn Station opens as world's largest railway terminal

1911-10-04

1st public elevator (London's Earl's Court Metro Station)

1911-10-25

London's last horse drawn omnibus made its way from London Bridge Station to Moorgate

1913-12-01

1st drive-up gasoline station opens (Pitts)

1915-02-07

1st wireless message sent from a moving train to a station received

1917-04-16

[OS Apr 3] Lenin arrives back from exile in Russia at Finland Station, Petrograd to join the Russian Revolution

1920-03-24

1st US coast guard air station established (Morehead City NC)

1920-08-20

1st US commercial radio station, 8MK (WWJ), Detroit begins daily broadcasting

1920-08-31

Detroit radio station is 1st to broadcast a news program on the air

1920-10-27

Westinghouse radio station in East Pittsburgh, KDKA begins

1920-11-25

WTAW of College Station, Tx, broadcast 1st football play-by-play

1921-05-21

Oldest radio station west of Mississippi River licensed in Greeley Co

1922-03-15

1st southern radio station begins (WSB, Atlanta Georgia)

1922-04-04

WAAB (Baton Rouge La) becomes 1st US radio station with "W" calls

1922-04-28

WOI (Ames, Iowa) country's 1st licensed educational radio station

1922-08-16

AT&T radio station WBAY becomes WEAF (NYC)

1922-09-17

Radio Moscow begins transmitting (12 KWs-most powerful station)

1926-11-15

1st formal radio network, RCA takes over AT&T 25 station Network (NBC)

1928-05-11

General Electric opens 1st TV-station (Schenectady, NY)

1928-07-02

The Jenkins Television Corporation (owned by Charles Jenkins) goes on air with W3XK, the first television broadcasting station in the USA

1929-07-04

AM radio station WOWO, Indiana's transmitter burns down

1930-06-09

Chicago Tribune reporter Jake Lingle is killed during rush hour at the Illinois Central train station by the Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a $100,000 USD gambling debt owed to Al Capone.

1936-06-12

1st 50 KW US radio station (Pittsburgh Pa)

1937-03-01

Gov Wouters innaugrates the radio station on the Dutch Antilles

1938-02-19

Soviet arctic ice research station North Pole 1 evacuated, Denmark

1938-12-17

Utrecht Central Station destroyed by fire

1939-08-31

Staged "Polish" assault on radio station in Gleiwitz

1939-11-06

WGY-TV (Schenectady, NY), 1st coml TV station, begins service

1940-02-01

NBC performs the first inter-city television broadcast from its station in New York City to another in Schenectady, New York by General Electric relay antennas.

1940-09-04

CBS begins broadcasting TV as station W2XAB

1940-10-15

London's Waterloo Station bombed by Germans

1941-03-01

1st US commercial FM radio station goes on the air, Nashville, Tenn

1942-09-14

German troops occupy train station Stalingrad-1

1943-09-17

Load of "ammunition in transit" explodes at Norfolk Naval Air Station

1947-01-22

1st commercial TV station west of Mississippi opens, Hollywood CA

1947-07-03

252,288 people (record) pass through Grand Central Station, NYC

1948-05-14

Israeli Radio Station Kol Yisrael's 1st broadcast

1948-08-16

Arabs blow up Latrun pumping station in Jerusalem

1949-10-03

WERD, 1st black-owned radio station, opens in Atlanta

1949-12-29

1st UHF television station operating regular basis (Bridgeport Ct)

1951-09-04

NBC extends to become a 61 station coast-to-coast network

1952-02-04

1st black executive of a major TV station (Jackie Robinson-WNBC NY)

1952-10-01

1st ultra high frequency (UHF) television station, Portland Or

1953-01-15

16 car Federal Express train loses brakes & crashes in Wash DC station

1953-05-25

1st non-commercial educational television station-Houston, Texas

1953-07-26

Cuban pirate radio station's 1st transmission at Santiago de Cuba

1953-12-11

KTVA TV channel 11 in Anchorage (CBS) becomes Alaska's 1st TV station

1954-01-09

-87°F (-66°C), Northice Station, Greenland (Greenland record)

1954-06-27

1st atomic power station opens (Obninsk, near Moscow, Russia)

1954-11-12

Ellis Island, immigration station in NY Harbor, closed

1955-08-31

1st microwave TV station operated (Lufkin, Tx)

1956-10-17

England's 1st large scale nuclear power station opens

1956-10-20

58°F (15°C), Esperanza Station, Antarctica (Antarctic record high)

1957-05-27

Toronto's CHUM-AM, (1050 kHz) becomes Canada's first radio station to broadcast only top 40 Rock n' Roll music format.

1957-12-18

Shippingport Atomic Power Station in Pennsylvania USA, the world's 1st nuclear power plant begins to generate electricity

1960-09-27

Europe's 1st "moving pavement" (travelator), opens at Bank station on the London Underground

1961-11-29

Freedom Riders attacked by white mob at bus station in Miss

1962-04-02

The first official Panda crossing is opened outside Waterloo station, London.

1964-03-27

1st true Pirate Radio station, Radio Caroline (England)

1964-03-28

1st pirate radio station near England (Radio Caroline)

1965-01-27

1st ground station-to-aircraft radio communication via satellite

1965-04-19

1st all news radio station (WINS 1010 AM in NYC) begins operating

1965-12-26

Paul McCartney is interviewed on pirate radio station Radio Caroline

1966-02-05

BBC opens a relay radio station on Ascension Island

1966-05-14

1st reported monitoring of pirate radio station WBBH (NJ)

1966-06-01

Shortwave station Radio NY Worldwide changes calls from WRUL to WNYW

1966-11-24

1st TV station in Congo, Kinshasa (Zaire)

1966-11-25

Pirate Radio Station 390 (Radio Invicta) closes down (reopen 12/31)

1967-01-10

PBS (the National Educational TV) begins as a 70 station network

1967-03-16

Pirate Radio Station 333 (Radio Britain) ship breaks down

1967-04-04

Amsterdam Marines chase out "nozems" of Central Station

1967-04-04

Marines chase "Nozems" out of Amsterdam Central Station

1967-05-14

Pirate Radio Station 270 (England) closes down

1967-07-28

Pirate Radio Station 390 (Radio Invicta) (England) closes down

1967-08-04

British pirate radio station Radio 355 resigns air

1967-08-05

Pirate Radio Station 333 (Radio Britain) & Radio London close down

1967-08-15

UK's Marine Offences Bill making pirate radio stations a crime goes into effect, pirate station Radio 355 closes down

1967-09-30

BBC starts its own popular music radio station (Radio 1)

1967-11-08

1st local British radio station begins broadcasting (Radio Leicester)

1967-11-19

The establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong.

1968-03-31

Pirate Radio Station Pegaus (NZ) begins transmitting

1968-05-03

Holland Pirate Radio Station VRON becomes Radio Veronica Intl

1968-05-24

Haiti closes down shortwave station 4VEH for 40 days

1968-10-14

The rebuilt Euston railway station in London is opened.

1969-01-10

Pirate Radio Station Free Derby begins operation by Northern Ireland

1969-05-01

Pirate Radio Station 259 (England/France) begins transmitting

1970-02-15

KAMU TV channel 15 in College Station, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting

1971-01-27

Montgomery St Station, last link in BART, `holed thru'

1971-04-23

Soyuz 10 launched; cosmonauts become 1st in Salyut 1 space station

1971-06-06

Soyuz 11 takes 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 1 space station

1972-10-30

Loyalist paramilitaries carry out a raid on Royal Ulster Constabulary station in County Derry, and steal 4 British Army Sterling sub-machine Guns

1973-05-14

Skylab launched, 1st Space Station

1973-08-10

1st BART train travels thru transbay tube to Montgomery St Station

1973-10-20

The Family Station Inc buys shortwave Radio Station WNYW, changes calls to WYFR & moves station from NYC to Scituate Mass

1974-07-03

Soyuz 14 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 3

1974-08-26

Soyuz 15 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 3

1975-01-11

Soyuz 17 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 4

1975-02-14

Bomb explodes at annex of Amsterdam metro station

1975-02-28

A major tube train crash at Moorgate station, London kills 43 people.

1975-09-29

WGPR-TV Detroit, 1st Black-owned station in US, began broadcasting

1975-12-14

WCPR (Brooklyn New York pirate radio station) begins broadcasting on 1620 AM

1976-02-07

FCC raids & shuts down pirate radio station WCPR (Brooklyn New York)

1976-07-06

Soyuz 21 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 5 space station

1977-02-02

Burn up of Salyut 4 Space Station (USSR)

1977-09-29

Soviet space station Salyut 6 launched into Earth orbit

1977-12-10

Soyuz 26 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station

1977-12-31

WFAT (Brooklyn New York pirate radio station) begins broadcasting on 1620 AM

1978-01-10

Soyuz 27 carring 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station, launched

1978-06-27

Soyuz 30 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Polish) to Salyut 6 space station

1978-07-03

US Supreme Court rules 5-4, FCC had a right to reprimand NY radio station WBAI for broadcasting George Carlin's "Filthy Words"

1979-02-25

Soyuz 32 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station is launched

1979-04-19

FCC raids & shuts down pirate radio station WFAT (Brooklyn New York)

1980-06-05

Soyuz T-2 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station

1980-08-02

Fascist bomb attack on Bologna Italy train station, 86 killed

1980-09-18

Soyuz 38 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station

1980-09-27

WHOT (Brooklyn New York pirate radio station) begins on 1620 AM & 92.5 FM

1980-11-27

Soyuz T-3 carries 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station, launched

1981-03-12

Soyuz T-4 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station

1982-04-19

USSR Salyut 7 space station put into orbit

1982-12-07

Suriname army under Desi Bouterse fires on radio station building

1983-06-27

Soyuz T-9 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station

1984-03-16

Gunmen kidnap William Buckley, CIA station chief in Beirut

1984-07-17

Soyuz T-12 carries 3 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 7

1985-01-22

-30°F (-34°C), Mountain Lake Bio Station, Virginia (state record)

1985-06-06

Soyuz T-13 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station

1985-09-17

Soyuz T-14 carries 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station

1986-02-19

USSR launches Mir space station into Earth orbit

1986-03-13

Soyuz T-15 carries 2 cosmonauts to Soviet space station Mir

1986-04-26

World's worst nuclear disaster: 4th reactor at Chernobyl nuclear power station in USSR explodes, 31 die, contamination reach much of Western Europe

1986-04-28

Soviet TV news program Vremya annouces a nuclear accident at Chernobyl nuclear power station, 2 days after the event

1986-06-08

Iraqi jets attack Assadabad satellite station

1987-07-01

NYC radio station WFAN-AM becomes 1st 24 hour all sports radio

1987-07-23

RNI (Brooklyn New York pirate radio station) begins broadcasting on 1620 AM

1987-11-18

31 people die in a fire at King's Cross, London's busiest tube station

1987-12-21

Soyuz TM-4 launches 3 cosmonauts to space station Mir

1988-06-20

NYC WABC-AM becomes flagship radio station of NJ Devils

1988-08-17

LIRR says Penn station will get air conditioning in 1991

1988-08-29

USSR launches 3 cosmonauts (Valery Polyakav, 1 Afghan) to station Mir

1988-09-29

Union Station reopens in Wash DC

1988-10-20

Man armed with explosives blows himself up in 125 St subway station (NYC)

1988-11-02

Mexican radio station erronously reports Mike Tyson dies in car crash

1988-12-13

3 men end 29-hr all-466-station subway ride in NYC

1989-07-06

US marshals & FCC seize pirate radio station WHOT in Brooklyn

1989-11-06

US marshals & FCC sieze pirate radio station WJPL in Brooklyn

1989-11-08

Hong Kong's MTR Lam Tin Station comes into service.

1991-05-18

USSR launches 2 cosmonauts to MIR space station

1992-01-22

Rebel forces occupy Zaire's national radio station in Kinshasa and broadcast a demand for the government's resignation.

1992-03-25

Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returns to Earth after a 10-month stay aboard the Mir space station.

1993-03-12

Cleveland radio station WMMS-FM/101.7 is bought by Disney

1993-10-03

Battle at TV station Ostankino/Moscow townhall, about 25 killed

1994-04-15

WMMS-FM's Jeff & Flash, & entire station staff, are fired

1994-09-08

Man shoots another man on IRT #4 train at Grand Central Station

1994-11-11

Progress M-25 launched to space station Mir

1995-07-25

A gas bottle explodes in Saint Michel station of line B of the RER (Paris regional train network). Eight are killed and 80 wounded.

1995-09-09

Dean St Station in Brooklyn, is 6th MTA station to close since 1904

1995-11-02

Spanish Broadcasting System buys NY radio station WPAT-FM for $83.5M

1995-11-15

Space shuttle Atlantis docks with orbiting Russian space station Mir

1996-01-20

WPAT FM NYC radio station switches to English-Spanish format

1997-01-15

Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with Mir Space Station

1997-06-25

Progress M-34 Collides with & damages Mir Space Station

1997-07-23

Dallas TV Station KXAS settle with Dallas Cowboys Michael Irvin & Erik Williams for reporting false sex assault allegations against them

1997-07-25

Howard Stern is fired from radio station, KEGL Dallas

1998-11-20

The first module of the International Space Station, Zarya, is launched.

1998-12-04

The Unity Module, the second module of the International Space Station, is launched.

1999-05-29

Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.

1999-11-18

In College Station, Texas, 12 are killed and 27 injured at Texas A&M University when a massive bonfire under construction collapses.

2000-11-02

The first crew arrives at the International Space Station.

2001-03-23

The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji.

2003-12-24

Spanish police thwart an attempt by ETA to detonate 50 kg of explosives at 3:55 p.m. inside Madrid's busy Chamartín Station.

2006-03-01

English-language Wikipedia reaches its one millionth article, Jordanhill railway station.

2007-09-29

Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear power station, the magnox reactor and Calder hall was demolished in a controlled explosion.

2012-05-25

A SpaceX Dragon becomes the first commercial spacecraft to dock at the International Space Station

2012-07-15

A Russian Soyuz rocket with an international team launches for a mission to the International Space Station

2012-09-20

50 people are killed and dozens injured after a gas station is bombed by the Syrian Army in Ain Issa

2013-02-10

36 people are killed and 39 are injured in a stampede at a train station in Allahabad, India

2013-03-29

Soyuz TMA-08M sets a new record of 6 hours in orbit before docking with the International Space Station

2013-05-13

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield departs the International Space Station to return to Earth

2013-12-29

16 people are killed and 40 are wounded by a suicide bomb attack at Volgograd-1 railway station, Russia

2014-03-01

29 people are killed & 130 are injured by a group of knife-wielding terrorists at Kunming Railway Station, China

2015-11-02

International Space Station celebrates 15 years of human life in space

2015-12-05

3 stabbed at London tube station in terror attack, police say

2016-03-14

Maryland Shooting Outside Police Station Leaves One Officer Dead

2017-03-10

7 Injured in Ax Attack at German Station; 1 Arrest

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Station - Notable Birthdays

David FarragutJul 5, 1801

Elizabeth SmartDec 27, 1913

Station - Birthdays
Date Event
1801-07-05

David Farragut, Campbell's Station, Tennessee, US Admiral ("Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!")

1802-02-11

Lydia Maria Child, Shining Time Station: 'Tis a Gift

1823-02-03

Spencer F Baird, US biologist (Wood's Hole Station)

1827-05-16

Petrus J H Cuypers, architect (Amsterdam Museum, Central station)

1869-11-23

Valdemar Poulsen, Ingeniør Valdemar Poulsen paa sin station for traadløs telegrafi i Lyngby og i sit laboratorium

1876-9-15

Bruno Walter, The Last Station

1889-01-30

Oscar Heurlin, Everybody at His Station

1890-07-07

Tom Powers, Owensboro KY, actor (Station West, Destination Moon)

1902-06-28

Richard Rodgers, Hammels Station NY, composer (Rodgers & Hammerstein)

1904-08-03

Clifford D[onald] Simak, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Empire, Way Station)

1906-05-02

Aulikki Rautawaara, The Last Station

1908-06-05

Bigelow Sayre, Union Station

1908-9-19

Thomas Walsh, Union Station

1909-08-14

Johan Falck, Everybody at His Station

1913-04-24

Jack Shea, The Great Filling Station Robbery

1913-12-27

Elizabeth Smart, Ottawa Ontario, Canadian author (By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept)

1915-08-27

Nils Ekman, Everybody at His Station

1917-01-24

Ernest Borgnine, Hamden Ct, actor (Ice Station Zebra, McHale, Marty), (d. 2012)

1918-11-01

Joe Jackman, Aid Station

1920-06-02

Fred Graff, Union Station

1920-07-03

Farid Shawqi, Cairo Station

1922-07-12

James E[dwin] Gunn, US, sci-fi author (Station in Space, Immortal)

1926-01-19

Libera Carlier, Flemish author (Action Station Go!)

1926-09-11

Alfred Slote, author (Love & Tennis, Omega Station)

1929-10-16

Fernanda Montenegro, Central Station

1929-11-11

Hend Rostom, Cairo Station

1931-05-09

Vance Brand, Space Station

1932-03-18

Frank Nagai, Nishi Ginza Station

1932-10-02

Masanobu Deme, Station to Heaven

1933-01-19

Marc F A Andries, Flemish actor (Central Station)

1933-05-23

Othon Bastos, Central Station

1933-07-18

Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Zima Russia, poet (Bratsk Station)

1933-08-05

Safia Sarwat, Cairo Station

1933-11-15

Sherwood Price, Ice Station Zebra

1935-01-01

Sô Kuramoto, Station

1935-11-12

Lyudmila Gurchenko, A Railway Station for Two

1936-08-31

Matti Klinge, Station

1939-01-06

Murray Rose, Ice Station Zebra

1939-08-24

Thomas J. Schmidt, Ice Station Zebra

1940-01-21

Raita Ryû, Station

1940-12-08

Andrey Rabinovich, A Railway Station for Two

1941-02-20

Vadim Alisov, A Railway Station for Two

1943-01-22

Marília Pêra, Central Station

1944-03-28

Udo Reiter, The Last Station

1945-01-30

Otávio Augusto, Central Station

1946-08-14

Larry Graham Jr, rocker (Graham Central Station-One in a Million You)

1948-04-02

Jay Parini, The Last Station

1948-10-01

Cub Koda, rocker (Brownsville Station)

1949-01-19

Robert Palmer, Batley England, singer (Power Station)

1949-01-26

Anatoliy Skoryakin, A Railway Station for Two

1949-03-03

James S. Voss, Space Station 3D

1949-04-03

Jim Dixon, Ice Station Zebra

1949-06-15

Michael Lutz, bassist (Brownsville Station)

1951-04-15

Marsha Ivins, Space Station 3D

1951-04-15

John L. Phillips, Space Station 3D

1951-05-18

Stela Freitas, Central Station

1951-06-07

Wolfgang Häntsch, The Last Station

1951-12-18

Andrew S.W. Thomas, Space Station 3D

1952-03-19

Chris Brubeck, The NASA Space Station

1953-06-12

Allan Weiner, American radio station owner

1953-06-20

Brian Duffy, Space Station 3D

1954-04-21

Luiz Brasil, Central Station

1955-01-22

Tom D. Jones, Space Station 3D

1956-05-04

Michael L. Gernhardt, Space Station 3D

1956-10-30

Shirô Taihei, Departing Osaka Station at 0:00

1958-07-09

Vladimir Gusev, The Weather Station

1958-08-16

Peter J.K. Wisoff, Space Station 3D

1959-03-16

Michael J. Bloomfield, Space Station 3D

1959-03-23

Jes Dorph-Petersen, Station 2

1959-08-28

Finbar Lynch, The Numbers Station

1960-03-16

Steven Jon Whritner, It Came From Grand Central Station

1960-08-24

Steven W. Lindsey, Space Station 3D

1960-08-28

Leroy Chiao, Space Station 3D

1961-11-05

Charles Owen Hobaugh, Space Station 3D

1962-01-26

Tom Keifer, rock guitarist/vocalist (Cinderella-Heartbreak Station)

1963-03-23

Andrey Deryabin, The Last Station

1964-01-26

Chico César, Central Station

1964-05-08

Eric Brittingham, rocker (Cinderella-Heartbreak Station)

1964-05-14

James M. Kelly, Space Station 3D

1964-12-21

Oliver Bokelberg, The Station Agent

1965-03-18

Jeff Labar, rocker (Cinderella-Heartbreak Station)

1965-10-12

Andy Dill, Mens Room: Bakersfield Station

1966-10-20

Fred Coury, Johnston NY, rocker (Cinderella-Heartbreak Station)

1966-12-12

Won-jong Lee, Attack the Gas Station!

1966-9-25

Tracy 'Twinkie' Bird, Fruitvale Station

1968-08-08

Telma Cunha, Central Station

1969-02-16

David Masterson, The Last Station

1969-08-13

Felipe Lacerda, Central Station

1970-02-17

Marcos Bernstein, Central Station

1970-02-17

João Emanuel Carneiro, Central Station

1971-06-02

Mario Fischer, The Last Station

1972-01-27

Domenic Izzi, The Station

1972-03-07

Kasper Barfoed, The Numbers Station

1972-04-24

Marc Lubosch, The Last Station

1972-04-25

Matt Olyphant, The Station Agent

1974-03-20

Paula Garcés, The Station Agent

1975-06-09

Stephen Dackson, Seven Station

1978-01-30

Dustin Smither, The Station Agent

1978-03-11

Esperança Motta, Central Station

1978-04-27

Rachel Morrison, Fruitvale Station

1978-06-03

Joey Oglesby, Fruitvale Station

1978-07-14

Caroline Lesley, Fruitvale Station

1979-02-10

Mami Kurosaka, Departing Osaka Station at 0:00

1979-03-06

Jun Jeong, Attack the Gas Station!

1979-08-05

Lori Finkel, Dissertation Station

1979-10-18

Joshua Fischer, The Station Agent

1980-05-11

Nathaniel Smith, Omega Station

1980-9-12

Margaret Caragan, Fruitvale Station

1981-04-20

Philip Adkins, 4am Gas Station Muzak

1981-08-06

Isabelle Bridges, Termini Station

1981-08-30

Germán Legarreta, Fruitvale Station

1982-03-17

Sarah Bolger, The Station Agent

1982-04-21

Abram Rodriguez, Mens Room: Bakersfield Station

1984-04-25

Melonie Diaz, Fruitvale Station

1985-07-18

Vinícius de Oliveira, Central Station

1986-03-03

Xavier Morin-Lefort, North Station

1986-05-23

Ryan Coogler, Fruitvale Station

1986-08-05

Emily Payne, The Numbers Station

1987-02-09

Michael B. Jordan, Fruitvale Station

1987-04-16

Jase Blankfort, The Station Agent

1987-08-12

Daniel Severa Jr., Fruitvale Station

1988-08-15

Richard Kho, Fruitvale Station

1988-12-18

Noël Baker, Station 4

1992-06-24

Raven Goodwin, The Station Agent

1992-9-05

Jeremy Bergman, The Station Agent

2004-02-18

Kylie Rogers, Space Station 76

Station - Weddings
Date Event
2005-10-22

"Extra" reporter Carlos Diaz weds Adrienne Allen at Union Station's Grand Hall in Indianapolis, Indiana

Station - Notable Deaths

Elizabeth SmartMar 4, 1986

Station - Deaths
Date Event
1880-10-20

Lydia Maria Child, Shining Time Station: 'Tis a Gift

1888-08-19

Spencer F Baird, US biologist (Wood's Hole Station), dies at 65

1942-08-06

Valdemar Poulsen, Ingeniør Valdemar Poulsen paa sin station for traadløs telegrafi i Lyngby og i sit laboratorium

1948-02-29

Oscar Heurlin, Everybody at His Station

1955-11-09

Tom Powers, actor (Station West, Destination Moon), dies at 65

1957-10-03

Artie Auerbach, Railroad Station Program

1960-11-15

Don Dunning, Union Station

1966-01-14

Sergei Korolev, Russian space station constructor, dies

1972-06-12

Edmund Wilson, US writer (To the Finland station), dies at 79

1975-12-23

Richard S Welch, CIA station chief in Athens, shot dead

1982-09-10

Joe Jackman, Aid Station

1983-06-19

Johan Falck, Everybody at His Station

1984-03-01

Carroll L. Shepphird, Ice Station Zebra

1984-10-21

Thomas Walsh, Union Station

1986-03-04

Elizabeth Smart, Canadian author (By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept), dies of a heart attack at 72

1987-07-25

Eric Mntonga, co-director of the Institute for a Democratic Alternative for South Africa (IDASA), found on a dirt road a day after he had been detained at a police station

1988-04-25

Clifford D[onald] Simak, sci-fi author (Hugo, Way Station), dies at 83

1990-12-29

Aulikki Rautawaara, The Last Station

1991-10-10

James C. Pratt, Ice Station Zebra

1998-01-16

Nils Ekman, Everybody at His Station

1998-07-27

Farid Shawqi, Cairo Station

2003-11-12

Tony Thompson, American drummer (Chic, Power Station) (b. 1954)

2006-12-06

Andy Dill, Mens Room: Bakersfield Station

2008-09-06

Fred Graff, Union Station

2008-10-27

Frank Nagai, Nishi Ginza Station

2009-09-04

Safia Sarwat, Cairo Station

2011-03-30

Lyudmila Gurchenko, A Railway Station for Two

2011-08-08

Hend Rostom, Cairo Station

2012-02-09

Shirô Taihei, Departing Osaka Station at 0:00

2012-03-18

Domenic Izzi, The Station

2012-04-15

Murray Rose, Ice Station Zebra

2014-10-10

Udo Reiter, The Last Station


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